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  1. Re:One important tip on As Hurricane Season Looms, It's Disaster-Preparedness Time · · Score: 1

    You've got some good things on your list. You also have some stupid things. Like deodorant. Who needs that? If your camping, you don't need it. If there is a break down in social order, you don't need it. If you don't have access to shops for a month, you don't need it (as no one else will have it either...).

    Camp shower? I'm pretty sure where I come from they call those waterfalls. Or you could just go swimming in the lake. (Just avoid all those small microscopic bugz and shitz.)

    Further, how are you going to carry all this stuff?

    OK, maybe I misunderstood, and you are just going to hangout in your datacenter and pretend you're camping. In which case, you can just store all your shit. But wouldn't you rather hangout at home for a month and forget your datacenter?

  2. Re:Today on New Unix Implementation Turns 30 · · Score: 0

    I sucked a lot of cock to get where I am. I only want to be the best that I can.
    My mouth is stained I can't complain. I keep on rinsing it again and again.

  3. Re:Where's my Empire, file version numbers etc.? on New Unix Implementation Turns 30 · · Score: 1

    Versioning was in the Incompatible Timesharing System, it was in OpenVMS, and it was one of the things that rms said he wanted ("...file version numbers, a crashproof file system..."). It's not too much to ask.

  4. Where's my Empire, file version numbers etc.? on New Unix Implementation Turns 30 · · Score: 2

    I want Empire!
    Actually, what I really want is built in support for file version numbers (á la VMS presumably). Is that too much to ask?

    I don't want to have to run some experimental file system that hasn't got support in the kernel. I want to run something mainstream, supported, and useful. But with versioning. Maybe EXT5 (if brfs doesn't do it) could have it...

  5. Re:You can never make anyone happy. on GNOME 3.10 Released · · Score: 3, Informative

    What's wrong with Epiphany Web Browser then? But to call the software simply "Web" is crazy. The idiots who went on, and still go on about, names being hard, are just idiots. When I look for GIMP, in my menu I get GIMP Image Editor. Whoa, so hard to work out what that does! What does Powerpoint do? What does FrameMaker do? What did ClarisWorks do?

    And, you didn't address the point that by using generic names, it makes it much much harder to search for information about the software.

  6. Convergence and Perspectives on Ask Slashdot: Has Gmail's SSL Certificate Changed, How Would We Know? · · Score: 4, Informative

    From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convergence_%28SSL%29:

    With Convergence, however, there is a level of redundancy, and no single point of failure. Several notaries can vouch for a single site. A user can choose to trust several notaries, most of which will vouch for the same sites. If the notaries disagree on whether a site's identity is correct, the user can choose to go with the majority vote, or err on the side of caution and demand that all notaries agree, or be content with a single notary (the voting method is controlled with a setting in the browser addon). If a user chooses to distrust a certain notary, a non-malicious site can still be trusted as long as the remaining trusted notaries trust it; thus there is no longer a single point of failure.

    The Monkeysphere Project tries to solve the same problem by using the PGP web of trust model to assess the authenticity of https certificates.[8]

    Now, everyone, let's use the tools available!

  7. Re:Software on GNOME 3.10 Released · · Score: 3, Interesting

    And they call their browser "Web". Yeah, I've got some troubles with accessing the web. What browser am I using? Eh, it says Web. Yeah, Web... No not Firefox, Web.
    Or searching for how to do something or fix something...

    This is actually a stupid thing, calling their software after generic terms related to the function. Epiphany is a much better web browser name than Web. Synaptic is a much better name for a software install than Software. Etc. Next they'll be re-badging Abiword as Word Processor.

    (I am using a Gnome 3 as I type this. I understand later versions (like 3.8) are better. But I mostly cope with this version, because Ubuntu 12.04 actually works for now, and I don't want to break shit by upgrading.)

  8. Re:Redundant keys on Bill Gates Acknowledges Ctrl+Alt+Del Was a Mistake · · Score: 1

    On my US keyboard (not that I am American), I use the right-alt as a alt-gr as well. To get accented letters, I press the alt-gr key, and then the accent and then the key I want the accent on. Fancy. Of course, I had to modify some settings to do that, because it's not on by default...

