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  1. Re:Keep in mind the occasional bug in the system? on Examining the User-Reported Issues With Upgrading From GCC 4.7 To 4.8 · · Score: 1

    that's nonsense, the C specification deliberately leaves many things to implementation, and those things alone create many bugs. but this is what I would expect from ivory tower types who have never done systems programming and have no real world experience

  2. Re:Snowden needs to get out of Russia on Russia Plans To Extend Edward Snowden's Asylum · · Score: 1

    very funny, we could make a list of even worse things, twice as long, about the USA. Maybe you need to get out of the USA.

    none of those things you listed are of any relevance to how Snowden will ever be treated.

  3. Re:radioactive booty on Mexico's Stolen Radiation Truck: It Could Happen In the US · · Score: 1

    why shouldn't they use the word, for centuries "booty" has meant things taken by violence or robbery. It comes from the middle low german bute, meaning the sharing of spoils. The slang word for either buttocks or vagina originated with the blacks in the late 1920s, and largely stayed in black culture until very recently.

  4. Re:ugly truth, they never stood a chance. on Lenovo To Buy IBM's Server Business For $2.3 Billion · · Score: 1

    of course google and amazon work in the realm of "beyond embarassingly parallel" type problems. I guarentee you they are not tracking their money, payroll, etc. with such systems. Note that amazon and google sometimes can't manage the failures either, and they "go down".

  5. Re:Comparison to Chess? on Pentago Is a First-Player Win · · Score: 1

    uh huh, 50 and married with children. livin' the Al Bundy dream....

  6. Re:Can't say I disagree. on FSF's Richard Stallman Calls LLVM a 'Terrible Setback' · · Score: 1

    , does GNU/Linux have higher i/o and network performance than FreeBSD? more security than OpenBSD? more supported platforms than NetBSD?

    GNU/Linux is spiralling off in all manner of directions with upstart vs rc alternatives, syslog-ng vs. rsyslog, desktop wars, virtualization alternatives, etc. etc.

  7. Re:Comparison to Chess? on Pentago Is a First-Player Win · · Score: 2, Funny

    woman
    state space complexity: 10^191
    23 out of 28 days

    three orders of magnitude added 5 out of 28 days

                                                                                   

  8. Re:The world has gone nuts on Lenovo To Buy IBM's Server Business For $2.3 Billion · · Score: 2

    nothing nuts about it, profits too slim in x86 commodity server market. IBM can focus on consulting, high end enterprise softwares and big iron.

  9. Re:ugly truth, they never stood a chance. on Lenovo To Buy IBM's Server Business For $2.3 Billion · · Score: 1

    real IT greybeard here, those x86 commodity crap wintel boxes aren't real servers. Let me give you a hint, the world's money and your insurance and stocks are on real big iron, and IBM dominates that market.

  10. Re:Never use a .0 on FreeBSD 10.0 Released · · Score: 1

    other projects just increment numbers without any radical changes. OpenBSD for example just slowly increments by 0.1

  11. Re:Mircea Popescu is a criminal... nothing more on Romanian Bitcoin Entrepreneur Steps In To Pay OpenBSD Shortfall · · Score: 1

    do you have any real proof to your assertions other than you unfounded opinions. it is trivial to slander anyone posting as AC. Do you have links to arrests, investigations, complaints to law enforcement or any such?

  12. Re:Serious Questions about OpenBSD infrastructure on Romanian Bitcoin Entrepreneur Steps In To Pay OpenBSD Shortfall · · Score: 1

    if you would look at actual market share stats, plenty of other architecture than x86 or x86-64 still have significant chunks.

    openbsd exposes bugs when compiling on various architectures, one of the big reasons they do so. Linux continually has alignment security holes (look at the CVE) because it focuses on x86 and x86-64

  13. Re:Serious Questions about OpenBSD infrastructure on Romanian Bitcoin Entrepreneur Steps In To Pay OpenBSD Shortfall · · Score: 2

    not poor management at all, the varying architectures with their alignment issues expose bugs, many of them. Did you know projects like Linux have huge alignment bugs that cause major security holes that crop up again and again because they mainly build and test only on x86-32 and x86-64? If you follow the CVE you'd know this.

    The power requirements are not astronomical at all, those of us in the business of caring for racked servers in HVAC controlled areas know this.

        here's a post from Theo about the power:

    "It is not a lot of power; that is a myth.

    The power bill is around $1500/month, to run 2.5 racks of equipment
    with really good air conditioning. Relative to this, 1 full rack in a
    Calgary datacenter is over $1000/month. Considering this is 2.5 racks
    the current operation is VERY COST EFFECTIVE RELATIVE TO THE
    ALTERNATIVES."

    -- quoted from here
      List: openbsd-misc
    Subject: Re: Request for Funding our Electricity
    From: Theo de Raadt
    Date: 2014-01-18 3:38:05
    Message-ID: 201401180338.s0I3c5jF003813 () cvs ! openbsd ! org

  14. Re:Serious Questions about OpenBSD infrastructure on Romanian Bitcoin Entrepreneur Steps In To Pay OpenBSD Shortfall · · Score: 1

    wrong. one machine per architecture? you speak out of ignorance of how the OpenBSD build and test process is done.

  15. Proof? on Romanian Bitcoin Entrepreneur Steps In To Pay OpenBSD Shortfall · · Score: 1

    any proof that this isn't just someone typing into IRC?

    where is the announcement from Theo?

  16. Re:You don't get it. on The Whole Story Behind Low AP CS Exam Stats · · Score: 1

    Weak? a high school will do well by its students if it focuses on the basics: writing, reading, arithmetic, general science, history, speaking.

    There is no need for special computer science or computer use or engineering program. Those with a hunger for such things will get the knowledge themselves. I did.

  17. Re:Keep in mind the occasional bug in the system? on Examining the User-Reported Issues With Upgrading From GCC 4.7 To 4.8 · · Score: 1

    terrible news for you that will shatter your world-view: all compilers of any language and of any version have bugs

  18. Re:#10 square feet of pizza on Blowing Up a Pointless Job Interview · · Score: 1

    that sounds like Sicilian New Yorker talk! *BLAM* *BLAM* !

  19. Re:#10 square feet of pizza on Blowing Up a Pointless Job Interview · · Score: 1

    but pizza pi R ! ^2, pizza pi rounded(R)!

  20. Re:The ones I hate on Blowing Up a Pointless Job Interview · · Score: 1

    and for any questions of self analysis or self criticism: "can the Maker repair what He has made?"

  21. Re:appliance microcontroller in the 60s??? on Ask Slashdot: What's the Most Often-Run Piece of Code -- Ever? · · Score: 1

    but Lilienfield only had idea, no proof he ever made working device. crystals of the required purity didn't exist.

  22. Re: For / While in C on Ask Slashdot: What's the Most Often-Run Piece of Code -- Ever? · · Score: 1

    you're going to do the alarm sound oscillator with your ladder logic? snooze timer and snooze bar? 12 or 24 hour time, a couple alarms, ......yes you could but the microcontroller starts looking like a better and more flexible solution.

  23. Re:The ones I hate on Blowing Up a Pointless Job Interview · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I think Leon in "Blade Runner" nailed the proper response to those

  24. Re: For / While in C on Ask Slashdot: What's the Most Often-Run Piece of Code -- Ever? · · Score: 1

    i wonder if that's true anymore, little 8 bit microcontrollers with 4kb of flash are less than 50 cents each in bulk

  25. Re:Most common code x++ on Ask Slashdot: What's the Most Often-Run Piece of Code -- Ever? · · Score: 1

    not sure it would be letter x

          I'd say i++