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  1. Re:Why so many? on Virgin Galactic To Launch 2,400 Comm. Satellites To Offer Ubiquitous Broadband · · Score: 3, Informative

    You don't transmit information back up to a GPS satellite. They broadcast and our devices receive and triangulate. It's also a fairly slow protocol. 2-way communication with that many endpoints is significantly more complicated.

  2. Re:Yeah, okay on Obama Proposes 30-Day Deadline For Disclosing Security Breaches · · Score: 1

    You really think ISIS got a hold of some Twitter/Google account passwords? Sure there's social engineering, but I think it's more likely CENTCOM faked the ISIS tweets. It just helps build anti-terrorism support and stricter data control from the US people. It's all bull-shit.

  3. Re:Then again, maybe it _is_ good news. on Study: HIV Becoming Less Deadly, Less Infectious · · Score: 2

    I know we've found some of these "elite controllers" in the form of children; families who adopted kids in the late 80s and early 90s. The drugs were so hard on kids that many would get sick immediately. So you you give the kids drugs so they can live until 15 or don't and they live to be 8 (but happier for a bit).

    Some parents chose to take their kids off the drugs..and some of those kids are in their late 20s today! But many of them aren't.

    My question: how do you find these cases in adults? You can't ethically give someone a placebo for 5 years! Are these people who the point of infection can be narrowed down to an instance and who discover they have HIV 6+ years after the fact?

  4. Re:holy spin on What the US Can Learn From Canada's Internet Policy · · Score: 0

    I assumed there must have been some spin with it mentioned Harper in a positive light. I know a Canadian who had nothing good to say about him (she now lives in New Zealand)

  5. Re:While you're at it... on HBO Developing Asimov's Foundation Series As TV Show · · Score: 1

    Well the other three were co-authored. Yea, that first book was amazing. There was a video game too. It wasn't so great. :(

  6. But that's not the ISPs job on Net Neutrality Alone Won't Solve ISP Throttling Abuse, Here's Why · · Score: 1

    Quality of Service is built into IPv6. The ISP shouldn't have anything to do with QoS. That is solely the discretion of the service or client. If I want, I can configure my servers so that SMTP traffic has a very low QoS for IPv6 based networks. Network Neutrality ensures that ISPs don't alter that QoS along the way.

    We're a long way off from IPv6, and we shouldn't be. But that's another issue. ISPs shouldn't handle the throttling. They should give equal priority to everything.

  7. Re:Now can NPR fill the time slot... on "Car Talk" Co-Host Tom Magliozzi Dies At Age 77 · · Score: -1, Troll

    I always hated car talk. They oversimplified a lot of stuff and there are so many things they've gotten wrong! Plus they're annoying as fuck.

    Who gives a shit. Good riddance

  8. Re:Nice Thing: systemctl status shows you log entr on Ask Slashdot: Can You Say Something Nice About Systemd? · · Score: 0

    I will have to disagree with you on this. You cannot do this with the traditional init process. The only way to grab all that log information and metadata is if you control process 1/init. With the traditional shell script approach, you can't tag all that data and pump it all into logging.

    Full process management does provide a lot of really nice features. But they could have implemented all those features with a simpler init process and not integrate it with dbus and everything under the sun, and have better commands than the awful syntax in systemctl and journalctl.

  9. Re:Wonder if their time hasn't already passed... on Ello Formally Promises To Remain Ad-Free, Raises $5.5M · · Score: 0

    ...Now if only I could convince Verizon/HTC that I don't need the facebook app on my phone.

    A few months back I was talking to a friend, "Do normal people wipe their phones an install CyanogenMod before booting them up for the first time?"

    Her: "No, normal people don't do that."

  10. Re:Ridiculous on Manga Images Depicting Children Lead to Conviction in UK · · Score: 0

    ah...so now we get into that very interesting ground. What is it like to live in a world where your own thoughts, no-not thoughts- desires are illegal. There was a time (and still is in many parts of this world) where it was/is illegal to be homosexual.

    People in that world are living with illegal thoughts, even if they never act on them. This applied to Paedophile too, but we've learned to be okay with the former because it's between two adults that (in theory) have some ability to make their own choices where children often do not.

  11. Re:clockspeed really? on Ubisoft Claims CPU Specs a Limiting Factor In Assassin's Creed Unity On Consoles · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Very true. We have 1Ghz processors today than can outperform yesterdays 1.8Ghz processors.

  12. Re:Website foolery! on Ubisoft Claims CPU Specs a Limiting Factor In Assassin's Creed Unity On Consoles · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    This isn't Reddit. If you want good posts, go to where anyone can post shit.

  13. Cell on Ubisoft Claims CPU Specs a Limiting Factor In Assassin's Creed Unity On Consoles · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I really hate that Sony dropped their cell processors going from the PS3 to the PS4 in favour of an x86 based system. We didn't see a lot of devices using cell and because of that, a lot of cell super-computer clusters were even made using actual PS3s. Even the prior MIPS processers of the earlier PlayStations are used in computer architecture texts books to this day (albeit overly-simplified versions of MIPS's pipling systems).

