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  1. What about the cost of peace? on Nukes Are "The Only Peacekeeping Weapons the World Has Ever Known," Says Waltz · · Score: 1

    How can the author ignore the insane costs of a nuclear programme? Surely he realizes thousands, if not orders of magnitude more, will die due to starvation, poorer health services and forced labour while a government is busy maintaining an implausible status quo, is that just signed off as "acceptable loss"?

  2. Re:Solutions for Linux, less for XP on Microsoft Trying To Woo Businesses To Windows 8 · · Score: 1

    How would one boot Slackware then?

  3. Re:WHAT'S STOPPING US? on BSA Claims Half of PC Users Are Pirates · · Score: 5, Insightful

    What the majority believes may be wrong some times.

    This is a well-known let's say 'urban legend', refuted several times throughout history but which keeps coming back as a way to stress just how dark the Dark Ages were or to make a Mayan discovery look more spectacular. Educated people over the millenia have always known that Earth is round, and belief otherwise is just that - a dogma imposed by some religions, methinks as a simple yet powerful way to describe how precious and rare life as we know is. See the "Myth of a flat Earth" page references for some amusement.
      There will also always be nutcases that deny common sense and science, some of them might even go as far as to negate Darwinism in American schools, but I do hold hope that humanity can work around those.

  4. known plaintext attack on Can Translucency Save Privacy In the Cloud? · · Score: 1

    Once a provider has a large enough db, they can look for firstname.lastname@gmail.com or, knowing from the contacts distribution the region and language of the users, something like @free.fr or @yahoo.co.jp

  5. Perl on 2011's Fastest Growing Language: Objective-C · · Score: 2

    Love to see it soldiering on. No advertising, no vendor lock-in, no World Wide Whatever Conventions, and yet there's no-one moving it off the top 10. Congratulations, to all the devs and monks.

  6. Login screen? on GNOME 3.2 Released · · Score: 1

    I don't get this. Why was work and detailing involved in such a feature? Was I able to login before? Yes. Am I still able to login? Hope so, unless they botched something.
    3 years ago, I had to patch and rebuild GDM to allow fingerprint authentication, with code from an IBM developer (awfully sorry for not remembering the name). Today - do I have fingerprint by default? Hell no, but it is "integrated with the rest of the user experience". Quite disappointing.

  7. common enough and.. on Ask Slashdot: What To Do With Other People's Email? · · Score: 1

    The big problem I am having is with companies and websites.

    Is your name Billing? Sony Billing?

  8. Re:I think you had to be there on Telehack Re-Creates the Internet of 25 Years Ago · · Score: 1

    once everyone is doing it, it's not cool anymore

    Why would that be? If everyone had a garden, would you dislike flowers? If most people around you were playing music, would you not enjoy dancing anymore? All the instruments available playing at the same time, or all the perfumes combined will quickly lead to saturation or even become hurtful, but with careful orchestration from capable/creative people you will get countless enjoyable moments.
    As with anything else, the Internet experience needs a bit of guidance and restraint, but as a concept I find it nothing short of amazing.

  9. the amazing part is on Paid Developers Power the Linux Kernel · · Score: 1

    ..that almost 30% of the developers of such a huge and complex project are involved without direct benefits. Big thanks to all of them!

  10. Re:Make it static. on WikiLeaks Starts Mass Mirroring Effort · · Score: 1
    While the GP may be exaggerating a bit, this this study quotes frighteningly close numbers, and they only track up to 2007, while stating that

    ..there has been an "astounding" 36.1% drop in the wealth (marketable assets) of the median household since the peak of the housing bubble in 2007. By contrast, the wealth of the top 1% of households dropped by far less: just 11.1%.

    Wikipedia has informations dated 2001, but with a later note mentioning the same trend.

  11. Re:only in the US on Throwing Out Software That Works · · Score: 1

    Archos doesn't run Android. It does run Linux, but a heavily modified and completely closed version of it. It cannot be extended in any way with self-made applications, all "plug-ins" as they call them must be bought from their store. This includes stuff like a web browser or video codecs for popular formats. I have heard that Archos 7 runs Android, but the one I've played a bit with in a store didn't resemble its interface at all, didn't have any visible link to Google's market and the documentation did not mention any SDK or such. Also, their latest player (v. 9) runs Windows.

