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  1. Re:Then We should use Ubuntu! on Trojan Hides In Pirated Copies of Apple iWork '09 · · Score: 1

    Well, Ubuntu hasn't suggested anyone to download a trojan pre-installed software yet, while almost everyone who uses Ubuntu would just use what Ubuntu community has approved, that's why the Ubuntu community is useful and friendly while commerical Mac asks for you to pay for the product then people would want to download Pirated copies.

    Did you even read what the hell I said? it has nothing to do with open source software or some ubuntu packages. You completely disregarded what I was pointing out. Do you think apple approved software might have viruses? Do you think there is no commercial software for linux? Take a look at any torrent site that carries pirated commercial software for linux. Is there an "approved" pirated version of NeroLinux for Ubuntu? Do you get the point? You are completely disregarding what I'm pointing out with pirated commercial software. No OS is more secure than the next.

  2. Re:Nice of them to tell you how to remove it. on Trojan Hides In Pirated Copies of Apple iWork '09 · · Score: 5, Informative

    Their alert, unlike every other antivirus company alert, does not tell you how to remove the trojan.

    Nice.

    sudo -s (enter password)
    rm -r /System/Library/StartupItems/iWorkServices
    rm /private/tmp/.iWorkServices
    rm /usr/bin/iWorkServices
    rm -r /Library/Receipts/iWorkServices.pkg
    killall -9 iWorkServices

  3. Re:Then We should use Ubuntu! on Trojan Hides In Pirated Copies of Apple iWork '09 · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I am using Ubuntu and pretty sure this kind of trojan wouldn't work! Mac has a pretty "case" with nice looking silver color but I don't think the OS and software parts are good enough, so Mac is not my cup of tea.

    This requires someone to install. you can easily receive a trojan via a .run script or installer binary for commercial or closed source software without knowing. it only requires root access, which you grant when you install the software. think of the vmware workstation installer. this is no different from any unix based OS. I can't believe you think Ubuntu is any more protected. Learn a little.

  4. Re:First Step on Beginning iPhone Development · · Score: 1

    Yes, you have to buy Windows.

  5. ironically on Ricardo Montalban Dead At 88 · · Score: 1

    i just saw a clip from that old animated series "The Critic" - let's just look at this as a clip dedicated to Ricardo Montalban. William Shatner on Celebrity 911

  6. Re:Hardware demands match? on In-Depth With the Windows 7 Public Beta · · Score: 1

    I never played WoW with a gma950, simply because its lack of "complete" support in OpenGL and DirectX; the graphics are pretty much choppy with the lowest settings. Not sure what you are aiming towards with this video card running that game...

  7. Re:Next up: on Companies Using MS Word "Out of Habit," Says Forrester · · Score: 0, Troll

    Yes. Ubuntu is the ONE true free OS. The one open source OS "TO RULE THEM ALL!!"

    .....
    Get out much? (come on, laugh :-P)

  8. Explains why on Companies Using MS Word "Out of Habit," Says Forrester · · Score: 1, Interesting
    It sort of explains why a good amount of people rated Office 2007 badly. It was breaking there habit!!!!!! Who would dare to do such thing? I use preloaded OpenOffice.org myself. For many people though, they think, "why try something different when... you don't have to?" People still browse with IE6 for this exact reason.

    What's the point of this post? I'm simply saying the article speaks the truth.

  9. Re:Requires iTunes on Apple Intros 17" Unibody MBP, DRM-Free iTunes · · Score: 1

    Amarok? Please don't tell me you've never used Songbird! It all comes down to opinion, but if you want an iTunes alternative, that's where it is. Perhaps you wont catch this message since there is a little under 600 messages here, but if you do catch this reply i highly suggest trying it out.

  10. Re:DNF! on The Best Games of 2008 · · Score: 1

    I told you people never to trust them psychic bibble-babblers!

  11. Re:More bricked computers on Apple OS X 10.5.6 Update Breaks Some MacBook Pros · · Score: 1

    "Bricked", you've turned the hardware into a brick.

    An error where reinstalling the OS fixes it isn't "bricked" it is "broke" at best.

    I always refer to the comparison of the common paperweight with the verb/adj "bricked." That way the people who stole their geek cards can understand the term's definition a little more clearly.

  12. Re:AI or just a computer on Mechanical AI Made In LittleBigPlanet · · Score: 1

    Is this really AI? Or is it more just a mechanical computer built inside of an electronic computer? I was under the impression that AI involved being intelligent, and not simply computing moves in Tic-Tac-Toe (or chess, etc).

    It computes the correct moves to choose from just like how your brain does that same thing when you play the game. Do you compute your moves or are you simply "intelligent" enough to do so? Intelligence isn't a physical object. This mechanical contraption has intelligence at playing tic-tac-toe, and as a nonliving contraption, its intelligence is simply artificial.
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_intelligence#Deduction.2C_reasoning.2C_problem_solving
    Even though tic-tac-toe is a simple game, it requires a ton of looking at the situation and using reason to make decisions. Even humans themselves lose at the game of tic-tac-toe, so this is why a mechanical logic device is quite impressive to say the least.

