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  1. Re:Wow, slashdot editors can not RTFA on Landfall Nears For Strongest Hurricane In Recorded History (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Strongest Hurricane on record is correct.

    The Pacific has Hurricanes, Typhoons, and Cyclones but Cyclones are in the southern hemisphere there.

    Sure, they are kind of the same thing but different storm regions.

  2. Virtualization and Cloud issue on Linux Servers' Entropy Pool Too Shallow, Compromising Security · · Score: 2

    This is very true now that everything goes towards virtualization and clouds. Systems in the cloud are especially susceptible to low entropy issues.
    Companies like Amazon and Google should step up and provide true hardware entropy sources for systems that they host.
    And it's a known problem because there was chatter about it for years yet no-one stepped up.
    Hopefully exposure at Black Hat will finally get them to do something about it.

  3. Scorpions will stay on Study: Sixth Extinction Event Is Underway · · Score: 2

    I've been trying to trigger the extinction of scorpions out of my desert mountain yard for four years now. These things won't go anyway and they love the hot weather.
    Lets say that we'll probably survive eating bugs.

  4. Re:Looks interesting but I am wary... on Microsoft Releases PowerShell DSC For Linux · · Score: 1

    The AD authentication piece is pretty wonky in Cygwin.
    Managing cygwin groups that are related to AD groups is very buggy.
    Otherwise, I agree with you, cygwin provides soo much more through openssh and all the other packages you can install with it.

  5. Buggers on Military Caught Training Children To Fight · · Score: 1

    We are coming!

  6. Vents on Rendering a Frame of Deus Ex: Human Revolution · · Score: 4, Funny

    Didn't know it takes that much to render the inside of vents.
    That game was played by finding vents and going through them.
    The police station mission was cool but the rest, vents, and more vents.

  7. Re:Seriously, an Apple car? on A123 Sues Apple For Poaching Employees · · Score: 2

    Don't forget that you'll need iTunes to load anything in the trunk, which will lose the contents any time there is an update.

  8. Re:I blame the FDA on Smoking Is Even Deadlier Than Previously Thought · · Score: 1

    Been using ecigs for a couple of years now. Never really got a hard time for using it anywhere.
    Couple of instances was once in a bar in New York City, they told me to be discreet, and at a superbowl public event, by orders of the fire marshals, probably because the vape looks like smoke and they are trained to look for signs of fire.

    As for the FDA not regulating them, good, it's better to have their hands out of them.

    I know quite a few people who gave up smoking with ecigs.

  9. Re:But We Need More H1-Bs! on Massive Layoff Underway At IBM · · Score: 2

    IBM has lost some pretty big business customers due to the inability to compete with people who prefer to "insource" (lingo for ship the jobs out of the country by opening IT shops in low cost regions)
    While competing on that level, they lost complete touch with their end-customers and I wouldn't be surprised if these jobs will be available somewhere else under the IBM brand pretty soon.
    As a brand, I don't think that such a massive lay-off will be as easy to hide under the rug as their support of the Nazi tabulation systems, especially because all the laid off people will eventually be part of their customer base.

  10. Assholes on Google Avoids Fine In UK But Will Change Its Privacy Policies · · Score: 1, Interesting

    These people will ruin America as it was envisioned by Ben Franklin and that the Europeans hold dear.

  11. Eat at home on DARPA-Funded Robots Learning To Cook By Watching YouTube Videos · · Score: 1

    That's a concept which might end up being a reality. Can't wait for a robot cook.

  12. Take off and landing boredom on Smartphones, Tablets and EBay Send SkyMall To Chapter 11 · · Score: 1

    In two very stressful situations our reptilian brains were exposed to, the only forms of entertainment we were allowed were the mind-numbing airline magazine or skymall. Now that we can use electronic devices in those situations, skymall becomes pointless. Some foreign airlines still require turning off electronic devices during take-off and landing. Those could have make use of skymall but skymall was a lazy business. They didn't expand internationally and didn't tap into the new medium. (people could have shopped for free over wifi)

  13. The 5th is a much stronger than the 4th amendment because it protects a defendant from being charged with contempt for remaining silent.

  14. Re:Cygwin works fine. on Why Aren't We Using SSH For Everything? · · Score: 1

    Yes, work very well but AD integration is kind of a pain. Managing users and groups between the emulator and windows is poorly supported.
    I had some issues with it related to people wanting to use it for windows sftp that led my management to having me move all my cygwin/ssh based windows monitoring to WMI, which just sucked. Pretty much switched jobs because of it.

