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  1. Re: Linux File Systems on MIT's New File System Won't Lose Data During Crashes · · Score: 1

    what is the command to snapshot two zvols atomically?

  2. Either on Ask Slashdot: Do You Press "6" Key With Right Or Left Hand? · · Score: 1

    Depends which key came before the 6. Sorry, I learned to play piano years before I saw a typewriter.
    Thank goodness I never had to take keyboarding in school - the teachers would would walk by in programming and say, "my God ... but it's fast."

  3. Re:Yes on Do You Have a Right To Use Electrical Weapons? · · Score: 1

    Even better than that, the military is actually forbidden from operating on US soil, so any order to bomb US territory except to defend from an invader is actually an illegal order.

    So? Have't you ever heard of the Millgram experiments? The Nazis? Abu Ghraib? Gitmo?

  4. Re: Translations on City of Munich Struggling With Basic Linux Functionality · · Score: 2

    Not having Skype may be due to policy (which would apply regardless of OS), in favour of other privacy-respecting IM platform.

    On one hand the German government is very angry about all the NSA spying on their officials. Microsoft is *very* clear that Skype has hooks for the NSA (thank you, fellows). And yet the German officials can't get enough of their Skype.

    Blame the Germans for electing these idiots.

  5. Re:Yes on Do You Have a Right To Use Electrical Weapons? · · Score: 1

    The moment the government orders the use of tactical nuclear devices against targets on US soil is the moment when two things happen

    I'm not saying it's not fiction, but try watching "Jericho" sometime. The plot outlines one scenario in which your assumptions will be invalidated.

  6. Re:How do people not understand on Jeb Bush Comes Out Against Encryption · · Score: 1

    Rand understands it.

    And Vermin too, but good luck getting him to stop talking about dental hygiene and time travel.

    One presumes whichever candidate the LP stands up will get it too.

    But, hey, America gets the government it deserves.

  7. Re:Google Maps on San Jose May Put License Plate Scanners On Garbage Trucks · · Score: 1

    But I guess they aren't the government... if the government does it, it's fine.. (???)

    That's the entire premise of government, dude - they're people with extra rights once they put on their funny costumes. The market rules of reason, logic, and justice don't apply - only vaguely expressed intentions and platitudes (see any recent Supreme Court decision). And if you disagree, there's a SWAT team with AR-15's to change (or eradicate) your mind.

    OK, now you can skip day one of law school.

  8. Re:No excuse for them to be "unemployed" on Finland Considers Minimum Income To Reform Welfare System · · Score: 2

    When I've brought up the subject and suggested that they are morally obligated to give something back for the nearly $10k/year they get from a fund that they never felt the need to contribute to they freak out about how selfish that suggestion is.

    God, why do you hate the poor so much? Are you a straight white guy or something?

    acclimate people to the idea that they have a right to public money just because they showed up

    Get yourself a fiddle, Nero - all this has happened before.

  9. Re:The New Napster on Movie Studio Sues Individual Popcorn Time Users For Infringement · · Score: 1

    The news here isn't that the users got busted, it's why it took so long.

    That's why it's good news. Before they never dared or face public backlash and clog up all the courts with cases. Now that they're "going there", the system can start to break down. Thank goodness (sorry for the poor sods who get caught in the crossfire but the government will show up with guns, not has-been Adam Sandler's lawyers) because copyright is for a non-digital era.

  10. Re:"after gaining administrative or physical acces on Bruce Schneier On Cisco ROMMON Firmware Exploit: "This Is Serious" · · Score: 1

    Apparently there are logs of valid admin logins happening. Whatever their vulnerability is, I didn't see any indication it has anything to do with Cisco, much less ROMMON, except that's where the symptoms are.

    For all we know the vulnerability is in KeePass and that's a commonality among the admins who are having problems. Obviously Cisco is in the loop, but nobody is showing evidence that it's their fault. If rumors are to be believed, China has been stealing secure info from all the big corps that can't be bothered to secure their infrastructure, so that's an obvious place to look for footholds.

    Bruce seems to think that it would take a State-level actor to modify a ROMMON image. They sure could, but a group slightly less daft than HackingTeam could probably do it too.

  11. Re: Never on How Long Until We Have a Home Robot That Lives Up To the Hype? · · Score: 1

    :rolleyes:

    the kernel of truth there is people will want their AI's to cope with new situations which requires creative thinking. But creativity requires the ability to make mistakes and nobody wants a toaster that burns the toast. Hard AI that's actually marketable won't be very sellable.

  12. Re: OSX in 2013. on Windows Memory Manager To Introduce Compression · · Score: 1

    Fedora updates went out in mid-September which is all but guaranteed to be weeks behind gentoo. What's the point though?

  13. Re:So dangerous they can't fly but on US No-Fly List Uses 'Predictive Judgement' Instead of Hard Evidence · · Score: 1

    I am a bit confused here.

    Why are you confused? This is very simple behavioral conditioning. They are in charge, they don't need a good reason -- it's "because I said so." Now don't make Mommy Dearest give you a beating - that would not be nice of you.

