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  1. Re:carsickness on Will Robot Cars Need Windows? · · Score: 2

    You aren't re-thinking it enough. Cryofreeze your passengers.

  2. Re:Teaching will be one of the last jobs to go on The Future Deconstruction of the K-12 Teacher · · Score: 1

    Wrong! 95% of a teacher's job these days is keeping kids off their phones, staying awake, stop talking, and calling parents to get them to make their kid behave. Gone are the good old days when you told the kids to get the F out and they went for a paddling. Students really have the "upper hand" in things these days.

  3. Re:You Seem To Think... on The Future Deconstruction of the K-12 Teacher · · Score: 1

    Exactly. If you think the uproar over "common core" was big. Wait until the students in Texas are being streamed the same lesson as those in California or New York. Hah!

  4. Re:Obvious solution on Yellowstone Supervolcano Even Bigger Than We Realized · · Score: 1

    I'm so disappointed that you beat me to saying that.

  5. If only it had involved guns on Except For Millennials, Most Americans Dislike Snowden · · Score: 1

    If Snowden had revealed that the government was storing meta-data about who went to gun shows, browsed for guns, or anything else related to guns, he would be a national hero.

  6. Conclusion goes too far? on Inside North Korea's Naenara Browser · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Can you really generalize that all the internal network must be from the 10.0.0.0/8 block? What prevents those addresses from being used other than convention and router setup. Perhaps they are only for the internal government computers to make them completely invisible to outside networks.

  7. Whatever their friends use on WhatsApp To Offer End-to-End Encryption · · Score: 1

    What encrypted messaging app do I use? None. My friends don't use it. I had *one* friend I could talk into installing Telegram. But it's really not "secure" because it saves things on your device, and the desktop version saves things in the clear, so anyone with access to your computer can ready them.

    Like another poster said, the other end is your weak link. An open source app might even be worse, because someone could modify their app to say a message was deleted when it wasn't. Or rather, their device could be hacked and a modified app installed.

    If WhatsApp really does do E2E encryption, more power to them, but don't assume it's very secure.

  8. Re:FreeBSD on Ask Slashdot: Workaday Software For BSD On the Desktop? · · Score: 1

    I don't know what was meant by the DF comment. FreeBSD has had SMP for ages and it's enabled by default. It also has better filesystem support. DF has "HAMMER", which I don't know much about.

  9. Re:Give me a ping... on Study Shows How Humans Can Echolocate · · Score: 1

    Yes. I must be hungry.

  10. Re:How big a fuss is it, really? on How Apple Watch Is Really a Regression In Watchmaking · · Score: 1

    The simple solution to that is embedding wireless charging in your mattress.

  11. Re:I delete things when I'm done using them on Ask Slashdot: Smarter Disk Space Monitoring In the Age of Cheap Storage? · · Score: 1

    Don't be a ZFS hater.

  12. Re:Plenty of Einsteins right now... on Scanning Embryos For Super-Intelligent Kids Is On the Horizon · · Score: 1

    That number would be an estimate of people with Einstein potential. History shows that most of them never fully realize it.

  13. Cue slippery slope arguments now... on Scanning Embryos For Super-Intelligent Kids Is On the Horizon · · Score: 4, Funny

    We need a few more Einsteins, I say. But if we start designer babies... Let me be the first to say... Khaaaaan!!!!!!!!!

  14. Check your phone wiring on Ask Slashdot: How Would You Build a Home Network To Fully Utilize Google Fiber? · · Score: 1

    Houses built in the last 5 years or so usually have cat5 wiring to the phone jacks. And they are probably pulled to a convenient location for a switch. My last home was like that and I rewired the phone for gigabit, got a switch that supported PoE and installed HP intellijack switches on the walls where I needed multiple ports. Worked great. The new owners should be thanking me!

  15. Re:Magic on The State of ZFS On Linux · · Score: 1

    You could add the 3TB drive to the pool, it just wouldn't be a part of the RAID-Z vdev and thus have limited redundancy. It would be RAID-0. But you could survive one failure in the original vdev. Any additional failure or loss of the new drive would result in total loss of data.

    So... Backup, destroy pool, restore. Think ahead better the next time. Really, a good SAS JBOD controller is only a couple hundred bucks. Spend the money and plan your storage accordingly.

  16. Re: Magic on The State of ZFS On Linux · · Score: 1

    OP is not talking about adding to a pool but replacing drives (zpool replace is a one-for-one replacement). You are correct in that one cannot add to an existing vdev, only replace drives. But you can add additional vdevs to a pool without a problem. They don't even have to have the same redundancy level (stupid idea).

  17. Secondary password... on Mining iPhones and iCloud For Data With Forensic Tools · · Score: 2

    ... would end up being the same as the account password. Or just add a one. Not the answer.

  18. Re:Moving to FreeBSD is probably more a ZFS thing on You Got Your Windows In My Linux · · Score: 1

    I've been on FreeBSD since 1999, and went "all in" on ZFS about 7 or 8 years ago. I can attest to the robustness of the system; it's incredibly stable. Definitely a reason to look beyond Linux. Most code should be pretty portable unless you are looking in /proc for a bunch of things, something which I has always appalled me.

  19. Re: Baby steps on Hidden Obstacles For Google's Self-Driving Cars · · Score: 1

    Every time you start up your driverless car, are you going to click agree to an EULA that says you take full responsibility for the car's actions? Are you going to sue the guy who wrote the braking algorithm? The vision system? The granny detection module? The snow module? Would you write any of that code knowing it could kill people? Are the people who get injured going to sue the coders? The driver? The car manufacturer? Some of these questions were probably ready asked way back when cars were first invented but may have to be read dressed.

    In my opinion it will never happen as a purely vehicle based solution. Why spend millions of dollars developing a new stoplight detection algorithm that will never be 100% accurate when you could simply add a 5 cent reflector to stoplights. Or some other bit of cheap tech that communicates with the cars. The driverless cars need roads designed to aid them.

  20. Re:They've been pushing this angle for a while on Should Tesla Make Batteries Instead of Electric Cars? · · Score: 1

    Exactly right. The wall street people want instant gratification. They don't care that he's building these cars for more than just profits. If we don't have more people like Elon Musk, our economy will be based on crap like Snapchat and WhatsApp.

  21. Re:3D Printing? on Foam-Spraying Quadcopter Becomes a Flying 3D Printer · · Score: 1

    Personal attacks? I'm a ChE, so you wouldn't be "making" anything more than early 18th century tools without people like me.

  22. 3D Printing? on Foam-Spraying Quadcopter Becomes a Flying 3D Printer · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Why do we continue to call all of this shit "3D Printing"? Why not fabrication? And squirting foam from a drone is a long way from a "printer".

    If it doesn't put ink on a piece of paper, it's NOT a printer.

  23. Re:Pick and choose on Microsoft, Google, Others Join To Fund Open Source Infrastructure Upgrades · · Score: 1

    I'm not so sure; heartbleed cost these companies a lot of money. This is an investment that acts as an insurance policy.

  24. Re:Why the Linux Foundation? on Microsoft, Google, Others Join To Fund Open Source Infrastructure Upgrades · · Score: 1

    Agreed. When you talk about core infrastructure, yes OpenSSL is definitely part of it. But what about the ISC (BIND)? I suppose it could be that the Linux Foundation has the reputation they were going for, but if that was the case why not fund LibreSSL.

  25. Owns? on Why No One Trusts Facebook To Power the Future · · Score: 1

    Owns is a big stretch. They have a stake in many aspects of it, but they don't "own" it by far. And they are terrible at mobile.