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  1. Re:So.... on Venezuela Bans the Commercial Sale of Firearms and Ammunition · · Score: 1, Informative

    Criminals aren't idiots

    And you try to convince us that you know what you are talking about? If they weren't idiots, they'd be running a bank, or doing politics; they wouldn't be robbing homes.

    Most criminals are addicted to something and can't think straight.

  2. Re:It is a double edge sword on The Cost of Crappy Security In Software Infrastructure · · Score: 1

    f your variable includes user input without going through any of the input checking routines and is then passed to a string concatenation routine before being passed to the database... the run time can detect that easily and abort or check!

    Like Perl?

  3. Re:There are good things on Worst Design Ever? Plastic Clamshell Packaging · · Score: 2

    If you need to return an item, you can do so in decent shape, if the product came in a completely sealed clam shell (with or without perforation) and I need to return it, expect it to be returned in a plastic bag as the packaging will never go back to its original shape.

    That's a feature, not a bug. When you get a product in a sealed clamshell in a store you know it wasn't tampered with, and it isn't a return.

  4. Re:Imagine on Andromeda On Collision Course With the Milky Way · · Score: 1

    It will get difuser because it will be nearer, and thus spreaded in a bigger area of the sky.

    It will also get brighter. In the end, it will look like some extra stars and gas clouds, some gas clouds with stars forming inside, and a random nova once in a while... Or, in other words, quite similar to what we have now.

  5. Re:Interesting timing on Andromeda On Collision Course With the Milky Way · · Score: 1

    Earlier if the hypotesis that our magnetic field is necessary for holding our athmosphere is right. If so, we have something about 200 or 300 milion years.

    It is interesting that our planet may have less time holding life in the future than the dinosaurs stayed here... It makes the rare Earth hypotesis easier to belive.

  6. Re:bbbbut downloading is so cool on Next Generation Xbox and Playstation Consoles Will Have Optical Drives · · Score: 1

    I am going to assume that you do not currently have any children in a console-playing age (with peers who own and play consoles).

    And your assumption would be wrong. But yeah, my daughter doesn't put that much emphasis on a console, as she's happy to use a PC instead, play old games, or doing the old plain "get outside" thing... But then, if she did put that much emphasis on a console, I'd probably see that as a problem.

  7. Re:$99 bucks on Red Hat Will Pay Microsoft To Get Past UEFI Restrictions · · Score: 1

    To sign one version of the kernel. Next week it will be another $99.

    But that is besides the point. The AC up there is right, the price does not matter.

  8. Re:The article is wrong. on Red Hat Will Pay Microsoft To Get Past UEFI Restrictions · · Score: 1

    ...so PC manufacturers might as well continue to ship boxes w/o UEFI, since it's not a requirement in Windows 7.

    MS will certainly end all distribution of Windows 7 once W8 gets out.

  9. Re:If microsoft controls the 'keys' on Red Hat Will Pay Microsoft To Get Past UEFI Restrictions · · Score: 1

    How can Windows know that it is on? My guess is that all the BIOS (for PCs, not servers) will get out with "unknown" bugs on that code.

  10. Re:If microsoft controls the 'keys' on Red Hat Will Pay Microsoft To Get Past UEFI Restrictions · · Score: 2

    Anybody can run and write for whatever OS they want.

    Not anymore. Have you even read what TFA is about?

  11. Re:If microsoft controls the 'keys' on Red Hat Will Pay Microsoft To Get Past UEFI Restrictions · · Score: 1

    The author of TFA already pointed out that nothing stops somebody from providing the same services to the Linux community

    And the author of TFA is lying, because only Microsoft could provide such service. Only MS has their private key for signing kernels, and only their private key will be permited by default.

    The problem is the creator of BobLinux who wants to have thousands of random users install his random kernel is indistinguishable technically from the creator of some boot sector malware who wants to have thousands of users permanently rooted.

    Yes, thus MS "fixes" that by making the boot sector malware writter target the userland tools instead, and run the rooted OS in a virtual environment. The consequences are exactly the same, but now the boot is secure.

  12. Re:If microsoft controls the 'keys' on Red Hat Will Pay Microsoft To Get Past UEFI Restrictions · · Score: 1

    The text you quoted does not say what you describes.

    Of course there won't be a generic Linux key. The entire point of a secure boot system (even a honest one) is to not run whatever some random person put up toghether on the street. That does not makes it impossible for Red Hat to have a private key.

