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  1. Re:Durability? on Are Consumer Hard Drives Headed Into History? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I think the write cycle issues aren't as bad as before, but they probably mean physical durability. Drop one and drop a hard drive. The SSD is much more likely to survive, due to no moving parts.

  2. Re:Spinning disks have left this customer on Are Consumer Hard Drives Headed Into History? · · Score: 4, Funny

    Wait, I'm supposed to feel like a 14 year old girl again? Damn, I musta missed something in my childhood!

  3. Re:PwnageTool on China's Official Newspaper Pans iPad — Too Locked Down · · Score: 1

    I don't see how you can 'pirate' physical property. If you mean violate IP laws that grant a monopoly, then that's something else. At least they wouldn't have to worry about software patents.

  4. Re:Compressed RAM? on Linux 2.6.36 Released · · Score: 1

    Um, what does the video subsystem and wifi have to do with memory compression?

    "How about Desktop Debian/Ubuntu?" I read that as meaning, what does the kernel do for those two distros (and derivatives).

  5. Re:Compressed RAM? on Linux 2.6.36 Released · · Score: 2, Informative

    I've run it under Lucid and Maverick, it seemed to fix a wireless connection loss issue I was having with the ath9k driver, though it could also be due to upgrading to Maverick. There are various DRM improvements, IIRC, that might help performance a bit.

  6. Re:But ... on Linux 2.6.36 Released · · Score: 1

    Maverick uses 2.6.35, but it's easy to get the new kernel. I've run the rc versions under Maverick and Lucid and they've been decent.

  7. Re:ip v4 on Interop Returns 16 Million IPv4 Addresses · · Score: 1

    Not quite; 6to4 requires more than this scheme. 6to4 sticks the whole ipv6 packet inside an ipv4 one and requires a relay router to reach native ipv6 hosts. Furthermore, my scheme loses the other advantages of ipv6: stateless autoconfig, for example. The address space is only the square root of the ipv6 address space. I can go on.

    What it does have is compatibility with far more equipment. The updates would be simpler as well.

  8. Re:ip v4 on Interop Returns 16 Million IPv4 Addresses · · Score: 1

    Depending on how it's done, such as putting the private address after the IP header, it would be possible to only require the machines/routers at each end of the connection to understand this new form of NAT, with a fallback to today's NAT. All the routers on the route wouldn't need to understand the extension.

  9. Re:Plenty more on Interop Returns 16 Million IPv4 Addresses · · Score: 2, Informative

    This is correct. If the class based system had kept up, we would have exhausted the ipv4 address space years ago.

  10. Re:Some people insist on being arrested on 'Officer Bubbles' Sues YouTube Commenters Over Mockery · · Score: 1

    With attitudes like this, it's not hard to see why people are wondering if cops truly are adults, because their power hungry temper tantrums and blaming the victims are more in line with the thinking process of a toddler.

  11. Re:Why so many cops are pricks on 'Officer Bubbles' Sues YouTube Commenters Over Mockery · · Score: 1

    That might be preferrable to the, shall we say, gentlemen who show up at the wrong house and manage to shoot up your dog and charge you with assault and battery. At least your housewife/accountant managed to show up before bodybags were needed...

  12. Re:SC has good bots on StarCraft AI Competition Results · · Score: 1

    I'm really bad at SC2 online, but I never found the bots to be too bad, even at the higher difficulties. IIRC (it's been over a month since I played) they are really bad at defending against rushes.

  13. Re:Truly amazing on French Government May Subsidize Music Downloads · · Score: 1

    At least this won't jack up the price for used cars at a time when people are less capable of buying newer ones.

  14. Re:I guess that means on French Government May Subsidize Music Downloads · · Score: 2, Informative

    The law is supposed to cap the total subsidy to €5 million.

  15. Re:Pay For The Internet? on NY Times Confident of 'First Click Free' Paywalls · · Score: 1

    Zuckerberg is a billionaire. If advertising doesn't pay, I want to know what does pay.

  16. Re:Why the paywall won't work on NY Times Confident of 'First Click Free' Paywalls · · Score: 2, Interesting

    What does the NYT (or any large paper) offer me that I can't get straight from the source (AP) for free? They haven't been doing much real journalism in years, so I'm at a loss.

  17. Re:"They Still Use Windows XP?!" on Why You See 'Free Public WiFi' In So Many Places · · Score: 1

    By default, UAC has no teeth and is just annoying. You just click 'allow' and go. Sudo, on the other hand, at the very least will require a password, if you're in the sudoers file. I think that's part of the complaint: if you're going to implement a security feature, make it secure by default.

  18. Re:Already thought of on Russian Army Upgrades Its Inflatable Weapons · · Score: 1

    You're right. It's totally inconceivable that the human operators of that equipment would slip up. An error in communication could never happen when reporting to superiors. Especially not when they've gotten very little sleep in combat conditions.

    Humans are the weak link, and our weaknesses will be exploited by the enemy. People have made bigger mistakes than this

  19. Re:Hate to say this... on UK Scientists Leave Labs To Protest Expected Cuts · · Score: 1

    Without bailouts: After the banks fall apart and their bad decisions / assets have been liquidated, the rise from the ashes can begin anew. Assets can be had for cheap and can be put to better use by new management.

    Instead we now still have prices higher than they should be, and we still have funds locked up in zombie banks that should have died. Think beyond next week's paycheck. Think about the long term solvency of the economy. You will eventually inflate to pay for the bailouts, just like you did to create the bubble.

  20. Re:But, but... on China Blanks Nobel Peace Prize Searches · · Score: 1

    I think you mean inflate, not deflate. Their currency, just like most other currencies, is losing value. IIRC, they peg their currency to the dollar (or at least used to), so US inflation was exported there.

  21. Re:Haha on Reuters Ends Anonymous Comments · · Score: 1

    About Greenspan and Rand:

    Greenspan started as an acolyte of Rand, but once he took office (arguably by even taking office) he quickly changed his views. Look at his earlier writings and you get the sense that he's a radical. Look at his later works, and it's not altogether different than that of mainstream economists.

    Note that this has nothing to do with whether his statements are right or wrong; I just wanted to point out his departure from that ideology came before the Great Crash.

  22. Re:right to not incriminate yourself? on British Teen Jailed Over Encryption Password · · Score: 1

    We mere mundanes do not have all the rights that our leaders enjoy. We do in theory (for the most part), but in practice, what would get me jailed would get a cop on paid leave. Politicians get even more perks at the higher levels of power.

  23. Re:What is he hiding? on British Teen Jailed Over Encryption Password · · Score: 1

    If he took pictures of her, it would still be child porn. It's funny, in some places it would be legal for him to have sex with her, but having naked pictures of her is a jail-able offense.

  24. Re:Scratching my head over this one. on AppleTV Runs iOS, Already Jailbroken · · Score: 1

    He uses email and such, he's just unaware of the terms.

  25. Re:Not Great Enough on Wikimedia Trying P2P Video Distribution · · Score: 1

    You could also have worded it:

    "Hey, instead of just sending you a packet addressed to every host, I'll send you a single meta-packet and you can figure out who needs it from there."

    Multicast has advantages (less bandwidth usage), but at a cost of much beefier routers. IIRC, setting up routing of multicast traffic can be a pain.