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  1. Re:You miss the point on Ubuntu 11.10 To Switch From GDM To LightDM · · Score: 1

    On the download page:

    Our long-term support (LTS) releases are supported for three years on the desktop. Perfect for organisations that need more stability for larger deployments

    Seems directed to me?

  2. Re:it still sucks on Ubuntu 11.10 To Switch From GDM To LightDM · · Score: 1

    I'm not experiencing these cons mentioned. Maybe you should try a release in the past five years or something?

  3. Re:Skype Monopoly on Microsoft Antitrust Oversight Ends · · Score: 1

    Is anybody going to explain to you that you're free to use another product, considering there are hundreds of products similar to Skype available?

    I'm not aware of other products that do hole punching to get around NATs, numerous methods to mask their connections to prevent ISPs from throttling just Skype etc. which also has telephony support to do unlimited real world phone lines for very cheap subscriptions.

    Note: I make use of video, audio, text messaging, screen sharing, free skype access on my mobile phone network via mobile phone.

    But, since you say there are hundreds and I can't find any close to this on Google, surely you can suggest a few that similar to this product?

  4. Re:Yay piracy! on Unarchiver Provides LGPL RARv3 Extraction Tool · · Score: 2

    Another nifty thing is that RAR actually supports Unix permissions in it's container. So it's pretty useful on *nix systems when you need to archive a large set of directories, maintaining various permissions (like 'executable').

    As you pointed out with seeking, this is useful for when you want to extract specific compressed 'backup' data quickly. The fact it maintains Unix file permissions makes it a viable solution on *nix.

  5. Re:Seems like the distributor needs to be slapped on Unarchiver Provides LGPL RARv3 Extraction Tool · · Score: 1

    Now we have RAR and no compelling reason to replace it... not a reason big enough for the whole internet anyway

    Honestly, I keep encountering .7z files all over the place now.

  6. Re:The number of devices is not most relevant on Making Wireless, Not Ethernet, the Heart of the Network · · Score: 1

    Lots of small devices can't really do IPSEC, either they can't do it at all, or they run like crap when they do it, or they don't support enough of it to actually be secure. These, of course, are the devices we actually want to use wirelessly.

    I've honestly not encountered this issue with wireless devices in the enterprise environment, even the phones (BlackBerry) used IPSec.

  7. Re:The number of devices is not most relevant on Making Wireless, Not Ethernet, the Heart of the Network · · Score: 1

    I install wireless service only for devices like wearable computers in warehouses, on their own segments, and connected through a firewall to the main network. Incidentally, if at all possible, wireless segments can never access the Internet.

    Two questions:

    1) Why aren't you using IPSec so people can actually work properly on their networks?

    2) Why would IPSec over wireless be vulnerable to intrusion like you imply all wireless is vulnerable to?

  8. Re:The number of devices is not most relevant on Making Wireless, Not Ethernet, the Heart of the Network · · Score: 1

    They don't expect users to change to fit their products, they make products that fit their users

    I've been an Apple user, their products didn't fit me and didn't even offer the ability to make it fit.

    I made these pictures at the time in question:
    http://ash-fox.quickfox.org/temp/dock-customizability
    verses
    http://ash-fox.quickfox.org/temp/kdepanel-config

    When trying to address this issue, I was told that I should get used to the way Apple does things.

    I have to strongly disagree with what you said, Apple expects users to change to fit their products.

  9. Re:Derp on Anonymous Denies Sony Claims of Disruption, Credit Info Theft · · Score: 1

    Bull. If it were anonymous, Sony would've been screaming it from the parapets the instant that it had occurred and PSN went down.

    That's your argument? I'm sorry, that's not enough at all for me.

    Sony hid it.

    They released a lot of information, so I'm still not convinced on this statement either.

    What makes my actions considered civil rights, and Anonymous' the acts of hooligans/trolls/sophisticated hackers/immature children?

    Anonymous was essentially created from those kind of people to begin with and you can't see why they would be labelled as such...?

    Again, to date Anonymous' actions have been against corporations that seem to think they're above the law.

    The failed attacks on Amazon's servers had nothing to do with Amazon thinking they were above the law. Please don't distort the truth.

  10. Re:No Plausible Deniability on Anonymous Denies Sony Claims of Disruption, Credit Info Theft · · Score: 1

    Anonymous is just like the public, it contains people of all sorts. But its not a group of people with a label. It's a phenomena. It happens when assorted people, strangers, act with a common goal. For that to happen the goal needs to be known and agreed up on and to do that the vision needs to be forwarded to as many as possible.

    Cool story, bro

    You cant be loud, even obnoxiously so, and secret at the same time. It just doesn't work. No matter what your intentions are.

    Indeed, and that is why their organis^H^H^H^H^H^H^H"phenomena" fails.

  11. Re:But Anonymous says it isn't top-down organized on Anonymous Denies Sony Claims of Disruption, Credit Info Theft · · Score: 1

    Yet for many other attacks they do claim/admit responsibility. They sometimes even announce it in advance. Their communication channels are no secret, anyone can listen in if they like to do so, to keep track of what Anonymous is up to.

    Maybe for AnonOps, but that most certainly isn't the only 'Anonymous' group out there, there are quite a few that aren't public and are secret.

    Credit card theft doesn't go together with loosely banded idealistic movements

    Not everyone in anonymous has this magical morale compass as you portray them to have.

    usually operating alone or in tightly closed small groups

    Which certain people who are Anonymous actually do.

    Anonymous has too many members that act individually that such a theft while possible would have its results end up on major torrent sites.

    Regardless, they act individually on behalf of Anonymous, there is no central authority on what acts are approved or disapproved.