  13. damn you on Baby To Be Born Without the Gene For Breast Cancer · · Score: 5, Funny

    Ayyy there wait one god-lovin minute!! You can make God-n-baby Jesus's decisions for dem!!! You damn city slickers er goin da hell yah hear?!?!?! If God wants someone da have tit cancer they'll have it!! You city slickers n yer crazy scientific method... *spits in empty faygo bottle*

  14. what you need is on Great Games To Put On a Free PC? · · Score: 1

    XBill!!!!! Teach those kids about what needs to be done to prevent Bill the hacker from spreading his Windo.. I mean virus to other computers in the network! This game builds fucking character dammit!

  15. Re:Jesus. on Visual Hallucinations Are a Normal Grief Reaction · · Score: 1
  16. Re:simple on Visual Hallucinations Are a Normal Grief Reaction · · Score: 1

    I mean, a dude coming back to life seems like a pretty huge event. And yet, there's nothing. Interesting, that...

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resurrection

    "Centuries before the time of Jesus Christ the nations annually celebrated the death and resurrection of Osiris, Tammuz, Attis, Mithra, and other gods" [1]. A cyclic dying-and-rising god motif was prevalent throughout ancient Mesopotamian and classical literature and practice (eg in Syrian and Greek worship of Adonis; Egyptian worship of Osiris; the Babylonian story of Tammuz; rural religious belief in the Corn King).

    See? Christians are just worshiping the wrong person. Silly people.

  17. Re:Howard Stern on iPhones, FStream and the Death of Satellite Radio · · Score: 1

    Actually I think Stern's half billion dollar contract led to Sat radio's downfall. He's not worth it and shares @ twenty cents is proof of that. Then there's the ridiculous sums of money paid to MLB, NFL, Oprah, & Nascar.

    The massive jump in subscribers begs to differ. I highly doubt Sirius would of made it over the million subscriber mark and there would of been no merging, because Sirius would of closed its doors. Whether they're blatantly lying or not, Karmazin and satellite-to-car broadcasting system inventor and Sirius (formerly CDRadio) founder Martine Rothblatt say that Sirius wouldn't be there without Stern.

  18. Re:GL Tail on Suggestions For Cheap Metrics Eye Candy Software? · · Score: 1

    GLTrail ftw. If you want, you can schedule an appointment and have the servers get extreme amounts of requests. I would say post the link to the IIS, but it looks like there is more to show off than just that in this datacenter. Oh well, GLTrail is what you want to show off the power of the datacenter in a graphical way. Eyecandy? Well I guess it is eyecandy, since there isn't much to visually show off with a server other than numbers.

  19. What? on Should We Clone a Neanderthal? · · Score: 1

    Don't we have one running the biggest richest most successful software company in the world?

    I swear, Steve Balmer and Bill Gates remind me of Pinky and the Brain. The difference is that before Pinky wasn't in charge of Microsoft - the Brain was, but ever since the stupid neanderthal took over as CEO there have been some royal fuck-ups. I shouldn't even have to post urls to previous slashdot stories in order to prove that.

  20. Re:Thanks For Modding It Troll You FAGs on Microsoft Moves To Quash Case, End E-mail Revelations · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Oh come on you dumb mods, why can't you recognize sarcasm?

  21. Sorry Apple on iPhone Gaming Continues To Grow · · Score: 3, Funny

    I'm not getting an iPhone until I know Frontal Assault has been ported. Until then, eat my shorts Steve!

  22. racist fucks on FCC Publishes "White Spaces" Rules · · Score: -1, Troll

    Sure.. the feds can let go of that white space... but the black space... noooooooOOOOoo .. the black space isn't safe to let go from the government.. it unsafe and just not natural. Everybody rise up - LETS FREE THE BLACK SPACE!! DOWN WITH THE FCC!!




    Don't ask. I blame the 8 cans of Guinness.


    ...

  23. Re:Pointless... on Ray Kurzweil Wonders, Can Machines Ever Have Souls? · · Score: 1

    You're confusing agnostic and atheist.

    What is someone who isn't a theist? An agnostic?

    It's really ridiculous that people insist that someone who "isn't a theist" - can also be someone who "isn't an atheist". There are many many many christians who willingly say they do accept that knowledge is limited to experience, and that they do not know all the answers. This is where faith comes in, and this is where people like you actually look up the definition of what an agnostic person is.

    Now how about you tell me who someone who doesn't believe in a higher being aka lack of belief in is?

    I also want to refer to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agnostic_theismand http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agnostic_atheism. I'm sorry, but it frustrates me that people still insist in this stuff. I'm not talking about knowledge people, I'm talking about belief!

  24. Re:OS X is no longer the only problem on Microsoft Feared Mac Vs. Vista In '05 · · Score: 4, Informative

    In 2005, Mac OS X was available and rating "better" as a desktop environment in many places, but in order to "upgrade" to OS X, it required purchase of all new hardware.

    by 2008, Mac had adopted Intel x86-based processors and expanded support into the realm formerly controlled only by PC.

    You really mean in 2001 Mac OS X was available and by 2005 Mac had adapted Intel processors - right? Your first 2 points confused the hell out of me.

  25. Re:I feel like the more people that use MAC... on Microsoft Feared Mac Vs. Vista In '05 · · Score: 0

    Parents keep your kids away from Apple, they could be come CLI Junkies. Vista is the one true path to salvation.

    Gahh!!! If you follow the downward spiral even more you might end up watching those movies you downloaded with rtorrent with mplayer via aalib!!! You might as well sell your sole to Richard Stall..erm Satan!!

    heh :-P