I mean at first I'm like, yeah great search guys. Then they got groups, that's fine... then maps... gmail... froogle... and now calenders. What's next a Desktop search tool?
nations are a really idiotic thing that prevent humankind from working together instead of nations against each other
I don't know. Nations are useful in that they act as a sort of damage containment for human stupidity. Nations help to localise Mass Moron Movements. One nation sounds ok, as long as everyone thinks differently enough. The minute 6 billion people all convince themselves of a single dogmatic ideal... we're boned.
Dual core is a godsend! As anyone who works with number crunching apps will tell you, having two cores seriously improves your work quality. Not because number crunchings apps are taking advantage of dual cores.
It's becasue now I can set one core to work on those wicked hard numerical calculations while I kick back and watch movies and play music for a few hours. Bliss!
Nevertheless it would be nice if there was an easier way to make apps use multiple cores. I'd love to be able speed up my crunching by getting a program to use both cores, intuitavely, but I don't expect this to happen any time soon. Surely there has to be easier ways of making apps thread compliant?
But the commission IS taking Microsofts money. Microsoft is one of the commission sponsers.
Also, very large wads of cash in brown paper envelopes have probobly been handed over. On the other hand, don't attribute to malice what can be explained by simple incompetance.
Unfortunately, the Commission is not an unelected body. They were elected by the Parliment. However, once elected they are free to give the finger to the parliment as much as they like, and the only thing the Parliment can do is sack them, which is NEVER going to happen.
It sort of reminds me of that Discworld novel, where the only decocracy on the Disc was where people elected a new tyrant every year. Each year all of the candidates would promise to do things differently and not terrorise the populace, and every year once elected, they would proceed to be another terrible dictator. This continued year after year, with the whole system being proclaimed a resounding success.
Not only is this tone now so rare that you are almost gauranteed that it's yours when the phone goes off, it also avoid any and ALL embarrassment whereever and whenever he phone goes off.
Ok Slashdottereens, lets explain why the parents comment was a troll!
Shut up was used to open the single sentence in this post. A less agressive and more helpful comment along the lines of "Be quiet" or "What you say is wrong" or even "I disagree" would have made a far more sensible opener.
commie was not the most tactful choice of words, nor was it the most accurate. The grandparent never once quoted any significant texts by Marx, nor did he declare membership of any registered communist organisations. fucking commie was hardly called for either. "You are a charletonrous communist" might have given more respectability to the post.
prick would seem out place in such a post. Not only has the parent incorrectly used the noun after the preceeding, verbalised, noun, he has also made a rather tasteless choice, when, "man", "annoying person" and/or "rouge" would easily have sufficed.
Now I understand that a great many slashdottereens may have modded the comment as funny, as the, tart and less than tasteful tone no doubt produced a few giggles, but such comments ultimately lower the quailty of the overall discussion and should be modded downm, lest the funny mod itself be called into disrepute.
I never said anything about Microsoft. They're just the publisher. I never even mentioned other shooters. No other shooter even makes my top 15. My point was that Halo 2 was, and still is, overhyped. It's possibly the most hyped game ever, and I've been hearing hype for a long time.
I never said that the game was bad. It's a great game. But at the end of the day, its still just a game, and not the will of god made flesh as lot of people were making it out to be. Overhyping on this level is a disservice to the community as a whole. It has worked tremendously for Halo 2 sales figures, granted. But its success can mean only one thing. Expect games with bugger marketing than development budgets from the likes os EA in future.
Halo was released in 2004? Will it never end? Pretty soon were going to have slashdot stories, about the slashdot stories on Halo 2. I await the flames, safe in the knowladge that I finished it on legendary and it still doesn't make my top ten. But maybe top 15? Geddit?
I believe I speak for many when I say "Who the Hell actually clicks on all the popups,popovers,floaters,ads and logos anyway?"
I can safely say the only time I click on an ad when online, is when my mouse slips? I suppose it must be like spam. The percentage of suckers is incredibly low, but if ads are 10% of internet content, then you'll get a few hits. Still though, I mean, what kind of person goes around saying "Oh! I do want a cheaper morgage!!" *CLICK*. Do any slashdotters have some amusing tales of such perpetually clueless lusers in their domains?
It's important that books like this not be censored. Not because of its content, but because it is an integral part of our history. World History. In the third reich this book was treated as a religious text and so it is key to understanding that era of germany's history. Before and during the war, the book had many admirers in the allied nations, so it is important to remember that there were many people all over the world who agreed with the facists. Other countries were not immune to the lure of facism.
