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Comment: Re:Grinch is not a flaw - has no CVE!!! (Score 1) 118

by pouar on Thursday December 18, 2014 @05:42PM (#48629457) Attached to: Grinch Vulnerability Could Put a Hole In Your Linux Stocking

One of those rare events where the bug really is a feature.

Comment: I think Cataclysm got inspration from this (Score 1) 186

by pouar on Wednesday December 10, 2014 @07:46AM (#48563475) Attached to: NetHack: Still One of the Greatest Games Ever Written

I think Cataclysm got inspration from this

Comment: This is a good thing people (Score 1) 187

by pouar on Friday December 05, 2014 @05:31PM (#48534857) Attached to: Microsoft Introduces<nobr> <wbr></nobr>.NET Core

I still don't trust Microsoft 100% due to their past, but I think they do want to do more in open source, so I'm cautiously optimistic about the new Microsoft. If IBM can change, so can Microsoft. And I'm hoping they actually did change, but I'm still a bit cautious with them.

Comment: Re:I SAID (Score 1) 436

by pouar on Sunday November 30, 2014 @04:07PM (#48492915) Attached to: Supreme Court To Decide Whether Rap Lyric Threats Are Free Speech

And this is why just 5 mod points aren't going to cut it.

Comment: It's not robot overlords I'm worried about (Score 1) 455

by pouar on Sunday November 23, 2014 @08:37PM (#48446545) Attached to: Alva Noe: Don't Worry About the Singularity, We Can't Even Copy an Amoeba

What I'm worried about is letting a computer algorithm decide wether it should kill someone or not.

Comment: Re:Cool (Score 1) 56

by pouar on Wednesday October 08, 2014 @01:11PM (#48094551) Attached to: AMD Building New GPU Linux Kernel Driver To Unify With Catalyst Driver

Although a lot of problems with Cataclyst will probably be solved as a result of this

Comment: Cool (Score 1) 56

by pouar on Wednesday October 08, 2014 @01:06PM (#48094479) Attached to: AMD Building New GPU Linux Kernel Driver To Unify With Catalyst Driver

Now if Catalyst gets good enough it might be an option to start using now.

Comment: Re: battle with Android and iOS first! (Score 1) 132

by pouar on Sunday September 28, 2014 @12:09PM (#48014435) Attached to: Ubuntu Touch For Phones Hits RTM, First Phones Coming This Year

Agreed. I'd upvote this if I had any modpoints. But since I don't, commenting is the best I could do.

Comment: Re:Confused. (Score 1) 236

by pouar on Friday September 26, 2014 @04:59PM (#48006099) Attached to: First Shellshock Botnet Attacking Akamai, US DoD Networks

You're probably getting downvoted for calling him a twat, not for correcting him.

Comment: Great... (Score 1) 426

by pouar on Sunday August 17, 2014 @04:15PM (#47690725) Attached to: Microsoft Considered Renaming Internet Explorer To Escape Its Reputation

It fixed Comcast's rep when they renamed their services to Xfinity. Oh wait, no it didn't.

Comment: Ridiculous (Score 2) 646

by pouar on Wednesday June 18, 2014 @03:42PM (#47266143) Attached to: Washington Redskins Stripped of Trademarks

If the name Redskins was "disparaging". They wouldn't be naming their team after them