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  1. I've downloaded Mac.... stuff. I've not put in the time yet to get it to run on Virtual Box.

  2. Re: Slackware for the win on 0-Day GRUB2 Authentication Bypass Hits Linux (hmarco.org) · · Score: 1

    NetBSD isn't really a server distro. It's the most general-purpose of the three main BSD's. The point in NetBSD is portability. Portability squeezes warts and bugs out of software that is coded too close to a particular architecture. When you download the source code for NetBSD, you're downloading the source for every architecture it runs on. With Linux it's typical that every 'distribution' is more or less tweaked to a particular architecture.

    And anyway, my comment about NetBSD being similar to Slackware more pertained to the Init system and configuration than to the desktop experience.

    If you want a Windows-like system, you use Linux.

    If you want a UNIX-like system, you use BSD.

  3. I don't have a Data Mine. on Ask Slashdot: Keeping My Data Mine? (2015 Edition) · · Score: 1

    I don't have a Data Mine to keep.

    Isn't this more of an issue for entities like Google? They're the ones whose Data Mine is jeopardized by the kinds of rules adopted in the EU.

    Only big companies and organizations have Data Mines.

  4. Re: Slackware for the win on 0-Day GRUB2 Authentication Bypass Hits Linux (hmarco.org) · · Score: 1

    The natural migration from Slackware is to a BSD. I migrated from Slackware to NetBSD in 1999.

  5. I'm shocked that there are actually 13 million Mac users. How are they supposed to feel elite and stuff if there are that many of them.

    Apple: you need to raise the prices some more.

  6. Re:Neat idea ! on Mars Colonies and Class Warfare (examiner.com) · · Score: 0

    New Billionares would just bubble up. You know, like the surface buildup of toxic lead oxides on the solder pot, or the film that forms on the surface of brackish bodies of water.

  7. Re:Forget global warming on Mars Colonies and Class Warfare (examiner.com) · · Score: 0

    You're not alone in being tempted. The temptation to pack all the Libertarians into a tin can and ship them to Mars appeals to a lot of us. It would, of course, need to be a setup where there was only a very slow communications link back, so we wouldn't see you all posting on the Internet any longer. You'd wish you could be doing a LOT of that once you were stuck up there.

  8. Re:Idiots! on Mars Colonies and Class Warfare (examiner.com) · · Score: 1

    The hero worship of Musk these days is kind of creepy.

    He's spending his dot.bomb fortune that he got by foisting PayPal off on us in some interesting ways. Also spending billions of all of our tax dollars.

    I, nor anybody else who doesn't slaver all over Musk are not the sniveling jerks. Slaver away, though, if it pleases you.

    Also, Musk isn't a breath of fresh air. Last time I was near a perfume counter, I thought it sorta stunk.

  9. Re:Yes, Elon is evil. on Mars Colonies and Class Warfare (examiner.com) · · Score: 1

    You forgot about PayPal. He's still canceling out that and slowly becoming less evil.

    On the radio this afternoon somebody asked if 'Elon Musk' was a brand of perfume.

  10. Re:stupid stupid on Mars Colonies and Class Warfare (examiner.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    Just the Phone Sanitizers and IT Professionals.

  11. Re:So are they ready to invest in a long term CEO? on Hedge Fund Manager Criticizes Yahoo for Wasting $3 Billion On Poor Acquisitions (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 1

    Are you kidding? They'd better be able to shit Krugerrands.

  12. Re: I've wondered the same thing about hard drives on Texas Plumber Sues Car Dealer After His Truck Ends Up In Videos of Syria's Front Lines (mashable.com) · · Score: 1

    True. Always make it impossible for a Data Recovery business to recover the pictures of your Aunt, your wedding, and your kids at their birthday parties. Your descendants will thank you if the day ever comes that they want to recover any of that when the drive fails. Though if you're really really frentic about encryption, you probably haven't released any of your secret DNA code for it to matter.

  13. Re:Say thanks to the "it's my right" crowd on FAA: Small Drones Must Be Registered By February (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    But why is it a Federal law? People don't generally fly hobby-level drones over state lines.

    Practice your angst-parody. It's kind of sloppy.

  14. Re:Whiners, LISTEN UP: on FAA: Small Drones Must Be Registered By February (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    The one making the loudest squawking noises seems to be you, dude. Did a drone steal your girlfriend or something?

  15. Re:Whew! on FAA: Small Drones Must Be Registered By February (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Is good guy an accurate enough drone pilot to use the 'revolver on a drone' to stop bad guy, or will he need to use a flame thrower on his drone?

  16. Nobody anywhere has expertise in smartwatch making*. Why not let experts in robust watch enclosure design take part in the technology?

    (*sellers of sugar water to kids are taking a stab at it)

  17. Re:Alternate solution. on MIT Creates Tor Alternative That Floods Networks With Fake Data (softpedia.com) · · Score: 1

    Netflix, Amazon, and Hulu are owned and controlled by The Man.

    Though Bezos does seem more like an OTO initiate than a mainstream fucker.

  18. Failed Actors on Create Your Favorite Actor From Nothing But Photos (i-programmer.info) · · Score: 1

    An actor who I 'recognize' is an actor who has failed at their job. The job of an actor is to take on a role, and part of that process is immersing themselves in the role. If I see a 'star' actor and not the character being portrayed, the aesthetic distance has been broken and the actor has failed.

  19. Re:no mad max on FBI: Just Don't Call Them Backdoors (networkworld.com) · · Score: 1

    In the Soviet Union typewriters were restricted and registered.

  20. Re:35mm? on How Much Is That Click, Clack Worth? (failuremag.com) · · Score: 1

    Real retro is wet glass slides.

  21. Re:Item trading bought me a game on sale. on Steam Escrow System Drives Impatient Users To Fake Trading Sites Serving Malware (malwarebytes.org) · · Score: 1

    It probably blocks non-subscription cell phone. I use Virgin Mobile and I was unable to register my cellphone number as an 'activation number' with Blizzard. You have to place your balls in a Mobile Provider's vice and promise to keep them there for a 1-2 year contract.

  22. Re:Slashdot will remain accessible on SHA-1 Cutoff Could Block Millions of Users From Encrypted Websites (csoonline.com) · · Score: 1

    Slashdot doesn't even support unicode.

    It doesn't need to, though, really.

  23. Just Like The Dorks With ATV Vehicles on Locked Intel Skylake CPUs Can Be Overclocked After BIOS Update (techspot.com) · · Score: 1

    The guys with the ATV vehicles go out and try to find places where they can 'mud.' They don't need to travel there, they go for the adventure of the trip.

    Back when my main machine sported a Pentium 75 processor, I was ready for an upgrade. A guy at work (the QA manager, actually) jumped at the chance to buy my old Pentium 75 CPU. It wasn't because he needed the processing power for anything in particular, he just said it was 'a good processor to overclock.' It was a good deal for me because it paid for part of the Pentium-MMX 133 processor I put in it's place.

    I guess I could mount some 25 Watt 1% resistors on an aluminum plate and dissipate 40 Watts of power out of them. Whoo. Whee!

  24. Surely there must be some kind of enhanced scientific value to be realized in dosing the whale carcasses in some toxic chemical or radioactive tracer after they have been killed. For science, you know...

  25. Re: the new Swiss watch crisis on TAG Heuer Increasing Weekly Production To Meet Demand For Its Smartwatch (slashgear.com) · · Score: 1

    It gets all gunky when you're shoving your fist in the Crisco can and in other places, I take it.

    Yes, abhorrent and unfashionable.