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  1. OMG I hope not on Ubuntu Developing Its Own Package Format, Installer · · Score: 1

    Will they also forgo the shared libraries, and have everything statically linked? Sounds familiar? If they go this route, one downside to this is it takes up too much memory. Which is why apple switched from static libraries and started using shared libraries.

  2. Convert it to one format on Ask Slashdot: Best Way To Archive and Access Ancient Emails? · · Score: 1

    Convert all your mail to maildir, and keep it on your home filesystem, whenever you need access from where ever connect to your home vpn, and connect to the filesystem, I have an account in thunderbird where I can search, or do whatever I want to it. Seems to work well.

  3. Re:Exception to Betteridge's law!! on Is the Concept of 'Cyberspace' Stupid? · · Score: 1

    I would have gave you a plus for this. Very well put.

  4. Funny on Is Reading Spouse's E-Mail a Crime? · · Score: 1

    If I was worth 200 million before we are married. And we are together for 5 years, she gets half of everything. But during the time we are married if I log into her email it is a crime? I would like it all to be fair, what is mine, is mine, and what is hers is hers, and when we get divorced, what is hers is hers and what is mine is mine, and if I log into your email while we are married, it is a crime. Sheesh seems kind of wrong the other way.

  5. Re:My question about IV... on World's Largest Patent Troll Fires First Salvo · · Score: 1

    We have seen it. It is ACACIA, they have been doing it for years.

  6. iphone isn't secure either on Android Holes Allow Secret Installation of Apps · · Score: 0

    a few month ago there was a vulnerability that left your data wide open with or without a pin on the iphone. Or the fake iphone security update that basically takes over your iphone (http://bit.ly/afwVEu). If you allow programs that aren't made by the apple or google you will always have this problem. Program A needs access to do this, you give it access, now anything in program A that was put there has that access too. Oh new iphone safari browser hole (http://www.epagini.com/2010/08/iphone-vulnerability-detected/). Neither phone is the standard for security, no one is. LOL, now give me a phone running openvms, no it probably wouldn't be any secure, I just want to see someone get it to run on a phone.

  7. Wrong Perspective on Why Warriors, Not Geeks, Run US Cyber Command Posts · · Score: 1

    The article seems to be written from a bias perspective that doesn't note that almost every RT system the military has today was written by the geeks they want to say they don't need. Besides, it is far better from a military perspective to have your soldiers watching your network, than a civilian who has been given military clearance, that hasn't been threw the BW regimen.

  8. So does this mean death for them? on Chinese Internet Addiction Boot Camp Prison Break · · Score: 1

    I wonder what their sentence will be? I hear in the addiction boot camps they use to get shock treatment [1]. So I kind of wonder what will be the punishment for this act? [1] http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/jul/14/china-electric-shock-internet-addiction

  9. Lazy on Android and the Linux Kernel Community · · Score: 1

    GPL says contribute your changes. Doesn't say one thing about contribute your changes, and make sure they work in the main tree. He himself said they were doing it, until people started complaining about how things were written or what not. So they stopped. I don't blame them one bit. It is kind of like writing a library to be in PEAR, you have a piece of code that works. And and you see people asking for a library and you submit it for a vote, they first don't like that you used the PHP license, they want you to use the BSD license, then they don't like your naming of the methods. Hell, has the people running PEAR, looked at the naming conventions of PHP (addslashes, mysql_connect) I basically said flip that and put it on google code. There are forks all the time in the linux kernel, they usually die out, but wouldn't it be fun if googles kernel was the only one to survive?

  10. Are Macmillian ran by retards? on Amazon Pulls Book Publisher's Listings; Ebook Wars Underway? · · Score: 2

    Talk about jumping on a bandwagon before you know where it is going. I guess if I looked at Apples track record and saw everything they have done up to date, I would probably say, it is a good bet it will be a hit. However, they don't even know what type of people will buy the ipad. I was just thinking it would be a cool mini tablet system, depending on what applications it comes already installed on it, but now that I know what the applications are, they are going to have to make a whole lot more for me to spend over 700 dollars for wifi and 3G.

  11. Hmm, find a better solution. on Getting Company Owners To Follow Their Own Rules? · · Score: 1

    If you found a solution that would work, and it isn't. Then find a solution that does. Does everyone come to the office every week? If so, why not set up a back up process that backs up the changes via the companies network (wireless, or ethernet) automatically.

  12. Hmm, they really don't have to. on Is There a Cyberwar, and Is the US Losing It? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Like Ionix says, it is Economic Warfare we are fighting. When a big chunk of your land is owned by Japan, when your harbours are own by the Saudis, when your banks are owned by China, and where your government pushes you down the path of least resistance; educationally, and technologically. It is very easy to try to find something else for the situation we are in, but frankly, good ole' greed will allow you to become a slave, way before you realize you have become one.

