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  1. Re:Funny how entitlement mentality works on Google Loses Up to 250 Bikes a Week (siliconbeat.com) · · Score: 1, Interesting

    That's a good insight. These are a bunch of wannabe-commies doing what always happens.

    It's not surprising that they would view sexual prey from an "according to his needs" perspective.

  2. Re:Red Hat screws up their implementaition of the on Linus Torvalds Says Intel Needs To Admit It Has Issues With CPUs (itwire.com) · · Score: 2

    CentOS's kernel-plus 7.4 boots fine under Xen 4.9 running with Fedora 27, all with the latest patches.

    RHAT doesn't give a damn about Xen. Maybe they didn't break it intentionally on 7.4 but they didn't test it either. 'Cause nobody like Amazon uses Xen, right?

    But buy their KVM product, it's much less prone to [their] breakage. Hah. Debian isn't hostile to Xen, nor is Arch.

  3. Speculative Memory References and Page Faults on 'Kernel Memory Leaking' Intel Processor Design Flaw Forces Linux, Windows Redesign (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 5, Interesting

    From the AMD commit:

    AMD processors are not subject to the types of attacks that the kernel
    page table isolation feature protects against. The AMD microarchitecture
    does not allow memory references, including speculative references, that
    access higher privileged data when running in a lesser privileged mode
    when that access would result in a page fault.

    this can probably be rewritten in the inverse like:

    Intel processors ... allow memory references, including speculative references, that
    access higher privileged data when running in a lesser privileged mode, [including]
    when that access would result in a page fault.

    So it seems like: set up a speculative memory reference to a kernel memory structure, cause a page fault, and then get a bit of kernel memory out (and back in?). That could get you root before long. Some people have been saying this can be leveraged to get a guest into its hypervisor too.

  4. 88" is fairly easy. Waiting for 44". on The World's First 88-inch 8K OLED Display (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    8K at such a low density isn't much more impressive than a 4K at 1/4 the screen area.

    Now, 8K at 1/4 the screen area would make an absolutely beautiful display, and I might just be first in line.


  5. When did Bezos buy the Times? I know he owns the Washington Post...

    And there is the irony of people calling "Fake News" who have no idea themselves what is going on.

  6. I don't understand why it's a problem over there.

    Many of the US cops are veterans with PTSD. They blew away people in Fallujah and have barely more compunction about doing it in Tulsa.

    It's "us" (cops) vs. "them" (citizens) and they're trained to think that way explicitly, and there's even a whole movement about it ("The Thin Blue Line").

    The local governments appreciate their ability to prey on the citizenry and milk them for revenue, so there's little political pressure to change things. They steal money from innocent people and the States' Attorneys General support them in buying pinball machines, race cars, and the occasional hookers with the stolen money.

    People are turning to alternatives like Cell411 and not calling the cops unless they "need" government paperwork. The problem in this particular case is that the victim never called the cops, so it's not a foolproof plan.

  7. Re:Fiat cash? on Where Did WikiLeaks' $25 Million Bitcoin Fortune Go? (thedailybeast.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    In the US, real money is defined as gold or silver, as is similar in the Constitutions of several states and the Bretton Woods Agreement.

    Historians, economists, and traders use the term 'fiat' all the time, but this may be the first time any of them were accused of being 'leet' rather than 'nerds'.

    Why do you have a burr up your ass about a particular economic term?

  8. It's not the nose sensors, it's the number and percentage of neurons in the brain wired to olfactory pattern recognition.

    Humans have good hardware for many senses, but our visual system is so good that we tend to favor it over the others and don't pay as much attention to the others because of it, which leads to a matter of practice. Dogs just rely on scent far more and get better at it, and are probably thus evolved to be fast learners with those neurons.

  9. Re:How about stability? on 'State of JavaScript' Survey Results: Good News for React and TypeScript (sdtimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Fire any developer who says, "this shit I recommended is a year old - we need to switch frameworks to do anything."

    They are *very* common and I doubt you'll find any with a CSE degree.

  10. Back when I still needed glasses for my astigmatism the lenses weren't uniformly corrected even on the same eye

    You needed a measuring service not permission.

  11. Bitcoin (Cash) would work fine. on Patreon Hits Donors With New Fees, Angering Creators (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    Fees are under 5 cents. Who knows about a system that lets me do scheduled payments (onchain, not via an exchange)?

  12. Re:Meh. M. E. H. Meh. on Boeing CEO Says Boeing Will Beat SpaceX To Mars (space.com) · · Score: 1

    He doesn't care if he makes money, he just wants to get rid of traffic jams.

    Of course he cares about making money - profit is a price-mechanism signal that value is being provided to consumers.

    It just so happens when you do useful things for mankind, and you do them well, that you make profit. I do assume that he's not making money for the sake of making money, but he better be intent on making money if he wants to do a good job.