    And the reason Red Had had to pay Microsoft is that the MS's proposal only permits one key, so the hardware manufacturers can either permit RH's key or MS's key, not both. They are paying MS to sign their OS with MS's key.

  13. Re:Offer a SKU that does not have an optical drive on Next Generation Xbox and Playstation Consoles Will Have Optical Drives · · Score: 5, Funny

    The last time I tried to watch a blu-ray disk the same way I make toast the disk didn't support it very well.

  14. Re:bbbbut downloading is so cool on Next Generation Xbox and Playstation Consoles Will Have Optical Drives · · Score: 2

    ... I'm sad now. We live in a horrible world.

    Why get sad? Just don't buy it.

  15. They did not do enough! on NC Planners May Be Barred From Using Speculative Sea Level Rise Predictions · · Score: 3, Funny

    That decree should obviously came toghether with another one forbiding the sea to rise faster than the hystorical average. By not passing that second decree, the legislators are letting people endanger their buildings.

  16. Re:Headphones hurt my productivity. on Do Headphones Help Or Hurt Productivity? · · Score: 1

    At my office that task is renegated to the air conditioning... But yeah, a 5 MW turbine would be way more effective. At what frequency does it peak? 50 or 60 Hz?

    (But I'm not looking for a more effective white noise generator. Thank you. I really don't undertand the GP's point, and he is the second one saying that... I just don't understand how a white noise generator helps.)

  17. Re:not sure on Windows 8: More EULA, Fewer Rights. · · Score: 1

    FYI: The Supreme Court exists to INTERPRET LAW, not to create it. So unless there is a law on the books that says that you can't put a clause preventing the signatory party from engaging in Class Action suites in a binding agreement, then how can any Court rule that you can't?

    I dunno. Most countries have something they call a "bill of rights", or "constitution" where they usualy put things like "nobody will be denied access to Justice". I don't know how it is in the US.

  18. Re:If my work inbox is any indication... on What Would a Post-Email World Look Like? · · Score: 1

    Well, borken clients and the phishing not a problem of email. (Are still broken servers out there? Altough http never was much better. I guess we'll have to live with it, whatever protocol we choose.)

    The one real bug of email is spam.

  19. Re:What about laptops? on LG Aims To Beat Apple's Retina Display · · Score: 1

    Even with higher rez screens most change to non native resolutions to increase font/icon size resulting in blur rather than using dpi settings.

    Or, in other words, that too is Microsoft's fault.

  20. Re:They're going to go bust. on RIM May Need To Write Off $1 Billion In Inventory · · Score: 2

    Companies don't go burst while profitable and with sustainable debits only. Before they go burst, one of those must change.

  21. Re:What's With All The RIM Hate? on RIM May Need To Write Off $1 Billion In Inventory · · Score: 1

    What good is a great smarthphone that doesn't run the one app you want?

    While the phones are locked-down as they are now, the main deciding factor will be apps.

  22. Re:What's a "cloud-based world"? on Can Windows 8 Succeed In a Cloud-Based World? · · Score: 2

    Big companies make private clouds for their mission critical server needs.

    Those are called datacenters. Yep, big companies are using them for a long, long time. They also like to keep their private cloud local, to not depend on internet conectivity.

  23. Re:What did the military expect? on Backdoor Found In China-Made US Military Chip? · · Score: 1

    He will, because if he does not sell, somebody else will. He'll lose the client anyway, the only question is who stays with the earnings of the rope.

    Competition and free market. The two things that nearly guarantee the client will get whatever he wants.

  24. Re:Eco-Terrorist not Eco-Anarchist on 'Eco-Anarchists' Targeting Nuclear and Nanotech Workers · · Score: 1

    Well, that's the label they gave themselves.

    There is some discussion up about the (non) meaning of the term "eco-anarchist". The name looks like somebody that would fight the Front of Liberation of Judeia (or anything like that) from Monty Python's Life of Brian. My guess is that it reflects quite well in the integrants of the group.

  25. Re:Fear... on 'Eco-Anarchists' Targeting Nuclear and Nanotech Workers · · Score: 1

    Are you saying that people will fear nanotech less if they learn more about it?

    Maybe we could focus on teaching the futility of that kind of action... But people that do those stuff aren't interested on making practial changes anyway. They normaly are in that just for the ride.

    Ok, we could also teach them about what those labs are actualy doing. Except that a few of them are actually researching in the minefield of nanoassemblers based nanotech.