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  1. cowboy neal is still a fatass on Bone Hormone Linked to Obesity and Diabetes · · Score: -1, Troll

    hirez proof. Is it a wonder he can't get laid? Half of slashdot looks like him. Put down the cheez poofs and try a crystal meth diet you fucking piece of shit.

  2. I won't be making use of it on Google Rolls Out Online Storage Services · · Score: 1

    who knows what kind of data mining they'll be doing.

  3. Re:Yay! on MySQL Ends Enterprise Server Source Tarballs · · Score: 3, Funny

    Personally, I prefer VAGINA - VMWare, Apache, GNU, Ingres, NetBSD, Ada. I'm not sure why more slashdotters don't try it.

  4. Re:The beauty of open source on Cambridge Researcher Breaks OpenBSD Systrace · · Score: 1

    Speaking only for myself, access to source code has let me identify new vulnerabilities a lot faster than black box testing. Easier discovering? Yes. But that doesn't mean the bugs will be reported (I gave up -- too many arrogant programmers that aren't as smart as they think they are), the code fixed, or the users updated.

  5. Re:Official PostgreSQL fanboi thread here :-) on MySQL Ends Enterprise Server Source Tarballs · · Score: 1

    user mode linux to the rescue!

  6. Re:In addition, have you RTFA? on MySQL Ends Enterprise Server Source Tarballs · · Score: 5, Funny

    bitkeeper is not FREE software. I cannot use it in good conscience, and neither should you. For all intents and purposes, their source code is locked away.

  7. Re:Yay! on MySQL Ends Enterprise Server Source Tarballs · · Score: 5, Funny

    FAPP: FreeBSD Apache, PostgreSQL, Perl.

  8. Re:Cha-Ching on MySQL Ends Enterprise Server Source Tarballs · · Score: 5, Informative

    They are planning an IPO.

  9. Re:Ooh, look at ME! on MySQL Ends Enterprise Server Source Tarballs · · Score: 2, Funny

    Oh well, there is always PostgreSQL... Hopefully some development can move to there.

    as someone who uses PostgreSQL, i hope not.

  10. Re:Nothing to see here on Beautiful Code Interview · · Score: 5, Funny

    If it's any consolation, you did get the coveted first typo.

  11. Re:there was no "noatime" option before? on Replacing Atime With Relatime in the Kernel · · Score: 1

    s/ctime/mtime/

  12. Re:there was no "noatime" option before? on Replacing Atime With Relatime in the Kernel · · Score: 2, Informative

    if the file is appended, the ctime will be updated. the BSD tail checks for an inode change or a decrease in filesize (and reopens in that case). Otherwise, the file descriptor is kept open and continually read from. When new data is written to the file, it will be available for reading automatically.

  13. Re:tivoization? on Sun Moves Into Commodity Silicon · · Score: 1

    that's contrary to the ideals of free software. if the FSF considers that ok then we need a new license which ensures software (and hardware) freedom.

  14. dell? on Ubuntu Dell Now In UK, France, and Germany · · Score: 5, Funny

    For all the haters out there, let me just say that I like linux and I like ubuntu. Being community based, they've managed to get popular without getting the illwill that red hat did. And I think this is a good thing in general, but let's be honest: Dell sucks. This would have been great news 5 years ago when Dell was the top dog, but now they're racing to the bottom. HP/Compaq, Gateway, Lenevo, etc are eating their lunch. Apple is where it's at.

    I've started a letter writing campaign to Steve Jobs to encourage him to sell Macintosh computers preloaded with Linux. Apple is on the leading edge of personal computing (or at least the journalists and newsmakers seem to think so). If we could encourage them to ship an iMac with ubuntu linux (or maybe kubuntu), that would have a halo effect. Curious people would install ubuntu on their home pcs. Maybe Apple will even open source iWork (Pages/Keynote/Numbers) and we'll finally have a decent word processor and spreadsheet.

  15. Re:tivoization? on Sun Moves Into Commodity Silicon · · Score: 1

    From the GPL (3):

    Some devices are designed to deny users access to install or run modified versions of the software inside them. This is fundamentally incompatible with the aim of protecting users' freedom to change the software. The systematic pattern of such abuse occurs in the area of products for individuals to use, which is precisely where it is most unacceptable. Therefore, we have designed this version of the GPL to prohibit the practice for those products. If such problems arise substantially in other domains, we stand ready to extend this provision to those domains in future versions of the GPL, as needed to protect the freedom of users.

  16. tivoization? on Sun Moves Into Commodity Silicon · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    the GPL isn't about free it's about FREEDOM -- the rights of the end user to modify the program. Will I, as an end user of a GPL processor, be able to modify the processor? This looks like yet another big company abusing the spirit, if not the letter, of the GPL.

  17. Re:I'm thinking China. on Sun Moves Into Commodity Silicon · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    "researching their own chip design" = industrial espionage in taiwan for the latest x86 design.

  18. Re:Sweet on Sun Moves Into Commodity Silicon · · Score: 5, Funny

    fortunately, the moderation system exists so we don't have to independently decide if a post is funny , informative, offtopic, etc.

  19. Re:We are now checking your browser... on DNS Rebinding Attacks, Multi-Pin Variant · · Score: 1

    the original 3 HTTP methods were GET, PUT, and DELETE. POST/cgi came later. PUT and DELETE are used today in WEBDAV but not as originally intended (think wiki).

  20. Re:Does this mean on id and Valve May Be Violating GPL · · Score: 1

    I can get a copy of the source for Half-Life 2?

    check your favorite torrent tracker.

  21. DOSBox should have used the BSD license on id and Valve May Be Violating GPL · · Score: -1, Troll

    this wouldn't be a problem if they used the BSD license.

  22. Re:The one thing that bugged me about Starcraft... on StarCraft 2 Terran Gameplay, Single Player Info · · Score: 1

    the article does mention the thor unit which takes significantly longer to turn around.

  23. open ended on StarCraft 2 Terran Gameplay, Single Player Info · · Score: 1

    most of the comments on kotaku.com seem to be "open ended = bad." I have to disagree. I forced myself to play through Warcraft III but gave up on the xp because the storyline was too contrived and too repetitive.

  24. fortify? on Diebold Voting Machines Audited by California · · Score: 1

    We also used the Fortify static analysis tool to identify potential problem areas that warranted further manual investigation.

    If I'm not mistaken, Fortify analysis showed more problems in the Linux kernel than in the Windows NT kernel, but most of the linux problems were later shown to be shortcomings with the automated analysis, not a design/programing flaw in Linux.

    Diebold may have problems, but the use of Fortify (or similar) doesn't convince me.

  25. Re:Deja GIF. on Microsoft's HD Photo to Become JPEG Standard? · · Score: 1

    my experience has been that Fireworks compresses gif better than equivalent png files, but running them through pngcrush beats gif.