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  1. Re:Fuck Tony Abbott. on Internet Censorship Back On Australian Agenda · · Score: 1

    He wont get knifed.
    Libs are a Tall Poppy Party, they want their leader to get all the heat so none of it lands on them. If there leader gets burnt by the public and they find themselves in charge they know they can get away with anything and the party will back them.
    ALP are driven by the caucus, the leader cant just do what (s)he wants like in the Libs, the team comes first. That why the leader an ALP leader is more likely to get kniffed (which sounds wrong). But now the ALP leader is voted in by members the leader will have more power over caucus.

  2. Re:Many here hate Microsoft on Debian Technical Committee Votes For Systemd Over Upstart · · Score: 1

    If your using this sites comment system to try and destroy this site with a boycott, why do you expect to have good karma on this site ?

    Then why's mgt. here (rant removed) ?

    That reponse pretty much explains why your karma is burnt and your posting anon. Your post is not relevent to the story or the comment you replied to.

  3. Re:More on systemd... on Debian Technical Committee Votes For Systemd Over Upstart · · Score: 1

    Apparently this is the most important information, from the front page.

    Spelling

    Yes, it is written systemd, not system D or System D, or even SystemD. And it isn't system d either. Why? Because it's a system daemon, and under Unix/Linux those are in lower case, and get suffixed with a lower case d. And since systemd manages the system, it's called systemd. It's that simple. But then again, if all that appears too simple to you, call it (but never spell it!) System Five Hundred since D is the roman numeral for 500 (this also clarifies the relation to System V, right?). The only situation where we find it OK to use an uppercase letter in the name (but don't like it either) is if you start a sentence with systemd. On high holidays you may also spell it sÃstÃmd. But then again, SystÃme D is not an acceptable spelling and something completely different (though kinda fitting).

  4. Re:Soooo.... on Debian Technical Committee Votes For Systemd Over Upstart · · Score: 2

    If your using this sites comment system to try and destroy this site with a boycott, why do you expect to have good karma on this site ?

  5. Re:Cut the BETA! on US Cord Cutters Getting Snubbed From NBC's Olympic Coverage Online · · Score: 1

    The reaction to these changes demostrates the issues "nerds" have with change.

    I suddenly feel sory for GNOME Designers.

  6. Re:Hi. Eve player here. on Largest-Yet EVE Online Battle Destroys $200,000 Worth of Starships · · Score: 2

    There are allegations as well that CCP intentionally did this to drive up the price of PLEX (and in fact, just about every resource in the game)... which has happened. And CCP has colluded with players before to give valuable assets out -- and admitted to this.

    Thats an almost slanderous claim, there was one case (5 years ago?) where one employee went "Rogue" and consipered with players for personal benefit, that event caused the company to create an internal investigation unit to make sure it doesnt happen again.

    The company involved goes to great lengths to ensure they dont interfere with the games economy without good cause. They have an economist to monitor the health of the economy, and a reserve bank for the rare occasion that the ingame value of PLEX varies too much (i think they have only acted once or twice and there is oversight).

  7. Fairphone on Ask Slashdot: Life After N900? · · Score: 1

    Im also lookign to replace my N900 (which i like), previously had an OpenMoko Neo (which was a great talking piece, bad phone).

    Im currently keeping an eye on the fairphone, they are just finishing there first batch of 25,000 phones and looking at a new order soon. Second release is usually a good one to get in one as they have had a chance to find and fix hardware bugs.

    The replicant project has done a review of the fairphone, there biggest criticim of it is that it doest have good hardware isolation to prevent NSA type spying. It isnt supported by replicant yet, but say it should be possible.
    http://www.replicant.us/2013/1...

    It looks like the project is more driven ideology rather than profit, but that ideology is very much focused on the phone. I hope they do well.

    http://www.fairphone.com/

  8. Re:good points / bad points on Russia Plans To Extend Edward Snowden's Asylum · · Score: 1

    So, is your point that the USA wasnt betraying the trust of its allies because there wasnt any to begin with ?

  9. Re:good points / bad points on Russia Plans To Extend Edward Snowden's Asylum · · Score: 1

    However, his revelations about NSA spying outside the USA have caused severe and lasting damage to the USA's reputation, and to the USA's ability to collect intelligence that it needs to defend it's interests

    His revelations about NSA spying outside the USA have caused severe and lasting damage to the USA's ability to betray its allies.
    The USA now has the oportunity to begin to earn the trust of its people so it can defend its national interests.

  10. Re:Precisely on FSF's Richard Stallman Calls LLVM a 'Terrible Setback' · · Score: 1

    It pisses me off when they groan ... but but why didn't you use my api? I can't. Your license dictates that I can't earn a living off it nor can my employer.

    If the GPL software was dual licenced and you could just pay money in order to avoid the obligations of the GPL, would you do it ?

    Or are you only willing to accept software that is free as in speech and free as in beer, so you dont have to pass on either ?

  11. Re:OK... on Valve Offers Free Subscription To Debian Developers: Paying It Forward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Games are one of the oldest and most powerful learning systems we have. Computer games obviously lose the physical benefit of RL game,s but they still have mental benefits.

    They can teach Logic, promote social skills (as compared to TV), and can be good emotionally just ot blow of some steam.

    I understand the drama with debian and non-free games, but surely you can seperate the two concepts.

