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  1. Re:That's also not the default home screen on More Photoshopped Evidence In Apple v. Samsung · · Score: 3, Informative

    That's an approved Samsung screenshot.

    Apple should sue T-Mobile. It is not approved Samsung screenshot. It is approved screenshot of hardware sold by T-Mobile.

  2. Re:did anyone read the article? on Yahoo, Facebook Test "Six Degrees of Separation" · · Score: 1

    Anyone with a Facebook account

    So it is closer to 7 steps and more as some don't have facebook account. Even if I go complete mad and get FB account, only one person might link to me.
    Facebook friends are not real friends.

  3. He is a superb driver on Driver Using Two Cell Phones Gets Year-Long Driving Ban · · Score: 1

    Inspector Grim called :).
    He wants to arrest the bastard who dinged his car.

  4. Re:this is a hack? on Installing Linux On a 386 Laptop · · Score: 1

    I'd say this qualifies as a rather sweet hack.

    Nope. He is running old os on old hardware. Guess what people were doing with Debian 1.3.1 or Slackware 2.0 when 386SX was not old hardware.

  5. Re:Where? on 8 Grams of Thorium Could Replace Gasoline In Cars · · Score: 1

    Where does the shark go?

    Sharks are on the list of endangered species. It takes more than 8 grams of thorium to clear the red tape. You can get sea bass. Mutated and radioactive sea bass.

  6. Re:LInux kills the Linux Desktop on Old Arguments May Cost Linux the Desktop · · Score: 1

    so now its a half hour later and I am digging around in a fucking ubuntu forum

    You lost computer literacy test in less than five minutes.

    http://www.google.com/search?q=ubuntu+java+plugin

  7. what happens when Google Docs gets truly robust on Old Arguments May Cost Linux the Desktop · · Score: 1

    what happens when Google Docs gets truly robust enough for business and high-end document production

    Record low temperatures will be reported in hell.

    Do you really think that serious business can entrust its data to some online application. Security, privacy concerns and customer record handling laws won't let them do that. In some places even translate.google.com is not trusted.

  8. Re:NASA hates successful designs on Mars Rover Opportunity Set To Roll Into Its Ultimate Crater · · Score: 1

    Otherwise, they'd keep building them.

    And don't advance any further. How many times you do same stuff without getting bored.

    They don't need 1000 rovers and 1000 pieces of space junk on Mars. Goal was to put two pieces of scientific equipment on Mars, make sure that it survives for 90 days and get some research data from there.

    What happened to the good old scientific practice of repeating your measurements and assuring your hypothesis?

    Budget cuts

  9. Re:Drones? on Army Gives Robo Jeeps a Go · · Score: 1

    With the added benefit of any IEDs in the road probably explode when the first or second humvee goes past

    Attack targets first and last vehicle in the column. When they are knocked out, others have nowhere to go. You don't have to RTFA, but you do need to learn basic tactics of RPG warfare.

  10. Re:Can it altogether. on Ask Slashdot: Does SSL Validation Matter? · · Score: 1

    As someone else already pointed out, browsers by default do not even warn you if a site's cert is invalid.

    And you believed it. Check first. Browsers do warn, if site certificates are invalid. Invalid as in "not signed by trusted authority" or "expired".

  11. Re:I would think the answer is obvious... on China's 5-Year Cyberwar Met With Western Silence · · Score: 1

    Because, financially, China has the West (especially the US) by the balls

    Works both ways. US has China by the balls too. If dollar has zero value, then Chinese have lots of zeros.

  12. Re:Why the Hatred for Mono? on Xamarin's First Mono Release - Proof of Life! · · Score: 1

    Mostly because the site has been taken over by mindless Microsoft haters

    They are not mindless. They made an educated decision based on their experience with Microsoft and other commercial software vendors.

  13. Re:Halting Problem on Escaping Infinite Loops · · Score: 1

    Tell me, does the following program halt:

    very long int h = 1;
    while(h)
    h = hash(h);

    It does not matter. Your code has potential infinite loop without any safety checks. It should be fixed or it should not be written than way in the first place.

  14. customers don't care about the underlying platform on Microsoft Dilutes Open Source, Coins 'Open Surface' · · Score: 1

    customers don't care about the underlying platform as long as the APIs, protocols and standards for the cloud are open.

    customers don't care about the underlying platform as long as stuff works. Problem with Microsoft is that their stuff does not work and their users don't have any option for fixing it.

    And this open shit coming from MS which has history of closed APIs, protocols and standards.

  15. Re:Score one for someone. on Iran Forced To Replace Centrifuges To Stop Stuxnet · · Score: 1

    I'd consider it a safe bet that they could've screwed up the cleanup, especially since they also tend to go cheap compared to other militaries (Look at rifles for a basic example here)

    I think they have the biggest army in Middle East. They learned not to trust others and make sure that they can produce arms themselves. G3 and MG3 are not cheap. AK and Chinese copies might be cheap, but when you have bigger army to supply with arms, you go with Soviet method and use mass produced AKs instead of accurate M-16s.

  16. Does it like that? on Oracle Ordered To Lower Damages Claim On Google · · Score: 1
  17. Re:File Conflict on GNOME and KDE Devs Wrangle Over 'System Settings' Name · · Score: 1

    A postfix would be a good option, users want to see one name, one thing to learn. Just call it Control-Panel-[Win,KDE,Gnome]

    Wrong word order. If you want to say "it is red", you don't say "is it red"

  18. Re:is this true? I'm not sure it is on Advertising Network Caught History Stealing · · Score: 1

    good point. my work pc has firefox set to clear cookies and history at shutdown. so, my do not track request can't be respected after a reboot?

    They are not tracking you regardless of your do-not-track request. You setup destroys their tracking info upon reboot.

  19. Re:is this true? I'm not sure it is on Advertising Network Caught History Stealing · · Score: 1

    am I missing something here?

    Web users are anonymous. You can't identify them, if you don't store something unique on their machine.

  20. Re:OpenBSD Rock Solid OS without fluf. on OpenBSD Marches Toward 5.0 Release · · Score: 1

    They still write great code and documentation.

    setlocale manual says that return value for not supported locales is false and that anything outside of LC_CTYPE is not supported. Why the .... function returns garbage string?

  21. Re:After the credits... on Linux Receives 20th Birthday Video From Microsoft · · Score: 1

    You missed the ending, where the cake explodes, destroying the igloo and penguin.

    Penguin was already dead before explosion. Polonium poisoning.

  22. Re:OpenBSD Rock Solid OS without fluf. on OpenBSD Marches Toward 5.0 Release · · Score: 1

    The other poster already pointed out that it's got documentation. The OpenBSD team will actually back out commits that don't come with updates to the relevant man pages.

    Oh really. check setlocale return values, BSD manuals and supported locales.

  23. Re:Fair Enough on Linux 3.0 Release Delayed · · Score: 1

    Commercials don't keep their software repository open to public. If you fsckup in OSS world, everyone can prove it. If shit happens in com world, they have PR department for that.

  24. Re:Prior Art? on Company Claims Ownership of Digital Messaging · · Score: 1

    I'm not saying the patent is valid or not. I'm just saying don't read the abstract.

    They have same shit in patent details. email application (prio art), search engine (prio art) and data transfer protocol (proprietary) stitched together. With some hints that it is P2P based with central server (prio art, Napster, year 1999) and can do multicasting (rfc1324, year 1992).

  25. Barbara called on Facebook Bans Google+ Ads · · Score: 1

    Barbara called. She wants her ad back.