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  1. Re:The CO2 change IS NOT 40%! on CO2 Levels Reach 400ppm at Mauna Loa For First Time On Record · · Score: 1

    So how do you explain that the Earth has a higher average temperature than it should have given its position relative to the sun? Where does that heat come from?

  2. Re:I have a stupid question. on Backdoor Targeting Apache Servers Spreads To Nginx, Lighttpd · · Score: 1

    Keyword here is 'if'.

    Most attackers will just run every exploit against a service in the hope that one will stick.

  3. Re:We need another standard..? on Ubuntu Developing Its Own Package Format, Installer · · Score: 1

    Too bad I'm out of mod points.

  4. Re:More Flexibility? on Ubuntu Developing Its Own Package Format, Installer · · Score: 1

    Linux: I roll out my updates into my Puppet repository. They get rolled out automatically on all subscribed systems, with failures mailed to me.

    Really, if you are going to spread FUD, please update your knowledge, you are at least 30 years out of date.

  5. Re:More Flexibility? on Ubuntu Developing Its Own Package Format, Installer · · Score: 1

    Stop digging yourself deeper by showing you don't understand at all.

    ldconfig tells your system where to look for libraries. Libraries on *nix systems are versioned, and can be installed side-by-side. ldconfig doesn't need to differentiate by version, the applications do that.

    Granted, if an application requests a library without a version, it will get the latest one, which might break things. But no OS can protect against programmers making decisions like that, and that is something that is easily patched.

    But dismissing the entire system of library versioning based on that is showing ignorance. Allow yourself to be educated, instead of trolling with 20-year old FUD.

  6. Re:Jupiter Tape? on Former FBI Agent: All Digital Communications Stored By US Gov't · · Score: 2
  7. Re:Jupiter Tape? on Former FBI Agent: All Digital Communications Stored By US Gov't · · Score: 1

    Shhh. Don't confuse the 'government-conspiracies-everywhere!' libertard with facts.

  8. Re:An obnoxious school of argument... on Eric Schmidt: Google Glass Critics 'Afraid of Change,' Society Will Adapt · · Score: 1

    It's actually begging the question. The prior assumption is that change is something you should not be afraid of, that every change is progress.

    Well, that is a perspective that died in the trenches of WWI and the camps of WWII.

  9. Re:Pfft on Dropcam CEO's Beef With Brogramming and Free Dinners · · Score: 1

    Cyber-Ark is not any better at dealing with large groups.

    The best way to do it in KeePassX is to set up a separate database per user group; but I agree that currently there is nothing that easily integrates with existing Identity Management systems; I would love to have a decent solution that talks LDAP, for example.

  10. Re:Pfft on Dropcam CEO's Beef With Brogramming and Free Dinners · · Score: 1

    This is taking it off-topic, but in short: it depends on how you define 'similar functionality'. For the practical purposes of sharing privileged passwords, any decent password storage application like KeePassX will do.

    Cyber-Ark is specifically created to take away privileged system powers away from admins and put their administration in management's hands. This is why it is almost always pitched at management, not admins themselves.

    And the auditing argument is silly, because there already exist methods of tracking the use of privileged accounts without hassling admins.

  11. Re:Throw away email account on Israel Airport Security Allowed To Read Tourists' Email · · Score: 1

    Google could easily offer you GPG for its webmail, while still passing all your information on to the government, including the plaintext of your 'encrypted' emails. Seriously, do you even know how public-key encryption works?

    You're an idiot, as your ranting about conspiracies would indicate.

  12. Re:My house, my rules on Israel Airport Security Allowed To Read Tourists' Email · · Score: 1

    It has been tried before, three times, of which at least two times with the support of a superpower.

    What makes you, or even Israel, think that the current wrecks in the Arabian world and Iran are any threat whatsoever compared to that?

    Aside from irrational paranoia or a need to justify its own right-wing's authoritarian behaviour, I see no objective reason for Israel to act like this.

