Slashdot Mirror


User: Lars+T.

Lars+T.'s activity in the archive.

Stories
0
Comments
6,324
First seen
Last seen
Profile
(view on slashdot.org)

Comments · 6,324

  1. Re:Who writes this junk? on Apple to Unveil New Leopard OS in August · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Yes, do that. The only thing close to helping Sekhon is "Sekhon is correct about Darwin's system calls." - which (even if it were true) doesn't change anything about the rest of the argument.

  2. Re:Not completely debunked on Apple to Unveil New Leopard OS in August · · Score: 1

    Only if you, like Sekhon, still ignore that his test is not realistic, because it allocs, writes to the buffer and then immediately deallocs.

  3. Re:Stock Tip on Apple to Unveil New Leopard OS in August · · Score: 1

    You predicted the msPod for 2007, but you cleverly didn't say 2007 of which calendar.

  4. Re:Who writes this junk? on Apple to Unveil New Leopard OS in August · · Score: 1
  5. Re:Macs and... on Want Security? Make The Switch · · Score: 1
    How likely is it for a zero-day exploit to be embedded in slashdot.org or cnn.com?

    Just upload a bugged WMF (or PNG for that matter, to get those libpng users) on imageshack, post the link on Slashdot, and you could catch hundreds of people - probably even today - before it gets taken down.

    By "trusted source" I meant "bought it at Best Buy" or possibly "downloaded from Download.com". What do I run on a system: Adobe Reader, Eclipse, Gaim, Quicktime, Winzip, Office, a few games. Imho, worrying about downloading malicious code from a hacked eclipse.org or apple.com isn't worthwhile.

    Don't forget that Sourceforge was once hacked, just like somebody could hack a Download.com mirror, not to mention DNS spoofing attacks.

    Is it likely - No. Is it possible - Yes.

  6. Re:Macs and... on Want Security? Make The Switch · · Score: 1
    With such a paranoid attitude, why don't you just disconnect yourself from the internet?

    Because I use a Mac.

  7. Re:Where's the "duh" button when you need it? on Want Security? Make The Switch · · Score: 2, Insightful
    Analogy remix: wouldn't it be smart to pick out a particular bank to rob if it has 90% of the world's money?).

    So that is why so many people tried to rob Fort Knox.

  8. Re:Macs and... on Want Security? Make The Switch · · Score: 1
    Ditto. And that's running IE and without anti-virus software. All you really need to do is:

    Sit behind a cheap $50 router.

    And hope that it isn't vulnerable itself.

    Regularly update Windows/IE with critical patches.

    And hope you don't run into Zero Day eploits.

    Only run software obtained from a "trusted" source.

    And hope it hasn't been hacked (or a proxy inbetween).

  9. I guess this says it all on Nerds Switching from Apple to Ubuntu? · · Score: 1
  10. Re:economic model and pressures on governments on The Cost of the iPod · · Score: 1

    To coin a word, you have to actually use it.

  11. Re:economic model and pressures on governments on The Cost of the iPod · · Score: 1
    We have all heard about Apple's outraged reaction to the so-called "iTunes law" (which really isn't an iTunes law except in Apple's propaganda, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DADVSI for more information).
    Oh yes, let us see:
    some news sources even went as far as to nickname the DADVSI law the "French iTunes law"
    Way to not prove your point.
  12. Re:To: Mr. George W. Bush on Earth's Temperature at Highest Levels in 400 Years · · Score: 1
    Measurements indicate that Mars is definitely getting warmer also.
    Measurements show that the usual pseudo-journalistic sites the GW Denier get their info from don't understand what this is actually about. Reminds me of IDers.
  13. Re:global warming not science on Earth's Temperature at Highest Levels in 400 Years · · Score: 1

    And while you're at it, read this.

