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  1. Re:Bitcoin/Litecoin Performance on Intel's Knights Landing — 72 Cores, 3 Teraflops · · Score: 1

    Btc and ltc are best run on ASiCs or perhaps AMD GPUs

    btc hardware
    ltc hardware

    Perhaps this chip will change things, but for now, cpu mining is pretty inefficient

  2. Ice, in summer? On a warming planet? on Helicopter Rescue For All Passengers Aboard Antarctic Research Ship · · Score: 2

    from the article:

    The 233-foot Russian research ship had been lodged in the ice since Dec. 24, when powerful winds encircled it with pack ice near Cape de la Motte, about 1,700 miles south of Hobart, Tasmania.

    Navigating pack ice is like wandering through a labyrinth where the walls periodically move.

  3. Re:I have Verizon DSL, 1.5Mb down, 350Kb up on Surviving the Internet On Low Speed DSL · · Score: 1

    I get FIOS drops all the time. Sometime resetting the ONT box does the trick.

  4. Re:Cry me a river: try 56K on Surviving the Internet On Low Speed DSL · · Score: 1

    An ad blocker may keep out the newest brand of leaches-- video banner ads.

  5. Re:I weep tears on Surviving the Internet On Low Speed DSL · · Score: 1

    What's a cassette tape, grandpa?

  6. Re:Even slower on Surviving the Internet On Low Speed DSL · · Score: 1

    My first post dial up connection was half DSL. I think it was actually good for 850 kbs down, 160 kbs up.
    Verizon swapped it out for FIOS four or five years ago.

  7. Re:You poor baby on Surviving the Internet On Low Speed DSL · · Score: 1

    as long as you don't go in for bandwidth hogging uses (streaming video).
    Huh? I don't quite understand.
    Why would you not stream video?

  8. Re:You poor baby on Surviving the Internet On Low Speed DSL · · Score: 1

    My guess is the K and M components do just fine on limited bandwidth connections. It's the video that's the problem.

    Perhaps the CLI would trim those demands down to something reasonable? GUIs are a passing fad, anway.

  9. Re:Amazon Prime ships faster than that on Surviving the Internet On Low Speed DSL · · Score: 3, Funny

    Station Wagon full of tapes, eh?

  10. Re:You poor baby on Surviving the Internet On Low Speed DSL · · Score: 1

    Using a mac is a good way to instill a lust for bandwidth.

    A delta update is a few hundred meg, and the new OS versions are a few gig each. Much more if you (like any sane geek) want the compilers as well.

  11. Re:Cognitive Dissonance on DRM Has Always Been a Horrible Idea · · Score: 1

    Privacy is about personal autonomy. If you prefer to live your own way, if you want to make your own decisions, it is useful to conceal certain aspects of yourself from those who who would use knowledge of those aspects to subvert your automatic.

    should be

    Privacy is about personal autonomy. If you prefer to live your own way, if you want to make your own decisions, it is useful to conceal certain aspects of yourself from those who who would use knowledge of those aspects to subvert your autonomy

  12. Re:Cognitive Dissonance on DRM Has Always Been a Horrible Idea · · Score: 1

    Read this article

    Privacy and the threat to the self

    Privacy is about personal autonomy. If you prefer to live your own way, if you want to make your own decisions, it is useful to conceal certain aspects of yourself from those who who would use knowledge of those aspects to subvert your automatic.

    Thus, anonymous financial transactions.
    Thus, encryption

    DRM allows other entities (who do not necessarily even have a cognizable privacy claim) to control how you use books and the like after they have been sold. Particularly invasive DRM may, besides restricting your freedoms to use these items in novel ways may also intrude directly into your sense of privacy.

    The GP fails to recognize this important dimension, and equates DRM with privacy preserving uses of encryption technologies. This is a superficial analysis that merits a rebuke.

