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by shmlco on Sunday July 13, @01:03AM (#24166917)
Attached to: Should the Linux Desktop Be "Pure?"

"Non free software can have backdoors, spyware and other malicious features ..."

And you've gone through all of the millions, if not billions of lines of code that make up a typical Linux distribution and you know for a fact that there are no backdoors, spyware or other malicious features hidden away in the OPEN source?

Right.

Most people just pop in the CD or download the installer and let it do its thing. There could be ANYTHING in there, and no one would know it...

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by Daniel Weis on Saturday July 12, @11:45AM (#24164263)
Attached to: Homer Simpson and the Kimya Botnet
I'll need your state to actually send the dollar to you. :)
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by Darkness404 on Sunday July 06, @10:03AM (#24071123)
Attached to: KDE 4.1 Beta 2 – Two Steps Forward, One Step Back?

"Everyone" agrees that Vista is "a failure", even though it's really not. So why can't dumb generalizations be applied to software that's supposed to be perfect in every way?

The thing though is, I can take KDE 3 and use it till the year 5436656563577 or beyond if I feel like and still patch it. With XP I can't really even get it anymore and I can't patch it and modify it. With KDE 4 I can customize it by customizing the source, with Vista I can't.

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by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 05, @10:03PM (#24068149)
Attached to: In Iran, Blogging May Be Punishable By Death

I hate Bush and I hate the Iraq war and as un-PC as this sounds (and it will surely enrage slashdot users here)- I hope Israel bombs them into the stone age.

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by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 14, @01:03PM (#23790179)
Attached to: 2008 Underhanded C Contest Officially Open
The Microsoft Windows Operating System, pick your version.
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by polar red on Wednesday June 04, @09:03PM (#23657793)
Attached to: McCain Supports Warrantless Domestic Surveillance

How about we make it hard for ANYONE to perpetrate terror attacks on our country?
Like not pissing everybody off ?
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Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Monday May 26, @12:17PM
from the until-they-build-a-better-crack dept.
OMGZombies writes "Speaking on a conference held yesterday in New York, the Atari founder Nolan Bushnell said that a new stealth encryption chip called TPM will 'absolutely stop piracy of gameplay'. The chip is apparently being embedded on most of the new computer motherboards and is said to be 'uncrackable by people on the internet and by giving away passwords' though it won't stop movie or music piracy, since 'if you can watch it and you can hear it, you can copy it.'"
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