This book needs to be freely available. Clearly, some small few will use this to once again preach hatred, but if is censored, and people are not allowed to see it for what it is(i.e. rubbish, it's almost impossible to read) then the myth of the book may arise again.
I doubt that Bavaria wishes the book to be out of print. hopefully they realise that it is important to see all sides of history. Censoring the past is a very dangerous thing. The only way to fight neo-facists is to show their creed for what it is. Hate. And we can't do that if we lock the past away.
Copyright should not apply to sound. Think about it! What the hell is a song anyway? Words, lyrics, musical notation? Sure copyright can apply to all these things. But the act of someone singing the song itself? Silence?!? Who the hell decided that should be the subject of copyright?!
If Mettalica sing a song, at a concert, and I'm at the concert, or even outside it!, and I record the song on my handy gizmo, am I libel for copyright theft? What the hell did I steal? The changes in pressure in the air? Why the hell is an acoustic waveform the subject of copyright?! The written word yes. The spoken word?
OK Mettalica walk down the street and out loud say XYZ. I take down and print what they have said XYZ in as many ways as I like. I can record them doing so and show it to as many as I like, tabloids do this all he time. Am I liable? Mettalica walk down the street and out loud sing, or hum, ABC(which is one of their songs). I record them doing so and broadcast it? Am I Liable? Yes?! Why! Why their singing is copyrighted of course! Ridiculous.
Super rich rockstars are a recent phenomenon, brough about by the application of copyright to sound itself. This is ridiculous as the "silence" track shows. A soundform is NOT the same as the written word or musical notation. What about all the takes that artists didn't use? They are completely different soundforms? What if I hear the sound through a wall. Again completely different soundform results. Does an artist have rights to every possible soundform resulting from the transformation of their music?
Copyright cannot be applied to nondefinite, unwritten material. Soundwaves should not be copyrightable.
What the hell?! OK guys? How much was slashdot paid for this review exactly, because I simply refuse to believe that such a review (with pictures) would ever have made it past the Slashdot eds without money changing hands.
P.S. The pictures are BS. The game NEVER looks that good, even with progressive scan?
Here for a start. Of course now as I think about it India is also embarking on a space program. It's just ironic that all this is going on while may people in India are still living in third world conditions. One could argue about the size of the country being a factor here, but if people are living in third world conditions in your country then it could well be argued that nuclear arms and space exploration are currently unnessary.
However, as I think about it, the space race gave us many of the technologies that we have today. As did the cold war arms race. And many russians were then, and still are, in similar conditions to many indians today.
I still wonder if poverty is still present because of economic growth or in spite of it. Does a country have to care about its weakest members at all in order to become (generally) prosperous?
India appears to be doing incredibly well under the American Model. It's developing new technologies and expanding its industry and developing nuclear missiles at a huge rate while much of its population still lives in third world conditions, like Detroit.
I'm just wondering if gross inequality is a nessessary or sufficient condition for a country to undergo economic growth.
Oh my god! I just found prior art! My/var/log/meggases
And wait! What's this? It's my.bash_history file!
And what's this in my Go menu? Why it's my 'History' function. Way to go Mozilla! You infringed on a patent before it was even filed. Wow! What will they think of next?
Wait, wait, I forgot.
At the US Patent office they grant patents in spite of trivial things like gross obviousness, originality and indeed patentability itself.
I'm convinced at this point that the higher ups in the USPTO are getting backhanders from the patent lobby.
I second that. This seems to be a disturbing trend in the US, which I hope will not be taken up in other countries. I'll bet it probobly has to do with marketing being applied to legislation. And considering how marketing is 90% about tricking, cajoling and decieving people into buying a product this can only be a bad thing.
PATRIOT is a classic example. A great many would argue that the act was very UNpatriotic. CAN-SPAM, well dual standard here. DMCA Act? This was less about copyright and more about other forms of IP restrcition, reverse engineering, protection circumvention etc. And why was the Millenium tag added? Probobly just to give it a flashier name.
This is a pretty awful thing to have happening to you legislative system. It really demeans and shows great disprespect for one of the most important and venerable institutions in the country. The house rules should really be ammended.
OK so far Fedora TCO=$2.00 for the blank CD's I burned it onto.