  12. Re:Co-operation and Trust on Linus Torvalds: Any CLA Is Fundamentally Broken · · Score: 1

    Ignoring reality in preference of a state of cognative dissonance is the acceptance of delusion. You're deluded, good luck with that.

    Thanks, ignorance is bliss.

    Good luck with changing the whole world jsut so they agree with you.

  13. Re:Co-operation and Trust on Linus Torvalds: Any CLA Is Fundamentally Broken · · Score: 1

    I think what you call wonderland was the "normal" world even though it was not real.

    Here in the normal world its common for people to put there dollar values on things (subjectively), even if that value is not real (objective).

  14. Re:Co-operation and Trust on Linus Torvalds: Any CLA Is Fundamentally Broken · · Score: 1

    It's only worth money if somebody is capitalizing it.

    Corporations do capitalise on Libre code.

    You obviously took the red pill, come back when your ready.

  15. Co-operation and Trust on Linus Torvalds: Any CLA Is Fundamentally Broken · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Free and Open source software are about working together to write software, its unquestionably good.

    There are tens of billions of dollars worth of Libre code out there, with thousands of unpunished violators, and only 2 or 3 people in the world defending it.

    And this "community" persistently rallies against working tegether Legally with CLA, i just dont understand, is it purely a trust thing ?

    (And if you want to help defend Free Software, consider donating to the Software Freedom Conservency)

  16. Re:Where are they? on NYT: NSA Put 100,000 Radio Pathway "Backdoors" In PCs · · Score: 1

    A lot of mobiles come with Radio receivers, so in theory the NSA could use the backdoors they have in phones that are known to be nearby (from GPS) to syncronise receiving with the burst transmission.

    Use the phones bandwidth to send the data home.

  17. Re:Where are they? on NYT: NSA Put 100,000 Radio Pathway "Backdoors" In PCs · · Score: 1

    You better be careful that tinfoil isnt shaped like an antenna.

    To fix that you just need to make sure the tinfoil is eathed properly, but then you also need to make sure they arent doign anything tricky wit hthe earth leakage current.

    Also, the NSA might be monitoring EM radiation from your external power supply.

    I suggest you make tinfoil glasses and earplugs, ignorance is bliss.

  18. Re:No, they're still bringing value to the project on The Role of Freeloaders In Open Source Communities · · Score: 1

    And yet even there they are doing something good by using it. This is especially true of FOSS frameworks, libraries, etc. The more jobs that use them, the more value knowing the work becomes and that means you attract more potential contributors.

    A corporation uses free software and is committed to not contribute anything back (freeloading), yet one of their workers does so in their own time (contirbuting).

    In that case the company has unknowingly contributed to free software in the way of promotional work, but that has to be weighed against the damage they do to free software by trying to prevent their workers contributing in the first place.

  19. Re:Not freeloaders on The Role of Freeloaders In Open Source Communities · · Score: 1

    Yea, thats a fair point. "freeloaders" do have a self interest to provide constructive criticism to their suppliers irrespective of the conditions under which where provided the goods.

  20. Re:Not freeloaders on The Role of Freeloaders In Open Source Communities · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Users are freeloaders if they are ideologically opposed to contributing or participating in the community.

    If people dont contribute because they dont know how, but would like to, then that fine, maybe one day they will be able to. Nothing to lose, everythign to gain by havign them around.

    If people (or more likely corporations) are ideologically opposed to contributing back to the communtiy because they dont want to mix "their valuable IP" with the communities IP then are a dead weight to us. We would be much better off pushing them to use inferior proprietary software so their competitors who arent so short sighted can win.

    [end rant]

  21. Metawords on Metamaterials Developed To Bend Sound Waves, Deflect Tsunamis · · Score: 1

    Someone should invent metawords to defelect metawords.

  22. Re:Why I don't use Enlightenment. on Enlightenment DR 0.18: Improved Compositing, Wayland Support · · Score: 1

    Socially retarded attitudes such as this are why normal people throw rocks at you.

  23. Re:Remember TEMPEST? on Scientists Extract RSA Key From GnuPG Using Sound of CPU · · Score: 1

    you know in general what it should sound like so you know what to look for, and then you work from there

    If it was just one opera singer it might be reasonable to "work from there", but keys need to be 100% correct unless they are combinign it with a brute force attack, but then they would still need to know whci hbits they heard correctly.

    But i still call bullshit, what if there are more than one opera singers singing, or its some new age music that has elements of opera, but isnt really opera at all.

    What if a bug flys into your fan ?

  24. See, NSA are our friends, let them have root on NSA Says It Foiled Plot To Destroy US Economy Through Malware · · Score: 1

    This story proves the NSA is really trying to protect us all the time, some people say they are spies, i call them teh protectors of liberty.

    In order to let them help us, we should all download and install their new "anti-malware" software. If your are an important person they might even give you access to their custom assistance package where they remotely interact wit hyour system, for your protection !

  25. Re:As immigrant in the US on NSA Has No Clue As To Scope of Snowden's Data Trove · · Score: 1

    Why?

    TLDR: You need a secure channel to create a secure channel, smae with trust.

    If you dont have trust you dont have anything.

    The US government have demostrated their belief that in order to protect their people, they cant allow themselves to trust their own people.

    All over the world people say they dont trust their government, have done so for a long time, and will contrinue to do so. But when a government actually demonstrates it, its hard to come back from that.