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  1. In my day on How Satnav Maps Are Made · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Way back I worked at a DOT they were buying the sat maps from the Russians very good positional accuracy but no data to go with them. We would take the census maps that are useless for positions but have all the road names house numbers etc. The feds had sat maps as well but refused to sell them of give them to the states. We also merged it with data from a fleet of vans primarily with a gps and camera's (going to laser disk no less). A whole crew of people would spend all day matching things by hand and merging the data.

  2. Re:Wrong area of focus. on Fedora Introduces Offline Updates · · Score: 2

    All you have to do is open the file not load it into ram, the updater can replace the file and the old one hangs around until nothing has it open, this is basic unix file system from 30 years ago and something windows has never been able to do. No great amounts of extra ram needed. For actual libraries it's trivial to find out the specific version at start up and ask for those explicitly from then on just as it's trivial to keep ever version of every library ever installed.

    As I said servers get restarted.

    Problems with GUI apps are something they should work out themselves most web browsers are capable or restarting and going back to exactly where they left off. Application issues with updates should not force a reboot at best it should force a restart of the affected applications. Linux is not nor should it ever be treated as a single user workstation it's a bad mindset to get into you should always assume multiple users.

  3. Re:What's the point of your post on Larry Ellison Buys His Own Hawaiian Island · · Score: 1

    Yes yes the great white guilt. By my reading we only ever had marginal control over the continent, we did encourage plenty of bad locals though. I do not subscribe to white guilt, nor do I see hand outs are ever anything but a band aid and a bad one at that.

  4. Re:Wrong area of focus. on Fedora Introduces Offline Updates · · Score: 2, Insightful

    So a bunch of gui apps are breaking things? Step A tell them there idiots and to fix there broken bits. Step B go down to text mode and back lets the X sessions figure themselves out. Why would you need a reboot for any of this. Server apps should be restarted if needed and user apps should not be so broken.

  5. Re:What's the point of your post on Larry Ellison Buys His Own Hawaiian Island · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Starving Africans are the first worlds responsibility how? They have nobody to blame but there own people. Local warlord take the food they grow "make" them grow other crops etc. They have a choice to stand up and possibly die. Nobody else can be responsible for them they are not children the sooner we stop treating them as such the better. As to starvation in particular that's a population control, there fertility rates are insane with most of Africa at 4 children per family and some nations close to 8.

  6. Re:Hey, if I rape someone can I get a free trip to on Assange Requests Asylum In Ecuador · · Score: 1

    They did not immediately report it, at this point nobody is going to get a fair anything unfortunately.

  7. Re:Hey, if I rape someone can I get a free trip to on Assange Requests Asylum In Ecuador · · Score: 1

    No but if you have consensual sex, then have the two women get together then report it have it throw out then reinstated by a higher authority maybe while being in the cross hairs for pissing off a world power sure. Remember neither of them said it was not consensual sex Miss A says he tampered with the condom and that is why it broke, Miss W says they had unprotected sex earlier that night she left the bed and came back to fall asleep again, waking to him having sex with her without a condom as they had earlier. At no point did anybody say they told him no stop or made any other action to say they did not want to have sex with him, by these standards most people in the world are serial rapists. The guy sounds sleazy for sure.

  8. Re:PE have the power to say NO to there boss over on Chinese Firms Claims It Can Build World's Tallest Tower in 90 Days · · Score: 1

    When a software engineer can face criminal charges if it breaks they get to say no as well.

  9. Re:"Bill the originator of the traffic" on The U.N.'s Push for Power Over the Internet · · Score: 1

    It's the opposite they pay there upstream for the connection more often than not. They can meter it now and send a bill even block access if it's not paid all without the UN or anything else outside there borders. They will be ignored of course since it's just a play to tax foreign companies and get hard currency. More eyeball networks trying to make themselves have power, they have yet to figure out that eyeballs will find ways to get the content anyways.

  10. Re:Lol... on The $45 Windows Laptop · · Score: 1

    RDP/VNC/X11 could all run fine on that, past that 128mb wont even load a modern web browser displaying a moderately complex web page.

  11. Re:The real reason is money. on Comcast Refusing To Comply With Piracy Subpoenas · · Score: 1

    You do realize as a third party they get to bill out a pretty hefty rate?

  12. Re:Promise RAID on Thunderbolt On Windows: Hardware and Performance Explored · · Score: 2

    Na the numbers might be real in jbod mode with a pile of SSD's. I do assure you that the raid will crash and need to be rebooted at least once a week and it will completely eat itself once a year. That is a feature that helps you test your backups.

  13. Re:get out the hot glue gun on Thunderbolt On Windows: Hardware and Performance Explored · · Score: 3, Insightful

    It is not much different than firewire with DMA access and hotplug? IOMMU's plugged that hole years ago.

