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Comment Closed source (Score 1) 201

Obviously this has gone undetected so long because of the lack of understanding of the issue in general and the users lack of access to the code in special. How many of these issues are still hidden?

Comment Re:Fast way to shut down! (Score 0, Troll) 792

Usually, I leave the computer on, but sometimes I need to reboot, because the machine get slow, memory is used up and it start to swap. I avoid doing it because it take the machine 5 minutes to go down and 2 minutes to start. Compare that to 20 seconds to go down and 20 seconds to boot for my portable with Ubuntu.

There is the explanation for the shutdown benchmark.

Comment Re:It's the commonality. (Score 2, Insightful) 232

I know, a lot of people believe that when there is more users, there are more incentive to exploit and that is the only difference between Windows and Linux. It's just that it doesn't work that way. They are implemented in a different way, and since my confidence in the security of Microsoft isn't that great, I don't believe you are right.
The Almighty Buck

Submission + - The PirateBay Sold For 60 Million Swedish Kronor (marketwatch.com)

Xemu writes: "In the wake after the recent judgement against the piratebay owner's, a small but listed software company, Global Gaming Factory X, today announced that it acquires The Pirate Bay website, one of the 100 most visited websites in the world. GGF says it intends to continue to operate the piratebay.org site but compensate copyright owners."
Media

Submission + - The Pirate Bay trial is a mistrial?

rolfc writes: The swedish national radio reveals that the judge in the Pirate Bay trial is a member of "Svenska föreningen för upphovsrätt (SFU)", the Swedish association for immaterial rights and "Svenska föreningen för industriellt rättsskydd (SFIR)" Swedish association for industrial rights that also works for stronger immaterial rights. Besides that he work for the foundation .SE together with Monique Wadstedt, laywer for the hollywood companies in the trial.

http://www.sr.se/sida/artikel.aspx?ProgramId=1646&Artikel=2785979

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