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Comment Re:People just don't understand Linux (Score 3, Insightful) 833

by Malaak (#27539573) Attached to: Linux On Netbooks — a Complicated Story
As you made your Photoshop point pretty clear... For me Gimp IS pretty close to Photoshop. Of course I am not doing professional image editing, but so is the majority of people who use Photoshop as a replacement for MS Paint. They use it because a friend gave them this wonderful editing software where they can use this magic wand and edit contrast and brightness. You are right, Gimp is probably not even close to Photoshop for a professional user, but it is for Joe Sixpack.

Comment Freedom of press (Score 2, Insightful) 466

by Malaak (#27480759) Attached to: Columnist Fired For Reviewing Pirated Movie
A lot of people here are writing things like "He did something illegal, so no shit he got fired" or "He downloaded and watched the whole movie..." For me the important point is the freedom of press! A chinese writer reporting about the problems in tibet is also acting against the law - chinese law of course. But isnt a good journalist supposed to report about "delicate" events? Dont get me wrong, I am not going to equate a hollywood movie with the problems in tibet, but a journalist should report about things the authorities dont want to hear. And I for one will prefere medias who appreciate such behavior.

Comment The reason I still use it as my main player... (Score 1) 488

by Malaak (#27447599) Attached to: VLC 0.9.9, The Best Media Player Just Got Better
Many years ago it was the first player (the first I knew of course) that could playback about anything without crying about missing codecs. Since this time its one of the first things I install when setting up a new computer. Maybe there are better players out there, but VLC is lightweight and simple, and I dont care about the UI anymore when watching fullscreen.
The Military

Submission + - US Nuclear sub crashes into US Navy vessel (guardian.co.uk)

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Kugrian
Kugrian writes: "Showing that it's not just the British and the French who have trouble seeing each other on the high seas, a US Nuclear submarine yesterday crashed into a US Navy heavy cruiser. The USS Hartford, a nuclear-powered attack submarine, was submurged as it crashed into the USS New Orleans in the strait of Hormuz, resulting in the spillage of 95,000 litres of diesel fuel. Both vessels were heading in the same direction when the collision occurred in the narrow strait and were subsequently heading to port for repairs. A spokesman for the 5th Fleet said that the USS Hartford suffered no damage to its nuclear propulsion system."
Security

Students Learn To Write Viruses 276

Posted by samzenpus from the mischief-101 dept.
snocrossgjd writes "In a windowless underground computer lab in California, young men are busy cooking up viruses, spam and other plagues of the computer age. Grant Joy runs a program that surreptitiously records every keystroke on his machine, including user names, passwords, and credit-card numbers. Thomas Fynan floods a bulletin board with huge messages from fake users. Yet Joy and Fynan aren't hackers — they're students in a computer-security class at Sonoma State University. Their professor, George Ledin, has showed them how to penetrate even the best antivirus software."

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