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  1. Re:Still sucks on VLC Reaches 2.1 · · Score: 1

    If I can't reproduce it, I probably can't do anything to fix it.

    I fix quite a few issues that are not reproducible, by using my understanding of theory. Detailed logs with timing info, error messages, etc can give good context, then you look at the problems and theorize how the difference systems communicate, their timings, and which popular algorithms are used, and suddenly you have a good shot at solving the non-reproducible pathological case that has been driving everyone nuts.

  2. Re:The old days on The Chip That Changed the World: AMD's 64-bit FX-51, Ten Years Later · · Score: 1

    Can't let the magic smoke out

    When your cell-phone has more memory and CPU power, then it's time to upgrade. The best reason to upgrade is to have a few newer computer that visualize several older computers. Old computers tend to use lots of power.

  3. Re:!GNU/Linux on LLVM's Libc++ Now Has C++1Y Standard Library Support · · Score: 1

    And you've convinced yourself that when someone copies your code, you no longer have access to your code?

    You seem to have applied "single responsibility" beyond its intended scope

  4. Re:!GNU/Linux on LLVM's Libc++ Now Has C++1Y Standard Library Support · · Score: -1

    It's so funny when non-programmers theorize about how programming works. You'd make a great politician, thinking you know how things work, then telling people how to fix them.

  5. Re:Apologize? Yes. on NVIDIA Begins Releasing Documentation For Nouveau · · Score: 2

    Yes he's 12, but in the way that he says what's on his mind and doesn't cripple his communications with political correctness. Linus isn't about telling people "you're doing great!" when they're bad. He calls them out when the fail horribly and makes sure everyone knows about it.

  6. Re:Valve/Steam on NVIDIA Begins Releasing Documentation For Nouveau · · Score: 1

    Wine has experimental DirectX support for DX11 because DX11 is an open spec.

  7. Re:Ubuntu is a has-been. on The Dash Is Now Anonymized In Ubuntu 13.10 · · Score: 1

    As for Debian, well, when Debian decides to join the 21st century I'll be more than happy to give them a look.

    Debian Stable isn't the only version of Debian.

  8. Re:No thanks on Google May Replace Cookies With Unique AdIDs · · Score: 1

    A small minority can get away with blocking ads, like of like how anti-vax people can get away with no getting vaccinated, but if the majority did it, it messes things up. Obviously not a perfect analogy.

  9. Re:Semi Truck Full of HDDs on Never Underestimate the Bandwidth of a Suburban Filled With MicroSD Cards · · Score: 3, Funny

    Imagine the TCP transmit window! A single lost packet would wreak havoc on that stream.

  10. Re:This is pointless on Never Underestimate the Bandwidth of a Suburban Filled With MicroSD Cards · · Score: 1

    Not to mention that an OC-768 is kind of an old standard in the days of relatively cheap 100gb connections and even 8tb/s over a single fiber.

  11. Re:Expect to be deported on Linus Torvalds Admits He's Been Asked To Insert Backdoor Into Linux · · Score: 1

    According to those publications, the law states the Hospital must have consent. The fact that at at least one case they claimed to have but actually did not, means the hospital is lying to skirt the law.

    But no, it is not legal for a hospital to just deport someone, even if they're here illegally and have no money.

  12. Re:Would probably be found on Linus Torvalds Admits He's Been Asked To Insert Backdoor Into Linux · · Score: 1

    A theoretical exploit that requires making changes to the transistor mask. Not a fly-by exploit.

  13. Re:Maybe ... on A Little-Heralded New iOS 7 Feature: Multipath TCP · · Score: 2, Informative

    Safari is typically forced to use HTTP1.0 with no pipelining because it doesn't implement the standard correctly. Because of this, it has to create new connections for each object which requires a 3-way handshake over a high latency connection.

    It does officially support HTTP1.1, but most servers detect Safari and use HTTP1.0 instead.

  14. Re:legal != ok, UK not busting US pot smokers on Linus Torvalds Admits He's Been Asked To Insert Backdoor Into Linux · · Score: 1

    Then you get the add that you probably can't fight the charges because the evidence will be classified, so there is no way to defend.

