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  1. Re:Bomb or missile on EgyptAir Flight 804 Missing (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    1 degree latitude is 1.852 km/nautical mile (at. the surface) * 60 minutes /degree = about 111 km. not 22 miles.

  2. Re:Confirmed on Microsoft Auto-Scheduling Windows 10 Updates (tomshardware.com) · · Score: 1

    Why can't you access the Windows partitions from Mint?
    As long as they aren't already in fstab they should appear as greyed out icons on the desktop. That's true for XFCE live usb booting with xubuntu anyway, mint should be similar.

  3. Yeah, ditch it. Or roll back to the last version before the original author sold it to the wolves, you can find it on ApkMirror. Look for version 4.0.2.3. You'll have to double check with another root file manager if that version is already sending back logs to China or not, ES hides the log file. You can unpack and repack the .apk installer to either change the name or resign the package, either one will stop the update manager from trying to install the new ruined version. You don't get SMB security patches that way though.

    Amaze is Open Source and in the Play Store,
    http://alternativeto.net/softw...

    For that matter, to hell with this shareware crap, get as much as you can from FOSS apps cross-listed on F-Droid. http://f-droid.org/

  4. *cough* no. on Swarm AI Correctly Predicts Kentucky Derby Superfecta, Turns $20 Into $11,000 (yahoo.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    It always amazes me how profoundly bad very smart people can be at basic statistics. Granted it's usually not intuitive but it can be learned.

  5. Re:DRM Increases Piracy. on Kobo Customers Losing Books From Their Libraries After Software Upgrade (teleread.com) · · Score: 2

    What happens if Steam gets bought out by EA, Microsoft, or Comcast?

    You still need to protect yourself even if the current owners treat their customers well.

  6. Re: More "pleasant" weather on Rise In CO2 Has 'Greened Planet Earth' (bbc.com) · · Score: 0, Troll

    I guess the thing you have to consider is that any reliable cycle has now been thrown out the window.

  7. Re:Big media eventually will be forced to attack. on Tesla Updates Model S With New Front-End, Air Filtration System, Faster Charging (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    are you trying to tell me that John DeLorean wasn't set up?

    that Preston Tucker was subject to the same rules as the big guys?

    that Jeff Bezos bought the Washington Post because he's into newsprint?

  8. Re:the kindles biggest competition on Jeff Bezos Says Amazon Will Unveil a New Kindle Next Week (the-digital-reader.com) · · Score: 1

    Perhaps he/she lives in a house boat.

  9. Re:Now only... on APT Speed For Incremental Updates Gets a Massive Performance Boost · · Score: 1

    The story was about apt, not systemd. Therefore I was preemptively modding myself offtopic exactly so people like you who would be uninterested could quickly move on and not waste your time on it. Due to your wildly emotive response I guess I failed in that attempt.

  10. Re:Now only... on APT Speed For Incremental Updates Gets a Massive Performance Boost · · Score: 1, Interesting

    [I apologize to the masses for responding to yet another offtopic systemd propagandafest thread.]

    But could I grab any old 32 or 64 bit ubuntu live install usb stick from the last 5 years to access an unbootable Debian system? (from there intstalling raid admin tools is a one line apt-get)

    Or before I can view the logs do I need to prepare and maintain a custom rescue boot disc for every debian version, with the same 32/64 bitness, same lib6c and other .so library versions, and same exact version of systemd? (some of the workstations track Debian/testing)

    All before I can set up some export pipes before I can run grep, sort, uniq, and sed to isolate the problem? Do I need to master a new SQL variant? (Honest question)

    Or will my life be made more difficult under critical server-is-down this is costing us 10s of thousands of dollars a minute pressure conditions due to artificial barriers which didn't used to be there?

    K.I.S.S.

  11. Re:at least is not tcas off on Boeing 787 "Blacklisted" From Some Air Traffic Control Services (flightglobal.com) · · Score: 2

    The problem is incomplete messages being broadcast. Sometimes the lat is missing, sometimes the long is missing. In these cases the system was using dead reckoning to extrapolate the missing value based on the previous ones. Not ideal but roughly giving you the right answer when traveling in a straight line. Gives the wrong answer after turning at a waypoint. When a complete message finally does make it through the plane jumps back to it's correct position.

