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  1. Re:Can We Say Test our Code, anyone??? on Sophos Anti-Virus Update Identifies Sophos Code As Malware · · Score: 2

    A simple group of ~20 VMs could handle this egregious type of error. Who cares if AV X marks some specialty software with a false positive? It should at least not detect itself! Load the new sigs to the test VMs, and if they don't commit suicide after a full scan, upload the sigs to the prod download servers. At most, this costs a company ~$5,000/year for equipment and ~$40,000/year for labor. That's pocket change compared to how much the company can lose over a screw up like this.

  2. Re:Don't they test these things before deploying?? on Sophos Anti-Virus Update Identifies Sophos Code As Malware · · Score: 1

    What will those people [Windows XP lovers] do when Microsoft ends support in less than 2 years.

    Be smugly satisfied that they eeked every ounce of use from their software while simultaneously feeling dirty for having to buy Windows 9.

  3. Re:99.999% on Sophos Anti-Virus Update Identifies Sophos Code As Malware · · Score: 4, Insightful

    What's impressive is that this got out of Sophos' testing lab and into production. I guess they must not test signatures in house at all. Congratulations, Sophos customers, you've been promoted to alpha testers.

  4. Re:And then on Apple's Secret Plan To Join iPhones With Airport Security · · Score: 1

    Or get Congress to force you to buy one. They can do that now according to the Supremes (assuming you're American).

  5. Fat kids eat more on Is the Can Worse Than the Soda? · · Score: 1

    Ergo, they will have more BPA in their systems. Maybe fat stores BPA better too. Doesn't mean boa makes you fat (which is the angle tv news is taking).

  6. Re:One thing's for sure on Slashdot Turns 15, What Are You Doing Later? · · Score: 1

    Just in time for Oktoberfest!

  7. Re:No! on Ask Slashdot: Where Should a Geek's Charitable Donations Go? · · Score: 1

    Err, education does not need etc.

  8. No! on Ask Slashdot: Where Should a Geek's Charitable Donations Go? · · Score: 1

    Education does need any [more] technology. It needs good teachers. Find ways for your money to supplement worthy teachers' incomes, or increase all teachers' incomes. Make news geeks through proper education, not by shoveling technology at kids.

  9. Re:Good news for Libre Office! on MS Office 2013 Pushing Home Users Toward Subscriptions · · Score: 3, Funny

    Would be nice if you cockfuckers would learn to pull your head out of your ass and read the fdman title. Let me help : "MS Office 2013 Pushing HOME USERS Toward Subscriptions 110". That's not bujsiness u8 sutpdi ignrosnt anoanmosu tylotlerle shti. Burn inhell. Dmajn fuckignndiptioc pierfed sof mchsit. Why are theere so many stupdi people in this world that cna;t even REAd a fucikjigntitled? Being stupdi ashoudl quzluitfy people for sterilziation, so they can't mspreaed their suptid gejhnes ot other peopel. D,an fuckignidiktopci opeice so shfit shirt.\

    FTI: somepeople inbteract wuith businedsdses from hone. Espexiakkly withresumes. Senfing an Open/LibreOffice Dog to an HR drone using MS Office csnresult infickinh loojin likethus.

  10. Dearer Than Makes Sense on Leak Hints Windows 8 Tablets May Be Dearer Than Makes Sense · · Score: 1

    Is "Dearer Than Makes Sense" a British colloquialism? I've never heard it before, and it does not make sense to my American brain. Or I'm suffering from a stroke.

  11. ...for the obsrvable universe only on Australian Study Backs Major Assumption of Cosmology · · Score: 3, Interesting

    It's still an assumption. If the universe is infinite, then this observation says nothing about the non-observable universe. Any statements about the non-observable portions are purely assumptions.

  12. finally? on Are Commercial Games Finally Going To Make It To Linux? · · Score: 1

    I have a Hexxen box that says Linux on it. Maybe this is a new definition of "finally".

  13. Autistic brains aren't made of wires on Rewiring the Autistic Brain · · Score: 1

    They're made of neurons. There's no wiring involved.

