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  1. Re:Sweet on Red Hat Pledges 'Integrated Virtualization' · · Score: 1

    No, but it means it can't be distributed with Red Hat.

  2. Big surprise on Analysis of .NET Use in Longhorn and Vista · · Score: 1

    .Net was one of the few technologies that I've seen come from Microsoft in recent years where I've actually said, "hey that's pretty slick, good call!"

    So of course they'll let it languish. Anyone heard any status from Parrot?

  3. Re:Sweet on Red Hat Pledges 'Integrated Virtualization' · · Score: 2, Insightful

    What are you even talking about? VMWare? It isn't open source.

  4. Sweet on Red Hat Pledges 'Integrated Virtualization' · · Score: 2, Informative

    No matter what the haters say, Red Hat is one of the main distributions I go to when building a new server (CentOS if no support needed). Things like integrated SELinux, easy to use yum (or rpm apt-get), and now virtualization make it very impressive.

  5. Re:As usual, humanity fancies itself above the fra on The Twists of History and DNA · · Score: 2, Informative

    What the hell are you even talking about? The phrase indicates that all men are equal UNDER THE LAW. In no way does it mean that I'm somehow equal to Linus Torvalds when it comes to kernel programming or any other such nonsense.

  6. Re:My perverse need... on Internet Searches Reveal CIA's Secrets · · Score: 1

    MMMMM New Mexico Green Chile!!!!

  7. Re:Guess I have to change the browser then on Firefox 2 To Have Anti-Phishing Technology · · Score: 1

    Also, a malicious user could easily patch Firefox itself not to route requests through Google. The only reason Google is pushing this is to gather user data. They want to be able to track where people are visiting on the web so they can find new places to spider and to determine whether sites are legitimate or not. Whether you think that is evil is up to you, but it is definately a privacy issue.

  8. Re:YEAH RIGHT! on LAMP Lights the OSS Security Way · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I think it should be obvious this bug scanner only picks up on certain classes of "bugs". If they had an automated way of detecting all types of bugs, they would be rich beyond their wildest dreams. I imagine it picks up certain things like out of bound accesses, mallocs without frees, etc. It would make sense that Amanda would have more types of these operations going on than something like xmms.

  9. Re:Indians have programmed for years. on President Defends Global Outsourcing · · Score: 4, Insightful

    2010's - Indian programmers program for Indian corporations in India
    2020's - Indian programmers program for major Indian corporations in India
    2030's - US programmers program for major Indian corporations in the US

  10. Re:So bad? on Symantec Users, Start Your Keyloggers · · Score: 1

    Because text messages are asyncronous.

  11. Re:slanted reporting? on Google Targeted By Anti-Censorship Movement · · Score: 1

    Which company has a motto of "Do No Evil"? Hint: it isn't Microsoft.

  12. Re:Google company on Google Targeted By Anti-Censorship Movement · · Score: 1

    I know, its such a shame that China forced Google to come sell their products in that country. Oh wait... Google decided that the money was too good for them to maintain their do no evil.

  13. Re:Sleepycat responds on Oracle Acquires Sleepycat · · Score: 1

    Slashdot ID is hardly indicative of "l33tness".

  14. Re:Oh my! on George Takei To Play Star Trek's Sulu Again · · Score: 1

    Monster rain?

  15. Re:What's the deal with Firefly? on Slashback: GPLv3, Firefly, iTunes · · Score: 3, Interesting

    It's a show that grows on you over time. I found the concept and the first episode pretty lame. Then I kept watching and fell in love with all the characters. I think this is probably why it had such a hard time picking up viewers. If you just randomly tuned in and saw one episode, it wouldn't be very interesting.

  16. Who cares on On the Matter of Slashdot Story Selection · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I'm finding digg.com is more relevant to me anyway. Slashdot is old and tired, I've been here since Chips & Dips and I'm just not excited about Slashdot anymore. Too bad selling userids is frowned on.

  17. Re:It's not hard to write bugless code... on When Bugs Aren't Allowed · · Score: 1

    Or just have a UID 1000.

  18. Re:Here's a thought.. on National Archives' Digital Woes · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Here's a thought, stfu.

  19. Re:Pff.. on Testing Drugs on India's Poor · · Score: 1

    Thats not an arm!

  20. Re:Thank god for LFS. on Apache 2.2.0 Released · · Score: 1

    Why would someone be an idiot for wanting to transfer over 2GB over http? It's actually a fairly efficient protocol. I'm quite baffled why you would say this, and I've actually written a web server. Care to explain more?

  21. How are you supposed to develop for Windows on Microsoft Launches Anti-Virus Public Beta · · Score: 2, Interesting

    It seems any profitable application that gets developed on the Windows platform gets noticed by Microsoft and they immediately start buying up companies, releasing a free version, or making their own. They are trying to take out Adobe (Photoshop, PDF), Antivirus (McAffee, Norton, etc), they already killed Netscape, Office Suites, E-mail clients, and they are working on killing SQL servers.

    Why does anyone think it is a good idea to partner with Microsoft again?

  22. Re:Curbing malware and cyberthreats on Cybercrime More Lucrative Than Drugs · · Score: 5, Funny

    I agree completely. I've noticed a similar problem on Slashdot which your solution seems to solve nicely. I recommend we limit posting access to all users who have a greater than 3 digit ID. Maybe raising the barrier of entry will prevent me from having to read half cocked ideas like limiting access to compilers.

  23. Re:Gravity doesn't stop odors on To Flush Or Not To Flush · · Score: 1

    Interesting, you'd think they would be able to use salt water for this task.

  24. Re:Naval Gazing? on The Rise of Digg.com · · Score: 4, Funny

    Big deal.

  25. Re:um... DOH! on Google Launches Web Traffic Analysis Service · · Score: 1

    If you were paying attention, I said all of these services were opt in except for this one. If a website chooses to use this service, I get tracked by Google without my consent. Yes, *I* know how to block this, I assure you I can surf completely anonymously, that's not my issue. My issue is the millions of people who have no idea how to do this and de facto have no choice in this matter.