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  1. Re:Booooring... on 13 New Windows Security Vunerabilities · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Here are some recent security announcements from one of Linux's more reliable and secure distros:

    How many of those vulnerabilities are actually tied to the OS?

    Zero.

    How many of the windows vulnerabilities are tied to the OS?

    Mostly all of them.

    So do you want to count for example bsplayer's bugs so we can have a fair comparison against xine bugs?

  2. Re:Simply not true on Why Does Windows Still Suck? · · Score: 1

    The Mac has great driver support now, there's almost nothing you can get anymore that does not offer support for the Mac

    Ever went to buy a webcam? Besides the iSight and logitech, most of the cheap webcams you can find only work on windows.

    My Canon printer (canon is the most mac friendly printer out there) doesn't have a driver that lets me print from mac/linux while it is connected in a windows box.

    Hardware for mac is very scarse because apple locks in the hardware.

    I was so happy i was getting a canon printer so i could print from my powerbook only to find out macosx doesn't have a driver that works over samba

  3. Only a beta on feb 17 on Netscape 8 to Emphasize Security · · Score: 1

    TFA says that NS8 wont be released that day, at least not in final form as the /. headline suggests. Only the second preview will be released

  4. Finally on Apple Updates PowerBooks · · Score: 1, Funny

    512MB standard. Finally someone was thinking.

    I love my 12" powerbook but 256MB is not enough, especially if you run java applications.

  5. Re:Freedom is not an "incompatable world view" on Taking My Freedom With Me to China? · · Score: 0

    The only right you are born with is death.

    I see that you are not catholic.

  6. But on eXeem Lite Public Beta Released · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Is someone working on a linux/mac version?

  7. Re:movie commercial database on MPAA to Sue BitTorrent Tracker Servers · · Score: 1

    f the movie starts at 6pm and is 88 minutes and ends at 8:42 then you can go buy your ticket and get in at 7:15 and not worry about watching the 75 minutes of commercials.


    And be forced to take a seat on the first row?

    You do that.

  8. Re:Do some math... on Toshiba Unveils 80GB 'iPod drive' · · Score: 1

    I think you are off a few decimal places......

    In countries where people use the metric system, the decimal notation is the comma (,) and we use the periods as separators.

  9. Re:Not much interest on Venezuela Embraces Linux and FOSS · · Score: 1

    You are priviledged to live there - the only negatives are the lousy politics, the slums in Caracas (the result of an uneven wealth distribution) and the ever present sandflies - but maybe you can add more...


    Sure. Congress just approved a law that will put people in jail if they give bad input about how they see the goverment. The media is terrorized and the main news channel has changed most of its programming.

    A law will be approved in congress soon, that contains some gems as this:

    "It is OK to steal if you are hungry"

    Nice privileges i have. The few we had, they are being taken.

  10. Re:Not much interest on Venezuela Embraces Linux and FOSS · · Score: 1

    Why come to my country to visit the big cities? You have probably been in big cities yourself.

    Venezuela's tourism resides in other landscapes. For example, we have the highest waterfall in the world, called Salto Angel (angel falls).

    We have some beautiful beaches on Archipielago Los Roques, and tourists from all the world in Margarita Island.

    We have every kind of soil and climate you can imagine. Climate is mostly hot, but you can visit Merida and Peak Bolivar (~5000 meters) for some cold snow. Or visit Guayana for some humid jungle (most people think the "rain forest" is located on Brazil, they are partially correct, since it is in Venezuela too)

  11. Re:Hello, world? on Venezuela Embraces Linux and FOSS · · Score: 2, Informative

    It's sad to tell you that i am here, are a member of VELUG, and don't know much. This article was posted 2 years ago (the one included to use OSS when we could), yet we used Windows inside the electoral machines sold by Smartmatic.

    Some things i do know, is that the initial backer for this project was Felipe Perez Marti, which was the Minister of Science and Technology.

    Appearing from nowhere, Microsoft gave the goverment a new deal, and seems we were back to "normal". The minister was let go a few months later than the original article, and it seems the project got stuck.

    In our current regime, when someone screws up, he just gets another job in the goverment. We have had over 7 presidents of our oil industry, about 4 ministers of defense, and so on.

    Now, the article does tell that the infocenters had Windows and now are using OSS, but is scarse on details.

    Last november, even Stallman was here. A friend that saw him told it was funny to see him with a strange hat, saying in broken spanish "i am the minister of the church of Emacs". Priceless.