  13. My best advice on Rewriting a Software Product After Quitting a Job? · · Score: 1

    Keep working for the company you are working for, think of a totally different application -- because 2k for a retainers fee, and 400 dollars an hour for fighting a battle that didn't need to be fought will go through that money in no time -- write it while you are there, have a lawyer set up a trust, and then set up the company owned by the trust. Specifically tell your lawyer you and your friends want to be anonymous. No matter what business you get into, as soon big fish see you, you will be sued. When the company is making a little more than everyones salaries, then dedicate more time into it, until each and everyone is now getting paid by that company. Make sure retention is about 4 months before letting go of the old company.

  14. Shhh, if we don't admit anything on Two Black Hat Talks On Apple Security Cancelled · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I guess, Apple is still very much old school; when it comes to admitting their mistakes. Or they just might believe in security thru obscurity. Either way this move, put them in the lime light even more. Great work marketing. Someone deserves to be fired...

  15. What a piece of $#17 on Touch-based Handhelds Turned Inside Out · · Score: 1

    All that to get accuracy of what you are pointing at. A redesign of the Graphical User Interface would have sufficed. What would have been great is if the interface was really translucent, like the headsup displays they have been playing around in car windshields for years.

  16. ICM should dick someone else around... on .xxx registry sues US government · · Score: 1
    ICM wanted the Adult industry to take it upon itself to register their .com domains under the .xxx extension; to go from paying 8-14 dollars a domain a year to 60 dollars a domain a year. The scheme by ICM was to get it approved as voluntary, and lobby the governments to pass legislation to make it mandatory.

    As far as this law suit is concerned, I don't see how the government pressured ICANN at all. If ICM was on the ball, they could have gotten the word out to have people show their support for .xxx. Since they were caught sleeping on the job, (being sore losers) they want to sue because the other side was deligent in making their views heard. Besides, ICANN can vote however they see fit, if they let the views of others sway them against what they know is morally right, then those weak minds need to be replaced. But then, that statement could also be made about alot of our politicians who are swayed by the lobbyist of big businesses.

  17. Crazy Stuff on Review: Sims 2 Nightlife · · Score: 1

    Sims are getting ridiculous, I wonder when will the ax murdering sims come out.

  18. Re:Math Software? on Open Source Math Software For Education? · · Score: 1

    LOL, what kind of math did you take in High School? I was taking A.P. classes in High School. Totally, appropriate. Not to mention other kids are probably dualing it; going to both high school and college at the same time.

  19. Interesting on AOL Plans A Standalone Browser · · Score: -1, Redundant

    Correct me if I am wrong, why do they have to have another browser again? Don't they have Mozilla/Netscape as a browser. And some of the features they want to add, sound alot like what Mozilla already has in it. Do we really need an AOL browser that allows us to access AOL stuff during company time?

  20. Think this stuff is always cool on Tablet Mac Becomes Reality · · Score: 1

    If they don't make it built it yourself. I saw someone do a Mac Tablet before. I wish I had the time, and desire to just spend my free time and money designing shit like that. I will just stick to the coding side of things, I'm cheap so sue me.

  21. How silly it gets on Another Hotspot Redirect Patent Collection Attempt · · Score: 1

    Actually right now there is a guy in australia who hold the patent on two different ways to swing on a swing. He used the express method and it got by the reviewers appearantly.

  22. Whats next? on Your Car Is Reading Your Email · · Score: 1

    Will I be able to read my mail while I am in the bathroom while I crap, oh sorry, I guess you can in France, they even have this nice water that shoots up your arse so you don't have to use paper. Okay the car thing isn't that bad then.

  23. Oh no on Warez Suspect To Be Extradited, After All · · Score: 3, Funny

    now I am going to be extradited to Singapore to be caned because I spit out my gum on U.S. soil!!! I am glad they don't know about my grafitti back in the day, I just might be double canned...

  24. Expected on Longhorn to be Released in 2006, Sans WinFS · · Score: 1

    Yeah, I beleived them when they said Windows XP wouldn't need to be rebooted when installing software. They had WinXP so hyped up, I almost thought it was a new Operating System.

  25. Sounds kinda like trickledown economics to me on Outsourcing is Good for You · · Score: 1

    She believes, if people outsource, the products that are made will be cheaper and more companies will buy them, and the manufacturer of said products will have more money to put into the U.S. economy, but didn't we learn during the Regan years, that this belief is far from true. The reason this isn't true, is because the goal of a corporation is to maximize profit, and frankly running a corporation in the united states is far more expensive than building your infrastructure abroad; they will end up investing more of their money that they gain abroad, there is no reason (incentive) to invest back in the U.S..