You could say stuff about hardware, time, expenses etc, etc, but these are overheads I would have to pay regardless of which OS I went with. I could just add $x to all the above TCOs I suppose. Depends on x.
Look in short, Linux can be downloaded for free. Fantastic applications can be downloaded for free. I can pay programmers to tweak these fantastic applications and indeed the entire system for me if I so choose, changing my existing software to suit new business requirements, rather than having to upgrade to new apps and have to retrain all my staff. I don't have to pay ongoing licence fees, I don't have to pay per CPU, core, seat, employee or whatever. I can have fantasic external security, and very importantly, fantastic internal security, which can be fully customised, and if I'm unhappy with my vendor support, I can sack them and hire another Linux support company.
However, all this does rely on the fact that I have a sysadm who knows what they're doing. Many compnaies will not move to linux as their current sysadm is if fact doubling as the boss or management or accountant. this applies to small companies. Windows lock in is also an issue, and can lead to headaches. Training staff is another cost that cannot be ignored. But interoperability issues and training costs are decreasing all the time.
All this applies to industry. But what about personal use. Case study. My tech illiterate sibling needed a laptop for a humanities course, and we had an old PII one sitting around. It's windows 98SE installation had long since died. Lets talk TCO here.
I could have gone out an bought ME, 2000, or XP and Office would have been a nessesity. Total cost would be close to $300. Instead I put fedora on the laptop with openoffice. Total cost $2. With a vanillia install sibling gets the entire openoffice suite, evolution(with spam filtering), firefox browser, rhythmbox, hotplug support, gaim IM client, and countless other little apps(I'm told KOrganiser is very much liked). Give me one extra hour and I add mp3 and dvd support(useless as it had no drive, but still), set up small hotplug toolbar widgets, various other goodies, samba and a ten minute talk on the root password(never needed as it turned out) and away sibling goes. I get the occassional call when something goes wrong, not very often. I kid you not! This is not made up! Sibling finds Linux usable, functional for formal essay writing and presentation, can use music library easily, can ferry files on USB, can email, can IM, can surf and has even turned on SuperTux when bored. There are performance issues, but these would have existed anyway, no matter what I put on the machine. This is Linux Now. Imagine five years from now. Imagine what I could cook up for $2 then? TCO is the bottom line, and Linux starts at it. Others must work there way down.
I'm going to dump my Fedora Installation(TCO $0.00) and run to the store and buy me Server 2003(TCO $599-$3522 + Licencing).
Definitly not going for RHEL(TCO $349-$2499 + Licencing) because no matter how hard I try, I could never get as secure with up2date, SELinux, Pax and Firefox as I could be with Windows Update, Third party antivirus, Windows Firewall and Security Center. NEVER!
And I shouldn't even be comparing Fedora to Server 2003 because Fedora could never be used as a server of any kind. Neither could Slackware(TCO $0.00), Suse(TCO ~$100.00), Mandrake(TCO ~$100.00), Debian(TC0 $0.00) or any other of those insecure Linux distros! They're not SOLD as servers so they absolutely cannot be compared to server 2003. No way, never, uh-uh.
Wow! This study has really opened my eyes to the lie. Why did I abandon my XP installation(TCO $200.00) after only a few dozen major worm outbreaks? I could have done anything on XP that I can do in Linux. It would only have cost be a few thousand dollars, but I could have!
These researchers have really opened my eyes to the lies. I believe everything they say, even without the data to prove it they..........
Ok here my sarcasm must crack under the sheer enormity of the following statement. The pair said that they lacked the funding to test other operating systems, such as the Apple OSX kernel(TCO $100.00), although they thought it was "amazingly" stable. WTF!? Are these guys for real? Is this study just a troll? I mean... WTF!!?
I will however take a wild guess that their next server security study will have OpenBSD mysteriously absent.
Google Groups isn't fine. Besides other issues mentioned here, google will not carry certain groups, probobly because of cease and desist chilling effects. Example alt.binaries.sounds.mp3.video-game.
This and many other cannot be had on google groups.
Slashdot Mirror
...Google is beginning to scare me.
I mean at first I'm like, yeah great search guys. Then they got groups, that's fine... then maps... gmail... froogle... and now calenders.
What's next a Desktop search tool?
Oh wait....
nations are a really idiotic thing that prevent humankind from working together instead of nations against each other
I don't know. Nations are useful in that they act as a sort of damage containment for human stupidity. Nations help to localise Mass Moron Movements. One nation sounds ok, as long as everyone thinks differently enough. The minute 6 billion people all convince themselves of a single dogmatic ideal... we're boned.
