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  1. Re:I'd prefer long range on Researchers Make Low-Power Wi-Fi Breakthrough (networkworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Sounds useful for something like Bluetooth

  2. Re:If Hitler had won on Scientists Ponder the Prospect of Contagious Cancer (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    It's also important to note that Tasmanian Tigers are nearly genetically identical, which is why the cancer can spread. Their immune system's can't tell the difference between their cells and another Tiger's cells.

  3. Re:Is all this exposure to the internet worthwhile on Database Error Exposes Sensitive Information On 1,700 Kids (csoonline.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Seems they misconfigured their Mongo DB, MongoDB server's firewall, inter-vlan firewall, and edge firewall. When the entire system is misconfigured, you use the word "inept".

  4. Open ZFS doesn't have encryption because it's low priority since all of the OSes have proper bootable transparent full-disk encryption.

  5. Re:BTRFS on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS To Have Official Support For ZFS File System (dustinkirkland.com) · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    GPL is just not compatible with "free".

  6. Re:No, you don't on SnO: First Stable P-Type 2D Semiconductor Discovered (phys.org) · · Score: 1

    "2D" materials actually have 2 dimensional properties. In a mathematical 2D world, resistance is less because of fewer dimensions of potential movement. It seems that if you make really thin layers of stuff, the resistance works out to perfectly match that of these hypothetical 2D flat lands.

  7. Re:Who? What? Huh? on Khronos Group Announces Release of Vulkan 1.0 (phoronix.com) · · Score: 1

    The Khronos Group though it could be better.

    When Khronos was asked why they didn't make a new API until Mantle came along, they replied saying they don't make new APIs, they only standardize existing ones. Never look to Khronos to innovate, they only follow what others have already done.

  8. In the wild this will be nontrivial to exploit because you already choose your DNS servers with some care

    You don't need to choose your servers with care, you can just host your own, and register a domain. Few hundred dollars for the kind of domain you need? Register sefdarrhdrah4w3563eya54.com and get someone to resolve abc.sefdarrhdrah4w3563eya54.com and watch them hit your server. As long as the caching server between you and the target allows large/oversized DNS responses, which goes back to how common are DNS servers hardened.

  9. Re:Intel already has Open Source Support on Khronos Group Announces Release of Vulkan 1.0 (phoronix.com) · · Score: 2

    Vulkan is mostly a super-set of Mantle. The early versions of Vulkan had nearly all of its APIs named stuff like "MethodA_Mantle", and if you went to the Mantle documentation, there was a method called "MethodA" with the exact same signature.

  10. Re:Mask this by violating TCP rules? on How To Defeat VPN Location-Spoofing By Mapping Network Delays (thestack.com) · · Score: 1

    You do make a good point, but they didn't mention how they measured the latency. Maybe the used a looking glass server. It's also not common to see high pings like that, but they do happen. I only notice them a few times a week while i'm looking. At one point I had my Internet quality graph pointed to my first Level 3 hop, and it was fine for several days before it decided to have wild ping swing and packetloss even though the Internet was fine. I am now stuck using 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4 for monitoring, and those servers had a lot of jitter.

  11. Re:Technology Paradox on Why Some Cities Get All the Good Jobs (chicagotribune.com) · · Score: 1

    Need better tools for telecommuting, primarily group level brainstorming.

    10 minutes bouncing back and forth on an IM
    5 minutes talking on the phone
    Walk over to their cube and in 10 seconds fully understand the issue.

    There is a lot of information that is lost when not in person.

  12. Re:And? on Supercapacitor-On-a-Chip Now One Step Closer (ieee.org) · · Score: 2

    That's also ignoring that as a cap loses power, the voltage goes down. Batteries have stable voltage output.

  13. Re:And? on Supercapacitor-On-a-Chip Now One Step Closer (ieee.org) · · Score: 2

    Cost of an IC has no bearing on this. All they need to do is integrate them into the same package to reduce traces.

  14. Re: Seriously?? on First Steps Towards Network Transparency For Wayland (phoronix.com) · · Score: 1

    Wayland can do everything X does but X cannot do everything that Wayland can. Network transparency is a low priority feature compared to getting core features and cross-platform implementations working and stable. If you want it, add it yourself. Isn't that the opensource motto?

  15. Re:vnc is to X as penthouse is to girlfriend on First Steps Towards Network Transparency For Wayland (phoronix.com) · · Score: 1

    In theory, X is the real thing, in practice it is not. Many of the core Wayland devs were/are also the core X devs and have been for decades(many have been working on X almost since the beginning). X has become a ball of hacks over the years and is no longer what people claim it to be. There are many things that X cannot do without breaking other things, and these new things must be supported in order to stay relevant. Wayland is an attempt to modernize with the X team leading the charge in an attempt to make a good compromise. If they didn't, someone else would try to fill the massive gap and would probably do a horrible job because they don't have the 15-20 years of experience that many of these X devs have.

  16. Re: So what should we do? on Jeep/Chrysler's New Gearshift Appears To Be Causing Accidents (roadandtrack.com) · · Score: 1

    Neutral, first, and second all feel different for motorcycles. Neutral is technically between first and second in that case.

  17. Re:So what should we do? on Jeep/Chrysler's New Gearshift Appears To Be Causing Accidents (roadandtrack.com) · · Score: 1

    There is a fine line between RTFM and poor design. Principle of least astonishment says engineers should design intuitive systems and also follow standard convention.

  18. Re:I don't understand this on Researchers Discover a Cheap Method of Breaking Bitcoin Wallet Passwords (softpedia.com) · · Score: 1

    This should be the rule of thumb for any password protected file that is very likely to be accessible offline. Like password protected storage. Most people are willing to wait a few seconds to much a much more protected boot drive.

  19. Re:I don't understand this on Researchers Discover a Cheap Method of Breaking Bitcoin Wallet Passwords (softpedia.com) · · Score: 1

    It's an offline attack on publicly distributed information. This may be news to you, but BitCoin is a distributed system, not a website.

  20. Re:Good for consumers? on New Air Force Satellites Launched To Improve GPS (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    Quality is an issue. Some phones will claim to know your location with only a single tower in range. It's very hard to use triangulation with a single tower.

  21. Re:Accuracy for WHOM? on New Air Force Satellites Launched To Improve GPS (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    Long range missiles also use accelerometers that on their own they can give target accuracy within several meter over a distance of several hundred km, as long as they have an accurate starting position.

  22. that Morocco may eventually start exporting the clean energy to the European market

    Not only $4bil for fluctuating power, but if anything like Germany, they'll have to start paying to export the excess energy. No one wants just power, they want stable power.

  23. Re:More nation-wrecking idiocy on Are Roads Safer With No Central White Lines? · · Score: 1

    I have seen a few real world experiments that have shown that not only removing the middle line reducing accidents, but also removing stuff like stop signs has shown stark reductions in overall accidents. While doing a nation wide rollout would be a bad thing, some more communities doing some testing is probably a good thing.

  24. Re:NOT SPEED!!! on Scientists In Japan Build 100Gbps Wireless Network Using Terahertz Transmitter · · Score: 1

    Speed is just a rate at which you can do something. It takes on difference meaning depending on what the something is.

  25. Re:NOT SPEED!!! on Scientists In Japan Build 100Gbps Wireless Network Using Terahertz Transmitter · · Score: 1

    The English word "speed" can be used to represent bandwidth or latency depending on the speaker. Possibly even a hybrid combination of the two.