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  1. Re:Fetish? on PLAYterm: a New Way To Improve Command Line Skills · · Score: 1

    No it is easier if you have the training and experience. Just like touch typing is easier than hunt and peck if you that the training and experience. Certainly not less complex, but after a point you stop thinking about it an can just make it work. -name is a shell pattern. '?' '*' and '[]" will expand as if done by bash.

  2. Re:government idiots on EPA Bans CFC-Based Asthma Inhalers · · Score: 1

    Fairly quickly. Ozone is formed when UV rays hit diatomic oxygen. In fact it breaks down and reforms all the time. CFC's push the equilibrium more to the diatomic state rather than the triatomic state, but as pointed out below it does recover. And since this is a lifesaving application, I dont see why there can't be some leeway.

  3. Re:government idiots on EPA Bans CFC-Based Asthma Inhalers · · Score: 1

    Asthma is aggravated mainly by particulates. CFC's are stable and do not react biologically. In fact some of them are so nonreactive that they are used as non-stick coatings.

  4. Re:government idiots on EPA Bans CFC-Based Asthma Inhalers · · Score: 2

    1. Ozone regenerates 2. It's a very small amount, and is less toxic to the human body than alternatives.

  5. Re:Applets on Why We Love Things We Build Ourselves · · Score: 1

    To really make furniture DIY you should be drawing the plans yourself, or at least adding a few modification to better suit you.

  6. Re:to and extent.. on Why We Love Things We Build Ourselves · · Score: 1

    Some versions of VLC will also run without installing it locally. I've hooked users of coporate you-cant-admin-this laptops with a copy of VLC that will run from a thumb drive so they can watch DVD's without paying some BS licence or dealing with some BS IT security policy.

  7. Re:"in"secure boot on Microsoft Responds To Linux Concerns Over Windows 8 and UEFI Secure Boot · · Score: 1

    DVD- a fairly week key (something like a 52 bit cipher, with an implementation that brings the effective strength down to 40 bits). VLC will just brute force any dvd's that don't have keys in it's database. Blue ray has not been cracked the same say, any attacks have relied on poorly guarded device keys. (which are continually chased by revocation lists). Practically this will mean there will be some OEM's who have leaked keys and some that don't. HDCP has theoretically been cracked, but nobody has hardware that will do it in real time. But at any rate it's another layer.

  8. Re:This isn't Microsoft on Microsoft Responds To Linux Concerns Over Windows 8 and UEFI Secure Boot · · Score: 1

    I'm fairly sure 3.1 or 3.2 will have a kernel config option where you can build an efi stub for the kernel, that is just let efi boot your kernel directly. Signing may not be far behind.

  9. Re:I don't know... on Demystifying UEFI, the Overdue BIOS Replacement · · Score: 1

    Oh, and I forgot to add BIOS is single-threaded whereas Coreboot can initialize some of the hardware in parallel when there are multiple cores in the system.

  10. Re:I don't know... on Demystifying UEFI, the Overdue BIOS Replacement · · Score: 1

    Linux can hook into secure boot technological, it just isn't trying to do so by default.

  11. Re:I don't know... on Demystifying UEFI, the Overdue BIOS Replacement · · Score: 1

    1. It's written in assembly

    2. It's not extensible

    3. It's slow

    4.You need to write a seperate bios driver for the hardware

    5. Nobody really understands it

    6. Only boots to an MBR

    On the other hand Coreboot is

    1. Written in C (except for the first 15 instruction to get out of real mode)

    2. Is extensible

    3. Is fast

    4. Uses linux kernel drivers

    5. Shares a lot of code and interfaces with linux so a lot of people understand it.

    6. Boots anything conforming to the multiboot standard (grub, freeBSD, linux, and even BIOS and EFI implementation to support proprietary OS's)

    UEFI shares the first three advantages, but lacks the last three.

  12. Re:Once System76 runs out of laptops to refurbish on Demystifying UEFI, the Overdue BIOS Replacement · · Score: 1

    They design/fab through one of the three companies that manufacture laptop motherboards. As do all the companies that are not one of those companies. I believe the only one that sells their own designs is Asustek.

