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  1. Re:Stupid! on Could Apple Kill Off Mac OS X? · · Score: 0

    that is the choice you will have in the near future: iOS for a "consumer" level computer, and Mac OS X for high end "professional" level computers.

    And you'll have to spend $2000 per year (and regular background checks) for a professional programmer's license from the government if you want to use that "professional" level computer, because it will be classified as a restricted munition (it can make unauthorized programs, unlike the $600 devices).

  2. Re:Very unlikely that iTunes was hacked... on Has iTunes Been Hacked? · · Score: 1

    What ever came of the RSA security breach a few months back?

    It turned into a Lockheed-Martin security issue recently.

  3. Re:Too coincidental? on Has iTunes Been Hacked? · · Score: 1

    Coincidence, I wonder, that a new 63-page EULA (63 pages Apple, are you serious?) appeared today when I was prompted to update my NASA App. And that the changed terms specifically involved iTunes password expiry and in-app purchases?

    Yes, Coincidence. The new EULA items were about children buying wheelbarrows of Smurfberries.

  4. Re:how they know on Palin Fans Deface Paul Revere Wikipedia Page · · Score: 1

    Thus the entire next sentence about sarcasm which you failed to read. I even told you it was a joke.

  5. Re:Inconsistencies on X-Men: First Class · · Score: 1

    Xavier has been disabled and healed so many times in the comics. Savage Land, Secret War, recent Secret Invasion, etc. Likewise Beast has had relapses to humanity, and also used an image inducer, so the TV appearance isn't off. The cerebro thing is hard to reconcile though.

  6. Re:how they know on Palin Fans Deface Paul Revere Wikipedia Page · · Score: 0

    Revere describes how after his capture by British officers, he warned them âoethere would be five hundred Americans there in a short time for I had alarmed the Country all the way up.â

    Sounds like Revere is even more of a dumbass. Learn to conjugate verbs, you 18th century simpleton! "Had alarmed", my ass.
    This rant has been brought to you by SarCastrO's, the cereal made with real cane sugar imported from facetiousist Cuba. Not available in the United States.

  7. Re:hey editor guy! on Palin Fans Deface Paul Revere Wikipedia Page · · Score: 1

    Her actual statement was trying to lend legitimacy to herself. As if being close to Russia meant she was somehow an expert on it. She was conflating seeing it with being informed and knowledgeable about it.

    Being the governor of a state close to another country probably means you learn a little about that country. I'd trust governors in Texas and Arizona to know more about Mexico than governors in Maine or Washington. Granted, there's a lot less trade between Alaska and Russia, and no shared land border...

  8. Which Gumbel Brother Was it? on Man Ordered At Gunpoint To Hand Over Phone For Recording Cops · · Score: 1

    That's the important question. Gumbel 2 Gumbel: Beach Justice is my favorite TV show within a TV show right after Wormhole X-Treme.

  9. Re:MAC Server?? on Ask Slashdot: Uses For a Small Office Server? · · Score: 2

    Until you try to do a softwareupdate -i -a via ssh and it hangs on iTunes (due to EULA acceptance GUI). Why is iTunes installed by default on OS X Server?

  10. Re:10.10 on Asus To Ship Ubuntu 10.10 On Three Eee PC Netbooks · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I'd suggest 10.04 LTS. 10.10 is going to EOL too soon.

  11. Re:Photos not allowed during police actions, citiz on Apple Camera Patent Lets External Transmitters Disable Features · · Score: 1

    Yes. Through planned obsolescence, your camera will die two days after the warranty runs out. Buying an old camera will be like buying a normal-flow toilet.

  12. Re:Funny on Lack of Technology Puts Star Wars Series On Hold · · Score: 1

    Funny thing is, it's shot with steady cam and the shaky is edited in (so they can have both to choose from).

  13. Re:Oh the Drivel You Will Spew on Anatomy of a Privacy Nightmare · · Score: 1

    In 1568 if you used a Gutenberg press to print off everything about you and you distributed it by hand to all the other serfs in your kingdom would you be surprised that they know it!?

