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  1. Re:It's Not ALL Bloggers on Bloggers Not Journalists, Federal Judge Rules · · Score: 3, Funny

    Libel: Obama is an antichrist muslim terrorist. He lied, cheated, and stole in order to get elected. He did so purposely to steal money and use his power to help himself and his friends get ahead at the expense of the common guy. He's an asshole, a racist, and a hatemonger.

    A bad example -- outside of the UK, truth is an absolute defense when accused of libel :-p

  2. Re:Simple Solution on Red Cross Debates If Virtual Killing Violates International Humanitarian Law · · Score: 1

    Sounds good -- let's give the copyright and patent cartels imaginary money.

  3. Re:Daily Mail should call out to ban this evil gam on Red Cross Debates If Virtual Killing Violates International Humanitarian Law · · Score: 2

    And it was not a moderation abuse either: an insightful remark doesn't lose it value because it was said in a witty manner.

  4. Re:Benefits and drawbacks on Using a Tablet As Your Primary Computer · · Score: 1

    There is, although non-free non-redistributable so not in the Debian archive. There's about 63768975468 standards-compliant replacements that use SIP, though.

    And for those truly desperate, there's qemu-user, although with Skype's slowness I wouldn't even try using it for voice.

  5. Re:Benefits and drawbacks on Using a Tablet As Your Primary Computer · · Score: 1

    iPad is ARM based but unlike ARM netbooks has a huge base of applications

    Eh? Debian has orders of magnitude more useful software than the App Store.

  6. Re:Duh on Ask Slashdot: One Framework To Rule Them All? · · Score: 4, Funny

    That would go against the whole idea -- you're supposed to write to the network card's ports directly. The instructions you want are IN and OUT. You can do better than to use an existing inefficient IP or TCP stack.

    I guess some soldering iron monkeys will try to dismiss me for not going closer to the metal, though.

  7. Re:Scalability of Algorithms on Email Offline At the Home of Sendmail · · Score: 1

    That's only applicable if you're using FAT, sysvfs, ancient versions of NTFS or ext2 (before dir_index) and others of that age. Any modern filesystem can handle millions or more entries in a directory without going into the O(n^2) hole you're speaking of.

  8. Re:Last I checked... on Have Walled Gardens Killed the Personal Computer? · · Score: 4, Informative

    There's Secure Boot for that.

  9. Re:Capitalism on Fed Gave Banks Eye-Popping Emergency Loans, Without Telling Congress · · Score: 1

    Free Market Capitalism is a good thing for a tiny fraction of the population

    Bullshit. Free Market is a damn wonderful thing, self-repairing and needing no oversight other than disrupting monopolies. It can solve most problems well or at the very least adequately. Compare socialism -- I did happen to live for the first 11 years of my life in a socialist country, the moment it fell all shortages ended nearly the next day. Shop shelves filled immediately, services suddenly became available, and so on. Competition started driving prices down so people could afford those goods and services.

    The problem you see is that the current government, especially in the US, promotes monopolies rather than break them down. Strictly speaking, they promote whoever gives bribes (I refuse to call "campaign donations" otherwise), which essentially boils down to established rich since it's them who can afford those bribes.

    The very basic of free market is: equal rights for everyone. Bailouts are just as bad as outright steered economy -- "in Soviet Russia, government controls the corporation". These are just different labels for the ruling crony class. I don't give a rat's ass if it's The Party or Wall Street, the end result is the same.

  10. Re:For the curious on Domain Theft-for-Ransom Hits css-tricks.com and Others · · Score: 2

    It's a dormitory for students of Kharkov's National University of Radioelectronics -- sounds like a likely place for the cracker to be from.

  11. Re:Maybe on OpenMoko's FreeRunner Rises From the Ashes · · Score: 4, Insightful

    N900 is weak as a phone but outstanding as a micro-laptop. You need to bash some parts into sanity (like, keybindings that work with shift-Fn without a pull-down list of symbols), but you get an actual usable Unix system, rather than just a phone with fart apps like iPhone or Android are.

