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  1. Re:Good luck with this. on Lawmaker Reintroduces WikiLeaks Prosecution Bill · · Score: 1

    So... It would be unlawful for a foreign citizen, to publish information in a foreign country, using foreign resources. Basically a US crime, but not committed on US territory. Good luck with that.

    US was lucky at least once. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aafia_Siddiqui

    And this does not include Gitmo.

  2. Re:Outlook on Compared and Contrasted: OpenOffice V. LibreOffice · · Score: 1

    One can use Evolution as a substitute for Outlook.

    If Evolution does not improve their mailbox performance, forget about substituting Outlook or any other email program with it.

  3. Not a handset on Dual-core Smartphone Runs Android and Ubuntu · · Score: 2

    If presenter is not dwarf, then that thing is tablet pc and not a smartphone.

  4. Re:Browser vs OS on Firefox 5 To Integrate Tab Web Apps · · Score: 5, Funny

    Please, stop adding features to the browser what makes it more and more like a OS

    We already have emacs for that.

  5. Re:serious for a moment on On Retirement, Israeli General Takes Credit for Stuxnet Attacks · · Score: 1

    bombings of Iraqi and Syrian reactors

    Last time I've checked Syrians themselves said that it was not a nuclear reactor.

  6. Re:get the fact on London Stock Exchange Finishes Switch To Linux · · Score: 1

    If Microsoft cant make .net / MSSQL work and design it right, who can?

    There is one person, but God does not code in C#. She prefers Assembler.

  7. Re:We don't use sudo? on Common Traits of the Veteran Unix Admin · · Score: 1

    Sudo logs commands that were run, by whom, and when.

    if you must execute more than one command, you do 'sudo su -' and your sudo logger goes puff.

  8. Re:HP Wireless Assistant isn't exactly useless on Recent HP Laptops Shipped CPU-Choking Wi-Fi Driver · · Score: 1

    Device manager allows you to disable devices, but that would require administrator privileges, whereas the HP Wireless Assistant allows any user to do that.

    So that assistant is not just bloatware. It also runs with admin privileges.

  9. Re:Yuo sunk mah battleship on Sony Marketing Man Tweets PS3 Master Key · · Score: 1

    :) interesting. I think sunken battleship is USS Arizona. Maybe someone should tell those nerds that WW2 is over, Sony is Japanese and correct photo should show Yamato, Shinano or Yamashiro/Fuso.

  10. Re:What does this say... on Wikileaks' Assange Begins Extradition Battle · · Score: 1

    I think this line alone is a commentary on both the hyperbole used by his lawyers and the sad state of the US reputation in Europe.

    Lets see. Woman who is hiding from US authorities somehow attacks US soldier in Bagram air base, Afghanistan. Then she gets 84 years sentence in US court. Maybe you have good explanation how Pakistani woman ended up in Bagram. Maybe she should go to some mental hospital instead of a prison. I don't think that any sane person can try hiding inside enemy base.

  11. Re:Wow on Bill Gates Says Anti-Vaccine Effort Kills Children · · Score: 1

    Even if it were true (vaccines cause autism), as Penn & Teller wisely argued: Vaccines SAVE more lives than they kill/damage.

    Tell that to others when vaccination kills your child.

    Rephrasing some person. Millions saved by vaccination is statistics. One child killed by vaccination is a tragedy.

  12. Re:Password in plaintext email on PlentyofFish Hacked, Founder Emails Hacker's Mom · · Score: 2

    Sending a password in plaintext is bad, but not uncommon.

    If site can email you your password, it is not just bad. It is sign of fscked up security. The only way of knowing your password is to store it in plain text or in some automatically decypherable form. If site sends you your passwords, you should ask them why password hashes are not used.

  13. Re:OpenChange and SOGo - Truly free/freedom Exchan on Open-source Challenge To Exchange Gains Steam · · Score: 1

    SOGo is a reliable groupware server with a focus on scalability and open standards.

    Tried to build some sogo version and was getting output to console instead of logs. I've said how I was building packages and developer said that I was applying wrong patch set. My problem - my build command does not set which patchset is used. Had to rebuild n times until I noticed that build process uses wrong patch. Somebody updated main patch, but kept old patch version in package build scripts. Quick look at software repo - holy moly that's the same person who kept telling me that I am doing it incorrectly. Reported outdated patch as a bug - response by same shmuck = not a bug. COTS support practices in their best.

    Reported security issue in webmail. They kept it unfixed until I reminded about it. When they fixed it, somebody forgot to inform bugtraq about the problem. Security fix is only "fixed something" entry in changelog.

    Created translation and submitted it. It took 10 months to get some response. Response asked to update translation, which was never included in sogo.

    Asked to fix incorrect display of some character sets in webmail. They "fixed" it. Now webmail does not display any text in those charsets. I say that I can reproduce it in all my Debian Lenny setups. They say that they can't reproduce it and blame iconv although code in question does not call iconv directly.

