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  1. Re:productize? on Kaminsky Offers Injection Antidote · · Score: 1

    So essentially Kaminsky's vision comes down to: "Programmer's won't fix their code to prevent SQL injection errors. So my code will prevent SQL injections as long as developers fix their code to use my product"?

    It may seem biased towards Kaminsky's own code now, but remember this is only the initial, very limited release. Kaminsky has promised that, in version 2.0, he'll be providing patent licenses so that ANY secure code can be legal.

  2. Re:maybe it's time to enlist the Japanese on Mars May Have Been 1/3 Ocean · · Score: 1

    fighting against the large Martian gravity well.

    Your use of "Well" is redundant here. It's obvious that no one should fight Martians badly.

  3. Re:ZOMG GATES FARTED on Bill Gates's New Version of the Einstein Letter · · Score: 1

    Whatever Gates says is PURE GOLD! Follow his advice! Do it NOW! He are a GENIUS!

    Indeed so. Never mind the fact that he's complaining about the US only having 13% of the new energy research, despite that being fairly in line with the portion of the earth that the US covers. I don't see the problem personally.

  4. Re:Can You Spot the Difference? on Bill Gates's New Version of the Einstein Letter · · Score: 1

    Gates is a Rockefeller or, at best, an Edison.

    Or a dick.

    Sorry, couldn't resist.

  5. Re:How about... on A File-Centric Photo Manager? · · Score: 1

    That too, but my main point was that a command line tag editor that allows instructions like

    jpeginfo --set Location=Afghanistan ~/photos/dec12/DFC12*.jpg

    and

    mkdir -p ~/photos/mt_fuji/{north,east,south,west}_face;
    ln -s /photos/DFC*1.jpg ~/photos/mt_fuji/north_face
    ln -s /photos/DFC*2.jpg ~/photos/mt_fuji/east_face
    ln -s /photos/DFC*3.jpg ~/photos/mt_fuji/south_face
    ln -s /photos/DFC*4.jpg ~/photos/mt_fuji/west_face

    Would be much faster than manually looking through photos, clicking them, clicking add tags, typing north, then doing the same for the rest, etc. Assuming you can include history, command line editing, tab completion, etc., of course.

  6. Re:Clunky on Chrome OS To Support "Legacy" PC Apps Through Remote Access · · Score: 1

    Right, because open platforms all interoperate and don't compete with each other at all.

    Huh? That wasn't even the topic. We were talking about having to use two computers to enjoy functionality that only really requires one computer. At the very least, you can log out of KDE and into GNOME. At best, KDE and GNOME cooperate on many levels, sharing systray, DBUS, etc.

  7. Re:Please. on HP Gives Printers Email Addresses · · Score: 1

    From that perspective (documents for everybody), it would be very cool to be able to mass-email a lot of printers around the world, instantly leaking hard-copies of secret government documents, say.

  8. How about... on A File-Centric Photo Manager? · · Score: 1

    folders, arguments and wildcards?

    Sheesh. Get with the 1970s technology already ;)

  9. Re:Clunky on Chrome OS To Support "Legacy" PC Apps Through Remote Access · · Score: 1

    but why should I need to utilize two computers at once to enjoy functionality that only requires a single computer?

    Welcome to the world of proprietary platforms.

  10. Re:But... on North Korea Develops Anti-Aging "Super Drink" · · Score: 1

    Never saw that. Thanks for the cultural education :)

  11. Virtual machine? on Chrome OS To Support "Legacy" PC Apps Through Remote Access · · Score: 1

    I haven't been following chrome OS much**, but if I wanted to run "legacy apps" on a more controlled OS these days, in a secure way, I'd do it in a virtual machine. A lot of them, especially recent ones, support RDP and/or VNC, which might fulfill the term "remote access".

    ** Well, come on, yet another run-a-monolithic-GUI-WIMP-app-OS, from one of the biggest software houses on the planet? Snoozefest. How about something REALLY innovative?

  12. Re:This on HP Gives Printers Email Addresses · · Score: 1

    This is an obvious opportunity to have an open source alternative.

    IPP seems fine to me :)

  13. Re:more ads. on Google's Plan To Save the News Through Reinvention · · Score: 2, Funny

    How to save the news? More laser mining on the readers. More Ads.

    There, fixed that for you.

  14. Re:So they will be easier to hack now? on HP Gives Printers Email Addresses · · Score: 1

    How long before a bug in the email app is found and mass printers get hacked?

    I think they'll start with the traditional printers before moving on to your new-fangled mass printers.

  15. Re:Better than toast on North Korea Develops Anti-Aging "Super Drink" · · Score: 1

    NK has announced that they're going to release Duke Nukem Forever.

    No mention of a timeframe as yet.

  16. Re:But... on North Korea Develops Anti-Aging "Super Drink" · · Score: 1

    Just FYI: any time you have "a" before a word that begins with a vowel, the "a" becomes "an".

  17. Re:This on HP Gives Printers Email Addresses · · Score: 4, Informative

    Nope. It's not like printers have been hacked with less to work from.

  18. Re:Honestly, I hope the US on Where Will Your Next Gadget Be Made? · · Score: 1

    I'd really like to see a return to the US for manufacturing.

    You're in luck

  19. Re:5G Phone on North Korea Develops Anti-Aging "Super Drink" · · Score: 5, Funny

    Don't worry. Even if that happens, Jobs will come out with a 4G, coal-powered phone, and still convince everyone it's worth queuing all night and paying twice as much for.

  20. Re:We've had that for years! on North Korea Develops Anti-Aging "Super Drink" · · Score: 1

    Seems to me that stuff like Red Bull and Oil of Ulay is advertised in much the same way. Looks like NK is just catching up with the west.

  21. Re:Basically on Hooked On Gadgets, and Paying a Mental Price · · Score: 1

    Good at multitasking...very few people actually are.

    I don't believe this 2.5% of so-called supertaskers are in any way better at doing multiple things at once. Everyone knows it's possible to multitask, so long as each task isn't too demanding, but that's not the issue. We can drive and talk at the same time after practice, but not so much when just learning to drive. The same is going to be true of people who are extremely socially skilled and confident and talking on the phone to a friend: it's easier for them to do that without much processing power, leaving their brain more free to handle other things like unexpected road hazards.

  22. Re:It's legal for foreign money to be spent lobbyi on Plotting a Coup In the Internet Age · · Score: 1

    Only US Citizens can vote in elections; there's no reason why other countries and non-citizens should be able to influence how citizens vote, or dictate our foreign policy.

    You do realise that your country is capitalist (i.e., that everything is driven by money, by design), right?

  23. Re:Uh, no, you can't have my network on Bill Gives Feds "Emergency" Powers To Secure Civilian Nets · · Score: 1

    Uh-huh, keep telling yourself that while you stand behind the glass in your store, watching a man starve to death.

  24. Re:Standards and "Standards" on Apple's HTML5 and Standards Gallery Not Standard · · Score: 1

    Apple is Microsoft 2.0

    As horrifying as that (reality) might be, the upgrade is still welcome.

  25. Re:Uh, no, you can't have my network on Bill Gives Feds "Emergency" Powers To Secure Civilian Nets · · Score: 1

    if a homeless person is starving to death, is he "perfectly entitled" to breaking into a grocery store, even if the store is closed? FUCK NO.

    Under any sane law and any sane society, FUCK YES.