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  1. Re:Modified, Harmless HIV Used on Cancer Cured By HIV · · Score: -1

    if i would need to make choice between:
    - being able to screw around until i die
    or
    - being unsafe to screw with for the rest of my life
    please, i'll take two cancer portions;)

  2. Re:Apple on Netflix Killing DVDs Like Apple Killed Floppies? · · Score: 1

    lol, i soooooo wish i'd be able to mod up your comment, haha

  3. Re:Apple on Netflix Killing DVDs Like Apple Killed Floppies? · · Score: 1

    Wtf? Zip was revolutionary at the time.

    in translation... you never used one. you'd still be coughing every time you hear words "zip drive" if you actually had one. reliability of drives can't be described, saying "piss poor" would be sounding like glamorous review

    Even around '97 a CDR (not RW) cost many hundreds of dollars

    you call that fabulously wealthy??? even so, yes, it really was expensive in time before that. but, at that time i worked in computer company that supported printing agencies. so, i simply fixed my self scsi controller and cdr drive. i simply made my self one out of broken drives that were not in warranty or where owner claimed insurance.

  4. Re:Apple on Netflix Killing DVDs Like Apple Killed Floppies? · · Score: 2

    it is quite simple. their brilliant move away from floppies was like this
    - apple stopped deploying floppy drive with G3 and replaced it with another even more abysmal technology... zip drive, which off course flopped badly for its disks being so easy corruptable.
    - G4 stopped zip nonsense, leaving users complaining how there was no external device where they could save data to. floppy removed, no more scsi, cd-rom by default and lack of any usb external device. you couldn't believe how many usb floppies were sold in that time for macs. company i worked for in that time sold few more than they sold macs
    but who are we to judge what steve the holly decided it is best for their users

    I for one simply stopped using floppies in 486 era as soon as i bought my first cd recorder. never bought one floppy drive after that

  5. Re:I hate Sony on Sony Insurer Suing To Deny Data Breach Coverage · · Score: 1

    since you seem to judge laptop quality by GPU, you get my sympathy

  6. Re:From the company that brought you.. on Sony Insurer Suing To Deny Data Breach Coverage · · Score: 1

    things... are... that... bad

    just remember
    int getRandomNumber() { return(4); }

  7. Re:I'd hate to be the head of that company...... on Sony Insurer Suing To Deny Data Breach Coverage · · Score: 1

    lol, in our country if you're drunk you automatically lose insurance in case of crash. and sony security was in the same state

  8. Re:Go Figure on Sony Insurer Suing To Deny Data Breach Coverage · · Score: 2

    i think that is not a problem, they try to get out on the fact that sony security was crap (which it was). same way as my insurer would not pay up if i crash my car (fully insured) while i was driving without one wheel and my windshield was so dirty nothing could be seen trough

  9. Re:So is this an example? on Google: Sun Offered To License Java For $100M · · Score: 1

    if system would be working, this suit wouldn't exist, but it is a nice example of judge having sense of humor and humiliation.

  10. Re:Lots of good work now going to waste. on Google To Discontinue Google Labs · · Score: 1

    and looking at your comments made me start thinking schizophrenia was never defined really well

    p.s. sorry, just couldn't resist since you posted as AC;)

  11. Re:Everybody aboard the tinfoilhat-train! on Linux Receives 20th Birthday Video From Microsoft · · Score: 1

    ok, just how it is a trap?

    if you use 2.0 and only assemblies that are covered by promise, they can't touch you. there is a holly shitload of assemblies that depend on free parts only like gtk-sharp, gst-sharp and so on. so, if you were mad and used parts not covered by promise it wasn't a trap you failed into, it is just you being fool who can't read.

  12. Re:I guess it was inevitable... on Test Driving GNU Hurd, With Benchmarks Against Linux · · Score: 4, Funny

    Now all we need is hell freezing over and pigs to start flying... damnit, i might start to believê 2012 is really end of the world

  13. Re:Fuck yeah on Facebook Bans Google+ Ads · · Score: 1

    WHAAAAT? public retard collection is dying?