    I really want to see more architecture options, not less. Intel bought Alpha, killed it, screwed up with their own VLIW attempt with the Itaniums (which use EPIC) and I haven't heard anything about Transmeta in years. Today everything is ARM or x86_64 (with MIPS still seen in some embedded systems, mostly home routers). IBM still produces new POWER systems, but they're limited to a specific server niches.

  14. Captive Orcas on Killer Whales Caught On Tape Speaking Dolphin · · Score: 1

    I wish more people were bothered by the fact that they are doing experiments at all on captive Orcas and Dolphins.

    Most captive Orcas aren't in facilities because they've been injured (unlike zoos and aquariums which work on rehabilitation and reintroduction). Orcas are often ripped away from their pods. Many of them get violent and kill trainers (and rightfully so). You can't put something that travels the ocean in a fish tank. Orcas only live to be about 25 in captivity where in the while, they live to be 50 ~ 60.

    The documentary Black Fish talks a lot about the problems with captive Orcas. You should never go to Seaworld or other sea parks. Don't give them any money. They are shit shops that destroy these beautiful animals.

  15. Re:Whales? on Killer Whales Caught On Tape Speaking Dolphin · · Score: 1

    They're porpoises and they are also very closely related. Orcas are closer to dolphins than they are other most other whale species.

  16. Re:So what you're telling me on Details of iOS and Android Device Encryption · · Score: 1

    Possibly, or it may be that Google and Apple are trying to mitigate the blow-back. I remember reading a lot of the Yahoo stuff that got declassified showed that they tried hard to oppose the directive they were given; not that it mattered because we found out later that the NSA tapped their fibre backbones anyway.

    I have a feeling that Google/Apple want to go down this route because it will mean that they technologically can't comply with certain NSA letters. Of course, government agencies may already have the means to bypass this. We'll find out eventually.

  17. Re:Beyond the law? on FBI Chief: Apple, Google Phone Encryption Perilous · · Score: 1

    Exactly. The ticking time bomb is pretty much a logical fallacy.

  18. Re:Rich like the Twinkie Filling on FBI Chief: Apple, Google Phone Encryption Perilous · · Score: 1

    Even if they just forgot. But in these cases, the contempt of court charges, which might only be a few months at most, are still better than the potential alternatives of the original charges.

  19. Re:Think of the children on FBI Chief: Apple, Google Phone Encryption Perilous · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Yea it's by it's very definition of irony.

    "What concerns me about this is companies marketing something expressly to allow people to place themselves beyond the law.

    Really? I'm pretty sure the past year of leaks have showed the FBI, the NSA, the CIA and even local law enforcement are constantly operating above the law! If anything, encryptable cellphones allow people to keep their 4th amendment rights!

  20. Re:"could be worse than Heartbleed" on Flurry of Scans Hint That Bash Vulnerability Could Already Be In the Wild · · Score: 1

    I don't think you understand. Even if Apache is using CGI to call out to your safe perl CGI script, it opens up a Bash shell (the default shell) which opens that perl script (unless you're using mod_perl..I think FastCGI might be exempt as well, but I'm not entirely sure).

    You could possibly change Apache's default shell to something else like ksh or dash.

  21. Re:Full Disclosure can be found on oss-security... on Remote Exploit Vulnerability Found In Bash · · Score: 2

    OpenBSD is so secure with it's default install because it installs absolutely nothing useful

  22. Re:Dangerous on Remote Exploit Vulnerability Found In Bash · · Score: 1

    fish

  23. Re:my favorite search engine on DuckDuckGo Now Blocked In China · · Score: 5, Informative

    Plus the NSA is probably logging all your search results with them anyway (regardless of if they know or not).

    I still like DuckDuckGo because I like having an alternative. I like not being in the filter bubble. I have to type in the name of my city for local results, unlike google, but I don't mind that DuckDuckGo doesn't customize my results based on some algorthims about my browsers+ip+os+wi-fi access point+my history.

    And if I can't find what I'm looking for, I can always add !g and duckduckgo redirect to Google...or !yt for YouTube, or !w for Wikipedia or !rt for Rottom Tomatoes or just ! for the first result (I'm feeling lucky). The bang(!) commands are really the best part about them.

  24. Re:Question remains on DuckDuckGo Now Blocked In China · · Score: 1

    I knew a Chineese student in graduate school. He told me in China he can pretty much get access to anything. Most people know how to get around the firewall with proxies and VPNs. There are too many people for the government to really do anything about it...unless you talk about it. If you start commenting on fourms or discussiong international verion of news eventus or start voicing any opinions about China or the Chineese Government, you can expect things to not go well for you.

  25. Incompetence on Anonymous Peer-review Comments May Spark Legal Battle · · Score: 0

    Well, now we know why you're losing your tenure. Stop being such a baby about it. If your research was solid, the scientist should be able to stand behind and defend it. If it was flakey, well hopefully this will keep him from getting other jobs where he can be an incompetent professor.