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  1. Re:qualcomm is right on Qualcomm Says Eight-Core Processors Are Dumb · · Score: 1

    Not quite so much on desktops do, although per-core utilization is improving somewhat.

    On non-desktops... how about VM hosts?

  2. Wilkinson blade on Qualcomm Says Eight-Core Processors Are Dumb · · Score: 1

    Not being very knowledgeable on razors, where would one find a Wilkinson blade and/or appropriate razor?
    An amazon search turns up a Parker 60r/91r and Shark/Bluebird blades

  3. Public charging ports on iPhone Hacked In Under 60 Seconds Using Malicious Charger · · Score: 1

    Especially when a lot of places (airports, even planes etc) now provide USB ports for charging of mobile devices.

  4. Re:Remember the old internet on With Microsoft Office on Android, Has Linus Torvalds Won? · · Score: 1

    One of the nice things about FOSS is that not everything is about money. There's a cost, but oft-times it is in time and effort rather than cash.

  5. Simulating the game not the character on 9th Circuit Court Elevates Celebrity Privacy Rights Over Video Game Portrayals · · Score: 1

    It seems there should be a line between one's persona as an individual versus a member of a team/group. For example, one could make a game with characters from various sports teams in said sports roles, but you couldn't use their likeness for non-sports games.
    I also fail to see how stats are owned by the player as opposed to the league.
    In the end, we'll probably see game character vaguely similar to players, but different enough to skirt lawsuits, similar to using Deagle instead of "Desert Eagle" etc.

  6. Remember the old internet on With Microsoft Office on Android, Has Linus Torvalds Won? · · Score: 1

    Remember the internet in the early days? Where you could generally get email without spam, join deep discussions without trolls, and download stuff without being sued?

    Do we really *want* Linux to be an OS that wins over all the Windows users? Sure, there will still be stuff for geeks, but how much will cool development and hacks be drowned out by requests for new fancy widgets or lame bug reports from people who don't have the understanding or patience to try things out themselves? What happens when all the fun stuff is eclipsed by the quest for "moar moneys!"
    I'm happy to see things like Steam on Linux, but I DO NOT want Linux to replace Windows.

  7. Re:I don't know, has he? on With Microsoft Office on Android, Has Linus Torvalds Won? · · Score: 1

    "trying for markets they were weak in (server) while neglecting markets they were strong in (desktop)"

    And a lot of that because the current market doesn't expect you to be consistent, you have to grow and grow. Thus do you hear about companies that turned a 15% increase in profit but suddenly stock suffers because investors are expecting 20-25%.

    Greed.

  8. Re:Grain of salt on FreeBSD, Ubuntu Offer Same NVIDIA OpenGL Support As Windows · · Score: 1

    Part of that might depend on what you're trying to do with the OS. Was there some compositing layer running on your Xubuntu install?

  9. So what was the "Citizen's arrest" for?

  10. Outgoing VS incoming on Google Argues Against Net Neutrality · · Score: 1

    Generally when I think about the "Net Neutrality" issue, I tend to think more of ISP's restricting where traffic can go out to, rather than preventing one from running webservers for incoming connections.
    However, if we start with webservers, then how about torrent clients (which have bi-directional traffic) or the many other services that are essentially server/client oriented?
    How about hosting game servers?

    Neutral is neutral. Google can charge you for the pipe, but unless I'm doing something malicious with it (note: not what they don't like, but something criminal), they can fuck right off.

  11. Re:These big battles are a rarity on Epic Online Space Battle · · Score: 1

    Part of games and entertainment is separating the game from real life. Shooting people in the head isn't going to go over well in RL (well, unless you're a marine sniper on deployment), but in many games you're not going to get very far without it.

    In Eve, it seems that various sneaky traits are consistent with the game universe. It's not all about a head-on attack with lasers blazing, the economics and conspiracy seem to play a pretty strong part in the game. Much like a character in a sci-fi novel or movie, when playing the game you'll have to take the risks: is this guy for real, a snitch, a sneak or a thief?

  12. Re:Snore fest on Epic Online Space Battle · · Score: 1

    Possibly Vendetta Online, which is more in the MMO genre.

  13. Re:These big battles are a rarity on Epic Online Space Battle · · Score: 1

    Better in a game than in real-life. No cheating or cussing out other players were mentioned. Just good ol' fashion tactics and possibly a mental games.
    Sounds like fair-game to me.