  14. Re:Batshit Crazy! on EVE Online CSM and Diplomat Killed in Libyan Consulate Attacks · · Score: 1

    By the same standard, to be a decent parent as a Christian is to be a bad Christian, because the Bible says (for example) "If anyone curses his father or mother, he must be put to death." (Leviticus 20:9)

    Your argument stems from a misunderstanding of what Christians believe regarding the laws in Leviticus. They were laws for the Israelites. Fin. When Paul pointed out that Gentiles didn't have to become Jews before becoming Christians, it opened the floodgates to the spirit of the law, not the letter (Love God above all, and love your neighbor as yourself). Now this might mean that to be a good Christian (loving others), one must be a bad Jew (not executing your children), but that's what grace is for.

  15. Re:Google is evil on Alibaba Says Google Threatened Acer With Banishment From Android · · Score: 1

    They could be both: shills trying to get us so angry that we get in Balmer's face, yelling at the top of our lungs, then we suddenly snap from one heated emotion to another. I've seen it a million times on TV.

  16. That's okay. on Ubuntu NVIDIA Graphics Driver: Windows Competitive, But Only With KDE · · Score: 1

    No one uses unity anyway.

  17. Re:And it can keyword match on Is a Computer Science Degree Worth Getting Anymore? · · Score: 1

    As someone who has hired over 50 programmers in his career I don't need a theory to tell me it doesn't work, experince tells me it does work. If you're not smart enough to get past the HR filter, why the hell would I want to interview you?

    The problem the GP mentioned is that HR never understands what tech managers are looking for, so they sometimes throw the baby out and keep the bathwater (let in the idiots who say they have 25 years of Java experience, but exclude others with perfect actual experience).

  18. Re:Not new on Cutting the Power Cable: How Advantageous Is Wireless Charging? · · Score: 2

    Must be a godaddy site.

  19. Re:Guilty until proven innocent, as usual on MediaFire Restores Virus Researcher's Account But Not Individual Files · · Score: 1

    I thought, the way DMCA was supposed to work is:
    1. Claim filed.
    2. Content taken down.
    3. Counterclaim filed.
    4. Content restored until a court order is received to take it down permanently.

    Why does it so often seem to end at step 3?

    Because step four is voluntary since keeping the content up is usually voluntary to begin with (even contracts are usually written such that they can be ended by either party on a whim). If step four were not voluntary, then a sneaky party could force a company to host material it objected to (a photoshopped image of its board of directors eating kittens) by having a friend claim a "mistaken" DMCA notice, then until the court order is obtained (never), the company would be forced to keep the objectionable material up. Instead, the company still retains its rights to tell its customer "find another host", and they usually invoke that right since the customer "caused" trouble.

  20. Donate them on Ask Slashdot: What To Do With Found Calculators? · · Score: 1

    If they're solar, donate them to some third world schools.

  21. Re:Like the saying goes.. on Complex Systems Theorists Predict We're About One Year From Global Food Riots · · Score: 1

    No, he meant pasties. http://www.pasty.com/ Get them sans turnip/rutabaga, you'll thank me.

  22. Civil unrest on Complex Systems Theorists Predict We're About One Year From Global Food Riots · · Score: 4, Funny

    Means we can buy their cities for half price. Engage the diplomat unis!

  23. Re:Android is a toy on Toys R Us Unveils Android Tablet For Kids · · Score: 1

    Yeah, I SSHed into a server that was experiencing uber-load and restarted the offending service. Then I went back to reading /.. I'd say reading /. is serious.

  24. Re:Not just space, but research in general... on Space Vs. Poverty Debate In India · · Score: 1

    dryeo is smart. He will make us go.

  25. Re:Even Jesus Said on Space Vs. Poverty Debate In India · · Score: 1

    Why would a third hand quote from some tradesman from 2000 years ago matter in the slightest? You don't think some technological and scientific advances in the meantime might have changed the game a little? That advances in philopsophy and economic theory and ethics might make a difference?

    Nope. I just posted this to another comment, but it seems to fit even better here:

    Even in America today, where people with air conditioning, Xboxes, and cell phones are considered poor, we still have actual poor people who don't have homes. It's usually because they're mentally ill or don't want to take advantage of private and public assistance, but they are around, and they're what anyone except early hunter-gatherers would consider poor (today's actual-poor are essentially hunter-gatherers with comparatively nice clothing, environments, and equipment).

    In 33AD, the poor were those who couldn't/wouldn't even work as a farmhand; the disabled or the lazy. Today, they're those who can't/won't work or those who can't/won't work the system (even without a job, you can survive). Maybe future advances will finally fix all disabilities, but you can't cure lazy with cybernetics.