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  1. Re:For the uninformed: on Critical Vulnerability In Adobe Reader · · Score: 1

    The unprivileged exploit has access to launch further exploits against other system vulnerabilities, which do give privilege.

  2. Re:This is troublsome, not with google, but.... on Privacy Concerns Over Google On the Rise In Germany · · Score: 1

    I can easily opt out of google's services by adding their netblocks to my black-hole. Unlike the government who can kick my door down. If it wasn't google doing this stuff, it would be microsoft. Think about that.

  3. Re:Congratulations on OpenBSD 4.4 Released · · Score: 1

    The trick to using OpenBSD is to just buy the disk and that's it. We all know what the devs are like, you don't have to deal with them. All the doco is coherent and centralized, there are plenty of examples on the net. Just avoid the devs unless you have something that is actually a contribution.

  4. Re:Almost identical? Not quite. on OpenOffice.org V3.0 Sets Download Record, 80% Windows · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Fuck tech pimps, fuck them hard!

  5. Re:Weird things in the sky on UK UFO Sightings Declassified, Still No Intergalactic Relations · · Score: 1

    I was at a party on the roof of a motel at Bondi beach. No drugs but a couple of beers. I was looking out at the see and the stars and saw some stars way out to sea start moving in a circle. I did a double take and then they shot off one after the other and vanished. I looked around to see if anyone else had seen it, but nobody was looking. I know what I saw.

  6. Re:no compiler? on BSDanywhere Announces First Release · · Score: 2, Interesting

    OpenBSD has distrbuted the full install iso online for a few releases now. But if you're not a jerk you'll support the project by buying the official package.

  7. Re:But are they better? on Canonical Offers Sale of Proprietary Codecs for Ubuntu · · Score: 1

    Every DVD drive I've bought over the years has come with OEM PowerDVD, I take that as the nod to legality for using the drive for what it was purchased for.

  8. Re:Good on 'em! on Canonical Offers Sale of Proprietary Codecs for Ubuntu · · Score: 1

    ... for the US market. That shit doesn't fly in Australia.

  9. Re:The only thing missing on The State of Game Audio · · Score: 1

    Lol.

  10. Re:Look at who his father is, then understand on Stephen Fry Helps GNU Celebrate 25th Birthday · · Score: 1

    Stephen Fry is a renowned intellectual in his own right. It doesn't take Fry's level of wit to understand the advantages of free software.

  11. Let's define "common" on New Study Shows Solar System Is Uncommon · · Score: 3, Funny

    Modelling has indicated that the solar-system isn't as common as previously thought. Scientists estimate that only 2^2340987890 similar solar systems exist in the local group.

  12. Re:oh ok on NIST Releases Report On WTC 7 Collapse · · Score: 1

    Or just stack up some office equipment and paper.

  13. Re:Not without RHEL 4 support I won't on Firefox To Get a Nag Screen For Upgrades · · Score: 1

    Static link.

  14. Re:Open Source Flash? on Why Is Adobe Flash On Linux Still Broken? · · Score: 1

    Gnash and SWFdec are both free software projects. Being free, innovation on one project may be freely tranferred to the other, as we see in other project communities. Everyone wins with free software.

  15. Re:but no DOS on Microsoft Bets Big On Computing For the Car · · Score: 1

    The problem is not the computer, as the scope for tuning performance and economy is far superior with the computer. The problem is that generally the computer system is closed to you, the owner of the car. The car makers have effectively "welded the hood shut".

  16. Re:What Charging Infrastructure? on GM, Utilities Partner To Advance Plug-In Hybrids · · Score: 1

    How about you save yourself some money and just cock your leg and fart into your toddler's face. Your "convenience" is going to cause much inconvenience for future generations.

  17. Re:I've seen an effect on A Year of GPLv3 · · Score: 1

    It's a free world brother, don't take it for granted.

  18. Re:Office 97/2000 on Ask Jeremy White and Alexandre Julliard About the Future of WINE · · Score: 1

    If you're prepared to pay the ridiculous license costs for office, even when there are many viable free alternatives, you can afford crossover.

  19. The future eh? on Meet the Laptop of 2015 · · Score: 1

    In one, a touch-sensitive screen acts as the system's keyboard and mouse, allowing you to slide your finger across the screen to immediately shut off the display and keep what you're working on confidential.

    I've had this exact functionality since the 90's, you can hook a keyboard up too. It also fits in my pocket and the rechargable battery lasts for a month. It's a PALM PILOT!

  20. Re:BAD idea. on Bill Allows Teachers to Contradict Evolution · · Score: 1

    As someone who has had this very tiring argument with several IDers, I will say that they always come back with "what predictions does evolution make, and how do you test them?"

    I am always at a loss for an answer, because I am not an evolutionary biologist, I'm an engineer. I don't know anything about the science of evolution, only the broad concepts. So would someone more fully versed in the day-to-day work of experimental evolution be able to give me a counter example to throw right back at the IDers?


    Evolutionary theory can be applied in many situations. For instance, we can predict that the population of bacteria in a heavily disinfected environment, such as a hospital, will eventually either become resistant to the antibiotics and chemicals we use, or disappear.

    A given population may have a small percentage of bacteria which aren't killed. Evolution predicts that the whole population will eventually have this trait. Sure enough, this is the observation.

    Fossil evidence has many of these evolutionary "choke points" for our observation: Disappearance of sinapsids at the end of the Permian leaving only mammals as we know them. Disappearance of dinosaurida at the end of the Cretaceous leaving only birds as we know them. These instances show organisms that had pre-existing traits advantageous to this particlar survival crisis weathered these mass extinctions.

    Examples of prolific organisms which did not make it include trilobites. These survival choke points are somewhat serendipitous in regards to which traits are advantageous, but with a diverse range or organisms in the environment, chances are there will be some which make it through.
  21. Re:No on Dell Set to Introduce AMD's Triple-core Phenom CPU · · Score: 1

    How quaint!

  22. Re:not your ordinary DRM on Aboriginal Archive Uses New DRM · · Score: 1

    I don't know about now, but they never taught that when I was at school (70's-80's). I remember seeing a map online of the pre-settlment nations and thought that was pretty cool, are kids learning this stuff now?

  23. Re:Altair-a-like on DIY CPU Demo'd Running Minix · · Score: 1

    You can hook a serial TTY up to the Altair.

  24. Re:So long GPA.... on EVE Online's Linux/Mac Client Goes Live Tuesday · · Score: 1

    Do you have an empirical cite for that, or is it just a feeling? I used to buy all Loki native ports back in the day and played them all to death. They worked fine but the difference with the Win version was miniscule. Same deal with ID games.

    There's nothing wrong with using WINE to play games, and I would applaud vendors for providing a hassle-free runtime of their games rather than just demanding they port the whole thing.

  25. Re:So long GPA.... on EVE Online's Linux/Mac Client Goes Live Tuesday · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Honestly, what difference does it make to you whether a closed binary is compiled against Windows or Linux APIs? If the software runs well, there is no difference except in your head.