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  1. Re:This isn't nearly as bad as the division bug on AMD Confirms CPU Bug Found By DragonFly BSD's Matt Dillon · · Score: 1

    Interesting, I'd say it scales poorly, but it doesn't really matter.

    "under 1 million" = 10 300 MHz servers
    1-2 million = 25-50 1Ghz servers
    7-11 million = 150 even faster servers

    A solution that scaled well would look more like 110 300 MHz servers for 11 million visitors, and still have 2.5x the number of servers needed. Obviously some extra is needed on the back-end, but I am assuming that even the original site used database and scripting.

  2. Re:why? on Hackers Nab Unreleased Michael Jackson Tracks From Sony · · Score: 1

    The difference in my mind (and I'll cede my op was knee jerk and not eloquent enough to convey my confused thoughts on the subject) is in your example a product that was going to be distributed at completion was turned into 0day warez. If you instead liberated/pirated, whatever you want to call it, but not theft, a finished game being indefinitely held back for some reason it'd be a different situation. Of course that makes no sense with a game, as it'd be non-viable tech wise.

    If it looked like dnf would never be released, and you hacked the server, and released it illegally, I would argue you were a gaming hero.

    I personally feel that the only reason this is news is that copyright was being abused to hold these tracks back, if Sony had released them as a product to sell this would be a non-story. If they planned on doing it shortly, it wouldn't of made /., being a music story, not tech. This is only news because Sony was indefinitely holding them back against the spirit of copyright, which is why it feels likes crocodile tears to me.

  3. Re:seems... weird. on AMD Gives Up Its Share In GlobalFoundries · · Score: 1

    Kind of like how when Mini came back into existence it contracted BMW to make the cars, with BMW staying arms length until it was a huge success and they were purchased by BMW later? It worked for them.

  4. Re:more laws on Smartphones More Dangerous Than Alcohol, When Driving · · Score: 1

    1) statistics can back-up the premise, but I don't know that it can be strongly determined.
    2) it's more like saying making the penalty for child-rape death increases child-murder, as killing the victem reduces odds of getting caught

    May or may not be true, either, but at least it's an accurate analogy.

  5. Re:why? on Hackers Nab Unreleased Michael Jackson Tracks From Sony · · Score: 5, Insightful

    It's fucking music tracks they were not releasing to cash in at a later point.

    This was going to be available at some point in the future, and it's better for society that it's available now. Locked up in a vault they had zero value.

  6. Re:Winter/mud/etc. on Rearview Car Cameras Likely Mandated By 2014 · · Score: 1

    Mud etc is all irrelevant. People are willing to spend about 6 million to save their life (in small risk reduction cost, and 200/year counts I think).

    I don't know how many cars are sold a year, but this sounds like an economic disaster at $20o/car. That number sounds way too high though. I can buy a digital camera for u dear $100, with a better sensor and display then this should need, the only difference being a cable. I'd be shocked if sufficient camera/display systems couldn't be built into cara for under $50/each.

  7. Re:Selective evolution on Are Rich People Less Moral? · · Score: 1

    Not even subconsciously.

    They mention traffic laws. Somebody high-up will not lose their job from a DUI, while many at lower levels will.

    Additionally, a speeding ticket is a big big deal to someone poor, and pretty much a slap on the risk to someone rich. Same with parking. Even a middle-class person is not going to feel a fairly large speeding ticket too hard, where it could easily be half a week's take-home for others.

  8. Re:the only drug? on France's Bold Drunk-Driving Legislation - Every Car To Carry a Breathalyzer · · Score: 1

    were you logged in and checked the box?

    if so, your mod is still erased.

  9. Re:Then let's test these next on Submitting "Nuking the Fridge" To Scientific Peer Review · · Score: 1

    I'm not saying I agree with them, but humans are capable of consent, animals aren't. So it is not an ethical dissonance.

  10. Re:Eh on Comparing Today's Computers To 1995's · · Score: 1

    Not for me.

    Opening a file used to be very slow. And the first run of word 95 was terrible, with clippy bringing my whole system to its knees.

    Typing in word used to be just as fast, though the red squiggles appeared slower (or was that 97 that got them). Other operations took longer (open, close, save). Where there styles yet? Writing a consistent looking document with an accurate table of contents I suspect took far longer in word 95. Especially if you wanted to change its overall look.

  11. Re:Let's see.... on Heartland Institute Document Leaker Comes Forward, Maintains Documents Are Real · · Score: 1

    Oh they make money, but margins are 9%, hardly Apple's or a drug company. Many years are far lower.

