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  1. Re:Slack Desktop on Where's All My CPU and Memory Gone? The Answer: $5B Worth Slack App (medium.com) · · Score: 1

    Especially when it has a semi functional xmpp gateway to use a real chat app with.

  2. Re:This is why not to use open source on Media Player Classic Home Cinema (MPC-HC) for Windows Pushes What Could Be Its Last Update (mpc-hc.org) · · Score: 1

    You definitely have an option to pay for support, Throw the code at a dev and pay them to do whatever you need.

  3. Re:What exactly makes a private cloud different fr on Microsoft To Offer Local Version of Azure Cloud Service (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Only if you do it right wich is something very very few places actually do. Making something scale still takes good design.

  4. Re:Your right to point your camera on Federal Appeals Court: You Have a Constitutional Right to Film Police Officers in Public (slate.com) · · Score: 1

    Yes, it will because they simply collude with the prosecutor's office to ignore it. Civil cases are fine this needs criminal charges that MUST be filed otherwise it just gets swept under the rug.

  5. This is done all the time, defined relays can require StartTLS pin keys and a slew of other thigs. It can even be one sided. RFC 7672 makes this more common by allowing it to be automatic.

  6. Re:No problem! on EU Parliament Calls For Longer Lifetime For Products (eubusiness.com) · · Score: 1

    Power supplies can be pretty standard, getting things like USBC PD standard makes it easy for laptops. This is not a hard thing but more if it becomes law it's now a design requirement that will have trivial to no additional cost.

  7. Re:Not one word that it doesn't have a display?!? on Raspberry Pi's Smaller, Cheaper Rival: NanoPi Neo Plus2 Weighs in at $25 (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    You realize that the BCM chip is not open right?

  8. Re:Not one word that it doesn't have a display?!? on Raspberry Pi's Smaller, Cheaper Rival: NanoPi Neo Plus2 Weighs in at $25 (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Just serial is fine, reducing power is a big win, replace the space with a wide range input DC that's efficient.

  9. Re:Again, can't we leave it to the free market? on Forced Arbitration Isn't 'Forced' Because No One Has To Buy Service, Says AT&T (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Last mile aesthetic so many wires on the poles via multiple providers.

  10. Re:True, but if there weren't any regulators on Forced Arbitration Isn't 'Forced' Because No One Has To Buy Service, Says AT&T (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Correct, so from there it's a question of how to effectively maintain the commons without looking like Asia. In that you have 3 main things last mile, long distance, and wireless. The last mile needs to become town-owned, bury a fiber per endpoint and mux light onto them. The old Phone company CO's seems like a good spot for this to terminate at let players rent space or simply backhaul.

    Long-haul the market works companys lease space from railroads etc bury fiber and resell access to it.

  11. Re:The problem with systemd on 'Severe' Systemd Bug Allowed Remote Code Execution For Two Years (itwire.com) · · Score: 1

    Supporting commercial software on top of Linux and you're quickly out of options, old rehl6 based stuff is pretty widely supported but also very old.

  12. Re:The problem with systemd on 'Severe' Systemd Bug Allowed Remote Code Execution For Two Years (itwire.com) · · Score: 5, Interesting

    The reason is simply every commercially used Linux distro switched to it. We're stuck going along for the ride.

  13. Re:180 watts per - think of the cooling needed on AMD Looks To 'Crush' Intel's Xeon With New Epyc Server Chips (extremetech.com) · · Score: 1

    At the current high density of about 400 Xeon per rack (could be higher this is the most I've seen) your still looking at 250 racks filled with blade servers alone, Somewhere your going to need network and storage nodes as well. Those cool with air just fine.

  14. Re:How does one DR test in a 24/7 business? on British Airways IT Outage Caused By Contractor Who Accidentally Switched off Power (independent.ie) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    You do it in production because none of it should cause a massive failure. They bought a DR site and failed to test it. Working at some big shops the DR site was prod every other quarter.

  15. So it was all running in a single DC with a single power bus? Plenty of room at real datacenters they need to stop running out of a closet somewhere.

  16. Re:Meh.... on The US Is the Biggest Carbon Polluter in History (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Because there is no cost for insuring that they can handle peak demand? The power company has to provide the power when the sun is not shining so it needs to maintain enough total generating capacity that's a lot of idle expensive hardware that needs to be paid for. Many states have or had electricity buyback from solar at retail rates, not the pittance that PV goes for wholesale again everybody else is forced to subsidize.

