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  1. Re:What's wrong with NTFS? on Looking Back At Microsoft's Rocky History In Storage Tech · · Score: 1
    Many distros only enable full read/write support to Windows partitions for the root user.

    After all, letting just anyone delete all those files Windows hides from everyone shouldn't be made too easy. But it's handy when someone complains that Windows is unable to delete a file or directory tree, to use a boot linux cd, log in as root, and delete the files.

  2. Re:Eat your words, yet again... apk on Looking Back At Microsoft's Rocky History In Storage Tech · · Score: 1

    APK is a know-nothing troll who has never worked in the industry. His only "legend in his own mind" was that he claimed that "his" hosts file could completely secure a windows computer. The only thing that can completely secure a windows computer is a power failure. Or a sledge hammer.

  3. Re:Since when? on Why Debian Matters More Than Ever · · Score: 1
    Piqued, peeked, peaked ... they're, their, there ... rein, reign, rain.

    Why can't it just be like flammable and inflammable - oh wait ... that's even worse.

  4. Re:Destruction of evidence on Insider-Trading Suspects Smash Hard Drive Evidence · · Score: 1

    Your point is right. We didn't exterminate people in WW2. Others did.

    I'm sure the tens of thousands of civilian casualties of the Dresden and Hamburg firestorms and the nuking of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, would disagree if they hadn't been exterminated en masse.

  5. Re:Removing a feature? That I PAID for? on Microsoft Kills AutoRun In Windows · · Score: 4, Funny

    Trolling? Window update is NOT mandatory. You can choose not to install a specific fix and then it will not prompt you for it in the future. It's not like PS3, where you have to update to play online.

    Hmmmm.... Seems you must be unable to recognize sarcasm. And here I thought I was humorless. ;)

    [sarcasm] He has auto-sarcasm turned of, you insensitive clod! [/sarcasm]

  6. Re:So what if they've known about it for 10 years? on Java Floating Point Bug Can Lock Up Servers · · Score: 1
    Facebook is now the #1 site in terms of pages served (beating out google) and they use PHP, not Java.

    They probably serve more pages than all the java servlets combined.

  7. Re:So... on Sony Marketing Man Tweets PS3 Master Key · · Score: 1
    They were already going after slashdot (see the reports on groklaw.net), which is one reason to green-light this story. The only protection for a trade secret is secrecy. If someone steals the trade secret, it's still legally a secret, but if an employee publishes it voluntarily, sorry, that's it. No more trade secret status.

    It's like the formula for Coca-Cola back in the days before Pepsi broke it. Pepsi was about to start selling an exact copy of the "Old Coke" when Coca-Cola figured out that "New Coke" wasn't such a hot idea after all, and brought it back under the name "Coke Classic".

  8. Re:So what if they've known about it for 10 years? on Java Floating Point Bug Can Lock Up Servers · · Score: 1
    Pretty much. How often is wikipedia the first or second result - and it runs on php.

    http://www.facebook.com/login.php, yahoo (and Steve Ballmer said that if they had bought Yahoo, Microsoft would have been the biggest user of php on the net), http://photobucket.com/index.php, digg, etc. Even the white house's site http://whitehouse.gov/ runs php.

    Not too many large sites use Java. Mostly corporate e-payment systems.

  9. Re:So what if they've known about it for 10 years? on Java Floating Point Bug Can Lock Up Servers · · Score: 1
    Which doesn't change the fact that PHP is more widely used on the web than Java. Pretty much every web hosting project offers a basic LAMP or WAMP stack. Java? Not so much.

    The same goes for available software. Compare the number of open-source web frameworks and content management systems available for the two languages. Java is barely a blip. PHP is everywhere, and python and ruby are follow-ups.

  10. Re:So what if they've known about it for 10 years? on Java Floating Point Bug Can Lock Up Servers · · Score: 1
    Actually, as one of the comments on the site pointed out:

    I think this bug is less critical than PHPâ(TM)s bug, because Java Servlets are not used as much as PHP

    "Java sucks less because people use it less". Sounds reasonable.

  11. Re:So... on Bill Gates Says Anti-Vaccine Effort Kills Children · · Score: 1
    Your wording was as follows: "Unvaccinated people increase the risk for everyone, because they are 100% not immune".

