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Comment Re:Well... (Score 0) 289

These people always seem totally unaware of how law enforcement works - slowly and methodically. You didn't get away just because no-one kicked down your door right away, instead they're out there collecting evidence with which to nail you.

LEO's get a few lower end members, but overall, they're outmatched and being out played. LEO's are very disparate at this stage, and in fact, they themselves have been infiltrated.

Comment Re:It feels old and already seen (Score 1) 413

What? RIFT is exactly what WoW is, only with different graphics and apparently no support for phasing of content meaning the game world is even more static than in WoW. The only thing going for RIFT is the more interesting class/spec system, nothing else.

I'm personally eagerly waiting for Guild Wars 2; from everything I've seen and read the developers are atleast trying hard to rethink old conventions, ditching the whole tank-healer-dps system and whatnot.

Rift will be the most visually stunning MMO for some time. As for "phasing of content" I'm thinking you mean how you "change the world around you as you quest or interact with the environment but only for you not other players." To that, I say "meh" phasing is all that interesting in WoW. However, Rift is a very dynamic world with constantly changing zone events, and new world events and content patches coming on a frequent and regular basis. The world changes, it just for everyone. And the PvP is good too.

I like rift much more than I ever liked WoW. As for the "Trinity" I guess it's more than three? Healer, tank, DPS, and support. The whole rift spec/class system is awesome. Mages can't physical hit mobs evar, and warriors can't heal. Everything else is on the table.

Comment iOS - The most insecure OS (Score 1, Insightful) 281

iOS - Designed for intelligence gatherers:

  • Stores detailed location data.
  • geotags and timestamps picture metadata automagically.
  • Has a keychain that's crackable in minutes so get all stored passwords.
  • Has all kinds of other "hidden data" candy

And yet, my business still uses it as the defacto standard because they're puuuuuuuurty.

Personally, I like to show off to The Man, so I continue to not care that much myself, but if I actually had some important job that was life/death to people, yea I wouldn't use an iPhone for work business.

Comment Re:Finally! (Score 1) 184

Depends on if you consider Hedge Funds and High-Frequency Trading firms that makes 200% profit margins "Enterprises" or not. I mean really, what positive thing are they doing for the economy? Maybe Ubuntu is used by economic parasites more than Enterprises, even if they are businesses that make lots of profit.

Comment Re:What a waste of time .... (Score 1) 184

Exactly what is not binary compatible in SL6? SL6 even ships with extra YUM repos, of which I've installed MANY things. The only problem I had was with the Remi repos, where I had to modify the remi.repo file to hard to version to "6" instead of "6.0" but no binary incompatibilities anywhere.

Perhaps you have a ready example to illustrate your point? I was actually beginning to think CentOS was dead it took them so long to release CentOS6, meanwhile, I've been using SL6 with much success for months.

And you've left out the most obvious Enterprise support option: get 1 RHEL license on a "support server" for reproducing bugs, and then create your own Yum repos to serve the RHEL6 RPMs. Hella simple, being doing it in big Enterprising since RHEL4 when I had to manually install Yum to replace up2date. Anyway, methinks you're wrong.

Comment Re:stupid (Score 1) 518

I do not trust the government to tell the truth on matters this large. While I doubt bin Laden is alive, I doubt the official version of his death even more.

Exactly, they claim it was a "capture" mission, but clearly it was a "kill every male in sight" mission: http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/141342/20110504/osama-dead-new-photos-inside-the-compound.htm

I highly disapprove of killing unarmed, non-combatants. It's quite obvious they were interested in covering up any potential "intel" these guys could have provided. If they were prepared to capture them, they would have captured them. It's not hard to fire knock-out gas through windows. Obama may have given a "capture" mission, but the order that eventually made it to these SEALs through the chain-of-command was definitely, "Kill all males, no capture."

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