  9. Re:The more moderated, the less honest on Comments About Comments · · Score: 1

    That's a good idea. I've often thought that many of the +5 posts are actually only +4 or +3 worthy. But as soon as a post gets modded up once or twice, someone else will come along and say, "ah, I like that post too!" and then mod it up beyond where it should be.

    +5 should be only for the exceptional posts. +4 should be for the good. +2 for the OK, +1 for the meh, and 0 and -1 for the shit (except that a lot of anonymous cowards do post good stuff).

  10. Re:Seriously? I mean seriously? on Snowden Granted One-Year Asylum In Russia · · Score: 1

    Well, so none then. Helps my point. The current government might be a right pack of bastard scum cunts, but at least they don't go around exporting (unlike, say, the Saudis that spend money to promote their shitty variation of Islam).

  11. Re:I don't know, has he? on With Microsoft Office on Android, Has Linus Torvalds Won? · · Score: 1

    Debian GNU/kFreeBSD. Now you know what to search for, you can find out as much as you ever might need.

    As for why: https://wiki.debian.org/Debian_GNU/kFreeBSD_why

  12. Basically, it's bollocks on CouchDB: Roll Your Own, Or Go With a Service? · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    it's all bollocks. total shit. /. is going to hell in a hand basket, and shit like this isn't helping.
    a story for you:

    once upon a time, a young lass decided to kill the king. so she set out with her weapon of choice, and charmed her way to the throne room. there she blew up the universe, thus killing the king (and everyone and everything else).

    the moral of the story is, don't be afraid to take down what you love to kill the greater evil.

    i.e. let's all start shooting politicians and capitalists. and police and similar scum who support them.

  13. Re:Seriously? I mean seriously? on Snowden Granted One-Year Asylum In Russia · · Score: 0

    The Americunt government just assassinates civilians and other suspected "terrorists" (including Americunt citizens).

    As I said in a previous post, everyone hates the Americunts, because the Americunts export their shit. Russia mostly keeps it inside their own borders, as do the other oppressive regimes that the apologists (apologists for the ills done by the Americunts) love to harp on about. How many times has Iran invaded anyone in recent history? Was it none, or one. Now, how many times has the USA invaded anyone? Oh, just a few times in the last 20 years. Not many...

  14. Re:fuck tags on Ask Slashdot: Tags and Tagging, What Is the Best Way Forward? · · Score: 1

    That's interesting, I'll have to look into it.

    As for an endless supply of tags/keywords, that's what a thesaurus is for. You look up words related to what you want to find, and then see what the thesaurus says to use. If it's not in the thesaurus, you don't use it.

  15. Re:Not surprising on Bradley Manning Convicted of Espionage, Acquitted of 'Aiding the Enemy' · · Score: 1

    (I tried to post about 12 hours ago (or just after the parent post was posted, whichever is later), but it didn't post. I post it now even though I'm not as angry as I was.)

    Maybe he plead because he hoped to get a lighter sentence? You know, like all those folk who take plea "bargains", despite not being guilty, because they are facing 1000 years in prison.

    The fact that the prosecutors decided to continue to try and get him convicted of all these other charges doesn't mean that this wasn't his thought process.

    The man's a hero if he released the documents.

    Seriously, fuck America, fuck all you Americunts, and fuck your support for totalitarianism and hypocrisy. Oh, yeah, you Americunts supported all these dictatorships in the Arabic world, and if it weren't for Manning, there would still be Mubarak in power in Egypt today.

    And if Manning didn't release the documents (which I still contend is perfectly possible, the military just wanted a scapegoat, any one would do), then the USA is worse than I thought. Which would be pretty hard, considering I think it's basically one of the world's worse countries in so many ways. Yeah, some countries are worse in some ways. But mostly they don't export it. Only you Americunts export your shit so much.

