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  1. Re:Then eBay can become a bank. on eBay To Spin Off PayPal · · Score: 1

    I'm sure TTIP will solve any problems like that ;-)

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

  2. Re:TV as monitor on Kano Ships 18,000 Learn-To-Code Computer Kits · · Score: 1

    Pretty much all digital TV run Linux, so there already is a computer inside ! :-)

  3. Re:It doesn't matter on PostgreSQL Outperforms MongoDB In New Round of Tests · · Score: 1

    Probably Windows uses a Windows equivalent of sendfile() to send the file over SMB.

    Without sendfile () you'll be context-switching between kernel and userspace and probably copying data between them as well.

    With sendfile () you have an open socket and you tell the kernel to send a file over that socket. No more copying of data and no context-switches.

    That is probably why it uses very little CPU.

  4. Re:Server or Workstation on Debian Switching Back To GNOME As the Default Desktop · · Score: 2

    Why do you insult me claiming I need to run Windows on my Linux desktop ? ;-)

    I don't run Windows VMs on my desktop machine.

    There are no Windows applications I need or depend on.

  5. Re:Not distributed on Researchers Propose a Revocable Identity-Based Encryption Scheme · · Score: 3, Interesting

    (I haven't read the article yet)

    Distributed wouldn't be my fear, federated would be fine (for example can a person or organization use their own domain).

    I wonder will my communication be easy to identify with an Identity-based encryption scheme.

  6. Re:Maybe he can fix that hot mess called "peopleso on Oracle CEO Larry Ellison Steps Down · · Score: 1

    Why do you think he cares about people like employees or customers or even products ?

    He likes to quote Genghis Khan who said, “It’s not sufficient I succeed. Everyone else must fail.”

    He has also been called a lawn mower:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

    His most popular and _authorised_ biography is entitled: The difference between God and Larry Ellison: God doesn’t think he’s Larry Ellison.

  7. Re:Slight difference on An Open Source Pitfall? Mozilla Labs Closed, Quietly · · Score: 1

    Ohh, I see, thank you for explaning the about Mozilla Labs and Mozilla Research being 2 distinct things.

  8. Re:Slight difference on An Open Source Pitfall? Mozilla Labs Closed, Quietly · · Score: 2

    Mozilla Labs projects is for experiments.

    Things they've started which seemed like good ideas always moved on to be their own projects.

    For example the Rust language:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...

    Now almost at 1.0:
    http://blog.rust-lang.org/2014...

    If there is a problem, it might be that they haven't started any new projects.

  9. Re:The Microsoft Tax can buy you... on City of Turin To Switch From Windows To Linux and Save 6M Euros · · Score: 1

    Well, I know of at least one reason:
    - uploading lots the data unencrypted to US-based company might not be such a great thing ? (yes, I'm sure they use encryption in transport, but it isn't encrypted before upload and thus Google has access to the data)

    I do think, making most of the applications web-application is actually the solution to all these silly problems.

    Running on their own websites on a local network or at a datacenter of choice (so you know where your data is) is probably the best way to handle this.

    It will make them platform independent if they stick with standards.

    It also means you'll only have to upgrade software in one place. On the servers.

  10. Re:Taken to the logical conclusion on Bringing New Security Features To Docker · · Score: 1

    I think you meant to say: the point of Linux containers is...

    Because many providers of VPS you mentioned at the end are still selling OpenVZ containers (of which a lot of code is already upstream in the mainline Linux kernel).

  11. Re:And well they should. on China Gives Microsoft 20 Days To Respond To Competition Probe · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Do not confuse open formats and open source software. These are 2 different things.

  12. Re:nail in W3C coffin on Google Introduces HTML 5.1 Tag To Chrome · · Score: 3, Informative

    Most of the HTML5 specifications gets developed here first:

    http://www.whatwg.org/specs/we...

    Then eventually after a long process will end up here:

    http://www.w3.org/TR/html5/

    However Picture-tag actually came from the community first, not the W3C or the vendors directly:
    http://responsiveimages.org/ only later did it become http://www.w3.org/community/re... and later became part of the HTML5-specification.

  13. Re:Most SSL certificates have a cost and expire on Mozilla To Support Public Key Pinning In Firefox 32 · · Score: 1

    What probably happens is that a big site says: we use CA 1 and CA 2.

    Then uses CA 1. After that when CA 1 is somehow a problem they switch using certificates from CA 2 they have already prepared and ready for use.

  14. Re:Why a hardcoded list? on Mozilla To Support Public Key Pinning In Firefox 32 · · Score: 1

    Empty list also need to be signed. So no.

  15. Re:When will it support killing CPU-hogging tabs? on Mozilla To Support Public Key Pinning In Firefox 32 · · Score: 1

    The electrolysis project is scheduled to go into the stable release at the end of this year. If it will be enabled by default this year I don't know. My gut feeling is they'll do so early next year.