    The article points that the former minister is still involved and also says that our oil industry will be switching to OSS. That will sure be interesting, as the software used there is the most expensive kind you can get, in any country. I won't believe it until i see it.

  12. Re:Try this: on Google Suggest · · Score: 1

    Try "liti"

    litigious bastards

  13. Re:Crashes Konqeuror? on Google Suggest · · Score: 2, Informative

    Also, safari works fine

  14. How long on No Honor Among Malware Purveyors · · Score: 1

    Just how far will adware companies go to continue to attempt to bombard us with their ads?

    Easy. Until people stop buying their products.
    Spam wouldn't exist if it wasn't economically feasable to do so.

  15. Re:ns on Sun Submits New License for Open Source Approval · · Score: 1

    Wikipedia itself appears to be immune to page widening.

    Ironic how that wikipedia article does indeed get widened, tested on safari and firefox

  16. Re:disspelling gentoo myths on Embedded Gentoo? · · Score: 1

    I like gentoo, but that review sucks.

    The author just says that you don't need to compile because you can start from a stage 3 which comes with everything as binaries. Yet he emerges vim and ftp and forgets to say that those are indeed compiled.

    He should have explained how to emerge binary packages and review how old are they and such

  17. Show google you care on Google Revises Usenet Search · · Score: 1

    Let them know.
    Contact google

  18. Re:Spambotnet? on Ohio Law Could Send Spammers To Jail · · Score: 1

    If that's what it takes for people to keep their systems updated, maybe i would like that. I would rather go for a fine, for "social responsability" on a innocent person's first offense though

  19. Ornithopter? on Da Vinci's Ornithopter Prepares For a Test Flight · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Those things are used in the movie DUNE, and also in the video game. I loved DUNE I, one of the first games with 256 colors.

  20. Re:Do people still use Kazaa? on Skype + Kazaa = ? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    To what? The fasttrack protocol is still the best and most populated one to get files. Edonkey just sucks, requiring you to hunt servers, and have share ratios. Gnutella just doesn't cut it either.

    I use poisoned on macosx, which is a pretty UI on top of gift.

  21. Re:Max OS X is great, but... on Running Mac OS X Panther · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I switched to macosx from windows , and yes there is stuff i hate missing:

    -If you use MSN, say good bye to a decent client. No audio or video
    -Macs are generally more expensive, and only come with 256mb ram, unless you get a top of the line model. Macs love ram, so you need lots of it.
    -There is no driver for either my lexmark printer, or my new cannon printer through a windows network. This is the biggest problem i have. Check that your printer is supported in mac, not only through a native driver, but through gimp-print and smb as well (unless you only have one machine)
    -Most linux software will run, check fink.sf.net. But they will use apple's X11, which works, but eats extra ram additional of the apple native server.

  22. IRC on Microsoft Replaces Your Pirated Windows, For Free · · Score: 2, Insightful

    So what if someone downloads windows from irc or bittorrent? Can we give out our irc logs as proof of purchase?

    [XDCC-R4p3-M3] your file transfer Windows.XP.With.Crack is done

  23. Re:This is interesting... on Internet Hunting · · Score: 1

    Simple. You read the article wrong (you said the article agrees that cats play with their pray) , in fact the article explains what people think it's a play behavior, rather, it's a method to exhaust the pray in order to eat it.

    Not only does cat play resemble hunting, but also hunting routines can seem surprisingly like play.

    It is only saying that it is similar, but says it isn't, and explains why.

  24. Re:Dear Mr. McNealy on Sun-isms Debunked · · Score: 3, Informative

    If you would have read the article completely, you would have known that they requested that FreeBSD contact them to do redistribution (which wouldn't be enough for the amd64 port anyway)

    But this isn't an issue anymore. Java is redistributable. Yes it is, if you don't believe me, download Slackware 10, it will come with java preinstalled

  25. Re:This is interesting... on Internet Hunting · · Score: 1

    If you would have read your own posted article you would have learned this:

    What seem like a mean sport are actually basic safety measures, necessary for the cat's survival.

    Consider this from the cat's point of view. That small, or not so small, rodent can and will bite back if given the chance. A mouse's bite may be small but it can easily become infected and cause disease and even death. No cats in the wild would want to take that chance.

    As cats are far-sighted, it is difficult for them to safely launch a death bite on live prey. The solution is to thoroughly exhaust and weaken the prey to the point where it is too dazed to defend itself. Only then will the cat actually kill its prey.