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  1. Re:Sloppy Definition? maybe... on Google Assists In Arrest Of Indian Man · · Score: 1

    beaten, jailed, and forced to use the same dish to eat and shit

    Sounds like the craigslist NSA section to me.

  2. Re:Nothing to see here on Microsoft Acknowledges NBC's Wish is Its Command · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Be? Is this a copy-pasta response from 5 years ago? If someone needs to record American Gladiator, they'll find something else to record it with (or watch it on hulu or nbc.com), not switch to linux.

  3. Re:What is the "good technology" from Microsoft? on Carl Icahn Takes on Yahoo's Board · · Score: 1

    You searched for "aadvark" and it didn't return "aaadvark"... What's the problem?

  4. Re:Precisly the missing part of Linux on Moving Toward a Single Linux UI? · · Score: 1
    Being thought out and consistent is important. OS X (and NextStep) gets it right (though Apple breaks that consistency with some of their apps, like Logic). BeOS was also consistent. Microsoft... mostly consistent, but there are some old windows 3.1 holdeovers (control insert to paste) and a lot of their apps don't adhere to the look and feel (Expression, for example). X is probably the worst in this regard, being a hodge podge of different toolkits, raw xlib, control-v vs alt-v vs middle click to paste, etc.

    Personally, I wish GNUStep had more recognition.

  5. Re:Ahh yes, on Just How Effective is System Hardening? · · Score: 1

    fsck(8).

  6. Re:Ahh yes, on Just How Effective is System Hardening? · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Do you go down on man(1)? I hope you check if a hard dick is dirty before mount(2)ing it!

  7. Re:wrong on How the NSA Took Linux To the Next Level · · Score: 2, Informative

    early versions of Linux used minix user space applications.

  8. Re:Too Little Too Late on Changes In Store For PHP V6 · · Score: 1

    somewhat clunky? The only thing less clunky would be writing out function code to a temporary file and then including it. Yet another example of PHP developers adding a "feature" without putting any thought into it or understanding why.

  9. Re:Magic Quotes Removed on Changes In Store For PHP V6 · · Score: 1

    you should use PDO and prepared statements.

  10. Re:Is this really news? on Changes In Store For PHP V6 · · Score: 2, Insightful

    PHP doesn't have any weird syntax like Perl regular expressions---you can do Perl regex, but it is neatly encapsultated into proper strings the way it should be.

    Interesting example of PHP superiority. Perl regular expressions are delimited with / (or another character) because it's part of the language syntax. But if your regular expression is encapsulated in a string, there's no longer a need for it (which would simplify things since you don't need to escape it). Yet the pcre functions use a delimiter. Monkey see, monkey do. Without knowing why.

  11. Re:Too Little Too Late on Changes In Store For PHP V6 · · Score: 1

    Would you really expect the same people that fucked up the language as bad as they did to suddenly fix it?

  12. Re:Look at some of the big companies out there, to on What Is the Oldest Code Written Still Running? · · Score: 1

    The same people who were rigorously responsible for y2k problems? I'm calling bullshit on that one.

  13. wrong on How the NSA Took Linux To the Next Level · · Score: 3, Informative
    SELinux adds both MAC and RBAC to the GNU/Linux operating system.

    No it doesn't. SELinux adds both MAC and RBAC to the Linux kernel.

  14. Important lesson: on Skype Gives Up Anti-GPL Appeal · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Don't fuck with the penguin. We need to go after these fuckers and teach them a lesson!!!!

  15. I haven't changed my mind on Have You Changed Your Opinion On eBook Readers? · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    The kindle is still overpriced and ugly as Hillary Clinton's cunt. Tip: get inspiration from Apple, not Microsoft.

  16. Re:I'm definitely not knowledgeable with Mac, but. on Theorizing a Big Apple Push Into Gaming · · Score: 5, Informative

    Apple uses a modified version of gcc, but gcc has supported objective C since the NextStep days. GNUStep provides an OpenStep implementation.

  17. Re:I'm definitely not knowledgeable with Mac, but. on Theorizing a Big Apple Push Into Gaming · · Score: 5, Informative

    Unless you're talking about hunt the wumpus or curses-based tetris, it doesn't do jack shit for Linux.

  18. Re:no onus on MySQL Reverses Decision On Closed Source · · Score: 1

    As a practical matter, I suspect that virtually no one would switch OSes to use ZFS, but for some users this will be a good tradeoff.

    Not a switch, per se (I run linux on my NSLU2), but I used solaris when setting up my home RAID NAS server strictly for ZFS. (otherwise, it probably would have been FreeBSD).
  19. Re:Now change the ZFS license SUN on MySQL Reverses Decision On Closed Source · · Score: 4, Informative

    Sun doesn't want the GPL anywhere near ZFS -- and for good reason. The GPL ought to be called the "Me Me Me PL". Let's say Sun did release ZFS under the GPL and it's adopted into Linux. Sun is shut out from any changes unless they release SunOS under the GPL as well. With the CDDL, anyone can use the code (without giving up rights to their own code) and Sun gets back any improvements (without affecting their other code). It's like the LGPL, but with much better granularity.

    We see this attitude a lot with BSD/GPL conflicts. When BSD code is relicensed as GPL, the original code is denied access to any changes. Think about that for a minute. "We want you to share your code. So we won't share our changes to your code with you." Free as in "free room and board at gitmo".

  20. Re:I stopped caring about Qt on In-Depth With Qt 4.4 · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I installed Vidalia on my mac and didn't realize it was QT until I found the option to change the appearance.

  21. Re:DOS/Windows programming culture on How Microsoft Dropped the Ball With Developers · · Score: 2, Insightful

    My understanding was that they didn't expect much of the PC market, so they threw together a bunch of cheap parts from other vendors and stamped their name on it. Based on their Apple II CP/M card, they asked MicroSoft for an OS instead of buying or writing one.

  22. Re:zfs on OpenSolaris Indiana Released · · Score: 2, Informative

    Apple didn't have a problem putting dtrace and ZFS into darwin/OSX. FreeBSD didn't have a problem putting ZFS into FreeBSD.

  23. Re:ZFS simply rocks on OpenSolaris Indiana Released · · Score: 3, Informative
    Sure.

    The source code (which remaps linux systems calls to open solaris and fudges inconsistencies)

    Info on installing debian (it's designed for RedHat based linux, so it's slightly painful ... though possibly out of date).

    Brand Z info

    Overview of linux support

    I haven't tried it, but there shouldn't be much overhead/performance loss.

  24. Re:ZFS simply rocks on OpenSolaris Indiana Released · · Score: 3, Informative

    ZFS on Linux won't happen. But Linux on ZFS is possible today. Solaris has a LX BRANDZ container which emulates the linux system call api. So you can create linux container and install RedHat in it.

  25. Re:There's a place for innerHTML. on Ajax Performance Analysis · · Score: 3, Informative

    theFont.appendChild(document.createTextNode('Hello World'));

    If it is supposed to be text, createTextNode will properly handle &, <, etc, whereas innerHTML won't.