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  1. Re:I don't know, has he? on With Microsoft Office on Android, Has Linus Torvalds Won? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    A fragment of a fragment further segmented and compartmentalized by carriers and hardware makers.

  2. Re:I don't know, has he? on With Microsoft Office on Android, Has Linus Torvalds Won? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The community does the job of fragmenting the Linux community far better than Microsoft or Apple could ever hope to. That's the downfall.

  3. Re:I don't know, has he? on With Microsoft Office on Android, Has Linus Torvalds Won? · · Score: 0

    Relevance and marketshare in which segments? Mobile and tablet? Absolutely. Business desktop and server. Not a chance.

  4. I don't know, has he? on With Microsoft Office on Android, Has Linus Torvalds Won? · · Score: 4, Informative
  5. Vivendi has a fine to pay. on Blizzard Breaks For Independence As Kotick Plans $8.2 Billion Dollar Buyout · · Score: 1
  6. Re:Political Correctness has no place in Kernel De on Kernel Dev Tells Linus Torvalds To Stop Using Abusive Language · · Score: 1

    Why let a tyrant dictate the terms of your community over the objections of community members?

  7. Re: Torvalds being foul-mouthed again? News at 11. on Kernel Dev Tells Linus Torvalds To Stop Using Abusive Language · · Score: 1

    We are "professional" because it easier to encourage dialog when people are not afraid. Torvalds believes that he doesn't have to play by the rules because he is some Linux god and the rest of us can suck it. This is only true as long as the rest of us let him.

    I really liked this part.

  8. Re:Political Correctness has no place in Kernel De on Kernel Dev Tells Linus Torvalds To Stop Using Abusive Language · · Score: 1

    So tolerate abusive, boorish assholes? Why? Just to fit in? Fuck that.

  9. False dichotomy Linus. on Kernel Dev Tells Linus Torvalds To Stop Using Abusive Language · · Score: 1

    The only two choices are not intolerable asshole and fake nice saccharine pantywaist. He must be surrounded by people calloused to the abuse and too afraid to call it out as what it is. So what you're sitting at home in your bathrobe? Congratulations on being a misanthrope shut in weirdo.

  10. Re:you have a NIC with a broken tx line on If a Network Is Broken, Break It More · · Score: 1

    You would pick that up in your normal troubleshooting routine though, swapping the card/cabling, but I see your point.

  11. Re:Clearly he's never worked IT on If a Network Is Broken, Break It More · · Score: 1

    "Hold on $insert C level executive here, I'm going to break more shit, trust me, it's for our own good" You're fired.

  12. Theory vs Application. on If a Network Is Broken, Break It More · · Score: 1

    I don't see the practical application of something like this in a physical networked environment. Thinks like this may sound nice for permastudents' theses, but may or may not have a practical use without one hell of a architectural and best practices shift rather than just replacing a failed piece of equipment or rectifying a software issue and closing the ticket?

  13. Re:Virtual Machine on Ask Slashdot: Protecting Home Computers From Guests? · · Score: 1

    Windows Steadystate used to do a decent job of this on XP.

  14. Re:If you *read* TFA... on Build a Secret Compartment, Go To Jail · · Score: 1

    What crime? Mr. Anaya is neither a law enforcement officer nor an IRS agent.

  15. Re:If you *read* TFA... on Build a Secret Compartment, Go To Jail · · Score: 1

    There's nothing illegal about money.

  16. Re:If you *read* TFA... on Build a Secret Compartment, Go To Jail · · Score: 1

    Seeing $800,000 is a criminal act? Well shit, there goes my plans for a money bin.

  17. Re:If you *read* TFA... on Build a Secret Compartment, Go To Jail · · Score: 2

    There was no transaction. Mr. Anaya is not a mandatory reporter of a cash transaction to begin with. For all Mr. Anaya knew, the money was withdrawn legally from an institution required to report, why should the onus/burden of enforcing the law fall to a car customizer? They're obviously just smacking him down for not playing nice nice in their ever plodding damn fool idiotic crusade against drugs. I don't think this sentence will stand on appeal. IANAL though.

  18. Re:If you *read* TFA... on Build a Secret Compartment, Go To Jail · · Score: 1

    Yeah, maybe Esteban just had a really lucrative paper route...

    It's really none of his business unless he explicitly knew he sold drugs for money, some people just have lots of money, that's not a crime in and of itself. And a reasonable person would probably want to safeguard $800,000 in cash, regardless of source.

  19. Re:My problem with offsite/cloud storage. on The Twighlight of Small In-House Data Centers · · Score: 1

    Well that didn't take long.

  20. Re:My problem with offsite/cloud storage. on The Twighlight of Small In-House Data Centers · · Score: 1

    It also looks bad when I can't say what the problem is, the ETA, what we are doing to work around it, etc.

  21. My problem with offsite/cloud storage. on The Twighlight of Small In-House Data Centers · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I have a threefold problem with "cloud" storage/computing 1) Lack of control/physical security, up to and including removing my access to my own data due to a violation of some cockamamie TOS or similar agreement. 2) No ability to remedy downtimes, while rare, still do happen. 3) The ability of government agencies to scan my data for whatever they feel like arbitrarily and possibly without due process.

  22. At the proxy. on Ask Slashdot: Best Way To Block Web Content? · · Score: 4, Informative

    I prefer at the proxy level. Dansguardian/Squid/ClamAV is pretty easy to set up on your distro of choice.

  23. Re:Another possibility. on Ask Slashdot: How To Convince a Company Their Subscriber List Is Compromised? · · Score: 1

    Okay see what you are describing are best practices, which completely ignores the bad practices that organizations actually.......practice. They do bother, since it doesn't cost them a damn thing to get an invalid address bounceback to an address that isn't theirs. If you shotgun out enough messages about your 30 dollar dick pills and 1 percent of people buy them, congratulations, you've just made money.

  24. Re:Another possibility. on Ask Slashdot: How To Convince a Company Their Subscriber List Is Compromised? · · Score: 1

    I'd actually love to see a citation on this, I could google it but maybe you have an article handy. I generally err on the side of brute force or social engineering rather than out and out "hack" or system compromise.

  25. Another possibility. on Ask Slashdot: How To Convince a Company Their Subscriber List Is Compromised? · · Score: 1

    It could very well have just been guessed, the spammers' mail servers are more than likely more than capable of shotgun blasting millions of messages to $randomstring@domain.com in less time than you'd think, and if you change the replyto address, you don't even get the bouncebacks.