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  1. Re:MS Office Incompatibility on What Happens When Nobody Proofreads an Academic Paper · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Let's face it, even open formats/OSS can't make people *less* stupid.

  2. Re:Solved problem on LHC Data Generation Expected To Scale Up To 400PB a Year · · Score: 1

    The Backblaze Pods are probably way too slow for this sort of stuff, there's also no support. At least they can get that from RH.

  3. Odd... on New OS X Backdoor Malware Roping Macs Into Botnet · · Score: 2
    Okay, I was curious about this one. According to the article here, they:
    1. 1. Work out the number of days since January 1st, 1900 (it doesn't say that explicitely, but gives tm->tm_yday + 365 * tm->tm_year). Today, that would be 41883
    2. 2. Work out the md5 hash of that, which would be ffeac4e88ea3d3c65678fcd434a65f83 for today
    3. 3. Truncate it to eight bytes, so ffeac4e8
    4. 4. Search it on Reddit with https://www.reddit.com/search?...

    That gives no result, neither does the previous day (4cb43551) or even a couple of days ago (7b6461c8), so what gives?

  4. Re:I have an idea on Apple Fixes Shellshock In OS X · · Score: 1

    How about releasing a version of bash that has function passing disabled.

    I misread that as parsing and got very scared.

  5. The stress-testing wasn't needed on PostgreSQL Outperforms MongoDB In New Round of Tests · · Score: 2

    Anybody who's worked on both already knows that NoSQL-based solutions simply don't live up to the hype.

  6. Re:I dunno about LEDs, but CFLs don't last on The Great Lightbulb Conspiracy · · Score: 1

    In my entire life I've never seen an LED burn out unless it was in my own circuit.

    It's okay, we all know that feeling.

  7. Re:Alright smart guy on Ask Slashdot: Is iOS 8 a Pig? · · Score: 1

    In any case, a Nexus phone costs less than half what an iPhone costs, so you can afford to upgrade twice as often.

    Only if you're budgeting for an iPhone. Many aren't.

  8. Re:The problem is the Windows 98 SP2 effect. on Ask Slashdot: Is iOS 8 a Pig? · · Score: 1

    There was no 98 SP2. In fact, there was no such thing as service packs for Windows 98. If you're referring to Windows 98 SE, then I can assure you it's not an 'utter buggy crashing heap of crap'. I still have to support one industrial system running it and it works fine; as it has for nearly 15 years.

  9. Proofreading is a waste of time on Star Wars Producers Want a 'DroneShield' To Prevent Leaks On Set · · Score: 1

    "if it detects a helicopters or drone"