  12. Re:David Edmundson answers your questions on Will You Be Able To Run a Modern Desktop Environment In 2016 Without Systemd? · · Score: 1

    ... missing UTC support in cron that is.

  13. Re:David Edmundson answers your questions on Will You Be Able To Run a Modern Desktop Environment In 2016 Without Systemd? · · Score: 1

    changing the system time & date without root or sudo? HELLO? How is that a good idea? ntpdate then ntpd for that and the user can set the TZ environment variable in .profile if they want to.

    not that the old ways are perfect, how many years have we gone without support for UTC or just no daylight savings adjustment?

  14. Re:Another in a long series of marketing mistakes on Blackberry Offers 'Lawful Device Interception Capabilities' (itnews.com.au) · · Score: 1

    > And now on an insecurity feature that the customer won't be allowed to use.

    An often overlooked but critically important corollary to keeping your customers happy is knowing who your real customers are.

  15. Re:20 cores DOES matter on Intel Flagship Core i7-6950X Broadwell-E To Offer 10-Cores, 20-Threads, 25MB L3 (hothardware.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    It depends on the task. For double precision FP calculations using MPI multi-processing (e.g. FORTRAN CFD), the extra overhead of the extra cores talking to each other mostly cancel out the gains.

    For many many small short-lifetime processes you'll probably do better.

  16. Re:The university has a point, there on University Reprimands Professor For Assigning Cheaper Textbook (slate.com) · · Score: 1

    The best book on calculus I've ever encountered, beating any modern prescribed text by a country mile in terms of how it explains things, is Sylvanus Thompson's "Calculus Made Easy".

    As a free ebook from Project Gutenberg:
    http://www.gutenberg.org/ebook...

  17. Re:Things to consider on Ask Slashdot: What To Do About Android Malware? · · Score: 2

    It has Robotfindskitten, what else does anyone need?

    (ok, ok, there's no Moon Buggy, yet)

  18. Re:Things to consider on Ask Slashdot: What To Do About Android Malware? · · Score: 3, Interesting

    To be fair I've more faith in apps from f-droid.org than in I do in apps from the Play store. The flashlight and music player apps there don't want access to your contacts list, unique ID, and wifi connections. And their code seems to be more highly vetted than those in the Play store.

  19. Re:AVG Filtering Negative Press? on AVG Proudly Announces It Will Sell Your Browsing History To Online Advertisers · · Score: 2

    My guess is that it found the hosts file localhost blackholing in this post:

    http://yro.slashdot.org/commen...

    No conspiracy theories needed.

    p.s. why haven't you uninstalled AVG yet? Will it detect itself as malware now?

  20. Live Free or Die on Followup: Library Board Unanimously Supports TOR Relay · · Score: 3, Informative

    Give Me Liberty Or Give Me Death
    Patrick Henry, March 23, 1775.

    No man thinks more highly than I do of the patriotism, as well as abilities, of the very worthy gentlemen who have just addressed the House. But different men often see the same subject in different lights; and, therefore, I hope it will not be thought disrespectful to those gentlemen if, entertaining as I do opinions of a character very opposite to theirs, I shall speak forth my sentiments freely and without reserve. This is no time for ceremony. The question before the House is one of awful moment to this country. For my own part, I consider it as nothing less than a question of freedom or slavery; and in proportion to the magnitude of the subject ought to be the freedom of the debate. It is only in this way that we can hope to arrive at truth, and fulfill the great responsibility which we hold to God and our country. Should I keep back my opinions at such a time, through fear of giving offense, I should consider myself as guilty of treason towards my country, and of an act of disloyalty toward the Majesty of Heaven, which I revere above all earthly kings.

    Mr. President, it is natural to man to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes against a painful truth, and listen to the song of that siren till she transforms us into beasts. Is this the part of wise men, engaged in a great and arduous struggle for liberty? Are we disposed to be of the number of those who, having eyes, see not, and, having ears, hear not, the things which so nearly concern their temporal salvation? For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth; to know the worst, and to provide for it.