  13. Re:Pfft on Dropcam CEO's Beef With Brogramming and Free Dinners · · Score: 1

    No, you really shouldn't. Cyber-Ark sucks donkey balls, its support for anything but Windows is cumbersome, adminning it is even more cumbersome, and when the unintuitive GUI gives an uninformative error and you can't reach your systems, you get to deal with their lousy support.

  14. Re:Chechens not ethnic Russians on One Boston Marathon Bomb Suspect Dead, Other At Large After Shootout With Police · · Score: 1

    The Chechnyan insurgency is about as much about Islamism as the Troubles in Northern Ireland were a Catholic crusade to wipe out the heretics.

  15. Re:Bad Ruling on Should California Have Banned Checking Smartphone Maps While Driving? · · Score: 1

    Lex specialis derogat legi generali

    There you go. Took me all of 30 seconds Googling, so I must conclude that your spectacular display of ignorance is because you are a complete idiot.

  16. Re:Bad Ruling on Should California Have Banned Checking Smartphone Maps While Driving? · · Score: 1

    Oh yes, when people operate 1-2 tons of steel at moderate to high speeds in public, requiring some assurances of safe handling is the way to a police state.

    Get a hold of yourself man. Histrionics like that is exactly why bans keep getting passed: if the opponents look like idiots, its an easy sell to the general public.

  17. Re:Survival of the Fittest on Wayland/Weston Gets Forked As Northfield/Norwood · · Score: 1

    2001 called, it wants its FUD back.

    Honestly, hadn't you noticed that xorg autoconfigures these days?

  18. Re:Global warming on Cold Spring Linked To Dramatic Sea Ice Loss · · Score: 1

    Continuing to believe in a theory if the facts don't fit is called faith, not science.

    As it so happens, more extreme local minima has been part of the accepted explanation of climate change for some time already, and the explanations seem to fit the data, so patching the theory to accept this is science, not faith.

  19. Re:It's no biggie. You have to understand the big on PayPal To Replace VMware With OpenStack · · Score: 1

    The host running HyperV is worthless without a management station. I'm not moving the goalposts, you and Microsoft are playing a bait-and-switch.

  20. Re:It's no biggie. You have to understand the big on PayPal To Replace VMware With OpenStack · · Score: 1

    Lesson one, folks: always follow the link from a right-wing nutjob or a Microsoft fanboi.

    There is nothing there that proves what you say, just a bunch of marketing fluff. The other guy in the thread has told us why: even if the core product is a free download, you still need a Windows management station.

  21. Re:It's no biggie. You have to understand the big on PayPal To Replace VMware With OpenStack · · Score: 1

    Yeah, you make a really bad astroturfer; a stupid one. Really? "You don't need Windows for HyperV, just for the management station"? You think I was born yesterday?

    And spare us the "but I use Xen" gambit. You're on Slashdot, where the Microsoft FUD used to be served up with, "I like Linux, I even run Slackware, but..." since 1998 or so. Given your UID, that might even have been you.

    Mart

  22. Re:It's no biggie. You have to understand the big on PayPal To Replace VMware With OpenStack · · Score: 1

    Reading problems much? You have not addressed parent's main objection: In order to run any guest under HyperV, you still have to have a host machine running HyperV. Guess how you get that? That's right, by buying Windows.

    The last few marketing campaigns have shown how dreadfully bad MS is at marketing and PR; apparently they've been cutting back on their astroturf quality as well, if you are an example.

  23. Re:Keep em Banned on FAA Pushed To Review Ban On Electronics · · Score: 1

    It's only about 'freedom' in the sense that a bunch of crying overgrown children are stamping their feet because the world refuses to give in to their entitlement complex.

  24. Re:So.... on Obama Wants To Fund Clean Energy Research With Oil & Gas Funds · · Score: 1

    Even TCP/IP would have been completely IRRELEVANT

    But it wasn't, so your entire diatribe is irrelevant, because it is not based on anything resembling sound facts. Idiot.

  25. Re:So.... on Obama Wants To Fund Clean Energy Research With Oil & Gas Funds · · Score: 1

    You are obviously too stupid to see that you are contradicting yourself.

    I've played enough with the idiots today. See you next time.