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  1. Re:Microsoft Virtual PC on VMware, a Falling Giant? · · Score: 1

    Virtualbox is all well and good, but it doesn't have the infrastructure stuff. It fills the niche that "VMware Workstation" fills, with -some- parts of the server stuff too.

  2. Re:Now do the same for China on Microsoft, Mozilla and Google Ban Malaysian Intermediate CA · · Score: 1

    Apparently yours is that poor. His point is "well we might as well do X since we're already doing Y" meaning he disagrees with Y.

  3. Re:I thought Linux was so secure slashdotters on Microsoft, Mozilla and Google Ban Malaysian Intermediate CA · · Score: 1

    Your OS can't help you if you do everything wrong anyway. You can get DOS up and exploitable if you're just the right sort of special (hint, if you miss it: DOS doesn't have a built-in network stack)

  4. Re:Now do the same for China on Microsoft, Mozilla and Google Ban Malaysian Intermediate CA · · Score: 1

    Because you want to? Does it matter? The point is that you can - just like you can import your own CA.

  5. Re:Anti-Iran sentiment on Iranian Police Tracking Dissidents Using Tech From Western Companies · · Score: 2

    I think it means you lack the flexibility to interpret language in practice.

    What, are you a computer? Deal with it, it wasn't hard to understand the intended meaning from context.

  6. Re:Anti-Iran sentiment on Iranian Police Tracking Dissidents Using Tech From Western Companies · · Score: 1

    Then you didn't actually play BF3 did you?

    SPOILER: A renegade was manipulating everyone, and the only reason Russia is involved is because they want to get their nukes back before anyone realizes they lost them to begin with.

  7. Re:Now do the same for China on Microsoft, Mozilla and Google Ban Malaysian Intermediate CA · · Score: 1

    Nothing prevents you from installing their certificate yourself if you don't agree with the decision.

  8. Re:I'm more interested... on Pancake Flipping Is Hard — NP Hard · · Score: 1

    Those are some tasty beetles.

  9. Re:Why are they such assholes? on Apple Threatens Bistro Over "AppleADay" Name · · Score: 2

    Better watch out, I hear your local grocery store has hundreds if not thousands of violators out back...

  10. Re:Releasing pent up energy on Minor Quakes In the UK Likely Caused By Fracking · · Score: 1

    While that happens (subsidence), this is not what we are thinking of. Consider the fluid being injected to be WD-40. You've got a sticky joint that won't move without adding a lot more pressure.

    You can add more pressure (leave it be and let it release when it would without interference) or you can lube it up and release the tension that's in it now.

    Both might suck, but you can argue that the latter sucks less than the former (overall) even though the other might not apply within a geologically significant amount of time.

    Now, what you're thinking of (subsidence) wouldn't directly apply, it's POSSIBLE that the movement could "loosen" an impediment that is keeping the static friction threshold too high for the current energy to overcome, and by removing that impediment you could trigger a release... though I think that would be even rarer an occurrence than what I outlined above.

    Disclaimer: I am not a geologist or anything approaching one.

  11. Re:Interesting idea: on Minor Quakes In the UK Likely Caused By Fracking · · Score: 2

    Well, yes it does. For the quake to occur naturally, more energy will need to be applied in order to overcome the static friction. If you lower the static friction threshold, the plates act without adding the additional energy that more time and tectonic activity would build on behind it.

    The problem is that the energy already there to be released might already be bad news. It's still better news than waiting, though.

  12. Re:Even with a major earthquake on Minor Quakes In the UK Likely Caused By Fracking · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Yea, 'cause you don't have to drill through that first, and there's no chance that raising the pressure below could force things just under the water table up into it.

    It might not be as bad as 'the sky is falling' folks claim, but it isn't good either.

  13. Re:Adaptation... on Light Barrier Repels Mosquitoes · · Score: 1

    but but but there was no underline! </sarcasm>

  14. Re:Well well on India To Build A Thorium Reactor · · Score: 1

    Lets not forget about Darwaza while we're at it! Can't let coal have all the fun!

  15. Re:Well well on India To Build A Thorium Reactor · · Score: 1

    Pure water is quite corrosive stuff.

  16. Re:Does happen on India To Build A Thorium Reactor · · Score: 1

    ahem.

  17. Re:Too bad there's no easy way... on KDE 3.5 Fork Trinity Releases First Major Update · · Score: 1

    I've not used gnome 3, but KDE 4 hardly feels that way. I get around just as well (if not better) than I did in 3.x

  18. Re:Trinity 3.5 on KDE 3.5 Fork Trinity Releases First Major Update · · Score: 2

    He acknowledged that, had you cared to read a few more sentences before jumping to reply.

  19. Re:Install media? on OpenBSD 5.0 Unleashed On the World · · Score: 1

    Oh. Well, allow me to say "Hurr!"

  20. Re:I wish they would do the obvious on How X-Ray Scanners Became Mandatory In US Airports · · Score: 1

    Not too good at reading, are you?

  21. Re:I wish they would do the obvious on How X-Ray Scanners Became Mandatory In US Airports · · Score: 1

    Perhaps that is a reason you don't get any :P

  22. Re:Coming to a town near you on Anonymous Cancels Drug-Ring Attack · · Score: 1

    The drug cartels aren't rolling into the US with tanks or flying strike missions into our airspace. It's just a little bit different, don't you think?

  23. Re:And? on Duqu Installer Exploits Windows Kernel Zero Day · · Score: 1

    Yea, and firewalling SMTP is a good way to stop you getting any mail.

  24. Re:And? on Duqu Installer Exploits Windows Kernel Zero Day · · Score: 3, Informative

    You understand what a zero-day is right? Scanning the attachment would have done exactly nothing useful, and have given you a false sense of security on top of it!

  25. Re:Why / How? on Duqu Installer Exploits Windows Kernel Zero Day · · Score: 1

    I hope that was sarcasm.