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  1. Re:All versions of Windows, ever released? on BadTunnel Bug Hijacks Network Traffic, Affects All Windows Versions (softpedia.com) · · Score: 1

    It's OK, Peter Tattam's Trumpet Winsock network stack will fix that little problem for you: http://www.trumpet.com.au/

  2. Re: Break out my Windows 3.11 box on BadTunnel Bug Hijacks Network Traffic, Affects All Windows Versions (softpedia.com) · · Score: 1

    Well apart from having to dig up the books on IPX/SPX, the tunnel would likely work over that too. When MS creates a network backdoor for the NSA, they are very thorough...

  3. In the good old bad old days of printed newspapers, people also only read the papers that supported their preconceived notions. There is nothing new under the Sun, or the Times, or the Guardian...

  4. Re:Duh...app stores exist to develop ideas to stea on Developer Accuses Apple Of Stealing His Breathe App (www.bgr.in) · · Score: 1

    Well, it makes sense if you consider that the price of the watch took their breath away.

  5. Re:That's Capitalism Dude! on Developer Accuses Apple Of Stealing His Breathe App (www.bgr.in) · · Score: 1

    It may be more useful to make an app that reminds people to think, since there sure are not many that knows how to do that.

  6. F'ing useless app on Developer Accuses Apple Of Stealing His Breathe App (www.bgr.in) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Reminding people to breathe warrants an igNobel prize.

  7. Re:The Best CMS? - CP/CMS on Ask Slashdot: What's The Best CMS? · · Score: 1

    Grmpaw - is that yooooooo!???

  8. Stuxnet doesn't even need autoplay to be enabled.

  9. Re: Stupid people - Mandatory Access Control on How a Bad UI Decision From Microsoft Helped Macro Malware Make a Comeback (softpedia.com) · · Score: 1

    The trouble is that the inadequate security design of MS Windows gets blamed on the users. The real trouble is that MS Windows doesn't have adequate access control and allows any program to do anything and erase or overwrite anything.

  10. Re:g++ adds same feature! on Visual Studio 2015 C++ Compiler Secretly Inserts Telemetry Code Into Binaries (infoq.com) · · Score: 2

    You forgot the Amazon and Google modules. Linux always makes everything so complicated.

  11. Next time it will be hidden better on Visual Studio 2015 C++ Compiler Secretly Inserts Telemetry Code Into Binaries (infoq.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I suppose MS will learn from this and hide it better in the future.

  12. Bad Windows Scheduler is driving this on Firefox Finally Confirms 'Largest Change Ever' Featuring Electrolysis In v48 (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    This would make a big performance improvement on Windows. It should make no difference on Linux or OSX.

  13. Re:So now, be sure to on Xbox One Update Adds Cortana (theguardian.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Hmm, I'm sure that most Xbox users are to dumb to understand that they now have a bug in their room.

  14. Re: Legal? on EndGame CEO: Root Out Hackers Before They Strike (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    Sacre bleu!

  15. Re:Windows 10 upgrades are good on EFF Petitioned To Investigate Windows 10 Upgrades (change.org) · · Score: 1

    Yup - GNU/Systemd Fedora is my preferred OS. Pretty rock solid.

  16. Re:And still ... on Bitcoin Sting Operation Nabs Egyptian Dentist (themerkle.com) · · Score: 1

    "And still the world believes those people built the pyramids." Did they buy them from China?

  17. Re:Laws? Regulations? on Bitcoin Sting Operation Nabs Egyptian Dentist (themerkle.com) · · Score: 1

    The Ruler makes the Law. The King says what must be done and the people do it. That is the MENA definition of democracy and rule of law. The interesting thing is that in general, it works rather well, until some do gooder - usually the USA - noses in and messes everything up.

  18. Re:need more info on Bitcoin Sting Operation Nabs Egyptian Dentist (themerkle.com) · · Score: 1

    I bought my last three cars with cash - huge wads of it - no problems. However, this is not the USA or Canada...

  19. Bakhshish on Bitcoin Sting Operation Nabs Egyptian Dentist (themerkle.com) · · Score: 1

    Obviously he didn't pay the right government official.

  20. Re:Will it be region-aware? on Google's Self-Driving Cars Now Know When To Honk (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    I don't get it. How does one honk a horn and why would one want to?

  21. Re:It is worth what somebody will pay for it on Windows Zero-Day Affecting All OS Versions On Sale For $90,000 (softpedia.com) · · Score: 1, Funny

    Yes, yes, Linux doesn't work on toys, but it works on everything else. Windows only works on toys.

  22. Re:It is worth what somebody will pay for it on Windows Zero-Day Affecting All OS Versions On Sale For $90,000 (softpedia.com) · · Score: 1

    No, Winston Churchill only said never 7 times in that speech, not 8.

  23. Re:Plenty of Windows 10 comparibility on Samsung: Don't install Windows 10 (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 2

    "2. Does the Windows 10 upgrade check driver availability before upgrading?" Ha, ha, ha... snort... uhmm, sorry... This is from the same idiots that would happily ask whether to go online to find an ethernet driver.

  24. Re:Which one to laugh at more? on Samsung: Don't install Windows 10 (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1, Troll

    So get Fedora KDE spin, install it and you never need to visit your parents again...

  25. Well, it is a good thing that the great lakes are drying up and that we shot all the buffaloes, due to all the environmental destruction caused by water and cow farts. Maybe we should kill all the beavers too so they don't build dams either.