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  1. Re:Why not just buy out every hardware vendor? on Apple Has Too Much Money · · Score: 1

    KDE creation?

  2. Re:They still need a C&C on New ZeuS Botnet No Longer Needs Central Command Servers · · Score: 1

    A very simple and secure design is simply make nodes share their public key on first connection, that way you need to get into all nodes to decrypt traffic and trace origin. Every host-host communication uses a single pair of keys, so you cannot really know what other two hosts shared until you get into them and get their keys.

    That's pretty much how SSH works, and it does the job pretty well

  3. Re:To Quote Woody allen on Vaccine Could Cut Heroin Addiction · · Score: 1

    Does it makes you a better person?

    If so, how come you protect your child from it?

    As much as I would like to think that you can "discover" something good by using LSD, dont you have the risk of starting to believe something stupid or plain crazy ? Like "using LSD is good thing"

  4. Re:I Believe It Too on Interrupted Sleep Might Be the Best Kind · · Score: 1

    I used to hqae horrible sleeping habits, but being a parent cleans that out.

    You really want to get some rest, and you get the most out of every night, because you know you will not get any chance to take a nap during the day.

    I still have insomnia, but I am so tired most nights, that I cant even see any full movie without falling to sleep.

  5. Re:Tenure on Academics Not Productive Enough? Sack 'em · · Score: 1

    From what I know about it for having been graduate student a few year ago, this is an elite, seriously, in a bad way if you want it too, but it is.

    People spend a lot of time and effort to join a little group that know a lot of something and can keep digging further about it. That means they also want to be treated special, most of them will never be rich, but at least will make enough money to secure a good living for them and their kids.

    Kids, that is another interesting story, divorce ratings are really high in academia, so parents want to compensate, and also might feel guilty because of the problems their kids have ( a lot, believe me), and most of the money they are getting is not from wage, but from bonuses, so a good effort needs to be done so they can keep up.

    I can go on with this, but you get the idea.

  6. Re:Tenure on Academics Not Productive Enough? Sack 'em · · Score: 1

    That would have the same results in Mexico than the autralian way of evaluating, a lot of people being fired

  7. Re:Don't you have that backwards? on Academics Not Productive Enough? Sack 'em · · Score: 1

    You've been a Graduate student, aren't you?

  8. Re:Nope. on Ask Slashdot: Life After Software Development? · · Score: 1

    Totally agree with that, I recently had to move some 3k kms to a new job, so I could spend more time with my kids and wife, but I can tell you kids do suffer this kind of changes, we are pretty much ready to go back before the first two year of the moving.

    So, doing something more drastic, as leaving a job just because you dont feel complete and without a good alternative will surely affect wife and kids.

  9. Re:Nope. on Ask Slashdot: Life After Software Development? · · Score: 1

    Well, offering to ruin kids lifes is not that big of an idea, there must be a car analogy for this...

  10. Re:Nice. on iPad 3 Confirmed To Have 2048x1536 Screen Resolution · · Score: 1

    My scrpts are always under 25 lines too

  11. Re:AV is not really mature yet on Microsoft's Antivirus Briefly Flags Google.com As Malicious · · Score: 1

    So, the best thing they can do is create an AV culture, and 15 years later realize that they can profit from it too?

  12. Re:To the Bone! on GNOME 3: Beauty To the Bone? · · Score: 1

    Oooh, you live in the real world !

    Buuuu!

  13. Re:Virtual Desktops on GNOME 3: Beauty To the Bone? · · Score: 1

    That's one of the main reasons I use awesome wm

    The other one is autoresized tiled windows.

    I spent a lot of time moving windos to the best combination of space ocupancy I could think, the I searched a really light destop and guess what ! It does what I need and makes my life much happier

  14. Re:Pot calling kettle. on Best Practice: Travel Light To China · · Score: 1, Interesting

    From the Mexican point of view, you are mostly there

  15. Re:Good, Because Certs Are Worthless on The IT Certs That No Longer Pay Extra · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Redhat cert is pretty much hands on, and I can tell you that a lot of people think they have what it takes and fail on the exam at the very first steps

  16. Re:Hybrid Programmer-BusinessAnalyst Roles on The IT Certs That No Longer Pay Extra · · Score: 2

    Having worked in small and big companies I can tell you that GP got a really true point, in small envs. you can work as the know it all, but on big envs. The diversity of problems would drive crazy trying to handle multiple layers of the infrastructure.

