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  1. Re:From the first link on Report Blasts "Peak Oil" Theory · · Score: 1

    If that is this case and they do make their money selling advice to oil companies...

    Why are we able to read it?

    When my company buys reports like this they aren't available to anyone but a few top level managers... I've only seen bits and pieces of them myself.

  2. Re:GigE on 100 Gbps Via Ethernet · · Score: 1

    I've seen those. What I'd like is some thing to roll out at my 2nd gig. 20 workstations 7 servers and a network that most people would like to be a little faster than 1GigE we use now... but no one is crazy enough to want 10GigE.

  3. GigE on 100 Gbps Via Ethernet · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I'd be happy with something between GigE and 10GigE... seems like they do all of this wonderful shit for the top tiers while the rest of the world gets by with 'fast Ethernet' or GigE at best.

    Worse the prices beyond GigE are nothing short of heart stopping.

  4. Re:ZFS on Sun Considering GPL For OpenSolaris · · Score: 1

    What are you using for though? Is this something that's in place 100% of the time in a production environment? or is this something that you use frequently but for short durations as a matter of convenience?

    My idea is that FUSE is better suited for the latter than for the former... but I could be wrong.

  5. Re:ZFS on Sun Considering GPL For OpenSolaris · · Score: 1

    Man, I am *NOT* using a filesystem for long period of time through FUSE.

    I can see using FUSE on a temporary basis but day in day out?

  6. Re:"Operating system" on Apple Changes the APSL Rules · · Score: 1

    Actually, unless you yourself modified the code, I'd call it lame: anyone can follow a described path.
    Additionally Apple already makes laptops... so running OS X on a some random laptop is bland.

    All you did is save some money, that's hardly unique or interesting.

    Do something that Apple hasn't thought of, one that's worth commenting on, otherwise you are doing nothing more interesting than I am... and I'm using my my Apple to watch my fish. Fuck, that's like watching paint dry!

    Some ideas:

    ZFS for Mac OS
    USB true random number generator for around 50 USD
    An Altivec, or SSE3 or whatever Intel is calling it these days, big number library (Xcode C, ObjC 2.0!, C++)
    A combination of Waacom Tablet & Apple MacBook for a tablet (I'd pay for that!)
    An express slot hardware encryption accelerator

    Failing that I guess you could help me finish a device that monitors salt water aquariums; but if you don't do clinical chemistry sensors professionally (as I do) I doubt you'd have much to contribute. Xcode is so easy even I can come up with a GUI.

    So how is it that the new Apple license is restricting your creativity?

  7. Re:"Operating system" on Apple Changes the APSL Rules · · Score: 1

    You are absolutely right but the vast majority of the people interested in modifying XNU want to do so in order to run MAC OS on white box hardware.

    How many people do you know of that are using XNU in some innovative and interesting way that is eliminated by this new license agreement... so far I'm counting 1 and he's pretty questionable.

  8. Re:As a North Dakotan on Coal — The Other Alt Fuel · · Score: 2, Funny

    as long as that part include Conrad Burns' house I'm up for it.

  9. Re:More licensing options on Apple Changes the APSL Rules · · Score: 1

    how is that Fujitsu working out for you?

    I'd seriously love to have a Tablet running Mac OS but I've just about given up on Apple.

    Is the Linux support decent or was it a pain in the ass to get everything working as it should?

  10. Re:"Operating system" on Apple Changes the APSL Rules · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I wouldn't exactly call this a non issue but basically you are right I can still develop my little application and I can still screw around with the OS just like I have been. I suppose I won't be able to go out and buy a dual socket motherboard and two of Intel's new quad core chips and gobs of memory and expect to easily or legitimately run Mac OS on it. But I'm fairly sure that does not impinge on my liberty or my human rights.

    Nice bad analogy... btw.

  11. Re:Biometrics and TPM on Successful Alternatives To Password Authentication? · · Score: 1

    I am interested in TPM and I was wondering a few things...

    is it possible to use it sort of backwards... put the module on a USB key for example... so that it is protecting the data on the key.

    How could one retrofit a TPM on devices without it to begin with

    Are there development kits available (at reasonable prices)? With example schematics? With example code that's not dependent on Microsoft Windows and Visual Studio?

    My side gig is a small engineering and design firm... you could almost call this a 'vanity' login but I think a login in token would be popular.

  12. Re:Durability on Solar Power Becoming More Affordable · · Score: 1

    Care to source a study that's not from the early '80s for "The affordable ones have relatively short lifespans (under 10 years, and at that point, still haven't saved enough to justify their cost)"?

