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  1. Re:award-winning KDE desktop environment... on Slackware 13.1 Released · · Score: 3, Funny

    Can someone enlighten me as to what awards KDE has won since it started with version 4?

    Nominated for Darwin award. "How to f*** up things" category.

  2. Re:After a half dozen distros on Slackware 13.1 Released · · Score: 1

    But give a man Slackware, and he'll learn Linux.

    He will learn Linux (and other Unixes), but he will use other Linux distro later. In my case I started with Slackware and ended up with Debian.

  3. Re:a self-copying worm code on Facebook Bug Lets Hackers Delete Friends · · Score: 2, Insightful

    lot of XSS flaws are browser specific and if there is a general browser exploit going on, this could affect more websites than facebook

    It is not XSS, but CSRF. Cross-site request forgery. Such exploits are designed to exploid the way site processes user inputs. If site uses custom forms or request fields, exploit will work only on this site and in most of the cases it is not specific to some browser.

  4. Re:Remember not to use Java.... on Would You Die To Respect a Software License? · · Score: 1

    You don't think Windows for the Navy actually runs the mission critical systems like the reactor do you?

    But runs something that can leave ship dead in the water. I think original poster was referring to USS Yorktown (CG-48) incident.

  5. Re:Bloated over time? on Firefox Is Lagging Behind, Its Co-Founder Says · · Score: 1

    It is independent of all plugins and add-ons because it happens in a bare browser.
    ...
    It makes video unwatchable

    Did I miss the part where you need plugin to watch video in firefox?

  6. Re:Bill Gates on Microsoft Sues Salesforce.com Over Patents · · Score: 4, Insightful

    As such, they're not using this as a revenue model.

    They are using it to suppress competitor. It is still about revenue.

  7. Re:Oh i get it. on Germany Demands Google Forfeit Citizens' Wi-Fi Data · · Score: 1

    You consider someone with a laptop spying on you? Any laptop w/ wireless can see this information, it is being broadcast to a public space.

    If that someone records what I am broadcasting on his laptop, then yes. If google haven't violated privacy, then German government can't request data that Google doesn't have.

  8. Re:Oh i get it. on Germany Demands Google Forfeit Citizens' Wi-Fi Data · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Google collected broadcast data by accident, but as yet has not violated my privacy.

    It violated your privacy. If we follow your line of though, then spies don't violate your privacy. Privacy is violated only by those who get your information from spies. Spies themselves have nothing to do with it. ... Right

  9. Re:Don't worry on EFF Says Forget Cookies, Your Browser Has Fingerprints · · Score: 1

    Check the panopticlick page

    Their stats may be botched. One in 4.7 browsers don't support javascript. Come on. More than 20%. Do they count all bot visits?

  10. Re:Microsoft is overjoyed on Seagate Confirms 3TB Hard Drive · · Score: 1

    that capability, much like RAM greater than 4GB, is arbitrarily restricted by license to XP 64-bit

    Insightful? WTF. Memory limit is not in license, but in 32-bit architecture.

  11. Re:Ignorance of the Masses on Wikimedia Confusion Swirls In Wake of Porn Charges · · Score: 2, Insightful

    "Though he remains the president of the Wikimedia Foundation, Wales is no longer able to delete files, remove administrators, assign projects or edit any content, sources say. Essentially, they say, he has gone from having free reign over the content and people involved in the websites to having the same capabilities of a low-level administrator."

    If something belongs to somebody, they always have more privileges than low-level wikipedia admin. Do you really think that he can't restore his super privileges, if he really wants too?

  12. Re:UPS's on Car Hits Utility Pole, Takes Out EC2 Datacenter · · Score: 1

    Strips of steel with holes in them? You're kidding, right?

    Nope.

  13. Not a problem on US Air Force To Suffer From PS3 Update · · Score: 1

    I think they are the only Sony's clients with tactical nuclear weapons.

  14. Re:Lost sales? on BSA Says Software Theft Exceeded $51B In 2009 · · Score: 1

    Specifically, I'm referring to things like college kids downloading the full version of Photoshop. There's no way those kids are shelling out $500 (or whatever it is) for a full Photoshop license. If they steal it, they just wouldn't have it at all.

    Photoshop CS5 extended costs only 200 USD for college kids. http://www.adobe.com/go/buyphotoshop_edu

    In most of the cases they should be fine with any other graphical editor without CMYK support. If college kids care about CMYK support, they are no longer college kids.

  15. Re:BSA Says Software Theft Exceeded $51B - Meanwhi on BSA Says Software Theft Exceeded $51B In 2009 · · Score: 1

    Your MS Office prices are also equally as skewed, as it starts at $119 for MS Office (Home and Student) and $235 for Business. All full retail copies.

    Tell that to microsoft. http://emea.microsoftstore.com/europe/en-US/Microsoft/Office-Standard-2007-Full-(English), http://store.microsoft.com/microsoft/office/category/202

    Minimal business version (Office Standard) is 485.30 EUR or 400 USD.

    Original post said Retail and not OEM. OEM prices you get when you buy things together with hardware.

