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  1. Re:It seems that every year /. hypes a Mac Trojan. on New OS X Trojan Adware Injects Ads Into Chrome, Firefox, Safari · · Score: 1

    Yeah well, rm -rf is so 01d 5k001. You can do much better on bleeding edge Linux distros with: cat /dev/zero /tmp/crashme

  2. Re:herp derp trolling for more pageviews! on Wrong Fuel Chokes Presidential Limo · · Score: 1

    Better for the environment but not better for people. Diesel exhaust causes asthma.

  3. Re:While this looks neat, on What's Going On In KDE Plasma Workspaces 2? · · Score: 2

    It would have been funny, but that there are so many Ubuntu users who don't know better.

  4. Re:She refused extortion. on Jammie Thomas Denied Supreme Court Appeal · · Score: 1

    In a Rechtstaat (Germany), the law is the master. In a Free State, the people are the masters. Some US states are Free States, but not many. "Live free or die" is the slogan of New Hampshire.

  5. Re:Just register yourself as a Corporation and a B on Jammie Thomas Denied Supreme Court Appeal · · Score: 1

    Yup, then she would have been bailed out by the gullable American tax payers.

  6. Bankruptsy on Jammie Thomas Denied Supreme Court Appeal · · Score: 1

    That is what bankruptsy law is for. It will redress the ridiculous fine. "You cannot get blood from a stone", is actually a well known legal principle.

  7. Re:big eyes on Did Large Eyes Lead To Neanderthals' Demise? · · Score: 4, Funny

    I dunno, the Europeans are eating the remaining horses at an alarming rate. I guess they taste like chicken.

  8. Night vision, arctic circle on Did Large Eyes Lead To Neanderthals' Demise? · · Score: 1

    Has anyone taken a close look at the Inuit? They may have more Neanderthal genes than most.

  9. Pretty soon it will be implanted and invisible on Should We Be Afraid of Google Glass? · · Score: 0

    At this stage the cameras as displays are still visible. Pretty soon, they will be so small that they will be invisible, then they will be implanted and indetectable and shortly after that, practically everyone will have bionic implants. Better get used to it.

  10. Canada has NSLs too on National Security Letters Ruled Unconstitutional, Banned · · Score: 1

    Canada even has a bill of rights and a human rights commissioner and still these bladdy things are in use.

  11. Re:They wont make it illegal on Jacob Appelbaum on How OSS Improves Cryptography · · Score: 1

    Are you suggesting that there still are (common garden variety) computers that are not infected with malware?

  12. Re:Hazen on Microbes Likely Abundant Hundreds of Meters Below Sea Floor · · Score: 1

    Until they invade your body and make you ill...

  13. Re:Uptime fetish on Solaris Machine Shut Down After 3737 Days of Uptime · · Score: 1

    The simple fact is that it ran for ten years without needing the patches. I have run Linux web server machines for 4 years with ZERO maintenance. The PSU invariably gives up the ghost after 3 to 4 years. They were never updated and never compromized in all that time.

  14. Re:Public list of VPNs? on Users Flock To Firewall-Busting Thesis Project · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Exactly. That is the whole problem with VPNs. They only work till they get popular.

  15. Re:It's ironic... on GNOME Aiming For Full Wayland Support by Spring 2014 · · Score: 1

    I hope that one day you will be all grown up and realize that you are also using advanced tools to do things and that you are the older guy that all the other young ones come to for advice, watching wide eyed while you work on five things at the same time in different countries...

    To guys like me, this is normal. This is what I do. It is much more efficient to use X forwarding than to drive 300 miles or fly half way around the world.

    I hope that one day, you would understand and use these tools yourself.

  16. Re:Lots of people demanding what nobody wants? on GNOME Aiming For Full Wayland Support by Spring 2014 · · Score: 2

    No, those VNC type of things do NOT fill the same use case. Serious developers and network admins are frequently logged into and running apps on multiple remote machines at the same time. Try that with VNC and see what a fine mess you get yourself into. People who use VNC are clueless to the fact that you DON'T need to remote the whole bladdy desktop because your local machine already HAS one. Remoting single apps from multiple machines is an extremely useful and powerful feature of X.

  17. Re:It's ironic... on GNOME Aiming For Full Wayland Support by Spring 2014 · · Score: 1

    Most people refuse to read man pages and will never learn how to use remote applications and because of that basic cluelessness, they are unable to grasp what they are missing.

  18. Re:Planets 50 Light years away have airports? on IBM Designing Superman Servers For World's Largest Telescope · · Score: 1

    ...and the SKA low noise receivers are super cooled.

  19. Re:Trisquel doesn't make sense to me on Trisquel 6.0 'Toutatis' Is Now Available · · Score: 1

    You forgot to use the sarcasm tags.

  20. Re:Easy resale! on High Tech Vending Machines Transform IT Support At Facebook · · Score: 1

    Hmm, I always end up buying parts for the company on my own credit card, because the purchasing process is too slow and cumbersome. So what is that, reverse stealing?

  21. Ponzi on Bitcoin Blockchain Forked By Backward-Compatibility Issue · · Score: 1

    How long will this Ponzi scheme be able to continue? It is interesting though that the original 'investors' get a fixed rate of return due to the increasing difficulty in 'mining' and a kind of Moore's Law of mining equipment, but once the Moore's Law breaks down, the returns will stop.

  22. Re:Wha? on More From Canonical Employee On: "Why Mir?" · · Score: 1

    It would be almost exactly, but not quite unlike Wayland. To paraphrase Ol'Douglas.

  23. Re:This just proves it's NIH on More From Canonical Employee On: "Why Mir?" · · Score: 2

    No, it was the 'Knights that say NIH'...

  24. Voice vs Reading and Riting on SXSW: How Mobile Devices Are Changing Africa · · Score: 1

    Africa has a helluvalot of semi-blind and illiterates. The advantage of voice comms is that you need not be able to read and write to be able to use it. Someone else can also dial a number for you. So anyone (well, except the deaf) can use a voice phone.

  25. Re:Heh. on Iran Blocks 'Illegal' VPNs, Google, and Yahoo · · Score: 1

    Well, they don't care whether it functions or not.