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Comment Re:Easier to block? (Score 1) 131

Well, you probably broke quite a few laws by using coersion to gain access to a customer's servers.

No, he quite obviously didn't and only an unbelievable retard would assume that he had.

Fortunately, given the use of GRE tunnels, the spammer probably broke more laws, and would probably be a bit hesitant to sue.

Given the rambling bullshit nature of the rest of your comment, I'm seriously wondering if you think the use of GRE tunnels is itself illegal. Obviously that would be incredibly stupid, but well...

Comment Re:VLC is an amazing, gigantic success on OS X (Score 1) 398

Really interesting... I suspect some bad treatment to Mac users/Developers going on.

It's also possible that Mac developers are self centred faggots too busy developing the next piece of shitty shareware or iPhone based fart generator to even consider contributing to an open source project. Also most Mac users dislike open source software because it doesn't look right and they'd be embarrassed to be seen using it in Starbucks.

Hopefully VLC for the Mac dies out and you'll all be forced to use iTunes/Quicktime. That would be pretty sweet IMO, because then you'd have to pretend that they are great pieces of software even though you know they are not. Will hopefully lead to some psychotic breakdowns and maybe even someone going postal in an Apple store.

Comment Re:Another Proposed Answer: Olivine and Hydrotherm (Score 0, Troll) 297

And ladies and gentlemen, I present to you the argumentum ad hominem.

Let us take a moment to ponder this posters ability to take a tone of superiority, all the while unawares of the stupendous amount of ignorance being displayed by his own statement.

Truly a remarkable creature.

It's fine to attack a person instead of his argument when that person reads Free Republic or any other extreme right wing, racist libertarian nonsense. Because you see, that person is scum. They're never going to change their views because the American education system (or home schooling more likely) has left them without the ability to learn. So tell me, why not attack the person? If you did it more often, preferably with those guns you love so much, your country wouldn't be quite so fucked. Good luck with your next civil war. I hope both sides lose. Death to America.

Comment Re:Who watches the watchers... (Score 1) 179

Hey Intel (some of you reading this might not be aware of this fact) has processors that phone home and communicate without the user being aware of it. It would be pathetic to have to run a passive sniffer on your personal network to monitor for unusual, unscheduled or abnormal outgoing traffic. Pathetic but to be 100% secure absolutely necessary. (Fortunately a DD-WRT supported device! [dd-wrt.com] will allow you to do just that!)

If there's one moderation that Slashdot really needs, it's +1 Paranoid Schizophrenic.

Comment Re:Paraffin slices are very useful (Score 1) 199

If they are making paraffin (yes as in wax) slices of the brain, it could lead to some very useful research.

Yeah, sorry. They're actually just throwing them out the window one at a time and watching them flutter away. They mark them with their initials first, and whoever gets the longest distance wins the sweepstake.

Comment Re:roundtrips (Score 0, Troll) 102

The ultimate test for machine translation system is whether it can do roundtrip translations without information loss or distortion of meaning. When I was in school somebody had carved "Borra mig i bjornen - Drill me in the bear - Drilla mig pa baret" in the desk. It's quite funny if you're a teenager and speak Swedish.

I DON'T SUPPPOSE IT OCCURRED TO YOU TO EXPLAIN THE JOKE TO THOSE OF US WHO AREN'T SWEDISH TEENAGERS?

Comment Re:IIRC, this is the same sort of bug (Score 1) 275

Actually Oracle 10.2.0.1 on certain versions of 32bit Linux crashed after 49.7 days, usually badly enough that it was easier to hard reboot the system than attempt to regain control as the load average went into the hundreds.

Oracle never expected the value returned by the times() system call to be negative. Unfortunately it's a rapidly increasing signed number and some distros like to start it off high just for the hell of it. It depended on what Hz was set to as well. So on Suse 10 you got 49.7 days. RHEL got you 247.

If this issue sounds familiar to you, you need to patch to 10.2.0.4. And probably find a more suitable job, because this one has been known about for years.

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