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  1. Re:Anything but sandbox test environments on Ask Slashdot: What Type of Asset Would You Not Virtualize? · · Score: 1

    This is FUD and misinformation. Most things are great until is breaks. What is your point?

  2. Re:Had a call JUST like this about 1 month ago on When Antivirus Scammers Call the Wrong Guy · · Score: 1

    Your post looked VERY informative and I REALLY wanted to read it, but they way you capitalize EVERY adverb and verb is really FREAKING annoying. Just STOP doing that, just STOP. You WORKED SO HARD on your comment, but it ONLY ended up making you look REALLY stupid.

  3. Re:Not the author here... on Ask Slashdot: Open Source Multi-User Password Management? · · Score: 1

    Awesome, you have it all figured out! We can just go ahead and close this Ask Slashdot then since Hatta has our answer.

  4. Re:Not the author here... on Ask Slashdot: Open Source Multi-User Password Management? · · Score: 2

    Look, it must be all black and white there being the printer admin of your 5 man real estate office, but out in the real world, it never, NEVER works like that.

    A short list of the billion reasons why you would need what the OP is asking for:
    Web services that require a single primary administrative/billing account
    Company twitter accounts and other social media accounts
    Networking equipment that only allows multi-user auth through RADIUS
    admin/root passwords for: databases, servers
    common mail accounts shared by multiple users
    common account of any random type used by more than one person that doesn't allow multi-user access
    Non-enterprise wireless access points
    Proprietary commercial software that requires a primary admin account
    Random bits of secure information that aren't necessarily a password, but need to be accessed by multiple users

    See, when you have to worry about more than out of toner messages on your HP Laserjet II, or our 5 XP laptops you connected to that AD controller, it's not all cut and dry.

  5. Re:Grants-whores and publicists in academia?!?!? on Majority of Landmark Cancer Studies Cannot Be Replicated · · Score: 1

    Simple, stop treating every scientists with study results as an inerrant Moses with their own Tablets of Stone that we all must follow to our deaths.

  6. Re:WTF? on UK Man Jailed For 'Offensive Tweets' · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I don't think that word means what you think it means.

  7. Re:Get over it on NASA's Kepler Discovers 11 Systems Hosting 26 Planets · · Score: 2

    Is it safe to answer you with an "AMEN"?. Seriously though reddit.com/r/atheism/... there are a *lot* people are are just as angry about Christians as you people at slashdot are and instead of subjecting the rest of us to your blind hatred and bigotry, you can go there and post stories, pictures, 4koma and all sorts of fun lolz. Let's talk about computers and science here, why don't we?

  8. trashing Christians is your only comment on this? on NASA's Kepler Discovers 11 Systems Hosting 26 Planets · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The Kepler mission makes this very interesting scientific find and the only thing you people can do is trash Christians? That is your response to FINDING 11 PLANETARY SYSTEMS IN OUR GALAXY, that Christians are lolstupid?

  9. Re:Be creative but have rules on Server Names For a New Generation · · Score: 1

    Oh, right. Changing a hostname of a server is a huge pain compared to moving to a completely new database architecture. Who really uses hostnames for services like a database anyway. You are telling me you force your client machines and everything else to do hostname lookups on every connection? What if you have 100's of thousands of connections per minute? That's real time and resources you are wasting.

    Hostnames are for admins and people trying to find failbook.com, not for servers.

  10. Re:windows only app up on Intel Joins LibreOffice · · Score: 0

    I doubt you are going to get any mod other than troll/flamebait here on slashdot, but I really feel you on this post. I converted to OS X about 5-6 years ago and between my win7 box at home and OS X at work, things are really looking good for PC consumers these days. There really just isn't a lot of reasons for regular people to use linux these days.

  11. Simple answer... on Ask Slashdot: Copy Protection Advice For ~$10k Software? · · Score: 1

    Most people who pirate things do so for two reasons:

    a) can't afford it or the cost is so high the software loses it's actual value (e.g. Photoshop)
    b) want to try it without a monetary investment.

    You can fix both of these problems by:
    a) stop charging stupid high prices for your software so regular businesses can afford to invest in your company
    b) make alimited use version available for people to use before spending 10K on your TEH AWESOME software

  12. Re:is there a more scientific version of this? on Don't Worry About Global Warming, Say 16 Scientists in the WSJ · · Score: 1

    YEAH, you hit the nail on the head. We'll set you up as our supreme leader and anytime disagrees with you about any topic, we'll send jack-booted thugs into their homes to drag them out and strip them of all dignity, wealth and for good measure, we'll take their freedom too.

