xvan - Slashdot User

Comment Re:Projector? Recommendations (Score 1) 720

by xvan on Saturday November 29, 2014 @07:58PM (#48488019) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Making a 'Wife Friendly' Gaming PC?

I've thought about this really hard, but the only reason I find to run with a TV or projector under your arm is looting

Comment Re:I use yahoo mail (Score 2) 400

by xvan on Wednesday November 19, 2014 @08:19PM (#48422349) Attached to: Firefox Signs Five-Year Deal With Yahoo, Drops Google as Default Search Engine

Something felt wrong about it. I looked and Yahoo was the only one that still seemed to be human.

Seriously? yahoo? The yahoo that appends text adds to the bottom of your emails? The one with the slow, counter intuitive purple UI ?

Comment Re:More changes I don't want ... (Score 1) 173

by xvan on Wednesday October 22, 2014 @09:48PM (#48209373) Attached to: Google Announces Inbox, a New Take On Email Organization

Name the last 2... and no, youtube doesn't count.

Comment Re:I don't buy it (Score 1) 265

by xvan on Wednesday October 15, 2014 @09:15PM (#48155911) Attached to: Confidence Shaken In Open Source Security Idealism

Heartbleed was caused by a FreeBSD bug,
Shellshock was caused by a GNU bash bug.

Both projects are independent of the Linux Kernel Project. That's the project managed by Linus.
So blaming Linus management for the lost confidence on open source security is, at least, unbased.

Comment Re:I don't buy it (Score 2) 265

by xvan on Tuesday October 14, 2014 @04:49PM (#48144087) Attached to: Confidence Shaken In Open Source Security Idealism

Actually, I can't remember last Linux Zero-Day bug.
And the bugs this article refers to are BSD's and GNU's fault.

Maybe, just maybe, Linus' way is the right way.

Comment Re:Same as it's been forever. (Score 3, Informative) 303

by xvan on Thursday October 09, 2014 @12:06AM (#48099813) Attached to: What's Been the Best Linux Distro of 2014?

Some closed source hardware providers choose them as targets for their products.
yum is better than apt
Lots of time is put testing so you don't get nasty surprises on production services that support millionaire businesses.
Long (really long) term support (and by support I mean security updates).

On the other hand, It's not a fair comparison, you should compare RHEL against Debian Stable.

Comment Re:Primal difference between Man and Woman (Score 1) 342

by xvan on Saturday October 04, 2014 @09:17PM (#48065725) Attached to: Fortune.com: Blame Tech Diversity On Culture, Not Pipeline

Men get a primal Promethean thrill and ego boost from creating machines from symbols. Women get the same thrill and primal sense-of-purpose from creating new living human beings (i.e. babies), instead of machinery.

And you base that on what?
And Even if those affirmations were true, they'd be meaningless unless:

Women don't get a primal Promethean thrill and ego boost from creating machines from symbols.
Men don't get a primal sense-of-purpose from creating new living human beings.

Comment Re:Funny, however.. (Score 1) 171

by xvan on Tuesday September 30, 2014 @10:13PM (#48032437) Attached to: Grooveshark Found Guilty of Massive Copyright Infringement

Copyright rules should be abolished for non commercial use and FRAND rules should be applicable to commercial use, because the current copyright state is:
a) unenforceable
b) detrimental to culture
c) most people don't give a shit about it.

Comment Re:Unified Experience Across Devices (Score 1) 644

by xvan on Tuesday September 30, 2014 @09:44PM (#48032309) Attached to: Microsoft Announces Windows 10

To lazy to search, but what are they planning to do for addressing the arch compatibility issues?
Wasn't that the main cause why the ditched their RT version? Users were unable to gasp the difference between the devices and ended returning them?

Comment Re:Someone's going to complain (Score 1) 208

by xvan on Friday September 26, 2014 @07:45AM (#48001349) Attached to: Drones Reveal Widespread Tax Evasion In Argentina

Last time I checked, google maps didn't have good images of zones presumed not populated. This last tax actualization was made after 15+ years, so Argentina's government doesn't give a shit about being portrayed as lazy.

Comment Re:There is no "almost impossible" (Score 1) 236

by xvan on Thursday September 18, 2014 @09:14PM (#47941747) Attached to: Apple's "Warrant Canary" Has Died

No, you can't... because of the "any message", you would have "virtually infinite" amount of messages matching the same patterns you're looking for and having valid data in any other place.

Comment Re:CGNAT (Score 1) 334

by xvan on Wednesday September 17, 2014 @10:35PM (#47933669) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Remote Support For Disconnected, Computer-Illiterate Relatives

You can bypass that by reverse SSH, but it doesn't seem like a valid option in this case.

Comment Re:Bring back windows XP. (Score 1) 545

by xvan on Tuesday September 16, 2014 @10:19PM (#47923569) Attached to: What To Expect With Windows 9

Could you list some stuff that mere mortals are able to do with newer OS but not with XP
(Honest question, I've barely touched 7 and never had the pleasure of using 8. As a Linux user, when WMs went full retard (again), I changed to awesome WM and haven't had to face change since.)

Comment Re:Right fix (Score 1) 92

by xvan on Monday September 15, 2014 @09:37PM (#47914329) Attached to: Canon Printer Hacked To Run <em>Doom</em> Video Game

Aw, heck. They're "fixing" it the wrong way. The right way to deal with DOOM running on a printer's LCD is not to remove this feature. They should simply turn DOOM into official menu option.

It's not like it hasn't been proposed before.

Comment Re:Many languages and... (Score 1) 729

by xvan on Friday September 05, 2014 @01:03PM (#47835661) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: What Are the Strangest Features of Various Programming Languages?

for bash / sh, the ; is not mandatory... What else do you propose to separate to commands in the same line?

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