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  1. major fail upgrade on Microsoft Rolls Out Major Fall Update To Windows 10 (windows10update.com) · · Score: 1

    >Have you updated your Windows 10 install yet? What was your experience?
    I've been sofar successfully fought back Microsoft's insistence on breaking my working Win 7 setup. I know someone who was less lucky.

  2. Re:The malware is injected into Web sites .. on Linux Ransomware Has Predictable Key, Automated Decryption Tool Released (csoonline.com) · · Score: 1

    Linux yes, Linux webservers with usual use cases no.

  3. Re:Um, it's pretty much over, dude on The Two Modern Space Races (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 3, Funny

    I consider this a huge disaster.

  4. Re: This would have never happened. on Badly-Coded Ransomware Locks User Files and Throws Away Encryption Key (softpedia.com) · · Score: 1

    Isn't there a rope/chain which helps you pull the blade back to the original position? If this rope is across a pulley, or hole, and has a knot, it won't wind down properly, likely halting the blade. I don't know all the nuances of the RL construct of a guillotine, but i'm fairly sure it could be constructed with a rope and it may have a blocking knot feature and still be called guillotine.

  5. Re:Summary missing information on NASA's Maven Mission Solves the Mystery of Mars' Lost Atmosphere · · Score: 1

    So our solar system rolled at least 4 times with the dice, and won only once.

  6. Re:Science is Settled on NASA Study Shows Net Gains For Antarctic Ice (google.com) · · Score: 1

    All I know, low laying islands and shorelines are getting into trouble. Google for Maldives.

  7. Re:The Commit Message on Busybox Deletes Systemd Support · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I understand that your life is easier, but this topic is about Busybox. Their life was made harder, just like many other people who are not satisfied with systemd. Obviously, you are a sysadmin with some own development, not a distro maker who tried to integrate 10+ applications where one of them doesn't want to cooperate with the rest.

  8. Re:So what the fuck is the story here? on Man Licenses His Video Footage To Sony, Sony Issues Copyright Claim Against Him (petapixel.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Yeah, next time the automated system will imprison him. Why is he complaining now?

  9. Simple task? on Maybe You Don't Need 8 Hours of Sleep After All (theatlantic.com) · · Score: 1

    How many squirrels you caught with bare hands?

  10. Re:Candidate Obama on Documents Expose the Inner Workings of Obama's Drone Wars · · Score: 1

    When the drone doesn't kill the designated target, there could be other cases than civilian casualty:

    1. nothing substantial hit
    2. another terrorist hit
    3. target only wounded

  11. You can blackmail someone only if they have something to hide. These MPs surely have nothing to hide!

    (tune your sarcasm detector if it didn't blip)

  12. Re:9 out of 10 "Americans" think Columbus on China Arrests Hackers At Behest of US Government (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    No, you are wholly processed hydrogen.

  13. Re:Who? on Matthew Garrett Forks the Linux Kernel · · Score: 1

    Actually, it isn't so terribly important to get anyone into open source. I, for one, would like the open source environment like in the early 2000's. Back in those times, people who joined an OS project was genuinely interested in the project, and stuff like gender, race, nationality, was not important and often not known. People were judged by their commits.

  14. Re:Issue is more complicated on Linux Kernel Dev Sarah Sharp Quits, Citing 'Brutal' Communications Style · · Score: 1

    But... isn't communicating a different way with women is a distinction based on gender (aka sexist behavior)?

  15. Re:How do they define GM? on Majority of EU Nations Seek Opt-Out From Growing GM Crops · · Score: 1

    You further a strawman argument. People who don't fear GM food would still want to choose between products. For example, we have the "made in " labels. It isn't because we consider Chinese products unsafe..

    Monsanto products should be simply banned in the EU on the basis of being an invasive monopoly which, if left unchecked, will take over the whole agricultural sector. Their patented genes escape in the wild, infecting GM free cultures. Their policy about these GM infected plants is that anyone have them should pay their tax and/or destroy their own seeds. What is this, if not a hostile takeover?

    Even if you are not scared by GM stuff, i'm only mildly afraid, you should be scared by the fact, that Monsanto will be the Microsoft of agriculture. And in this case, if they mess up something, they take everyone with themselves.

  16. Re:And you call the Americans anti-science on Majority of EU Nations Seek Opt-Out From Growing GM Crops · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I call myself anti-monsanto. Them monopolizing agriculture is the most evil and reckless act i've ever seen. And that includes the oil companies killing all living in the oceans.
    Monsanto play with all our lives. I'm not fearing of a sentient corn, i'm fearing of famine due to their corn one day becomes scarce because they are unable or unwilling to sell seeds.

  17. Re:Speaking of MS and "privacy"??? on Apple, Microsoft Tout Their Privacy Policies To Get Positive PR · · Score: 1

    Actually, we all know Microsoft is evil :D

  18. Re:Hypocrisy on George W Bush Made Retroactive NSA 'Fix' After Hospital Room Showdown · · Score: 1

    Cthulhu is actually a mild one. Nyarlathotep or Yog-Sothoth are big league.

  19. please explain this to me on Microsoft's Satya Nadella Shown Up By Confused Cortana Assistant · · Score: 1

    1. was this a temporary glitch ?
    2. are these CEO's so accustomed to success and trust their subordinates, that they don't feel the need of a private test/rehearsal ?
    3. are they completely detached from reality?

  20. Re:Hey mister negative.... on Magnet-Steered Nano-Fish Could Deliver Drugs and Sweep Body Toxins · · Score: 1

    If you think about it, nanomachines shouldn't be smaller than a bacterium. Just because something isn't below 1 micron it could be qualified as nanotecnology, especially stuff that moves around in a living body. Microtechnology is already used for a different thing. So what, 30k nanometers is still small enough to work safely in blood vessels. Probably it can become smaller by a factor, but i doubt "nanomachines" can or should become smaller than that.

  21. Re: He's got company on Donald Trump Thinks Going To Mars Would Be "Wonderful" But There Is a Catch · · Score: 1

    Isn't that what they call embezzling?

  22. Re:Won't do a thing. on Legal Scholars Warn Against 10 Year Prison For Online Pirates · · Score: 1

    The death penalty is for having or sharing media that the government doesn't want to be shared.
    Seeing how the media companies buy law, it is quite the same thing. And seeing how you can get 10 years for this, and get much less for murder, it seems very disproportionate.

  23. Re:Third Possible Fate on Galactic Survey: The Universe Dying as Old Stars Fade Faster Than New Ones Are Born · · Score: 1

    How is that different from heat death?

  24. Re:Justifiable under ISLAM on Fourth Bangladeshi Blogger Murdered · · Score: 1

    How about if they 'wanted sex with a particular bad smelling jihadist".

  25. Re:New meaning on Honeywell Home Controllers Open To Any Hacker Who Can Find Them Online · · Score: 3, Funny

    Also a new meaning to Homeowners :D