    This is verifiably false. Most people have partial immunity, some people have 100% immunity - it is RARE that someone is "100% not immune" to any pathogen.

    that doesn't diminish the truth of "get a shot or you put everyone at risk".

    People who are naturally immune to a pathogen do not put anyone at risk if they remain unvaccinated. For example, people without compromised immune systems who were exposed to the Asian flu back in the 1950s were immune to the H1N1 variantt.

    It's one reason why people get fewer colds as they get older - there are only a couple hundred variants of the common cold - your odds of encountering any particular one diminish as you get older. (yes, there are benefits to getting older - especially when you consider the alternative :-)

  12. Re:Umm... Revenge Fail. on Woman Gets Revenge Courtesy of Google Images · · Score: 3, Insightful

    What do you expect from a couple of teenagers? This is a kid who did this, not an adult woman. If you've ever had teenagers, you know they're ALL crazy.

  13. Re:Jack Weppler on Woman Gets Revenge Courtesy of Google Images · · Score: 2

    I'm Jack's publicist. We go on tour to push his new book deal next week. And we're looking at not one, but TWO sit-coms, after he does that new reality TV show (booked last night).

  14. Re:Let that be a lesson to you! on Woman Gets Revenge Courtesy of Google Images · · Score: 2
    I'm going to go out on a limb and assume that since Jack Whatisname is a minor, the person who did is probably also is.

    These are kids. Kids do dumb things :-) So do adults - the difference being that when an adult does it, it's criminal.

    Everyone's calling her a "crazy psycho b*tch" - if she were 30 and doing this, I might agree (depending on the circumstances ... for example, if he beat her, he deserves worse than a few smart-ass pics).

    But not a kid - ask any parent - ALL kids are crazy. It's the quiet ones that don't get it out of their system and learn some self-control who end up being the quiet ax-murderer on page 1.

    I find the assumption at the bottom of the article to be not only stupid, but unfounded:

    Lesson? Before you upset your girlfriend or boyfriend, make sure they do not know how Google works. Oh, and never mess with an SEO.

    There's NO indication that this is some woman who "knows how Google works" or is into search engine optimization. And from the text on the images, do you really think an adult woman couldn't come up with worse? A LOT worse?

    On the whole gender card issue, gender naturally comes into things when you're talking about relationships. Just like it does for sex discrimination. But as long as companies like McDonalds not only think it's okay, but find it profitable to air commercials that show men saying whatever the woman wants to hear just to shut her up so she won't dump him, we've got a problem that goes way beyond "political correctness."

    On a side note - will this post do until your troll comes along? :-)

  15. Re:Umm... Revenge Fail. on Woman Gets Revenge Courtesy of Google Images · · Score: 2
    Did you scroll down to the second page of results?

    Now, since a previous article complained about the lack of women participating in Wikipedia, maybe we can see some articles on Doing a Weppler, Wepplerizing, and Jack Weppler Demotivational Posters.

  16. Re:3 Suspects on Wikipedia Works To Close Gender Gap · · Score: 1

    "According to the OpEd Project, an organization based in New York that monitors the gender breakdown of contributors to âoepublic thought-leadership forums,â a participation rate of roughly 85-to-15 percent, men to women, is common â" whether members of Congress, or writers on The New York Times and Washington Post Op-Ed pages.

    It would seem to be an irony that Wikipedia, where the amateur contributor is celebrated, is experiencing the same problem as forums that require expertise."

    I don't think that's ironic at all. 85% of experts wear black socks, ironically 85% of the population also wears black socks.

    [citation needed]

    So, to paraphrase you, "85% of the contributors are male, ironically 85% of the population also is male".

    Let me guess - you got that off wikipedia?

    -- Barbara

  17. Re:NetBsd kernel...what's the advantage? on Debian 6.0 Released In GNU/Linux, FreeBSD Flavors · · Score: 2, Funny
    It's kind of funny that you talk about jails being an advantage ... from your link:

    the upcoming reiserfs and xfs, or

    definitely jailed, and a real killer :-)

    ... but don't you think you could come up with something a bit more recent? Linux has changed a bit since then.

  18. Re:Anyone looking at the evidence knows MS cheats on Microsoft Vehemently Denies Google's "Bing Sting" · · Score: 1
    Your reference fails. Deserts are places full of sand. Desserts (two 's') are things you eat.