  17. Re:Gee, I wonder what Slashdot will think on Pirate Bay Founders Lose Final Appeal · · Score: 1

    so, the wars on the last couple of decades were absolutely unavoidable ?

    really nice

  18. Re:The power of privacy on Do You Like Online Privacy? You May Be a Terrorist · · Score: 1

    I don't have any problem being monitored, as long as I can monitor those who monitor me too

  19. Re:Gee, I wonder what Slashdot will think on Pirate Bay Founders Lose Final Appeal · · Score: 1

    We could stop most wars, but I dont visualize them vanishing anytime soon, so yes, a lot of bad things are being done, and will be done for long time, and no law is being enforced against some of them that really damage a lot of people in physical ways, so why should we care so much about copyrighting virtual property or even information?

  20. Re:Gee, I wonder what Slashdot will think on Pirate Bay Founders Lose Final Appeal · · Score: 1

    But that does not nullifies the fact that companies overprice their products, specially music companies, and the real copyright owner usually dont see much more than a few percent points of the actual profits, so we are actually supporting a system that is taking (money) value from other products, is increasing the virtual money problemwe currently have AND is exploiting other persons' copyright ownership at great scale.

    Give things the right value and people will accept the current law proposals, but dont expect to get away with all the tricks you can think to profit out of thin air (AKA american dream these days), people are not that stupid.

  21. Re:Gee, I wonder what Slashdot will think on Pirate Bay Founders Lose Final Appeal · · Score: 1

    Wanting to buy your idea of stolen value, if copyright holders refrain from overcharging costumers to "level up" the value of their "property" then I can honor copyright and buy their stuff, it will be cheap anyway!

    But as soon as companies overprice, they are giving me permission to pirate, they already charged anybody else for my copy anyway!

  22. Re:Mod Parent Up on Why Linux Vendors Need To Sell More Than Linux · · Score: 1

    The fact that the average user DO NOT installs his OS just makes my point stand, they spend more time asking or paying for the system to be reinstalled.

    Also, only on corporate envs. Users dont do any installations, most people have at least gone to the process of installing on first boot, or recovered from CDs or with the classic hidden partition.

    I dont want to brag at all, Im just commenting a fact, laziness just makes people waste more time AND money, too bad for them.

  23. Re:Mod Parent Up on Why Linux Vendors Need To Sell More Than Linux · · Score: 1

    It all comes down to wanting to learn something and getting the most out of it versus expending money to achieve things because you are lazy.

    The average user would have to invest like 10% more time learning linux to be able to do his/her job, but prefers the commercial option along with expending much more time reinstalling because of viruses and the need for new hardware to support the latest OS version.

  24. Re:Why Apple is good on Apple Forcing IT Shops To 'Adapt Or Die' · · Score: 0

    I'm a professional Linux sysadmin, I even worked a year and a half with a macbook, and I understand totally why people like Mac, still I would not change my desktop from linux to mac.

    On the other side, I'm pretty sure most linux desktop programmers don't really like the whole mac style, and even if they would, it takes a lot of time and design to achieve that kind of usability, honestly, you probably loose a little usability by using linux, but you don't pay anything, on a completely legit apple computer you can spend effortless anything between 2k to 4k usd + hardware, that's a lot of money, specially if you are a mexican like I am.

  25. Re:I won't on How Will You React To Twitter's Regional Censorship Plan? · · Score: 1

    This is really weird, I use, and always have, social apps just for fun, is fun to read peoples comments, it's fun to say something to not really anybody, just say it, and it is fun to get in touch with people I have not seen in decades.

    Also, it could be helpful to organize a massive event, like a protest, I havent used them for that kind of activities, but I recognize it is a good way to handle them