So it's now _officially_ all bug-free.
Torvalds, you scoundrel you!
Next you'll be telling us the kernel was made by the toothfairy for a lower TCO than windows...
Oh wait..
Dual core is a godsend!
As anyone who works with number crunching apps will tell you, having two cores seriously improves your work quality.
Not because number crunchings apps are taking advantage of dual cores.
It's becasue now I can set one core to work on those wicked hard numerical calculations while I kick back and watch movies and play music for a few hours. Bliss!
Nevertheless it would be nice if there was an easier way to make apps use multiple cores. I'd love to be able speed up my crunching by getting a program to use both cores, intuitavely, but I don't expect this to happen any time soon. Surely there has to be easier ways of making apps thread compliant?
But the commission IS taking Microsofts money. Microsoft is one of the commission sponsers.
Also, very large wads of cash in brown paper envelopes have probobly been handed over.
On the other hand, don't attribute to malice what can be explained by simple incompetance.
Unfortunately, the Commission is not an unelected body. They were elected by the Parliment. However, once elected they are free to give the finger to the parliment as much as they like, and the only thing the Parliment can do is sack them, which is NEVER going to happen.
It sort of reminds me of that Discworld novel, where the only decocracy on the Disc was where people elected a new tyrant every year. Each year all of the candidates would promise to do things differently and not terrorise the populace, and every year once elected, they would proceed to be another terrible dictator. This continued year after year, with the whole system being proclaimed a resounding success.
*ring ring*
Not only is this tone now so rare that you are almost gauranteed that it's yours when the phone goes off, it also avoid any and ALL embarrassment whereever and whenever he phone goes off.
Have you even heard of EA?
Shut up you fucking commie prick.
Ok Slashdottereens, lets explain why the parents comment was a troll!
Shut up was used to open the single sentence in this post. A less agressive and more helpful comment along the lines of "Be quiet" or "What you say is wrong" or even "I disagree" would have made a far more sensible opener.
commie was not the most tactful choice of words, nor was it the most accurate. The grandparent never once quoted any significant texts by Marx, nor did he declare membership of any registered communist organisations. fucking commie was hardly called for either. "You are a charletonrous communist" might have given more respectability to the post.
prick would seem out place in such a post. Not only has the parent incorrectly used the noun after the preceeding, verbalised, noun, he has also made a rather tasteless choice, when, "man", "annoying person" and/or "rouge" would easily have sufficed.
Now I understand that a great many slashdottereens may have modded the comment as funny, as the, tart and less than tasteful tone no doubt produced a few giggles, but such comments ultimately lower the quailty of the overall discussion and should be modded downm, lest the funny mod itself be called into disrepute.
In my collage ~40% of the computer systems students are female and the split is about 50:50 in the maths degree.
Put your faith in your CC company and their fraud prevention
Or you could just not use a credit card at all. It's easy!
I never said anything about Microsoft. They're just the publisher. I never even mentioned other shooters. No other shooter even makes my top 15.
My point was that Halo 2 was, and still is, overhyped. It's possibly the most hyped game ever, and I've been hearing hype for a long time.
I never said that the game was bad. It's a great game. But at the end of the day, its still just a game, and not the will of god made flesh as lot of people were making it out to be.
Overhyping on this level is a disservice to the community as a whole. It has worked tremendously for Halo 2 sales figures, granted. But its success can mean only one thing. Expect games with bugger marketing than development budgets from the likes os EA in future.
Halo was released in 2004?
Will it never end? Pretty soon were going to have slashdot stories, about the slashdot stories on Halo 2.
I await the flames, safe in the knowladge that I finished it on legendary and it still doesn't make my top ten. But maybe top 15? Geddit?
I believe I speak for many when I say
"Who the Hell actually clicks on all the popups,popovers,floaters,ads and logos anyway?"
I can safely say the only time I click on an ad when online, is when my mouse slips?
I suppose it must be like spam. The percentage of suckers is incredibly low, but if ads are 10% of internet content, then you'll get a few hits.
Still though, I mean, what kind of person goes around saying "Oh! I do want a cheaper morgage!!" *CLICK*. Do any slashdotters have some amusing tales of such perpetually clueless lusers in their domains?
Mein Kampf is still for sale in many places.
