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  1. The Origin... on "We're Linux" Finalists Announced · · Score: 1

    although it is a bit creepy is by production value the one that is "best."

    My personal fav is "Linux pub" though, both funny and shrewd. They would have gotten extra points if they had a machine that went ping once Tux got in.

  2. A pure shot of tabasco... on Asperger Syndrome Tied To Low Cortisol Levels · · Score: 1

    in the morning does wonders to that small cortisol problem. Have been living by it since 1991.

  3. Re:ok no chance of a... on March 14th Officially Becomes National Pi Day · · Score: 1

    argh... it is 2.7182 => 2.72 .... 12/4 or 13/4

  4. ok no chance of a... on March 14th Officially Becomes National Pi Day · · Score: 1

    National e day....2/73 which could be 2/((28|29)+31+(14|13) -> 13/4 or 14/4

    Heh.... in that way it can have two... trumping Pi!

  5. Don't know why this is even contemplated... on Clear Public Satellite Imagery Tantamount to Yelling Fire · · Score: 1

    It would become even more trivial to search for stuff of interest if they were "blotted" out.

    Direct from google map into real world GPS coordinates and blammo!

    Why did this politician open his pie hole in any case?

  6. About the same time as Amiga Guide on The Finns Who Invented the Graphical Browser · · Score: 1

    Common... a graphical "gopher" was just a natural step. Hardly news worthy.

  7. IMHO this is elementary on Sony Makes It Hard To Develop For the PS3 On Purpose · · Score: 1

    SONY is a hardware company first and foremost. Why would they want to release a sub par SDKs or OS much like Microsoft is doing.

    Innovation comes from the code monkeys that actually are close to the hardware not the ones that are on the other side of the spectrum making things look pretty.

    If we need easy of programming we could all use the Quake4SDK or the like... will the end product be better than the original? VERY VERY Doubtful... its like making a movie where non of the original team is present but just the formula.

    To me SDK == Formula

    And I personally wouldn't want PS3 just to be a formula so yes I am on the SONY honchos side.

  8. Re:Not smart to add features post-beta on Microsoft Brings 36 New Features To Windows 7 · · Score: 1

    Right but after reading most of those so called new features it was clear to me that it wasn't anything more than bug fixes for features they should have had working since the days of XP... apart from the Vista Aero fluff problems.

    Heck with that kind of feature announcement I can claim that my personal Xemacs release have thousands new features just based on my personal key bindings.

    My honest take... Microsoft is desperately trying to survive.

    On the other hand no tears will be shed for them ever.

  9. Re:OTRS on Best FOSS Help Desk Software For Small Firms? · · Score: 1

    I agree with OTRS being one of the best perl implementation that I have ever seen. And I have seen a lot of beep-beeeeeeEEEP.

    OTRS user/admin since 2005 and I am not willing to part with it.

  10. Re:Impressions... on Sony Blu-spec CD Format Detailed, Hits Stores · · Score: 2, Interesting

    "but there's no additional information"

    It is more about less additional and extraneous information than anything else.

    But right... this if anything in history is a money grab.

    Now if they have stiffer plastic and if the plastic has better longevity then it may be more "wise" to buy new stuff on it.

    Buying old CD on CD again doesn't make any sense even if they are "remastered."

    And yes I am all for better sound quality... the industry is trying its best to double dip and triple dip the consumer.

  11. Re:Virtual Machine on MS Publishes Papers For a Modern, Secure Browser · · Score: 1

    Not enough though... you will need to restrict access to only one website per VM.

    If everything had gone Java back in the day this would already be the case but... well as history has shown that ain't gonna happen.

    Cheers to all regurgitated ideas out there!

    Same sh!t different day.

  12. Well this does not come as a surprise on Facebook's New Terms of Service · · Score: 1

    It is quite elementary that for Facebook to be able to make sure than any uploaded user data is not used on their site if the user deletes them selves is nightmarish from an operations point of view.

    Anybody having to deal with database constraints and want to clean the database from some entries need to go the extra mile to do it right.

    Now we have Facebook where everything is linking back and forth and if things are not properly data structured it will be amazingly difficult to clean things up.

    So instead of going the extra mile and work with real humans and lowering unemployment it is FAR easier to change the TOS to "eradicate" this entire problem by making it a "non issue."

    This is a grand cop-out for Facebook and it is indicative that the code really is just hacked together and it escalated far beyond what it was supposed to do.

    Sadly Facebook is not the only one doing it like this... why spend hard work on things when you can "legislate" it away?

  13. Maybe it is because of PANGO? on Firefox Faster In Wine Than Native · · Score: 1

    export MOZ_DISABLE_PANGO=1

  14. Re:wth? on Ontario Court Wrong About IP Addresses, Too · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I concur... it looks like shi:it having it like that.

  15. Re:Hard Drive Encryption - Theory vs. Reality on How To, When You Have To Encrypt Absolutely Everything? · · Score: 1

    "...categorized every last bit they can lay their hands on..."

    should read

    "...categorized every last bit they can lay their filthy little sausage fingers on..."