  14. Re:To some extent, yes on Why Your IT Department Needs To Staff a Hacker · · Score: 1

    Can do it in excel is never a sane option, that's an unmanageable nightmare waiting to happen. You going to email the spreadsheets around while your at it so everybody has a local copy of different old versions and it's impossible to reconcile them all?

  15. Re:My theory on The Billions In Mobile Ad Money Nobody Can Grab · · Score: 2

    Targeted ad's can be useful but it's a hard thing to do. Two useful examples I was in the market for another kindle, a targeted ad got me 3g keyboard for less than the touch and with no ad's (ironic isn't it) another got me to a LTO tape library that fitted my needs better than the ones I was looking at. So in effect the companies need to stand out from the pack. Sure a kindle is a kindle to me it's like laptops needs a good service contract as I break one a year or so. The LTO library there is such a huge field of players all using the same tape tech so it's all about robots and service plans so it's easy to not find the smaller players.

    Another space that's specifically suited to mobile is location aware, search for a place to eat a targeted ad that tells me someplace 2 blocks further is very well reviewed etc is giving me useful information. The current issue with ad's is they rarely contain much useful information to much noise to little signal that has a lot to do with sales guys not knowing there products well.

  16. Re:What difference does it make? on LinkedIn Password Leak: Salt Their Hide · · Score: 1

    A different random salt per hash is expected (otherwise it's nearly useless). In the good better best of security you have salted hashes stored along with everything else, a box that gets sent the password and uuid (or whatever unique identifier is used), and a box that is sent a uuid and random string to hash with the password and the client does that same. Splitting up the hash parts onto two separate servers does very little as they are both involved and one have to send it's part of the hash to the other to work it out, so one of them at some point with halves the two halves anyways and you can game the system to get it to have the ones your interested in at that time.

    Honestly web sites need to get past mucking with passwords, there are numerous better ways to authenticate, that do not require individual web sites to have any sort of password on file. This makes otp, keyfobs, smartcards etc much more palatable and does not require anything extra on the web site. Sites need to learn that handling passwords is a liability they should try and avoid. Users can pick whoever they want to handle there identity including themselves if they are technically inclined. Sure it's not perfect and can still be gamed but little in security is perfect.

  17. Re:What difference does it make? on LinkedIn Password Leak: Salt Their Hide · · Score: 2

    Your not really adding security by splitting it up, a well protected server that only stored uuid and salted hashes would do the same.

  18. Re:Wait, what? on FBI Used FedEx To Sneak Dotcom's Hard Drives Out of NZ · · Score: 1

    Yea that whole common carrier that they effectively are means nothing.

  19. Re:What is the stat of peering these days? on Netflix Launches Its Own Content Delivery Network · · Score: 1

    Not great, still plenty of exchanges around but few eyeball networks are willing to peer. Schools are generally the exception. The content networks are happy to peer.

  20. Re:Still a bad guy on The Nice Guy At the World's Largest Weapons Expo · · Score: 0

    Since the core issue is one of faith you will still have people fighting over the radioactive glass if we were to remove the land in question. Thus there will never be an agreeable settlement on all sides since the faiths in question separated over there issues, most of the west does not even realize that Muslims are a splinter faith from Judaic traditions. These guys have built there temples over each other as a way of spitting on something to say it's yours.

  21. Re:Busy databases on Ask Slashdot: What Type of Asset Would You Not Virtualize? · · Score: 1

    Migrating lun mappings is included in that 5 minutes. The time to move data from server to sever or the infrastructure to not have to do so is the same with or without VM's.

  22. Re:Porn is a red herring... on What Should We Do About Wikipedia's Porn Problem? · · Score: 1

    Nazi material is questionable? Besides the German desire to rid any reference and make it illegal to it why and to who is it objectionable it happened they were a world power that helped shape a huge amount of the current world conflict some 70 years later with no end in sight.

    I find it idiotic to try and censor something that shaped the world as much as they did. The only way to prevent it from happening again is to learn from it. Hitler offered simple answers to complex social issues then used fear to spiral into a police state that committed horrendous atrocities primarily on minority groups.

  23. Re:Busy databases on Ask Slashdot: What Type of Asset Would You Not Virtualize? · · Score: 1

    All modern OS's have had snapshots at the OS level for close to a decade. Hardware abstraction is nice but if it takes you more than 5 minute to adjust an OS to boot on new hardware thats a lack of skillset/tools issue.

  24. Re:Busy databases on Ask Slashdot: What Type of Asset Would You Not Virtualize? · · Score: 1

    At which point you have lost all the non consolidation advantages of VM's.

  25. Re:Databases and Heavy memory java apps on Ask Slashdot: What Type of Asset Would You Not Virtualize? · · Score: 1

    Your take a pretty good hit on IO in VM and your average database server will use as much ram as you can throw at it. This means it's rarely a good idea to VM production DB servers.