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  1. Re:Good news everyone! on Futurama Cancelled (Again) · · Score: 2

    Obviously, in Soviet Russia, that sig demands an explanation for you!

  2. Re:Call it the Microsoft method on Adobe Introduces the Paid Security Fix · · Score: 3, Informative

    Actually, if by "RHEL from 2008" you mean RHEL5 then you were quite wrong. Apparently, redhat promises security updates at last until sometime in 2017:

    https://access.redhat.com/support/policy/updates/errata/

  3. Re:Godwin on France To Launch a National Patent Troll · · Score: 1

    Well, the Israeli method relies on principles that are impossible or illegal to implement in the US:

    1. Racial profiling (non-jews and especially arabs are singled for more thorough examination). This is considered perfectly normal in Israel, but is not legal in US or EU.
    2. Way lower volume of traffic: had you implanted the israeli security officers in any large airport, you will get unacceptable delays. scale matters.

  4. Re:Things that FM.fm provides that Gmail doesn't on Interview With Jeremy Howard of FastMail.fm · · Score: 1

    Well, FireGPG is really awesome, accept that plaintext drafts are still sent to google from time to time. if you could avoid the draft mechanism completely, it would be secure. until then I'll use proper mail client with encryption support

  5. Re:Stop this now. on ELF Knocks Down AM Towers To Save Earth, Intercoms · · Score: 1

    All of those ads are certainly repugnant and display the complete lack of thinking about campaign effectiveness (possibly due to the lack of communication with "outsiders"). the holocaust campaign is notorious for that (and is based on some large factual errors).

    Most saddening to me, is that none of those ads feature a single fact regarding animal abuse of any kind. that's quite contrary to the way our campaigns work here.

    Is there a shared pool of north-american nutjubs where greenpeace, peta, and co. recruit activists? if so it could explain much of what you just posted.

  6. Re:Stop this now. on ELF Knocks Down AM Towers To Save Earth, Intercoms · · Score: 1

    Well, would you please get started on PETA if I asked nicely?
    and a free bait too: I've been a vegan for the last 7 years (mostly for ethical and environmental reasons), however I have no ties to peta (since I live in israel, and peta don't have a local charter here) and my views regarding most of their campaigns are mostly "Tactical Error" (stupid copyrighting, pandering to wrong audience

    That said, their basic arguments regarding animal exploitation being mostly unnecessary and wasteful seem to be sound (i.e. supported by 3rd-party sources, unlike the GreenPeace objection to any nukular technology. so, what's your beef with PETA?

  7. Re:Anonymous Coward on Introducing the Warpship · · Score: 2, Funny

    and there it was all along..

  8. Re:I wish the US Supreme Court was that smart. on UK Court Rejects Encryption Key Disclosure Defense · · Score: 5, Insightful

    A warranted police search of your meth lab does not require any consent on your side - that's what the warrant is for. they will just break down the door and go on with the search.

    same with the safe in your lab: you can either give the police the code for your safe, or refuse and watch them breaking it.

    Why is your encryption key any different from the safe/door you have?

  9. Re:Yes this makes perfect sense on Sex Offender E-Mail Registry Signed Into Law · · Score: 1

    From what I understand, most of these predators are born with their preferences and develop them throughout adolescence. You might as well ask me to stop being heterosexual, or a homosexual to just stop being gay.

    That's true. However, asking them to stop breaking the law (i.e. acting on their urges in Real Life(TM)) seems quite a success: record-low recidivism rate

    So, it the bogeyman still so scary?

  10. Re:Could be worse on Open.NET — .NET Libraries Go "Open Source" · · Score: 1

    Sun didn`t released Java(TM) under a real free-software license for many years due to a similar fear (the source code was always available for viewing, though).

    Sun finally opened the source under the GNU GPL in 2006, and it doesn`t seem like people blame Sun for incorrect behavior of custom builds now, so your point is quite moot.

  11. initrd=/bin/sh on What is the Best Bug-as-a-Feature? · · Score: 1

    actually, it`s init=/bin/sh is documented in bootparam(7). Therefore, not a bug.

