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  1. Re:not circumnavigation, and not all straight line on The Brainteaser Elon Musk Asks New SpaceX Engineers · · Score: 1

    Gravity is the same. But to stay "west" (which is west of the pole) means you must travel in a circle, otherwise you drift south (or north at the south pole) with each straight line step.

  2. Re:Chrome - the web browser that's added as bloatw on Chrome Passes 25% Market Share, IE and Firefox Slip · · Score: 1

    I'm curios if webmasters are treating IE the opposite relative to the once-dominance of IE6.

    Maybe now all the "if IE" conditionals result in a purposely shitty experience, instead of targeting quirks in specific versions.

    <!--[if IE]><link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="shitty-on-purpose.css" /><![endif]-->

  3. Re:can I remove it myself? on Apple Leaves Chinese CNNIC Root In OS X and iOS Trusted Stores · · Score: 1

    Yes, you should remove the CNNIC CA cert (and many others) if you have admin/root over the devices you control. If not, choose a browser that maintains it's own CAs.

  4. Re:Too many pixels = slooooooow on LG Accidentally Leaks Apple iMac 8K Is Coming Later This Year · · Score: 1

    I'm planning the same 24 | 30 | 24 monitor setup. Do you run them all on a single video card? DisplayPort for the 30" and dvi/hdmi for the two 24's?

  5. Re:DANE on Chinese Certificate Authority CNNIC Is Dropped From Google Products · · Score: 1

    Missing the point. Of course end users don't care. But if the browsers supported DANE and performed their own DNSSEC lookups if the local resolver can't, then DANE could work.

    If the destination site doesn't publish their certs and/or designated CAs in DNS, then the old "trust all built-in CAs" will still apply.

  6. Re:Good. +1 for Google. on Chinese Certificate Authority CNNIC Is Dropped From Google Products · · Score: 1

    Great for small sites, but doesn't work for giant sites like the Google properties.

  7. Re:I thought we were over the whole SQL thing on Why I Choose PostgreSQL Over MySQL/MariaDB · · Score: 1

    I didn't know about Mongres, thanks for sharing.

    This is the EnterpriseDB blog post comparing performance of Pg and Mongo.

    And yeah, hstore is old-school now that JSONB exists.

  8. Re:I thought we were over the whole SQL thing on Why I Choose PostgreSQL Over MySQL/MariaDB · · Score: 1

    They still are using NoSQL... until they want to report and extract value from their data, then they'll migrate to an RDBMS.

    PostgreSQL is actually a pretty good NoSQL database that you can also use as a kick-ass relational database.

  9. Re:Why I don't care. on Why I Choose PostgreSQL Over MySQL/MariaDB · · Score: 1

    Then use NoSQL instead since you don't care about the structure of your data or how you might query that data to extract value.

  10. Re:Duh on Why I Choose PostgreSQL Over MySQL/MariaDB · · Score: 1

    Double duh. (tag story with "duh"). Try using a CTE to insert into a history table with the results of another table's delete in MySQL.

  11. Re:Inertia on Why I Choose PostgreSQL Over MySQL/MariaDB · · Score: 1

    You must only be using the most basic of SQL features. Any quick research towards advanced SQL points to Postgres.

  12. Re:Lorem Ipsum is a web design classic on Lauren Ipsum: A Story About Computer Science and Other Improbable Things · · Score: 1

    Don't you know? Programming is the web.

  13. Re: heres another lie. on Ten Lies T-Mobile Told Me About My Data Plan · · Score: 1

    Aren't you trusting the "owner" of your linux binaries, including your favorite browser, with all of your data traffic?

    Your data doesn't pass through a remove VPN. Think of it like tunneling through a loopback device.

  14. Re: heres another lie. on Ten Lies T-Mobile Told Me About My Data Plan · · Score: 1

    Try Mobiwol, the no root firewall, which works as a local VPN so it routes all your traffic through the VPN running on the phone itself, thus giving you ability to allow/deny individual apps from network access (including background vs foreground).

  15. Re:worse a fake root certificate! on Lenovo Allegedly Installing "Superfish" Proxy Adware On New Computers · · Score: 1

    How could it MITM with only the public key? It needs to sign each destination HTTPS site with the private key.

    Each install could generate a unique key pair and install a new root cert.

  16. TWEET HER on TWEETHER Project Promises 10Gbps MmW 92-95GHz Based Wireless Broadband · · Score: 2

    Which HER am I supposed to TWEET?

  17. Re:Projector? Recommendations on Ask Slashdot: Making a 'Wife Friendly' Gaming PC? · · Score: 1

    I thought the same thing years ago: I didn't want the screen staring at me all day when I'd only watch it for small periods of time.

    Unfortunately, only "older" TV furniture had retractable doors to cover it, not much was available for large flat screens.

    Some ideas:

    • Buy/make some nice (red) movie theater style curtains to cover the screen when not in use
    • Get a large canvas print of your favorite art and install that on the retractable pull-down screen
    • Go all out and build a motorized system to raise/lower the TV into/out of the attic/basement
  18. Re:Projector? Recommendations on Ask Slashdot: Making a 'Wife Friendly' Gaming PC? · · Score: 1

    Why would anyone get a projector when 60"+ TVs are much cheaper than good projector + nice screen + extra bulbs?

  19. Re:Google Analytics on Ello Formally Promises To Remain Ad-Free, Raises $5.5M · · Score: 1

    I don't see how anyone can believe this:

    Ello uses an anonymized version of Google Analytics to gather and aggregate general information about user behavior. Google may use this information for the purpose of evaluating your use of the site, compiling reports on site activity for us and providing other services relating to site activity and internet usage. Google may also transfer this information to third parties where required to do so by law, or where such third parties process the information on Google’s behalf. To the best of our knowledge, the information gathered by Google on Ello’s behalf is collected in such a way that neither Ello, nor Google, can easily trace saved information back to any individual user.

  20. Re:FreeBSD on What's Been the Best Linux Distro of 2014? · · Score: 2

    Gentoo seemed to figure out init script dependency.

    I'm open to changing init scripts, but do we have to change everything else too? Like binary logging and needing an interface to access those logs instead of just tailing/grepping them. (Though I think systemd does support duplicate logging to certain syslogs.)

  21. Re:FreeBSD on What's Been the Best Linux Distro of 2014? · · Score: 2

    Has freebsd been the best Linux distro of 2014?

    By the end of 2014 it will be, thanks to systemd.

  22. Re:Women in the drivers seat`? on Online Creeps Inspire a Dating App That Hides Women's Pictures · · Score: 1

    Interesting idea...

    All pictures are hidden by default. Men and women browse each others profiles. When both sides "like" the other profile, they both get to see pictures.

    This may quickly devolve into men "liking" every female profile, but it still forces the woman to be interested in profile content before seeing a photo.

  23. Re:Yes, Exactly on Xen Cloud Fix Shows the Right Way To Patch Open-Source Flaws · · Score: 1

    Well said.

  24. Re:Useless Elements and Padding. on GNOME 3.14 Released · · Score: 1

    Agreed. Everyone who maximizes all of their windows and must constantly shuffle them in a "deck" or even multiple "decks" (workspaces) are NOT power users.

    Whether a single screen laptop or a large three monitor desktop, very rarely should any one window be maximized.

  25. Re:Low Power on Slashdot Asks: What's In Your Home Datacenter? · · Score: 2

    Don't 30 Terabytes of disk use waaaaay more power than two Atoms? How did you get 30 TB linked to those anyway?