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  1. Re:why are you bitching about ubuntu, on Ubuntu User Count Pegged At Over One Billion (phoronix.com) · · Score: 1

    If you don't like it, then don't use it !!!

  2. Microsoft Windows free for years .. on Ubuntu User Count Pegged At Over One Billion (phoronix.com) · · Score: 1

    I've been Microsoft Windows free for years and haven't noticed any dilution in my computing experience.

  3. Re:Reductio ad Absurdum on Pirate Bay Cofounder Utterly Bankrupts the Music Industry (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 1

    I don't know what that means, but I like the way you say it.

  4. Use news.ycombinator.com on Ask Slashdot: Best Practices For Using a Reputation Engine To Rate Information? · · Score: 1

    "For my graduate project, I am considering developing a web engine designed around sharing and organizing actual information in a way that people would actually like to and easily be able to use it".

    It depends on the quality of the posters, you should aim for something like news.ycombinator.com

  5. Microsoft Windows Xmas DDoS attacks .. on PhantomSquad Hackers Begin Their Xmas DDoS Attacks By Taking Down EA Servers (softpedia.com) · · Score: 1

    By any chance would this DDOS farm run on Microsoft Windows desktop computers?

  6. Australian Gov tells citizens to turn off 2FA on Australian Government Tells Citizens To Turn Off Two-factor Authentication (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    "The Australian government has repeatedly called for citizens to turn off two-factor authentication (2FA)" .. so as they can more easily spy on you.

  7. Hyatt Hotels hit by malware .. on Hyatt Hotels Payment-Processing Systems Hit By Malware (csoonline.com) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    By any chance was this Payment-Processing System running on Microsoft Windows?

  8. Malicious code and the firewall .. on The Juniper VPN Backdoor: Buggy Code With a Dose of Shady NSA Crypto (csoonline.com) · · Score: 2

    "malicious third-party modifications and Juniper's own crypto failures are responsible for the recently disclosed backdoor in Juniper NetScreen firewalls."

    Given todays computing model, where clicking on a link opens up a two-way connection to a server and executes remote code on your computer, the firewall is next to useless.

  9. Re:Serious question.. on Investigation Into Security Director Who Hacked the Lottery Expands (bgr.com) · · Score: 1

    DOH!!!!!

  10. USPTO power outage damages equipment .. on USPTO Power Outage Damages Equipment and Shuts Down IT Systems (uspto.gov) · · Score: 1

    By any chance would this equipment be running on Microsoft Windows.

  11. Man Arrested For Hacking 130 Celebrities .. on Man Arrested For Hacking 130 Celebrities (softpedia.com) · · Score: 1

    "The hacker known online as Jeff Moxey managed to hack the computers of 130 celebrities

    By any chance would these 'computers' be running on Microsoft Windowsâ.

  12. Microsoft desperate to get into mobile business on Microsoft Buys Talko, Another Ray Ozzie Company (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    Microsoft is desperate to get into the mobile phone business ..

  13. Yet more cyber hackers bullshit .. on Hackers Have Infiltrated the US Power Grid's Control Networks (lasvegassun.com) · · Score: 1

    There's only one solution: Congress will have to pass a law that makes it mandatory for Homeland Security to bug our household smart meters.

  14. Re:There are MS Mobile fans? Win10 fans? on Microsoft Fails Windows Phone Fans Again By Delaying Windows 10 Mobile (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    :) haaaaa

  15. Protecting us from the terrorists .. on Go To Jail For Visiting a Web Site? Top Law Prof Talks Up the Idea (slate.com) · · Score: 1

    "Eric Posner, the fourth most-cited law professor in the U.S., says the government may need to jail you if you even visit an ISIS site after enough warnings"

    The entire argument is bogus, protecting us from the terrorists by spying on us. Reading a webpage doesn't make a terrorist. What does is seeing your relatives being targeted by missiles and drones.

  16. NoMachine - free Remote Desktop for Everybody on Universal Remote Desktop Coming To Windows 10 Soon · · Score: 1

    'Travel from your desktop to any NoMachine-enabled computer at the speed of light. NoMachine is the fastest remote desktop you have ever tried. In just a few clicks you can reach any computer in the world and start working on it as if it was right in front of you.'

  17. George Lucas destroyed the movie industry .. on Writer: Why Watching the Original Star Wars Again Was a Bad Idea (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    'Michael Franco recently sat down and watched "Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope" again .. His advice to anyone who's thinking of doing the same is to save your childhood memories and skip watching it again..'

    I disagree, the subsequent prequels and the remade insertions into the original were a disaster. Not only that Lucas never went on to make another decent movie. Not only that Hollywood stopped making movies for grown-ups and concentrated instead on special-effect extravaganzas which, while being expensive to produce, would be guaranteed to make money in across the movie going demography.

    George Lucas Destroyed Modernity

  18. Didn't this used to be known as Open Source .. on Gigster Wants To Be the Uber of Software Development (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    Didn't this used to be known as Open Source ..

  19. Re:I need to shit, badly on Mozilla Hands Out Open Source Awards (mozilla.org) · · Score: 1

    fuck off and die ..

  20. Basic ASLR was not implemented .. on AVG, McAfee, Kaspersky Antiviruses All Had a Common Bug (softpedia.com) · · Score: 1

    This wouldn't be a problem if the MMU did its job properly ..

  21. Re:Not your father's Microsoft on Microsoft Offers Linux Certification. Yes, Really. (dice.com) · · Score: 1

    It's understandable why you would post that msg anonymously :)

  22. Critical security update for Microsoft Edge .. on Microsoft Kills Many Critical Flaws, Some 0-Days, Un-Trusts One Wildcard Cert · · Score: 1

    I thought Microsoft Edge was elimated all the defects in the Microsoft browser?

  23. Volkswagon exonerates Volkswagon .. on Volkswagen Says Carbon Deviations Much Smaller Than Suspected (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    Since when do the crooks get to investigate themselves?

  24. Microsoft moving to per-core licensing .. on Microsoft Windows Server 2016 Moving To Per-Core Licensing (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 2

    "Microsoft Windows Server 2016 Moving To Per-Core Licensing"

    Because Microsoft has decided that people who update their own hardware must pay Microsoft for the privilege.

    "Windows Server 2012 has two main editions, Standard and Datacenter" and the only diffence between them is a registry hack.

  25. Charging money for a hash function? on Providing Addresses for 4 Billion People Using Three Words (mondaynote.com) · · Score: 1

    Hash the latitude & longitude, and use the results to select from three lookup tables.