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  1. Re:-1, Flamebait on When VMware Performance Fails, Try BSD Jails · · Score: 4, Informative

    Well, the BSDs all have chroot as well. However, jails have their own sets of users (you can have root in one jail but not in the system at large) and the kernel makes more division between the data structures from jails (and the host system) than chroot does. In addition, ps(1) can only show in-jail processes, network configuration changes are impossible, and kernel modifications (modules and securelevel changes) are banned.

  2. Re:Thoughts.... on Court Rejects RIAA's Proposed Protective Order · · Score: 2, Insightful

    echo > ~/this-is-an-illegal-music-file.mp3

    Their program scans for anything with an mp3 extension. It finds this. Hey look, it's not music. Look how that would turn out.

  3. Re:Semi-Pandemic on WHO Raises Swine Flu Threat Level · · Score: 1

    it was a monopoly reference, if you didn't get it.

  4. Re:Semi-Pandemic on WHO Raises Swine Flu Threat Level · · Score: 1

    So "just visiting" instead of "in jail"?

  5. Re:rent? on Miro Asks Users To "Adopt" Lines of Source · · Score: 1

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    Sounds good to me. Now pay up.

  6. Re:Smart FOSS Marketing! on Miro Asks Users To "Adopt" Lines of Source · · Score: 1
  7. Re:What's Tiger Direct? on Dell Sues Tiger Direct For Misleading Customers · · Score: 1

    Not sure about from the source, but like this?

  8. Re:Kill the GIL! on Project Aims For 5x Increase In Python Performance · · Score: 3, Interesting

    The summary misses one of the best bits -- the project will try to get rid of the Global Interpreter Lock that interferes so much with multithreading.

    Good luck with that. The last time someone tried that, they slowed Python down by half.

  9. Re:Were nerds here... use the f'ing metric system on The 100 Degree Data Center · · Score: 1

    That's "ugly bags of mostly water" to you.

  10. Re:My IQ on Sci Fi Channel Becoming Less Geek-Centric "SyFy" · · Score: 2, Funny

    Tuuuuuuuuuums!

  11. Re:One word: on US District Ct. Says Defendant Must Provide Decrypted Data · · Score: 4, Insightful
    That question was posed at a conference at my university with some cryptographer. He grabs a piece of paper from his notes, tears a strip about three inches long up, and rolls that up. He takes a dry-erase marker from the board and colors the end red, tossing it at one student.

    "What's this?" the student asked.

    "That's your child's pinky. Now what's your password?"

  12. Re:So you're not allowed to change your mind? on US District Ct. Says Defendant Must Provide Decrypted Data · · Score: 1

    The exception being identifying oneself.

  13. Re:looks like it still loses history on BASH 4.0 Released · · Score: 1

    Whoosh.

  14. Re:Generate your own 'fake' logs on Bill Would Require ISPs, Wi-Fi Users To Keep Logs · · Score: 1

    Shortly before World War I, the German Kaiser was the guest of the Swiss government to observe military maneuvers. The Kaiser asked a Swiss militiaman: "You are 500,000 and you shoot well, but if we attack with 1,000,000 men what will you do?" The soldier replied: "We will shoot twice and go home."

  15. Re:And finally the question is answered: on Slashdot.org Self-Slashdotted · · Score: 5, Funny

    Quis slashdotiet ipsos slashdotes?

  16. Re:Hi on Bruce Perens On Combining GPL and Proprietary Software · · Score: 1
    If I recall, there was some IM client that used Purple (the Pidgin backend) and hosted a local server. This was GPL'd. Then their proprietary client would talk with this server, theoretically allowing them to use the Purple library without being under the GPL.

    What is your take on this?

  17. Re:Crack this! on Cryptol, Language of Cryptography, Now Available To the Public · · Score: 1

    H0+ 6RI72 ?

  18. Re:What the hell? on Diskeeper Accused of Scientology Indoctrination · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Then you're a yoga instruction facility, and get taxed as such.

  19. Re:Good course of action: on Is Finding Part Time Work In IT Unrealistic? · · Score: 1

    behead it, and place its head on your boss' bed.

    Someone watch Godfather recently?

  20. Re:What a fucking stupid idea! on New Font Uses Holes To Cut Ink Use · · Score: 1

    "Adobe Garamond"?

  21. Re:And? on Barack Obama Is One Step Closer To Being President · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Klaatu barada nikto!

  22. Re:Davros, is that you? on Political and Technical Implications of GitTorrent · · Score: 1

    Jealous guy txting: rm -rf /*

    Just don't try to type that on a G1 (Android) phone.

  23. Re:Public Interest and Rights. on The Other Side of the Sprint Vs. Cogent Depeering · · Score: 1

    The company provides a service. If you don't like their service, find a different company.

  24. Re:Remember kids on Race and Racism In Video Games · · Score: 2, Funny

    Elrond doesn't have a pretty face. QED.

  25. Re:I would on Would You Add Easter Eggs To Software Produced At Work? · · Score: 1

    That's the one; thanks much.