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  1. Re:Debian kFreeBSD on Ask Slashdot: Workaday Software For BSD On the Desktop? · · Score: 1

    Also it's an open question of what happens to kFreeBSD now that Debian's switching to systemd.

  2. You probably want PC-BSD on Ask Slashdot: Workaday Software For BSD On the Desktop? · · Score: 5, Informative

    It's basically a respin of FreeBSD with some packages preinstalled and a nice desktop from the get-go. It includes Firefox and Flash in a default install, works as a VirtualBox guest and host, there's a Java implementation for your Minecraft fix, and there's good documentation.

    You can also choose between several DEs and WMs, such as KDE, Cinnamon, FVWM, Xfce, and many others.

  3. Re:How did your senator vote? on Republicans Block Latest Attempt At Curbing NSA Power · · Score: 1

    You're full of shit.

    Confederate Constitution: Article 1, section 9, clause 4: "No bill of attainder, ex post facto law, or law denying or impairing the right of property in negro slaves shall be passed."

    Same, Article 4, section 2: "The citizens of each State shall be entitled to all the privileges and immunities of citizens in the several States; and shall have the right of transit and sojourn in any State of this Confederacy, with their slaves and other property; and the right of property in said slaves shall not be thereby impaired."

    Same, Article 4, section 3, clause 3: "The Confederate States may acquire new territory; and Congress shall have power to legislate and provide governments for the inhabitants of all territory belonging to the Confederate States, lying without the limits of the several States; and may permit them, at such times, and in such manner as it may by law provide, to form States to be admitted into the Confederacy. In all such territory the institution of negro slavery, as it now exists in the Confederate States, shall be recognized and protected by Congress and by the Territorial government; and the inhabitants of the several Confederate States and Territories shall have the right to take to such Territory any slaves lawfully held by them in any of the States or Territories of the Confederate States."

    South Carolina, Mississippi, Georgia, and Texas cited the preservation of slavery as a cause for their secession from the USA. Texas went so far as to say that the US and state governments were established exclusively for whites, and that ending black slavery would bring inevitable calamities upon blacks and whites, and desolation upon the slave states.

    You've drunk the southern kool-aid, sonny.

  4. Re:How did your senator vote? on Republicans Block Latest Attempt At Curbing NSA Power · · Score: 1

    The Civil War was totally about states' rights... to enable rich planters to own other human beings because it was cheaper than paying for labor.

  5. Re:So basically on Republicans Block Latest Attempt At Curbing NSA Power · · Score: 1

    So I'm a medical miracle and grew those neurons back in my mid-20s, eh?

  6. Re:Sigh. on Republicans Block Latest Attempt At Curbing NSA Power · · Score: 1

    The hell took you so long to start paying attention? Seriously.

  7. Re:So basically on Republicans Block Latest Attempt At Curbing NSA Power · · Score: 1

    Represent! I went through the standard semi-privileged white nerdy male libertarian phase in my late teens to mid-20s, then grew out of it.

  8. Re:Should have been 64-bit from the start... on Chrome 39 Launches With 64-bit Version For Mac OS X and New Developer Features · · Score: 1

    Some Mac lines didn't get upgraded with 64-bit EFI until early 2009. Arguably you need a minimum of 4GB of RAM to really use 64-bit due to the ~30% tariff long pointers impose, and maybe you want 6GB for really good performance depending on what you run; further, the early '09 Mini topped out at 4GB officially.

    Anyway, point is that even if Apple had waited for the Core 2 Duo to switch to Intel the early Intel Macs would probably still not run 64-bit-only programs today.

  9. Re:Should have been 64-bit from the start... on Chrome 39 Launches With 64-bit Version For Mac OS X and New Developer Features · · Score: 2

    Maybe. Plenty of older Macs with 64-bit CPUs and 32-bit firmware, though, which at least prevents newer OS X from booting a 64-bit kernel, and it's been more recently that computers have had enough RAM to make 64-bit truly worthwhile.

