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  1. also on HDD Manufacturers Moving To 4096-Byte Sectors · · Score: 1

    Not just for the sake of ECC space savings

    4Ki also happens to be the page granularity for most modern processors, so you wind up having to write in units of 4Ki anyway whenever pages get dirty.

  2. Re:PR "Stuff" from Fireeye on Man Challenges 250,000 Strong Botnet and Succeeds · · Score: 1

    I'd call it electronic quarantine.

  3. Re:PR "Stuff" from Fireeye on Man Challenges 250,000 Strong Botnet and Succeeds · · Score: 1

    Finally, someone treats the army of compromised computers like what it really is, an army.

  4. Re:China debuts human rights abuses on China Debuts the World's Fastest Train · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Let's just admit it.

    China has got our economy by the balls and we can't do much without getting neutered.

  5. Re:no, you're wrong on Happy Birthday, Linus · · Score: 1

    Indeed. The 386 SX was designed as a socket compatible replacement for the 286

  6. Re:get real on Happy Birthday, Linus · · Score: 1

    As far as I'm concerned he's earned the right to be a douche.

    Not that being a douche is a good thing, but IMHO his contributions to open source outweigh that.

  7. Re:No coprocessor... on Happy Birthday, Linus · · Score: 1

    Coprocessors were rare enough that it was not a good idea to have a "do or die" dependency on them, so it paid to be good with emulation.

  8. Re:why? on Chinese Pirates Launch Ubuntu That Looks Like XP · · Score: 4, Funny

    To overcome pro-windows bias.

    Think of it as the linux version of the Mojave experiment.

  9. Re:32 years? on GNU Emacs Switches From CVS To Bazaar · · Score: 2, Interesting

    You should see how much of a fuss it's making with the ubuntu mailing lists.

    At any rate, bazaar is politically entrenched because it's the only officially supported RCS and it's backed by the corporate might of canonical.

    I'm not aware of any particular merits or demerits of either system.

  10. Re:Agree on Groklaw Putting Comes v. Microsoft Docs Online · · Score: 1

    It's like the demons and devils in the Great Blood War of the D&D cosmology.

    As long as they keep each other in check, the rest of the multiverse is safe from invasion, even though both groups would very much enjoy just that.

  11. Re:Programming on How To Teach a 12-Year-Old To Program? · · Score: 1

    I think it's a mistake to call it computer science, when it really is more of an art.

    Software engineering is more apt in that it at least captures the essence of both.

  12. Re:Frist Post! on Fifth Anniversary of a Cosmic Onslaught · · Score: 1

    The sun's a sticky note, the neutron star's an LOC.

  13. Re:Result on Man Tries To Use Explosive Device On US Flight · · Score: 1

    Shitting fireballs takes on a whole new meaning...

  14. Re:eh, I'm not crying too hard on The Secret Lives of Amazon's Elves · · Score: 1

    I guess it's socially acceptable to be a heartless bastard when your workers don't have any choice but to put up with you if you are.

  15. Re:If we evolved to have them... on Microbes That Keep Us Healthy Starting To Die Off · · Score: 1

    In other words, there's already experimenting. WE are the lab rats.

  16. Re:Thankful for the Streisand Effect on Groklaw Putting Comes v. Microsoft Docs Online · · Score: 1

    Caved?

    Microsoft got blackmailed here, since THEY were the ones to cough up the money. At least according to TFS.

  17. Re:Do your job. on Preventing My Hosting Provider From Rooting My Server? · · Score: 1

    Not always.

    The datacenter itself might have other logs you do NOT have access to.

    Stuff that is just as private to them as your own shit SHOULD be to you.

  18. Re:East Coast, no problem on Holiday E-Commerce DDoS Attack Hits EC2 Cloud · · Score: 1

    That has never stopped them from violating our civil rights anyway.

    My point was, if they're going to trample the constitution they may at least as well do something useful while they're at it.

  19. pfft on Religion in Video Games · · Score: 0, Troll

    Video games satisfy the lusts of the flesh.

    By definition that conflicts with the goals of religion.

  20. Re:East Coast, no problem on Holiday E-Commerce DDoS Attack Hits EC2 Cloud · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Ok, here's a solution.

    Trace as many of the IPs as possible and let their owners know their computers have been jacked.

    Any of them don't do squat about it after X amount of time, confiscate their computer for knowingly aiding and abetting a criminal offense. Or something.

    Enough people get in trouble for not doing jack about their computers being infected and you can see vigilance going up.

  21. Re:Oh. on Texas County Will Use Twitter To Publish Drunk Drivers' Names · · Score: 1

    That's nothing.

    I googled myself and apparently I'm listed on America's Most Wanted.

  22. Re:what I'm unclear about.. on IsoHunt Guilty of Inducing Infringement · · Score: 1

    If you mail a bomb from canada and it gets delivered to an american address, whose terrorism laws apply?

  23. Re:International "Commerce" on IsoHunt Guilty of Inducing Infringement · · Score: 1

    If they have a big enough army to punish you for it, then yes.

  24. Re:12 mpbs for online games!!! on Really Misleading Ads From Broadband Providers · · Score: 1

    Ah, but upstream is a juicer that they extract from businesses.

  25. Re:Huh? on IsoHunt Guilty of Inducing Infringement · · Score: 1

    Actually with ACTA it will soon expand far beyond that.