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  1. Re:Why it took so long on CentOS Linux 6.0 Released · · Score: 5, Interesting

    It wasn't until CentOS 6.0 was delayed beyond reasonable expectation did I find out CentOS was managed by a very small, closed group. The closed part was a little unnerving considering the open source nature of the project.

  2. Re:Frist to get jailbroken... on How Apple's iOS Went From Insecure To Most Secure · · Score: 1

    On the same page no less.

  3. Accurate Summary on Time Lapse Video of the VLT In Chile · · Score: 1

    This is one of the most accurate summaries I've seen on Slashdot for quite some time :)

  4. Re:Wow Support a Distro that may be dead on Microsoft To Support CentOS Linux In Hyper-V · · Score: 1

    Yeah, I switched to Scientific Linux because of the better KVM support. CentOS served me well for many years, but I can't recommend it to anyone at this point :/

  5. Water Treatment on High-Tech Gas Drilling Is Fouling Drinking Water · · Score: 1

    How difficult/expensive is it to pull methane out of the water in a treatment plant?

  6. Re:Meh on Taking the Fun Out of StarCraft II · · Score: 1

    Starcraft plays very similar to chess. So before a game starts you should have a game plan. You should think about what kind of unit composition you'd like in the late game, then figure out what mid game strategy will help you get to the late game. With a general concept of what you'd like the mid game to look like you then pick an early game build that will help you get to the mid game. Of course the game might deviate from your original game plan, but using it as a guide is very helpful.

    It's a bit interesting that you picked TA (I love TA) over Starcraft in terms of tactical gameplay, because Starcraft is much more micro oriented than TA. If you'd like to see some very top level tactical decision making take a look at SeleCT and qxc's replays. There's actually a huge amount of tactical decision making in Starcraft. So if we take for instance a hellion attempting to harass the natural's drone line the "terrain" becomes relatively complex. If the hellion comes in for the harass and the queen is right next to the hatchery then we might be able to scoot around the outside of the mineral patch to roast a few drones and then run up into the main to continue the economic damage, before the queen and zerglings can close in on the hellion. A lot of "terrains" can simply just shut down your harass such as a queen blocking the ramp with speedlings in play or a well positioned spine crawler. I don't think I've done the concept of hellion harass nearly enough justice, but hopefully I've expressed some flavor of the situational complexities that can occur with relatively few units, let alone 200 supply armies. Starcraft is much more of a deterministic game than TA, which lends itself to e-sports. Oh, if you really like TA take a look at the Spring Engine.

  7. Re:Likely more prevalent an issue than we realize. on Feds Pay Millions For Bogus Spy Software · · Score: 2

    The reason these individuals were not fired is because it's a merit-based organization. A meritocracy penalizes failure and rewards success. By penalizing honest mistakes the people who end up on top may not be those with the most merit, but those who hide their mistakes the best. This has the added detriment of not allowing the organization to learn from its failures.

  8. Re:Social networking for robots on RoboEarth Teaches Robots to Learn From Peers · · Score: 1

    I was looking at their site and I can't tell what they actually have completed. It looks like they have a framework that they'd like to implement, but then what was the robot using? Was it a proof of concept that the robot could identify the situation and request code from a server?

  9. I'm still waiting for my 6.0 on Debian 6.0 Released In GNU/Linux, FreeBSD Flavors · · Score: 0

    Go Go CentOS Team!
    I guess cheering isn't quite as effective as contributing.

  10. Eat Your Veggies on 20 Years of Commander Keen · · Score: 1

    Dopefish Lives!

  11. What is this guy pushing? on Offshore Drilling Rigs Vulnerable To Hackers · · Score: 1

    Most rely on the decades-old supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) software, written in an era when the "open source" tag was more important than security, said Jeff Vail, a former counterterrorism and intelligence analyst with the U.S. Interior Department.

  12. Inaccurate on Passwords From PHPBB Attack Analyzed · · Score: 5, Funny

    Sex and God are not even on the list.

  13. Re:This is awesome. on Game Developer's Response To Pirates · · Score: 1

    We're always saying "Vote with your wallet" here. I'm glad I did.

  14. Depressing on O'Reilly On How Copyright Got To Its Current State · · Score: 1

    From the article:
    "It is unfortunate that under the current copyright law, the most accurate predictions about prospective cases usually come from borrowing from the branch of academia known as legal realism. Legal realism is a cynical interpretive strategy that sees all law in terms of political power structures; the reasoning behind individual decisions is nothing more than window dressing for underlying political biases and power struggles.

    Under a legal realist analysis, any use of copyrighted material that was objectionable or questionable would be struck down as infringing. Nonobjectionable use of copyrighted material would be allowed only if the political and economic interests in support of the use were more powerful than the political and economic interests against the use. Unfortunately, this is, in my opinion, the best guide to the outcome of any future copyright case."