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  1. Re:Workaround for Security Hole on PDF Vulnerability Now Exploitable With No Clicking · · Score: 1

    Sumatra doesn't fill your needs and you don't own Foxit

    Isn't Foxit free (as in beer) though?

  2. Re:Wesley on Best FOSS Help Desk Software For Small Firms? · · Score: 5, Funny

    Fire your current staff and higher more computer literate individuals

    Perhaps they are trying to "higher" English (or whatever their language is) literate individuals.

  3. Re:Sounds like a great industrial espionage device on $100 Linux Wall-Wart Now Available · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I would dare say that an espionage device that disguised itself as a wall wart would be more likely to be discovered based on network analysis ("hold up, what's this device with the unfamiliar MAC off of network port 73?") than based on a visual inspection of the site.

    Forgive me if I'm wrong, but it doesn't sound like you are a network admin (disclaimer: IANANA). Do you know the "familiar" MACs on your network(s)? And what does it mean for a device to be on a network port 73? Unless you mean a physical port on a router or switch somewhere, that doesn't make sense.

    Not that I disagree with your point, which is that the device would not likely be discovered visually, given it was placed well to begin with.

  4. Re:How do you power down? on MacBook's "Unremovable" Battery Easy To Remove · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Duh, Macs don't crash and have any problems like you PC users. And if the power button doesn't work, then Jobs intended for it to be that way by design. Who are you to question Him?

  5. Re:Article Confuses Mail Servers vs. Network Filte on Verizon.net Finally Moving Email To Port 587 · · Score: 1

    If you want the ISP's MTAs to relay mail sent from internal computers, then this will break TLS over port 25 as the certificates will (by design) be invalid for the ISP's servers.

  6. Re:Blu-Ray? on Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 "Lenny" Released · · Score: 1

    Lighttpd and quite a few plugins are available from the EPEL repository. It's not officially supported (then again it is CentOS), but it's made by the same guys who do Fedora.

  7. Re:Solved? on New Paper Offers Additional Reasoning for Fermi's Paradox · · Score: 1

    So if you want to find signs of little green men, follow the gamma radiation.

    Umm, I'm pretty sure the point is to find little green men that came from elsewhere, not turn Earthlings into little green men...

  8. Re:Your Goal: One Second or Less on Ubuntu 9.04 Daily Build Boots In 21.4 Seconds · · Score: 2, Insightful

    2^25 is around 33 million. Surely 33M cycles isn't a second these days?

  9. Re:Not a big deal on Volvo Introduces a Collision-Proof Car · · Score: 1

    Sorry, there really needs to be a "are you sure you want to mod this -1, overrated" confirmation. I meant to mod funny and missed, posting now to remove that.

  10. Re:WTF is this doing on the frontpage? on Bordeaux 1.6 For FreeBSD and PC-BSD Released · · Score: 1

    Actually, this seems to be similar to Winetools. It sounds like it just makes installing stuff easier through a wizard or scripts or some such. People actually pay $20 for that?

  11. Re:Article is bullshit on Which OS Performs Best With SSDs? · · Score: 3, Funny

    What? Don't you know that Microsoft invented multitasking with Windows XP? Linux and Windows 2000 are incapable of running background processes.

  12. Re:Presumption of Innocence? on Duke Demands Proof of Infringement From RIAA · · Score: 2, Informative

    It looks like sometime since Duke settled with the wrongly accused rugby players

    I know Slashdot users tend to stay in basements, avoid sunlight, yadda yadda etc, but rugby and lacrosse are two very different things...

  13. Re:Whoa! on Ext4 Advances As Interim Step To Btrfs · · Score: 3, Funny

    You must be... old here.

  14. Re:Machine Readable ? on Towards a Wiki For Formally Verified Mathematics · · Score: 0

    I'd suggest that most mathematics is already in a "machine-readable" language, and those machines (i.e. the ones who only post their work on pay-to-view websites) are the ones that have held back the connecting of various fields.

    I count at least 4 sexual innuendoes in this sentence. Congratulations, you win a prize!

  15. Re:What happened to just a plain old phone? on Mobile Phone Users Struggle With Hardware Adoption · · Score: 4, Insightful

    That's great. Then buy one of the 20% of phones without a camera and quit whining like a grumpy old lawn patrol. It's not like there aren't choices available for you.

  16. Re:For shame on Is Open Source Different In Europe Than In the US? · · Score: 3, Funny

    Redmond is a suburb of Washington in the state of Seattle. Or something like that, I don't really know because I'm from Soviet Russia.

  17. Re:"Hacker" on Palin Email Hacker Found · · Score: 1

    Yeah, when will they figure out the difference between stealing and pirating?

  18. Re:What A Sensible Law--Sanchez Is Toast on Bill To Add Accountability To Border Laptop Search · · Score: 1

    Mr. Tinfoil, are you seriously suggesting that because of this issue, Sanchez will be voted out of office in favor of somebody who doesn't want limits on Customs? Do you really think that the people (the voters) hate their rights so strongly that not only do they want her out of office, but they want to replace her with somebody who wants to take away their rights rather than limit the government's power?

    Or are you suggesting that the entire US election system is a fraud and that the people aren't actually voting for their representatives? Because one or the other must be true, otherwise your tinfoil fears make no sense.

  19. Re:Simple Answer on Is Hushmail Still Safe? · · Score: 4, Informative

    The whole point of Hushmail's program is that you do it on a computer which you trust. They also offer a version where you send stuff to their servers in plaintext and then they encrypt it for you, which is harder to trust.

    The problem here is that the program doing the encrypting on your computer, which comes from Hushmail, is not the same program that they provide the (trustable) source code for.

  20. Re:no encryption that YOU didn't write is safe on Is Hushmail Still Safe? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    And unless you're Bruce Scheiner, encryption that you do write probably isn't safe either.

  21. Re:And people on Adobe Flash Zero-Day Attack Underway · · Score: 1

    For instance, I haven't seen functionality by default to "selectively" stop animated gifs, even though their only use these days is ads. Not true.
  22. Re:Konsole disimproving? on Fedora 9 (Sulphur) Released · · Score: 5, Interesting

    IIRC, KDE said that 4.1 will have feature parity with 3.5. 4.0 is still a work-in-progress. I do agree though, I use konsole all the time and it's rather unpleasant right now. 4.0 is also missing a bunch of other basic stuff, like dragging between the two panes (files and the folder tree) in Konqueror.

  23. Re:Inconsistencies on How Microsoft Dropped the Ball With Developers · · Score: 2, Informative

    The author is not saying the third type of developer is unimportant; rather, he is saying the opposite. He downplays their importance in a tongue-in-cheek manner, mocking Microsoft. If the author were to categorize himself as one of the three types of developers, he would probably associate with the third type.

  24. Re:DOS/Windows programming culture on How Microsoft Dropped the Ball With Developers · · Score: 1

    And now when a developer wants more "something" from the OS than they can get naturally, they write VxDs to help gain an advantage. With apologies to Roy from the IT Crowd: Excuse me, are you from the past?
  25. 1 GB drive? on Creative Sued for Base-10 Capacities On HDD MP3 Players · · Score: 1

    "and everyone else who bought one of the HDD MP3 players in the past several years gets a 50% discount on a new 1GB player"

    Is anyone else wondering how many bytes are in this thing?

    Seriously though, it would be nice for storage vendors to use binary prefixes rather than decimal. We probably don't mind too much other than for the sake of being pedantic, but it must be pretty annoying to Joe Sixpack who buys a 1 TB drive only to find that he's missing one hundred billion bytes!