Comment Re:Windows needs a root-kit-cleaner CD (Score 1) 79
No. Boot from read-only media, flash bios, format, reinstall.
Comment But more honestly... (Score 1) 586
Expendable
Comment Re:but but but, it's for a good cause!! (Score 1) 315
Are you crazy? Do you know hard it is to get the all those pimp gibs to wash out of my jeans?
Kids these days.
Comment Re:Huh. (Score 1) 545
Hardy has been very solid for me - but I heard it was quite bad at release. It really does deserve the LTS label at this point.
Intrepid is STILL awful. I'm trying out Jaunty now, but I'm not impressed yet. Session restore seems to be almost sort of working sometimes now - that was one of the things that bugged me most about Intrepid (though the blame belonged with GNOME upstream). They're still playing games with the UI when it doesn't make sense to do so (the shutdown/quit/whatever buttons vanished from the System menu - you have to use the fast user switch applet on the far right. Gnome-panel was patched, to detect the FUSA applet specifically, and hide the quit options from the system menu. Seriously - what the fuck guys?) and a fair number of packages are stupidly broken/buggy - VLC won't embed video in the main window. It shows an external one - some issue with the Qt4 interface.
I've also considered jumping to Debian.
If not, I'm sticking to Hardy until the next LTS release is solid. For new installs as well as my desktop, and quite possibly on other people's machines as well.
Comment Re:Could A.C. be a wheat/chaff solution? (Score 1) 779
I propose that an excerpt from
Perhaps our efforts can divert a substantial amount of government time and resources towards cracking the evul Anonymous cipher. You know, so they have less time to get actual work done. Slashdot is quite good at that in the general case, but in this case, these are jobs that nobody should be doing.
I wonder if this could count towards my community service...
Comment Re:I used to intake around 500 mg/day (Score 1) 700
I shall now reflect on the possibility of a caffeine intake that is arbitrarily close to zero
Comment Re:30 mins might be optimistic (Score 1) 289
Trust is usually a four letter word to me, but my speling kinda sucks
Submission + - Obama Moves to Block Wiretap Program Challenge
RobotRunAmok writes: The Electronic Frontier Foundation is reporting that US President Barack Obama has invoked "state secrets" to prevent a court from reviewing the legality of the National Security Agency's warantless wiretapping program and moved late Friday to have a lawsuit challenging the program dismissed. In the case Jewel v. NSA, the EFF challenged what they decried as the spy agency's "dragnet surveillance of millions of ordinary Americans." Obama Justice has claimed in its motion that litigation over the wiretapping program would require the government to disclose the aforementioned and privileged "state secrets."
Submission + - Scientist Forced to Remove Earthquake Prediction 1
Hugh Pickens writes: "An Italian scientist who predicted a major earthquake near L'Aquila a few weeks ago was forced to remove warnings from the internet after being reported to the police. Giampaolo Giuliani, a researcher at the National Physical Laboratory of Gran Sasso, based his forecast on emissions of radon gas coming from the ground in seismically active areas. Giuliani's warnings drew criticism from the city's mayor, and following complaints to the police, Giuliani was forced to take down warnings he had posted on the internet. The researcher had said that a "disastrous" earthquake would strike on March 29, but when it didn't, Guido Bertolaso, head of Italy's Civil Protection Agency, last week officially denounced Giuliani in court for "false alarm." "These imbeciles enjoy spreading false news," Bertalaso was quoted as saying. "Everyone knows that you can't predict earthquakes." Giuliani, it turns out, was partially right. A much smaller seismic shift struck on the day he said it would, with the truly disastrous one arriving just one week later. "Someone owes me an apology," said Giuliani, who is also a resident of L'Aquila. "The situation here is dramatic. I am devastated, but also angry.""
Submission + - T-Mobile to Launch Android Tablet
Ponca City, We love you writes: "T-Mobile plans to sell a tablet computer running Android, according to confidential documents obtained from one of the company's partners. "Its tablet-size phone device resembles a small laptop without a keyboard and has a seven-inch touch screen," wrote Ashlee Vance in the NY Times. "It would handle basic computing jobs like checking the weather or managing data across a variety of devices in the home." Although a T-Mobile spokesman, Peter Dobrow, declined to discuss the specifics of any future products he confirmed that T-Mobile had plans for several devices based on Android."
Submission + - Could the Internet be taken down in 30 minutes? 1
GhostX9 writes: Tom's Hardware recently interviewed Dino A. Dai Zovi, a former member of Sandia National Labs' IDART (the guys who test the security of national agencies). Although most of the interview is focused on personal computer security, they asked him about L0pht's claim in 1998 if the Internet could still be taken down in 30 minutes given the advances on both the security and threat sides. He said that the risk was still true...
Comment Re:Please turn on your electronics? (Score 1) 303
On the plus side, it means everyone on Slashdot gets a discount by spoofing a cheaper user agent.
Comment Re:140 Characters? (Score 1) 183
Morgan Greywolf,
Your friends at MediaSentry have detected numerous illegal downloads of your post from around the world! We have logged several hundred IP addresses accessing your content via the popular post-sharing site "Slashdot." We at MediaSentry take copyright infringement very seriously and would like to see every man, woman, child, and printer responsible brought to justice.
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Comment Re:One eye open! (Score 1) 724
Wow...that's amazingly bad design. So, a vista laptop hibernating in some kind of hibernate-y place such as a laptop bag can decide to turn on. For updates. I wonder how far it will get before, fans going full tilt, it shuts off due to a scary thermal reading.
Idiots.
Comment Re:Who watches the watchers? (Score 1) 203
Yes
