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  1. ZRAM doesnt provide a block device on Linux 3.14 Kernel Released · · Score: 1

    It looks like it transparently compresses pages going to swap, it's not like you need a SEPARATE block device to be your 'zswap' device.

  2. Chickety China on An Engineer's Eureka Moment With a GM Flaw · · Score: 1

    This is what happens when you outsource and don't care. Remember when "Made in Japan" meant it was crap?

  3. Re:Could we please stop on Million Jars of Peanut Butter Dumped In New Mexico Landfill · · Score: 0

    They said Roland Piquipaille was dead, but he's reborn as Hugh.

  4. Just like in Formula on Prototype Volvo Flywheel Tech Uses Car's Wasted Brake Energy · · Score: 2, Insightful

    This seems great for high or nearly-sustained speed driving, but what I really want is an electric only option from 0-15 mph, a "parking garage" or "traffic jam" mode that I can put my car into.

  5. Re:Sounds reasonable, but look who's in prison on UK Bans Sending Books To Prisoners · · Score: 1

    I asked that very question in OP, but was labelled a Troll.

  6. Best quote I read about this on Target and Trustwave Sued Over Credit Card Breach · · Score: 1

    âoeâ¦â"FireEye spotted them. Bangalore got an alert and flagged the security team in Minneapolis. And then â¦Nothing happened.âoe

  7. Awesome quote in TFS: on XWayland Aiming For Glamor Support, Merge Next X.Org Release · · Score: 1

    "It does not yet have direct rendering or any acceleration, but those patches should come soon."

    How many projects are in the same state?

  8. Re:Half-life on Physicists Produce Antineutrino Map of the World · · Score: 1

    In other news, water is wet. If their half-lives didn't exceed the age of the planet, we wouldn't be having the discussion.

    How did that post get marked up?

  9. Sounds reasonable, but look who's in prison on UK Bans Sending Books To Prisoners · · Score: 0, Troll

    If you're in prison, that's it, you're in prison. But lets re-evaluate who goes to prison shall we? Imprisoning people doesn't seem to be helping with various societal and criminal issues.

  10. Eventually the data has to be rendered and presented for use by the application user. I'll just screen-scrape, thanks.

    --Russian hacker

  11. Re:I've implemented something similar on MIT Researchers Create Platform To Build Secure Web Apps That Never Leak Data · · Score: 1

    So instead of keeping the password on the server, where you have some measure of control, you trust the client's unknown browser running on unknown hardware to keep it safe?

  12. Re:This seems like good news on IRS: Bitcoin Is Property, Not Currency · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Only if you sell them at a loss. So if you want to take a loss in order to deduct part of that loss, knock yourself out. That'll show them.

  13. Re:Why are they posting old source code? on Microsoft Posts Source Code For MS-DOS and Word For Windows · · Score: 0

    Heck, even ProDOS had subdirectories.

  14. Re:More Corporate Greedmeisters on AT&T Exec Calls Netflix "Arrogant" For Expecting Net Neutrality · · Score: 1

    Which is why you're a foe.

  15. Re:More Corporate Greedmeisters on AT&T Exec Calls Netflix "Arrogant" For Expecting Net Neutrality · · Score: 1

    Your points are unrelated, and only 1 of the 3 examples you cite has anything to do with capitalism (even that is a stretch).

  16. Re:Double-dipping on AT&T Exec Calls Netflix "Arrogant" For Expecting Net Neutrality · · Score: 4, Informative

    Netflix streams from AWS, and offers ISPs a sort of staging platform where popular content can be cached within the ISP network, eliminating the peering issue. Many cable providers refuse to implement it.

  17. Listen to Woz on Cisco Plans $1B Investment In Cloud · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I saw Woz speak a few years ago at a conference, and he was pretty anti-cloud - he says you should own your own data, in your hand, on (ideally) a computer you built and programmed yourself. He's spot on.

    Clouds lose data. They get hacked. They get snooped. If you have a storage device in your hand, you own the data.

  18. A lot of hunters are asshats on Drone-Assisted Hunting To Be Illegal In Alaska · · Score: 3, Interesting

    In Maine it's legal to bait an area until bears come to it, then chase them up a tree with a pack of dogs, then walk up and shoot them out of the tree.

    This pervasive mentality (shooting wolves from a helicopter) and now this new drone thing is what gives hunters a bad name.

  19. Would be nice if the site didn't suck on Algorithm Composes Music By Text Analyzing the World's Best Novels · · Score: 1

    Even if you allow all JS on the page, it still presents you with these shitty 'soundcloud' windows that do nothing - no click, no mouseover, no anything.

    Not everyone uses Safari or whatever or has $foo plugin installed.

  20. EVE? on Final Fantasy XIV Failed Due To Overly Detailed Flowerpots · · Score: 1

    So why did EVE fail? The same thing - labrynthine GUI, endless grind just to get through the tutorial, massive download size, perpetual patch treadmill.

  21. horrible article, author has no idea about 2.6 on Speedy Attack Targets Web Servers With Outdated Linux Kernels · · Score: 5, Insightful

    "All of the affected web servers that we have examined use the Linux 2.6 kernel."

    Right, because RHEL (and Centos) run 2.6.... so sampling ANY number of servers is likely going to show that they run 2.6.

    Is Slashdot just a click redirector these days? Do 'editors' remotely 'edit' anything?

  22. ZOMG a bad thing didn't happen! on Earth Barely Dodged Solar Blast In 2012 · · Score: 2, Insightful

    We had no control over this, and there's no means to mitigate it, and it didn't happen. So lets panic and blog and post video submissions to nerdy websites!

  23. Re:H-1B? on Ex-Microsoft Employee Arrested For Leaking Windows 8 · · Score: 1

    You must be new to the workplace.

  24. "could" be a sign on Research Suggests Pulling All-Nighters Can Cause Permanent Damage · · Score: 1

    I dunno, Mr Researcher Man, isn't it your job to SHOW that it's a sign of brain damage?

  25. Owned by Ford, an American company on Your Car Will Soon Sense If You're Tired Or Not Paying Attention · · Score: 1

    Remember kids, Ford owns Volvo (and Jaguar, and some others). So, when you hear "don't worry it won't photograph you", just keep that in mind.