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  1. Re:Update yo software on New Mayhem Malware Targets Linux and UNIX-Like Servers · · Score: 4, Insightful

    And for those of you who DO auto-update blindly and destroy your app or your server when a bad version comes out, well, at least you can smugly assert that you were "secure".

  2. Self-justification on New Map Fingers Future Hot Spots For U.S. Earthquakes · · Score: 1

    If they spent all that money and time making a map which showed that there was LESS likelihood of earthquakes, people would scream boondogle. Now, because of douchebag grant-suckers, innocent people will suddenly have their insurance rates raised.

  3. Re:Wasn't that a movie? on Giant Crater Appears In Northern Siberia · · Score: 0

    In Russia, its all krokodil these days. These fuckers can't seem to kill themselves fast enough.

  4. Feel good kumbaya on ChickTech Brings Hundreds of Young Women To Open Source · · Score: 3, Informative

    a) there's nothing special about Open Source
    b) being excited about something is not tangible
    c) self-esteem is not the point
    d) being a career non-profit means that you never created value
    e) Oregon is full of hipsters and douches

  5. Global warming on Giant Crater Appears In Northern Siberia · · Score: 0

    Melting permafrost.

  6. Tried with Transmeta on HP Claims Their Moonshot System is a 'New Style of IT' (Video) · · Score: 1

    We bought some Transmeta-based blades at $LARGE_US_BANK a while back, and they sucked. Hard. Like, don't bother running stuff on them hard. They went back to HP, or in the trash, I forget, and we got real hardware. It looks like HP is reviving the concept of shitty servers for people who don't do a lot with them. Instead of 1 beefy 4U machine, you have a 45-node Beowulf cluster of suck, and most problems ARENT trivially scalable. Or, if your app really is that scalable (or you've spent the time to make it so) then you're a big boy company and you need real iron.
    Fail.

  7. the executive can't just wave state law aside??? on White House Punts On Petition To Allow Tesla Direct Sales · · Score: 1, Insightful

    How many times has the President (any President) done exactly this? Since Jackson famously told the Supremes "now go and enforce it" the Executive has been able to give the Judicial the finger. How many times in recent memory has the Executive waived, changed, or broken existing laws regarding the new Health Care act?

  8. Why not systemd? on OpenWRT 14.07 RC1 Supports Native IPv6, Procd Init System · · Score: 1, Insightful

    It's all modern and D-Bussy and neckbeardy. Why not use systemd since init is old school?

  9. Isn't Microsoft a big proponent of the H1B program? This smells like them cleaning house of old expensive greybeards.

  10. Re:Four hour transit time on With New Horizons Spacecraft a Year Away, What We Know About Pluto · · Score: 1

    It takes 4 hours for any signal to reach Pluto regardless of bitrate. Light only has 1 speed.

  11. Re:Slow news day? on Walter Munk's Astonishing Wave-Tracking Experiment · · Score: 2

    Because Slashdot.

  12. Re:How dare they on Study: Whales Are Ecosystem "Engineers" · · Score: 1

    Joke: 1
    You: 0

  13. Global control on O3b Launches Four More Satellites To Bring Internet To 'Other 3 Billion' · · Score: 1

    You're running out of places to hide.

  14. Re:Make VM OS read-only unless updating on Gameover ZeuS Re-Emerges As Fast-Fluxing Botnet · · Score: 1

    Not a bad idea to keep things like /bin and /sbin and their brethren RO as well.

  15. few billion divided by a few million users on Insurance Claims Reveal Hidden Electronic Damage From Geomagnetic Storms · · Score: 1

    Is peanuts, nobody's going to care.

  16. She didnt relapse, it came back on Child Thought To Be Cured of HIV Relapses, Tests Positive Again · · Score: 1

    There's a difference. Given that the human body sucks at fighting HIV, its not as if she did something and 'relapsed', the virus merely came back out of hiding from wherever it lurks (marrow, lymph, spleen, etc).

    It's like how animals don't "evolve", rather then ones who DONT change simply die. No animal DECIDES to suddenly grow fins or stripes.

  17. 2 Elon Musk posts in 1 day? on SpaceX Wins FAA Permission To Build a Spaceport In Texas · · Score: 1

    Shall we declare a national holiday? Parades?

  18. Re:Meanwhile, in DSL-land on Alcatel-Lucent's XG-FAST Pushes 10,000Mbps Over Copper Phone Lines · · Score: 1

    That's not the case at all. There is only 1 FTTH adopter in the area - Verizon, and they're never going anywhere. It's not a question of an attractive business model, it's a matter of basic math - they've stretched the fiber as long as it will pay for, and no further. ILECs want out of the copper business altogether, that's why they're rolling (capped) 4G "Broadband" as an alternative.

  19. Re:Meanwhile, in DSL-land on Alcatel-Lucent's XG-FAST Pushes 10,000Mbps Over Copper Phone Lines · · Score: 1

    Cache your DNS.
    Queue and deliver your own email - throttled, of course.
    Force everything through a squid proxy for a couple of reasons - first, see what your PCs are doing w/o any user interaction, I found it interesting how many google and microsoft websites things randomly hit. Block them all in squid to save bandwidth. Bandwidth throttle in squid, if you do it right you can make it subnet, IP, time-of-day specific, whatever you want. Caching Microsoft stuff can be tricky, there's a lot of articles out there about it, you basically have to bloat out some of the settings in squid, although it's still hit or miss.

    You can get a lot of mileage out of a crappy connection simply by throttling the non-interactive stuff, leaving room for things like Netflix or VOIP that tends to be picky about bandwidth.

  20. Re:Meanwhile, in DSL-land on Alcatel-Lucent's XG-FAST Pushes 10,000Mbps Over Copper Phone Lines · · Score: 1

    You'd think that's some kind of manifest destiny, but where I live the telco (VZ) has already stated that the fiber rollout is over with. They population density doesn't warrant the investment of the equipment needed to extend the fiber.

  21. Meanwhile, in DSL-land on Alcatel-Lucent's XG-FAST Pushes 10,000Mbps Over Copper Phone Lines · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The rest of us still do local caching proxies and QoS hackery to make the most of our 2-3 Mbps.

  22. at least TFS is identified as a quote on How Japan Lost Track of 640kg of Plutonium · · Score: 1

    Usually memedot editors simply post the first paragraph of the original article as the summary, at least time they call out that it's a quote.

  23. Re:To be stolen, and hidden in the desert on Radical Dual Tilting Blade Helicopter Design Targets Speeds of Over 270mph · · Score: 1

    or "Space Fox"

  24. To be stolen, and hidden in the desert on Radical Dual Tilting Blade Helicopter Design Targets Speeds of Over 270mph · · Score: 5, Funny

    And piloted by a young rebel, with a cranky old sidekick as a navigator. They should make this into a TV show.

  25. Re:Oh, I'd say it\s much more than that. on New Zealand ISP's Anti-Geoblocking Service Makes Waves · · Score: 1

    Your two statements do not support each other.