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Comment Checks (Score 1) 144

I check when I don't get an expected email to see if one of my filters has stopped an email, I might have forgotten to whitelist a new address.

I look into /dev/null but can see nothing there, so all's well ;)

Comment Strings (Score 0) 316

I'm no fan of what is widely seen as America pulling the internet this way and that, especially with the media cartels having politicians in their pockets, but the thought of the UN controlling the internet is even worse. Think of free speech, and kiss that goodbye.

Comment Free speech (Score 4, Interesting) 1160

Freedom of Speech should NEVER be joined with smashing people up / killing them because they got "offended" by a comment. This is the trouble with politicians, because they are attacking Free Speech by linking the two.

Cracking down on Free Speech also helps politicians cover up the crimes by them and the bankers that bankroll them.

Comment Mozilla targetting wrong people (Score 5, Interesting) 247

As a Linux user, Mozilla should be targetting Adobe not me. For example, Adobe released a not working version of their flash player, it changes the colours of video on places like Youtube if you have hardware acelleration enabled. To get proper colours you have to disable hardware accelleration, which has a massive impact on system performance, even on a dual core machine.

To add to the problem, Adobe said they will no longer be working on Flash for Linux (at least the 64 bit version). So they released a known buggy version, and refuse to revert to previous version that worked.

Me updating is not the problem, it's companies like Adobe that need to be targetted.

Comment Better products (Score 5, Insightful) 309

One day the illegal media cartels might actually get it, that the "pirates" provide a better product. No adverts for other films (Disney is top culprit but there are others), no trailers accusing you of being a crook despite buying a legit DVD / BluRay, no DRM... no regiuon coding, in other words, it just works. The illegal media cartels just p people off with their crappy product.

The problem is, the politicians in many countries that can sort this out have been bought and paid for by the illegal media cartels, so expect no change to their tactics.

Comment How far behind US technology? (Score 1) 319

U.S., meanwhile, has been investing in its Waverider program since 2004, and the last test of the X-51A scramjet-powered missile failed after just 15 seconds

So with the Russians just starting on hypersonic engine design, looks to me like they are only 15 seconds behind the US :)

Comment Failsafe (Score 1, Insightful) 228

For such expensive projects, would it not make sense to have two EPROM's, one containing the original known working system, and one for the new one. If the new version fails, the machine can fall back to the older version, switch between the two if there are more OS upgrades planned. If they have watchdog times on board to keep the rover going, surely they could do similar setup for the OS?

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