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  1. Re:TAILS on How The NSA Targets Tor · · Score: 3, Funny

    They are going to root my BeOS 4.5 VM? Methinks not!

  2. Easy solution on How Many Android OEMs Cheat Benchmark Scores? Pretty Much All of Them · · Score: 4, Interesting

    The benchmark software should randomize the process name on launch

  3. Re:You have no clue whether this is correct. on AMD Brings 3D GPU Documentation Up To Date · · Score: 1

    grep the binaries for © and tell me what you see. Quite a few hits from non-Nvidia entities. It is no surprise you posted as an anonymous coward

  4. Re:Bring it on NVidia on AMD Brings 3D GPU Documentation Up To Date · · Score: 1

    It isn't that easy. There is a bunch of code they contracted out or licensed that they have no legal right to release.

  5. Re:X logo? on AMD Brings 3D GPU Documentation Up To Date · · Score: 1

    No one cares about an open video driver on Windows

  6. Re:In other words, mining for bitcoin is not at al on Sinkhole Sucks Brains From Wasteful Bitcoin Mining Botnet · · Score: 1

    The deal is with CPU mining, they are SO SLOW that even one unit of work done is almost definitely stale by the time it is submitted. That is, it is no good.

  7. Re:Retirees on U.S. Government: Sorry, We're Closed · · Score: 1

    SSI is not the same as SSDI or retirement benefits. It is federal welfare for people who are "disabled" but technically can work in some capacity and retirees who make little enough that they would likely qualify for local welfare as well (usually their claims have run out).

    On that note, everything I have read, Social Security money is still going out. It just may be delayed because of the lack of workers to process it.

  8. Re:This is news? on Security Researchers Rewarded With $12.50 Voucher To Buy Yahoo T-Shirt · · Score: 1

    Part of their job is to offer advice and even survey your home for ways that criminals might break in.

    No, sir. Their job is to collect evidence of a crime. Their job is not to protect and serve. Their job is to send the bad guys to jail

  9. Re:Exactly! on Obamacare Could Help Fuel a Tech Start-Up Boom · · Score: 1

    This has nothing to do with Obamacare. People who can't afford it can get Medicaid, that's been around for a long time.

    Yet. Food is already considered an entitlement.

    Medicaid can be had, sure, but just saying "Well people can get medicaid" is disingenuous of what it actually provides. Your doctor visit will still cost you $200 out of pocket after the pittance medicaid will pay, only now, if you can't pay it, you are on the hook with you local municipality for which you acquired it. What that means is, your medical debt is no longer solvable with bankruptcy.

  10. Re:Exactly! on Obamacare Could Help Fuel a Tech Start-Up Boom · · Score: -1, Troll

    But... but... entitlement. You don't deserve healthcare unless you can pay for it! Sell some stocks, buy more money, and stop whining!

  11. As early as they can read on How Early Should Kids Learn To Code? · · Score: 5, Interesting

    We had a computer class once a week when I was in Kindergarten (1984-1985 to put it in perspective). We would type out small, prewritten LOGO programs and afterwards would discuss what they did and how our programs went wrong. We even had this little tank like robot in which you would input LOGO commands and it would move like the turtle would on the screen. It was what got me interested in everything programming and computers

  12. Re:!GNU/Linux on LLVM's Libc++ Now Has C++1Y Standard Library Support · · Score: 1

    Would you rather it be called "GNU Userland/Linux"? In the same vein, would you be ok with Windows RT being called "Windows 8"?

  13. Re:!GNU/Linux on LLVM's Libc++ Now Has C++1Y Standard Library Support · · Score: 2

    And GNU/Linux was a term coined by Stallman, probably because he may have been getting antsy about there not being an official GNU kernel yet, and so he figured he'd just appropriate another one without actually asking anybody

    It is very appropriate, but at the time, a whole lot of people counldn't understand why. Now you have Android. Linux kernel without the GNU userland. GNU/Linux and Android are not compatible

  14. Re:Zombies on Universal Flu Vaccine "Blueprint" Discovered · · Score: 1

    Redead?

  15. Re:screen capture + URL shortener on Link Rot and the US Supreme Court · · Score: 4, Insightful

    and ideally uses a URL-shortening function like goo.go or bit.ly

    WHY? I never click on such links for the elementary fact that I have no idea where they lead

  16. Am I missing something? on CCC Says Apple iPhone 5S TouchID Broken · · Score: 1

    Isn't this the same attack vector that can be used with any finger print scanner?

  17. Re:About time on Java Update Implements Whitelists To Combat 0-Day Hacks · · Score: 1

    That isn't win32, friend

  18. Re:About time on Java Update Implements Whitelists To Combat 0-Day Hacks · · Score: 1

    Format a disk. And before you say it, SURE you could write code to interface with SCSI and ATA and implement FAT and NTFS and whatever else in user mode code. The point of a platform is you see a disk and you say format with a couple of flags.

    And this is just a loose example. I'm not going to argue the merits of a platform over a bare API.

  19. Re:About time on Java Update Implements Whitelists To Combat 0-Day Hacks · · Score: 1

    You are over simplifying it. The platform is a whole lot more than a "layer on top of win32". It also abstracts away interfacing with drivers, enumerating devices across different buses, and a whole mess of other things that aren't even part of win32 (or NTAPI). The madness of COM is scrubbed away.

  20. Re:About time on Java Update Implements Whitelists To Combat 0-Day Hacks · · Score: 1

    .NET is a platform. Win32 is an API

  21. Re:Walked away from Applets long time ago on Java Update Implements Whitelists To Combat 0-Day Hacks · · Score: 0

    The idea was good. The implementation was poor

  22. Re:FFS on Join the Efforts of a Manned Mission To Jovian Moon Europa · · Score: 1

    It looks to me like assisted suicide in the disguise of scientific research

  23. Re:AMD multi-display problems on Multi-Display Gaming Artifacts Shown With AMD, 4K Affected Too · · Score: 1, Informative

    Take a gander through the links at https://www.google.com/search?q=\device\video5+Nvlddmkm

    Nvidia's 32x.xx drivers have actually been destroying hardware

  24. Re:XP rules! on With XP's End of Life, Munich Will Distribute Ubuntu CDs · · Score: 1

    XP supports up to 4GB of memory

    One gig is still allocated to kernel space

  25. Re:I'm not sure how I feel about this on With XP's End of Life, Munich Will Distribute Ubuntu CDs · · Score: 3, Insightful

    How are you going to google for instructions when your network card is a cheap belkin that won't work?