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  1. Re: GMO itself isn't the problem. Its how its used on Fraud Detected In Science Research That Suggested GMO Crops Were Harmful (nature.com) · · Score: 1

    I'd love to see her research.

  2. Re:GMO itself isn't the problem. Its how its used on Fraud Detected In Science Research That Suggested GMO Crops Were Harmful (nature.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The issue has never been about GMO itself

    Of course it has insomuch as any other thing which is beyond their immediate comprehension. There are oodles of people who will not consume food cooked on a non-stick skillet, yet go to a quack chiropractor believing the chiropractor cured them of MS using a foot bath. Others will spend their life savings investing in things like oil extracts believing it will prevent/cure things like nearsightedness and pretty much any other malady or the fake African currency years before the Internet became widespread. Still others have their sickly elderly parents drink silver water "for good health" and this on the heels of sending them to ER because they took St. John's wort(from the same child) in conjunction with HBP. Some claim to know people who were assassinated by the government because they knew the secret to make gasoline engines 100x more efficient. Others think the moon landing was a hoax. These are only examples from within my own extended family and I haven't even gotten to the crazy shit yet. Anyone else heard the "Obama is hoarding .22 rounds"? GMO is just another one these things.

    People who are susceptible to conspiracy theories need no reason other than they don't understand it so it must be bad. And there is no need for them to understand it, as they see it -- poison in, poison out. Period. These people have already condemned themselves to perpetual indentured servitude and I have long ago given up on any hope of trying to use logic with them.

  3. Re:"Hundreds of devices" on Israeli Firm Creates a Device That Can Hack Any Nearby Phone (softpedia.com) · · Score: 1

    I think *any* has a pretty clear definition but maybe that's just me.

  4. Re:I highly doubt it. on Israeli Firm Creates a Device That Can Hack Any Nearby Phone (softpedia.com) · · Score: 1

    Oh boy, that's hilarious. You really got them good there.

    Non-smartphone not vulnerable to smartphone attack.
    News at 11.

    Not that I believe the claims of this company to begin with though. Probably like the ADE 651.

  5. The late Christopher Hitchens on Go To Jail For Visiting a Web Site? Top Law Prof Talks Up the Idea (slate.com) · · Score: 1

    On more on point than ever:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

  6. Re:Squeeze him on 21-Year-Old British Man Arrested In Connection With VTech Hack (ibtimes.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Who are your accomplices then?

  7. Re:PostgreSQL: optimized for SunOS4 on Why To Choose PostgreSQL Over MySQL, MariaDB (dice.com) · · Score: 1

    My RDBMS balls clang/llvm when I walk, boy.

    If it's taking you weeks to figure out how to profile Postgres, that's a you problem. Works for everyone else.

  8. Re:Why choose mysql? JetProfiler on Why To Choose PostgreSQL Over MySQL, MariaDB (dice.com) · · Score: 1

    WTF cares about jetprofiler? I'll answer that. The people who care about jetprofiler are the exact same people who should be running mysql in the first place. Hell, systemd probably wants jetprofiler too.

    For those who have graduated from the kiddie table:

    EXPLAIN

    I saw a pen in the front office if you need a picture.

  9. They pretty much all are, Los Alamos, Blue Waters, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, all the medium to long term weather forecasting I know of, etc.

    Generally 10,000 to 100,000+ nodes.

  10. I see someone isn't familiar with reductio ad absurdum.

  11. the number of people using Chrome on Vista may well be even less than Vista's marketshare

    The most worthless statement I've seen today.

    (Google would have those numbers, which we wouldn't).

    Regarding desktop installs, Google has two main channels of getting that info. One is accessible to any webserver a chrome browser visits and the other other is an opt-in service. Both are easy to bypass/manipulate. In short, Google's metrics aren't much better than what a large site could garner or a collection of smaller sites and traffic could aggregate.

  12. Yah! on Wayland Ported To DragonFlyBSD (phoronix.com) · · Score: 2

    GNUBSD now with more GNU!

