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  1. Re:Not just Monsanto on WHO Report Links Weed Killer Ingredient To Cancer Risk · · Score: 1

    Modern digital dental x-rays have 80%-90% reduction in total radiation over the prior generation.

  2. Re:Get your facts right on How Space Can Expand Faster Than the Speed of Light · · Score: 1

    Information cannot move through any point in space faster than c. That simple. If you want to go faster than c, then you need to move the points instead of moving through them.

  3. Re:How to REALLY lie with statistics on Hundreds Expelled, Many Arrested, For Cheating In India's School Exams · · Score: 1

    One of the first things told during freshmen inauguration was plagiarism almost always resulted in academic probation for 1-2 semesters depending on the severity, and cheating got you banned for life from all state Universities, and any degrees you may have gotten from them will be revoked.

  4. Re:Isn't that how warp drives work? on How Space Can Expand Faster Than the Speed of Light · · Score: 1

    Relative to our frame of reference, there are objects moving away form us faster than 2c.

  5. Re:To Make You Feel Better... on How Space Can Expand Faster Than the Speed of Light · · Score: 1

    The order of events do not always agree for all frames, but I assume that they'd have to agree for the ordering of certain related events for causality to work, but that may not be true either.

    An example is assume there is a train, a tunnel, and another observer. Assume the train is longer than the tunnel. Now assume the other observer is watching the tunnel from a perpendicular view.

    If the train is moving very fast, it will contract in the direction of its movement. From the perspective of the other observer, the train is shorter than the tunnel, but from the perspective of the train, the tunnel is shorter than the train. Now if this tunnel has the ability to close its entry and exist. from the other observer, both the entry and exit can close at the same time and the entire train fits within the tunnel, then the exit and re-open and allow the train to exit the tunnel.

    From the perspective of the train, the exit closes first, then right before the train reaches the exit, the exit door opens, then the entry closes.

    The events have a different ordering, they have to, because they cannot agree on the lengths.

  6. Re:"Space itself" is just a mathematical trick on How Space Can Expand Faster Than the Speed of Light · · Score: 1

    Lorentz contraction and relativity only applies to objects moving through space. These distant objects are not moving through space. "extra redshift because of time dilation due to its speed" WTF does that even mean? When light gets emitted by an electron, it is the exact same, you know, quantum. The frequency of light is not affect by time dilation at all, it is only affected by red shifting.

  7. Re:Underlying problem on ISPs Worry About FCC's 'Future Conduct' Policing · · Score: 1

    CDMA is superior to GSM is nearly every way except cost.

  8. Re:"Space itself" is just a mathematical trick on How Space Can Expand Faster Than the Speed of Light · · Score: 1

    Your link says " then find that the rest of the universe is moving away at very high speeds, approaching (but not exceeding) the speed of light", but we already see galaxies moving away over 2x the speed of light. Since these galaxies are technically not moving through space quickly, they experience little time dilation.

  9. Re:I don't buy it. on Internet of Things Endangered By Inaccurate Network Time, Says NIST · · Score: 2

    1000 NTP clients would average about 1Kbits/s total. You're going to need a whole lot of "internet of things" before bandwidth becomes an issue.

  10. Re:You're doing it wrong. on Internet of Things Endangered By Inaccurate Network Time, Says NIST · · Score: 1

    Newer hardware supports millions to tens of millions of times per seconds. My home firewall is kept withing 0.1ms of a remote NTP server that's about 2000 miles away round trip. It's a hardware tick that is programmable and can schedule interrupts. The OS can check the current counter to see how much time has elapsed since the last check, and NTP clients can adjust the frequency to adjust for skew.

  11. Re:It supports it just fine, article is BS on Internet of Things Endangered By Inaccurate Network Time, Says NIST · · Score: 1

    One way to "fix" that issue is to not have time go backwards, but make time tick more slowly until real time catches up. Servers should be closer to seconds out of sync. Several of my home systems are less than 1ms out of sync with remote servers 80+ ms away from me.

  12. Re:Browsers getting too complex on Every Browser Hacked At Pwn2own 2015, HP Pays Out $557,500 In Awards · · Score: 1

    We want interactive content that can do perceptibly real-time processing. Static content is for books.