  12. Re:My eye's... on ReCAPTCHA.net Now Vulnerable to Algorithmic Attack · · Score: 1

    Judging by the way you spell "off" or "whatsoever", the grammar mistakes (perhaps "I used to have"?) and how you place your commas, you are still as innocent as they come.

  13. silent update will only be offered.. on Like Google's Chrome, Mozilla To Silently Update Firefox 4 · · Score: 2, Insightful

    on Windows, Mozilla has said.

    Nothing to see here, move along..

  14. Godwin's on Parasite Correlated With World Cup Success · · Score: 1

    Both the article and the summary state state such absurd and horrific suppositions, an association with the presumed arian supremacy is the first thought and actually the last as I dismissed this story and will try to forget it.

  15. Re:I just wrote this guy an email: on A Composer's-Eye View of the Copyright Wars · · Score: 1

    ..nothing but lies, just like the rest of christianity.

    You will have a really hard time trying to persuade a Christian person that your ideas are sound if you spice your discourse with offensive and ridiculous affirmations like this.

  16. this only worked in Twitter's Web interface.. on Twitter Bug Lets Users Force Others To Follow Them · · Score: 2, Informative

    ..not on third-party apps?
    Twitter, meet WWW::Mechanize.
    WWW::Mechanize, meet a twat.

  17. Re:Well... on Corporate IT Just Won't Let IE6 Die · · Score: 1

    Dear Lord, this is insane! Did I read this correctly - the user picks a file in the upload dialog, and then you can read the entire directory it was in without any additional confirmation? I don't have a system available to test this, but do strongly doubt that it's possible without an ActiveX control.

  18. Re:Why so negative? on Microsoft Previews IE9 — HTML5, SVG, Fast JS · · Score: 1

    For a product the size of IE to make the changes needed to go from 22 to 55 in just a few months is incredible.

    For a product with a development team the size of IE, to go from 22 to only 55 in several months is ridiculous.

  19. Re:Portrayal on Blazing Fast Password Recovery With New ATI Cards · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I did this kind of purchase at one time, for a perfectly valid reason. A rogue accountant deleted company data to cover his ass, but was keeping encrypted backups before that. I could undelete several archives, but they were .ace unfortunately, and there are no solutions I am aware of to at least brute-force it (their decompression .dll crashes randomly). If, at the time, someone would have told me that a Radeon card can increase my chances of recovery, I would have bought ten of them instantly.

  20. Re:Fundamental flaw: it is not *APPLE*'s phone on Apple's iPhone Developer License Agreement Revealed · · Score: 1

    OK! And which nation gets to own it? I see a "made in China" on my devices - they should be the first contender. I also hear they're quite good at this "nationalization" thing :)

  21. Final Cut? on Linux Foundation Announces 2010 "We're Linux" Video Contest · · Score: 1

    Sadly, the winner will almost certainly be edited in Final Cut Pro on a Mac ;)

    Why not Cinellera on Linux?

  22. Bad presentation format on The 9 Most Tested Lab Animals · · Score: 1

    While the information and images were interesting, why the annoying tiny Flash scrollbar that doesn't follow the mouse wheel? And also, why constrain the text in that smallish box that doesn't allow copy/paste?
    Something like JCarousel would have served their purposes much better and looked nicer.

  23. Loved the False language sample on The Amiga, Circa 2010 — Dead and Loving It · · Score: 1

    seen here.
    Makes Perl look like fucking Shakespeare.
    Other than that - it's an OS created to run games, that doesn't run games, but has the GNU toolchain ported. Is this Linux?

  24. Re:Classic ASP on Has a Decade of .NET Delivered On Microsoft's Promises? · · Score: 1

    Ever heard of cookies?

  25. Re:Just for fun on Judge Orders Permanent Injunction Against Psystar · · Score: 1

    Microsoft already does this. You cannot (are not allowed to) install the Xbox or Zune OS on any other platform.