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  1. Re:Multiple heads on Google Proposes New Hard Drive Format For Data Centers (thestack.com) · · Score: 1

    This wouldn't just allow for four times the I/O, but allow four different threads to write at the same time

    Or allow writes to not block reads.

  2. Re:Go for it! Bring back full height 5 1/4" drives on Google Proposes New Hard Drive Format For Data Centers (thestack.com) · · Score: 1

    Parent poster is probably just buying small drives. Economies of scale says it's cheaper to manufacture one platter density and just vary the number of platters. So most 500GB drives are single-platter now (either 500GB platter or defected 1TB platter). Most newer drives are probably 1TB platter. So anyone who avoids 3TB drives because they're "unreliable" is missing the point.

  3. Re:Does AT&T own the poles in question or not? on AT&T Sues Louisville Over Google Fiber (wdrb.com) · · Score: 5, Informative

    The US legal code?

    A utility shall provide a cable television system or any telecommunications carrier with nondiscriminatory access to any pole, duct, conduit, or right-of-way owned or controlled by it.

    Source: U.S. Code > Title 47 > Chapter 5 > Subchapter II > Part I > Section 224

  4. Re:Reimplement the fixes on Ask Slashdot: What To Do With Shelved OSS Project Fixes? · · Score: 2

    root of the poisonous tree

    fruit of the poisonous tree? That applies to evidence gathering, not copyright. Re-implementing your own code might be argued to be a derivative work of your own original code (you can't be your own clean room), but given how small the bug is it's hard to prove.

    It would be awfully hard to argue that an edge case bug fix is going to dramatically improve sales. There's no such thing as fruit of the poisoned tree in copyright - but you said yourself that the code is probably viable without the bug fix.

    Either way, I'm not suggesting you should do it without permission.

  5. Who's talking about that? We're talking about high precision monitoring equipment, aren't we?

  6. Re:So can I use CD drive? on Software Freedom Conservancy: Distributing Linux With ZFS Is Illegal (phoronix.com) · · Score: 1

    That's a mount on the sermon.

  7. Re:A question if I may. on Microsoft Telemetry Collection, Explained (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    I was talking about dial-up.

  8. The Register has some weird terminology. For example, referring to Google as "The Chocolate Factory"

  9. And how do you query data from a paper fax? Some of these devices generate a massive amount of data (e.g. a heart monitor that records ECG signal data).

    Whether there's a backup, there still needs to be a digital repository. I'd argue the devices should not be remote accessible and only push out data and pull commands from the central server, but that's still going to have security holes.

  10. Re:Here's to rubber-stamp DMCA exemptions on President Obama Nominates New Librarian of Congress Who Supports Open Access (teleread.com) · · Score: 1

    Here's to arguing for fair-use exemptions to the DMCA. Because if the LoC can't preserve our digital culture, it needs to go. And if I am legally allowed to be able to rip my DVDs again that would be a nice bonus.

  11. Re:A question if I may. on Microsoft Telemetry Collection, Explained (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Tell Windows that it's a "metered" connection and it will help somewhat.

  12. Re:Valve will save me on Microsoft Telemetry Collection, Explained (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Seconded. These days, with good EFI support across the board on new hardware and better bootloaders, you can install full OS X upgrades within the OS without having to know that it's a Hackintosh.

  13. Re:Unlocked firmware on DoJ Wants Apple To Decrypt 12 More iPhones (macrumors.com) · · Score: 1

    I haven't assumed it - I'm just saying it's not a hardware restriction, as far as I know. I have no idea if they've closed that or not, but since we don't know it's best to assume on the side of less secure.

  14. Re:Is there money is such books. on Ask Slashdot: Good Technical Guide To Windows 10? · · Score: 1

    Where do one acquire good sourced reference documentation beyond the surface?

    I am tempted to create a hierarchical, user-editable, web-based database of registry keys with commenting enabled... Could this be the next Wikipedia for IT people?

    I'm probably too lazy. But the SEO you could manage with whatever.com/HKLM/Software/Microsoft/Windows/CurrentVersion/ would be pretty powerful.

  15. Re:That Book Market Existed Pre-Web on Ask Slashdot: Good Technical Guide To Windows 10? · · Score: 2

    None of those cover architectural details, the workings of EFI, etc.

    In the above list, you'll be amazed as it gives you WIN+A to bring up the Action Center or how to use the Refresh Your PC feature.

    Or maybe you're joking.

  16. Re:Unlocked firmware on DoJ Wants Apple To Decrypt 12 More iPhones (macrumors.com) · · Score: 1

    Maybe you could try to use a hardware burned cipher in a "security chip" that can't output its key to engineer around that

    The newer iPhone already has that. So closing the firmware update hole would completely fill the gap for newer phones.

  17. Re:Is there money is such books. on Ask Slashdot: Good Technical Guide To Windows 10? · · Score: 1

    There's still a use case. Knowing what to search for is valuable, and an all-encompassing book uses that as its glue. True, just having the table of contents for free from Amazon might be the most valuable part. But someone has to write it for that to be available.

  18. Re:FBI is violating the Federal Aquistion Regualti on Bill Gates Sides With FBI In Apple Spat (ft.com) · · Score: 1

    Maybe so, but they aren't the only one holding back information.

  19. Re:FBI is violating the Federal Aquistion Regualti on Bill Gates Sides With FBI In Apple Spat (ft.com) · · Score: 1

    Apple isn't objecting on these grounds

    You don't play that card on the first round.

  20. Re:I don't get it ... on Bill Gates Sides With FBI In Apple Spat (ft.com) · · Score: 1

    Doesn't DFU mode wipe the data?

  21. Re:Tasmanian Devil Facial Cancer is transmittable on Scientists Ponder the Prospect of Contagious Cancer (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Um... AIDS is a cancer of the immune system, and is transmissable.

    No...AIDS just keeps you from being able to fight all those minor cancers that would normally be caught immediately by the immune system. If you're going to be pedantic about not using the technical term of "clonally transmissable cancers", then definitely don't call a viral infection cancer.

  22. Re:Not the best plan. on Drinking More Coffee May Undo Liver Damage From Booze (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    I can second Zevia. And not even because it's "diet" but because it doesn't have an overly sweet flavor.

  23. Re: Define cup on Drinking More Coffee May Undo Liver Damage From Booze (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    A shot of real coffee is 2 oz. A cup of that is at least 2-3 shots.

  24. Re:And there you are... on HTTP GZIP Compression Leaks Data On the Location of Tor Web Servers · · Score: 4, Insightful

    find a way to slap a VPN after TOR

    You don't have any control over the "after TOR" side of the connection. You could slap a VPN before TOR, or operate an exit node that uses a VPN, but there's no way you'd want to be using your own exit node if you wanted the protection of TOR.

  25. Re:What? on Rio Has Given Up On Clean Water For Olympics (go.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    I'd spend a year walking if I had to leave such a shit hole.

    You have died of dysentery