Slashdot Mirror


User: maxume

maxume's activity in the archive.

Stories
0
Comments
15,806
First seen
Last seen
Profile
(view on slashdot.org)

Comments · 15,806

  1. Re:Oh - of course its not on Mock Cyber Attack Shows US Unpreparedness · · Score: 1

    Yeah, the U.S. really hasn't lived up to its commitment to secure Iranian energy infrastructure.

  2. Re:May be a good time to discuss alternatives on 20 Years of Photoshop · · Score: 2, Informative

    XnView is being ported. Beta versions:

    http://www.xnview.com/en/downloadunix.html

  3. Re:Gimp? on 20 Years of Photoshop · · Score: 3, Insightful

    There is an article about the GIMP every time it farts.

  4. Re:Me too? NOT on Rogue PDFs Behind 80% of Exploits In Q4 '09 · · Score: 1

    Apparently you are mostly downloading malware droppers.

    Try some of the pdfs from the IRS, the several I downloaded this week did not have any javascript in them.

  5. Re:Dropped mine once on Owners Smash iPhones To Get Upgrades, Says Insurance Company · · Score: 1

    I was wondering why you left it in your pocket.

  6. Re:Scientist-Schmientist on Interstellar Hydrogen Prevents Light-Speed Travel? · · Score: 1

    Relatively would not give a coherent description of a space time where large amounts of matter moved faster than the speed of light.

  7. Re:Because of JavaScript support in Adobe Reader! on Rogue PDFs Behind 80% of Exploits In Q4 '09 · · Score: 2, Informative

    Uncheck "Preferences->Internet->Display in browser" and Acrobat will prompt you to save those files rather than automatically loading them (this will probably also render your downloading extension redundant).

  8. Re:Me too? NOT on Rogue PDFs Behind 80% of Exploits In Q4 '09 · · Score: 1

    Reader does not throw any javascript prompts for documents that do not contain javascript.

  9. Re:That's good on US To Build Nuclear Power Plants · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Of course, most people are more concerned with getting a concentrated dose than they are about getting a perfectly distributed dose.

    (I think nuclear is a great idea, and it might take until the coal starts to run out, but we will start using it)

  10. Re:Oversimplification on Cellulosic Biofuel Finally Ready For the Road · · Score: 1

    It was hilariously low during that period. Unreasonably low.

    Try using the period from 1950 to 2000, where prices were, in 2010 dollars, frequently over 2.

    So you could take the position that prices have more than doubled, but it is probably not as well supported as the position that they are 25% above 'normal'. If you add in increases in engine performance, mileage is probably cheaper today than for most of that period.

  11. Re:Biofuels dont cause hunger on Cellulosic Biofuel Finally Ready For the Road · · Score: 1

    Less cows and pigs would be slaughtered, but (the world) going vegetarian wouldn't do a damn thing for rats.

  12. Re:Late to the party? on Cellulosic Biofuel Finally Ready For the Road · · Score: 1

    Illegal logging is a much bigger problem than cane agriculture.

  13. Re:First (cheap gas?) on Cellulosic Biofuel Finally Ready For the Road · · Score: 1

    Look up "inflation".

    Current prices aren't particularly unreasonable.

  14. Re:Oh really? on Malicious Spam Jumps To 3B Messages Per Day · · Score: 1

    They Can See His Grocery List And That Stupid Forward From His Mother-In-Law.

    Alert. Alert. Alert.

  15. Re:I hear that AG! on Aussie Attorney General Says Gamers Are Scarier Than Biker Gangs · · Score: 1

    Whenever I see a beat up, patchy painted Honda Civic with a triforce or horde sticker in one of the windows, I fear for the future of humanity.

  16. Re:Queueing job "MineSoulskill5534289" on Did We Lose the Privacy War? · · Score: 1

    So we should rest assured that the record creation process is a miserable failure?

    (because it is unable to correctly associate information with identifiers)

  17. Re:Should go in the other direction. on Subversives In South Carolina Mostly Safe · · Score: 1

    Why not?

    (Note that I am only interested in the government recognition aspect; people will still want to get married and have this be recognized socially)

  18. Re:Green... EPIC FAILURE on "Green" Ice Resurfacing Machines Fail In Vancouver · · Score: 1

    A hotter atmosphere dumps heat faster.

    The funnel is not a static thing.

    (This doesn't mean that CO2 emissions are not (potentially) problematic, it would be best to keep the environment 'comfortable' for as many humans as possible, it just points out the problem with any sort of facile analysis of the situation)

    ((potentially) because the results really aren't in on the long term consequences (especially when various control measures are factored in))

  19. Re:Maryland had something called the "Ober law" on Subversives In South Carolina Mostly Safe · · Score: 1

    Sure.

    I don't have to backtrack real far to say that it wasn't where he was looking.

  20. Re:Maryland had something called the "Ober law" on Subversives In South Carolina Mostly Safe · · Score: 1

    Those activities went undiscovered and failed to destroy America. It isn't fair to classify them as non-threats, but clearly they were not dire threats.

  21. Re:Should go in the other direction. on Subversives In South Carolina Mostly Safe · · Score: 1

    Sure. But people will still rail against what you say because it 'devalues' marriage.

    (I think what you propose would be a reasonable resolution of the issue, but I prefer to start from the extreme end, as I figure it will lead some people to consider that government recognition isn't a particularly valuable part of marriage, which simply sets aside the entire discussion of marriage being devalued by civil unions)

  22. Re:Hardly Surprising on Microsoft To Get $100M Annual Tax Cut and Amnesty · · Score: 1

    A representative republic is widely considered to be a democratic form of government.

    Sorry that the capital 'D' at the beginning of the sentence confused you (It probably didn't, but you sure chose to act like it had).

  23. Re:Should go in the other direction. on Subversives In South Carolina Mostly Safe · · Score: 1

    I don't see how things go to hell. For child custody, being a blood relative or an adoptive parent of the child is already a lot more important than being a spouse of one of those, and people already have to get a license to get an 'official' marriage, it would not be difficult to translate that into registering a simple will (that is, the complexity and expense of the one is similar to the other).

  24. Re:they fight for control on Mobile Operators Fight App Store Fragmentation · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Sprint outright owns Boost and Virgin Mobile, are there still 'many' virtual operators left on their network when you take that into account?

  25. Re:Do they have a choice? on Mobile Operators Fight App Store Fragmentation · · Score: 1

    I doubt it matters all that much; the most popular apps will end up coming with phones, and people are only going to pay so much for chintzy games on a 3" screen.