  13. Re:Why Is It The Government's Business?? on Google Accused of "Cooking" Search Results and Charging MSFT Too Much · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Here's antitrust law in a nutshell..

    Charging more than the competitiors? Must have a monopoly.

    Charging less than the competitors? Must be unfairly undercutting them.

    Charging the same as your competitors? Must be part of a cartel.

    It's written very vaguely so whoever is successful yet unpopular can be prosecuted

  14. Re:dodging anti-science? on Wealthy Americans Turning To Europe For Medical Treatment · · Score: 1

    No, it has to do with the fact the FDA is much stricter than any comparable body in Europe.

  15. Re:Superlinear speedup on River Trail — Intel's Parallel JavaScript · · Score: 1

    Not necessarily. Some things will only need to be done once. Say currently that takes 2/3 of the cycle time. Some things will have to be done 15 times to speedup 15 times. These things look 1/3 of the original process. Add in the setup fee and it's not hard to see how you can get 15 times the performance in terms of fps.

  16. Re:Google+ failed because... on The Google+ API Is Released · · Score: 1

    Most people barely understand a computer and the only customization they really care about it changing the screen saver and desktop background. Besides I think that G+ only solves some of the problems of facebook. The real problem is a matter of interest. The real production of a social network is access to the users. It's a flaw in the system which can only be fixed by self-hosting distributed networks or by sites that are funded by user subscription. Unless the infrastructure is funded or provided directly by the user, the social program will never be entirely aligned with his or her interests.

  17. Re:I thought VisualBASIC was dead... on Microsoft Previews Compiler-as-a-Service Software · · Score: 1

    (does? (lisp (take it)) too-far)

  18. Re:Study doesn't actually deny video game violence on Don't Study the Video Game, Study the Gamer · · Score: 1

    I can't really ever win a FPS unless I'm pissed off. To be good at them you really have to get some adrenaline going.

  19. Re:x64 FTW on Microsoft: No Windows 8 ARM Support For x86 Apps · · Score: 1

    the full name of x64 is x86_64. Office 2010 was probably recompiled for the purpose.

  20. Re:open source folks may make it work anyhow on Microsoft: No Windows 8 ARM Support For x86 Apps · · Score: 1

    Or just jailbreak the thing.

  21. Re:Awesome... on Microsoft: No Windows 8 ARM Support For x86 Apps · · Score: 1

    There are actually some more powerfull ARM designs (clocked up to 2.5 Ghz) that could run as small servers or nettops.

  22. Re:Translation: on Microsoft: No Windows 8 ARM Support For x86 Apps · · Score: 1

    an i5-2557 clocked to 1.7 GHz pulls 17 watts (thats the chip set, processor, and video co-processor) , with single thread performance of up to 2.7GHz with the same power dissipation. Still that would take at least a 100 Wh battery to have a life that could be classified as all-day, a battery that would probably be as big as most tablets. (maybe with a fuel cell it would be feasible, but who wants to top off their tablet?) It'll be another 3-4 year before Intel brings power down enough and batteries improve enough to get something that can be called all-day in a tablet form-factor.

  23. Re:Well... on Microsoft: No Windows 8 ARM Support For x86 Apps · · Score: 1

    Yes, and this is awesome, however the interface and the API may be so different that you'd have to start up the desktop app, and would still make it difficult to actually use on the sorts of devices where you find ARM living.

  24. Re:Well... on Microsoft: No Windows 8 ARM Support For x86 Apps · · Score: 1

    Thunderbolt is intel technology, and will be available on all sorts of computers. Mac adopted it first because it made a good updgrade from display port tech.

  25. Re:Emulation has worked on Macs on Microsoft: No Windows 8 ARM Support For x86 Apps · · Score: 1

    But it wouldn't necessarily need to be in software, but you would have to make the chip bigger to translate x86 instructions to ARM, and add some circuits for difficult instructions. The loongsoon chip does somthing like this providing instructions for QUEMU to accelerate the more problematic x86 instructions, and can perform at 75% the level of a similarly clocked x86 chip.