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  1. Re:Vista/7 on Windows 9 Already? Apparently, Yes. · · Score: 1

    Even if "XP 2", invoking a recently-dead product, made sense-- I happen to know that name will encounter a trademark issue with another piece of software.

  2. Re:9.1 on Windows 9 Already? Apparently, Yes. · · Score: 5, Funny

    The Star Trek movie pattern broke with Nemesis.

    I: crap
    II: great
    III: crap
    IV: great
    V: crap
    VI: great
    Generations: crap
    First Contact: great
    Insurrection: crap
    Nemesis: also crap
    Star Trek das reboot: crap with lens flare
    Star Trek Into Crappiness: The Wrath of Crap

  3. Re:If you're concerned... on Largest Bitcoin Mining Pool Pledges Not To Execute '51% Attack' · · Score: 1

    But... but... the GOVERNMENT is doing it, so it's OK! You must be one of those Faux News right wing teabaggers!

  4. Re:I'm probably going to regret this post on Largest Bitcoin Mining Pool Pledges Not To Execute '51% Attack' · · Score: 1

    Great insight. There are no shortage of power-hungry politicians who will look at a monopoly or similar situation as an "emergency" and convince the people to give the government permanent power to "solve" a temporary problem.

  5. Re:I'm probably going to regret this post on Largest Bitcoin Mining Pool Pledges Not To Execute '51% Attack' · · Score: 1

    Great insight. There are no shortage of power-hungry politicians who will look at a monopoly or similar situation as an "emergency" and convince the people to give the government permanent power to "solve" a temporary problem.

  6. Re:If you're concerned... on Largest Bitcoin Mining Pool Pledges Not To Execute '51% Attack' · · Score: 1, Funny

    But... but... the GOVERNMENT is doing it, so it's OK! You must be one of those Faux News right wing teabaggers!

  7. Philip J. Fry on 4K Is For Programmers · · Score: 5, Funny

    SHUT UP and take my money!

  8. Re:Efficiency. on Who Is Liable When a Self-Driving Car Crashes? · · Score: 1

    I would still borrow it, but you wouldn't want it back after I was done with it.

  9. Re:Upper management gets special treatment on Senior Managers Are the Worst Information Security Offenders · · Score: 1

    It's kind of like admitting you're less intelligent than the employees. Not what I'd care to do.

  10. Re:Epic facepalm moments on Senior Managers Are the Worst Information Security Offenders · · Score: 1

    Let me guess: Lotus Notes? I can't think of any other program that wouldn't make it obvious that the previous email was being quoted.

  11. Re:Maybe on Senior Managers Are the Worst Information Security Offenders · · Score: 1

    So you assume that senior managers do no work?

  12. Re: Momentum on Security Expert: Yahoo's Email Encryption Needs Work · · Score: 1

    I'm going to guess they use the Open File dialog.

  13. Re:Also, on Are New Technologies Undermining the Laws of War? · · Score: 1

    U.S.-based oil companies were specifically mentioned.

  14. Re:Many eyes... on 23-Year-Old X11 Server Security Vulnerability Discovered · · Score: 2

    Your reference to a "PDC" and the conspicuous lack of a reference to Active Directory or the SAM (used on standalone servers) tells me your knowledge is a bit out of date... which would explain why your statement is incorrect. Privilege escalations are taken as seriously on Windows as on other modern operating systems. And the SAM has not been particularly vulnerable since encryption (NT 4.0), and the ability to remove LM hashes (present since NT 3.1, default in Vista and 2008) were added. We're not L0PHTcrackin' like it's 1999 anymore.

  15. Re:Many eyes... on 23-Year-Old X11 Server Security Vulnerability Discovered · · Score: 1

    Everyone on Slashdot?

  16. Re:Hero's all on Mystery of FBI Documents Posted To US Press In 1971 Solved · · Score: 1

    Matthew 22 containing the proof text.

  17. Re:Paging Cold Fjord on Mystery of FBI Documents Posted To US Press In 1971 Solved · · Score: 0

    Bill Ayers and Bernadine Dorhn are FBI plants?

  18. Re:Off Topic, Despite Prolegomena on The Quiet Fury of Former Secretary of Defense Robert Gates · · Score: 1

    Damnit, TVTroped again!

  19. Re: I really have a hard time on The Quiet Fury of Former Secretary of Defense Robert Gates · · Score: 1

    No, what's wrong is not being for human rights-- which he still isn't. You get the incorrect notion that he is for liberty when he makes a political decision to back a certain group-- very incorrect.

  20. Re:I really have a hard time on The Quiet Fury of Former Secretary of Defense Robert Gates · · Score: 1

    Is it really so damning the Obama didn't consider Afganistan "his war"

    Yes. Maybe he should have considered the recession not "his economy", and done nothing. Actually, that may have been a good idea.

  21. Re:in other words... on The Quiet Fury of Former Secretary of Defense Robert Gates · · Score: 1

    The Germans had a worse Commander in Chief than the Allied countries.

  22. Re:Fuel efficiency is nice, but... on Australian Team Working On Engines Without Piston Rings · · Score: 1

    I'm pretty sure the Firebird Trans Am Super Duty 455 (full name provided for humor) was last available in 1974. Unless you meant the Special Edition*, which was a 6.6 liter engine, not 7.3. Of course, 455 cu is not 7.3 L either-- it's 7.5. I'll shut up now.

    * Buy in black, with the hood bird and CB radio for full "Smokey and the Bandit" experience.

  23. Re:Also, on Are New Technologies Undermining the Laws of War? · · Score: 1

    You do know that Afghanistan has no significant oil resources, right? Or are you referring to the pipeline?

  24. Re:Ha. on Are New Technologies Undermining the Laws of War? · · Score: 1

    OoRAH!

  25. Re:Also, on Are New Technologies Undermining the Laws of War? · · Score: 1

    OK-- so if one side isn't "justified", then war isn't justified? Of course history will deem at least once side in a war as "wrong"-- usually the losing side. Just admit you're a pacifist, and move on.