  12. Re:Let's see.... on Heartland Institute Document Leaker Comes Forward, Maintains Documents Are Real · · Score: 1

    I'd hardly call Exxon's margins "fat"

  13. Re:Unity on Canonical Puts Ubuntu On Android Smartphones · · Score: 1

    Arguably if complete lack of functionality on a touchscreen is your argument (requires hover).

    It was designed for netbooks, and after the fad of netbooks.

    Single low-mid (by todays standards) monitor is the target for Unity.

  14. Re:Why are printer languages not unified? on With Push for OS X Focus, CUPS Printing May Suffer On Other Platforms · · Score: 1

    I haven't installed a printer as anything but a laserjet for a long time . Even sub $100 printers.

    But I o lay use b&w laser printers,sending color prints out.

  15. Re:Hopefully the first of many on Nevada Approves Rules For Self-Driving Cars · · Score: 1

    Theoretically if you cycled through an all stop phase it would be more efficient, and allow more crossing.

    If the all green time was 1.5 times as efficient as 1/2 green we get now, all you need to do to increase efficiency is keep the people crossing time below 1/3 the time.

    Considering you could safely cross both directions with all cars having red, it could be a boost for pedestrians too.

  16. Re:I hate to defend Monsanto somewhat, but on 300k Organic Farmers To Sue Monsanto For Seed Patent Claims · · Score: 2

    I think currently it falls under the synthetic parts.

    You can't make the seeds without use of synthetic chemicals.

  17. Re:I hate to defend Monsanto somewhat, but on 300k Organic Farmers To Sue Monsanto For Seed Patent Claims · · Score: 4, Informative

    Isn't Organic now officially defined in the US?

    Doesn't it exclude genetically modified?

    http://www.usda.gov/wps/portal/usda/usdahome?navid=ORGANIC_CERTIFICATIO

  18. Re:It's not unlimited... on AT&T On Data Throttling: Blame Yourselves · · Score: 1

    I would love it if T-Mobile did that. They throttle me to about 100kbps when I break my 5gb (which they said it was, no surprise). With the high latency of wireless, it becomes useless for anything interactive. It can take 5 minutes to program and load a trip, vs about 45 seconds normally.

    Still does my email though, so the important part doesn't break.

  19. Re:Where is this finger pointing? on 99.8% Security For Real-World Public Keys · · Score: 1

    My point was, the guy blamed self documenting code. I think it's a problem with poorly documented code, the method of which is irrelevant.

    That comment could be left out just as easily as the function/variable not concisely named.

  20. Re:Gameplay is important on Twisted Metal Designer Rails Against Storytelling Games · · Score: 1

    I think they do so well know because for millennia their cultural values have been similar, but the last few centuries those values have been a huge boost.

    The nomadic lifestyle (both in the early bible when the others were cities, and the frequent migrations due to not being welcome in most of history) created a culture that valued the portable. This generally means knowledge is an investment likely to be made.

    Banking, generally keeping money in its most compact form was a no brainer, especially when the others around were banned from money lending. When stock trading became a thing, it made wealth even more portable, and the fact that the Jews were more educated made them better at it.

    It's no shock to me that a culture that strived for universal (male at least) literacy for millennia is doing relatively well since the Muslim golden age.

    Additionally the stereotype is greedy, but in my experience, Jewish people are over generous, just super super stingy wrt wasting money.

  21. Re:Where is this finger pointing? on 99.8% Security For Real-World Public Keys · · Score: 1

    I don't really know enough to comment, but it's /.

    Couldn't a function name or some such be used to describe it?

    presumable that read is being done somehow, weather it's an initiated variable, or through a function or pointer or what not (not knowing enough to comment), I would think it's totally reasonable to explain what's going on with a name like uninitializedForSakeOfRandomSeed.

  22. Re:Tetrachromat question on Followup: Ultraviolet Vision After Cataract Surgery · · Score: 1

    Sounds like mouse whiskers.

    If they pluck them early the brain develops differently. I would imagine most sensory stimuli sends levels to a part of the brain, and the brain builds structures to react.

  23. Fair enough, the article wasn't about the US. My point that the US in the WWII era (and post) was at its most fascist is irrelevant and should be modded such.

  24. Re:Child pornography is not an excuse on Against Online Surveillance? You Must Be 'For' Child Porn, Says Legislator · · Score: 0

    That's not true, child pornographers use curtains to hide the goings on in their house too.

  25. Yes, because WWII America was so anti government takeover of corporations and their holdings. And they would never move citizens into camps for the sake of security.