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  1. Just pointing out the obvious on Poor Passwords A Worse Problem Than Poor Antivirus · · Score: 1

    It would be interesting to see a solution. I have easily 25 different logins in use for my job. At many places I am not allowed to choose my own login and then they base it on my name and each does that in a different way. Some add numbers to it. Some are shared logins.

    Some I can set the password, some I may change the password and some I must change the password. The shared ones can not be changed as others then would not be able to use it and then others I must ask to change and yet others I can not change at all.

    As I try to have this as simple as possible, I use the same passwords, so the result is that I have more different logins then passwords, but still I need to have a file with all logins and passwords.

    So the easy part is pointing out the problem. The hard part is coming up with a solution. I can't use Firefox and am not allowed to install any programs at work.

  2. Re:It's time! on AOL Picking Up Journalists Shed By Conventional Media · · Score: 1

    BULLSHIT!

  3. Re:Throw the baby out with the bathwater on After Links To Cybercrime, Latvian ISP Cut Off · · Score: 2, Interesting

    A real problem here is that if upstream providers do this sort of thing, there is no limit to their power.

    Well, all providers have this power and are using it. You bet that my (and hopefully your) upstream provider will cut me off very fast the moment I start spamming the world.

    What I then must do is either look for another (upstream) provider or stop spamming.

    If I would start moaning "but I was not accused by law of anything" they would just show me the AUP I agreed with. The same should be happening with anybodies provider. You spam? We disallow you to do that over our network.

  4. Re:Geekiness is irrelevant. on Navigating a Geek Marriage? · · Score: 1

    Apparently you think that if there is an argument, there is resentment. That is completely not true. An argument happens if there is a difference in opinion. If there never is a difference in opinion, it will get boring and very often one of the people involved will try to find some sort of excitement elsewhere.

    I do not know if you have brothers or sisters. I have a sister and the arguments we had were tremendous. Obviously arguing should not be the ONLY way of communicating. But an argument once in a while can be great. If the response to 'Boiled or mashed potatoes?' is 'I don't care, whatever you want is fine by me.' then your relationship is indeed either doomed or will be so without any passion by the time you reach your 12.5 anniversary. (Between 10 and 12 are some of the most critical years)

    Oh and the make-up-sex can be great.

    So first realize that arguing is not the same as resentment.

  5. Re:Is it FOSS? on SUSE Studio 1.0 Released · · Score: 1

    Yes. Also YOU can decide if you want things added that are not completely FOSS or even closed source if you so desire. It is _you_ who adds whatever you want. If you decide to add wine and put Office on it, that is your choice.

    If you talk about openSUSE itself, then you can decide to just rune pure FOSS and not add the extra repository where non FOSS software is, like Opera.

  6. Re:Some questions on SUSE Studio 1.0 Released · · Score: 5, Informative

    1) does it force the use of RPM? Some prefer DEB, or even ebuilds.
    It is SLE and openSUSE based distro's so yes, you will be best to use RPM.

    2) potential for HyperVM, Virtualbox, etc images? Would be nice to see them.
    You can make USB, ISO, Xen and VMware Virsual Machine images.

    3) kernels? what about kernels? Can you config your own? How about patches?
    This builds the image, not the software. You can point it to any repository you desire, so if you make your own repository with the kernel in it with e.g. https://build.opensuse.org/, you can use it.

    What it does is 'just' make an image.
    Some screenshots I have made here: http://houghi.org/susestudio/

    Updates and patches will be gotten from openSUSE or Novell or somewhere else if you point it somewhere else.

    Just go to http://susestudio.com/ and click on the "Watch a screencast" or go to http://susestudio.com/screencast for two more movies that explain just what and how things work.

  7. Look at the positive side on UK Plans To Monitor 20,000 Families' Homes Via CCTV · · Score: 1

    Due to all the cameras, there is almost no crime anymore. All they need to do is re-introduce the death penalty, so there will be no more murders, just like in the USofA.

  8. Not only video games! on Games Fail To Portray Gender and Ethnic Diversity · · Score: 1

    Look at chess! OMG! Only two ethnic entities and only one women on each side. No wonder there are so many wars in the past. Chess makes people violent and sexists and racists. The small figures are clearly children who are the first to be killed as if they were mere pawns in a game. Who kills children like that?
    And the self sacrifice is fueling the minds of terrorists.

    I think I am going to propose a law that outlaws chess as it is clearly undermining our society. Everybody who is against that is clearly a sexist, racist, killing, pedophile terrorist ...

  9. Re:Is this the year of clowns? on RIAA Awarded $675,000 In Tenenbaum Trial · · Score: 1

    This is spoon fed my numerous movies. There is a situation where a bomb/disaster/whatever could kill millions of people, but what they do first is not save millions, but save the wife/kid/dog. (Ahh, it's puppies.)

  10. Re:There is no god on Fewer Than 10 ET Civilizations In Our Galaxy? · · Score: 2, Funny

    One word: Moths!