  10. Re:So the only people that are hurt on Chrome 39 Launches With 64-bit Version For Mac OS X and New Developer Features · · Score: 3, Funny

    It's not my computer. Are you illiterate?

  11. Re:So the only people that are hurt on Chrome 39 Launches With 64-bit Version For Mac OS X and New Developer Features · · Score: 4, Interesting

    The Macbook Pro 1,1 has a 32-bit CPU.

  12. Re:So the only people that are hurt on Chrome 39 Launches With 64-bit Version For Mac OS X and New Developer Features · · Score: 2

    Mainline Firefox will drop support for your OS at some point too. There'll probably be a project like TenFourFox for older Intel-powered Macs, though.

  13. Re:FreeBSD on FreeBSD 10.1 Released · · Score: 1

    which itself is descended from Version 7 Unix, although since 4.4BSD-Lite there's no real Unix code any longer.

  14. Re:I Switched To FreeBSD on FreeBSD 10.1 Released · · Score: 1

    PC-BSD is pretty nice for a desktop OS. Unlike FreeBSD it's immediately ready for an end-user with a well thought-out environment.

    One analogy might be PC-BSD is to FreeBSD what Linux Mint KDE is to Slackware.

  15. Re:what a waste on Comet Probe Philae To Deploy Drill As Battery Life Wanes · · Score: 2

    We're all glad you're here to share your wealth of experience in space probe design with us.

  16. Re:second picture on Philae Lands Successfully On Comet · · Score: 1

    I am the center of my universe and everything revolves around me.

  17. Re:Ya...Right on U.S. and China Make Landmark Climate Deal · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Now anyone who thinks this'll pass the Senate, raise your other hand.

    The Republicans are too far into the denialist camp to countenance letting this go forward, not to mention their reflexively being against everything Obama's for.

  18. Re:Happens a lot on Google To Lease and Refurbish Naval Air Base For Space Exploration · · Score: 1

    Richards-Gebauer near Kansas City has been turned into an intermodal rail/road hub, IIRC.

  19. Re:Repeat with me on Gridlock In Action: Retailers Demand New Regulations To Protect Consumers · · Score: 1

    FOUR LEGS GOOD TWO LEGS BAD

    I can't understand people who think reality is simple.

  20. Re:Be the Change You Wish to See in the World on The Students Who Feel They Have the Right To Cheat · · Score: 2

    The south rebelled because the mere action of lincoln being elected, not because anything he actually did

    Just like the teabaggers had their tantrum after Obama's election, oddly enough.

  21. Re:Be the Change You Wish to See in the World on The Students Who Feel They Have the Right To Cheat · · Score: 1

    That wouldn't have worked either. There was enough pro-war, pro-secession hysteria after Lincoln's election that there'd have been no way to force the slaveowners to sell to the government and desist except at gunpoint.

  22. Re:Be the Change You Wish to See in the World on The Students Who Feel They Have the Right To Cheat · · Score: 2

    You'd have a leg to stand on without his second paragraph. The second para pretty clearly advocates "moral pragmatism" like his "enlightened slavery" example as opposed to idealism like forcing the southerners to free their slaves.

  23. Re:They ARE a utility. on President Obama Backs Regulation of Broadband As a Utility · · Score: 1

    His argument feels truthy, though.

  24. Re:Well, anyway ... on More Tor .Onion Sites May Get Digital Certificates Soon · · Score: 2

    I still wonder what the Sam Hill any Facebook member would be doing on Tor

    The non-paranoid idea normally floated is that it's for getting into FB from a country that's censoring it.

  25. I haven't seen any comments mentioning how these cameras have a public IP address, which is at least as bad as having a default password. Given that most (consumer) routers default to using NAT with an RFC 1918 address (generally in 192.168.x.x) this misconfiguration would presumably have taken effort, i.e. it was deliberate if probably not maliciously so. Even if the cameras have a private IP, they could still be remotely accessed via port forwarding, which also implies such installer/user incompetence.

    If there's a need for a remote user to access these cameras' feeds, that's what a VPN is for.