  14. Re:64-bit is a misfeature on Firefox Is Going 64-Bit: What You Need To Know · · Score: 1

    damn you lazy kids and your novelty toys.

    we real hardocre surfers browse like this
    bash$ exec 5<>/dev/tcp/www.slashdot.org/80
    bash$ echo -e "GET / HTTP/1.0\n" >&5
    bash$ cat <&5 | od -h

    page is then subconsciously translated into visual representation (including animations) from hexcodes

    and yes, we real hardcores also don't use keyboard to type comments, this was typed by producing morse code on my mouse, dammit

    by surfing this way, you're bound not to be without some decent news, although when you read news about war starting, that war is usually over by the time you decode it

  15. Re:don't know on Drawing the Line Between Android and Linux · · Score: 1

    there already were meego and maemo. both mobile desktops are much more friendly with other linux implementations and both can run on any distro (i know for meego 100%). so yes, you can use RHL or Ubuntu. both are also much more open than android. couldn't care less about iOS, wouldn't touch it with a ten foot pole.

    as it is currently, android, while running on linux... how the fuck linux as desktop os is the least compatible with that platform of all closed ones if it is such holly grail for it like you say? face it, android just fragment linux once again for no reason.

    proclaiming one as stupid, while you actually have no clue about other options just bounces your statement back to you.

    p.s. while saying all this i still have android phone, at least until i can find some decent phone on which i can put custom brew meego os

  16. don't know on Drawing the Line Between Android and Linux · · Score: 2, Insightful

    android didn't do anything good for linux, if anything it just made another incompatible implementation of the same platform. wake me up when i can run android app on my linux desktop without needing to run it in some virtual machine.

    adobe i don't even wanna comment about. i avoid them more carefully than entrance to hell.

  17. Re:Why the hell is this here? on Windows 1.0: the Power of DOS, Plus Tiled Windows · · Score: 1

    nah, topic is just titled wrong. should be "Worlds unemployment in critical levels. People going mad from running out of all useless things to do in their spare unemployed time"

  18. Re:What fallacy? on Does Quantum Theory Explain Consciousness? · · Score: 1

    fallacy indeed

    even chaos theory is too uniform to describe my consciousness.

  19. Re:Gnome 3 Shell on Fedora 15 Released · · Score: 1

    heh, if this is not customizable then i don't know what is;) i can only imagine what everything people will think of for extensions.

    http://www.webupd8.org/search/label/gnome%20shell?max-results=10
    http://blog.fpmurphy.com/

  20. Re:Is it better? on Fedora 15 Released · · Score: 1

    ok, that has to be either worst joke ever or lame attempt at trying to post serious troll comment.

    if anything... shell is abso-fucking-most configurable desktop ever. you can extend/change abso-fucking-lutely everything with simple javascript. granted, since g3 was just released, not many extensions are present yet and gnome-shell by it self is not really feature rich environment and neither was any other desktop when they switched release. moving from gnome 1 to 2 was especially terrible. old and new gtk worked and looked differently, one had utf8, other didn't... same troubles at kde camp from 3 to 4. c'mon developers need to sleep too and if they wait to release full featured version without period of change they'd need to support 2 versions.

    if anything, work like that really deserves benefit of a doubt until 3.2 or 3.4. people making extensions might surprise you. just google on how to make extensions and see how brilliant it is. and yes, i do love shell... after i installed places extension and made 3 extensions for my self i can really say i was never so productive

  21. Re:WinXP on Linux Gets Dynamic Firewalls In Fedora 15 · · Score: 1

    As for calling XP's firewall a firewall..

    based on lack of features and being inbound only, this car analogy kinda fits it

    "BEST CAR IN UNIVERSE!!!!! only missing 3 tires and there is no engine, but do not fear... space where you can put your own engine is intact and perfectly cleaned. also, sits and wheel can be be included with additional purchase, as special feature mirrors were cleaned daily"

  22. Re:WinXP on Linux Gets Dynamic Firewalls In Fedora 15 · · Score: 1

    and yes, you can from early iptables start, which predates any firewall presence in windows.

    you can set rulesets in specific tables, you can add/remove them dynamically, save/restore from the very first time of iptables replacing ipchains, which already had that feature too.

  23. Re:WinXP on Linux Gets Dynamic Firewalls In Fedora 15 · · Score: 1

    the only way you could get same feature was using zonealarm (except zonealarm didn't close port after application stopped). and before answering, read right documentation, not the blurb this author wrote

  24. Re:OpenBSD on Linux Gets Dynamic Firewalls In Fedora 15 · · Score: 4, Informative

    no need to get upset. author just worded it really badly. as most already said, iptables already had add/remove/save/restore, although i can see you get bonner every time you mention openbsd

    here is how this works
    - service/program starts and sends d-bus message "hey, i need xxx port to work (yes, i really meant classic pr0n port;)
    - user gets prompted and needs to validate decision trough authentication.
    - port is open
    - when software stops, it sends another d-bus message "close pr0n port"
    - port is closed

    this is not scenario which would be usable in any server environment. but for n00b user running something... might just be life saver not to get confused with bunch of for him too advanced howtos.

  25. Re:WTF?? on Linux Gets Dynamic Firewalls In Fedora 15 · · Score: 1, Informative

    Can please someone explain me what's wrong with appending and deleting a firewall rule:

    sorry, couldn't resist ;)

    $ iptables-restre /root/ipt.state

    should be

    $ iptables-restore /root/ipt.state