    I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience. I know of no way of judging of the future but by the past. And judging by the past, I wish to know what there has been in the conduct of the British ministry for the last ten years to justify those hopes with which gentlemen have been pleased to solace themselves and the House. Is it that insidious smile with which our petition has been lately received? Trust it not, sir; it will prove a snare to your feet. Suffer not yourselves to be betrayed with a kiss. Ask yourselves how this gracious reception of our petition comports with those warlike preparations which cover our waters and darken our land. Are fleets and armies necessary to a work of love and reconciliation? Have we shown ourselves so unwilling to be reconciled that force must be called in to win back our love? Let us not deceive ourselves, sir. These are the implements of war and subjugation; the last arguments to which kings resort. I ask gentlemen, sir, what means this martial array, if its purpose be not to force us to submission? Can gentlemen assign any other possible motive for it? Has Great Britain any enemy, in this quarter of the world, to call for all this accumulation of navies and armies? No, sir, she has none. They are meant for us: they can be meant for no other. They are sent over to bind and rivet upon us those chains which the British ministry have been so long forging. And what have we to oppose to them? Shall we try argument? Sir, we have been trying that for the last ten years. Have we anything new to offer upon the subject? Nothing. We have held the subject up in every light of which it is capable; but it has been all in vain. Shall we resort to entreaty and humble supplication? What terms shall we find which have not been already exhausted? Let us not, I beseech you, sir, deceive ourselves. Sir, we have done everything that could be done to avert the storm which is now coming on. We have petitioned; we have remonstrated; we have supplicated; we have prostrated ourselves before the throne, and have implored its interposition to arrest the tyrannical hands of the ministry and Parliament. Our petitions have been slighted; our remonstrances have produced additional v

  21. Re:Hey, that's great! on NASA's Hurricane Model Resolution Increases Nearly 10-Fold Since Katrina · · Score: 2

    I'll bite.

    With a higher resolution you can begin to resolve some of the dynamics of the eye wall, which gives you a much better idea about how the storm's intensity will develop.

    There was a very good wunderground blog post about this last week with a /. story about it.

  22. Re:Yes, you've increased the precision on NASA's Hurricane Model Resolution Increases Nearly 10-Fold Since Katrina · · Score: 1

    The 3D model does not have the same resolution in the Z as it does in the X and Y. If it did you'd be way out in space. The number of Z levels may well have doubled, but more likely from about 10 to about 20 of them.

  23. Re:Pointless article on Research Scientists To Use Network Much Faster Than Internet · · Score: 2

    try the sister article linked from soylent news.

    they are experimenting with a replacement for tcp/ip optimized for very large packet sizes.

  24. Re:Austerity fails again on Greece Rejects EU Terms · · Score: 1

    The point is austerity in national spending is a terrible answer to the
    question of how to make an economy recover. The absolute worst thing to do
    in a bad economy is to stop the government spending on core infrastructure
    which helps the economy in the long term. You put more people out of work,
    who drop out of the income tax paying and discretionary spending pool and
    pile onto the already bloated unemployment rolls. An economic downturn is
    the worst time for blanket austerity, you need to do that in the good
    times.

    Policies which create 60% youth unemployment are simply not a recipe for
    economic recovery or social success. Wasteful policies should be cut back
    always but cutting back on basic services is beyond dumb and counter
    productive. A functioning economy equals greater tax base. The sooner
    you can return to a functioning economy the better, even if it means
    taking on some debt. The payback is non-linear.

    If your goal is to drive down the cost of nearby labor or bankrupt your
    neighbor so that you can swoop in and buy up their assets cheap, then sure,
    blanket austerity is a great thing.

    Krugman has written many columns on this if you want to get a Nobel prize
    in economics laureate's take on the situation.

  25. Re:But we know that USA is the *GOOD GUY* on Glen Greenwald: Don't Trust Anonymous Anti-Snowden Claims · · Score: 1

    > but even the greatest morons are right sometimes.

    unduly harsh, not intended as a personal attack but rather an observation that nobody is awlays all right or all wrong. that came out bad xor AC's are easy targets. either way, sorry.