    HAIL TO OUR OMNISCIENT SUPREME LEADER SONICMERLIN
    THROUGH HIS AWESOMENESS WE WILL BE VICTORIOUS OVER THOSE WHO DON'T TOE THE GROUPTHINK LINE

  13. Re:And next we'll hear... on Don't Worry About Global Warming, Say 16 Scientists in the WSJ · · Score: 1

    For your point to be equivalent, all floods and tsunamis would need to be created by man kind. Earthquakes would need to be discounted as they obviously could not cause tsunamis, instead serious, quality science would easily prove that our vehicles are the primary cause of tsunamis. All that driving around causes vibration pollution, generating enough seismic activity to create tsunamis. If only people, especially poor people had to pay more taxes to their bloated governments, the problem would just go away.

  14. Re:I am not worried about it on Don't Worry About Global Warming, Say 16 Scientists in the WSJ · · Score: 5, Funny

    This morning it was very cold and I needed a jacket, but by the end of the day I had to take it off because it was so hot. It's getting real people. We are seeing massive swings in only a day's time. Our poor children will have to suffer because of our inaction and folly!

  15. Re:CO2 not a pollutant? on Don't Worry About Global Warming, Say 16 Scientists in the WSJ · · Score: 0

    Wait, plants don't seem to mind it? That's like saying people don't seem to mind oxygen.

    Here you go folks; just more evidence that our public education system is creating a generation of morons without even a tiny shred of critical thinking skills.

  16. Re:Apple on Ask Slashdot: Money-Making Home-Based Tech Skills? · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Here we go, another FSF goon so socially inept that he assumes the rest of the population gives a damn about his autism enhanced pet peeve. Go back to your oscilloscopes and hipster slide rules. The rest of us have a life to live and enjoy.

    Yes, it's unoriginal and probably a piss poor idea, but it's hardly because the $99 you pay will put her in the poor house or that you chose an iDevice as the target of your idiotic anger instead of the roughly 10 BILLION other devices that are the same way.

  17. Re:You guys live in fantasyland on What Happens To Your Files When a Cloud Service Shuts Down? · · Score: 1

    Is that the same thing as a complete moron who doesn't understand anything about the tool he is accusing others of not understanding?

  18. Re:For what on The Pirate Bay To Stop Serving Torrent Files · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Yeah, pretty much. e.g. I own Diablo II. A few weeks ago I looked around for my CDs, but was having trouble finding them. My only options were to pay for it twice, pirate it or to give up. I picked pirate... you tell me why that's morally wrong.

    Hint: because the government said so isn't a real answer

  19. Re:Its Late, I'm Dumb, or Both on The Pirate Bay To Stop Serving Torrent Files · · Score: 0

    I have no idea who you are talking to, but if you are complaining about luther349's pathetic example of the written English language, /AGREED.

  20. Re:Don't listen to them. on Ask Slashdot: Which Web Platform Would You Use? · · Score: 1

    This is +11 insightful.

    "Also, avoid the motherfucking frameworks. You don't need them, at all."

    I couldn't agree more. Frameworks in a web development environment, especially PHP are crutches for the ignorant.

    I'm sure there will be a mountain of Jeremiah's and MVC/Framework prophets proselytizing and predicting my doom for this.

  21. Re:PHP is great on Ask Slashdot: Which Web Platform Would You Use? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    This is completely true, but very unimportant. PHP under Apache (And really what serious professional would use anything else?) as a module and needs no threads; that's the job of the httpd daemon itself.

    If you need threads; if your Java indoctrination only allows you to solve problems by creating huge monolithic applications, ignoring excellent work by engineers who are much, much smarter than you, then yeah... PHP won't cut it for you. You'll need a language that will be better suited to reinventing the wheel. That is definitely not PHP's strength.

    (Ah, I love it when a good straw man argument comes together.)

  22. Re:Patents, lawsuits, and healthcare on Is American Innovation Losing Its Shine? · · Score: 1

    Don't you mean "Soap Box"?

  23. Re:old news on IEA Warns of Irreversible Climate Change In 5 Years · · Score: 1

    Jane Q. Public, I think this dude is trolling you. You can't get more obtuse than this.

  24. Re:How will we discover? Shirley? YOU JEST! on How Does GPS Change Us? · · Score: 1

    I'm pretty sure I'm GOING to get marked as a troll, but I found it ODD that you used caps a lot to emphasize your sentences. Do you realize how MUCH you actually do this?

  25. Re:nice fine ! on Customer Asks For Itemized Bill, Verizon Tells Her To Get a Subpoena · · Score: 2

    You do realize that "writing off" doesn't mean for free, right? At most, corporations in the US pay about a 15-35% tax rate. So, they saved at most 35% of the fine, the witness fee and other administrative costs.

    I know it's en vogue to say that evil corporations can write things off like some magical free money printer, but educate yourself a little...