  12. Re:Who does this? on E-Mail Can Reveal Your Friend Hierarchy · · Score: 1

    Everyone I know has social networking sites adblocked away. Neither does any of my friends use Twitter. I haven't received a SMS from other sources than the bank, phone company and marketing scum in years as well. The only person I know who uses IM is my sister, but she's a 28 years old kid (with kids of her own but hey).

    It might be a generational thing, but at least for me email is an important medium.

  13. Re:Fast Reply on E-Mail Can Reveal Your Friend Hierarchy · · Score: 1

    Let me guess... it's always a local branch, and they can't push it right now because "some details need to be fixed first", right?

  14. Re:Use nginx? on Apache Flaw Allows Internal Network Access · · Score: 3, Informative

    If you do that, you pay full passthrough costs for every single URL -- parsing, 587598237592 (approximately) context switches, ferrying data between two userspace processes, etc. With Apache, you suffer that only for URLs you actually need to proxy.

  15. Re:Use nginx? on Apache Flaw Allows Internal Network Access · · Score: 2, Insightful

    nginx requires you to proxy everything, with Apache you can serve most of the website on that server and proxy away only a small part. Damn useful if you want to run something that needs its own http server (like, python-tornado) yet you don't want to give it a separate subdomain.

  16. Re:comparing notes? on Muslim Medical Students Boycott Darwin Lectures · · Score: 1

    Nothing new. Polish skinheads ("Poland for Poles") are best friends with German neo-nazis ("all slavs, all jews must die"). So is the Nation of Islam with the US Nazi Party.

    And yeah, I put the Church in exactly as much esteem as the Nazi party.

  17. Re:How many die from coal? on Worldwide Support For Nuclear Power Drops · · Score: 1

    You mean, coal pollution that causes entire forests to die in many places worldwide might be harmful to humans?

  18. Re:Too true on Valve's Gabe Newell On Piracy: It's Not a Pricing Problem · · Score: 1

    For me, requiring the Steam rootkit is a dealbreaker as well. "Non-intrusive" my ass. SecuROM turning the system inside out doesn't mean Steam should be allowed free reign.

    Here's an analogy for you: some folks voluntarily agree to be flayed alive and eaten by their partners. Sexual spanking is a far milder and more widespread practice. Thus, having a shopkeeper hit you with a cane in the balls would be an acceptable part of buying bread, right?

  19. Re:She's alive on Lost Russian Mars Probe Phones Home · · Score: 1

    Lesbians on Mars? Ok unless you're afraid of spiders (parody not porn).

  20. Re:Groklaw has a pretty good article. on Bill Gates Takes the Stand In WordPerfect Trial · · Score: 2

    As far as I know, most of the actual crashes happened in device drivers, not in core kernel. Time going back doesn't break the counter itself, just buggy consumers.

  21. Re:Groklaw has a pretty good article. on Bill Gates Takes the Stand In WordPerfect Trial · · Score: 4, Informative

    No, it's not about any chip. Win95/98 had a 32-bit time counter incremented 100 times a second. The bug finally got patched one day, so this means your box runs a fixed version.

  22. Re:Leaking Secret documents... not OK on Bradley Manning's Court Date Finally Set · · Score: 1

    He should get the punishment he deserves, yeah. Which is a Medal of Honor.

    I think he'll get it in the end, but most likely posthumously.

  23. Re:But copyright IS working on Copyright Isn't Working, Says EU Technology Chief Neelie Kroes · · Score: 1

    I don't have the strength to wield a (real) plowshare effectively. That's sad -- the spikes at the bottom would do good damage if you smack someone.

  24. Re:Patients asking for drugs on Drug-Resistant Superbugs Sweeping Across Europe · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I'd be far more concerned about doctors listening to drug companies. They send hordes of representatives who shower doctors with incentives if they prescribe a given drug.

  25. Re:quite some time ago? on New Malware Signed With Stolen Government Certificate · · Score: 1

    Except that there are multiple paths a certificate can be signed. For example, to remove CNNIC, you have to distrust Entrust as well.