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Comment Critical Thinking Fail (Score 2, Insightful) 161

Now, I didn't read TFA (who does) but based on the summary, the authors are idiots (water is also wet).
Few buy unlocked phones because the unwashed masses, for the most part, don't know any better.
I have long been of the opinion that it should be unlawful for a cellular company to bundle phones with plans, and tie them to their network.
If people were forced to buy their own cell phone, and have companies forced to service it (I said service, not support) it would solve a lot of problems including:
  • Less cell phone waste. Because a good phone costs > $400, people will take care of them better. Less crap in our landfills, causing cancer etc.
  • Prices on cell phone plans would drop like a rock. No more double dipping on text messages, stupid data rate plans, etc
  • No more stupid kids with a high priced gadget they don't need (you know the ones I'm referring to)
  • Better cell phones, and faster market presence, as manufacturers will suddenly not be beholden to crap telecom companies, that restrict what the phones can actually do, rather than what the telecom wants to allow
  • Because cell phone manufacturers no longer have to deal with stupid restrictions, they can concentrate on innovating new features and better software/hardware

In other words, this article is based on an idea that amounts to ignorant nonsense.

Comment Re:It's shocking how little... (Score 1) 199

The writer understands anything. IT IS GOOD THAT CRIMINALS DO NOT PLACE A HIGH VALUE ON OUR CREDIT CARD INFORMATION. That basically means that the info is not all that dangerous. It means criminals are afraid of getting caught if they use it, so why spend all that much for it. If the criminals were sure they could get away with it and all they needed was the info, that information would go for a lot higher.

This is not true, and a very silly conclusion.

In reality, credit cards are worth very little, because they are a dime a dozen (pun intended). Furthermore, the amount of profit that can be gained from a credit card number is very small compared to the amount of profit gained, by say...a World Of Warcraft account, or an SSN for actual identity fraud.

Why would you take a $2,000 credit line on a card, when you can take a $100,000 mortgage in someone else name?

In the future, please remember: "A conclusion is the place where you stopped thinking."

Comment Re:Sadly, I don't agree. (Score 3, Insightful) 691

Parent poster is full of crap.

 

Make no mistake: if Linux were as widely used as Windows, there would be bugs galore to be a-cleaning in Linux land.

 
This is the same as stating: "If linux had the number of users that microsoft windows had, it would be victim to the same number of viruses, malware, and general script kiddies" which is complete bullshit.

 
I'm sick of hearing this argument, only a complete tool would believe it. *Nix systems are inherently more secure, due to its security model (file permissions, groups, no admin rights, etc), and to the fact that it literally forces you to not be a complete moron (security wise) while using it. Furthermore, because of the variety of software that can be installed on each box, only the most common programs (apache, nginx, ssl, ssh, etc) would be effective targets to attack, limiting the areas an admin needs to cover.

 
Due to the above, there are only certain attacks that would be effective to a *Nix system. Off the top of my head, this leaves: privilege escalation, man-in-the-middle, and social engineering (a problem everywhere, regardless of OS).

 
 
In short, a Linux machine that is run by a competent administrator is MUCH more difficult to infect or attack than a Windows machine, and the parent is a moron.

Comment Re:After seeing this (Score 1) 70

Fail.

This site commits the sin of "click here to read the story -> "oh wait, click here again please, to be sent to the actual story".

Further fail, for being flash driven, and having those ridiculous cnet buttons plastered everywhere. Even worse, the comments system looks like it has been ripped straight from some of those craptacular "PC for morons" sites.

Way to take a great idea and garbage it.

Comment Wheres the friking backlash? (Score 2, Interesting) 479

Funny. Over at speakeasy, I can get a line that is not only faster, but guaranteed bandwidth, and is unregulated as far as what I do with it. No idiot company blocking my ports, bitching about my fileserver, etc. Further, I can sign up for a resell plan and make money on my line, with speakeasy doing all the billing. Oh, and I can have that bundled in with VoIP access too? All for around the same $150? Gratuitous link: http://www.speakeasy.net/home/

Please mr. ISP, tell me again how you aren't a simpering moron?

Comment Re:Your Goal: One Second or Less (Score 1) 654

What a load of crap. I have no idea why boot speed is suddenly all over the media like it's some big thing..

My old desktop (Athlon XP era) does POST -> KDE, including me typing in my login and password, in under 6 seconds. None of this hibernation junk or w/e doohickey crap you youngins are coming up with.
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Submission + - Free MMORPG Daimonin releases new major beta

rvalles writes: "Daimonin, a free software MMORPG available for Linux and Windows featuring isometric graphics and a live player community, released its fourth beta after years of development. Highlights for the release include a many-times-as-big world, new graphics and music, a new client skin, a new tutorial for new players and a new quests and events system."

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