    Snopes is also wrong. "juste deserts" in french is "just rewards". Contrary to what snopes claims, it is not related to "just desserts" (hey, I'm from quebec, so I see these linguistic equivalents to backronyms all the time :-)

    It's also one reason why I distinguish between American, Canadian, Quebec English and English. they really are different.

    http://www.clichesite.com/content.asp?which=tip+1633

  19. Re:So... on Bill Gates Says Anti-Vaccine Effort Kills Children · · Score: 1

    Unvaccinated people increase the risk for everyone, because they are 100% not immune

    Please don't counter mis-information from the anti-shot people with more misinformation. If a (in most cases very large) portion of the population didn't already have natural immunity, everyone would already be dead.

    A good example - the last flu scare. Nobody born before the Asian Flue epidemic of 1957-58 needed to get vaccinated - they had already been exposed to a flu that was "close enough", and were already immune. And yet there was this push to "get the older people vaccinated".

    For the rest, getting people to wash their hands and stop picking their noses was a pretty good protective measure.

    The 1918 pandemic was caused by trench war conditions, with tens of millions of people who were cold, malnourished, and basically ripe for any opportunistic infection. And yet, many people lived - because many people have a natural immunity, and when exposed, will not become ill and die.

    Communities that banned ALL contact with outsiders didn't have a single case.

    Part of the problem is that, with the large, more mobile human population, there's always going to be reservoirs of disease. Vaccines can help, but even without them, we're not all going to die. Many of us ARE immune to various diseases. We've been exposed to them, developed an immune response, and move on. If you're able to mount an immune response without a vaccination, you are zero risk for those around you.

    Of course, if you mount a defective immune response (such as being a carrier of typhoid), that's another story - and vaccination won't make a difference in such a case anyway.

    So it's more complicated than "just get a shot or you put everyone at risk."

  20. Quick - someone trademark "the Palinator" on Sarah Palin Seeks To Trademark Her Name · · Score: 1

    'Sarah is somebody who is now out of government and pursuing other activities

    The Palinator ... seeing as she pretty much wrecks everything in politics that she touches.

    The Dems are going to be VERY unhappy about this.

  21. Re:Anyone looking at the evidence knows MS cheats on Microsoft Vehemently Denies Google's "Bing Sting" · · Score: 1

    Hint - snopes isn't always right - not when it comes to language usage in the rest of the world. 5% of the population does NOT make the rules for the rest of us.

  22. Re:Right on! on Usage Based Billing In Canada To Be Rescinded · · Score: 1

    I'm thinking wireless N only. Why bother supporting the slower, less robust standards when wireless N gear is so cheap?

  23. Re:Anyone looking at the evidence knows MS cheats on Microsoft Vehemently Denies Google's "Bing Sting" · · Score: 1

    Actually, you're wrong. It is |just desserts" - along the same lines as "qu'il mange de gateau" (let them eat cake),. They're eating the fruits of their misdeads, and choking on it.

  24. Anyone looking at the evidence knows MS cheats on Microsoft Vehemently Denies Google's "Bing Sting" · · Score: 0
    ... and this is just par for the course for them.

    Nice to see them finally getting their just desserts elewhere - Window Phone 7 is the Next of kin of the KIN and KIN2.

    Or we could say "just deserts" because of the rate at which people have deserted Microsoft in the mobile space - down more than 50% from just a year ago. to just over 3%.

  25. Re:Right on! on Usage Based Billing In Canada To Be Rescinded · · Score: 1
    I think it's time to start rolling out the ad-hoc wireless mesh free networks. I'm wondering if there's any way I can set up 6 wireless routers, 6 omnidirectional antennas with corner reflectors, to create half a dozen "cells" with a 30 degrees of overlap to help prevent dead spots . Opposite-facing cells would share the same channel, so I'd use channels 1, 11, and 21 for the widest separation. 3 on one side of the roof, 3 on the other, and I think I could give lots of people access to things that normally suck up bandwidth, like local copies of linux isos, free and opensource software for all platforms, etc.

    Plus, give them their own encrypted webmail, and block facebook "like" buttons and google adwords servers, and they are no longer tracked (as much) by advertisers.

    Get enough people to act as relays and we could even set up an alternate dns system.

    The 12 db external antennas are currently $60 each, (yes, there are cheaper but they're not as good), and single-antenna indoor wireless N routers are under $40, so $600 would cover everything.