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  1. Re:But it was there the whole time on Local Privilege Escalation On All Linux Kernels · · Score: 1

    It's not claimed that there are no major holes, merely that major holes are less likely. OpenBSD is one of the only operating systems that focuses enough on security to eliminate the majority of such holes before release. And even then they occasionally have holes they need to patch. Without such extensive security audits one is bound to have more security holes.

  2. Re:Godel's Incompleteness Theorem? on World's First Formally-Proven OS Kernel · · Score: 1

    No, they proved that the C translation matched the haskell specification. If the haskell was wrong, the C is wrong, but would be proven "correct" in that it will operate in the same manner as the haskell.

  3. Re:Next step... on FTC May Cast A Closer Eye On How Businesses Share Personal Data · · Score: 1

    Then later, "Hi, we noticed you've been buying digging equipment and quicklime. Would you like to see our offers on criminal defense lawyers?"

  4. Re:StarCraft with nothing but the most useless uni on Finding New and Unintended Ways of Playing Games · · Score: 5, Insightful

    So instead of single-mindedly killing fake people it's better if he single-mindedly killed real people? Perhaps not such a bad change after all, eh?

  5. Re:Pondering the luck of others on Neuron Path Discovery May Change Our Conception of Itching · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Some do, actually. Phantom Limb syndrome does weird things. The worst bit is it's totally impossible to scratch it.

  6. Re:It's not criminal activity when we do it on After Links To Cybercrime, Latvian ISP Cut Off · · Score: 1

    No, no, Xenophobia is a fear of paradoxes, especially relating to finding how long it takes to get somewhere.

  7. Re:No, we can not. on Can We Build a Human Brain Into a Microchip? · · Score: 1

    Also, there's no such thing as analog. It's a myth. All energy is quantized. You can't move a shorter distance than a Planck length. Etc, etc. Any analog system can be simulated with a sufficiently high resolution digital system. Of course, if the system has sensitive dependence on initial conditions & the uncertainty principle applies, well, you can't get it exact. But neither could an analog copy.

  8. Re:Do they need to map the entire brain on Can We Build a Human Brain Into a Microchip? · · Score: 1

    I once saw a guy use far, far more than 10% of his brainpower. He used it all! But he didn't get super powers. He fell on the ground, started twitching, drooling, and bit his tongue. He was having a grand mal seizure.

  9. Re:No Calculator App then? on Apple Balks, Finally Relents, At Possible User Queries of Dictionary App · · Score: 1

    My TI-89 sure does. Also greyscale graphics, and potentially an illustrated kama sutra app...

  10. Re:In other news... on Chapter 11 Trustee Appointed For SCO · · Score: 2, Funny

    Verizon executives were said to be confused as to how two-thousandths of a cent could be a 10000% increase, even for SCO.

  11. Re:Karma burning for fun and profit on KDE 4.3 Released · · Score: 1

    That is a known bug in VLC. There was a race condition with something else, I forget exactly what. It should be fixed in the 1.0 version.

  12. Re:There's worse. on Even More Restriction For German Internet · · Score: 1

    The real question is this: Can you name worse than 12chan?
    Not4chan.

  13. Re:Always possible they lost control of it instead on Has Conficker Been Abandoned By Its Authors? · · Score: 2, Funny

    A statistical blimp, eh? Sailing serenely over the countryside, counting and comparing, picking out trends among the populace below...

  14. Re:Skynet... on Has Conficker Been Abandoned By Its Authors? · · Score: 1

    Let's hope it's like Skynet, and not like AM.

  15. Re:Pong! on Which Game Series Would You Reboot? · · Score: 1

    Plasma pong. Sadly, it got taken down due to the use of the name "Pong", but it was a great reboot.

  16. Re:Why should a 'reader' be a security issue anywa on Adobe Chided For Insecure Acrobat Reader · · Score: 1

    Not always. Look at, say, any good postscript viewer. Like ghostview or Okular, or any good printer. You can't read a .PS file without running it.

  17. Re:slashbots on America's 10 Most-Wanted Botnets · · Score: 1

    They may not read the article, but they all prefetch it.

  18. Re:It's so very odd..... on Ireland Criminalizes Blasphemy · · Score: 1

    (Giving a physical explanation of its origin just begs the question of the origin of the physics of the explanation).

    Giving a divine explanation of its origin has the exact same problem: Where did that god come from? Anything a god can have done the laws of physics can have done, so there's no reason to believe in a god.

  19. Re:Idea on Court Appoints Pro Bono Counsel For RIAA Defendant · · Score: 5, Insightful

    You have just invented insurance. Congratulations.

  20. Re:For Free, sure. on The Pirate Bay to Become a Distributed Storage Cloud? · · Score: 2, Informative

    Freenet also has the advantage that you don't know what your node stores.

  21. Re:Boy, what efficiency... on US Postal Service Moves To GNU/Linux · · Score: 1

    It's done by both, sort-of. The vast, vast majority get OCRed by a computer, but sometimes the software fails. When that happens the letter gets sent to a human.

  22. Re:Boy, what efficiency... on US Postal Service Moves To GNU/Linux · · Score: 1

    "I think every mail piece does get a bar code put on it if it wasn't sent with one."
    If that happened you would receive mail with these barcodes. It doesn't, they just use some very good OCR systems.

  23. Re:Alternate Universe? on Aion Shaping Up For US Launch · · Score: 1

    Exactly. EVE is a good game, but not because of the UI.

  24. Re:Future FUD Fantastic on Hackers' Next Target — Your Brain? · · Score: 1

    Hacking an IP oven or Coffee maker can have a use. If it gets you onto a network you want to sniff internal traffic on, that's good. If it gets you a way to attack more critical systems, that's even better. Networked printers are used for this sort of thing rather commonly.

  25. Re:will they update the rc? on Windows 7 Hits Build 7600 (Possible RTM) · · Score: 1

    The final RC and the RTM should be the same, except for version strings. That's the whole point of having RCs instead of just betas.