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  1. We're 2 years past the PS4's launch and we don't know specs, details, final form factor, price, or launch date for Project Morpheus.
    What we do know is that if it comes out it'll be half-baked, poorly supported, and wheeled off the stage when the PS5 launches alongside the updated version.

  2. Key Exchange on Fewer IPsec Connections At Risk From Weak Diffie-Hellman (threatpost.com) · · Score: 2, Interesting

    All key exchange algorithms are vulnerable.
    You can't negotiate a key without secrecy in the first place. Certs don't cover that because the CA model is inherently broken.

  3. Re:If border cops don't know what to do, on Hackers, Activists, Journos: How To Build a Secure Burner Laptop (vice.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    No, they'll keep the device, beat and rape you, then illegally hold you without charging you anything and without granting you access to a lawyer.

  4. Liberals are all about freedom, expression, tolerance, etc. until you do or say something that they don't like.
    Tolerance and acceptance only apply to those they tolerate and accept. Everyone else gets branded a bigot hate monger, racist, misogynist, etc. the instant they exercise their own right to speak their mind or utter any un-PC truths. This behavior by liberals, of course, is the very definition of bigotry.

  5. Re:Fossils on Evolution Can Occur Much Faster Than Previously Thought (ox.ac.uk) · · Score: 0

    God knows.

  6. Joint Land Attack Cruise Missile Defense Elevated on Military Blimp Breaks Free and Drifts Over the Mid-Atlantic Trailing Tether (baltimoresun.com) · · Score: 1

    Joint Land Attack Cruise Missile Defense Elevated Netted Sensor System is not JLENS, it's JLACMDENSS.

  7. Re:You need this kind of thing for VM security on Oracle Bakes Security Into New Chips (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Xeons are getting all the new features that used to be mainframe only yesterday

    Wake me when Xeon systems PCs support hot swapping CPU and RAM.

  8. Re:Sadly you don't even need to disagree on SXSW Cancels Panels On Harassment Due To Harassment (sxsw.com) · · Score: 1

    O, u mad.

  9. Re:Was Darwin partially wrong then? on Paternal Stress Is Passed To Offspring (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    It's really pathetic how so many young, enthusiastic, pro-science kids know so little about the stuff they champion. They'll scream for hours own end about people needing to get educated about the subject because they're on some sort of political tirade and have decided that the subject is an "issue" that their political party of choice depends on. Yet they can't tell you the first fucking thing about the issue beyond the talking points in their memo.

  10. Re:Nonsense on Coding Academies -- Useful Or Nonsense? (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    If you have a degree in CS, I don't expect you to know any particular language, but I do expect you to pick just about any one up as needed by looking at existing code or browsing the web for a bit.

  11. Re:Coding on Coding Academies -- Useful Or Nonsense? (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 0

    If you set up your database correctly, it would be sorted and meaningful before you wrote your first WHERE clause.
    Protip: For any non-trivial table, if you have a column called ID that holds an int, is your PK, and is the clustered index, you're doing it wrong.

  12. Re:No federal constitutional mandate for this on Study: Standardized Tests Overwhelming Public Schools (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.

  13. Re:Oh... on New Algorithm Provides Huge Speedups For Optimization Problems (mit.edu) · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Why, I oughtta!

    Anyhow, I'm checking out the paper. Well, I will be after snuggle-time. Yay! A use-case for a tablet. I've a bit of work in this area though, specifically, modeling traffic - traffic optimization *is* hard. Throughput, where humans are concerned, is nearing an attempt at modeling chaos (and for those who think perfection is possible, I welcome their insights).

    For controlled intersections, ACTUALLY control them.
    Stop signs, traffic signals, etc. are all suggestions in the eyes of your typical driver.
    If a yellow light meant "we're raising the fucking spiked pylon barrier" there would be a lot fewer issues.
    It won't be perfect (we still have people who try to beat trains and drive round/through the arms as they're lowering) but it would be a lot better, especially after weeding out the retards.

    Once you control behavior you can then look to optimizing flows of traffic, and you'll have much more success.