  16. Re:Big deal. on Google Starts Upgrading Its SSL Certificates To 2048-bit Keys · · Score: 0

    You're a stupid nazi. Like all nazis really. First, "penis ' " is perfectly acceptable in that context. The apostrophe (') indicates that a letter or letters have been left out. Like in words such as "don't" and "'ouse"; in the first an "o" is missing, in the second the "h". Often missing letters are used to indicate pronunciation (as in "don't"), even though strictly, you shouldn't write like that in formal documents (where grammar and spelling matter more).

    And I think you probably have a small penis anyway.

    Also, people might care about who I am, what I read, and what I post. E.g. the king of Thailand fucks rats, Putin (president of Russia) is a shithead with an overly large ego, and the president of this country (where I am) is a geriatric old man who should have been put down like a rabid dog years ago. I'm not too worried about being connected with those opinions, but in certain cases, it could be dangerous (e.g. if I were in Thailand and I could be connected with that comment).

    While I may not be important, there are others who also deserve /. having a secure access mode.

  17. Re:fuck tags on Ask Slashdot: Tags and Tagging, What Is the Best Way Forward? · · Score: 1

    So, I wrote an article about sharks. I wrote another article about salmon. I wrote a third article about trout.

    I never mentioned the word "fish" in any of these articles.

    What tags do, is allow you to find these three articles if you search for "fish", even though the word is not part of the content.

    A simplistic example, but hopefully enough to get the point across. Tags provide options for synonyms.

  18. Big deal. on Google Starts Upgrading Its SSL Certificates To 2048-bit Keys · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I've been using 4096 bit keys for over two years. Now if only /. would get into the act (I don't want freaks and weirdos at where ever I use the 'net to know a. what stories I read. b. whether I'm logged in or not. c. if I'm logged in, what my user name and password are).

    Also, the moderators are all insufficiently like the "ideal" for their gender (whatever gender that is). E.g. the male identifying mods all have small penis'.

  19. Re:Problem is always the same. on 55,000 Sign Twitter Abuse Petition After Jane Austen Campaigner Threats · · Score: 1

    Jason Levine. I'm going to hunt you down. I'm going to come to your house. And I'm going to give you the kissing you deserve! You'll get suck a kissing from me bucko, you'll remember it for the rest of your life. If your wife also wants a kissing, that may also be an option.

  20. Re:EMACS SUCKS AND SO DOES YOUR MOTHER! on "Feline Herd" Offers Easier Package Management For Emacs · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Dear the mods. YOU ARE ALL FUCKING STUPID! I hope you die a slow, painful, and lonely death (though not alone; you're never truly alone when people can point and laugh).

    Also, your father sends his regards; but wishes you'd grow up and stop being stupid.

  21. EMACS SUCKS AND SO DOES YOUR MOTHER! on "Feline Herd" Offers Easier Package Management For Emacs · · Score: 4, Funny

    VIM & VI also suck. The standard editor is, ed. Obviously. Ed. "Ed is generous enough to flag errors, yet prudent enough not to overwhelm the novice with verbosity."

  22. Re:You are kidding right? on Ask Slashdot: Secure DropBox Alternative For a Small Business? · · Score: 1

    He's got open access on all my ports, bitch.

  23. Re:Does anyone actually... on Retail Stores Plan Elaborate Ways To Track You · · Score: 1

    It's not just the driver's brain treating a person on the phone and a passenger differently, it's also who the driver is talking to. On the phone, people expect immediate responses, while, as you say, a passenger can realize that maybe they shouldn't expect a response straight away. And so the person on the phone will be going, "are you still there?" because you've stopped talking to navigate around a large truck or whatever.

  24. Re:You are kidding right? on Ask Slashdot: Secure DropBox Alternative For a Small Business? · · Score: 1

    This is why you never invent your own cryptosystem.

    I'm fucking Bruce Schneier, bitch.

  25. Re:Moniker catching on? on Blizzard Breaks For Independence As Kotick Plans $8.2 Billion Dollar Buyout · · Score: 1

    They might not be equivalent, but they are both stupid and outdated ideas. What's the point of nations? Nations and countries are as artificial and deserving of being abolished as the idea of race.

    Fuck your country. Fuck all countries. And fuck nationalism.