  15. Re:A billion here, a billion there... on IBM VP Talks About Another $1 Billion for Linux Development (Video) · · Score: 2

    $1b is a lot of hot-pockets. Linux programmers will be fed for a long time.

  16. Re:NSA on Obama Asks FCC To Make Carriers Unlock All Mobile Devices · · Score: 1

    Leaks have shown that disposable SIMs don't affect the NSA much because the usage pattern and relational graph is quite unique per person. Yay, meta-data!

  17. Re:Promised fulfilled on Obama Asks FCC To Make Carriers Unlock All Mobile Devices · · Score: 1

    The data plan costs the same no matter what. Why are you including that into the price? And most smart phones don't work at all without data plans.

    I bet you include the gas price into the total price of a car loan. ZOMG! the car loan costs more than they say!

  18. Re:Promised fulfilled on Obama Asks FCC To Make Carriers Unlock All Mobile Devices · · Score: 1

    Option 1) Pay up-front $600

    Option 2) Pay $30 over 18 months for a grand-total of $540, adjust for inflation so more like $520, then the convince of not having to pay up-front.

    What's the problem again?

  19. Re: Topology on Obama Asks FCC To Make Carriers Unlock All Mobile Devices · · Score: 2

    What do you mean "still". CDMA emits a magnitude less radio waves, has longer range, has better penetration of walls/etc, can do soft hand-offs, has no logical limitation of range, gets better signal strength when lots of towers are in the same area, has no issues with frequency planning.

    It is better than GSM is almost every way, other than cost and market penetration.

    You guys are still on fiber optics?! We use copper! It's so much better!

  20. Re:The problem for whom? on OpenZFS Project Launches, Uniting ZFS Developers · · Score: 1

    I can't follow your logic.

    You're saying that OpenSource ZFS is a security risk because the closed source version doesn't show its source?

    GPL doesn't guarantee crap. Lots of web services use GPL'd software with custom changes, but they don't need to release that code. Anyway, if you had to choose between two closed source offerings, would you want a custom in-house file system or ZFS where you don't know if they did or didn't make any changes?

    Until GPL can force people to use GPL in the first place, people will just not use GPL if they don't like it.

  21. Re:all i want is BP-rewrite on OpenZFS Project Launches, Uniting ZFS Developers · · Score: 1

    People who use multi TB/PB setups don't really care about defrag. The benefit it provides is very little and the complexity of implementing defrag in a way that allows for a transactionally atomic operation to update potentially billions of blocks at the same time is quite hard.

    ZFS can have up to 18,446,744,073,709,551,616 snapshots, and if you change the location of a block of data, you need to update it's block pointer in all of those snapshots, assuming each one points to it.

    It's not a simple problem, but can be done, and the cost of re-writing BP(block pointers) is quite expensive. Since defrag doesn't actually add almost any value, there is little reason to add it.

  22. Re:What's the difference? on OpenZFS Project Launches, Uniting ZFS Developers · · Score: 1

    Oracle stopped supplying code after v28. The open source community decided it's been too long and ZFS in open source needs new features. So they're parting ways with being compatible with Solaris ZFS. Up until now, Open Source ZFS was able to be mounted by Sun and visa versa, but only up to v28.

  23. Re:Advatages of ZFS over BTRFS? on OpenZFS Project Launches, Uniting ZFS Developers · · Score: 1

    It sounds like he disabled/reduced ZFS's default to keep extra copies of meta-data.

  24. Re:Advatages of ZFS over BTRFS? on OpenZFS Project Launches, Uniting ZFS Developers · · Score: 2

    "Unexpectedly" lost data. The things he's mentioned would have hosed other Fes' completely, but losing some data because his lack of redundancy is fine.

  25. Re:Cool, but.. on OpenZFS Project Launches, Uniting ZFS Developers · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Everything else is already handled with LVM and software RAID.

    You have a great sense of humor, keep it up.