    Thunderbird integration consist of three plugins with hardcoded groupware server address. Those plugins fsckup with Thunderbird user preferences. User sets some pref - restart program and default preference is back. User turns off display of invites - restart program and invites are back. Plugins are incompatible with other plugins I use. Reported compatibility bug with other plugin. reply and fix from other plugin developer - less than 1 week. Reply and fix from sogo - waiting for more than a year. It took n months to finally get plugins for Thunderbird 3. I had to choose between Thunderbird2+groupware+broken message forwarding and Thunderbird3+no groupware+working message forwarding. Guess which part is more important. forwarding that does not lose text or test version of groupware.

    Recheck what "reliable" means.

  14. Re:This is unacceptable on Egypt Shuts Off All Internet Access · · Score: 1

    It wasn't the West that abolished the Caliphate, it was the Turkish government that did that. Other initiatives included insisting on western apparel for everyone and even developing a Turkish alphabet based on Latin characters instead of using Arabic characters.

    Does it include capitalization rules that differ from standard English capitalization in some very interesting way? I guess I was right suspecting that this programmer's i18n nightmare started in 192x.

  15. Re:Fear sells weapons on Chinese Stealth Fighter Jet May Use US Technology · · Score: 1

    its not remotely clear that this Chinese jet reaches or will reach that level of performance.

    Works both ways. it is also unclear whether F-22 price tag matches its combat performance and people who say that F-22 is the best have vested interest in this fighter.

  16. Re:Stumbleupon on Mozilla Flips Kill-Switch On Skype Toolbar · · Score: 1

    So, do you have some kind of proof that Stumbleupon is spyware? Or is it just "everyone knows it"?

    Lets see.
    Custom bookmark service run by third party without clear data privacy controls. Check
    Negative comments and evaluations deleted from application page. Check
    Ring home feature, which if I remember correctly prevented use of browser on some machine. Check.
    Yes, it is a spyware or crapware from facebook and similar category.

  17. ramifications? on Mozilla Flips Kill-Switch On Skype Toolbar · · Score: 1

    this has ramifications for millions of users.

    Maybe my English is not that good, but disabling skype toolbar is not ramification. It is a relief.

  18. Re:Stumbleupon on Mozilla Flips Kill-Switch On Skype Toolbar · · Score: 1

    The Stumpleupon toolbar is quite cool. And there's the Webdeveloper's toolbar as well.

    Interesting choice. Advertising spyware and making it look legit by putting other plugin name in advert.

  19. Re:Thanks google on No More Version Numbers For HTML · · Score: 2

    Meh. Google's betas beat the hell out many others' released software in terms of stability and reliability. Chrome is certainly more stable the Firefox and IE, beta or no.

    Standard is not software. It must be reviewed, have fixed have version number and documentation. You can't extend standard eternally and have new standard version every month.

    Do you really think that software which silently puts three different entries in system task scheduler for update can be called stable. I would call such piece of shit a spyware. It acts like a spyware. Or Picasa faces feature which remains in listing even when it is turned off.

  20. Thanks google on No More Version Numbers For HTML · · Score: 5, Funny

    Now we'll have beta quality software and beta quality standards. Another engineer brainwashed.

  21. Re:Hit them back on Wikileaks To Name Swiss Bank Tax Evaders · · Score: 1

    Then you should reference those Australian laws.

    I am not lawyer or Aussie. Normal civilized countries should have laws against racketeering. Either Australia has one or they harbor criminals :)

    Even if wikileaks are doing good thing, they are balancing really close to extortion and racketeering.

  22. Re:Repeating history on GE Venture Will Share Jet Technology With China · · Score: 1

    engines are a little more efficient and quieter, but not by orders of magnitude,

    Change difference is enough to keep older TU-154 planes outside of EU. Older military planes don't have a chance of surviving fights vs 4th or 5th gen fighters.

  23. Re:Duh on Bill Gates Is More Admired Than the Pope · · Score: 1

    How many Windows users are there?

    Windows users never got the chance to vote. Their votes were dismissed as biased or ballots were invalidated after somebody put different f words on Bill's option.

  24. Re:Hit them back on Wikileaks To Name Swiss Bank Tax Evaders · · Score: 1

    But the fact that he isn't from the US or one the US at the time of such actions does make him untouchable by US laws. Or at least, it should.

    If you learn what Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act is, you will know that other countries have similar laws too. US laws don't apply to him, but Australian laws do.

  25. Re:Yes, as I've said many times.... on Why Linux Loses Out On Hardware Acceleration In Firefox · · Score: 1

    That's why it's stupid to use the argument that OpenGL is better than D3D because it's cross-platform. It's only cross-platform insofar as there is actually an implementation on Linux.

    Are you sure that it is not stupid to think that SGI IRIX or MacOSX is Linux?