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  1. Re:Very disturbed by tag "writeorexecute" on OpenBSD's Kernel Gets W^X Treatment On Amd64 · · Score: 1

    Well, you're right from a formal logic perspective. In spoken languages, though, there's often an implicit 'either' attached to the 'or', causing 'or' to essentially mean 'xor'.

  2. Re:most of you will pretend you understand on OpenBSD's Kernel Gets W^X Treatment On Amd64 · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    MI and MD (in all likelihood, haven't verified) mean Machine-Independent/Machine-Dependent in BSDspeak

  3. Re:Good ol' 777 on Sloppy File Permissions Make Red Star OS Vulnerable · · Score: 1

    Better than being one of those assholes that likes to call people an idiot.

    Pot, meet kettle.

  4. Re:Teachers on UK Computing Teachers Concerned That Pupils Know More Than Them · · Score: -1, Troll

    Sucks to be your kid.

  5. Re:Before reading TFA ... on PHP vs. Node.js: the Battle For Developer Mind Share · · Score: 1

    [...] so that I don't have to deal with this: http://i.imgur.com/b2uUrIL.png

    Yeah, I wouldn't want to have to deal with Windows either. I feel ya.

  6. Yeah sounds useful.. on Project Ryptide Drone Flies Life-Rings To Distressed Swimmers · · Score: 2

    It could be useful in the case of someone falling through the ice while skating

    ..but not in this scenario.

  7. Re:OP on Finnish Bank OP Under Persistent DDoS Attack · · Score: 1

    Are we 4chan yet?

  8. Re:Pullin' a Gates? on How We'll Program 1000 Cores - and Get Linus Ranting, Again · · Score: 1

    I actually had the caches in mind. One of the reasons why people came up with the x32 idea.

  9. Re:Pullin' a Gates? on How We'll Program 1000 Cores - and Get Linus Ranting, Again · · Score: 1

    as all software was written for 32-bit so getting a 64-bit processor would not make anything faster.

    Like 64bit software would be somehow faster, rather than potentially slower, on a 64bit CPU, sure.

  10. Re:SDR? on New App Detects Government Stingray Cell Phone Trackers · · Score: 1

    What is the frequency range of your cell phone?

  11. Re:Not hot enough to reflow on Putting a MacBook Pro In the Oven To Fix It · · Score: 1

    Those cookies are called pizza

  12. Re:Is it news because it was a MacBook? on Putting a MacBook Pro In the Oven To Fix It · · Score: 1

    My point is that it has been "news" several times already over the last 5-6 years, so why exactly should it appear on an alleged news website? ...

  13. This has been done numerous times already on Putting a MacBook Pro In the Oven To Fix It · · Score: 1

    Is it news because it was a MacBook?

  14. Re:The human eye is proof God exists on Human Eye's Oscillation Rate Determines Smooth Frame Rate · · Score: 1

    Origin of the silicon inside our computers hereby comprehensively explained.

    FTFY

  15. Re:NetworkManager on NetworkManager 1.0 Released After Ten Years Development · · Score: 1
    Since you seem to have the reading comprehension of a bag of bricks, let me try and put it in a way more accessible to you.

    NetworkManager
    One of the few unix command line tools [...].

    Sorry, but there's nothing unix about NetworkManager.

  16. Re:NetworkManager on NetworkManager 1.0 Released After Ten Years Development · · Score: 1

    Yes. So?

  17. Re:NetworkManager on NetworkManager 1.0 Released After Ten Years Development · · Score: 3, Informative

    One of the few unix command line tools whose command begins with a major letter.

    Sorry, but there's nothing unix about NetworkManager.

  18. Re:Poor Design on Google Unveils New Self-Driving Car Prototype · · Score: 1

    I'd prefer a steering wheel so I can do stuff that the AI won't let me do, like drive through my backward to drop off heavy things in the garden, etc...

    You can probably plug in a USB keyboard and use the arrow keys -- or hjkl in the bad-ass variant.

  19. Re:Grinch is not a flaw - has no CVE!!! on Grinch Vulnerability Could Put a Hole In Your Linux Stocking · · Score: 3, Informative
    Ohh, so the wheel group does have a purpose in GNU after all. Who knew?
    Enjoy the following excerpt right from info su on a Debian box:

    23.6.1 Why GNU `su' does not support the `wheel' group

    (This section is by Richard Stallman.)

    Sometimes a few of the users try to hold total power over all the
    rest. For example, in 1984, a few users at the MIT AI lab decided to
    seize power by changing the operator password on the Twenex system and
    keeping it secret from everyone else. (I was able to thwart this coup
    and give power back to the users by patching the kernel, but I wouldn't
    know how to do that in Unix.)

    However, occasionally the rulers do tell someone. Under the usual
    `su' mechanism, once someone learns the root password who sympathizes
    with the ordinary users, he or she can tell the rest. The "wheel
    group" feature would make this impossible, and thus cement the power of
    the rulers.

    I'm on the side of the masses, not that of the rulers. If you are
    used to supporting the bosses and sysadmins in whatever they do, you
    might find this idea strange at first.

    Makes me cringe harder every time I read it

  20. Re:Meaningless? on Backblaze's 6 TB Hard Drive Face-Off · · Score: 1

    How does caching help bulk write performance?

  21. Re:EEE on What Will Microsoft's "Embrace" of Open Source Actually Achieve? · · Score: 1

    Linux's (poor or non-existant) development tools

    Wow, what? Is opposite day?

  22. Re:That's good on Small Bank In Kansas Creates the Bank Account of the Future · · Score: 5, Insightful

    You can sometimes spoof your IP address and when lucky have your ISP router forward them, but don't expect to get a reply. I presume making a transaction isn't going to work the one-packet fire-and-forget way.

  23. Re:density ? on Seagate Bulks Up With New 8 Terabyte 'Archive' Hard Drive · · Score: 1

    Of course it's not, this is capacity.

  24. Re:No thanks on Facebook Offers Solution To End Drunken Posts · · Score: 2

    If i am in the process of having a shit, I dont need someone to ask me the question of "Am i sure i want to do this?".

    Might not be the worst idea to have this, since by this analogy you're taking a shit in public

  25. Re:not hating but ive never heard of it on NetHack: Still One of the Greatest Games Ever Written · · Score: 1

    If you want the really real deal, you ,,telnet nethack.alt.org'', which a) works regardless of OS (provided it has a telnet client, which Windows does).

    You mean

    telnet -8 nethack.alt.org

    And preferably set your terminal to reverse video and use a VGA/IBMgraphics or DECgraphics capable typeface in your terminal. I personally prefer IBMgraphics because corridors look right and proper.

    No, pretty sure I meant what I said. Especially the -8 is rather pointless. Reverse video also is a stupid suggestion as you can't know what the normal video mode is, for others.

    VGA/IBMgraphics or DECgraphics capable typeface in your terminal. I personally prefer IBMgraphics because corridors look right and proper.

    Actually, corridors look "right and proper" with the normal typeface, since that is nethack, this suggestion is also crap.

    Playing locally basically implies cheating ;)

    No, it doesn't.

    The temptation can be very high, especailly when you're close to YASD