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  1. Re:Version number MADNESS on Linux 3.2 Has Been Released · · Score: 1

    Actually, it was version 2.7 of Solaris that was renamed as Solaris 7 which also is SunOS 5.7 (e.g. in man pages). The current Solaris 11 is really Solaris 2.11 is also SunOS 5.11.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solaris_(operating_system)#Version_history

    Everybody Clear?

  2. Re:Wow on Linux 3.2 Has Been Released · · Score: 3, Funny

    I definitely still like women, I just can't remember why....

  3. Re:baseball caps and hoodies on Avoiding Facial Recognition of the Future · · Score: 1

    that's what pick-pockets wear all right, but that attracts cop attention too.

  4. Re:Cure worse than disease? on Avoiding Facial Recognition of the Future · · Score: 2

    News for you, big city police do it all the time. I'm from Chicago. Dress like a "delinquent punk" or gangbanger, get treated like one. Sorry, don't shoot the messenger. There needs to be a second consideration here, how to not set off the mental radar of the Man.

  5. recently installed it on FreeDOS 1.1 Released · · Score: 1

    os/2 had settings too that might need twiddling, file control blocks (FCBS), buffers, RMSIZE, vemm.sys, etc.

  6. Re:Is No One Excited? on FreeDOS 1.1 Released · · Score: 1

    There are free realtime OS where you can talk to the hardware directly, but that is not the best for a general purpose personal computer for the masses. But you can still play, invent or tinker if you want.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_real-time_operating_systems (columns where source model == open source)

    Or you can write a driver for Linux or a BSD kernel....yes more complicated, hence more fun.

  7. Re:Is No One Excited? on FreeDOS 1.1 Released · · Score: 3, Informative

    so submit a programming article

  8. helps boot stubborn thin clients on FreeDOS 1.1 Released · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I love to make servers and appliances out of thin clients. But some of those thin clients refuse to boot GNU/Linux or BSD from native file system in external device, or in some cases from large (>2GB) partition. But they will boot GRUB in a FREEDOS partition.

  9. tech world also notes on IE6 Almost Dead In the US · · Score: 2

    the tech world also with fond nostalgia noted the passing of Firefox 5,6,7 in the past few months and the imminent demise of FF 8

  10. Re:doesn't say a thing about cloud services on Google Health's Lifeline Runs Out · · Score: 1

    You have a silly misconception, he was not a customer. he was a "user". the "customers" pay google millions of dollars for analytics and marketing. Free is always justification for terminating a service. there is nothing wrong with it. Turing0 could have paid any amount at all, then we would have customer and the matter would be greatly different (even under law), and he could indeed have basis for complaining.

    there is old story of rich man who went to a man's house and gave him $1,000 every week. but one day, months later, the rich man went to another house in the neighborhood to give $1,000, and the first guy was angry and yelled "where is my $1,000! you are a thief, give me my money!"

    It is the same thing. the answer to be given in either case is the same, 'shut the fuck up, you whining ingrate."

  11. Re:The production of child porn is victimization.. on Why Richard Stallman Was Right All Along · · Score: 1

    You'll note other asian countries have older ages of consent. I will go against the politically correct mindset people think we must have and say japan is wrong, that age is too young and they are harming 13 year olds with their culture's bad mindset.

  12. Re:The production of child porn is victimization.. on Why Richard Stallman Was Right All Along · · Score: 1

    we're speaking of children here, not teens. A three year old or a six year old or a twelve year old are not capable of protecting themselves, nor understanding sexual matters, nor should be engaging in sex with adults under any circumstances. This is enforced by law, and I would have it enforced by death penalty since I know victims who have their mental health and lives destroyed.

  13. Re:The production of child porn is victimization.. on Why Richard Stallman Was Right All Along · · Score: 1

    you can consent to things when you are older, including things that might give you disease or kill you. so what? we as society say there are things for which children are not allowed to give consent, to protect them

  14. Re:The production of child porn is victimization.. on Why Richard Stallman Was Right All Along · · Score: 1

    No, as society we say that is not true when speaking of children, that even if voluntary it is evil for adult sexually molest or have intercourse with children. It is irrelevant whether the child feels harmed or not, irrelevant whether consent given or not.

  15. Re:The production of child porn is victimization.. on Why Richard Stallman Was Right All Along · · Score: 0

    no, this is not the same, for I am not saying it to a child. i am telling an adult why children need to be protected, by way of a thought experiment. We are not talking of "overbearing parenting" but of society protecting children from paedophiles. This is very much everyone's business, it is my business. Are you saying as adult you should have the freedom to have sex, as long as it is voluntary, with a child aged 12 or less? I say a person who commits such a heinous act should be put to death.

  16. Re:Wrong on Why Richard Stallman Was Right All Along · · Score: 1

    Stallman is not right, child doesn't understand enough to make sexual decisions and must be protected from those who would manipulate them for sexual gratification.

  17. Re:The production of child porn is victimization.. on Why Richard Stallman Was Right All Along · · Score: 3, Insightful

    And suppose two weeks later you found out you had a fatal sexually transmitted disease? Or if you were female, that you were pregnant? We protect the young from adults who would manipulate them for sexual gratification because they don't fully understand enough to protect themselves. If Stallman thinks it's ok to manipulate a child into willingly giving sexual pleasure to an adult, he should have a bullet though his skull.

  18. Re:doesn't say a thing about cloud services on Google Health's Lifeline Runs Out · · Score: 0

    you'd better be expecting exactly nothing from google's free services. that way, you won't be disappointed when you get it. google owes you nothing.

  19. Re:Awesome watered down title there on Ask Slashdot: Re-Entering the Job Market As a Software Engineer? · · Score: 2

    yes. that's often what we do.

  20. prove you can code on Ask Slashdot: Re-Entering the Job Market As a Software Engineer? · · Score: 4, Interesting

    write some open source wares that do something useful. nothing like a project on the top of your resume. worked for me....

  21. Re:Awesome watered down title there on Ask Slashdot: Re-Entering the Job Market As a Software Engineer? · · Score: 2

    the sales engineers I know actually do engineering while the sales rep just sells clients on an idea. For example, i worked at a place that sold custom power switchgear, the sales engineers were EE who designed solutions.

  22. captain of road prison 36 says on SCADA Vulnerabilities In Prisons Could Open Cell Doors · · Score: 1

    what we got here, is a failure to firewall communication

  23. Re:http://xkcd.com/936/ on Ask Slashdot: Changing Passwords For the New Year? · · Score: 1

    for your situation, the xkcd cartoon would be goons holding the kitty and saying "cough up the password or the cat gets the $5 wrench therapy"

  24. doesn't say a thing about cloud services on Google Health's Lifeline Runs Out · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Turing0, how much were you paying for your Google Health? what service guarantee did you get for your paid contract with them? Oh, $0 and nothing. Quit your whining, so a free trial balloon was cancelled, pony up some bucks for an equivalent service with a vendor and then you'll have a right to complain about service or lack thereof.

  25. Re:It gives you 10 incompatible choices on Arise SIR Jonathan Ive · · Score: 1

    you have unusual windows admins then, the many-years certified admins at my employer can't do a damn thing with powershell. A good unix admin can get shit done with the text shells.....