  12. Re:Interesting. on England Starts Fingerprinting Drinkers · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Since the driver knows that consuming that particular drug will impair his driving ability,
    consuming the drug and then driving is knowledgeably risking others and is therefore a violent offense.

  13. Starvation on New 'No Military Use' GPL For GPU · · Score: 1

    So, when did it actually "came down to starvation for you and your child" recently (in your country) ?

    Or maybe, just maybe the main food-related problem there is unhealthy overweight and you have such an abundance of food that you may choose between meat-eating and veganism anyway you wish (and btw, animal products usually cost more than plant products)

  14. Actually... on Holograms Help Protect Super Bowl · · Score: 1

    The parent poster may be a demented freak, but then again, the Israeli MFA site seems to support his facts:

    Menachem Begin was the commander of the Etzel (his relation to the bombing incident is on paragraph 3), and according to the Etzel museum, responsible to the King David hotel bombing
  15. Too much indeed on Arrest in Cisco Code Theft · · Score: 1

    Press? Journalism?
    Mass hysteria is their game. These "reporters" have children to feed. no one can eat "higher standards".

  16. Re:Xt on picoGUI: An X Alternative? · · Score: 1

    It`s Motif that sits on top of Xt.
    Not GTK/GDK.

  17. A quick glance into the future on Looking Closely at the Restrictions of Linux on the PS2 · · Score: 2

    Well, with the current computer-related legalization in the US, companies will probably be forced by the govt. to do such tricks (a similiar RTE on your PC, preventing content piracy, child porn, and slashdot postings).

    Next on law : Your hardware vendor may revoke your license. After all, if you paid for the hardware doesn`t mean you own it. right ?

  18. Overheating on Nano-sized Microchips? HP Says So. · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Won`t clusters of those "chips" just overheat to death in seconds(or less) ?
    They seem to be just too dense.

  19. Re: ipfilter easier to use than netfilter/iptables on Custom OpenBSD 3.0 with IPFilter From Darren Reed · · Score: 1

    How exactly is iptables easier to use than ipfilter ?
    Personally, I find the pseudo-natural language rules a bit confusing, but it`s probably a matter of taste.
    Also, I wasnt aware that the official OpenBSD features the (linux-only) netfilter packet-filter.

    BTW, what is the current packet-filter in the official OpenBSD 3.0 release (as ipfilter is out) ?

  20. Home entertainment center - The Next Generation on Microsoft's Family Room Change · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    As MS pushes the X-Box as "home entertainment center", and would be happy to see xbexes replacing tv-sets, the logical addition to the next "entertainment center" (whatever will be it`s name) is a (secure? huh!) survellience camera. now it i`s "home entartainment and security center". We already know where have you gone today.

  21. I dont need any social interaction on Browsing Alone · · Score: 1

    Instead, I post to Slashdot.
    also, I`ve once seen a research showing that social interaction with stupid people elevates the probability for heart attacks. I`ve yet to hear about someone getting a heart attack from reading a slashdot troll...

  22. Re:No technical solution, it's an apathy thing... on ISP Forced Out of Business by DoS · · Score: 1

    Ah, but what would you say if you are too busy playing solitaire to look, and don`t have enouth expirience/intelligence for picking up the phone for calling the police ?

    You can`t blame all sysadmins for apathy. some of them (trained chimpanzees)(understand this term the way you wish) are not aware to such options. for them, the only solution is probably powering down the machine.

  23. Re:Spellcheck... on ISP Forced Out of Business by DoS · · Score: 1

    So, it seems your plan go like this one:

    1. Make a law
    3. The script k1dd13 will be ass-rammed every night for the next 5 years.

    BTW, how would you implement step 2 (catch them) ? you can't just put their forged IPs in jail, you know.

  24. Re:Why hasn't this been solved? on ISP Forced Out of Business by DoS · · Score: 1

    Can you please post a reference to this solution ?

  25. Flexibility anyone ? on Plug-n-Play Server And Network · · Score: 1

    Does anyone know wheneather it is possible for the user (probably the not-yet-obsolete network administrator) to install/upgrade the software in the iMASS, and generally tweat it to the network`s special attributes/needs ?

    Do I have to wait for a vendor-supplied software update to upgrade to apache2 ? or what about PHP ?