  11. We send out signals for how long? on Fewer Than 10 ET Civilizations In Our Galaxy? · · Score: 1

    Say we send out signals for 100 years now. Who says we keep doing that for ever and ever? Could well be that we find a more efficient way to send messages to somewhere. Let us assume that we go to the skies, who says we will leave our galaxy?

    If we do not even know if WE will do such a thing, who knows what OTHERS want to do?

    The Europeans are very much about broadening their horizons since, well almost forever. The Chinese where happy where they were, even if they could have gone and conquered the world much earlier.

    So who know there are many civilizations out there and they just don't care to show up. Took us a log time to find another civilization and those by accident, not because we we looking for them and they were not looking for us.

    And that is on one small world.

  12. Re:A bit of a Summary on A.I. Developer Challenges Pro-Human Bias · · Score: 1

    So a forest is more intelligent then a human? I think the word he is looking for is stronger or even more resistant, not more intelligent.
    When talking about magnitudes, why not look at things you can compare much easier. Put a geek in a boxing ring with a boxer and see who is more "intelligent".

  13. The Netherlands invaded Sweden? on The Pirate Bay Ordered To Block Dutch Users · · Score: 4, Informative

    I would think that is the bigger headline here. Otherwise, how could a Dutch court demand anything from a Swedish company?

    Or perhaps they should demand the legal drinking age in the US to be 16.

    And the irony is that downloading is legal in the Netherlands, just not uploading.

  14. Distribution based distribution on CentOS Project Administrator Goes AWOL · · Score: 1

    This can happen if you have a distribution based distribution where the original distribution is not happy to help. That can become a problem.

    Making an openSUSE or SLE based distribution will be much easier to do. This with both the openSUSE Build Service and SUSE Studio

    The most work will be in removing the trademarks for which they have developed rembrand

  15. I am not human on Making a Game of Hardware Design · · Score: 1

    If this is something a human should be able to do better then an AI, I am not human.

    I could only solve the first level of 3SAT and none of anySAT. I also did not try really hard as it got bored pretty fast and was thinking: why not write a program to do it. That would be so much easier.

    I just randomly clicked.

  16. Re:Open-Source developers are jerks on Alan Cox Quits As Linux TTY Maintainer — "I've Had Enough" · · Score: 1

    Sounds like musicians. When they ask what you think of your music and you say you did not like it, they will go about how you don't know anything about music. I know some who don't do that, but many will.
    Or when discussion something with a manager or with an employee or with a person in the pub.

    So basically people will get defensive when you disagree with them. The more personal it is, the more defensive they will become. If it is something they thought up it is very personal.

    Just try to change how people work. Many people will not like to do that, even though it will make life easier, because they feel that if they change, it means they were wrong in how they did it before. People don't like to be wrong.

  17. Re:Anyone Going? on First MS Retail Stores Will be In Scottsdale, AZ and Mission Viejo, CA · · Score: 0

    About the drink. Most likely it was a Belgian Kriek. By adding ice to it, Microsoft has done what it does best: they took a great product and watered it down.

    In Belgium there would be a mob lynching if they would see somebody do that.

  18. Automated translations? on In Europe, Auto Spam Translation Kicks In · · Score: 1

    And you thought the English spam was bad.

    I am still amazed that email is still used at these high levels of abuse.

  19. Re:Before the arguments start? on Fair Use Defense Dismissed In SONY V. Tenenbaum · · Score: 4, Funny

    Point taken. Bet you wish you had not made all that fuss over a bit of tea. ;-)

  20. Why not the book itself? on Researchers Debut Barcode Replacement · · Score: 3, Funny

    If it is able to hold so much information, why not get the whole book and not just the location? Well, with the books I read that should not be a problem. They are about 8 pages, made of chewable non-toxid cardboard.

  21. Re:Oh Noes! on 26 Years Old and Can't Write In Cursive · · Score: 1

    It is beautiful. I just can not read it. I can't read the handwriting of my parents. At least not with very much difficulty. And I must know what the subject is about. However when I just look at it, it looks beautuful.

  22. Re:Anyone Give A Shit What That Clown Says? Anyone on Stallman Says Pirate Party Hurts Free Software · · Score: 3, Interesting

    So true. A few years ago on FOSDEM I saw a speech he gave. I almost wanted to run to the store and buy an full version Windows just to piss him off. (Buy, not install) I found him so arrogant and annoying that everything he said became irrelevant.

  23. Re:Not contribution; use on Microsoft Makes Second GPLv2 Release · · Score: 1

    If they could do the same for Outlook, it would mean a lot more to me.

  24. Re:Stop being such pussies. on US Agency Blocked Cellphone / Driving Safety Study · · Score: 1

    You do not see the big picture. Darwin will take care of it. Sure some innocent people will be killed in the process, but in just 10 to 15 generations we will have people who are able to call and drive at the same time.

    For the same reason speed limits should be abandoned. It will weed out the old, weak and slow and we will end up with people who can jump away from an approaching car very fast.

    That is for those of you who believe in Darwinism. For the others: it is the will of God don't taunt him by evading the time of death He has decided.

  25. Obligatory on Delete Data On Netbook If Stolen? · · Score: 1

    Nuke it from space - it's the only way to be sure.