  13. Re:It supports it just fine, article is BS on Internet of Things Endangered By Inaccurate Network Time, Says NIST · · Score: 2

    SystemTime = CurrentDataBaseTime
    Delay = LocalTime - SystemTime - TimeDifference
    TimeDifference = LocalTime - SystemTime - Delay
    Now = LocalTime - TimeDifference

    There, corrected it for you. Now you try to figure this problem out.

  14. Re:Just another reminder to use LibreSSL on OpenSSL Security Update Less Critical Than Expected, Still Recommended · · Score: 1

    I thought an "affect" creates a specific "effect". I like pixels shaders that affect the graphics by creating a shiny graphical effect.

  15. Re:I choose MS SQL Server on Why I Choose PostgreSQL Over MySQL/MariaDB · · Score: 1

    How do you maintain relational constraints? I love constraints of all kinds, saves me a lot of time from bugs messing up data.

  16. Re:HTTPS? on Ex-NSA Researcher Claims That DLL-Style Attacks Work Just Fine On OS X · · Score: 1

    Deduplication is at the block level. You would need to have all of your code segments block aligned, which could be an issue since block sizes vary from 512bytes to over 1MB depending on your FS and how you formatted it.

  17. Re: A Language With No Rules... on Why There Is No Such Thing as 'Proper English' · · Score: 0

    When most Americans talk, they sound unintelligent. Is that the same thing?

  18. Re:I have two problems with this article. on NTP's Fate Hinges On "Father Time" · · Score: 1

    15min is horrible, many protocols become insecure after a short while. Replay attacks! Time being out of sync is a huge security issue. Nearly every security protocol needs to know what time it is. The more accurate your time, the more secure you can make it by reducing the attack window.

  19. Re:Summary of above post on NTP's Fate Hinges On "Father Time" · · Score: 1

    OpenNTPD added a feature that allows it to query a pool of configurable HTTPS servers, finds a median reported current time(HTTPS reports time as part of the protocol), then attempt to use NTP and requires that the answer from NTP is within a small distance of the HTTPS pool. This way another server can't fake time too far out.

  20. Re:Protocol vs software that implements it on NTP's Fate Hinges On "Father Time" · · Score: 1

    In the past year, OpenNTPD has added some features and can now regularly maintain time within 5ms with a modern system. OpenNTPD does rely on well implemented hardware a bit more and doesn't try to do fancy adjustments for poorly implemented hardware clocks or older hardware, but it does a decent job clock steering with newer hardware.

  21. Re:/. is not kickstarter on NTP's Fate Hinges On "Father Time" · · Score: 1

    From what little I've read, getting time right is incredibly hard, and this guy has a huge bank of knowledge and practice in his head. Anyone who thinks they can take on what he does probably doesn't understand the issues at hand. He's one of those rare 0.01% of programmers who actually know WTF he's doing.

  22. Re:Fewer bug fixes? on NTP's Fate Hinges On "Father Time" · · Score: 1

    OpenNTPD is SNTP only, but also adjusts for clock drift. Actually, OpenNTPD adjusts the clock's tick rate instead of only adjusting the time.

  23. Re: The profession is in decline on Electrical Engineering Employment Declines Nearly 10%, But Developers Up 12% · · Score: 1

    Average and even median pay can be deceptive. Without knowing where those people live or what kind of working environments they have to put up with, it's hard to gauge the value of that $200k.

  24. Re:Ugly intel failure mode. on Endurance Experiment Kills Six SSDs Over 18 Months, 2.4 Petabytes · · Score: 1

    They do from time to time use the term "remap", but in a way that indicates the block was removed from the pool. It's probably not a correct term, but it's one that most people would understand.

  25. Re:Swap drive now? on Endurance Experiment Kills Six SSDs Over 18 Months, 2.4 Petabytes · · Score: 1

    You can never fully disable the Windows swap, it is hard coded into the kernel that is must exist or the kernel will not work. Even if it claims to be disabled, it still creates a 32MB page file on the boot drive, and can thrash the heck out of it. Win8.1 won't even let me reduce the page file below 800MB. I tried disabling it and it said it'll still create an 800MB page file.

    You also have issues with memory fragmentation. If there is not a large enough contiguous free memory address, the OS can page out and do some minor defragging. It is relatively simple to contrive a situation where 50% of your memory is in use, but you'll get an out of memory error trying to allocate a page larger than 4KB. In the real world, the 80/20 rule is at play. Once you get past 80% usage, you could start running into memory issues with out a swap scratch pad.