  14. Re:Disbar that motherfucker. on Judge Tosses Wikimedia's Anti-NSA Lawsuit Because Wikipedia Isn't Big Enough (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Unfortunately, you are incorrect. A federal judge's responsibility is to rule in favor of established law and precedent.

    Wrong. A judge's duty is to evaluate both the letter and spirit of the law with regards to a case presented by the involved parties and their counsel in order to render a judgement. Precedent is not law. "Case law" is not law. Law is law, with the United States Constitution being the highest law in the land.

  15. How is dark matter simpler than the idea that we simply aren't able to observe the entire universe, and thus can't even begin to speculate as to how much mass we should be seeing?

  16. Entanglement does not enable instantaneous communication over distance.
    Entanglement does not involve FTL transfer of information.
    Entanglement does not violate causality.

  17. Re:Star's rapid change in mass? on First Planet Known To Orbit a White Dwarf Is Falling Apart (nasa.gov) · · Score: 1

    It's been nice proving you wrong.

  18. Re:Winner/winner, Chicken Dinner on Samsung 950 Pro Brings NVMe To M.2, Over 2.5GB/s · · Score: 1

    Dell, and most OEMs you as an end customer buy server shit from, sell you a boxed product - the equipment.
    They buy individual parts from other OEMs.

    They are like car dealerships with regards to your interaction with them as an end customer.
    If you are buying parts from them and doing your own assembly, you become an OEM yourself.

  19. Re:no wonder on Mythbusters Ending After Next Season (ew.com) · · Score: 1

    That's like saying taking kids to McDonalds every day is better than dumpster diving.
    Whatever happened to Mr. Wizard, Bill Nye, etc. type shows for kids?

    Hint - it's the same thing that happened to the Discovery Channel, The Learning Channel, and The History Channel. People don't want to think, they want to watch sharks bite shit, hoarders addicted to eating laundry detergent pop out babies they didn't know they were carrying, and the latest cockamamie shit about Hitler's connection to aliens.

  20. Re:Winner/winner, Chicken Dinner on Samsung 950 Pro Brings NVMe To M.2, Over 2.5GB/s · · Score: 1

    Yeah but that's going to be OEM only - aka pay Dell waaaaaaaaaaaaaay too much for a server with it and be unable to buy it separately, have the actual part number when you try to buy it on the server configuration page, etc. OEMs are like car dealerships.

  21. Re:Winner/winner, Chicken Dinner on Samsung 950 Pro Brings NVMe To M.2, Over 2.5GB/s · · Score: 4, Informative

    Legitimately the goodest and nerdest news I've heard on Slashdot in a long time.

    And for those of us with desktops without PCIe, M-keyed, M.2 slots, there are adapters.
    Bootability depends om your mobo/bios/uefi/hairdo.

  22. Re:Locked out of tenders on Security Researchers Face Revenge of Spy Agencies (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    This explains it pretty concisely: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

  23. Re:850 Pro Enterprise Use on Samsung Demos PCIe NVMe SSD At 5.6 GB Per Second, 1 Million IOPS (hothardware.com) · · Score: 1

    That's why we ponied up for the 845 DC Pro, just in case.

  24. Re:All SSDs must be loaded with this haiku on Samsung Demos PCIe NVMe SSD At 5.6 GB Per Second, 1 Million IOPS (hothardware.com) · · Score: 2

    Haikus are for cows
    Moo. Moooooo cows! Moo your haikus.
    You haikuing cows.

  25. Re:Can the SSD stand the heat of Data Center? on Samsung Demos PCIe NVMe SSD At 5.6 GB Per Second, 1 Million IOPS (hothardware.com) · · Score: 1

    Show me a bootable RAID controller that lets me plug in 2-4 of these high speed NVMe (PCIe) SSDs for RAID 1 or 10, because I am NOT about to run software RAID on my ESXi hosts (and yes, I use local storage - it's buttloads faster and cheaper).
    Bonus points if it has battery backup.

    I had to stick with 845 DC Pro when we last bought servers because there was no reliable hardware solution for RAIDing the new PCIe based SSDs.
    The few I found were expensive, from no-name brands, and only supported (in total) half of the speed of (each of) the SSDs I was looking at.