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  1. Re:I don't buy it on Confidence Shaken In Open Source Security Idealism · · Score: 2

    Actually, I can't remember last Linux Zero-Day bug.
    And the bugs this article refers to are BSD's and GNU's fault.

    Maybe, just maybe, Linus' way is the right way.

  2. Re:Same as it's been forever. on What's Been the Best Linux Distro of 2014? · · Score: 3, Informative

    Some closed source hardware providers choose them as targets for their products.
    yum is better than apt
    Lots of time is put testing so you don't get nasty surprises on production services that support millionaire businesses.
    Long (really long) term support (and by support I mean security updates).

    On the other hand, It's not a fair comparison, you should compare RHEL against Debian Stable.

  3. Re:Primal difference between Man and Woman on Fortune.com: Blame Tech Diversity On Culture, Not Pipeline · · Score: 1

    Men get a primal Promethean thrill and ego boost from creating machines from symbols. Women get the same thrill and primal sense-of-purpose from creating new living human beings (i.e. babies), instead of machinery.

    And you base that on what?
    And Even if those affirmations were true, they'd be meaningless unless:

    Women don't get a primal Promethean thrill and ego boost from creating machines from symbols.
    Men don't get a primal sense-of-purpose from creating new living human beings.

  4. Re:Funny, however.. on Grooveshark Found Guilty of Massive Copyright Infringement · · Score: 1

    Copyright rules should be abolished for non commercial use and FRAND rules should be applicable to commercial use, because the current copyright state is:
    a) unenforceable
    b) detrimental to culture
    c) most people don't give a shit about it.

  5. Re:Unified Experience Across Devices on Microsoft Announces Windows 10 · · Score: 1

    To lazy to search, but what are they planning to do for addressing the arch compatibility issues?
    Wasn't that the main cause why the ditched their RT version? Users were unable to gasp the difference between the devices and ended returning them?

  6. Re:Someone's going to complain on Drones Reveal Widespread Tax Evasion In Argentina · · Score: 1

    Last time I checked, google maps didn't have good images of zones presumed not populated. This last tax actualization was made after 15+ years, so Argentina's government doesn't give a shit about being portrayed as lazy.

  7. Re:There is no "almost impossible" on Apple's "Warrant Canary" Has Died · · Score: 1

    No, you can't... because of the "any message", you would have "virtually infinite" amount of messages matching the same patterns you're looking for and having valid data in any other place.

  8. You can bypass that by reverse SSH, but it doesn't seem like a valid option in this case.

  9. Re:Bring back windows XP. on What To Expect With Windows 9 · · Score: 1

    Could you list some stuff that mere mortals are able to do with newer OS but not with XP
    (Honest question, I've barely touched 7 and never had the pleasure of using 8. As a Linux user, when WMs went full retard (again), I changed to awesome WM and haven't had to face change since.)

  10. Re:Right fix on Canon Printer Hacked To Run Doom Video Game · · Score: 1

    Aw, heck. They're "fixing" it the wrong way. The right way to deal with DOOM running on a printer's LCD is not to remove this feature. They should simply turn DOOM into official menu option.

    It's not like it hasn't been proposed before.

  11. Re:Many languages and... on Ask Slashdot: What Are the Strangest Features of Various Programming Languages? · · Score: 1

    for bash / sh, the ; is not mandatory... What else do you propose to separate to commands in the same line?

  12. Re:Infoworld... pass on Ask Slashdot: What Are the Strangest Features of Various Programming Languages? · · Score: 1

    That's also used by the CMSIS for ARMs ... There, struct pointers are pointed to the pheripherals registers memory map, so you can make calls like TIMER->value.

  13. Re:35% is high, yes, but ... on Buenos Aires Issues a 'Netflix Tax' For All Digital Entertainment · · Score: 1

    Argentina has instituted what amounts to a 35% import duty. Yes, that's a lot, but most things are purchased domestically.

    Argentina has an import duty over the VAT... So that's + 21% +35%. That's been like that since I can remember.

    To make the math easier for you, customs set a unique 50% tax on imports to local market. And that's only over the goods.
    You still have to pay if you need to send money out of the country via a wire transfer.

    For some reason CCs were exempt from this, now another 35% tax was set, deducible from your income tax... But as anywhere else, almost all Argentinians fake their income declarations, so they can't justify their foreign expenses and never get the reimbursement.

  14. Re: Well... on Mozilla Rolls Out Sponsored Tiles To Firefox Nightly's New Tab Page · · Score: 1
    The issue is that I've accumulated a long list of changes I don't want on my firefox, and that required me more than half an hour to toggle. Of the top of my head I can think of:
    • Switch to tab
    • That tiling thing instead of the about:blank page for new tabs
    • Classic theme restorer
    • Placing all the UI items back to their original place

    I'm sure I must have a lot more stacked.

  15. Re:Yes Google and FB are the ones to protect us? on NSA Agents Leak Tor Bugs To Developers · · Score: 5, Funny

    An organization who has a record of defending people's freedom or a corporation who has a record of selling every kind of information they can get their fingers on.

    Mmm... I don't know which applies to google and which to the NSA....

  16. Re:Windows 8 app store? on Microsoft's Windows 8 App Store Is Full of Scamware · · Score: 1

    ARMs are extremely power efficient too. And the core licences allow manufacturers to add their own embedded peripherals, including those fancy hybrid ARM/FPGA guys.

  17. Re:Sandboxing on Ask Slashdot: How Dead Is Antivirus, Exactly? · · Score: 1

    Whish I could tell that to the Ubuntu developers after each distro upgrade.

  18. Re:Chrome? on Which Is Better, Adblock Or Adblock Plus? · · Score: 1

    I switched too, from transmission, only for the "streaming/download chunks in order" capabilities, and no, I don't care about the swarm health foobar.

  19. Re: Controversy? on Was Watch Dogs For PC Handicapped On Purpose? · · Score: 1

    But GTA3 suck's by today's standards. I might be wrong but can't think of a better game with a similar game play that's older than the GTA3.

  20. Re:I really dig the Obamacare comments Bruce made on Interviews: Bruce Perens Answers Your Questions · · Score: 1

    Don't know about the US, but lot's of countries actually do that. They provide Food / Money intending to put all their population above the indigence line.
    Ofcourse, from these other countries it's really hard to understand why you're against public health, but allow your police to purchase military vehicles.
    On the other hand, the US has been more successfull than most of these other countries, so we might be wrong.

  21. Re:Why "bunnie"? on Interviews: Ask Andrew "bunnie" Huang About Hardware and Hacking · · Score: 1

    What makes you think that he chose it himself?

  22. Re:Good on UK Ballistics Scientists: 3D-Printed Guns Are 'of No Use To Anyone' · · Score: 1

    Wasn't in that conditions that the first mac was made, or am I mistaken?

  23. Re:This is bullshit. on NYC Councilman (and Open Source Developer) Submits Bill Establishing Open Source · · Score: 1

    Well, almost all government documents are written with LateX (Academic papers) or XML (docx).

  24. Re:Would cause major debugging headaches on Imparting Malware Resistance With a Randomizing Compiler · · Score: 1

    Not whit NOOPs, It's been already used and marks your code as "suspicious". But the same obfuscation techniques used for anit-piracy, can be (and are) used by virus makers.

  25. Re:just because on Become a Linux Kernel Hacker and Write Your Own Module · · Score: 1

    Do you pine for the nice days of minix-1.1, when men were men and wrote their own device drivers?

    Allways sounded like a hacking invitation to me.