It's important that books like this not be censored. Not because of its content, but because it is an integral part of our history. World History.
In the third reich this book was treated as a religious text and so it is key to understanding that era of germany's history. Before and during the war, the book had many admirers in the allied nations, so it is important to remember that there were many people all over the world who agreed with the facists. Other countries were not immune to the lure of facism.
This book needs to be freely available. Clearly, some small few will use this to once again preach hatred, but if is censored, and people are not allowed to see it for what it is(i.e. rubbish, it's almost impossible to read) then the myth of the book may arise again.
I doubt that Bavaria wishes the book to be out of print. hopefully they realise that it is important to see all sides of history. Censoring the past is a very dangerous thing. The only way to fight neo-facists is to show their creed for what it is. Hate. And we can't do that if we lock the past away.
Copyright should not apply to sound. Think about it! What the hell is a song anyway? Words, lyrics, musical notation? Sure copyright can apply to all these things. But the act of someone singing the song itself? Silence?!? Who the hell decided that should be the subject of copyright?!
If Mettalica sing a song, at a concert, and I'm at the concert, or even outside it!, and I record the song on my handy gizmo, am I libel for copyright theft? What the hell did I steal? The changes in pressure in the air? Why the hell is an acoustic waveform the subject of copyright?! The written word yes. The spoken word?
OK Mettalica walk down the street and out loud say XYZ. I take down and print what they have said XYZ in as many ways as I like. I can record them doing so and show it to as many as I like, tabloids do this all he time. Am I liable? Mettalica walk down the street and out loud sing, or hum, ABC(which is one of their songs). I record them doing so and broadcast it? Am I Liable? Yes?! Why! Why their singing is copyrighted of course! Ridiculous.
Super rich rockstars are a recent phenomenon, brough about by the application of copyright to sound itself. This is ridiculous as the "silence" track shows. A soundform is NOT the same as the written word or musical notation. What about all the takes that artists didn't use? They are completely different soundforms? What if I hear the sound through a wall. Again completely different soundform results. Does an artist have rights to every possible soundform resulting from the transformation of their music?
Copyright cannot be applied to nondefinite, unwritten material. Soundwaves should not be copyrightable.
What the hell?!
OK guys? How much was slashdot paid for this review exactly, because I simply refuse to believe that such a review (with pictures) would ever have made it past the Slashdot eds without money changing hands.
P.S.
The pictures are BS. The game NEVER looks that good, even with progressive scan?
Here for a start.
Of course now as I think about it India is also embarking on a space program. It's just ironic that all this is going on while may people in India are still living in third world conditions. One could argue about the size of the country being a factor here, but if people are living in third world conditions in your country then it could well be argued that nuclear arms and space exploration are currently unnessary.
However, as I think about it, the space race gave us many of the technologies that we have today. As did the cold war arms race. And many russians were then, and still are, in similar conditions to many indians today.
I still wonder if poverty is still present because of economic growth or in spite of it. Does a country have to care about its weakest members at all in order to become (generally) prosperous?
India appears to be doing incredibly well under the American Model. It's developing new technologies and expanding its industry and developing nuclear missiles at a huge rate while much of its population still lives in third world conditions, like Detroit.
I'm just wondering if gross inequality is a nessessary or sufficient condition for a country to undergo economic growth.
Oh my god! I just found prior art! /var/log/meggases
.bash_history file!
My
And wait! What's this? It's my
And what's this in my Go menu? Why it's my 'History' function. Way to go Mozilla! You infringed on a patent before it was even filed. Wow! What will they think of next?
Wait, wait, I forgot.
At the US Patent office they grant patents in spite of trivial things like gross obviousness, originality and indeed patentability itself.
I'm convinced at this point that the higher ups in the USPTO are getting backhanders from the patent lobby.
Remember FOSS needs to keep on being lucky as the lobbists will never stop putting pressure on.
The patent lobby only needs to get lucky once.
After that, we Europeans will be stuck with patents forever, just like Americans are
.
I second that.
This seems to be a disturbing trend in the US, which I hope will not be taken up in other countries. I'll bet it probobly has to do with marketing being applied to legislation. And considering how marketing is 90% about tricking, cajoling and decieving people into buying a product this can only be a bad thing.
PATRIOT is a classic example. A great many would argue that the act was very UNpatriotic. CAN-SPAM, well dual standard here. DMCA Act? This was less about copyright and more about other forms of IP restrcition, reverse engineering, protection circumvention etc. And why was the Millenium tag added? Probobly just to give it a flashier name.
