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  1. Re:Meltdown, Spectre, etc on AMD's New 12nm Ryzen Laptop Chips Look To Put the Pressure on Intel (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Meltdown was never a problem on AMD but it was a problem on Apple ARM, so not only Intel.

  2. Re:the question is"Why?" on EU Takes Ireland To Court For Not Claiming Apple Tax Windfall (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    s/sidekicks/kickbacks

  3. Re:the question is"Why?" on EU Takes Ireland To Court For Not Claiming Apple Tax Windfall (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    They get tax from those that work at Apple. Maybe some politicians are getting sidekicks. Ireland get tax by letting Apple pay almost no tax in all of Europe. And Ireland takes more money from EU than it pays. Of course most of the other EU countries are not happy about it.

  4. Re:Bad move for Desktop, 64-bit wastes memory on Ubuntu To Stop Offering 32-Bit ISO Images, Joining Many Other Linux Distros (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    No, you are wrong. If you want performance AND you want 32-bit pointers you can use https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

    Then you get the benefit of 16 64 bit GPRs, PC-relative addressing and other features that INCREASE performance. There is no good reason to run a 64-bit x86 OS in 32 bit mode.

  5. Re:32 bit boxes are probably suited better elsewhe on Ubuntu To Stop Offering 32-Bit ISO Images, Joining Many Other Linux Distros (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    64-bit ought to be faster: 16 64-bit GPRs, PC-relative addressing etc. If you want smaller pointers, it is nothing hindering you to run 32 bit apps on the 64-bit OS.

  6. I think you are right, it is very few things Trump has actually done, and I can imagine that he likes to take credit for it. But is it not sloppy reporting from WSJ?

  7. Most of this was already in place last year during the Obama administration. What is new now?

  8. Re:Senator Browser History on Senate Votes To Kill FCC's Broadband Privacy Rules (pcworld.com) · · Score: 1

    and how is the pr0n reported to them, that is the interesting part!

  9. Re: Pray I don't change it again on Apple Begins Rejecting Apps With 'Hot Code Push' Feature (apple.com) · · Score: 1

    It is not enough to have a mac, you need to have a recent >=~ 2010 mac to be able to use the latest OS and xcode. Now, if anything had happened with the mac line since 2010, maybe there would be a reason except to grab money, I *guess* you can develop android apps on a 386 with enough memory, but certainly on Apple hardware from 2010 that allows *much* more memory and power than the 2017 mac "pro".

  10. Re:some things should be trivial for any expert on Programmers Are Confessing Their Coding Sins To Protest a Broken Job Interview Process (theoutline.com) · · Score: 1

    ff your dataset is 20 elements then every in-place sorting algorithm will be equally cache friendly (on the d-cache), if you are worried about the i-cache, I guess it is better to use just ONE sorting function, qsort for example (you will need a fast sort for larger arrays anyway).

    If you would run your sorting algorithm on a really small data such as 20 elements (and care for O(1)), my guess is that a normal bubble sort is not what you want. I guess you would use a combination of loop unrolling and some SIMD tricks and maybe a memory pre-fetch and that the result would NOT look like bubblesort.

  11. Re:Doublethink? Try watching the interview before on George Orwell's '1984' Tops Amazon's Bestseller List (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Obama being christian is not a fact at all, I would guess he is an ateist (like me --- and I would guess Trump as well), but certainly it is debatable and not a fact.

     

  12. Re:Can anyone point me to the previous list? on Free Software Foundation Shakes Up Its List of Priority Projects (networkworld.com) · · Score: 1

    To my knowledge Hurd has not been a high priority project nor received money for development in decades, so I fail to see how that can sum up anything of their "high priority" goals.

  13. Would the lawyers of 7 out of 8 companies advised their clients to STFU and hope the issue goes away. if asked:
    Would your company help killing innocent children?
    Would your company help gas minorities to death?
    Would your company help registering Christians for the state of China?
    Would your company sell unhealthy food?

    For how many of those questions would it be ethical to duck the question?
    Why would you not like to answer any of the questions?

  14. You say Syria.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

    How many immigrates to USA?
    How many immigrates to Turkey?
    How many immigrates to Sweden?

    What is the population of USA, Turkey, and Sweden?

    Who has the most liberal immigration policy?