    Because if it wasn't data that was worth anything they wouldn't be doing it in the first place. And doing it on non corporate data protects them from being subject to IP problems in the short term too.

    So if a corporation is fully encrypted one should ask "what are they hiding?"

    Too much security brings attention too.

  16. Re:One thing I wish they'd fucking fix on Windows 7 To Skip Straight To a Release Candidate · · Score: 1

    "... one of the things that's broken in the beta release is the fucking "send feedback" feature. ..."

    sssh don't let them know!

  17. Why reformat? on Ubuntu 9.04 Daily Build Boots In 21.4 Seconds · · Score: 3, Informative

    if by reformat you mean fdisk followed by an explicit mkfs.ext4 after....

    You should be doing the following:
    http://kernelnewbies.org/Ext4#head-3891522e0601162aab24c73c1f148a1e28c6a9d4

  18. Re:Product dumping on How Microsoft Beats GNU/Linux In Schools · · Score: 1

    I would almost argue that it is even Sum(Windows K) where K=N-4 to N-1

    Windows 7 main competition is XP for the most part (74%) and Vista comes next at (20%)

  19. Ah yeah now wer' talkin'! on Asus Reveals the Eee Keyboard · · Score: 1

    Oh and BTW where is the Run/Stop and Restore buttons...

    Long live SYS 64738!!!

  20. Re:Ahah! on Milky Way Heavier Than Thought, and Spinning Faster · · Score: 1

    Ah yeah yeah... and its not Milky Way any more but Cheesus Way... fatter and rhymes with that dude.

    OMG this is a new low for me.

  21. Maybe a Firefox config setting on CCC Create a Rogue CA Certificate · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Wouldn't setting security.ssl3.rsa_rc4_128_md5 to false prohibit these kind of attacks?

  22. Re:CA's using MD5 on CCC Create a Rogue CA Certificate · · Score: 1

    I guess one could do this too

    grep -A 1 md5WithRSAEncryption /etc/pki/tls/certs/ca-bundle.crt |grep "CN"|awk -F "CN=" {'print $2'}

    which yields the following

    GTE CyberTrust Root
    GTE CyberTrust Global Root
    Thawte Personal Basic CA/emailAddress=personal-basic@thawte.com
    Thawte Personal Premium CA/emailAddress=personal-premium@thawte.com
    Thawte Personal Freemail CA/emailAddress=personal-freemail@thawte.com
    Thawte Server CA/emailAddress=server-certs@thawte.com
    Thawte Premium Server CA/emailAddress=premium-server@thawte.com
    Entrust.net Client Certification Authority
    Equifax Secure Global eBusiness CA-1
    Equifax Secure eBusiness CA-1
    Thawte Timestamping CA
    Entrust.net Secure Server Certification Authority
    Entrust.net Client Certification Authority
    IPS SERVIDORES/emailAddress=ips@mail.ips.es
    NetLock Kozjegyzoi (Class A) Tanusitvanykiado
    NetLock Uzleti (Class B) Tanusitvanykiado
    NetLock Expressz (Class C) Tanusitvanykiado
    Free SSL Certification Authority/emailAddress=admin@startcom.org

    Can someone double check?

  23. Hey FBI! on FBI Issues Code Cracking Challenge · · Score: 1

    Ok I have to 761f61867ec1167ffa20c8c4f95a45577795f82a
    write somet- 16659c5ee6f564ded2571380e28fcbe7bdbf711e
    hing so that 40035e0569e93778af620c96a75757ef63f2b5a2
    the filter e0c74f692f90e32c90a796f62e3670a86f2cedfe
    doesn't go 661e5d9fa0ccfc8191054c01afd2c4d06f60a598
    all hey wire 34c047364c9122ed047563772645a27bcaf6ea1c
    note that it 4d471ee6cf37303f85f7966aad7cf3c076f0cfbc
    should be b4a96b701bc68401e664a0dd134c26a53a812028
    normal text 255d33269ef1c64e84536a520cc6dfe4577f2d38
    well as nor- 110facb01de8c594fe494576fc3165cfba12aba5
    mal as you cd76d3960c016b4f3c43ea07bb1e16b14fac8965

    Can get it... the messages is the one to the right not the rambling to the left

  24. "...creates a perfect storm..." on Trick or Treatment · · Score: 1

    // RANT //
    Argh FCOL everyone is using this term... A perfect fucking storm... much like all retards that use "at the end of the motherfucking day" emphasis mine (and maybe I will be modded offensive and lose all my karma.)

    Is it so difficult to convey that something coincides in ways nefarious?

    Also not all storms are bad and if it is a bad one how can it be perfect?

    Colloquially I would say a mofo of a storm. // RANT //

    Other than that... yeah what the book writers said.
     

  25. Re:Terrible Article on Toshiba To Launch First 512GB Solid State Drive · · Score: 1

    Go easy on the kid... obviously he found out about copy-n-past a couple of seconds ago ;-)