  13. Re:Bullshit on Systemd Absorbs "su" Command Functionality · · Score: 1

    pkexec goes through pam just like su. So no, it will not do the exact same thing in providing an alternate attack vector.

  14. Re: Bullshit on Systemd Absorbs "su" Command Functionality · · Score: 1

    Um, no.

    https://lists.freebsd.org/pipe...

    That post is dated, but significant parts of OS X's kernel constructs are *BSD derived. Please note while the link is focused on FreeBSD code in OS X, that isn't the only BSD code Apple drew from.

  15. Re:Hang on a minute... on Systemd Absorbs "su" Command Functionality · · Score: 1

    Maybe Poettering meant sudo, cause I can give you a list there.

  16. A Generation Lost in the Bazaar on Is Modern Linux Becoming Too Complex? · · Score: 1

    Your desire is reflected in this article:

    http://queue.acm.org/detail.cf...

  17. Re:Not Open or Not Portable? on Firefox Succeeded In Its Goal -- But What's Next? · · Score: 1

    Does that mean that you can go up to six days without a security update?

    You can go much longer if you want.

  18. Re:Not Open or Not Portable? on Firefox Succeeded In Its Goal -- But What's Next? · · Score: 0

    From my perspective, it's a nightmare to compile Chromium or Firefox on an unsupported platform. I run a small BSD project and keeping either of them working and recent is near impossible.

    pkg install firefox
    pkg install chromium

    pkg upgrade firefox
    pkg upgrade chromium

    pkg's updated usually at least once weekly.

  19. Re:Not Open or Not Portable? on Firefox Succeeded In Its Goal -- But What's Next? · · Score: 1

    Aside from the billion or so sites which still use flash, black boxes like vsphere *require* flash to efficiently admin them.

    The death of flash and java is about as relevant as the death of IPv4 or perl 5 or the life of Duke Nukem Forever and the Linux Desktop.

    Tired of hearing about the death of flash and java since 2006. Can we wait till it actually arrives before we start the utopian admonishments?

  20. Back to FF on Firefox Succeeded In Its Goal -- But What's Next? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I've used Chrome on BSD for years but recently moved back to FF. The main reason I moved in the first place is sync of personal data across instances. FF now has this.

    Also Chromium isn't as open source friendly as one would think so it's feature set is largely reduced on BSD's. Now that they've removed the ability to run 32-bit NPAPI plugins, I can't use java/flash anymore either. Plus all the Chrome UI Nazi stuff was getting annoying like the malfunctioning middle click to paste. Chrome devs calling it a feature not a bug didn't help either. Regardless, things are good again in BSD w/ FF.

  21. Re:pfsense on Ask Slashdot: Migrating a Router From Linux To *BSD? · · Score: 2, Informative

    The version of pf that ships with pfsense is positively ancient

    FreeBSD's PF is essentially an actively maintained fork which doesn't follow the upstream closely anymore. It has its own set of functionality like being SMP and VIMAGE capable.

    http://networkfilter.blogspot.com.au/2014/12/security-openbsd-vs-freebsd.html#network

    There is a good bit of misinformation on that page.

  22. AI Expert? on AI Expert: AI Won't Exterminate Us -- It Will Empower Us · · Score: 1, Funny

    Being an "AI Expert" is much the same as being a Unicorn Expert.

  23. Re:if systemd forces it's way into gentoo on You Got Your Windows In My Linux · · Score: 5, Funny

    Wow, something so awful even some Gnome 3 users can't take it.

  24. Re:Main Problem on Anti-Ebola Drug ZMapp Makes Clean Sweep: 18 of 18 Monkeys Survive Infection · · Score: 2

    There was one report on a radio station that there are like 10 doctors in a whole country

    That would NPR's report as well which stated 50 doctors total in Liberia after some of left during the beginning of the infection.

    http://wvpe.org/post/who-warns...

    Of course considering the mess Liberia has been in for 20+ years this outbreak is relatively minor and only receiving attention due to sensationalism.

  25. Re:Human Subjects on Anti-Ebola Drug ZMapp Makes Clean Sweep: 18 of 18 Monkeys Survive Infection · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I think it should be infected people.