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  1. Oh dear... on UK Wants An Electric-Vehicle Charger In Every New Home (thedrive.com) · · Score: 1

    The first thing I thought of was "poor energy grid"
    One of the daily peaks in power usage is when people get home from work and start cooking dinner.
    They want everyone to drive electric cars and charge them at home.
    That's going to add "plug in their car to charge" around the same time of day they turn on their oven/stove and in winter, heaters..

  2. Re:NIssan fuel economy figures are fake on Nissan Workers In Japan Falsified Emissions Tests, Review Says (nytimes.com) · · Score: 3, Funny

    I understand why you posted as AC.
    No one would publicly admit to owning a Nissan Juke.

  3. Re:Did series creators or writers ever... on The BBC Is Heading To Court To Hunt Down a Doctor Who Leaker (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    Then apparently it seems they're trying to expand their fan base.
    The diehard fans will always be diehard fans. Not even Jar Jar Binks could scare away Star Wars fans.

  4. Re:Did series creators or writers ever... on The BBC Is Heading To Court To Hunt Down a Doctor Who Leaker (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 0

    Woman can be doctors and men can be nurses. They're not gender specific jobs.

    But you're right, how dare a TV show adjust its stories to align with their target demographic!

  5. So trees and shrubs grow more when the climate is warmer.
    If they're growing more, they're pulling more CO2 from the atmosphere, as that is the only source of carbon a plant uses to grow.
    They probably also don't lose their leaves as quick when winter comes.

    Yet another variable not counted for in climate models. Not only do plants grow faster with elevated levels of CO2, they also grow for time each year when the average temperature increases.

  6. Don't use Google Cloud's... on 'Why You Should Not Use Google Cloud' (medium.com) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    ... cheapest service they offer, the one that doesn't include 24/7 phone support - let alone a guaranteed SLA, to host your multi-million dollar wind/solar plant, where any service outage will cost you millions in service penalties.

  7. Re:Disaster Recovery on 'Why You Should Not Use Google Cloud' (medium.com) · · Score: 1

    You make sure the service levels of the service you're paying for meet your requirements.
    If the contract says they can immediately suspend all of your services if their system detect unusual behaviour with your account, you should have something in place to mitigate that risk.

    How is that not obvious to someone in charge of the operations of millions of dollars worth of equipment?

  8. Re:Amazon's cloud s no better on 'Why You Should Not Use Google Cloud' (medium.com) · · Score: 1

    I'll reword that with the same meaning:

    Ill pick a fight. :) AWS should have their VM's fully DRS's so they never go down. I run VMware and with over provisioning hardware we sometimes have VM's go down.

  9. Re:Coming or not? on 128TB SD Cards Are Coming (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Full?
    If you take Sandisk for example, they have 512GB SD cards, but they're slow.
    They have a 95MB/s read speed Extreme Pro card that only supports UHS-I. They only guarantee sustained sequential writing of 30MB/s
    Their largest UHS-II card is 128GB

  10. What should they have done? on 'Why You Should Not Use Google Cloud' (medium.com) · · Score: 1

    Turned off their automated systems, and who ever caused the flag to be raised with your Google Payments Account gets in and takes over your entire system, maxes out your CFO's credit card?

  11. Re:interesting on 128TB SD Cards Are Coming (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    The interface will be up to 985MB/s
    You'll never find that in real products though, as they'll be limited to a single flash chip, so no parallel access to increase speed like regular SSD's.
    The cards are also limited to 1.8W of power too, to run a PCIe 3.0 interface, the NVMe controller and the flash chip. Good luck.

    If you put multiple microSD cards in a SD card slot, you'd probably exceed the power capability of the device.

  12. Re:Hope you don't want to copy that.... on 128TB SD Cards Are Coming (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Unless you're reading it from a device that doesn't support SD Express. UHS-II and UHS-III will do up to 312MB/s.
    On top of that an SD Express card will only do 104MB/s in a UHS-III reader. Your device has to choose between UHS or SD Express, as there are different functions for the extra row of pins. UHS is a proprietary SD protocol, SD Express has a PCIe 3.0 x1 link.

    Now you're looking at 380 hours to read/write your card.

    The same thing has happened with hard drives too. The disk-to-head speeds in most drives are still around 150MB/s, yet capacity increases all the time.
    Seagate's 12TB drive has a max speed of 250MB/s, or 16 hours. But that's only the speed on the outer edge of the platter. It slows down as you get to the inside.

  13. Re:Coming or not? on 128TB SD Cards Are Coming (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    The 2TB limit was done nearly 10 years ago, still no one has made a 2TB card.

  14. Re:Sure to backfire ! on Nvidia Looks To Gag Journalists With Multi-Year Blanket NDAs (hardocp.com) · · Score: 1

    People who review books and plays are called critics, not journalists.

  15. I've upgraded to a ROFLCOPTER

  16. Without kernel ASLR, they can figure out which addresses to hammer at compile time. No need for runtime checking, failing, crashing, etc.
    Kernel physical address aren't going to change much if at all on an Android device since there is usually no swap space. Not sure if ZRAM is common on Android.
    There's a function, virt_to_phys, that converts the virtual address of kernel memory into physical addresses. Handy.

    All they need to do is keep allocating memory or searching through memory their process can write to until they find an address next to one they want to change.
    They can figure the "next to" bit out by detecting which RAM chips are being used.

  17. DRAM is getting more expensive these days. It's not just 1/8th more expensive, it's a lot more than 1/8th more power hungry, as you've got to power 9 bits of DRAM for every byte instead of 8, you've for the ECC checking for every read and ECC calculations for every write.
    In saying that, ECC is much more common on SoC's for their caches now than it used to be.

  18. Re:That seems like a very easy solution on Every Android Device Launched Since 2012 Impacted By RAMpage Vulnerability (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    What does GPL have to do with it?

  19. Re:Devices Need Transient Permissions on Facebook Patent Imagines Triggering Your Phone's Mic When a Hidden Signal Plays on TV (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    Cyanogenmod used to do this back in the Android 2.x days I think.

  20. It's still space, it' just not empty space.

  21. Re:Like the White House? on Space is Full of Dirty, Toxic Grease, Scientists Reveal (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    And the last one, and the one before that, and all of them in the last hundred years or so.

  22. All I want to know is can we mine it and burn it in an engine?

  23. Re:Yup on Scammers Abuse Multilingual Domain Names (bbc.com) · · Score: 2

    I googled how to disable IDN in browsers and it returned an article from 2005 about Firefox disabling support for IDN due to phishing concerns
    https://news.netcraft.com/arch...
    Netcraft confirmed it.

  24. Dear browser makers on Scammers Abuse Multilingual Domain Names (bbc.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Give an option to disable the display of IDN's. Instead display the "Punycode" translation of the name.
    Better yet, default that for English and any other language that doesn't require non-ascii characters.

  25. Re:Sure to backfire ! on Nvidia Looks To Gag Journalists With Multi-Year Blanket NDAs (hardocp.com) · · Score: 0

    "reputable journalists" don't review video cards, product reviews are not journalism.