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  1. Re:Do what they are asking! on Ask Slashdot: Herding Cats, Aging Systems? · · Score: 1

    You could mention the fact that their equipment/software is obsolete.

    Still running XP is much more dire than obsolete.

  2. Re:Not the only factor? on Apple's 16GB IPhone 6S Is a Serious Strategic Mistake · · Score: 1

    Actually, what I said wasn't that you shouldn't have a fancy-pants GPU in the phone, and use its accelerated 2d capabilities to implement your game.

    Keep telling us what new things are stupid, while the world passes you by.

  3. Re:One of the probs with weeding out the intellige on FBI and DOJ Drop Case Against Chinese-American Physicist · · Score: 1

    Many police forces conduct a form of intelligence testing as part of the hiring process. If you are too intelligent then you will be booted because they think that police work will be too boring for you and you'll quit.

    Is this even true, or just internet bullshit? Did you make it up as you wrote it?

  4. Oh god damnit on An Algorithm To Stop Joke Plagiarists · · Score: 2

    "Read on for Bennett's take on how such a system could work."

    Yuck.

  5. Re:3 categories: general-purpose; specialist; hips on The Most Important Obscure Languages? · · Score: 1

    jQuery in particular is a great example of how it doesn't matter one fucking bit how incompetent software developers are because Intel makes some really fucking fast CPUs these days.

    It might just show that targeting several different runtimes, often with different capabilities, is hard, and that smart developers use a library to abstract the problem away. What you said, is an example of how you are ignorant, and probably a dickhead.

  6. Re:Get a business partner on Ask Slashdot: Suggestions For Taking a Business Out Into the Forest? · · Score: 1

    I have to be available 24/7, but a lot of my work is just being online for a few minutes at a time.

    It sounds like he wants to run his business on autopilot into oblivion.

  7. Re: Hard to believe on Ten Dropbox Engineers Build BSD-licensed, Lossless 'Pied Piper' Compression Algorithm · · Score: 2

    Try the -h param for ls, calculating is for computers.

    Not really useful in this context, because it truncates significant digits.

  8. Re:In other words. on Kansas Secretary of State Blocks Release of Voting Machine Tapes · · Score: 1

    As I already said. I don't buy this argument at all.

    Nobody cares.

  9. Re:nerd news? on Two US Marines Foil Terrorist Attack On Train In France · · Score: 1

    How is this related to slashdot's supposed themes, this is just general news

    It seems like a good thing for whiny neckbeards to bicker about...

  10. Re:Silly bogans... on Many Australians Forced To Pay For "Unbreakable" Cryptolocker Ransomware · · Score: 1

    That is a very misinformed post

    Is that full disclosure or something?

  11. Re:This has been around forever on Israeli Security Company Builds "Unhackable" Version of Windows · · Score: 3, Informative

    It allows you to change the address for DLLs, but leaves it at a predetermined address by default.

    Windows has a setting to enable ASLR for all applications. Microsoft even provides a handy tool to enable it; the, "Enhanced Mitigation Experience Toolkit". No special compile time gesticulations are required.

  12. Re:It's easy to make it unhackable on Israeli Security Company Builds "Unhackable" Version of Windows · · Score: 1

    and the power supply.

    I actually laughed, thanks!

  13. Re:This has been around forever on Israeli Security Company Builds "Unhackable" Version of Windows · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Memory randomization has been around a very very very long time. It's not going to help with logical programming errors.

    It is literally already implemented in every version of Windows since Vista. Windows also uses the NX/XD features in modern CPUs.

  14. Re:Two of those three, courtesy of ShitRedditSays on Reddit Updates Content Policy, Bans More Subreddits · · Score: 1

    Murder through causing a suicide? Yes.

    That is probably a stretch, but you do have a point kind of... people take this stuff really seriously sometimes.

    Persecuted in the sense of losing one's job for being doxxed? Yes.

    Definitely a serious victimization that people are experiencing.

    Our law enforcement agencies that can not find any serious mitigation against swatting are kind of Reddit's overzealous police intimidation force too.

  15. Re:Maybe a reddit user can provide more insight on Reddit Updates Content Policy, Bans More Subreddits · · Score: 1

    Not long after that. people will be outright persecuted, jailed or disappeared or murdered.

    I did not realize Reddit was this serious...

