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Comment Re:7 million new lines of code? (Score 1) 129

Try finding anything like Portage somewhere else. Ports is far away from it. And don't get me started about the dependency hell of RPMs

It would be an apt idea to try out a few other systems again. RPM a lot more yummy than in the past.

Granted I haven't used gentoo in a few years, but other than an ebuild being easier to make than building a debian package or spec files, I don't really know what you're getting at.

Comment Re:But how does it do in the crash test? (Score 1) 119

I don't think the goal is to have solar-powered commuter vehicles, the goal is to create new ways to use less power in an electric vehicle. If the race was for electric vehicles, it would be a race for more batteries.

Designing their car to run on an finite amount of power requires improving efficiencies across the board, and some really imaginitive thinking. So when electric commuter vehicles ARE made that do use lots of batteries, we get much better useage from them.

Comment Re:Lost interest (Score 1) 444

My girlfriend does not like SciFi at all. I got her to tough out season 1. By the end, she was rather pissed off the "movies" were so crap and the 'Voices' dvds only had the one release.

Now we've moved on to Alien Nation, so we're probably setting ourselves up again...

Comment Re:Update (Score 1) 365

I've had very little interaction with the BES at work, and we use it with exchange, so the process might be different with real mail servers. From my limited and basic understanding, when an email comes in, a copy goes to exchange and to the bb. So if you back up the exchange store, you get all mail.

So there is your traceability and accountability.

I'd lean toward it being a "security" issue: forged messages, interception, etc.

Does bb mail support gpg? That would add some accountability ;)

Comment Re:So ... change ... (Score 5, Funny) 1656

Oblig. 22-minutes: http://www.snopes.com/politics/satire/mercer.asp

On behalf of Canadians everywhere I'd like to offer an apology to the United States of America. We haven't been getting along very well recently and for that, I am truly sorry. I'm sorry we called George Bush a moron. He is a moron, but it wasn't nice of us to point it out. If it's any consolation, the fact that he's a moron shouldn't reflect poorly on the people of America. After all, it's not like you actually elected him.

I'm sorry about our softwood lumber. Just because we have more trees than you, doesn't give us the right to sell you lumber that's cheaper and better than your own. It would be like if, well, say you had ten times the television audeince we did and you flood our market with great shows, cheaper than we could produce. I know you'd never do that.

I'm sorry we beat you in Olympic hockey. In our defence I guess our excuse would be that our team was much, much, much, much better than yours. As word of apology, please accept all of our NHL teams which, one by one, are going out of business and moving to your fine country.

I'm sorry about our waffling on Iraq. I mean, when you're going up against a crazed dictator, you want to have your friends by your side. I realize it took more than two years before you guys pitched in against
Hitler, but that was different. Everyone knew he had weapons.

I'm sorry we burnt down your White House during the War of 1812. I see you've rebuilt it! It's very nice.

I'm sorry for Alan Thicke, Shania Twain, Celine Dion, Loverboy, that song from Seriff that ends with a really high-pitched long note. Your beer. I know we had nothing to do with your beer, but we feel your pain.

And finally on behalf of all Canadians, I'm sorry that we're constantly apologizing for things in a passive-aggressive way which is really a thinly veiled criticism. I sincerely hope that you're not upset over this. Because we've seen what you do to countries you get upset with.

Intel

Submission + - IAMT, a Centrino backdoor?

An anonymous reader writes: Intel is heavily promoting what it calls "active management technology" (AMT) in the new chips as a major plus for system administrators and enterprise IT.
Understood to be a sub-operating system residing in the chip's firmware, AMT will allow administrators to both monitor or control individual machines independent of an operating system.

Additionally, AMT also features what Intel calls "IDE redirection" which will allow administrators to remotely enable, disable or format or configure individual drives and reload operating systems and software from remote locations, again independent of operating systems.
Both AMT and IDE control are enabled by a new network interface controller.
"We all know our [operating system] friends don't crash that often, but it does happen," Tucker said.
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