  17. Re:This approach has no life on Experts Call For Preserving Copper, Pneumatic Systems As Hedge For Cyber Risk (securityledger.com) · · Score: 1

    We needed drivers then we need drivers now, Normal PC serial ports just got cloned extensively so that they all need the same driver and it's built in. USB should be similar serial is a well-defined thing and should be baseline (on anything but Windows).

    Overall it's a poor premise, we need to ensure these are not overlay networks but running modern air-gapped networks is far better than some ancient tech as far as outside the building.

  18. Re:They've had it coming for decades on With Nothing Left To Sell, RadioShack Is Selling Itself To People (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    They failed in many ways, Can you imagine a rat shack that could make one off PCB's, pick and place and solder them? Realy not that hard and a small investment, most of the bits they already stocked. They had the advantage of proximity get me a populated PCB in a few hours at a marginal price that buying the parts there and I'm going to buy parts there.

    They failed when they because 50% cell phones and monster cable stupidity. They failed when they hired and retained the least knowledgeable but hawked the most phones people.

    Overall they lacked vision the rat shack of the 80's was the home of the nerd, you could walk in and get the parts to make a rainbow box and stuff it into an old cassette case, advice on how to do it and a hey that's cool encouragement. Hacker zines and usenet listed rat shack part numbers. When they became just a place to hard sell you a phone or some cheap rc car it was a place you avoided.

  19. Re:4 times the horsepower you need on America's Cars Are Suddenly Getting Faster and More Efficient (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Thankfully not around here, I could see it for adults they ride like idiots far too often as to be a danger to walkers and joggers but kids should be afforded the safest place as possible while still giving them the freedom to roam they need to grow up.

  20. Re:4 times the horsepower you need on America's Cars Are Suddenly Getting Faster and More Efficient (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Little Timmy rides on the sidewalk where he is supposed to and safest for him.

  21. Re:4 times the horsepower you need on America's Cars Are Suddenly Getting Faster and More Efficient (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    How about we teach the cyclists how to not be asshats first? Step 1 is make them have license plates so we can easily ticket them driving through stops signs not yelling etc etc etc etc etc. In NYC and CT at least adult cyclists are generally tools. While you're at it require that all submitted dashcam footage be used for said ticketing.

    As to I didn't see them sure, once you stop them popping back and forth onto the sidewalk from behind parked vehicles busses etc, till then people can not rationally be expected to drive as there is somebody about to pop out from in front of ever packed truck suv minivan etc that blocks their sightlines.

  22. Re:Unforgeable Caller ID on Nuisance Call Firm Keurboom Hit With Record Fine (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    I don't think you get how business class phone systems work. My PBX gets has a set of rules to route any given call to several different providers for lowest cost calling. Inbound where I get my DID's is not often the same company that I'm calling out via. That's for a small company I've set up far more complex calling rules for modest-size companies. There is absolutely nothing that ties a given outbound call to any DID currently and implementing it means every PBX needs to be reprogramed many will have to be scrapped as you have to have select your outbound route via the outbound DID wich is not universally a feature.

    Requiring that all business include a valid DID is something that can be mandated and is pretty reasonable. A few small shops might run afoul of it but that's easy to tell that you dentist who's PBX was made in the 90's and never been looked at since is not a scammer etc, codifying it is also easy that any new or updated gear must comply much like building code. Remember fines do not affect these guys, it's a few hundred bucks to get another LLC and continue on. Anything without criminal sanctions does not have teeth to make any difference.

  23. Re:Unforgeable Caller ID on Nuisance Call Firm Keurboom Hit With Record Fine (bbc.com) · · Score: 2

    Even as a small company I've got 4 voip transit providers. Requiring that you have a DID with a given provider is broken. It really does not matter these shops switch providers often to get out of paying bills or just escape the backlash from their calls. Even when they get a DID it's a few cents they use it and throw it away once it gets blocked by google etc and move onto the next one.

    Watching for these patterns is easy but they are making money allowing the calls. A quick criminal penalty for businesses to hide or forge their caller ID as in business death penalty and sanctions against the management would work. Please include politicians in it as well :)

  24. Re:Shop. Shop shop on E-Commerce Is Clogging City Streets With Delivery Trucks (citylab.com) · · Score: 0

    Hiding spot? Stop living in a crack neighborhood. Out here in suburbia bordering on rural hidden is on your front steps.

  25. I should be a diehard Trash 80 and apple ][ fan. Linux so don't think the plan worked.