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  1. Re:I read on The Story of a Simple and Dangerous OS X Kernel Bug · · Score: 1

    All I said was that remote and local were very clearly defined. Clearly you agree because you had no problem saying exactly what a local exploit was.

  2. Re:I read on The Story of a Simple and Dangerous OS X Kernel Bug · · Score: 2, Informative

    local and remote exploits and the line between them are being blurred every day

    Citation please? The line between local and remote seems to be pretty concrete and fine to me.

  3. Re:Then Dell is doing it wrong. on Dell Says Re-Imaging HDs a Burden If Word Banned · · Score: 1

    English isn't everyone's first language and has little to do with the topic at hand.

    Jackass.

  4. Re:Care for some tea? on Pacific Ocean Garbage Patch Worries Researchers · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Are you really comparing pastic as a toxin to ricin with a straight face? Really?

  5. Re:This is not complicated. on Pacific Ocean Garbage Patch Worries Researchers · · Score: 1

    Plastics arn't that valuable, in fact, they are rarely valuabe enough to actually be profitable to recycle (source: Penn and Teller's Bullshit (recycling episode)).

  6. Re:Threatening plurality? on James Murdoch Criticizes BBC For Providing "Free News" · · Score: 3, Insightful

    And yet they still try to tell me it wasn't supposed to rain last night...

    Seriously, the vast majority of the time the convienence of not going to some crappy site and being bogged down by a corporate nightmare of a website, or having to wait for the weather on the TV, greatly makes up for whatever limited insight meteorologists can possibly add.

  7. Re:Ubuntu From Scratch on Slackware 13.0 Released · · Score: 1

    How in the world did you boot up a linux, run X11, and only end up using 40MB? I'd love to see a `free -m` of that.

  8. Re:Other press friendly methods on Making an Open Source Project Press-Friendly · · Score: 1

    Also, IMHO UltraVNC's website is an absolute horror-show.

  9. Re:Other press friendly methods on Making an Open Source Project Press-Friendly · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Believe it or not, some of us are in it purely for fun and have little interest wasting time that could be spent coding (having fun) doing things like making "snappy" websites or accomidating pushy reporters.

    People seem to think that open source developers are obligated to dedicate their resources doing things to make their projects more "commercial-ish" when they really are not and oftentimes have absolutely no desire to do so.

  10. Re:Get break tags for PCs on Crime Expert Backs Call For "License To Compute" · · Score: 1

    We need mandatory periodic inspections of households. Every 30 days, households should have to complete a census that indicates their ethnic backgrounds, and not filing a census means the household will be illegal, and law enforcement will be sent to collect the criminals.

    1. The household is properly secured and does not offer temporary residence to others.
    2. The house was inspected by state offiicals while it's residents were away (so no one in the household can interfere with the inspection process)
    3. Inspection officials are fully up to date on prohibited items and persons.
    4. A full inspection was made.
    5. The results indicate no unauthorized possesions or persons.
    6. The residents are returned to the house and the inspection official verifies that the resident state official of the neighborhood is familar with current forbidden persons.
    7. A full inspection on all residents was successfully completed and no forbidden persons were found.
    8. The resident state official of neighborhood is found to be up to date with the latest government policies.

    Yes. I just Godwin'd your nazi ass.

  11. Re:How is this a Patent Troll? on TiVo Relaunching As a Patent Troll? · · Score: 1

    Patent a new type of hammer, sure. Patent what is essentially a new way of using an existing hammer? No thanks.

  12. Re:Secure protocols for home wifi? on WPA Encryption Cracked In 60 Seconds · · Score: 1

    Some people actually do stuff on their LAN.

  13. Re:How Long? on WPA Encryption Cracked In 60 Seconds · · Score: 1, Troll

    If you are too oblivious to be able to look up the documentation for whatever individual security tools you want to use, then you probably have no business using them in the first place.

  14. Re:How is this a Patent Troll? on TiVo Relaunching As a Patent Troll? · · Score: 1

    So what you are saying is, if I happen to invent a novel way of driving nails with a hammer, I should be able to get a patent for that? That just seems supremely absurd to me.

  15. Re:Quick Call the Doctor on Astrophysicists Find "Impossible" Planet · · Score: 1

    The black hole would only gain mass if there was mass around that it could suck up. Presuming we are in a relatively empty area of space with this black hole, then the only mass for it to suck up would be the planet. If the planet happened to be in orbit around the black hole, then it wouldn't fall into the blackhole and increase it's mass.

    The black hole would actually be theoritically losing mass through Hawking radiation.

  16. Re:These peanuts are the BOMB! on ACLU Sues For Records On Border Laptop Searches · · Score: 1

    And suddenly it becomes much clearer why customs might have an issue with his laptop...

  17. Re:One word.. on Dirty Coding Tricks To Make a Deadline · · Score: 1

    I swear by Vim and use 8 space indents, I don't see what vi/vim has to do with using small indents, unless you are foolishly assuming that vi/vim users only use 80x24 terminals (275x73 is what I usually use, a fullscreened xterm. any larger and the text would be too small to see) Granted, I often have multiple windows in vim opened up, tiled so I can look at multiple pieces of code at once, but even then I never have an issue with 8 space indents.

    Furthermore, vim can optionally either wrap lines around, or do horizontal scrolling...

  18. Re:Umm .... on Fear of Porn URL Exposure Discourages Firefox 3 Upgrade · · Score: 1

    Just don't forget the first 'u'. I imagine "tub" could turn up some disturbing shit for a lot of the ACs around here ;)

  19. Re:To be more specific on Fear of Porn URL Exposure Discourages Firefox 3 Upgrade · · Score: 1

    Also personal computers. The differences are terribly negligible these days.

  20. Re:They are NOT Denying Global Warming on Global Warming To Be Put On Trial? · · Score: 1

    Population density. America is much more spread out, nessesitating overall higher CO2 emmissions from cars and whatnot. America and Europe are quite different in many ways making direct comparisons foolish.

  21. Re:Let the porn industry take the lead... on Who Will Fix the Internet? No One, Apparently · · Score: 1

    3) If you look at X-Windows the 4 original apps were:
    xchat, xterm, xclock and xv (x viewer). What you think the viewer was for?

    Citation please? xchat uses GTK+ so it seems a bit unlikely that it was one of the first four X applications.

  22. Re:He was originally white anyway on Microsoft Poland Photoshops Black Guy To White One · · Score: 1

    [citation needed]

  23. Re:300mi South of Seoul? on South Korea's First Rocket Fails To Reach Set Orbit · · Score: 1

    Wait, where is this "South Korea" you keep on talking about?

  24. Re:Poor choice for screensaver? on Why Is Linux Notebook Battery Life Still Poor? · · Score: 1

    Symbol: NO_HZ [=y]
    Prompt: Tickless System (Dynamic Ticks)
            Defined at kernel/time/Kconfig:7
            Depends on: GENERIC_TIME && GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS
            Location:
                    -> Processor type and features
            Selects: TICK_ONESHOT

    It's refered to as "tickless" everywhere I've seen it.

  25. Re:Poor choice for screensaver? on Why Is Linux Notebook Battery Life Still Poor? · · Score: 2, Informative

    Because generally speaking using a tickless kernel is always a good idea, not just when you're on battery. If for some reason you're not using a tickless kernel it's because you specifically did not configure your kernel with it and who is the kernel to question you in that case? (any major distro will have tickless kernels these days and someone too inexperianced to properly configure their own kernel, shouldn't be configureing their own kernel)

    As others have stated above, I have seen the exact opposite of what the summary is claiming.