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  1. Re:Yawn ... on Microsoft Azure Outage Across the Globe · · Score: 1

    It is also silly to want to get services from only a few large players.

  2. Re:Yawn ... on Microsoft Azure Outage Across the Globe · · Score: 1

    Why cloud ?

    Why not just a hosting provider for example ?

    It's cheaper too:
    http://vultr.com/

  3. Re:This is what the Free Market is for on MARS, Inc: We Are Running Out of Chocolate · · Score: 2

    So only the rich will get to eat chocolate and drink coffee ?

    Sure. That will solve the problem, right ?

    Personally, I was kind of hoping at least solving the child slavery problem of cocoa production:
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C...

    This could be a solution, but sounds like it will take a lot of time, even if we don't run out of chocolate:
    "In 2012, Ferrero and Mars promised that they will end cocoa slavery by 2020"

  4. Re:The industry really needs to switch to DC power on Facebook Testing Lithium-Ion Batteries For Backup Power · · Score: 1

    I thought they were already using DC power:

    "The battery cabinet is a standalone independent cabinet that provides backup power at 48 volt DC nominal to a pair of triplet racks"

    http://www.opencompute.org/pro...

    http://www.opencompute.org/pro...

  5. Gerrymandering on Another Election, Another Slew of Voting Machine Glitches · · Score: 1

    Gerrymandering is the much bigger problem

  6. Re:Bullshit ... on We Need Distributed Social Networks More Than Ello · · Score: 1

    There is a free distributed protocol backed by multiple large and smaller players: email.

    To see what it could lead to you have to look at what we have now with: gmail, yahoo mail and hotmail. And a bunch of smaller players. And a lot of companies and individuals have their own domain. They run their own servers or pay a hosting provider.

    But if a company like Google starts it, all you will have is the large players. There will be no smaller players.

    It will be like much more like Google Talk and XMPP/VoIP situation.

    WebRTC is an other protocol which we'll have to see what will happen to it. I think it might be more like browser wars, where by the large players will add more features in the free, some even open source, clients. And the small players might benefit.

  7. Re:No. on Will Fiber-To-the-Home Create a New Digital Divide? · · Score: 1

    And everything would be fine, if we didn't have Bufferbloat:
      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

  8. Re:Computer vision... on Machine Learning Expert Michael Jordan On the Delusions of Big Data · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Self driving cars isn't done based on looking at still images only. They have LIDAR which helps identify where objects are and what the size could be. Also they have very detailed maps of the roads, these are all taken into account when identifying objects.

    Have a good look at the limitations section on Wikipedia:
    "...that the lidar technology cannot spot potholes or humans, such as a police officer, signaling the car to stop."

    "The vehicles are unable to recognize temporary traffic signals. ... They are also unable to navigate through parking lots. Vehicles are unable to differentiate between pedestrian and policeman or between crumpled up paper and a rock."

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

    Does that seem like a system that solved computer vision ?

  9. Re:Is it open source yet? on BitTorrent Performance Test: Sync Is Faster Than Google Drive, OneDrive, Dropbox · · Score: 2

    Supposedly it has gotten a lot better in recent versions:
    http://owncloud.org/blog/owncl...

  10. Re:micropayment COST more than they generate.1 suc on Snapchat Will Introduce Ads, Attempt To Keep Them Other Than Creepy · · Score: 1

    I think this is what makes Bitcoin and Dogecoin and the other cryptocurrencies so interesting.

    There is hardly any overhead in paying people, it's fast.

    It's like paying a street performer with cash.

  11. Re:Would it hurt ... on Python-LMDB In a High-Performance Environment · · Score: 1

    Loved the talk at FOSDEM about OpenLDAP and LMDB:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

    I was hoping it would be adopted by the Influxdb developers but it seems to not be a perfect (performance) fit:
    http://influxdb.com/blog/2014/...

  12. Re:It's simple on Ask Slashdot: VPN Setup To Improve Latency Over Multiple Connections? · · Score: 1

    Well, maybe if you send duplicate VPN packets 1 over each connection.

    But I don't think modern iptables has a MIRROR-target.

