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  1. Re:The same people back both sides on Engineering Election Debates With Subtle Cues · · Score: 1

    That's not to say the whole system is all a sham

    It is a sham. The choice of leaders is a pretence. All of them are backed by the same groups and are obligated to those groups, not the electorate. Take a look at the enacted policies and you will be completely unable to tell the parties apart.

    That's what they want you to think.

  2. Re:So, still doesn't alllow online resize of disks on Xen 4.1 Hypervisor Released · · Score: 1

    Aha, at http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/XenParavirtOps I find:

    Features added in 2.6.36:
    Xen VBD (Virtual Block Device) online dynamic resize support for resizing guest disks (xvd*) on-the-fly.

  3. Re:So, still doesn't alllow online resize of disks on Xen 4.1 Hypervisor Released · · Score: 1

    Is this written down anywhere? I've been looking all over the place and all I can find is that there used to be a xm command to do it but it was removed.

    All I can find is discussion of resizing volumes offline. I want to resize a volume without restarting the domU.

  4. Re:Saving $1,000,000 only gets you $200,000. on How Viewing a "Virtual You" Can Help You Save · · Score: 1

    You'll have been robbed by the rich.

    Just how did you imagine they got to be rich?

  5. Re:The work of a lonely developer on MySql.com Hacked With Sql Injection · · Score: 2

    The NSA has some nice whitepapers on how to prevent SQL injection attacks

    That is so fucking sad. Imagine your first day at work at the puzzle palace, expecting to work on some shit hot, high tech, super secret stuff and they say "write a paper on how to avoid SQL injection attacks."

  6. Re:So, still doesn't alllow online resize of disks on Xen 4.1 Hypervisor Released · · Score: 1

    So, what's the XM command to tell the guest that the disk size has changed?

  7. So, still doesn't alllow online resize of disks on Xen 4.1 Hypervisor Released · · Score: 1

    Bummer.

  8. Re:Nothing ill-fated about itanium on Oracle Claims Intel Is Looking To Sink the Itanic · · Score: 1

    SGI wasn't killed by Itanium. They continued to support MIPS chips - and still do - and never jumped on the Itanium bandwagon.

    Ah. What's this?

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silicon_Graphics#Switch_to_Itanium

    n 1998, SGI announced that future generations of its machines would be based not on their own MIPS processors, but the new “super-chip” from Intel, Itanium. Funding for its own high-end processors was reduced, and it was planned that the R10000 would be the last MIPS mainstream processor.

  9. Re:CRLs? on Phony Web Certs Issued For Google, Yahoo, Skype · · Score: 1

    Your article merely explains that CRL implementations are fail safe.

    Safety is in the eye of the beholder.

    They're "fail safe" in the sense that you can still use SSL of the CRL server is down.

    They're "fail deadly" in the sense that if someone can MITM you to get you to use a phoney cert they can also break the connection to the CRL server.

  10. Re:Patches? on Phony Web Certs Issued For Google, Yahoo, Skype · · Score: 1

    To use a phony cert someone has to MITM you.

    And if they can MITM the SSL connection they can break the connection to the revocation list server. The browser treats this as a soft fail.

    https://blog.torproject.org/category/tags/ssl-tls-ca-tor-certificates-torbrowser

  11. Re:Firefox/IE patches released,Comodo incident rep on Phony Web Certs Issued For Google, Yahoo, Skype · · Score: 1

    Comodo knew about this on the 15th.

    Chromium was patched on the 16th/17th.

    Firefox was patched on the 17th,

    https://blog.torproject.org/category/tags/ssl-tls-ca-tor-certificates-torbrowser

    Executive summary - SSL is broken as designed.

  12. Re:old news is old on Air Force Supercomputer Made From PS3's · · Score: 1

    I see some sneaky saboteur sticking a recent game disk in in the middle of the night....

  13. Re:Itanium? on Oracle Claims Intel Is Looking To Sink the Itanic · · Score: 1

    It's the manufacturers name for what everyone else calls the itanic.

  14. Re:Is Larry's foot sore yet? on Oracle Claims Intel Is Looking To Sink the Itanic · · Score: 1

    Of course non-stop has already changed instruction set three times, so it might not be too hard to move it to something else.

  15. Nothing ill-fated about itanium on Oracle Claims Intel Is Looking To Sink the Itanic · · Score: 1

    It did exactly what it was supposed to, destroyed all the competition for i386.

    Where is Alpha now? What happened to SGI?

  16. Re:Hyphens? on System Measures Stress In Emergency Callers' Voice · · Score: 1

    Why are there hyphens in the number? Where is that key on my phone?

    It's SYM+F on mine.

  17. Re:Calibration? on System Measures Stress In Emergency Callers' Voice · · Score: 1

    Keep your cool, don't panic.

    After all this technology doesn't work.

    This has been debunked so many times.

    Of course using it for emergency calls is even stupider that the previous snake-oil, using it to detect benefits cheats.

  18. Re:Cute, but not accurate on A Handy Radiation Dose Chart From XKCD · · Score: 1

    Roughly 4000 cases of juvenile thyroid cancer have been diagnosed in Byelorussia, the Ukraine, and Russia since Chernobyl.

    Of which 9 died.

  19. Re:Units on A Handy Radiation Dose Chart From XKCD · · Score: 1

    Pity he gets it wrong:

    Bottom Line: Fortunately, cutting through the above confusion, for purposes of practical radiation protection in humans, most experts agree (including FEMA Emergency Management Institute) that Roentgen, Rad and Rem can all be considered equivalent. The exposure rates you'll usually see will be expressed simply in terms of roentgen (R) or milliroentgen (mR).

    All the reports I've seen give that values in (milli) Sieverts.

  20. Re:additional on A Handy Radiation Dose Chart From XKCD · · Score: 1

    Depends on the target. If you're going for a soft target (city, airbase, armoured formation) you want an airburst for maximum area of destruction (and minimum fallout). If you're going for a hardened target (missile silo) you'll have to go for a ground detonation (and get maximum fallout, but that's an accident).

  21. Re:additional on A Handy Radiation Dose Chart From XKCD · · Score: 1

    This is a job for Google! ....

    Damn. First result - "Why There's No Hello Kitty Hentai"

    A breakdown in rule 34? What's next, the 3rd law of thermodynamics?

  22. Re:IODINE TABLETS on A Handy Radiation Dose Chart From XKCD · · Score: 1

    Charlie Stross (a former pharmacologist) is currently betting that the biggest cause of Fukushima related deaths will be iodine overdose in places not affected by the accident.

    Current death toll is what, 4? Guy who fell out of a crane when the earthquake struck, guy who had a heart attack in the control centre and two poor bastards missing after the hydrogen explosions.

    (Newsflash - Stoss now estimates biggest cause of death will be oldies croaking due to lack of air conditioning).

  23. Re:Not gonna lie on AT&T To Acquire T-Mobile From Deutsche Telekom · · Score: 1

    AT&T should be broken up, not made larger. This is a disaster for the future of cellular communications, wireless internet and telecommunications generally.

    Been there, done that.

  24. Re:What's it like in Japan? Will this cause change on Legacy From the 1800s Leaves Tokyo In the Dark · · Score: 1

    Cart? Horse? Cause? Effect?

  25. Re:Free Market on Legacy From the 1800s Leaves Tokyo In the Dark · · Score: 1

    Eventually things will shake out.

    Yeah, eventually they'll all adopt some descendant of GSM.