  15. It is quite bold to claim that the USA has one of the most liberal immigration systems, do you have _any_ data to back that up?

    If you think about how rich USA is, and how few refugees enter the country, could it not be that just _maybe_ your statement is not true? What i mean is that there are lots of countries out there.

    Turist VISA is very liberal if you are from an EU country (ESTA), but I guess that it is similarly easy to enter EU from USA. And I guess you do not need to give your finger prints on arrival (yet), but I might be wrong and I know it has been discussed.

  16. Re:The flip side of having the right dongle on Design For the Present (marco.org) · · Score: 1

    There is no win in changing connectors every few years (except for making money and hinder competition). A PS/2 keyboard and mouse is as good as a USB one (and for real-time applications better). No need to force customer to by new hardware all the time. If you care about the customer keep the port for a few years.

    Now, releasing hardware with memory sizes five years old in combination with _only_ ports of the future is pure evil. The customer will not be able to use the product without a nest of dongles, and when the the new ports will be standard, the amount of RAM in the laptop will be ridiculous. And _when_ that time comes and the port will truly be standard do you seriously think Apple will still use it? Or will they be "brave" to make money on new ports and dongles?

  17. Re: Mindshare on Skype For Windows Phone Will Stop Working in 2017 (betanews.com) · · Score: 0

    You are not an average user, most people change phone all the time, just as you said. I just pointed out that the possibility for having a phone for a long time is better on android (because of battery and memory cards mainly). If you can keep your battery for 7 years -- lucky you -- my 3 years old battery is not as good any more, and I plan to buy a new in the future.

    It is not that it cannot be done on iphones, it is that it is *specifically* designed to be as hard as possible to do. This is getting quite common on android phones as well, but you can still *choose* top android phones with SD-card readers and replaceable batteries.

    I applaud you for not wasting the environment, but it is certainly not thanks to Apple. Credit where credit is due, and here it is to you. I also believe on average, iphone users keep their phones for a *shorter* time as they see their phones as fashion accessories (this is only a feeling of mine, I have no hard data supporting it).

  18. Re: Mindshare on Skype For Windows Phone Will Stop Working in 2017 (betanews.com) · · Score: 0

    And when the battery from my Samsung Galaxy Note II from the same era (five days more modern) stops working, I can buy a new battery.

  19. Re: Mindshare on Skype For Windows Phone Will Stop Working in 2017 (betanews.com) · · Score: 2

    Iphone 5 was released Sept. 21, 2012

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

  20. Re:Does it now support HDDs larger than 2 GB? on GNU Hurd 0.6 Released · · Score: 1

    Yes, it does support hard drives bigger than 2 GB. _Long_ time ago the ext2 file system implementation could not handle _partitions_ larger than circa 2 GB because the file system was implemented using mmap (cool is it not?). That restriction would not have been a problem if the operating system had been ported to 64-bit architectures.

    Hurd is working --- its biggest problems are stability and driver support. It is a beautiful system that has little value for normal users as Linux is more stable and has better drivers. The beauty of writing file systems, network stacks etc in user space is amazing. So is the possibility for the _normal_ user to create their own file systems, in any language, using any libraries and mount them without root access.

  21. Re:Speaking for German language, yes on Ask Slashdot: Do Most Programmers Understand the English Language? · · Score: 1

    While I do agree with most you write... an octet is 8 bits, a byte is (most often) the least addressable unit on a computer and is CHAR_BIT of length (usually 8 bits though).

    You can read about octets in various (english) RFCs and it is not a french invention, it is also exist in many other languages.

  22. Re:Great! Until.... on Stolen Cellphone Databases Switched On In US · · Score: 0

    It is no new technology, so it does not give the carriers any more opportunities than they already have.

    It is working in Europe, you are just late to the game.

  23. Re:So it begins.. on Stolen Cellphone Databases Switched On In US · · Score: 3, Interesting

    In Sweden you need to report the phone stolen to the police before blacklisting it. Works like a charm. No problems what so ever.

  24. Re:Firefo 14 will encrypt searches on Firefox OS Will Win Big With Developers - Mozilla · · Score: 1

    certificates I guess, my employer does not read my gmail by redirecting https.

  25. Re:It's like a PDP-11 on Minecraft Creator's New Game Called 0x10c · · Score: 1

    it is hexadecimal, not binary