  13. Anyway, as someone mentioned above LACP is like RAID-0, not RAID-1 which is what he/she needs.

  14. Re:It's simple on Ask Slashdot: VPN Setup To Improve Latency Over Multiple Connections? · · Score: 1

    If you only use it for loadbalancing with static iptables/ip rule/ip routes, it won't help in any way.

    It would need some kind of dynamic component.

  15. Re:It's an ISP problem likely on Ask Slashdot: VPN Setup To Improve Latency Over Multiple Connections? · · Score: 1

    The person that asked the question mentioned 2 mobile providers.

    Of course his connection is going to suck, it's wireless.

    The question is:

    Can you use 2 mobile connections to get the best of the 2.

    The first thing to try would be if he/she started 2 pings, would they both go bad at the same time. If so he/she doesn't have to try any of the tricks mentioned.

  16. I specifically meant OpenVPN, because it can encapsulate Ethernet packets.

  17. That can easily be solved, use 2 VPNs.

  18. Re: To clear up confusion... on Ask Slashdot: VPN Setup To Improve Latency Over Multiple Connections? · · Score: 1

    Yeah, I forgot about that one.

    I believe the Linux kernel has built-in support for High-availability Seamless Redundancy (HSR).

    If he/she sets up a Linux gateway to his/her Windows-machine he could test it.

  19. Re:What makes you think on Ask Slashdot: VPN Setup To Improve Latency Over Multiple Connections? · · Score: 1

    First of all, I doubt you'll find anything that already works on Windows.

    So it would have to be something like Linux on both sides. So you'll need a Linux machine as a gateway if you want to use Windows.

    Now that said, there are 2 things I've seen which are available for Linux:
    - multipath-TCP could do this, but TCP is usually pretty bad as a tunneling protocol if you want good latency.
    - a better way might be a routing protocol with a weight for the latency (=round-trip time) and with very fast convergence to be useful. Their is existing code and a IETF draft for babel(d): https://tools.ietf.org/html/dr...

    That could work.

  20. Re:They _Should_ Replace It on CSS Proposed 20 Years Ago Today · · Score: 1

    Luckily I'm seeing more and more of these issues being solved with newer CSS standards:
    http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-mult...
    http://caniuse.com/#feat=multi...
    http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-flex...
    http://caniuse.com/#feat=flexb...

  21. Re:Microsoft on Open Invention Network Grows Despite Patent Troll Death Knell · · Score: 2

    Well, who is currently in court with Microsoft about these patents ?:
    Samsung
    http://arstechnica.com/tech-po...

    Who is not on the OIN-list ?:
    Samsung.
    http://www.openinventionnetwor...

    I do see HTC, but also no Huawei, ZTE, Acer, Viewsonic, Quanta or Compal *

    I also see Google (thus Motorola ?), but I don't think Microsoft has a deal with them.

    * they have a list here:
    http://www.dailytech.com/Of+La...

  22. Re:Yes yes yes on One In Three Jobs Will Be Taken By Software Or Robots By 2025, Says Gartner · · Score: 1

    "Yes. Cleaning the homes of people who own factories."

    You are kidding, right ?

    Maybe I'm wrong, but cleaning homes just seems to easy to automate.

  23. Re:Whoa on Test-Driving a $35 Firefox OS Smartphone · · Score: 2

    There are a whole bunch of reviews on YouTube, I've not seen this strange 10 seconds to load crap:
    https://www.youtube.com/result...

    But it aint gonna be fast, see it loading the camera app (which isn't fast on the other phones I've seen, so it's a bit of a heavy app compared to most):
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

    However you are going to paint it, someone made a bad choice with 128MB.

  24. Re:Whoa on Test-Driving a $35 Firefox OS Smartphone · · Score: 1

    Sure RAM might be cheap and it sounds like this device needs it. But RAM needs to regularly be refreshed so I wonder how much battery power it will use. So you'll have 2 things that would need to be increased ? What would be the price of a better battery ?

  25. Re:Good Security on User Error Is the Primary Weak Point In Tor · · Score: 1

    That is why the Tor-browser-bundle includes a browser with lots of indentifying information removed.