  16. Re: CPU not compatible on Windows 10 Upgrade Strategies, Pitfalls and Fixes As MSFT Servers Are Hit Hard · · Score: 1

    It really can be a junk heap, with way too many 32 bit integer error codes and senseless register dumps.

    I prefer dmesg and syslog.

  17. Re: Windows sounds easier to update than Debian. on Windows 10 Upgrade Strategies, Pitfalls and Fixes As MSFT Servers Are Hit Hard · · Score: 0

    And your "just don't upgrade" attitude is fucking idiotic.

    Almost as idiotic as the notion that someone is the victim of systemd, or its maintainers. The point is, if you are a neophobe, go all the way.... Use systemd, maintain your own distribution, or use one of the several long term releases that still supports System V or Upstart! At no time are you a victim of anyone besides yourself.

    Debian actually isn't much different. Debian's contributors are its users.

    Exactly, they don't owe you anything! Canonical and Read Hat don't owe you anything either. You aren't their victims, you are their non-paying end users with a noisy but unpopular opinion.

  18. Re:CPU not compatible on Windows 10 Upgrade Strategies, Pitfalls and Fixes As MSFT Servers Are Hit Hard · · Score: 1

    It is correct either way. The host can have a CPU feature that is hidden in the guest CPU, but it can also provide a virtual version of a feature to the guest using software (read very slow), even if that feature is not available on the host CPU.

    The guest only sees the virtual CPU, and typically has no idea what the "real" CPU is.

  19. Re:CPU not compatible on Windows 10 Upgrade Strategies, Pitfalls and Fixes As MSFT Servers Are Hit Hard · · Score: 1

    I used to feel the same way about VirtualBox, until I paid the money for Workstation.

    VirtualBox has lame support for 3d acceleration, making it piss poor for running desktop software that a human will actually use.

    If you ran a benchmark comparing VMWare to VirtualBox for performance, like a non-anecdotal one, it might affect your general opinion on things.

  20. Re:List of privacy violations on Windows 10 Upgrade Strategies, Pitfalls and Fixes As MSFT Servers Are Hit Hard · · Score: 1

    If you don't trust Microsoft, using Windows is a pretty dangerous proposition, regardless of 7, 8, 8.1, 10. Certain viewpoints would notice that your operating system has various rootkit like properties, when trust is an issue.

    My observation is that they are trying to push Microsoft cloud based services on you with difficult to find skip buttons. Not having a live account or at least refusing to type in credentials seems to help a lot! There is a place in setup where they offer, "express settings", which you almost certainly will want to refuse, in order to access several privacy options.

    Your guy has a low threshold on spyware. I have a 95% secure way to attain the privacy he seeks... unplug the ethernet cable!

  21. Re: CPU not compatible on Windows 10 Upgrade Strategies, Pitfalls and Fixes As MSFT Servers Are Hit Hard · · Score: 1

    To be fair, Windows keeps a lot of helpful logs. There is always the system event log. The Windows Update tool also keeps a detailed history of upgrade success or failure, in grotesque technical detail.

  22. Re:CPU not compatible on Windows 10 Upgrade Strategies, Pitfalls and Fixes As MSFT Servers Are Hit Hard · · Score: 2

    I upgraded my daughter's MacBook Pro in Parallels and it upgraded just fine, so apparently Parallels solved this some time ago.

    VirtualBox is free, and definitely inferior to VMWare and Parallels.

  23. Re:CPU not compatible on Windows 10 Upgrade Strategies, Pitfalls and Fixes As MSFT Servers Are Hit Hard · · Score: 1

    Isn't the VM mostly run on the host CPU?

    The instructions are translated to mostly run directly on the host CPU, particularly with new CPU features to support virtual workloads.

    Still, the translation is dictated by the virtual host software, and it is the first thing to investigate when a guest needs more/different CPU features. This inquiry may eventually reveal that VirtualBox requires that the host CPU has NX to support it in a guest. More likely it either does not support NX, or it needs to be enabled for guests.

  24. Re:This won't end well.... on Windows 10 Upgrade Strategies, Pitfalls and Fixes As MSFT Servers Are Hit Hard · · Score: 1

    Agreed. Most of my serious stuff is Linux.

    serious stuff...

  25. Re:List of privacy violations on Windows 10 Upgrade Strategies, Pitfalls and Fixes As MSFT Servers Are Hit Hard · · Score: 1

    If you had actually looked at the image.

    I looked at the image. It was a scathing trainwreck of sentence fragments, poorly encoded screenshots, and vitriol.