So the solution here is that when someone looks up a domain that isn't registered, but uses a TLD that could be ... its going to resolve to a 127.0.53.53 ... and thats magically better than not resolving to a different site ... okay, but not by very much.

Second, they're going to postpone some TLDs that are 'popular' on private networks ... WHAT THE FUCK made you create these new TLDs in the first place? Did you just pull some TLDs out of your ass and say 'great plan' and only AFTER saying you would create them start to think about the impact?

What the hell kind of setup does this actually affect anyway? So you lookup an internal name only after you get an NXDOMAIN from a root server or something? I've not been a sysadmin/netadmin by profession in a few years, but in all the networks I manage (home, small office) we lookup names internally FIRST and if it doesn't exist internally, THEN it goes external, and the internal servers are AWARE of the location of servers for all internal names. If my internal servers aren't aware that corp.mail exists on server 10.69.4.2 then how the hell are they ever going to resolve it?

Pardon my out of date ignorance, but this really sounds pretty silly and adding a bunch of false resolves when there should be nothing more than an NXDOMAIN.

And for the record, most of these new TLDs are just stupid and never should exist. Either make it a free for all and get it over with with a few names reserved for internal use, or stop adding new TLDs willy nilly.

I'm shocked they didn't go ahead and add a .local TLD just to really fuck it up.

All software can be decompiled so your 'freedom' is never really impinged. The likely hood that Linus himself has the knowledge of something like Gnome or KDE to ensure it has no backdoors, trojans or viruses attached to the C source is pretty much exactly 0.

Yes, he is capable of it, but he doesn't have the time to learn the system well enough to spot clearly obvious problem code, let alone spot an even mildly obsfucated block of code, or one that was really well hidden. The number of people that can do so, and ARE doing so is so small, its no different from closed source.

Now tell me what good the source is to all those people that don't have the ability at all to read it, let alone understand it, and forget about the time it takes to do so.

Its a good thing, but only in the most superficial way and pointless way.

Okay, so you use a shitty email client, then ignore that browsers (all of them) have had drive by download bugs and pretend you're immune to the problem.

The HOSTS file 'solution' you implement only helps for known hosts. You don't know them all regardless of how arrogant you are.

Judging by your act, I find it highly suspect that anyone would call an asshole such as yourself to ask for help with their 'infections'.

You're whole post wreaks of arrogance and talking out your shithole.

The Volume Shadow Copy service allows things to make copies of open files, nothing more. It in no way does 'backup' of any sort by itself, its just an API that allows access to files for backup purposes.

System Restore provides these features, such as 'Previous Versions' in conjunction with VSS.

In most countries both are illegal.

Yes, the criminal stole the car and committed the actual crime.

However, the moron who left the car in a conspicuous place with the keys in the ignition is also guilty of culpable negligence in some places as well, just like the parent who leaves a loaded gun on the coffee table which results in his kid blowing his own head off.

McAfee is industry accepted to be just as shitty as Symantec.

You mean uninstalling it? There is no acceptable installation of McAfee with On-Access enabled.

You do realize that they are supposed to be paying for MSE, right? Its free for personal use, not business. If they don't want to spend any money they should probably not be in business.

Ah, so its not about solving a problem, its about being Politically Correct and pretending we care about fellow human beings rather than actually doing anything about it.

Much like minimum wage, the only thing you'll accomplish is raising the cost of living until the BI no longer does anything useful.

Ironically if you actually read that page it contradicts you, starting in the second paragraph FFS

Chicago pretty much did (ignoring driver flaws) ... until they added backwards compatibility.

Then you know absolutely nothing about software development, let alone one that affects more desktops than anything else on the planet. Its hard to imagine you've been using a computer for any length of time at all with such an ignorant statement.

Microsoft does not actually have EVERY single PC configuration and software combination on the planet in their test labs.

I can't fathom how slashdot fall to the point where people with ignorance on your level get modded up instead of into oblivion. Whats better is that you're claiming that Windows 8 drivers that don't work on Windows 7 caused the same problem for you. This is an ID10T or PBKAC error I think.

Which is also an entirely wrong assumption :)

The Earth gains energy from the Sun, and thus mass. It also loses mass via radiation. I'm not sure which direction the net is moving in, but there is no way its constant.

Except it isn't a superior alternative in any way and it just changes who the 'central banks' are to the ones who buy the most mining power.

Oh, you're one of those morons. The Occupy WhatTheFuckEver failed because it was a bunch of idiots who utterly fail to understand how the world works. The 'movement' was a bunch of 1%ers too stupid to realize they were part of the one percent showing up in with Northface tents and backpacks bought with daddy's money acting all uppity while they shit in sinks in restaurant bathrooms and got in the way of people actually trying to get work done.

Nothing about the 'movement' was useful in any way, it was just a bunch of lazy ignorant fucks complaining that someone who got off their asses and did things with their lives and that they weren't giving it all to them while they sit on the street complaining rather than doing something to actually change their place in the world.

Bums who live on the street have more credibility than any Occupy moron.

I don't think you understand what an ASIC is, even though you tried to define it.

There is no such thing as an 'ASIC proof algorithm' because you simply design the ASIC to handle that situation. Doesn't matter what you put into it, the ASIC gets designed to deal with that problem and does it more efficiently than any generic circuit can. Theres nothing a GPU or GPCPU can do that an ASIC can't. The term 'ASIC' doesn't define a specific type of circuit. GPUs are ASICs who's application is graphics processing, for example. An Intel CPU is an ASIC who's application is general purpose computing!

If you change the algorithm then you aren't making it 'ASIC proof', you're just making it not work for a specific type of ASIC or making it not work well. Its no different than saying BitCoin is 'ASIC proof' because the routing chips in Cisco routers can't do BitCoin hashes efficiently.

Had we finished the job, we'd have helped stabilize two countries that needed it badly and ended up with a few more with 'ethnic hatred' towards America ... and a whole lot more that were thankful to America.

Instead, people like yourself demanded that an ignorant president rush the exit because ... well I don't have any fucking idea why other than your own ignorance about the way the world works. God forbid we actually stuck around and helped them deal with the fact they've years of hatred against each other that needs to be quelled.

Neither Iraq nor Afghanistan need to be in the state they are in, our leaving his why the are, we could have helped them.

But hey, now you get to be a smug asshole, which is way more important, right?