    Yes, in the same way that if in 1994 I posted stuff to a webpage, sent the URL around my neighborhood, expecting everyone to be web-savvy. IIRC, serfs weren't big on literacy.

  14. Re:stuff that is not clearly defined. on Embed a Video, Go To Jail? · · Score: 1

    Yeah, reading more into it, some of the kids were truly innocent, but the judge would "scare them straight" by selling them up the river. A lot committed crimes worthy of community service or time-served in lockup.

  15. Re:Worst Summary Ever on Anatomy of a Privacy Nightmare · · Score: 1

    WTF does that mean? The photo was in his boxers? The Congressman's boxers were bulging? What does any of this have to do with the guy's net accounts?

    A tweet with a link to a picture of a left-leaning erect penis (within boxers) was posted "@" her via Tony Weiner's twitter account. The Congressman says he was hacked (plausible given the left-leaning wiener), and since he was hacked, there is no story here. Move along. Move along.

  16. Re:Good - arrest me on Embed a Video, Go To Jail? · · Score: 1

    Selective enforcement is compatible with mercy, and by extension, justice. Law isn't the end goal.

  17. Re:stuff that is not clearly defined. on Embed a Video, Go To Jail? · · Score: 3, Informative
    http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-504083_162-20034694-504083.html

    (CBS/AP) SCRANTON, Pa. - Former juvenile court judge Mark Ciavarella was convicted in an alleged "kids for cash" scheme that accused him and another judge of sending youth offenders to for-profit detention centers in exchange for millions of dollars in illicit payments from the builder and owner of the lockups. ...

    I see your Stargate: Atlantis and raise you real life.

  18. Re:Less Successful than Other Reboots on DC Reboots Universe · · Score: 1

    It even had an r2d2 cameo!

  19. Re:Old fans on DC Reboots Universe · · Score: 1

    They were official labeling all their Golden Age characters as "from Earth 2" (Earth 1 being home to the new version who got to stick around) when Marvel was really starting to take off.

    Marvel showed them up by making the default Marvel continuity "Earth 616". That's 308 times as big!

  20. Re:Skynet on Modeling Security Software To Mimic Ant Behavior · · Score: 1

    Well. If the ants consider computer viruses to be food then they will take them back to the nest.

    or just like how real ants herd aphids and mulch fungus farms, these digi-ants might introduce vulnerabilities in known good software to keep their food supply high. Thank God that's not how they're programmed except in the mind of a mediocre sci-fi writer.

  21. Re:There really isn't a cure for this kind of thin on Mac OS Update Detects, Kills MacDefender Scareware · · Score: 1

    Userspace malware is nothing different than Purple Gorilla Bonzi-Buddy shit.

    Purple Gorilla Bonzi-Buddies that quietly wait in the background downloading exploit code for the privilege escalation du jour. Once there's userspace malware, user-intervention isn't required; sometimes not even a login since it can use the system's scheduling (cron/schtasks.exe) to download when the user is logged out, and schedule a new exploit attempt immediately after download.

  22. Re:Compatibility on Fedora 16 Will Number UIDs From 1000 · · Score: 1

    Argh. I just updated a newly installed RHEL 6 box before updating /etc/password, shadow, group... A new daemon just started using GID 500. >:-(

  23. Re:ftp.pbs.org on PBS Web Sites and Databases Hacked · · Score: 1

    For some reason ftp.pbs.org has port 21 open for business. Can someone explain to me why they aren't using SFTP on 22?

    Anonymous FTP? Hopefully they're not stupid enough to use it with passwords.

  24. Re:Once apon a time on PBS Web Sites and Databases Hacked · · Score: 0

    There is a reason why vigilantes are not a good thing.

    And that's because most people in tights look like Tronguy.

  25. Re:Once apon a time on PBS Web Sites and Databases Hacked · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Corporate culture prioritizes pretty pictures to sell us more shit we don't need.

    And yet, isn't PBS a non-profit?