Have you SEEN some of what goes on at campuses of many universities that is officially sanctioned and paid for by the university?

  A few creationists sitting off in a corner and chatting amongst each other is not even in the same universe of "harm" that is inflicted by so-called "Muslim Studies" and other professors at many tax payer funded universities.

One -- and just one -- case in point would be a few privileged white-male professors and privileged white students forming a racist lynch mob to make sure that the students at Rutgers wouldn't hear the words of the first Black Female secretary of state....

http://dailycaller.com/2014/05...

I thought Bennett was busy writing inane and irrelevant "suggestions" about how to treat Ebola (since he's SO MUCH smarter than every doctor & nurse ever) after we intentionally infected him?

Then again, the recovery rate in the U.S. is depressingly high... let's drop him into a random village in Sierra Leone and see how well the local Witch Doctor reacts to his "suggestions".

Sigh... "X IS NETWORK TRANSPARENT!! I MAKE XTERM GO!! TRANSPARENT POWAR!!"

No.. granparent poster is right and you are wrong.

Being able to send stuff over a network pipe != network transparency. Get it through your head.]

Here's an excellent presentation by Daniel Stone, a guy who's forgotten more about X than most of us will ever know, saying the exact same thing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Have you tried running Kate locally and accessing files remotely via the sftp:// KIO helper?

We heard you like bugs. So we introduced a bug in your bug-reporting system so you can exploit one bug to exploit other bugs.

Spoken like somebody who really doesn't understand TCP/IP but likes to say NSA for cheap mod points.

I've always been a fan of IIOP. You can use IIOP even if you don't want to re-introduce some of the more hangover inducing parts of the full CORBA stack (java's remote interfaces use IIOP IIRC).

Some people complain that a binary protocol is somehow not "open" but I've seen enough "open" XML uber-nested gibberish in my time to question that assertion...

He claimed that a superconductor would have a uniform temperature over the entire length of the superconductor. It's how Louis Wu kills sunflowers since they heat up part of a superconductive cable while another part of the cable is submerged in water.. the resulting cloud kills the sunflowers.

Obviously there's no existing material that would have high-enough temperatures to do a similar experiment, but maybe a materials science guy could chime in about whether or not these materials actually maintain uniform temperatures when superconductive.

Can't decide... legitimate troll or bot designed to get +1 votes by vomiting buzzwords and hoping for the best...

The non-paywalled article includes some hilarious zingers like "the material also has extraordinary semiconductive properties which could revolutionise the issue of cooling in data centres."

If by "extraodinary" you mean: No bandgap unless you are really doctoring the graphene with other materials, then sure since "ordinary" semiconductors have bandgaps.

Not sure how transistors that can't be turned off will help in cooling data centers, but who knows what revolutions lurk in future press releases!

Basically, this Bash bug is really only exploitable by remote users because of some questionable decisions made in designing the software stack. This isn't an "open source" vs. "closed source" thing. This is a "We'll just trust data received from untrusted sources!" thing.

If your web/dhcp/print/etc. server is *accepting environment variables from random strangers* and then *executing a full-bore shell program* using those environment variables then guess what: You're freakin' server was already vulnerable and this Bash bug is just exposing the vulnerability, not causing it!!

Seriously, if Windows had a design like this then we'd be hearing the old "insecure by design!" schtick, and I'm not going to hold Linux to a lesser standard.

Since this is GNOME, does anybody have a link to the official list of features that have been removed from this version?

Yes, and I'm sure you're next post will be that nobody on the face of the earth has ever EVAR claimed that:
  1. Hurricane Katrina
  2. "Superstorm"* Sandy
  3. The smelt-made California Drought
  4. 2011 Japanese Tsunami **
  5. Back to back record years for agriculture in the midwest in 2013-2014 ***

were caused by global warming!!

* So named because it wasn't even strong enough to count as a real hurricane... while stronger storms have been known to hit NYC in the 19th and early 20th centuries!

** Yes, earthquakes are now caused by Global Warming. Get with the politcally correct program you denialist scum.

*** No wait, that's not post-apocalyptic bad sounding. Two consecutive years of weather patterns over an entire geographic region is just an insignificant random weather event...

Now, a not-particularly unusually strong hurricane that happens to hit a low-lying city that's in the middle of a region where you expect to see hurricanes over a 12 hour period... THAT'S CLIMATE CHANGE YOU DENIALIST SCUM!

I read Patently-O regularly. Good to see someone who actually knows what is going on on Slashdot for a change...

"Although the patent industry broadly speaking sees the Alice verdict as a death knell for patents"

OK, the only thing wrong with that little click-bait snipped is the lack of the words "nobody in" between "Although" and "the".