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  1. Re:Why not call it "Winux" on WLinux, the First Paid-for Linux Distro for Windows 10, Goes On Sale on Microsoft Store (techrepublic.com) · · Score: 3, Funny

    Why not call it "VILE": Vile Is not a Linux Emulator.

  2. Re: Allwinner is garbage on A $1, Linux-Capable, Hand-Solderable Processor (hackaday.com) · · Score: 1

    Probably you did something wrong. I'm still using a olinuxino-micro-a20 as a home server, and it works fine. 100% supported by the debian installer.

    Also the a13 cpu has full support in mainline linux and mainline u-boot, without binary blob. The same is impossible with raspberry pi. For me is a thing...

  3. Re:Allwinner is garbage on A $1, Linux-Capable, Hand-Solderable Processor (hackaday.com) · · Score: 1

    False. It has full support in mainline kernel, and work just fine. And it's two time faster of a rasberry pi 1 (or zero) anyway..

    It's true that allwinner doesn't care to much for "not" android market, but linux-sunxi community has developed a very good support in linux.

     

  4. Re:Why is it ALWAYS AWS on OCR Software Dev Abbyy Exposes 200,000 Customer Documents (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    Or ... why is it always mongodb?

  5. Re:So what? not really needed and this was well kn on HHS Plans To Delete 20 Years of Critical Medical Guidelines Next Week (thedailybeast.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Not really needed by some pharmaceuticals lobby, maybe?

    https://www.propublica.org/art...

    Also you should remember:

    "Price was the first director of HHS, AHRQ's parent agency, under the Trump Administration, before resigning under pressure last year over his spending on chartered flights."

    And of course people appointed by Trump Administration think it's a duplicate. How convenient... Less money spent in research, more budget available for chartered flights!

  6. Intel moved too soon, it was too expensive, there was no transition plan, and they didn't get enough industry partners to buy in. It wasn't the first time nor will it be the last when a major industry player thought they could strong-arm everyone into a new platform only to be shown that they can't.

    The problem was that the architecture solved the wrong problem. it should have reduced the ratio computetion power vs transistor. But transistors are (and were) cheap, so it didn't really matter. At the expenses of scalabilty and optimization at runtime, because they tought that the compiler can do the job offline.

    But the runtime optimization in the cpu have more information about how the code is executed. For exemple branch prediction is easier when you can see how the conditional branch was executed in the past.

    The performance of itanium was never been stellar...

  7. It would be nice to have modem adsl with openwrt ...

  8. Re:Solution: Pluto "identifies" as a planet. on 'Yes, Pluto Is a Planet' (sfgate.com) · · Score: 1

    Nobody had made a mom joke yet? Ok: your mom identifie herself as a planet.

  9. No, it's not. on 'Yes, Pluto Is a Planet' (sfgate.com) · · Score: 1

    No, it's not. Bye.

    (just a flaimbait)

  10. Re:Wait a minute on Suspicious Event Hijacks Amazon Traffic For 2 hours, Steals Cryptocurrency (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    From the fine article:

    "the phishing site used a fake HTTPS certificate that would have required end users to click through a browser warning."

    So: yes it's protected from https... if the user is smart enough to do not accept a fake certificate.

  11. The point is that there are actually two different flaw:

    - meltdown
    - spectre

    The first one, make possible to read kernel memory, from a normal process. And it works only on Intel.

    The second one is more subtle. You can read the memory of the process, without actually accessing it. It seems quite innocuos, doesn't it? But think about this: what if we use this trick, running a javascript, for reading all the memory of the browser? Can we read the password saved in the browser? Yes we can.

    And this affects any cpu with "out of order execution" (almost any modern cpu).

    More details here: https://spectreattack.com./

  12. Re:Typical pseudo-intellectual noodling on Can An Individual Still Resist The Spread of Technology? (chicagotribune.com) · · Score: 1

    [Citation needed]

    No really. I meant it. Just curious.

  13. Re:Does it fix Ryzen crashes? on Linux Kernel 4.13 Officially Released (softpedia.com) · · Score: 1

    Errata happen, but If you want to be pissed about something, let it be AMD's refusal to provide thermal management documentation.

    Interesting. Do you have some source?

  14. Re:Most searched word on Bing... on Bing is 'Bigger Than You Think', Says Microsoft (onmsft.com) · · Score: 1

    "Google"

    More "Insightful" than "funny" :)

  15. really? on GitHub Faces 'Major Service Outage' [Update] (github.com) · · Score: 2

    Maybe is down, because everyone is checking if is really down...

  16. You missed the point. The article said is not a technological problem, because at the end, almost everybody use a centralized service (facebook, google and so on).

    You have to convince people to not use commercial "free" services. Good luck with that!

  17. 100,000 computers on Newly Discovered Vulnerability Raises Fears Of Another WannaCry (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    had found more than 100,000 computers running vulnerable versions of the software

    Do you mean that there is 100,000 computers with samba exposed on internet? That is scary....

  18. Re:I thought Russia hacked the election on Did A Billionaire Harvest Big Data From Facebook To 'Hijack' Democracy? (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    I suppose that lolol is a way to say: "sorry, I can't read. But still I'm going to make comment about the article, even if I don't know what is about"

  19. Re:Isn't this like thowing brick at windows... on Hacking Group Is Charging German Companies $275 For 'DDoS Tests' (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    They basically scour the internet for websites in Germany which don't have an Impressum (i.e. a page with the name, address, various other details of the owner) and then track them down and send them a bill for letting them know they are violating the law.

    "Thank you very much for your advise. Unfortunately, we are already contacted 10 minutes ago, for the same thing by someone else, so we are paying them instead of you ... "

    And also I expect there is no legal obbligation for paying non requested service...

  20. If you blame the CA, for creating valid certificate for "misleading" domain name, why do you not blame also the registar?

  21. Re:it is design not typography on Why Typography Matters -- Especially At The Oscars (freecodecamp.com) · · Score: 5, Informative

    Because: Typography is the art and technique of arranging type to make written language legible, readable, and appealing when displayed (from Wikipedia).

  22. Depends on the kind of the failure. If there is a subtle drift, yes, can be hard to detect the two faulty clock. But if they just stop working, it's easy.

    Still the case of two clock drifting away can be detected from ground, because you can measure from a static station on earth and find out if the signal sent from the satellite is correct or not. So I don't see problem even with two fault clock.

  23. Re:Reminds me of the US version of The Office on Microsoft Says More People Are Switching From Macs To Surface Than Ever Before (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    So microsoft went from selling 0 Surface to 1 Big deal

    Hey, infinite times than before!

  24. Re: It's been "broken" for a while now on Holding Shift + F10 During Windows 10 Updates Opens Root CLI, Bypasses BitLocker (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    But even Linux needs cryptfs unlocked for updates ;)

    ... of course, and it requires the owner to digit the password. The question is, how is it possible to do have that "the OS disables BitLocker while the Windows PE (Preinstallation Environment) installs a new image of the main Windows 10 operating system" ? The user is required to digit the password before? Or the OS just disabled it?

    How can the OS, decrypt the disk without people giving the decryption key? Is the decrypyion key already saved on the pc?

  25. Depend of your definition of Democracy. Most of people in western world, don't consider China a democray. But here, we are heading to slippery slope... :)