  16. Re:Wreak havoc on corporate networks, SSL observat on Mozilla To Support Public Key Pinning In Firefox 32 · · Score: 1

    You can also configure every browser to use a proxy-server and then block all the other webtraffic at the firewall.

  17. Re:Wreak havoc on corporate networks, SSL observat on Mozilla To Support Public Key Pinning In Firefox 32 · · Score: 1

    You mean what corporate networks are doing is wrong. That is the biggest flaw.

    They should move to a model of a proxy configured in the browser. The browser then can trust the proxy.

  18. Re:5.1? on Google Introduces HTML 5.1 Tag To Chrome · · Score: 5, Informative

    It's a bit more complicated.

    The big standards organisation is W3C. They only call it a standard after everyone agrees on what the standard is and there are implementations in the field that prove that the model works. In that sense they are a bit like the IETF. Part of the IETF motto (TAO): "We believe in rough consensus and running code".

    So in the case of HTML5, all browsers will implement the parts of the HTML5 they want to first and only when there are multiple implementations of a feature/part of the HTML5 standard, everyone agrees on what that part of the standard should look like and the documents are ready will W3C rubber stamps it a standard.

    So you can already use it before it is a standard. Most parts, by now probably pretty much all of it, of the specification is stable. They are just changing documents to improve working and adding clarifications.

    Using the implementations is actually encouraged, because the vendors want to see how it is being used to know if the specification actually works in the way it was intended. Or if it is just to complicated to work with.

    Then you have the WHATWG, which is a number of browser vendors (Mozilla, Opera, Microsoft, Webkit/Blink) sitting together creating new HTML5 ideas and standards documents. Those standards documents can eventually be used as a basis by the W3C.

    The WHATWG was formed when the W3C, a long time ago, said: all HTML will be XML based in the future. And basically said: HTML is a document format. The WHATWG said: no, way. Let's start a new group of people, because we don't want to deal with strict XML and we actually make it possible to let the web be an application delivery platform.

    So really HTML5 pretty much is done. All the browser implementations are done, except for support of certain parts or features.

    HTML 5.1 is just a working document title. It is just a set of new features being added to HTML 5 which will end up as part of HTML5.

    Fun fact about the picture element is: it did not come out of the WHATWG or W3C or browser vendors, it came out of a community of webdevelopers to create 'responsive images'. A problem that didn't have a good solution yet.

    Responsive images is about downloading a the right size of image based on the device it will be displayed on.

  19. Re:What's the point? on If Java Wasn't Cool 10 Years Ago, What About Now? · · Score: 1

    Well, there is a whole lot of Java in the enterprise and other organisations like banks.

    Obviously they are always last to move, because they have a lot of legacy applications anyway.

  20. Re:still slow on Virtual Machine Brings X86 Linux Apps To ARMv7 Devices · · Score: 1

    No, dynamically is definitely the wrong approach. It just won't work.

    Shippping LLVM byte code could still be possible yes.

    Does any distribution have some kind of package that can be installed ? llvm-runtime. Like you can install Python or Java.

    Shouldn't be to hard to make a package for Linux for that, right ?

    Maybe someone could even add it to the kernel so it can recognise the bytecode.

  21. Re:still slow on Virtual Machine Brings X86 Linux Apps To ARMv7 Devices · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Maybe it is just me but when I see these things, I sometimes get crazy ideas. And I think:

    Might as well translate into LLVM bitcode and recompile the code:
    http://www.phoronix.com/scan.p...

    Hell, maybe it's even faster if you compile the LLVM bitcode with emscripten and use asm.js to run into the browser. :-)

  22. Re:The US does not have an IT talent monopoly on Tech Looks To Obama To Save Them From 'Just Sort of OK' US Workers · · Score: 1

    We are not disposable blue collar idiots. We are white collar professionals and we just want the same damn respect accountants, other dept managers, other educated employees and even secretaries get within the same organization.

    If you are not in the 1%, then you are one of the rest.

    Some might get a bit more, some might get a bit less.

    That's all there is to it.

  23. Re:Google don't be evil on Google Receives Takedown Request Every 8 Milliseconds · · Score: 1

    The problem is context.

    On one site the same content is illegal on an other it is legal.

  24. Re:What do they mean by cloud? on National Science Foundation Awards $20 Million For Cloud Computing Experiments · · Score: 3

    Why do people think "virtualized computing" is cloud ? It isn't. Because a VMWare cluster isn't cloud.

    Cloud has characteristics like:
    - pay per use
    - API to control it, so it can be automated
    - a failure model, like availability zones. So you know that things are 100 % seperated so if one AZ goes down an other AZ does not depend on it.
    - etc.

    Nobody says it has to be virtual either, you can get physical machines from Rackspace or Softlayer.

  25. Re:god dammit. on Solar Plant Sets Birds On Fire As They Fly Overhead · · Score: 1

    Number of birds killed for human consumption ?