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  1. Re:but they will waste no time on NetFlix Caught Stealing DivX Subtitles From Finnish Pirates · · Score: 4, Informative

    As far as I can see divxfinland uses the CC-NC-SA 3.0 license. This is does not allow commercial usage.

  2. Re:May I point out... on From a NAND Gate To Tetris · · Score: 1

    The point of nand2tetris is that you can understand all parts of the system. With circuits.io you can't even see the source code let alone have time to read through all of it. Last time I checked they did not let you to export your designs either (gerber export does not count, it's not something you'd want to modify).

  3. Re: FSF distro on Stallman On Unity Dash: Canonical Will Have To Give Users' Data To Governments · · Score: 1

    Afaik it also adds stuff that Debian considers non-free (GFDL docs with invariant sections).

  4. The Way Things Work and Sophie's World on Ask Slashdot: What Books Have Had a Significant Impact On Your Life? · · Score: 1

    The Way Things Work, David Macaulay.
    Sophie's World, Jostein Gaarder.

  5. Re:Not enough price difference between AMD and Int on Intel CPU Prices Stagnate As AMD Sales Decline · · Score: 2

    Interestingly a recent serious virtual machine security vulnerability affected Intel but did not affect AMD:

    https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/qubes-devel/JIpZoQUP6dQ/g6TvtpUHzBQJ

  6. Re:True open sores experience on Malicious PhpMyAdmin Served From SourceForge Mirror · · Score: 1

    I'm well aware that technology but I don't see how it is relevant here. I doubt you can convince the phpmyadmin developers to require the use of apt for downloading new releases of their software.

  7. Re:True open sores experience on Malicious PhpMyAdmin Served From SourceForge Mirror · · Score: 4, Informative

    How would you know which md5 hash was correct? They are listed in http://www.phpmyadmin.net/home_page/downloads.php which is also hosted by sourceforge.

  8. Re:ssh X11Forwarding even in Cygwin on X11 Window System Turns 25 Years Old · · Score: 1

    X11 forwarding is not very nice since the remote server can fully control your client machine in many cases (e.g. in Debian/Ubuntu "ForwardX11Trusted" defaults to true). I prefer xpra instead.

  9. Re:Seriously? on WhatsApp Is Using IMEI Numbers As Passwords · · Score: 1

    I have never used whatsapp but I was still fully aware that they use IMEI as a password. This was no secret.

  10. Re:Not a new concept on Xen-Based Secure OS Qubes Hits 1.0 · · Score: 1

    Do these really work for desktop use? The links that you provided don't seem to mention graphics, sound or clipboard handling. Perhaps you have some more information that I didn't find when I quickly browsed those?

  11. Re:New OS or glorified shell script ? on Xen-Based Secure OS Qubes Hits 1.0 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The way Qubes shares composition buffers of X applications over xen shared memory is much nicer than VNC. It is rootless unlike VNC and there is no extra copying of data over a socket so you get nice performance. They also do sound so you can actually watch youtube in a web browser that runs in a disposable VM.

  12. Re:I Use Words Good on Xen-Based Secure OS Qubes Hits 1.0 · · Score: 3, Informative

    That bug was found by Rafal Wojtczuk who is also an author of Qubes: https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!topic/qubes-devel/JIpZoQUP6dQ

  13. Re:Arrrrrg on Java Exploit Patched? Not So Fast · · Score: 1

    Since you allow Java to talk to your X server it is trivial to break out of that sandbox. It can just simulate a few key presses to open a terminal and then inject whatever commands it wants. Or am I missing something here?

  14. Re:Why are people still using this? on Polish Researcher: Oracle Knew For Months About Java Zero-Day · · Score: 1

    JOSM (Java OpenStreetMap editor) is not too bad Java application either. It is constantly improved to meet the demands on the mappers but still manages to stay fairly stable.

  15. Re:Oracle doesn't care about developer people on Is MySQL Slowly Turning Closed Source? · · Score: 3, Interesting

    MySQL documentation was not open source when Sun was in charge either so doing the same with testcases is not very surprising (debian bug 335219).

  16. Re:too bad GCC is not relevant anymore thanks to L on GCC Switches From C to C++ · · Score: 1

    LLVM and clang are library oriented. An IDE can reason a lot about the code using the API, much more than it could ever do if it just fork()'d and exec()'d "gcc" and parsed its warnings and error messages.

  17. Re:What is the difference to the end user? on Nokia Spinning Featurephones as Smartphones · · Score: 1

    To me a feature phone runs the phone stack and user applications on the same chip. A smart phone has a separate CPU for running user applications.

  18. Re:not privacy, data protection on How Apple and Amazon Security Flaws Led To Mat Honan's Identity Theft · · Score: 1

    Hmm, isn't DES actually quite strong? It resisted both differential and linear cryptanalysis. The key size is not enough today but it certainly was in 1977.

  19. Re:"Hacktivists" on Anonymous Dumps Australian Telco Data Online · · Score: 1

    Yeah I guess the term is not clearly defined. I'm mostly familiar with Gandhi's definition where the whole idea is to not resist arrests.

  20. Re:"Hacktivists" on Anonymous Dumps Australian Telco Data Online · · Score: 1

    Civil Disobedience means that you break some law openly and are prepared to take the consequences. I understood that people behind this data leak have not even told their names.

  21. Re:This will never catch on if... on Asus Delivers Speed Boost With USB Attached SCSI Protocol · · Score: 3, Informative

    You can only use six non-modifier keys at the same time. This is a problem for playing older multiplayer games. See appendix B.1 of the USB HID 1.1 specification.

  22. Re:No need on Sale of IPv4 Addresses Hindering IPv6 Adoption · · Score: 1

    You probably already have a link-level ipv6 address. If your ADSL modem is in bridged mode you have probably already exposed some services to your ISP :)

  23. Re:wayland is a bad choice on Ubuntu Still Aims For Wayland in Quantal Quetzal · · Score: 1

    I think you are talking about winswitch now. I don't think xpra has VNC support.

  24. Re:Why fork? on Debian Derivative Optimized for the Raspbery Pi Released · · Score: 2

    Yes, http://archive.raspbian.org/raspbian/pool/main/g/gcc-4.7/gcc-4.7_4.7.1-2%2Brpi1.diff.gz shows that they modified the gcc-4.7 package to generate code for ARMv6:

    +gcc-4.7 (4.7.1-2+rpi1) wheezy; urgency=low
    +
    + * Set defaults for raspbian (ARMv6+VFP)
    + * Disable testsuite
    +
    + -- Peter Michael Green Sun, 01 Jul 2012 13:20:21 +0000

  25. Re:Why fork? on Debian Derivative Optimized for the Raspbery Pi Released · · Score: 3, Informative

    You can use official debian armel. It'll just be bit slower.