  13. Re:Cognitive Dissonance on DRM Has Always Been a Horrible Idea · · Score: 1

    this is because you cannot comprehend the concept of privacy. you should try, for privacy goes a long way towards making us human,

  14. Re:what? on Senators Propose Bill Prohibiting Phone Calls On Planes · · Score: 1

    I'd rather that congress not focus. Comittees focus, the body as a whole synthesizes the work of the various commitees.

  15. Re:Meanwhile in russia on Newly Discovered Greenhouse Gas Is 7,000 Times More Powerful Than CO2 · · Score: 2

    Prior to the oxygen crisis, there was plenty of life, as well.

  16. Re:Fed up with publication pressure on Nobel Winner Schekman Boycotts Journals For 'Branding Tyranny' · · Score: 2

    Names aren't important. What is important is his current academic affiliation.

  17. Nobel Peace Prize in Medicine and Physiology? on Nobel Winner Schekman Boycotts Journals For 'Branding Tyranny' · · Score: 4, Funny

    Shouldn't that be "Peace Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel for Medicine and Physiology"

  18. Re:Mind blowing on The Real Story of Hacking Together the Commodore C128 · · Score: 1

    The Apple IIGS was a 16 bit machine, so it was really competing with the Amiga and Atari ST machines.Whether it was competitive is another story.

  19. Re:FSVO "about" on Two Supermassive Black Holes About To Embrace · · Score: 1

    Thanks.

  20. Re:This was news two weeks ago on Scientists Uncover 3,700-Year-Old Wine Cellar · · Score: 1

    And when I read it on the Register I was told that it was "psychotropic."

    The wine was flavoured with honey, mint, cinnamon bark, juniper berries and even mysterious "psychotropic resins", which might explain why people in the biblical era spent so much time spouting prophesies and wearing technicolor dreamcoats.

    an interpretation which was omitted from the other news accounts.

    Well? will this wine help you see things you wouldn't believe? Or is the Register seeing things that its readers shouldn't believe?

  21. Re:Intrinsic Value on How a Bitcoin Transaction Actually Works · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Gary North... Gary North...That name sounds familiar. But Why?

    Ah. Found it.

    "So let us be blunt about it," says Gary North. "We must use the doctrine of religious liberty to gain independence for Christian schools until we train up a generation of people who know that there is no religious neutrality, no neutral law, no neutral education, and no neutral civil government. Then they will get busy in constructing a Bible-based social, political and religious order which finally denies the religious liberty of the enemies of God."

    Invitation to a Stoning

  22. Re:Slight change in title, if I may on Nobody Builds Reactors For Fun Anymore · · Score: 1

    "Don't try this at home" isn't fun. It's merely entertainment.

  23. Re:What would you expect? on Nobody Builds Reactors For Fun Anymore · · Score: 1

    especially since shutting down the reactor is very easy to do (just drain the liquid nuclear fuel from the reactor)

    But is that actually easy to do?
    Is that something that can be reliably done if there was an earthquake? If the pumps were damaged?

    If it's trivial, even in the most extraordinary circumstances, by all means go for it. But practical safety matters more than theoretical safety.

  24. Re:350mm (18inch) wafer on Moore's Law Blowout Sale Is Ending, Says Broadcom CTO · · Score: 1

    and Cray tried hard to design systems that were actually ten times faster than what had come before. Incrementalism wasn't his style. If that ten fold requirement required a hundred times as much memory, so be it.

  25. Re:350mm (18inch) wafer on Moore's Law Blowout Sale Is Ending, Says Broadcom CTO · · Score: 1

    The Cray 2 (1985) had 256 million 64 bit words of memory-- that's 2 Gibibytes in modern parlance. Of course, that's only 28 years ago, but if we ignore the hyperbole about one Cray 2 having as much memory as all previously delivered Cray machines combined, we'll downgrade that by one Moore Law cycle to just 1GB.

    Thus, at least theoretically, 30 years ago, 1 GB was not wholly unreasonable.