  14. Re:To: Mr. George W. Bush on Earth's Temperature at Highest Levels in 400 Years · · Score: 1
    Why do you claim to find "REAL science" in the ramblings of a PR specialist?
    Appearing before the Commons Committee on Environment and Sustainable Development last year, Carleton University paleoclimatologist Professor Tim Patterson testified, "There is no meaningful correlation between CO2 levels and Earth's temperature over this [geologic] time frame. In fact, when CO2 levels were over ten times higher than they are now, about 450 million years ago, the planet was in the depths of the absolute coldest period in the last half billion years." Patterson asked the committee, "On the basis of this evidence, how could anyone still believe that the recent relatively small increase in CO2 levels would be the major cause of the past century's modest warming?"
    STUDY BOLSTERS GREENHOUSE EFFECT THEORY, SOLVES ICE AGE MYSTERY

    In Thursday's issue of the journal Geology, Ohio State University scientists report that a long-ago ice age occurred 10 million years earlier than once thought. The new date clears up an inconsistency that has dogged climate change research for years.

    And another Global Warming Denial Myth goes poof.

  15. Re:Here's the more interesting internal email... on Apple Releases Shake 4.1, Drops Price To $499 · · Score: 2, Informative
    I like shake, but it's never really fit in amongst the other Apple apps. But to EOL it for their (rumored) own app seems short-sighted. It's more likely people will migrate to Nuke in the meantime, which has jumped ahead while Apple has mostly let shake wither on the vine.
    Beg your pardon?
    Apple will no longer be selling maintenance for Shake and no further software updates are planned as we begin work on the next generation of Shake compositing software.
  16. Re:Some bold statements from this article on Scientists Respond to Gore on Global Warming · · Score: 1

    Sure, just have all contestants wear the stickers of their sponsors.

  17. Re:Ignorant Government Idiots on EU Officials Cautious on AntiTrust Issues · · Score: 1

    Sure, a 96kbit MP3 from a pirat site is going to be better quality than a 192kbit MP3 re-rip from an iTMS tune. Whatever you say.

  18. Re:Some bold statements from this article on Scientists Respond to Gore on Global Warming · · Score: 1

    You see, when you want to know something about the current climate, you ask an actual climatologist, not the quoted paleoclimatologist, who studies long past climate. Especially when he is wrong. But then, he actually seems to be an fishy expert. Another scientist the article's author would dismiss if he weren't on his side.

  19. Re:Some bold statements from this article on Scientists Respond to Gore on Global Warming · · Score: 1

    Is that supposed to make sense? Can you prove me wrong? Why don't you start with "There is no hockeystick - if you just ignore enough data".

  20. Re:Getting published isn't that difficult on Scientists Respond to Gore on Global Warming · · Score: 1

    Yeah, whatever, corporate scumbag. Sell your own granny.

  21. Re:The Inquisition on Pope Advised Hawking Not to Study Origin of Universe · · Score: 1

    Just tell him it's the Captain's chair of the Enterprise.

  22. Re:Some bold statements from this article on Scientists Respond to Gore on Global Warming · · Score: 0, Troll

    That's exactly what the Dinosaurs said.

  23. Re:Getting published isn't that difficult on Scientists Respond to Gore on Global Warming · · Score: 2, Interesting
    Yeah, sorry, car manufacturers DO care, that's why they build cheap SUVs and tell people they are safer than sedans. Not that they are, but they care that they are cheaper for them. You have also detected the faint use of irony in my post.

    And if you think for a moment that corporations wouldn't sell their grandmothers (well, maybe not those of their manager's, but those of their employees) for a measly buck, you are living in a non-regulated Libertarian dream world. But as long as corporations know what's good for them, everythings great, right?

  24. Re:This article is not challenging peer-reviewed on Scientists Respond to Gore on Global Warming · · Score: 1
    So why can't this person look at climate data and say "that rate of change is faster than ever before - I know: I see it in the data I get. This could be serious"?

    Don't tell me, tell the author of the article. According to his own rules, scientist who aren't "real" climatologists don't count - unless they are on his side of course.

  25. Re:Getting published isn't that difficult on Scientists Respond to Gore on Global Warming · · Score: 1

    Sure, all good things come from corporations not hindered by evil laws. Why, without laws earth would be much cleaner and all products would be safe. And without laws, car makers would gladly spend a few bucks per car to make them more fuel efficient - because they care.