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  1. Re:Try Again Next Time on SpaceX Landing Attempt Video Released · · Score: 1

    This was the testing silly.

  2. Re:NO on Positive Ebola Test In Second Texas Health Worker · · Score: 1

    Once the first flight attendant or pilot flying out of W. Africa contracts Ebola, air travel there will stop.

  3. Re:Drink IPA on Study: Compound Found In Beer Boosts Brain Function · · Score: 1

    Pliny is the nectar of the Gods.

  4. Re:Nexus? on Amazon Instant Video Now Available On Android · · Score: 1

    The app (plugin really) installed on my Nexus 10 via the Amazon Appstore. You have to select the video from within the regular Amazon app. I have yet to find a video that is "currently available for this device".

  5. Re: Great idea at the concept stage. on UCLA, CIsco & More Launch Consortium To Replace TCP/IP · · Score: 1

    Your ISP is an ass. They got at least a /32 from their RIR. If IPv6 allowed say /120 subnets, they would probably be handing you a /120 instead of a /64.

    Are you using a router with DHCP-PD? Are you sure it is asking from more than a single /64?

  6. Re:As someone who went to NC State on New Nail Polish Alerts Wearers To Date Rape Drugs · · Score: 2

    That is not consistent with the current policy:
    http://policies.ncsu.edu/policy/pol-10-00-01/

  7. Very good... on Nightfall: Can Kalgash Exist? · · Score: 1
  8. Video recordings may save your life on Cameras On Cops: Coming To a Town Near You · · Score: 1

    Requiring law enforcement to record their interactions with you may save your life someday. See http://www.bostonmagazine.com/news/article/2014/02/25/waltham-murders-boston-marathon/

  9. Re:AI and robotics and jobs on 45% of U.S. Jobs Vulnerable To Automation · · Score: 1

    Or sustenance farming.

  10. Article with more information on Lead Developer of Yum Killed In Hit-and-run · · Score: 1

    The following article has more information, including the name and photo of the driver who turned himself in today.

    http://www.newsobserver.com/2013/07/09/3020243/durham-mourns-cyclist-killed-in.html

  11. Re:Please stop trying to make the Internet better on Vint Cerf: SDN Is a Model For a Better Internet · · Score: 2

    An insightful rant.

    We have only been building multitasking OSes for what, 50+ years, and yet people feel the need to instantiate a full VM just to run an additional instance of an application. Of course, the fact that many apps run on well known TCP ports (instead of using DNS service names) makes it difficult to demultiplex to multiple instances of the same app, unless each instance is running in a VM with a virtualized NIC address. IPv6 could fix this problem without the overhead of virtualization (give each app instance it's own IPv6 address).

    Mobile IP and LISP are just bandaids trying to stem the bleeding from the poor design of TCP/IPv4, which ties application instance naming to a small port number plus a topology locator. ILNPv6 (RFC6740) or HIP (RFC 5201) fix the same problems in much more elegant ways.

    SDN, properly conceived, has some valid technical use cases. Centralized, reactive, per-flow switching is not one of them (wait and see how the network behaves on a node-down). A lot of what has driven SDN to-date is not technical, but political: break the Cisco strangle-hold and provide something shiny for the VCs to pour money into.

  12. Re:Why would they do that !?! on Broadcom To Buy NetLogic For $3.7 Billion · · Score: 1

    NetLogic owns the TCAM market. You can't build high-end router without TCAMs.

  13. Re:What about the Eee Pad? on A Deep-Dive Look At Samsung's Galaxy Tab 10.1 · · Score: 1

    I don't believe the Galaxy 10.1 has a memory slot (at least, I have not found any spec sheet online that mentions it). Major FAIL if true.

  14. Re:Mission Accomplished on Osama Bin Laden Reported Dead, Body In US Hands · · Score: 2

    Personally, I would like to see his head on a pike outside the Pentagon.

  15. Re:Here's a good question... on US To Send Radiation-Hardened Robots To Japan · · Score: 1

    Time to send in Spock.

  16. Re:I think it's good either way on String Theory Tested, Fails Black Hole Predictions · · Score: 1

    Laffer never claimed that the curve (tax rate vs. collected revenue) was a smooth parabola.

  17. Re:Nerdrage at incongruence in TFS on String Theory Tested, Fails Black Hole Predictions · · Score: 1

    10e12? But even that is not correct.

  18. Re:Just a question on Most Detailed View of Dark Matter Mapped By Hubble · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Sorry, wrong URL for the Moffat paper on the Bullet Cluster; see http://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0702146/.

  19. Re:Just a question on Most Detailed View of Dark Matter Mapped By Hubble · · Score: 1

    Is that true of Moffat's STV Gravity (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scalar-tensor-vector_gravity/)? Moffat claims that SVT Gravity is consistent with the Bullet Cluster data (http://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0606216/).

  20. Re:Whatever happened to MIPS? on ARM-Based Servers Coming In 2011 · · Score: 1

    Look at Cavium Octeon or Netlogic (was RMI) XLR/XLS/XLP. All of these are multicore MIPS. They are frequently used in security appliances, but occassionally also in storage boxes.

  21. Re:Mars on Senators Blast NASA For Lacking Vision · · Score: 1

    There is absolutely no catastrophy that could happen to Earth that would make it less habitable than Mars.

  22. Re:Little help? on New Router Manages Flows, Not Packets · · Score: 1

    IntServ assumed that flows are signalled (with RSVP). The Anagram box (and the Caspian box before it) detects the first packet in a flow (by a miss in the flow cache), and then creates a flow cache entry.

    The utility of this feature is very questionable, especially since routers have been able to IP forward and apply ACLs at line rate for years.

  23. Re:umm.. Not Throttleing on Cox Communications and "Congestion Management" · · Score: 1

    And they are free to ignore the QoS flags (i.e., DSCP field) that you set, or even rewrite it. That's part of the Diffserv architecture.

    "Throttling" is blocking transmission even when there is available link capacity. Hopefully they will instead use some form of priority scheduling, so that delay insensitive traffic is only affected whenever a link is congested (that is basically what they say they are going to do).

  24. Re:disgusting? on Urine Passes NASA Taste Test · · Score: 1

    Water in, water out. Water back in.

  25. Re: Cool on Last Titan Launch from Florida · · Score: 1

    Saw the satellite separate from the second stage in a parking lot in Cary, NC at 9pm. At first I thought it was a firework: there was an expanding ring of yellow-white light that grew to about 2 moon diameters before fading out. Very cool.

    There is a good timeline for the ascent at http://www.spaceflightnow.com/titan/b30/status.htm l .