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  1. Re:What does antivirus have to do with privacy? on Privacy Resolutions for the New Year · · Score: 1

    Some viruses exist that will send random documents from your hard drive to people in your address book. Not many, but some.

  2. Re:Forced Upgrade. on Four New Unpatched Windows Vulnerabilities · · Score: 1

    oh yeah, that's not a forced upgrade, goodness no.

  3. Re:Parent didn't say Cygwin... on Qt 4 Beta 1 Available for Download · · Score: 1

    Well, the people with the need and desire are trying, but they haven't got there yet.

  4. Re:Ignoring reality on Qt 4 Beta 1 Available for Download · · Score: 1

    As the other reply suggested, I'm using Linux. While wxUniversal does have an attempt at an X11 port going, it looks pretty dead. And I've had a real nightmare getting wx working via GTK.

  5. Re:Don't forget on Qt 4 Beta 1 Available for Download · · Score: 1

    No, there's a very important distinction. The KDE people want KDE itself to remain LGPL - something which your (presuming you are grandparent) previous post would suggest you support. That's the reason they don't allow GPL libraries into KDE, and also why they're careful to keep KDE and Qt distinct. The idea is that propriety projects can still use KDE - they'll just have to buy a license for Qt.

  6. Re:Merry Christmas Geeks on Rage Against the Machines · · Score: 1

    Family are going off to midnight mass. I'm not religious. I don't mind going on the day to be with the folk of the village, familyness etc., but I draw the line at going off into town to church at midnight.

  7. Re:Better things to do on Ho, Ho, Ho · · Score: 1

    You're not really in a position to be making points about slashdotting on christmas eve.

  8. Re:The obligatory scrooge on Ho, Ho, Ho · · Score: 1
    That is because you do not realise the truth

    What truth?

    There is no Santa. Then you will see it is not the Santa that breaks the rules of Physics, but your mind.

  9. Re:Argh! on Ho, Ho, Ho · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Because, as someone above said, then you start believing in religion, and then you start killing people.

  10. Re:Still up? on Ho, Ho, Ho · · Score: 3, Funny

    I think some people do some thing involving ... other "people" ... at christmas. Bah, me and my speakers are having a right jolly time.

  11. Re:Why not a bar code? on RFID Cards to Include Tin Foil Hats? · · Score: 1

    So are RFID chips. They're being used for everything, it's not as if only the government has access to the technology.

  12. Re:So why have them? on RFID Cards to Include Tin Foil Hats? · · Score: 1

    A modifiable barcode would be worse than useless, surely?

  13. Re:So... on RFID Cards to Include Tin Foil Hats? · · Score: 1

    You think those are more likely to happen than a bored checkin person not bothering to look at the photo?

  14. Re:Still too invasive on RFID Cards to Include Tin Foil Hats? · · Score: 1

    If it's not setting off the metal detector just keep it on you. Of course if they strip-search you they'll find it, but that would be the case anyway.

  15. Re:digital signatures on Four New Unpatched Windows Vulnerabilities · · Score: 0

    MD5's not really secure enough any more - especially for Debian where more or less anyone can add a package.

  16. Re:Forced Upgrade. on Four New Unpatched Windows Vulnerabilities · · Score: 1

    That's only while he's preparing you. The XP SP2 vulnerabilities will be ones which make your monitor explode, then in Longhorn we'll start seeing ones where an attacker can pull an uzi on you.

  17. Re:Forced Upgrade. on Four New Unpatched Windows Vulnerabilities · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    And if I don't have the hard disk space for it?

  18. Re:Forced Upgrade. on Four New Unpatched Windows Vulnerabilities · · Score: 1

    Netscape's the key. Stay off IE and you're fine, even in win 3.0.

  19. Re:1/233? on Introducing Asteroid 2004 MN4 · · Score: 1

    It could miss us in lots of different ways - too high, too low, too far to the left, too fast, etc. Space is very big and the Earth is really a rather small target.

  20. Re:Not a Chance! on Introducing Asteroid 2004 MN4 · · Score: 1

    There is no causation. People just claim cause and effect to make their miserable, pointless lives seem worthwile.

  21. Re:Nothing to worry about? on Introducing Asteroid 2004 MN4 · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Any other forces are just as likely to redirect it away from us as towards us

  22. Re:Don't forget on Qt 4 Beta 1 Available for Download · · Score: 1

    KDE does not allow Qt into KDE either. It just uses Qt, because at the time (and arguably now) qt was the only library suitable for making a user-friendly desktop environment. It's not about money-grabbing, it's about pragmatism.

  23. Re:Too bad on Rage Against the Machines · · Score: 1
    Your monitor's broken? That's too bad. That must make it even harder to post on Slashdot.

    Install emacspeak and w3. It's doable.

  24. Re:Merry Christmas Geeks on Rage Against the Machines · · Score: 3, Insightful
    You do realise you're on slashdot yourself on christmas eve posting that, yes?

    Well, time to go up out of the basement and sing some carols. Merry Christmas to you.

  25. Re:Remember on Rage Against the Machines · · Score: 3, Funny

    We obviously know different people and keyboards.