Slashdot Mirror


User: larry+bagina

larry+bagina's activity in the archive.

Stories
0
Comments
6,755
First seen
Last seen
Profile
(view on slashdot.org)

Comments · 6,755

  1. Re:Why is facebook allowing this? on The Pirate Bay Comes To Facebook · · Score: 1

    It's rather difficult (and expensive) to buy an automatic rifle in the US. Unless you're an illegal mexican immigrant. Then you just need to show up at a gun show and you can buy automatic rifles, grenades, rocket launchers, etc and take them back to mexico.

  2. Re:What's so special about it? on Experimental MacRuby Branch Is 3x Faster · · Score: 1

    it gives direct access to the Cocoa framework. And the experimental version uses LLVM for code generation, so it could be optimized close to native (objective c) speeds.

  3. Re:Annoying Real Basic AD on HIV Transmission Captured On Video · · Score: 1

    sqlite is public domain. If the authors don't care that Real Basic uses it, why do you?

    Also, 48% of HIV cases (in the US as of 2003) were tracked to male-on-male gay sex. 47% of the US HIV-positive population is black. Any mention of that seems to result in a -1 moderation.

  4. Re:Browsershots on Microsoft's New Multiple-Browser Tester · · Score: 4, Informative

    Queue estimate: 3 minutes to 1 hour, 12 minutes

    It's only free if your time is worth nothing.

  5. Re:Not to be an apologist... on iPhone App Refund Policies Could Cost Devs · · Score: -1, Troll

    NASA? There's a saying: "Good enough for government work." Apple's standards should be higher.

  6. Re:Why is redhat worth so much? on Red Hat — Stand Alone Or Get Bought? · · Score: 1

    Sun is a leading corporate contributor to solaris.

  7. Re:What about Parrot? on Project Aims For 5x Increase In Python Performance · · Score: 2, Informative

    LLVM is stable and in use. The iPhone SDK arm compilers use gcc with a llvm backend. OS X uses LLVM in the OpenGL stack to support features that the GPU doesn't. They're also using LLVM for openCL/Grand Central.

    LLVM isn't just another virtual machine, it also optimizes that code (at compile time, link time, and/or runtime) and converts it to native (alpha, arm, cell, ia64, mips, CIL, pic16, ppc, sparc, x86) binaries (or C source code).

  8. Re:There are quiet ones on Old-School Keyboard Makes Comeback of Sorts · · Score: 1

    model m uses a buckling spring mechanism. As you push the key down, the spring collapses, then buckles away to the side (like >). Wikipedia has a picture.

    That thing looks like it uses cherry (used in the Das Keyboard) or alps (used in the old Apple Extended keyboards) switches.

    They're all generally better than membrane keyboards.

  9. Re:Too big to fail. on What an IBM-Sun Merger Might Mean For Java, MySQL, Developers · · Score: 2, Interesting

    it's worse than business as usual.

    US Bancorp CEO Richard Davis's comments on TARP:

    "I will say this very bluntly: We were told to take it. Not asked, told. 'You will take it,' " Davis said. "It doesn't matter if you were there on the first night and you were told to sign on the dotted line before you walked out of the office, or whether in the days that followed, you were told to take it."

    "We were told to take it so that we could help Darwin synthesize the weaker banks and acquire those and put them under different leadership," he said. "We are not even allowed to mention that. ... We were supposed to say the TARP money was used for lending."

    Northern Trust (remember them from one of Barney Frank's tantrums?) got sick of complaints for sponsoring a charity golf tournament, so they're in the process of returning TARP money they didn't need and were told to take. (Some other banks are returning the money as well).

    Bank of America agreed to buy Merril Lynch, but tried to back out after discovering they had been cooking their books. Ben Bernanke and Henry Paulson made them complete the acquisistion (and put up additional money and loan guarantees).

    JP Morgan acquired Bear Stearns and WaMu. Wells Fargo acquired Wachovia. BoA also acquired countrywide.

    TARP was proposed and approved as a plan to purchase junk mortgages. In reality, it's turned big banks even bigger.

    The money was given to banks so they could loan it? Not exactly.

    Banks sold preferred shares to the government in exchange for preferred shares (which pay a dividend and are first in line in the event of a bankruptcy). Since the money isn't free, they need to loan it out, right?

