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  1. Typically it refers to .onion sites. They are only available through TOR.

  2. The summary damns the darknet with faint praise that a little over half of the content isn't illegal. If a full 45% of the people walking down a particular street were there to buy drugs or hire a prostitute or fence some stolen goods you can bet the cops would know that street well. That's a staggeringly high level of crime.

  3. I thought white on black was good if you are in a dark room, and black on white is good if you are in a well lit room.

    So the solution is obvious, we need a browser extension that turns the room lights on or off depending on the site you are currently visiting.

  4. The artificial benchmark has the headline grabbing 8x figure, but one might suspect that was simply a cache effect. The bigger drives having bigger caches that can fit the benchmarks entire dataset. The real world write test you are referencing is closer to the actual performance of the storage.

    In other words, the headline is sensational because the authors didn't understand how the hardware works.

  5. Re:The $64,000,000,000 question: on CO2 To Ethanol In One Step With Cheap Catalyst (sciencedaily.com) · · Score: 1

    Using the electricity generated by Wind or Solar to sequester carbon from the atmosphere is very likely to be carbon negative. That's what the grandparent was asking.

  6. Re:The $64,000,000,000 question: on CO2 To Ethanol In One Step With Cheap Catalyst (sciencedaily.com) · · Score: 2

    That probably depends mostly on how you get your electricity. Wind or Solar are likely carbon negative, Coal is almost certainly carbon positive.

  7. Re:Cost? on CO2 To Ethanol In One Step With Cheap Catalyst (sciencedaily.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm not sure how you're planning to achieve perpetual motion with a 60% efficient solution. Worse, if you put that ethanol in a normal internal combustion engine it will only be on the order of 25% efficient.

  8. Re:Technology on More Unblocking Companies Give Up Their Fight Against Netflix (techspot.com) · · Score: 1

    Shitty cable modem provider? Probably a VPN, ban.

  9. Re:I've always wondered why on Ken Bone May Have Violated FTC Guidelines With Uber Tweet (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    I'd assume campaigns are paying their toll to ASCAP to use music at rallies.

  10. Re:Is this a joke? on Ken Bone May Have Violated FTC Guidelines With Uber Tweet (vice.com) · · Score: 2

    This is what I don't get. I see unmarked paid endorsements everywhere on Twitter. Why did the FTC get their panties in a bunch over this one?

  11. Re:50,000 * 30 on WikiLeaks Posts 2,000 More Emails From John Podesta (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    If you are waiting for the media to break open the story about how they're in bed with the people they are reporting on, well, I wouldn't hold my breath. But if you think this is a major revelation that is going to shock and panic the people you are way late. This has been a problem since the advent of media and politics, but as an issue it peaked during the second gulf war when journalists spent most of their time integrated into military units instead of reporting on the situation independently. At the time it was a minor scandal that the military was coddling the journalists and preventing them from seeing the actual conditions on the ground, but they were also strongarming them by saying they would deny access and stonewall if the journalists tried to do any real journalism. It was a bit of a shock at the time, but instantly became the new status quo and has remained as such ever since.

  12. Re:50,000 * 30 on WikiLeaks Posts 2,000 More Emails From John Podesta (cnn.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Maybe they could wait until there was one with something actually interesting? Clinton didn't like a book that was critical of her foundation, and someone else doesn't like Chelsea. Assange is doing a major disservice to people who don't want to see Clinton elected by burying any potentially juicy details under this constant drip of boring non-news. Where is the email where Clinton brags about how she can grab any guy's dick anytime she wants because of the implication? Where is the email where she boasts about sucking at her job so badly that she doesn't have to pay taxes again?

  13. Re: Fiber infrastructure, everywhere. Starting nor on In Canada's North, a Single Satellite Outage Means Losing Basic Services (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Thanks to global warming you won't have to worry about Icebergs anymore in 50 years.

    Undersea cables do get cut from time to time. They can be repaired. OMGWTF Icebergs are one possibility. Ships dragging anchors is a more common case. Still a hell of a lot cheaper than cutting a road through the countryside and burying thousands of miles of cable in permafrost.

  14. Re:Hah, it can't beat humans at quake unless... on New AI Is Capable of Beating Humans At Doom (denofgeek.com) · · Score: 1

    If it's using a Rail Gun in the original DooM then it already has a big advantage over the other players.

