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  1. Amusing coincidence... on FireEye Tries to Bury Keynote Reporting That It Ran Apache As Root On Security Servers · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I was just staring at Process Explorer, wondering why my company decided that the FireEye policy would allow it to max out one of my cores in the middle of the afternoon.

  2. Re:I haven't played it but... on The Install Size of Every PS4 and Xbox One Game · · Score: 1

    All those ads...

  3. Re:40GB? on The Install Size of Every PS4 and Xbox One Game · · Score: 1

    Somebody's got a decent internet connection... care to share with the needy?

  4. Re:iBore 6.0 on Apple Product Event Highlights · · Score: 1

    Sure. Let's say that your screen's pressure sensor has an MTBF of half a million hours. That's a number for some industrial ones, according to google, and one could assume that a higher-points commercial one would have a lot less, probably an order of magnitude, so let's got with over 50 years MTBF...

    Now, you're shipping 50 millions pieces, with an expected 2-years average device lifespan. What's your pressure sensor failure rate? What's the additional failure rate compared to only having a capacitive sensor?
    That's before you consider abuse of all kinds, like bendgate, and the failure rate of the extra support circuitry.

    I don't want unnecessary gadgets in my phone, because FIT rates are additive

  5. Re:Damn, another language to learn... on Vietnam's Tech Boom: a Look Inside Southeast Asia's Silicon Valley · · Score: 1

    I'll speak Swahili before it becomes cool.

  6. Re:iBore 6.0 on Apple Product Event Highlights · · Score: 0

    The glass may be beyond normal finger strength, but what's right behind it isn't.

  7. Re:Listen when powered off; are you bloody kidding on Apple Product Event Highlights · · Score: 1

    He was butt-dialing before it was cool.

  8. Re:iBore 6.0 on Apple Product Event Highlights · · Score: 0

    Force touch: What happened to long-press?
    How much margin on broken screen repairs?

  9. Re:Nice advert. on Apple Product Event Highlights · · Score: 1

    They need to advertise a lot this year. Most rabid fans got locked in two-year contracts last year when they got the 6...

  10. Re:Well jeeze! C'mon... on Report: Google Will Return To China · · Score: 3, Interesting

    "money has no smell" Old proverb

  11. Re:Lol on Bugzilla Breached, Private Vulnerability Data Stolen · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Noscript + adblock + ghostery + gestures + faviconizetab + tabmixplus + Not_from_Google + Not_from_Apple + Not_from_MS + ...

  12. Re:Consider the current state of smartphones on Cheap Smartphones Quietly Becoming Popular In the US · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I will soon need to upgrade my old phone, and I'd just like a upgrade, they want to change everything:
    Current one: 3.7" with slider qwerty keyboard and a 3-day removable battery. Fits in all my pockets, because it's thick, not tall.
    Desired one: 4 to 4.5" 720p to 1080p with slider qwerty and a 3+ days battery. Maybe with wireless charging. Thickness under 2 cm, weight irrelevant.
    Available stuff: thin massive flimsy with 1440p 5 to 6" and fingerprint reader designed to look cool when it pokes out of your pocket. Soft keyboards which speak twit, but not three languages at once.

    I can't be the only person in the world who wants something that fits in my pocket and lets me type fast with tactile feedback.

  13. Re:Obvious Hashtag Alert... on Pentagon Halts Work at Labs For Dangerous Pathogens After Anthrax Scare · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Uranium and Arsenic can be found in many places too. It's the human-refined versions which are a bit more troublesome.
    Toxicity is always a matter of concentration.

  14. Re: Lots more information on World's Most Powerful Digital Camera Sees Construction Green Light · · Score: 1

    You see, you take your truck full of tapes down your mountain, past the desert and into the city, then you drive into a weird place called a datacenter, and upload the whole thing into a system designed for high availability, duplication, indexing/processing, and resilience. You can't have the datacenter near the telescope for many reasons, but you can save the truck trip by laying a bunch of optical fibers alongside your electrical mains, if the distance and the budget allows. If you don't know much about optimal datacenter architecture, many companies with lots and lots of experience will be glad to teach you or do it for you.
    If you then access that datacenter remotely, you may even consider that connection to be magical and call it a "cloud", though most earth-based telescope operators are not huge fans of the term.

    That's one way to answer the question "how do you store all the data".
    Glad to be of help.

  15. Re:One problem on Sony Unveils Smartphone With 4K Screen · · Score: 1

    No risk in the US. Their data plan will have cut them off after about 3 to 5 seconds.

  16. Re:or else what, exactly? on New FCC Rules Could Ban WiFi Router Firmware Modification · · Score: 5, Insightful

    We couldn't get the rape, hate crime and murder charges to stick... But you're going down for updating your WiFi!
    Justice Has Been Served !!!!

  17. Re:Why? on Self-Driving Golf Carts May Pave the Way For Autonomous Cars · · Score: 1

    Most major cities have average driving speeds well below a golf cart capabilities.

    Replace all the traffic lights by computer-driven "real-time overhead video and algorithms let you keep going when there's just the right amount of time", and you may actually get to your destination a lot faster.
    Some games are getting really good at letting huge crowds cross paths without colliding. All you need is to convince humans to surrender the control (and not drive a vehicle 2/3rds the size of the road). In pedestrian areas at the center of cities, there's not reasons why you couldn't do it with golf carts.

  18. Re:It's an app that apps other apps! on Shifu Banking Trojan Has an Antivirus Feature To Keep Other Malware At Bay · · Score: 1

    My computer is safe: I only run programs.

  19. Re:Trojan Price-war on Shifu Banking Trojan Has an Antivirus Feature To Keep Other Malware At Bay · · Score: 3, Interesting

    > people will opt to keep those malwares that steal the least amount of money, while keeping the most amount of other malware out of their computer

    There's already a name for that protection racket, it's called an anti-virus subscription.

  20. Re:Mogensen and Aimbetov will only stay until 11 S on Soyuz Heads To Space Station With New Crew · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Most shuttle missions were only a couple weeks. You can get a lot done when you're highly trained and your Internet access is limited.

  21. Re:Stop the presses! on Ashley Madison Source Code Shows Evidence They Created Bots To Message Men · · Score: 1

    Do I really need to point out that given the demographics of coders, the AM scam was mostly Men scamming Men?

    This is not about equal or unequal gender treatment, it's about blood being at the wrong place when decisions are made...

  22. Re:Stop the presses! on Ashley Madison Source Code Shows Evidence They Created Bots To Message Men · · Score: 2

    What's the AM ratio? 1000 to 1 or maybe worse. >20M guys is a decent sample size for the "claiming to be attached looking to cheat" demographic. Women didn't fall as easily for it, despite their access being free!

    I'm really starting to wonder HOW that conservative hypocrite actually managed to get in so much trouble, when the odds were so crazy low.

  23. Stop the presses! on Ashley Madison Source Code Shows Evidence They Created Bots To Message Men · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Men looking to get laid got lied to and exploited.
    News at 11.

  24. Re: Lots more information on World's Most Powerful Digital Camera Sees Construction Green Light · · Score: 1

    I may not get "it", but I know how to read the original thread question (AC @05:08PM): "hmm, how will they store all the data?"

    Oh, and I do get your point too. Massive image processing acceleration via FPGAs might be somewhat related to my day job.

  25. Re:Lots more information on World's Most Powerful Digital Camera Sees Construction Green Light · · Score: 1

    Just went by the OP's numbers.
    Even 15TB per night is a laughable amount, when you remember it's at best 6 years away. That will probably be one drive per night by then...