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  1. Re:Heh... Radical...Islamists...redundant... on Islamist Hackers Shut Down Egyptology Research Journal · · Score: 1

    And by the way, the same goes for Muslims living under that same Islamic state. The only discrimination between them is that Muslims have to pay a different tax than non-Muslims, and non-Muslims enlisted in the army don't pay taxes at all (whereas Muslims do).

  2. Re:Heh... Radical...Islamists...redundant... on Islamist Hackers Shut Down Egyptology Research Journal · · Score: 2

    Incorrect. What an Islamic state requires is that non-Muslims simply abide by the laws. This is the same in any modern type of government.

  3. Re:Heh... Radical...Islamists...redundant... on Islamist Hackers Shut Down Egyptology Research Journal · · Score: 2, Insightful

    How come you are telling me to read qur'an? Me, being an educated Atheist convert to Islam, shouldn't I know at least a little bit about my own religion?

    Yes, I've read the qur'an, more than once, but more importantly, I also read commentaries of it, explaining the context. Which is, as any sane person should know, essential to understand the meaning.

    Most of what I've read is that Islam encourages compassion, learning and debating in the best way. I could cite a lot of passages, and I mean a lot, in case you don't believe me.

  4. Re:Heh... Radical...Islamists...redundant... on Islamist Hackers Shut Down Egyptology Research Journal · · Score: 1, Informative

    I have no respect for people who conflate mainstream Sunni Islam with an extremist Twelver Shiite branch. Neither should anyone else.

    Educate yourself people.

  5. Re:Not impressive on Open Source Gaming Handheld Project Wants Your Money · · Score: 1

    Some game do fine with the on-screen controls.

  6. Re:Apple has a big card they have yet to play on Google CEO Larry Page Talks Apple, Android, Google+ · · Score: 1

    I'd be interested to find out with what statistics you have to back up that claim.

    By the way, statcounter doesn't count anything BUT web usage share.

  7. Re:Apple has a big card they have yet to play on Google CEO Larry Page Talks Apple, Android, Google+ · · Score: 1
  8. Re:Apple has a big card they have yet to play on Google CEO Larry Page Talks Apple, Android, Google+ · · Score: 3, Informative

    Look like slightly obscure sources to me.
    According to statcounter, Android had topped iOS for half a year already, with 32% and 24% market share respectively last month.

  9. Re:Facts, not movies on Iran Suspends Programmer's Death Sentence · · Score: 1

    Uh, there's my point, she wasn't Iranian, and she was stoned because she converted to Islam from Yazidism...

  10. Re:Facts, not movies on Iran Suspends Programmer's Death Sentence · · Score: 1

    What you and the other guy are describing sounds like the murder of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Du%E2%80%99a_Khalil_Aswad by Yazidis, a religious minority in Iraq, for converting to Islam.

  11. Re:For sure not so hard on Iran Suspends Programmer's Death Sentence · · Score: 1

    Oops, replied to the wrong comment.

  12. Re:For sure not so hard on Iran Suspends Programmer's Death Sentence · · Score: 1

    What you and the other guy are describing sounds like the murder of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Du%E2%80%99a_Khalil_Aswad by Yazidis, a religious minority in Iraq, for converting to Islam.

  13. Re:U.S. christians and muslims and jews -not issue on UK Government Mandates the Teaching of Evolution As Scientific Fact · · Score: 1

    Only on Slashdot does this get downmodded.

  14. Re:Adblock/Noscript+Common Sense on Microsoft Security Essentials Loses AV-Test Certificate · · Score: 1

    Replying to myself, that's actually even the exact same PDF, and only now I notice that OP has a high UID and only one comment.

    Also note that the AV comparatives uses the following scoring system:

    • Tested
    • Standard *
    • Advanced **
    • Advanced+

    They rate Security Essentials with Standard (together with AVG and PC Tools), whereas

    • AVIRA
    • Trend Micro
    • F-Secure
    • Kaspersky
    • BitDefender
    • BullGuard
    • Fortinet
    • eScan
    • McAfee
    • Avast

      ALL score Advanced +, 3 stars.

  15. Re:Adblock/Noscript+Common Sense on Microsoft Security Essentials Loses AV-Test Certificate · · Score: 1

    According to the same site, MSE also misses lots of samples, which I've experienced myself as well: http://www.av-comparatives.org/images/docs/avc_fdt_201209_en.pdf

  16. Re:Gaining traction should be easy on How Can Linux Gain (Even) More Enterprise Acceptance? (Video) · · Score: 1

    Vino/Vinagre

  17. Re:Simple way to improve intersection safety on Red Light Cameras Raise Crash Risk, Cost · · Score: 2

    If everyone would just use their freakin' indicator, that would reduce the problem severely. I can't stand the selfish people who don't use their indicator, or only use it when they've already changed direction, IE too late.

  18. Re:Certainly has a legitimate track record on Researcher Claims To Have Chrome Zero-Day, Google Says "Prove It" · · Score: 1

    Oh right, anyway it would still be anything, like a batch script of which he changed the icon or whatever.

  19. Re:Certainly has a legitimate track record on Researcher Claims To Have Chrome Zero-Day, Google Says "Prove It" · · Score: 1

    If you look closely sometimes you see the little icon that designates a shortcut. I don't know why it isn't visible all the time, may have something to do with the recorder he used. Also look at some of his other video's, he basically does the exact same thing everytime.

    He could have bound a keyboard shortcut to open Putty for all we know, and he just times pressing the combination to "prove" he has an exploit. Kinda stupid that he never ever gives the source for his exploits, maybe he's just furious that his issue reports on Chromium were all marked invalid.

  20. Re:Certainly has a legitimate track record on Researcher Claims To Have Chrome Zero-Day, Google Says "Prove It" · · Score: 5, Informative

    LMAO

    The very first video where he purportedly shows an Office 2010 0-day vulnerability ("it has silent and automatically download function"), I noticed he right clicked the desktop and clicked pressed "refresh"...
    He then moves on to show that he really is running Office 2010, and then he opens a link, not a word file, which opens MS Word and then opens a local, not silently downloaded, executable: Putty. He finishes by typing "1337" in the connectbox of Putty.

    There are unthinkably many scenarios that lead to this behavior, but this dude having been able to find an actual 0-day vulnerability in any software is not one of them.

  21. Re:Meanwhile at Canonical on Media Center Key Accidentally Gives Pirates Free Windows 8 Pro License · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Emphasis mine:

    some of the very finest things in life are monetarily free.

    Mod parent way up

  22. Re:Still no Retina support for OS X on Firefox 17 Launches With Click-to-Play Plugin Blocks · · Score: 1

    This joke was funny the first 12 times.

  23. Re:Now that ARM is faster than Atom... on $250 Chromebook With Ubuntu Linux Is Very Fast · · Score: 1

    This.

    Is it really so hard to grasp that what's most relevant in ARM vs x86 comparisons (probably other arch comparisons as well) is FLOPS/W?

  24. Re:"Phones", in quotes on Windows Phone 8 Users Hit Some Snags · · Score: 1

    I experienced the same on the Galaxy S1 with CM9, though the stable release went a long way to fix stability issues. Also, now on CM10, no stability issues whatsoever and barely any issues at all. I'm on a Milestone release, and didn't even bother to upgrade to 10.0.0 yet.

  25. Re:DOOM on Emscripten Compiler Gets Optimizations, Now Self-Hosting · · Score: 1

    The name's

    NEO