  15. Re:Not available outside US! on Sony To Release the Interview Online Today; Apple Won't Play Ball · · Score: 1

    No problem, the pirated version will only be available with Korean subtitles.

  16. Not on PSN? on Sony To Release the Interview Online Today; Apple Won't Play Ball · · Score: 1

    Great thinking Sony. Complain about apple and you can't even get it onto your own network.

  17. Re:Too little too late on Android 5.0 Makes SD Cards Great Again · · Score: 1

    In most real life situations the iPhone is much faster because it is purposeful in it its ways rather than rely on higher system performance to do things that shouldn't need to be done. Same reason why windows to me is much slower than OSX.

  18. Re:Too little too late on Android 5.0 Makes SD Cards Great Again · · Score: 1

    Exactly, which is the direction I saw Google take. If I was going to stick to a platform that goes into a closed system direction, why not choose to go back to Apple, who makes much sexier products.
    So far I'm very happy with the decision since I dig the new iPhone. iTunes is annoying but at least I don't need to have different audio players for music, audiobooks, and I don't need another app to help it decide which player should play what I last paused. Oh, and rescanning all my storage every time I added a few new songs was getting old. I really didn't see a performance degradation after I switched. I most real life situations, it is quite the opposite.

  19. Too little too late on Android 5.0 Makes SD Cards Great Again · · Score: 1, Insightful

    I used to love the openness of Android and I would have never considered iOS. However, after this blatant destruction of what Android and any true open system should stand for, I did not have any reservations getting an iPhone to replace my Galaxy S4.

    So long Google, you fucked up. Badly,

  20. Thailand on Pirate Bay Co-founder Arrested In Northeastern Thailand · · Score: 3, Informative

    At least Thailand can now get back to what they do best. Child prostitution, human trafficking, destroying their reef, heroin production led by the elite, fake purses, and selling dvds of new movies in broad daylight. Oh, and killing poor drug users.

  21. Re:80 Billion IT budget??? on Labor Department To Destroy H-1B Records · · Score: 1

    No no no, you got it all wrong. 80 Billion is how much their IT department would have to pay to make up for how much they underpaid their H1B workers.
    It's a liability issue.

  22. Memory confused with storage on Slashdot? on Why the iPhone 6 Has the Same Base Memory As the iPhone 5 · · Score: 2

    I'm waiting for the Slashdot story about how obviously no one will ever need more than 640k of memory ever.

    I do want to rant out about iPhone 6 memory though. 1GB is ridiculously low. They claim it was a choice to reduce battery use.
    Using the gopro with 240 fps on the gopro app on a Galaxy S4 is a nightmare and I envision that it will be the same on the iPhone. Not quite sure how they plan on getting good performance even for in-phone features.

  23. 127.0.0.1 on Feds Say NSA "Bogeyman" Did Not Find Silk Road's Servers · · Score: 2

    The IP will probably be revealed as being 127.0.0.1.

    The judge will accept it as evidence, and the jury will convict because we are still living in a society of imbeciles trying to impose on how everyone should live under the premise that they know better as a collective decider.

    We are destroying basic human rights and severely punishing people simply so we can "show them a better path" in life.

    It's absurd. Why can't we just close all these ineffective branches of government fighting pseudo crimes already?

  24. Re:Which Invasion? on Kernel Developer Dmitry Monakhov Arrested For Protesting Ukraine Invasion · · Score: 2

    I don't know that I'd compare KGB-style fabrication of news with a western-style free press.
    Ever since MH17, we are all part of this war. It doesn't have to be within some imaginary lines.
    Ukraine's only fault is giving up its nuclear weapons and throwing off the balance.

  25. Asus RT-AC on Ask Slashdot: Life Beyond the WRT54G Series? · · Score: 1

    I gave in and upgraded from my WRT to an ASUS router.
    In the beginning it had major wireless latency issues (every 5th ping was over 100 ms) due to the broadcom wireless driver but after 6 months of complaining and getting nowhere with ASUS, they finally released a firmware that fixed the driver issues.
    I really enjoy the speed now and being of 5 Ghz really helps snapping out of my overly congested neighbourhood.