  16. Re:Other uses for this technology on Lidar Finds Overgrown Maya Pyramids · · Score: 1

    I think you are off by a few orders of magnitude.

    Mayan. Not Egyptian. Maybe I've confused bigger pyramids with platform mounds. I imagined Mayan pyramid as artificial hill and not as http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Chichen-Itza_El_Castillo.jpg

    Did not read TFA, but that lidar should be set to look for surface anomalies. Maybe for hills with solid stone objects on top or for hills with four rounded corners.

  17. Re:Other uses for this technology on Lidar Finds Overgrown Maya Pyramids · · Score: 1, Informative

    Seems like it might be useful for finding downed aircrafts and other missing objects....maybe even people?

    You could also try finding out microbes with magnifying glass. Mayan pyramids are 10 times bigger than normal humans. downed aircraft looks like lots of garbage scattered in large area.

  18. Re:From the same guys... on Oil Leak Could Be Stopped With a Nuke · · Score: 1

    They didn't have firepower or mechanized armor that could match what the Germans had. But they did have many, many people.

    One KV-2 blocked panzer division for one day near Raseiniai. Five KV-1s stopped 22 panzers near Krasnogvardeysk. Germans had to fight KVs with flak guns and most of KVs stopped only due to lack of shells, fuel or mechanical breakdowns. T-34 and Russian field guns were better than the ones Germans had in 1941.

    Russians did have fire power, but they decided to use massive unqualified military force against German professional military. Russians did not have highly trained military force after 1935-1938 purges.

    Both nations that tried to use superior and oversized firepower (yamato, king tigers, mouse tank) lost in WW2 against mass and numbers.

  19. Re:Menu Bar..? on Mozilla Reveals Firefox 4 Plans · · Score: 1

    on small screen devices

    If you do use firefox, how big is your monitor? small screen devices can use Fennec or other browser specifically designed for their smaller screens. Hiding menu behind some fancy button does not improve usability. If user wants to use some option from menu, he or she will waste time searching for that option while clicking buttons.

  20. Re:Ubuntu on Critical Flaw Found In Virtually All AV Software · · Score: 1

    Which is totally profitless to a virus writer

    They can also run some spambot. It does not need root privileges and can be set to start in shell or kde/gnome startup configuration.

  21. Re:EU/UK vs. American Pricing on iPad UK Pricing Confirmed; Apple UK Tax Applied · · Score: 1

    Let me guess - in Europe, you'd pay exactly those prices listed? No sales tax added on?

    I have other example. Adobe Photoshop. In Europe we paid same price since 1999. In USA/Canada americans paid same price too. Guess how USD/EUR exchange rate changed in those years.

    Bigger multinational companies (Apple, Microsoft, Adobe, Corel) are overcharging Europeans for their software and hardware.

  22. Re:Kevin Mitnick on Mariposa Botmasters Sought Real Jobs After Arrest · · Score: 1

    What about Kevin Mitnick

    Mitnick founded own firm. He didn't go to work with Tsutomu Shimomura.

  23. Re:Less anti-MS headline: on Why IE9 Will Not Support Codecs Other Than H.264 · · Score: 1

    Why IE9 Will Not NATIVELY Support Other Codecs Than H.264.

    Since video is served by one html tag without any codec information, it is highly unlikely that some plugin will be able to extent it. Windows has codecs required to display video, yet IE does not play video in without some media player hacks. If Microsoft does something, it will be in their own proprietary way. Headline's antimicrosoft bias is correct.

  24. Re:Ogg is inferior on Why IE9 Will Not Support Codecs Other Than H.264 · · Score: 1

    Ars has a good article summarizing a comparison study between Theora and h.264.

    Good comparison should show same frame in all results. If you check displayed time, you will see that frames are different. Even if theora is inferior to h.264, Ars study is hosed or slated towards h.264.

  25. Re:Great Seal of Virginia on Virginia AG Probing Michael Mann For Fraud · · Score: 2, Insightful

    The motto on the Great Seal of Virginia is "Sic Semper Tyrannis". It means "thus always to yyrants" and was attributed to Brutus after stabbing Caesar and was also what John Wilkes Booth said after murdering Lincoln. Timothy McVeigh was wearing the motto (with a picture of Lincoln, not the VA seal) when we was arrested.


    That (now) hateful phrase remains on the seal, but at least the cartoon titty is gone.

    It can also be translated as "death to tyrants". I am pretty sure that democrats or liberals will agree with that phrase. Phase is not hateful, but universal. It can be used by any side and hatefulness depends only on which side you are. You might call it hateful only due to link to Lincoln. Caesar was tyrant and Brutus was right calling him tyrant. Julius Caesar gained his post by using military powers. Lincoln was good fellow in North, but he was aggressor or tyrant for South.

    Titty chick was from 18th century. It is related to some titty chick from Helenic age. There are lots of titty chicks from these times. Would you like to destroy all of them? If you don't like them and want to destroy them, you are no different from Taliban commanders, who destroyed 1500 year old Budhas.