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  1. Re:Well, in fairness ... on Microsoft: One In 14 Downloads Is Malicious · · Score: 1

    Compare that to /var/log/messages one time. Event Viewer is a sad replacement indeed. If you are even given anything other than "error number 0, some random app failed, the dev never did put any real logging in. The whole fact that windows logging is displayed in a GUI pretty much shows the braindeadedness. Windows: a decently designed kernel held down by a joke of a userland.

  2. Re:Surprise on Microsoft: One In 14 Downloads Is Malicious · · Score: 1

    You try that. They don't want training and they don't care.

    Over here in reality I will suggest MS follows the repository/app store model. This will not only condition people to stop downloading random crap off webpages, but also will allow updates to all software be made in a centralized way. They should like others allow users to add their own trusted repositories, which some will need and the truly ignorant will never bother with.

  3. Re:Surprise on Microsoft: One In 14 Downloads Is Malicious · · Score: 0

    Your slashdot handle is fucking awesome. It wins on so many levels.

  4. Re:Surprise on Microsoft: One In 14 Downloads Is Malicious · · Score: 1

    So does giving up other freedoms. Choice means risk.

    The walled garden however does not protect from malicious apps all the time. There have been stories when apps that did non-approved things made into into the apple appstore.

  5. Re:Surprise on Microsoft: One In 14 Downloads Is Malicious · · Score: 2

    Just tell "make install" to put it under your $HOME.

    Installing an application does not need admin access unless you need it to be available for everyone.

  6. Re:Yes, We're Doing Great Work on Microsoft: One In 14 Downloads Is Malicious · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Only for very blatant lies. Otherwise I would be suing damn near every company that ever had an advertisement.

  7. Re:NEWSFLASH: Some People are Terminally Ignorant on Microsoft: One In 14 Downloads Is Malicious · · Score: 3, Funny

    I had a boss once drive in circles in the parking lot with the hood up, to cool an over heating engine.

  8. Re:NEWSFLASH: Some People are Terminally Ignorant on Microsoft: One In 14 Downloads Is Malicious · · Score: 1

    Vastly experienced?
    Not even been driving two decades.

  9. NEWSFLASH: Some People are Terminally Ignorant on Microsoft: One In 14 Downloads Is Malicious · · Score: 2, Insightful

    These are the same folks that only change the oil in their cars when the warning light comes on.

  10. Re:In other words on Jeff Bezos Calls Sales Tax Requirements On Amazon Unconstitutional · · Score: 1

    As someone who has done that kind of programming you are wrong. You have to deal with state, county, city and town taxes. There is just about no way to get this right. Zip codes do not tell you, customers get it wrong, on and on. The customer will often give a mailing address, which is not their home, or might be but is not the legal address. They might be in an unincorporated town and give the name of the closest city. That works for the USPS, but not for finding out what tax to charge.

  11. Re:What about Linux? on Netflix Dominates North American Internet · · Score: 1

    This is one reason I got a PS3, a roku could do the same though. Then you can do what you want with the machines.

  12. Re:Oh yeah? on Swiped Tokens Expose Android Devices To Data Theft · · Score: 1

    That has nothing to do with rooting it. All rooting does is gaining root permissions. That will not cause this issue. Perhaps what you are installing afterwards is doing that.

    Lots of things you can do with root could cause that, but not just having root.

  13. Re:Oh yeah? on Swiped Tokens Expose Android Devices To Data Theft · · Score: 1

    Rooting the phone does not impact service in anyway. The hardware and software used for that is not even related.

    Hell, you can always flash a backup anyway.

  14. Re:as said before here many times on The Cost of US Security · · Score: 1

    US secular judicial system.
    That wants people to swear on what again?

  15. Re:Oh yeah? on Swiped Tokens Expose Android Devices To Data Theft · · Score: 1

    Unlucky?
    You bought the phone knowing this would happen, and you call yourself unlucky?

    I have a motorola Droid 1 running 2.3.3 and will be running 2.3.4 as soon as CM7.1 hits RC.

  16. Re:Just update your phone. on Swiped Tokens Expose Android Devices To Data Theft · · Score: 1

    Really?
    CM7.1 nightlies seem available on many phones.

  17. Re:Cloud and Google on Swiped Tokens Expose Android Devices To Data Theft · · Score: 1

    Sure there is, don't support unencrypted wireless on the devices.

  18. Re:Good news? on Miguel De Icaza Forms New Mono Company: Xamarin · · Score: 1

    That road goes both ways you know, maybe MS should start supporting dalvik.

  19. Re:Anyone really suprised? on Think I'm Not American? Pass the Hamburgers. · · Score: 1

    Maybe for people that never move. As someone who was born in another country then moved a lot in the USA, due to being an army brat, that does not work on me.

  20. Re:Cultural Identification in Food on Think I'm Not American? Pass the Hamburgers. · · Score: 1

    Bring them and ignore the little morons. I still get crap at work because I like to let the teawurst age a little at room temp before I eat it.

  21. Re:Hyper-V isn't second. It doesn't even place on Microsoft To Support CentOS Linux In Hyper-V · · Score: 1

    If Hyper-V would work in your situtaion, KVM or XEN would be better and save you money.

  22. Re:Say no? on Japan Says No To PlayStation Network Restart · · Score: 1

    Corporations are owned by people. The property owned by a corporation is owned, ultimately, by the people who own the corporation.

    Tell the GM shareholders that lost out about that.

    That statement is so pathetically ridiculous that it does not merit any response, buy I'll point out one tiny fact that demonstrates your lunacy: corporations don't have unlimited freedom, and people in corporations have gone to jail for committing crimes. Even so, many people do become corporations so they can take advantage of the laws for corporations, which also pretty much shoots down you nonsense about corporations not being people.

    So who from BP is in jail for that oil spill? If I let my car leak oil all over town and nature parks(since my car does not float) I bet I would be paying for cleanup and fines. Also where can we find BPs internal organs?

    Corporations exist at the like of the government, that is why they have to have a charter, and I don't.

  23. Re:Hyper-V belongs in last place on Microsoft To Support CentOS Linux In Hyper-V · · Score: 1

    Define proper migration tools. You can do it on the command line, in virt-manager, using virsh. What more are you looking for?

  24. Re:does anybody really use hyper-V? on Microsoft To Support CentOS Linux In Hyper-V · · Score: 1

    If no one enters a password or key how is it getting that information on boot? If you are using the key out of the TPM that seems like a recipe for failure when the hardware dies.

  25. Re:Excellent on US Congress Tries To Cut Body Scanner Funding · · Score: 1

    I was basing this on reality, not comedy. She could not even name a single periodical during an interview.