  12. Re:No Plausible Deniability on Anonymous Denies Sony Claims of Disruption, Credit Info Theft · · Score: 1

    You seem to think that everyone who is apart of "Anonymous" operates and thinks in the same way. You are mistaken, anyone can be Anonymous. Not everyone who is Anonymous feels the need to call on others or gloat about it. Not everyone who is apart of Anonymous has the best of intentions either.

  13. Re:bah, its Sony on Sony Officially Blames Anonymous For PSN Hack · · Score: 1

    The FBI and legal system did nothing against Sony.

    The legal system did. People sued the company and won in numerous class actions suits and the legal system made it possible.

    No, you sony bitchboy, take a hike.

    I don't have any Sony hardware, nor do I want any.

  14. Re:bah, its Sony on Sony Officially Blames Anonymous For PSN Hack · · Score: 1

    the FBI and the legal system did nothing

    http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/1027960/sony-bmg-sued-over-rootkit-again-sony-sued-over-playstation-psp

    You can stop the bullshit of legal system doing nothing now, you lying prick.

  15. Re:Duh on Bizarre Porn Raid Underscores Wi-Fi Privacy Risks · · Score: 2

    I'm having a hard time feeling sorry for someone who knew for a fact it was insecure and didn't seek help or look for another solution.

    My Nintendo DSi only supports WEP for certain games, what other solution is there?

  16. Re:Amazon? Democracy? What a crock! on EC2 Outage Shows How Much the Net Relies On Amazon · · Score: 1

    Isn't Amazon one of those nasty companies that banned Wikileaks from their servers?

    I don't remember anything 'nasty' about it, so no. I think the opposite is true, attempting to hide behind companies who have no interest in being involved with the mess, putting all their customers at risk. Pretty sure the nastiness was from Wikileaks.

  17. Re:"like the iPad and iPhone " on AT&T Admits Network Can't Handle iPhone, iPad Traffic · · Score: 1

    when you think smart phone, you think iPhone

    When I think 'iphone', I think "I don't understand this marketing, my crappy 40GBP 3skypephone supports custom applications (j2me - I have a gameboy emulator on it), Bluetooth (before the iphone had it) and a ton of other things like most mobile phones, why is it when blackberry, IOS and Android do it, it's considered a smart phone?"

  18. Re:This supposedly argues in favor of T-Mobile buy on AT&T Admits Network Can't Handle iPhone, iPad Traffic · · Score: 1

    Sorry, but as someone who worked on the iPhone

    Out of curiosity, what did you do exactly?

  19. Re:"Gotten rid of" on Ask Slashdot: Are You Streaming-Only For Home Entertainment? · · Score: 1

    What language is that? It appears to follow the conventions of English, but the words do not make sense.

    "Gotten" comes from the word "get" - To receive/bring/come into the possession of something concrete or abstract. In this form, it means the 'possessions previously acquired'. You will find this word used in other phrases like "ill gotten" and "gotten lost" according to the Princeton WordNet.

    In this case, the phrase means that the possessions previously acquired in question have been rid of.

    Seemed easy enough to me?

  20. Re:IPv6 is the stupidest possible extension of IPv on IPv6 Traffic Remains Minuscule · · Score: 1

    Here, I'll do a better job of inventing the next Internet protocol. IPv5

    You can't, it already exists. See http://www.apps.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1819.html

    48 bit addresses (add two bytes to the left of existing IPv4 addresses, otherwise use precisely the same packet header, four whole bytes longer, six if somebody wants to add more checksumming or the like while we're at it).

    Doesn't work with my existing 2wire home router nor does it even work with a router running IOS. I had the unique advantage of testing various compatibility tricks with ipv4 when I was writing my own TCP/IP stack for AROS. Since it requires a software update with the routers, may as well go IPv6 instead, specification was first released in 1998 and has a much broader widespread support already. Phones support it, every PC OS in the last ten years appears to support it. It's just network providers that need to sufficiently upgrade their infrastructure.

    Given NAT, it is actually very unlikely that we will really need more than two extra bytes

    I have been behind double NATing already. No.

  21. Re:IPv6 needs consumer demand on IPv6 Traffic Remains Minuscule · · Score: 1

    I don't see how you can impose that measure technically unless you ran the DNS for every website that only offered AAAA records and prevent stuff like cnames from working which could point to hostnames that use ipv4 addresses. With a TLD that costs 60USD per year verses a .com which I can get for 4USD a year, I don't really see adult websites jumping on the idea.

    Then ISPs can further get around it by simply intercepting ipv4 HTTP and HTTPS traffic to .xxx domains and sit a transparent proxy that uses ipv6, which would be hell of a lot easier than deploying ipv6 support on ipv4 only hardware.

  22. Re:CGI systems on WordPress Hacked, Attackers Get Root Access · · Score: 1

    So use virtual machines, and do not tie executable code to the native environment accepting the connections or call interfaces from direct URL's.

    That didn't stop someone exploiting my tomcat powered website, downloading copies of the databases.

  23. Re:I wonder how many gigs of ram I'll need on Firefox 5 Scheduled For June 21 Release · · Score: 1

    My firefox 4 experience on OS X. Freshly opened, no extensions installed, 1 tab open browsing slashdot.

    402.3mb

    Apple offers a fix here.

  24. Re:Dumb idea on Firefox 5 Scheduled For June 21 Release · · Score: 1

    People who have browser requirements for their online system need to be able to say "Requires an HTML 5 compliant browser" and code their site to work across all modern browsers.

    I guess everyone without a time machine would get screwed then, since only HTML5 drafts are available currently to browser developers and website developers.

  25. Re:OH GOOD JAVASCRIPT on Firefox 5 Scheduled For June 21 Release · · Score: 1

    I don't have any of these problems the parents is having normally. The only time I've had memory annoyances with Firefox was when the Skype toolbar or Adblock plus was installed.