This is a pretty awful thing to have happening to you legislative system. It really demeans and shows great disprespect for one of the most important and venerable institutions in the country. The house rules should really be ammended.
OK so far Fedora TCO=$2.00 for the blank CD's I burned it onto.
You could say stuff about hardware, time, expenses etc, etc, but these are overheads I would have to pay regardless of which OS I went with. I could just add $x to all the above TCOs I suppose. Depends on x.
Look in short, Linux can be downloaded for free. Fantastic applications can be downloaded for free. I can pay programmers to tweak these fantastic applications and indeed the entire system for me if I so choose, changing my existing software to suit new business requirements, rather than having to upgrade to new apps and have to retrain all my staff. I don't have to pay ongoing licence fees, I don't have to pay per CPU, core, seat, employee or whatever. I can have fantasic external security, and very importantly, fantastic internal security, which can be fully customised, and if I'm unhappy with my vendor support, I can sack them and hire another Linux support company.
However, all this does rely on the fact that I have a sysadm who knows what they're doing. Many compnaies will not move to linux as their current sysadm is if fact doubling as the boss or management or accountant. this applies to small companies. Windows lock in is also an issue, and can lead to headaches. Training staff is another cost that cannot be ignored. But interoperability issues and training costs are decreasing all the time.
All this applies to industry. But what about personal use. Case study. My tech illiterate sibling needed a laptop for a humanities course, and we had an old PII one sitting around. It's windows 98SE installation had long since died. Lets talk TCO here.
I could have gone out an bought ME, 2000, or XP and Office would have been a nessesity. Total cost would be close to $300. Instead I put fedora on the laptop with openoffice. Total cost $2. With a vanillia install sibling gets the entire openoffice suite, evolution(with spam filtering), firefox browser, rhythmbox, hotplug support, gaim IM client, and countless other little apps(I'm told KOrganiser is very much liked). Give me one extra hour and I add mp3 and dvd support(useless as it had no drive, but still), set up small hotplug toolbar widgets, various other goodies, samba and a ten minute talk on the root password(never needed as it turned out) and away sibling goes. I get the occassional call when something goes wrong, not very often. I kid you not! This is not made up! Sibling finds Linux usable, functional for formal essay writing and presentation, can use music library easily, can ferry files on USB, can email, can IM, can surf and has even turned on SuperTux when bored. There are performance issues, but these would have existed anyway, no matter what I put on the machine. This is Linux Now. Imagine five years from now. Imagine what I could cook up for $2 then? TCO is the bottom line, and Linux starts at it. Others must work there way down.
I'm going to dump my Fedora Installation(TCO $0.00)
.....
and run to the store and buy me Server 2003(TCO $599-$3522 + Licencing).
Definitly not going for RHEL(TCO $349-$2499 + Licencing) because no matter how hard I try, I could never get as secure with up2date, SELinux, Pax and Firefox as I could be with Windows Update, Third party antivirus, Windows Firewall and Security Center. NEVER!
And I shouldn't even be comparing Fedora to Server 2003 because Fedora could never be used as a server of any kind. Neither could Slackware(TCO $0.00), Suse(TCO ~$100.00), Mandrake(TCO ~$100.00), Debian(TC0 $0.00) or any other of those insecure Linux distros! They're not SOLD as servers so they absolutely cannot be compared to server 2003. No way, never, uh-uh.
Wow! This study has really opened my eyes to the lie. Why did I abandon my XP installation(TCO $200.00) after only a few dozen major worm outbreaks? I could have done anything on XP that I can do in Linux. It would only have cost be a few thousand dollars, but I could have!
These researchers have really opened my eyes to the lies. I believe everything they say, even without the data to prove it they.....
Ok here my sarcasm must crack under the sheer enormity of the following statement.
The pair said that they lacked the funding to test other operating systems, such as the Apple OSX kernel(TCO $100.00), although they thought it was "amazingly" stable.
WTF!? Are these guys for real? Is this study just a troll? I mean... WTF!!?
I will however take a wild guess that their next server security study will have OpenBSD mysteriously absent.
Google Groups isn't fine. Besides other issues mentioned here, google will not carry certain groups, probobly because of cease and desist chilling effects. Example alt.binaries.sounds.mp3.video-game .
This and many other cannot be had on google groups.