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  1. Re:Slow down cowboy on Facebook Patents Pokes-Per-Minute Limits · · Score: 2

    Or how 'fail2ban' works.

    The fact that we've already got a word for this - "rate-limitting" implies that they're not exactly being inventive.

  2. Re:Low impact on EXT4 Data Corruption Bug Hits Linux Kernel · · Score: 2

    >> Windows has never had anything as serious as a file system corruption bug.

    >That you know of...

    So what were all those chkdsk errors after BSODs?

  3. Re:Reinventing the wheel on EXT4 Data Corruption Bug Hits Linux Kernel · · Score: 1

    > they wanted to open source as much possible but was held back by legal.

    The legal dept. at Sun?

  4. Re:Not defined on EXT4 Data Corruption Bug Hits Linux Kernel · · Score: 1

    It's not from october:

    linux-stable$ git show 14b4ed22a6
    commit 14b4ed22a6b5fc1549504336131be4f5f6ba1bf4
    Author: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
    Date: Sat Aug 18 22:29:40 2012 -0400

            jbd2: don't write superblock when if its empty

            commit eeecef0af5ea4efd763c9554cf2bd80fc4a0efd3 upstream.

  5. Re:Part of the game on EXT4 Data Corruption Bug Hits Linux Kernel · · Score: 3, Informative

    It is *not* 10 days old.

    linux-stable$ git show 14b4ed22a6
    commit 14b4ed22a6b5fc1549504336131be4f5f6ba1bf4
    Author: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
    Date: Sat Aug 18 22:29:40 2012 -0400

            jbd2: don't write superblock when if its empty

            commit eeecef0af5ea4efd763c9554cf2bd80fc4a0efd3 upstream.

            This sequence:

            # truncate --size=1g fsfile
            # mkfs.ext4 -F fsfile
            # mount -o loop,ro fsfile /mnt
            # umount /mnt
            # dmesg | tail

            results in an IO error when unmounting the RO filesystem:

            [ 318.020828] Buffer I/O error on device loop1, logical block 196608
            [ 318.027024] lost page write due to I/O error on loop1
            [ 318.032088] JBD2: Error -5 detected when updating journal superblock for loop1-8.

            This was a regression introduced by commit 24bcc89c7e7c: "jbd2: split
            updating of journal superblock and marking journal empty".

            Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
            Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
            Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

    diff --git a/fs/jbd2/journal.c b/fs/jbd2/journal.c
    index e149b99..484b8d1 100644
    --- a/fs/jbd2/journal.c
    +++ b/fs/jbd2/journal.c
    @@ -1354,6 +1354,11 @@ static void jbd2_mark_journal_empty(journal_t *journal)

                    BUG_ON(!mutex_is_locked(&journal->j_checkpoint_mutex));
                    read_lock(&journal->j_state_lock);
    + /* Is it already empty? */
    + if (sb->s_start == 0) {
    + read_unlock(&journal->j_state_lock);
    + return;
    + }
                    jbd_debug(1, "JBD2: Marking journal as empty (seq %d)\n",
                                        journal->j_tail_sequence);

  6. Re:Interesting bug, but don't get excited. on EXT4 Data Corruption Bug Hits Linux Kernel · · Score: 2

    That's Linus' tree. This is Greg's:

    linux-stable$ git show 14b4ed22a6
    commit 14b4ed22a6b5fc1549504336131be4f5f6ba1bf4
    Author: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
    Date: Sat Aug 18 22:29:40 2012 -0400

            jbd2: don't write superblock when if its empty

            commit eeecef0af5ea4efd763c9554cf2bd80fc4a0efd3 upstream.

  7. Re:Interesting bug, but don't get excited. on EXT4 Data Corruption Bug Hits Linux Kernel · · Score: 4, Informative

    $ git show eeecef0af5e
    commit eeecef0af5ea4efd763c9554cf2bd80fc4a0efd3
    Author: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
    Date: Sat Aug 18 22:29:40 2012 -0400

            jbd2: don't write superblock when if its empty

  8. Re:I don't see the problem then... on EXT4 Data Corruption Bug Hits Linux Kernel · · Score: 0

    Don't Gentoo users recompile their kernel and reboot at least daily?

    (I can take your flamebaits, but I demand as many funnys to make up for them!)

  9. Re:You don't know what "Hide the Decline" means on Michael E. Mann Sues For Defamation Over Comparison To Jerry Sandusky · · Score: 1

    If he's provoking you to go medieval on his argument, then he's flamebait too.

    Of course, his post might just be over-rated.

  10. Re:Serious Question re: History on All Five Star Trek Captains Share a Stage · · Score: 1

    We were doomed to repeat it, so it must have been history!

  11. Re:Misleading summary on Scientists Who Failed to Warn of Quake Found Guilty of Manslaughter · · Score: 1

    > What if the scientists had predicted the quake? ... I suppose they could stockpile supplies

    I can just imagine the headline: Hundreds injured from baked-bean cans falling out of their cupboards, many deaths.

  12. Re:Misleading summary on Scientists Who Failed to Warn of Quake Found Guilty of Manslaughter · · Score: 1

    > No, we just wont have scientists studying earthquakes anymore because they don't want the liability. This is something we call "shooting the messenger".

    Can anyone spare a mod-point for an up-mod? You have absolutely hit the nail on the head.

