Comment Actual Link to the zip (Score 4, Informative) 605
http://cryptome.org/tsa-screening.zip
The actual link.
Comment None at all (Score 1) 423
If anyone in the US picked anything except "non at all" I just want to call bullshit on you right now. Swine flu tests are on a shortage and only the elderly, pregnant and a select few are actually getting tested. You'll know if you got the actual swine flu test if the physician took a very long bent q-tip jammed it up your nose similar to the whooping cough test. All the other "swine flu tests" being done are actually seasonal flu tests, which will result in a positive regardless of the flu type. Symptoms are identical to seasonal flu, and both are very contagious, it really is impossible to determine which flu you have w/o the proper tests; which are just too expensive and short handed to be used widely this season.
Comment Re:The most boring benchmarking ever. (Score 1) 193
But Chromium also lacks most functionality that the other distros have. It's decently easy to make something fast and secure when it doesn't do very much.
Comment Re:2 Down... (Score 5, Funny) 95
Odd, I was under the impression they used the trojans to stop from accidentally breeding.
Comment Re:No check boxes using Safari 4.0.3 on Snow Leopa (Score 1) 709
As it turns out Snow Leopard users can vote. However, because of an obscure bug rebooting their machine will delete all their poll data.
Comment Re:marketshare (Score 1) 343
Except *doze server machines arn't compromised anymore often then *nix ones because they're both properly maintained.
OSX on the other hand is showing lots of justification for market-share vs malware. Ever since they peaked to 5% they've become a target, unless you want to say that they've also lost what made them secure at the same time.
OSX on the other hand is showing lots of justification for market-share vs malware. Ever since they peaked to 5% they've become a target, unless you want to say that they've also lost what made them secure at the same time.
Comment Re:marketshare (Score 1) 343
The market share argument just does not cut it. You would think there would be at least one well know case in the wild by now of a linux virus spreading to other linux machines in a sustained and ongoing manner.
What? That's exactly why market-share is so important. You're assuming they can find other linux machines. And how would they do this? How would it discover other machines? This is hard enough to do with a windows host, let alone one that has ~1/100 the market-share.
Comment Re:Causality is wrong (Score 1, Interesting) 483
Microsoft would have to be certifiably insane to consider Ubuntu even a marginal form of competition.
Prove it.
Linux in total represents less then
Microsoft *are* ahead of Ubuntu in at least one, basic, critical area. Stable hardware support that actually works.
Prove it.
Broadcom(or most other) wireless chipsets, nVidia video drivers. The end.
Ubuntu is filled with wonderful software, but honestly it's not ready for wide adoption. Now maybe you can try to pin that on the hardware companies that don't support it, or the users who want to just use what they know, but it doesn't change the fact it's not ready.
Comment How about the other bugs? (Score 1) 310
"...hailed the release a 'game changer' because it provides a reliable way for developers to sort through thousands of bugs to identify the several dozen that pose the greatest risk."
Yea, because who would want to fix EVERY Bug before release? Certainly not Microsoft, that's for Service Packs are for!
Yea, because who would want to fix EVERY Bug before release? Certainly not Microsoft, that's for Service Packs are for!
Comment Re:Wine for Windows (Score 2, Informative) 354
Um, WINEHQ has for a long time had a "Windows port". It's used mostly for testing since substituting the real system files is easier in the actual environment; and some other debugging is easier too. Since the new site layout however I've yet to find the correct link for it, otherwise I would post it.
Comment goodluckwiththat (Score 3, Insightful) 674
The thing about P2P that's not the same for the rest of the internet is it's protocols are always evolving. Sure you'll be able to stop some stuff today, but you'll always be one step behind in a feudal battle against users, and in this case registered voters who may not fully agree with your ideas.
What's New In FreeBSD 7.0 103
blackbearnh writes "FreeBSD is about to release the much-anticipated version 7, and as usual there's a comprehensive interview with over two dozen of the major contributors over at O'Reilly's ONLamp site. Federico Biancuzzi interviewed the developers to discuss all the details of FreeBSD 7.0: networking and SMP performance, SCTP support, the new IPSEC stack, virtualization, monitoring frameworks, ports, storage limits and a new journaling facility, what changed in the accounting file format, jemalloc(), ULE, and more."
Antidepressants Work No Better Than a Placebo 674
Matthew Whalley writes "Researchers got hold of published and unpublished data from drug companies regarding the effectiveness of the most common antidepressant drugs. Previously, when meta-analyses have been conducted on only the published data, the drugs were shown to have a clinically significant effect. However, when the unpublished data is taken into account the difference between the effects of drug and placebo becomes clinically meaningless — just a 1 or 2 point difference on a 30-point depression rating scale — except for the most severely depressed patients. Doctors do not recommend that patients come off antidepressant drugs without support, but this study is likely to lead to a rethink regarding how the drugs are licensed and prescribed."
Recording Music Without the Recording Industry 234
hephaist0s writes "The 2008 RPM Challenge — to write and record an original album in February, just because you can — is about to begin. Hundreds of musicians from around the world have already signed up. Last year, more than 850 albums were recorded as part of the challenge, a testament to what can be done by independent musicians without a label, without the RIAA, and often without a professional studio. The efforts ranged from an album made entirely on a Nintendo Game Boy to a Speed Racer rock opera, produced by both experienced bands and novice musicians, often in continent-spanning online collaborations. Last year's challenge generated one of the largest free jukeboxes of original music available online, built to stream on-demand all 8500-plus original, artist-owned songs. Imagine if grassroots, independent systems like this foretold the future of recorded music and its distribution."
Court Says You Can Copyright a Cease-And-Desist Letter 349
TechDirt has a follow up to a case they covered back in October where a law firm was trying to claim a copyright on the cease-and-desist letters they sent out. Public Citizen poked a number of holes in this claim and invited the lawyers to "try it." Well, unfortunately the lawyers decided to bite and what's more, they actually got a judge to buy it. The news was announced by the victorious lawyer who now claims he can sue anytime someone posts one of his cease-and-desist letters. "The copyrighting of cease-and-desist letters is an easy way for law firms to bully small companies who have committed no wrong, but who have no real recourse to fight back against an attempt to shut them up via legal threat. Until today, many companies who were being unfairly attacked by companies and law firms misusing cease-and-desist letters to prevent opinions from being stated, had a reasonable recourse to such attacks, and could draw attention to law firms that used such bullying tactics to mute any criticism."