  13. Re:This caused massive environmental damage on Volkswagen Executive Sentenced To Maximum Prison Term For His Role In Dieselgate (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Only currently used in vans, and not in the USA.

    Lemme guess, you live in an inner city and none of your effete neighbors have a Duramax/3500?

  14. Re:This caused massive environmental damage on Volkswagen Executive Sentenced To Maximum Prison Term For His Role In Dieselgate (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    How many people will die from climate change that this contributed to? I suspect the answer is a lot of people will. Why isn't the penalty proportional, something like being executed?

    Are you dumb? The diesel engines with this defeat were still more energy efficient than gasoline engines. The effect of making it impossible for diesel engines to pass emissions is to push the industry to gasoline (or maybe coal-electric).

    How about everybody calling for death because of the cheat be sentenced to death for not understanding thermodynamics and advocating for more fuel consumption and oil wars? How many people will die from oil wars? Or, not because that kind of talk is simply insane.

  15. Re:That is not "crypto" on Bank of America Wins Patent For Crypto Exchange System (coindesk.com) · · Score: 1

    "Crypto" is a well-established short form for "cryptography". It has nothing to do with "crypto currency", except that the latter uses the former, nicely demonstrating what was first. Stop abusing the language for desperate attempts to sound cool.

    It has a second meaning now. Words have done that for all of recorded history. Deal.

  16. Re:Wat? on ReactOS 0.4.7 Released (reactos.org) · · Score: 1

    You must be new here. They obviously mean "Seamonkey" (for those who remember "Netscape Communicator").

  17. Re:Law? There is no law. on Warrantless Surveillance Can Continue Even If Law Expires, Officials Say (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Their people didn't rise up in resistance either and look what happened to them.

  18. Re:Bullshit on 'Bitcoin Could Cost Us Our Clean-Energy Future' (grist.org) · · Score: 1

    Where is the economic calculation that includes the American Empire which is founded on the USD as the world reserve currency, which costs trillions of dollars a year, and including the well-accepted fact that the USG is the world's largest polluter?

    This whole "we only look at first-order effects" trend in economic analysis is boring and a waste of everybody's time.

  19. Re:Astonishing? How so? on The World's Astonishing Dependence On Fossil Fuels Hasn't Changed In 40 Years (qz.com) · · Score: 2

    These headlines are an easy way to be confident that the article is a complete waste of time. Which raises the question about Slashdot...

  20. Re:Corrects its own headline in the third sentence on Electric Cars Are Already Cheaper To Own and Run Than Petrol Or Diesel, Says Study (theguardian.com) · · Score: 2

    Also, it's not just the finance costs on the downside, it's the capital costs on the upside, if you could have put that $17K delta to work for you over the same period (even in an index fund).

    My kids learned "the time value of money" before kindergarten - how can a professional economic analysis ignore it?

  21. I would definitely honor it on An Unconscious Patient With a 'DO NOT RESUSCITATE' Tattoo (nejm.org) · · Score: 1

    in a CPR situation or similar (not a clinician). People are responsible for themselves - not a court. "My body, my choice." Choosing to not have the tattoo removed was obviously a conscious choice.

    Then again, I'm not looking to bill $4500 for the CPR 'procedure' - I'm happy if nobody vomits in my mouth.

  22. Re:Correct me if I am wrong... on Nasdaq Plans To Offer Bitcoin Futures In Early 2018 (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    The current world-reserve currency is the USD. This explicitly enables the USG to be the largest polluter in the world (nobody contests that).

    Are you concerned with pollution or energy consumption? Those are only loosely related.

  23. Re:lost bitcoins on Elon Musk Says He Is Not Bitcoin's Satoshi Nakamoto (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    People won't accept money that will be worth more in the future? Tell us more about your theories. And also about the hundred years of deflationary USD that saw the single biggest accumulation of wealth in human history.

  24. Re:Orignal Satoshi must be dead on Elon Musk Says He Is Not Bitcoin's Satoshi Nakamoto (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Every day since 2009 has been the new peak of fame but cryptocurrency valuation has far more to go. There's nothing special about right now and the last time somebody hinted that he might be Satoshi, the tax authorities immediately swept in.

  25. Re:wouldn't need the money?! on Did Elon Musk Create Bitcoin? (cryptocoinsnews.com) · · Score: 1

    I don't think this is true, but if we allow the possibility for a moment, when Elon is going to need the money is when he does the big lift to Mars. Elon is not going to want to live like a pioneer on Mars - he's going to want to live well and this is going to require basically putting up a BFR every day for a couple years at a minimum; this is something that will cost trillions of dollars. If Elon were Satoshi the time to cash out is when Bitcoin replaces the central banking system not before. The timing to Mars happens to coincidentally line up. We know that Satoshi intended Bitcoin to replace the Fractional Reserve System, so cashing out early would go against his goals. His holdings are also currently not enough to build a city on Mars.

    This proves nothing but saying he hasn't cashed out yet is incompatible with both Elon and Satoshi's goals.