  13. Re:Scientific proof on Italian Supreme Court Accepts Mobile Phone-Tumor Link · · Score: 1

    Accepted. I agreed with your stance, it was merely the presentation that was less precise than it could have been.

  14. Re:Isn't the game long enough already? on 5000 fps Camera Reveals the Physics of Baseball · · Score: 1

    But you can't just say "be damned" - the only thing you're looking at when you fight equal opponents against each other is the noise.

    Let's say I play my backgammon program against itself for 1001 games, each to 99 points. What will the final score be? What should the final score be? Which program is better?

  15. Re:Misleading on 5000 fps Camera Reveals the Physics of Baseball · · Score: 1

    Some video at 240Hz seems to indicate that indeed, my 50Hz electricity supply causes 100Hz flicker in an incandescent bulb. Which is good, as the science you mention would support that prediction:
    http://fatphil.org/images/winks/bristol@240.mov

  16. Re:Wrong about vibration on 5000 fps Camera Reveals the Physics of Baseball · · Score: 1

    ... pitched by a pitcher at infinity

  17. Re:Isn't the game long enough already? on 5000 fps Camera Reveals the Physics of Baseball · · Score: 1

    You really haven't worked out that if you amplify a level signal enough, all you'll get is noise, have you?

    And you appear to believe that everything is infinitely divisible.

    You really aren't in touch with the real world at all, are you?

  18. Re:Isn't the game long enough already? on 5000 fps Camera Reveals the Physics of Baseball · · Score: 1

    I can assure you that here in the north of Europe we're thoroughly ashamed of the southern Europeans and their appalling acting skills. Not that the south Americans are any better.

    In England, true Englishmen hold their head up high, bite their lip, and carry on:
    http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2009/10/15/article-1220638-06D4E40F000005DC-550_306x356_popup.jpg

  19. Re:It's so strange on Italian Supreme Court Accepts Mobile Phone-Tumor Link · · Score: 1

    I'm not even 100% sure it was Hagenuk. However, given that the patent you dug out was filed by 2 Danes, and I specifically remember there being some Danish relevance in the patent, it's entirely possible that the patent came from the same team or group. I'm not sure absorbtion was an important keyword - they just wanted an effectively unidirectional antenna so that it wouldn't waste energy firing it at your brain. What happened with what was fired at your brain they didn't care about, they just wanted to save energy by not doing it. I didn't work for Hagenuk, they were a client who bought the s/w stack off us, and we were mightily pissed off when they withdrew.

  20. Re:It's so strange on Italian Supreme Court Accepts Mobile Phone-Tumor Link · · Score: 1

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    never once realized that it would be to their competitive advantage to minimize any radiation absorbed by the body, since that represents wasted energy that could have been used to reach the cell tower instead.
    """

    IIRC (this is mid-90s) that technology was patented by Hagenuk. Hagenuk were not large enough to serious sit around the bargaining table with the GSM mafia (Nokia, Ericsson, Motorola), and were basically driven out of the market. The mafia never got their hands on the patent rights, so that technology never got implemented. Only very poor imitations followed.

  21. Re:Scientific proof on Italian Supreme Court Accepts Mobile Phone-Tumor Link · · Score: 1

    You added the word "completely", so you twisted his argument. (Were I him, I would feel justified in calling your response a straw man.)

    You can prove something safe if you define "safe" as "not likely enough to cause harm to be worth worrying about", as long as you also agree on an upper limit. I live in a mostly-car-free part of town, and going to the convenience store is "safe". Sure, there's a non-zero probability a car with a drunk driver will hit me, there's a non-zero probability I'll be mugged, there's a non-zero probability that a roofing tile (or a slab of ice in winter) will fall on my head and kill me. These are all low enough probabilities that they're not worth worrying about. Everyone who lives here seems to agree it is "safe".

  22. Re:Scientific proof on Italian Supreme Court Accepts Mobile Phone-Tumor Link · · Score: 1

    >>> TFA is a bit lacking in the arguments in favor of correlation

    >> That's because there's no such thing.

    >> I'd explain why but I'm busy disproving a cosine.

    > At least not off on a tangent.

    That's perfectly normal.

  23. Re:Scientific proof on Italian Supreme Court Accepts Mobile Phone-Tumor Link · · Score: 1

    I know it's the opposite side of things from headset use but another anti-conspiracy fact is that in order to ensure the best reception in the Nokia Kilo (so big it's also called Karamalmi/Karaportti) site, Nokia installed a base station. One low enough that there no gaps in coverage near its base. If Nokia actually thought that base stations would fry peoples brains, and just covering up the "facts" - why were they installing them slap bang in the middle of their own sites? (And it was an engineering site, used to have fabrication facilities too, it wasn't a powerpoint site like Nokia House is/was, where brain frying would have been met with the challenge of first finding the brains to fry. (Sorry Jukka and Neli.))

  24. Re:but they will waste no time on NetFlix Caught Stealing DivX Subtitles From Finnish Pirates · · Score: 1

    It is a fairly common rhetorical technique to ironically use the language of the opponent's own rhetoric against them.

    Sure, this is netflix profitting from the work of others, but that isn't as punchy.

  25. Re:2*WTF on Spammers Using Shortened .gov URLs · · Score: 1

    Actually a fair chunk of those hits are not troublesome ones as google's not very good at working out what I was searching for. However, there are plenty of link= redicts all over the whole gamut of .gov domains. I haven't found any .mil use of the redirect yet, but I'm sure some exist.