  13. Re:PS# on Linux and the Coming Consoles · · Score: 1

    From TFA:

    "Sony's PlayStation 3 (PS3), due this month, will not ship with Linux pre-installed, as suggested in March by CEO Ken Kuturagi. However, TerraSoft CEO Kai Staats says his company's Yellow Dog Linux is installable by "anybody who knows how to use a keyboard, mouse, and browser," according to an interview in the Coloradoan."

    So you foe me bacause you can't read?

  14. Diebold IS the problem on An Open Letter To Diebold · · Score: 1

    The most significant problem here is Diebold itself and polling machine isn't all that hard to design or implement... there are dozens off variations.

    I say that due to their involvement in this and the way they've handled problems this is the last group of people US citizens should be trusting with their vote.

  15. Re:What practical things have people done... on Linux and the Coming Consoles · · Score: 1

    I'd like to be able to put a Hi-def movie in my next gen console and have it write a H.264 file (with separate subtitle & audio tracks) to my networked RAID.

    I also tinker with cryptology I wonder how fast it would be making smart rainbow tables or some other thing that embarrasses people who use shitty encryption.

    I think most kids should have a computer but more have game consoles, wouldn't it great after the investment of a USB mouse & keyboard all they needed was a *free* optical disk and they could have a functional computer?

    I feel sort of weird having some company tell me what I can and can't do with hardware I own.

    I don't play games every day, surly this expensive thing can do something else... *anything!*

    Worst: to date the games I have spent the most time with have the word "Zork" in them and I didn't see it in the catalog of offered games.

    As a side note I am now listening to Mofro... you should give them a listen.

  16. Re:PS# on Linux and the Coming Consoles · · Score: 1

    If you can use a keyboard, mouse and monitor better than you can can read the fucking article you have nothing to fear

  17. Re:Exposure latitude? on 10 Reasons To Buy a DSLR · · Score: 1

    I thought canon's RAW was 14 bits per channel not 12.

  18. Re:Will they be able to make things better? on Democrats Take House, Senate Undecided · · Score: 5, Funny

    we'd be better off relying on strange women lying in ponds distributing swords as a basis for a system of government.

  19. Re:No Camera... on A Truly Open Linux Phone · · Score: 1

    So Andy... what is the SD slot for?

    How about this: no headphone socket and no camera.

    I have a iPod and DSLR this doesn't sound like a problem to me.

  20. America vs. Free Speech on Anti Videogame Judge Seeks Re-election In Missouri · · Score: 1

    I've been thinking for a while now that Americans have sort of a dysfunctional concept of, and relationship with, Free Speech. Over the years this has led to many problems... it's like we suffer all the annoyances of free speech but don't enjoy all of the benefits.
    I don't actually have a proposal but I'm really sick of evilness perpetrated in the name of politics.

  21. usage metering? on Hacking the Free "La Fonera" Wireless Router · · Score: 1

    I live in Austria and I use inode. They meter me during the day and I hit the limit every month.

    So I'm wondering how people are going to use this thing.

  22. Re:Wrong, wrong, wrong! on Mahir To Borat, I Sue You! · · Score: 1

    obviously he is, or will be, a serial killer

  23. Re:Lobbying power? on US Citizens To Require ''Clearance'' To Leave? · · Score: 1

    Simply put the common man felt no impact in recent coup in Thailand. We were in the Bangkok airport when it happened and my daughter being inquisitive at heart had all sorts of questions of them. All of the military men were very polite and helpful... Far more so than the men at Atlanta airport we were at a few days before. So in consequence my daughter is as comfortable traveling to Phnom Penh than Atlanta Georgia; and more comfortable talking to people with darker skin (her own skin colour) in military uniform. Simple fact: Thai military police are more competent and polite,even while executing coup, than Americans.

    This has the effect that the grandmother from Atlanta is going to visit the grandmother in Phnom Penh for this winter holiday... should be interesting.

  24. Re:yep on US Citizens To Require ''Clearance'' To Leave? · · Score: 1

    I am copying the complete parent post so that people who ignore cowards can see it:

    SA is going down the tubes fast, following the *exact* same model that happened in zimbabwe. The crime there is unreal, simply amazing,a ton of it is heinously racist and barbaric, and now they have started taking over the productive farms and giving them to party hacks..and so on. Think SA in ten years what zimbabwe is now, something like that. They have more natural resources so they might last a little longer, but not much more than that.

    Personally I think 10 years is optimistic

  25. Re:american dream on US Citizens To Require ''Clearance'' To Leave? · · Score: 1

    I mean that everyone should have the opportunity to to whatever level they can achieve and not simply to level of mediocre level that elite owners of fast food restaurants and mechanical assembly factories require. A little research on the history of American public schools will illuminate my objections.

    I would posit that it was the American dream but that it hasn't been for sometime.