    Of course, AIG and Citibank couldn't make those payments, so that preferred stock was reorganized to regular non-preferred, non-dividend paying stock.

    And AIG? You know where the bonus money went, but the rest is a mystery. They're basically laundering it to other banks (many of them in Europe).

  10. Re:Maybe that's why I use Ubuntu on Red Hat CEO Questions Relevance of Desktop Linux · · Score: 1

    How does the mac keyboard layout make x window development difficult? You can edit, compile, and test X Windows apps in XCode and X11.app.

  11. Re:perspective on Red Hat CEO Questions Relevance of Desktop Linux · · Score: 2, Interesting

    VMS was doing "cloud computing" 20 years ago.

  12. Re:Safest mkfs/mount options? on Kernel Hackers On Ext3/4 After 2.6.29 Release · · Score: 3, Informative

    with lvm, you can easily try out the various file systems (don't forget jfs!). Personally, I've found linux XFS to corrupt itself beyond repair, so I use ext3.

  13. Re:Anonymous Coward on Fastbooting Linux For Dummies? · · Score: 1

    I assume he meant SSD.

  14. fast enough internet? on New Service Aims To Replace Consoles With Cloud Gaming · · Score: 1

    lagging in online games ruins it for me. If hooking a console up to a tv input card on your computer introduces too much lag, how can this possibly be playable?

  15. Re:And will be unavailable anyplace else.... on World's Cheapest Car Goes On Sale In India · · Score: 1

    there are also federal (and state) regulations governing automobiles in the US.

  16. Re:look where we were 9 years ago on Obama DOJ Sides With RIAA · · Score: 1

    He's not promising half of the 2008 deficit, he's promising half of the 2009 deficit (which includes 1 trillion+ in bailouts and 800 billion in "stimulus". Plus who knows how much mortgage bailouts, credit card bailouts, and bank bailouts in the next 6 months)

    (The federal gov't fiscal year begins in September. I don't know why, but at least it's better than the IRS's "quarters" of April, June, September, and January).

    When you ignore the spin and the weasel words, he's promising (best case) twice as much annual deficit vs 2008.

  17. Re:Libre? on Microsoft Unveils Open Source Exploit Finder · · Score: 5, Informative

    The GPL isn't open source compatible with most other open source licenses, either.

  18. try it old school on From an Unrelated Career To IT/Programming? · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Learn fortran, cobol, mumps, pick, ada, k, and other legacy or non-mainstream languages. Companies that use them generally have a hard time finding people that know them, so you can get in without the experience.

  19. Re:a curious attack on Recovery.gov Not Very Transparent · · Score: 5, Funny

    as funny as a guy who works at slashdot pointing out how shitty the slashdot stories are?

  20. Re:Better than nothing on Recovery.gov Not Very Transparent · · Score: 0, Troll

    "Snake" (or "trouser snake") is a popular gay pastime that involves snorting coke off a dick and chasing it down with piss or jizz.

  21. Re:well at least... on Recovery.gov Not Very Transparent · · Score: 4, Funny

    Nah, Barack Obama's teleprompter didn't tell him how to set up the permissions.

  22. Re:A real education on Google Summer of Code Announces Mentor Projects · · Score: 2, Informative

    student's

  23. Re:LOL: Bug Report on Ext4 Data Losses Explained, Worked Around · · Score: 2, Informative
    My one experience with XFS involved the partition being corrupted beyond recoverability within 15 minutes. Too bad, in theory XFS is great.

    Anyhow, ZFS is raid, lvm, and fs rolled up into one, so keeping the patch up to date with linux changes could be a bit of work.

  24. Re:Ring of Fire on Intel CPU Privilege Escalation Exploit · · Score: 1

    root's magic powers don't come from running at a different ring level, they come from the OS checking the uid/euid. VT/V work by creating a ring -1 which is where the hypervisor runs. This exploit would let a kernel module or other kernel code to jump into the hypervisor level.

  25. Re:Works in Safari too on Google's Amazing Browser Experiments · · Score: 1

    Tuesday's iPhone 3.0 announcement included bonjour/iPhone discovery via bluetooth, so something similar is possible. I don't know if you could determine relative position of the other iphone's, though.