  14. Re:Right to travel...? on US No-Fly List Uses 'Predictive Judgement' Instead of Hard Evidence · · Score: 5, Interesting

    What is important is if they have a totalitarian mindset or not.

    Not really - the neuroscience on this is pretty clear - exercising power makes them into bad people. It's a long, slow process for most, but the brain's reward system is something that science can study, has studied in this case, and has found clear results.

  15. Re:bad marketing, most likely on Wuala Encrypted Cloud-Storage Service Shuts Down · · Score: 1

    A friend of mine needed me to use it to do some work for him overseas. I couldn't get the desktop (java) client to work. The web client sorta worked, but the way the groupings and folders worked was unique among permission models I'd encountered, and sometimes what you expected to work didn't do anything. And then I hadn't logged in in a while and they sent me a few notices to "use it or lose it" and since I wasn't using it they eventually deleted my account, so I had little incentive to try it again.

    I can't think of a successful web company that does it that way.

  16. Re:Ya, right on Police Training Lacks Scientific Input · · Score: 2

    Why assume that government and science aren't orthogonal? Go to free market solutions if you want people competing for the best position based on the available evidence (comparative advantage favors reality). If you want a bunch of idiots with guns insisting on their bigoted way, then you want a one-size-fits-all monopoly, which is what the modern police state looks like.

    Heck, the Supreme Court just ruled that K9 alerts are "probable cause" even if they're only as accurate as a coin toss. Because, they say so (and "fuck you and your science if you say otherwise").

  17. Re:No it hasn't on IBM Launches Linux-Only Mainframes · · Score: 3, Informative

    And that's where Dell will come in and put thousands of cores in a 42U rack for you...

    We're getting to the point where all that matters is how much performance can you get from an assemblage of nodes, and how much does it cost to buy and support it?

    If IBM can provide a lower TCO than Dell with different technology and the "containers" are compatible, many customers will be interested.

  18. Re:Don't worry! on Climatologists: By 2100, the Earth Will Have an Entirely Different Ocean · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Course, all that was supposed to have happened - well, now According to the "experts".

    They weren't experts in political malfeasance so they probably accurately projected out the slopes of current trends at the time - not realizing that the economy was in the process of being wrecked.

    The popular expression of the common realization that this has happened is "where are the flying cars?" (thermodynamics notwithstanding).

  19. Re:How much of Reddit's revenue comes from Russia? on Russian Government Threatening To Block Reddit Over Cannabis · · Score: 1

    Seems to me that Reddit should run the numbers and tell Putin to go fuck himself.

    Do they even have to run the numbers? Russian Redditors can probably setup up a proxy or VPN without much trouble.

    This is just a death-pang of the ancient city/nation-states outliving their usefulness. We have global communications now, not men on horses carrying parchment. Their technology is obsolete; we don't want to buy it.

  20. Re:This doesn't seem unusual. on Nintendo Fires Employee For Speaking About Job On a Podcast · · Score: 1

    Zero tolerance parties never make any sense.

    To whom?

    You're assuming one side of the argument, which is why you don't get it. The policies make total sense.

    The people charged with metering out discipline follow the policies without waiver, and then they cannot be fired for exercising poor judgment.

    They protect their phoney-baloney jobs and they protect their phoney-baloney pensions. By rigorously not thinking.

    Now the consequences of such a system may be disastrous for a given culture, but that does not mean they don't make sense to the people who use them and advocate for them.

  21. it's what I paid for a 1.2TB raid array 10 years ago, based on PATA hard disks.

    This one is three times as big and four orders of magnitude faster. That's an amazing evolution.

  22. Re:I thought she said she destroyed it? on Clinton Surrendering Email Server/Data To Feds After Top Secret Mail Found · · Score: 4, Informative

    You'll notice that they handed over flash drives with copies, not the original storage. Because the remapped sectors on the original storage probably contains the evidence the prosecutor is looking for.

    But that's OK - Hillary is a bona fide member of the protected spook/bankster class; she need not fear consequences, only maintain the charade well enough for the narrative to continue.

  23. Re:none cipher? on OpenSSH 7.0 Released · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Are you running old hardware? I've switched over to "-c aes128-ctr" for the best speed/security/compatibility compromise, but I have hardware AES. I get about a gigabit between vm's.

    ssh -c aes128-ctr -o Compression=no hostname cat /dev/zero |pv | cat > /dev/null

    on Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2620 0 @ 2.00GHz

  24. Re: I'm going to regret asking on KDE Plasma 5 Problem Traced To Bug In Intel Graphics Driver · · Score: 1

    I dunno - I've used KDE4 vnc sessions on our "homes" server (Fedora) since about 2009. Maybe they cleared it up in 2008?

  25. Re:logs? on How Boing Boing Handled an FBI Subpoena Over Its Tor Exit Node · · Score: 1

    Just comply or fight it. Cause you are allowed to fight them. You just have to do so within a certain framework.

    How does this work, then?

    The subpoena said they must appear to testify AND they must provide logs.

    Their lawyer responded, "there are no logs, kthxbye" and Corey is like, "ya, we won!".

    How do they get out of travelling cross-country to be compelled to testify again?