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  1. Re:It doesn't matter... on New Secure Boot Patches Break Hibernation · · Score: 1

    While neither suspend nor hibernation work reliably (in particular with wifi, bluetooth, and usb mass storage devices), I still use suspend exclusively instead of turning off my computer.
    Whatever application you had open is still open in the exact same state, and that's practical.

  2. Re:Hardware, file formats, and Internet security on Why a Linux User Is Using Windows 3.1 · · Score: 1

    There is actually a significant gap between Photoshop 4 and 5 with regards to color and text, which are both pretty important things.

  3. Encryption on How Proxied Torrents Could End ISP Subpoenas · · Score: 1

    Isn't encryption enough?
    Why do you need to go through a proxy too?

  4. Re:Surprise on Norwegian Study: Global Warming Less Severe Than Feared · · Score: 1

    The resources are in the North and Norwegian Seas. Sweden has no coasts there.

  5. Re:What hardware/OS/browser? on Voxel.js: Minecraft-like Browser-Based Games, But Open Source · · Score: 1

    Google Chrome 24, Linux x86_64.
    Recent high-end Intel processor and NVIDIA graphics card.

  6. Re:In France : Free on Ask Slashdot: Best Pay-as-You-Go Plan For Text and Voice Only? · · Score: 1

    My bad, it's limited to 2 hours voice.
    You need the 16/20 euro plan for unlimited calls, which also has unlimited 3G.

  7. In France : Free on Ask Slashdot: Best Pay-as-You-Go Plan For Text and Voice Only? · · Score: 1

    2 euro per month (free if Free is also your ISP), unlimited calls and texts.

  8. Extremely slow on Voxel.js: Minecraft-like Browser-Based Games, But Open Source · · Score: 1

    I just tried it.
    It barely runs at all. It's extremely slow. At 20-25 fps, walking feels more like crawling, and it uses all my computer resources, fans running as loud as they can, showing 100% CPU usage on two threads + GPU usage.

    There is no point if the experience cannot at least as smooth as Minecraft.

  9. Re:Surprise on Norwegian Study: Global Warming Less Severe Than Feared · · Score: 1

    I forgot to say the obvious: Sweden is in the EU, Norway isn't.

  10. Re:Surprise on Norwegian Study: Global Warming Less Severe Than Feared · · Score: 2

    Norway and Sweden are very different; some conflicts even exist between the two.
    Norway has a bigger territory, and has control over all the areas where there are natural resources.
    Norway has a much smaller population.
    Sweden has a more vibrant society and prettier girls.
    Norway is much more rich thanks to all the oil.

  11. Re:Don't worry Iran... on A Server That Can Fall From the Sky, and Survive · · Score: 1

    The highest temperature on Earth ever is 55. That's not much bigger.

  12. Re:Immigration on ITU Approves H.264 Video Standard Successor H.265 · · Score: 1

    Going to the EU doesn't require a visa for American citizens.
    You can regularize your situation by applying for asylum once there, but if you're in a good country they won't deport you anyway (unless there is an extradition request).

  13. Re:Immigration on ITU Approves H.264 Video Standard Successor H.265 · · Score: 1

    Good question. I don't know. Realistically speaking, I wouldn't count on European countries refusing extradition to the US.

  14. Re:I hate the dark cloud over software advances. on ITU Approves H.264 Video Standard Successor H.265 · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Good thing software patents don't exist in most of the civilized world then.

  15. Re:time to transcode again on ITU Approves H.264 Video Standard Successor H.265 · · Score: -1, Redundant

    You realize that everytime you transcode you lose quality?

  16. Re:Maybe because those kinds of lists are useless on GAO Finds US Military's Critical Technologies List Outdated, Useless · · Score: 1

    When you say it's important to remember Pearl Harbor, you mean it's important to remember how the US government let the Japanese ransack a military base to gather public opinion for war?
    Are you also implying that the same thing happened with 9/11?

  17. So who won? on ITU Approves H.264 Video Standard Successor H.265 · · Score: 2

    Several companies made proposals for what would eventually become H.265.
    Who won?

  18. Re:Appears to be 32-bit only on Hacker Bypasses Windows 7/8 Address Space Layout Randomization · · Score: 1

    JavaScript cannot run system calls?

  19. Re:Will not work on 64 bit on Hacker Bypasses Windows 7/8 Address Space Layout Randomization · · Score: 1

    That kind of thing is obviously done through system calls.
    I don't understand the rest of what you're saying.

  20. Re:Appears to be 32-bit only on Hacker Bypasses Windows 7/8 Address Space Layout Randomization · · Score: 1

    What allows you to say that?
    It doesn't even require 150 million pages. I would think making that many mappings wouldn't be a problem.

  21. Re:Will not work on 64 bit on Hacker Bypasses Windows 7/8 Address Space Layout Randomization · · Score: 1

    You can assign the same page of physical memory multiple times in virtual memory.
    Therefore you can easily fill the whole virtual space with a single page.

  22. Re:ASLR? More like ASLnotsoR. on Hacker Bypasses Windows 7/8 Address Space Layout Randomization · · Score: 1

    reduce the predictability of memory locations from memory-fill attacks by causing memory allocation (in hardware, transparent to the OS) to return slightly more or less than what is called for

    This makes no sense at all.

    Operating systems use a hardware feature called MMU to give certain pages of physical memory with certain processes. The operating sytem manages which pages are owned by who, and that is why a user needs to ask the kernel to allocate a page before he can use it (the very concept of memory allocation because unnecessary if there is no operating system, though it can still be useful to share memory between different subsystems in the same program). The physical address of the page is unknown to the user and, while deterministic, is difficult to predict since it depends on everything that has happened since the kernel started.
    The page appears in a virtual space to the user. On a normal setup, the address in that virtual space will be deterministic and only depend on what has happened since the process started. ASLR simply changes this to make hardware pages be mapped at random addresses.

  23. Re:TLDR on Hacker Bypasses Windows 7/8 Address Space Layout Randomization · · Score: 1

    You don't need to actually allocate the memory, you just need to reserve the memory space.
    I don't know what you mean by "too much control". Every process, even though without administrator/root rights, run in a virtual 32 or 64-bit space. Both of them can entirely fill the virtual memory space whatevere the operating system, and even if there is very litle actual RAM.

  24. Re:What happened? on Lenovo Could Take Over RIM · · Score: 1, Informative

    While Thinkpads have essentially stayed the same (some would disagree, but I still find them to be of good quality), the services associated with the purchase, such as support and warranty, have become way worse than they used to be.
    This was to be expected though.

  25. Re:This is why developers are not sysadmins on Github Kills Search After Hundreds of Private Keys Exposed · · Score: -1, Redundant

    Developers are the best sysadmins you can have, since they're actually somewhat competent.
    It's just that they've got better things to do and are paid more.