  15. Re:The screen buffer? Really? on New AI Is Capable of Beating Humans At Doom (denofgeek.com) · · Score: 2

    b) Game Settings: A state was represented by the most recent frame, which was a 60 × 45 3-channel RGB image. The number of skipped frames is controlled by the skipcount parameter. We experimented with skipcounts of 0-7, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30, 35 and 40. It is important to note that the agent repeats the last decision on the skipped frames.

    How is this not using the screen buffer?

  16. Re:This BUG_ON thing .... on Linus Torvalds Says 'Buggy Crap' Made It Into Linux 4.8 (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    A better solution might be to default to WARN_ON, but have a knob in the kernel that makes warnings fatal for people who can't afford the possibility of data corruption (Linux is probably the wrong kernel for people with that critical of a need, but there probably isn't a right choice).

  17. Re:WikiLeaks is pretty good at trolling. on Julian Assange: All That Malware On Wikileaks Isn't a Big Deal (vice.com) · · Score: 2

    I thought he released that email where Hillary said roughly "Assange is a pain in the ass, What could we do to stop him? Maybe a drone LOL? Ok, how about some real ideas people!" And he's freaking out that drone comment and assuming that everybody else in the world will be shocked that anybody might even jokingly talk about hurting his precious body.

  18. Re: Fiber infrastructure, everywhere. Starting nor on In Canada's North, a Single Satellite Outage Means Losing Basic Services (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Being mostly coastal is a big help, you can run undersea cables much easier than land cables in desolate areas. The trick would be splitting them off to connect to the land near whatever they call a population center up there. From the coast you can extend the service through cell coverage, but of course this still runs into the problem of being a hugely expensive project to service a few thousand people who don't have much money.

  19. Re:IoA on What Vint Cerf Would Do Differently (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    They're roughly equivalent in that's what you'll be assigned by your ISP. And in practice it doesn't matter if you have 32 bits for your local network or 64, they're effectively unlimited.

  20. Re:IoA on What Vint Cerf Would Do Differently (computerworld.com) · · Score: 2

    When people talk about an IPv6 address being 128 bits they're technically true but they miss the bigger picture. In practice you can't assign anything smaller than a /64 so really there are only 64 bits of address space as we think of it today. 1 IPv4 address hosting a subnet with NAT vs. an IPv6 /64 prefix are roughly equivalent. It's still way more address space than we'll ever reasonably need, but not quite as ridiculous as it looks at first glance. This also means that 64 bit machines (most of them these days) can compare addresses easily, since you can often ignore either the top or bottom half of the address.

  21. Re:Verizon charged her a plenty? on Woman Faces $9,100 Verizon Bill For Data She Says She Didn't Use (dslreports.com) · · Score: 2

    I see you aren't a Verizon customer. "This service is temporarily unavailable" means "We shut this down 5 years ago but never told anybody, not even our CSRs." It's all designed to run you around in circles until you give up and just pay the bill.

  22. One data point on T-Mobile To iPhone Users: Do Not Download iOS 10 For Now (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    For what it is worth, as an iPhone 6 user on T-Mobile who did the upgrade yesterday I have not had any problem. I just verified that I can call myself and make outgoing calls. Whatever the problem is it apparently doesn't affect everybody.

  23. Sure you can if you're homeless. Apparently these free internet kiosks are a magnet for homeless people, which is part of the problem. They're complaining about the porn, but really the complaint is about the homeless people suddenly being visible again. Gotta shove them back into alleyways and get them out of sight again.

  24. Re:Why doesn't Windows Update do driver updates? on Nvidia's New GeForce Experience 3.0 Requires Mandatory Registration (pcworld.com) · · Score: 1

    It's not like Microsoft distributes nVidia drivers via Windows Update. From what I understand, their process if fairly hostile to drivers that get updated regularly and often have updates that coincide with street dates for major games. You have to go through an expensive and slow approval process before they appear in Windows Update.

  25. That's one compelling feature on Nvidia's New GeForce Experience 3.0 Requires Mandatory Registration (pcworld.com) · · Score: 1

    three times faster and consumes 50 percent less memory than the old GeForce Experience

    So it will only take an hour to start now? GeForce experience was the worst way to keep your drivers up to date. It was so horribly slow and bloated that by the time it took it to start you could have downloaded the new driver and installed it. Plus it had that weird incompatibility with Steam that would make it lock up until you shut down Steam.