  14. Re:I can believe this! on Monogamy May Have Evolved To Prevent Infanticide · · Score: 1

    That's likely in part because you interact with your own children when they're not being annoying, noisy, crying or mean. Kinda like how the barky neighbour's dog would just be considered a yappy nuisance.

    Now if you spend a bunch of time with [other person's kids], more empathy would likely generate over time. This doesn't always happen, as in some case step-parents are kind but in others there's almost a jealous for affection or "my genetic kids first" at play, but it's still more common than not.

  15. Time on Signs Point To XKCD's Time Ending · · Score: 1

    It took me a moment to catch on to this. It would have been more obvious if the entire title hadn't be using intercaps, so that "Time" (as opposed to "time") would have been shown as a noun.

    That said, using quotes might have also disambiguated it, but it probably would have gotten less hits too so I won't discount the title being intentionally leading...

  16. Re:Security through obscurity? on English High Court Bans Publication of 0-Day Threat To Auto Immobilizers · · Score: 1

    Security through obscurity is basically a form of delaying the inevitable. It doesn't prevent a compromise, but it may delay it. STO is best used in conjunction with other, more effective security methods.

  17. Temporary injunction. on English High Court Bans Publication of 0-Day Threat To Auto Immobilizers · · Score: 1

    Well, an injunction that's only good for X days might be a good incentive to fix the issue before X days is up...

  18. Re:Treaty Violation on NASA's Garver Proposes Carving Piece Off Big Asteroid For Near-Earth Mining · · Score: 1

    "before E.D. can be relevant it...

    It'll be hard. I hear that they're facing stiff competition, and have been likely to flip-flop when under pressure...

  19. Re:Obligatory on Ask Slashdot: Asynchronous RAID-1 Free Software Backup For Laptops? · · Score: 1

    It runs into some pretty nasty issues if a backup is interrupted though. Or at least it did when last I used it a few years back.

  20. COW or desync'ed RAID on Ask Slashdot: Asynchronous RAID-1 Free Software Backup For Laptops? · · Score: 5, Informative

    In this case, it sounds like you want a fast on-demand sync rather than a RAID.

    However, you could possibly use dm-raid for this if you're a linux user.
    Have the internal disk(s) as a degraded md-raid1 partition. When you connect the backup disk, have it become part of the RAID and the disks should sync up. That said, it likely won't be any faster than rsync, quite possibly slower as it'll have to go over the entire volume.

    Alternate solutions:
    * Have a local folder that does daily syncs/backups. Move those to the external storage when it's connected.
        CAVEATS: Takes space until the external disk is available
    * Use a differential filesystem, or maybe something like a COW (copy-on-write) filesystem. Have the COW system sync over to the backup disk (when connected) and then merge it into the main filesystem tree after sync
        For example, /home is a combination of /mnt/home-ro (ro) and /mnt/home-rw (rw, COW filesystem). When external media is connected, /mnt/home-rw is synced to external media, then back over /mnt/home-ro

  21. vBulletin proprietary and Open Source on Ubuntu Forum Security Breach · · Score: 1

    vBulletin is written in plain/visible PHP. It is open source. I have worked in places using it in the past and modified the source to fix issues or add functionality (though directly editing the source is not usually a good solution, it's better to use one of the built in hooks).

    That said, one should distinguish between OSS and FOSS. vBulletin is not FOSS. You do pay licensing for it, and it's not free to distribute. Various modules can also be encoded/encrypted, as many third-parties that create vBulletin plugins have been known to do.

    If Ubuntu want to go full FOSS, they could have used something like SMF, however vBulletin is more popular and (when last I used the two) featureful.

  22. Re:Easier way to find your representative's info. on Congress Voting On Amendment to Defund NSA Domestic Spying Tomorrow · · Score: 1

    Why do we need a webpage? If they want to know how many people are against it they can just ask the NSA.

    Oh...wait...

  23. Except around here these days it's more like

    Government gains too much power, becomes oppressive. People rev... oh wait the next season of Big Brother is on, gotta go guys.

  24. Units in the home on A Radical Plan For Saving Microsoft's Surface RT · · Score: 1

    Sure, it will get Surface units in the home

    Which would increase market-share. Which could then attract more devs. Which would result in more apps. Which would result in somewhat more of a reason to buy one of the damn things...

  25. Re:Dumping? on A Radical Plan For Saving Microsoft's Surface RT · · Score: 1

    How are they going to make their money back in this scenario?

    A cut of the app store?