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  1. Re:This is getting silly on Mozilla Ships Firefox 5, Meets Rapid-Release Plan · · Score: 2

    They are all important, because they all fix critical security vulnerabilities.

  2. NTLM? Seriously? on Cheap GPUs Rendering Strong Passwords Useless · · Score: 1

    What kind of incompetent fool would still use such a pathetically weak password hashing scheme?

  3. Re:Not seeing the downside to this on GNOME Shell Hurts Gaming Performance · · Score: 1

    C is always 'on error resume next'. :(

  4. Ridiculous on Sweden May Mandate Opt-in For Cookie Transfer · · Score: 0

    Will they forbid the interpretation of TCP sequence numbers without explicit user permission too?

  5. Re:Virtualization to the rescue on Why You Shouldn't Reboot Unix Servers · · Score: 1

    You forgot to mention the existence of serial consoles in your eagerness to shill for VMWare.

  6. Re:slashdot: *world link farmers on Why You Shouldn't Reboot Unix Servers · · Score: 1

    Read http://lwn.net/ instead.

  7. Re:Screws up transatlantic business on UK Government Wants to Spring Ahead Two Hours · · Score: 1

    So why not open the LSE at the same actual *time* and ignore this political tomfoolery?

  8. Re:Dictionnary attack doesn't show any weakness on Cracking Passwords With Amazon EC2 GPU Instances · · Score: 1

    And that is exactly what you do in the real world.

    e.g., pam_unix allows you to set the 'rounds' parameter to slow the calculations, in case the increased default is not paranoid enough for you.

    The original article simply gives us a bunch of SHA1 hashes, unmodified, unsalted. Far too weak for real-world use, yes.

  9. Re:Nice try on A Tidal Wave of Java Flaw Exploitation · · Score: 1

    Reinstall.

  10. Re:which one on Lightspark 0.4.2 Open Source Flash Player Released · · Score: 3, Informative

    I refer you to "Interesting times for Linux Flash support" at http://lwn.net/Articles/389266/. I don't know why more (any) LWN articles aren't linked to from Slashdot.

  11. Re:OS dependent on How To Exploit NULL Pointers · · Score: 1

    Pfft. It says, right there, "on Linux". What else could that possibly mean? :)

  12. Re:Flash aint so bad on A Skeptical Comparison of HTML5 Video Playback To Flash · · Score: 1

    A standard that Microsoft, Apple and Google would have ignored.

  13. Re:This is early days for the video tag on A Skeptical Comparison of HTML5 Video Playback To Flash · · Score: 1

    Jobs does not spread make these comments out of spite.

    Apple have put a tremendous effort into developing a closed platform where they vet every application that their users run. It is not in their interest to allow this to be bypassed by making Flash available on the iPhone and the iPad; therefore they discourage its use on their desktop platform by ensuring that the resulting user experience is unpleasant (that is, buggy and slow).

    The public comments from Jobs about Flash is another prong of this stragegy: Apple is leveraging their fanatical fanbase to spread anti-flash propoganda.

    I swear that the 1984 commercial is growing more and more ironic every day...

  14. Re:That's the DMCA for you... on Microsoft Says It Never Meant To Knock Cryptome Offline · · Score: 1

    Microsoft sends DMCA takedown to server provider, server provider must take on the liability or take down the whole server

    Cite please?

  15. Re:So are Google and all the bunch just dumb? on Mozilla's VP of Engineering On H.264 · · Score: 1

    Did Unisys ever persue Mozilla (or a downstream recipient) for patent infringement?

  16. Re:Just open up the video architecture on Mozilla's VP of Engineering On H.264 · · Score: 1

    You'll only have to experience the media plugin hell if you insist on using Firefox. Everyone else will have h.264 video that just works.

  17. Re:VP 3 vs VP 8 on YouTube Hints At Support For Free/Open Formats With HTML5 · · Score: 1

    Ogg theora is no longer the same as VP 3. It has had many years of improvements!

    Are there any decent comparisons of the two?

  18. Re:Atheists Unite... as a religion on Ireland's Blasphemy Law Goes Into Effect · · Score: 1

    You are expecting logical arguments to work... :)

  19. Re:Good for apple on Apple Voiding Smokers' Warranties? · · Score: 1

    Your statement about the use of medial resources comes across as both glib and selfish.

    If the tax paid by smokers went into a fund that could only be used to treat smokers, and the only source of publicly funded medical care for smokers was that fund, then you would have a point.

  20. Re:Not discriminatory against smokers on Apple Voiding Smokers' Warranties? · · Score: 1

    Does smoking near the device damage it in the same way that heat or humidity do?

  21. Re:Named Socket interface on Microsoft Opening Outlook's PST Format · · Score: 1

    Good luck getting Outlook to open \\pipe\whatever :)

    Hm, can you seek on a file descriptor opened from a pipe?

  22. Re:Sounds good to me on Some Users Say Win7 Wants To Remove iTunes, Google Toolbar · · Score: 1

    That's a reason to make each respective piece of software _workable_. But there is no incentive to make it actually work as well on the foreign platform as it does on the native one...

  23. Re:Sounds good to me on Some Users Say Win7 Wants To Remove iTunes, Google Toolbar · · Score: 0

    Why would Microsoft bother to ensure that the Mac port of Office is as good as the Windows version?

    Why would Apple bother to ensure that the Windows port of iTunes is as good as the Mac version?

  24. Re:Windows Upgrades on Some Users Say Win7 Wants To Remove iTunes, Google Toolbar · · Score: 1

    Hm. Is there _really_ any Vista-comaptible software that does not work on Windows 7? 7 is, after all, merely a rebadged Vista with the nextstep dock thrown in... if one is feeling cynical. ;)

  25. Re:They should use clang instead of GCC on Apple's Grand Central Dispatch Ported To FreeBSD · · Score: 1

    Has anyone asked them?