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  1. Re:Vulnerable? on The Windows Flaw That Cracks Amazon Web Services · · Score: 1

    How does active directory prevent you from changing offline passwords for local users?

    I assume this is similar to ntpasswd, which our helpdesk folks use from time to time to reset local admin passwords on machines that are connected to the domain. Why they choose to do it that way vs just resetting the password from another account I am not sure.

  2. Re:Good, Screw you PowerVR on Intel Bay Trail Brings New Architecture and Performance To Atom · · Score: 0

    To the idiot with modpoints, here is another comment you can mod down. Have fun, my karma can take it.

  3. Re:cement filled barrels? on Fixing Fukushima's Water Problem · · Score: 1

    No, I just lazily assumed even dilution.
    Do you have a better method?

  4. Re:OPEN SOURCE GPU DRIVERS!!! on Intel Bay Trail Brings New Architecture and Performance To Atom · · Score: 2

    Does it matter?
    If I can get even comparable power consumption sign me up. I am sick of this binary driver ARM bullshit.

  5. Re:OPEN SOURCE GPU DRIVERS!!! on Intel Bay Trail Brings New Architecture and Performance To Atom · · Score: 0

    Hopefully we finally see some x86 android devices.

    BTW your sig is stupid. If a smoker tells you not to smoke as it causes cancer do you ignore him too?

  6. Good, Screw you PowerVR on Intel Bay Trail Brings New Architecture and Performance To Atom · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Hopefully, this will end any reliance on PowerVR by Intel. I dream that this is the beginning of the end for those bastards.

  7. Re:cement filled barrels? on Fixing Fukushima's Water Problem · · Score: 1

    I am east coast, but even if you dumped the all the fuel from that reactor in the ocean your beaches would not be unsafe. If you think otherwise I want to see some citations.

  8. Re:Good: APUs. Not so good: Server ARM on AMD Reveals Roadmap For ARM and X86 SoCs · · Score: 1

    Funny you say that, take a look at the following and see how many are PowerVR graphics. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atom_(system_on_chip)

    For quite a while there were atom powered linux machines that could not be updated and keep graphics working because of those bastards.

  9. Re:I thought they denied having chemical weapons? on Syrian Gov't Agrees To Russian Chem-Weapon Turnover Plan · · Score: 1

    Sure, but since they signed no treaties they are not bound too. The perks of having a country.

  10. Re:AMD is dying on AMD Reveals Roadmap For ARM and X86 SoCs · · Score: 2

    Large scale computing in the enterprise is not the top end. They buy lots of middling range Xeons and Opterons. I buy these all the time. I am not your typical consumer. The top end CPUs don't even come as Xeons, Xeons lag behind.

  11. Re:Good: APUs. Not so good: Server ARM on AMD Reveals Roadmap For ARM and X86 SoCs · · Score: 1

    I agree.
    I just meant neither number is trustworthy. Both will lie about it, or say it in a way that looks better.

  12. Re:Good: APUs. Not so good: Server ARM on AMD Reveals Roadmap For ARM and X86 SoCs · · Score: 1

    I am not a fanboy for either.
    I want to see them compete.

    2008 intel fanboy was a liar. His Atom was low power but the rest of the stuff an SoC has was not in it and drew far more power. So it never got to a lower power state. Its idle usage including the MB was never low enough. I had one.

  13. Re:AMD is dying on AMD Reveals Roadmap For ARM and X86 SoCs · · Score: 1

    How much top of the line stuff is sold vs the rest of it?

    CPUs for most purposes, outside of mobile, are good enough. I think they already sold of their Fabs anyway.

  14. Re:Good: APUs. Not so good: Server ARM on AMD Reveals Roadmap For ARM and X86 SoCs · · Score: 3, Informative

    So what if the power envelope is larger if they spend more time in a lower power state? What exactly is included in the SoC that Avoton does not have? Intel loves to report only CPU watts and ignore the rest. The first atoms were almost hilarious in that the northbridge/southbridge drew more power than the CPU but Intel only reported CPU power in their advertising.

  15. Re:Sounds promising on Syrian Gov't Agrees To Russian Chem-Weapon Turnover Plan · · Score: 2

    Let's say you are your basic Sunni/Shia/other nutbag group and you can kill your rivals and blame it on the government you hate, why not?

  16. Re:Linus an example of ... on Linus Responds To RdRand Petition With Scorn · · Score: 1

    Being a millionaire does not make someone right, but it does generally mean they have had to work with others at times.

    He is the head kernel maintainer. He decides if it gets in the kernel or not.

    I think there are maybe a handful of people that could replace him, but not any number.

  17. Re:Sounds promising on Syrian Gov't Agrees To Russian Chem-Weapon Turnover Plan · · Score: 4, Insightful

    It is possible that no one in Assad's forces is responsible. This is a multiparty civil war in which it is quite possible that one group has gained access to these weapons to have a plausible way to strike their enemies and blame the attack on another enemy which is their enemy.

  18. Re:I thought they denied having chemical weapons? on Syrian Gov't Agrees To Russian Chem-Weapon Turnover Plan · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Nope, they admit to having them. They admit to having facilities to make them. They only deny having used them in this conflict.

  19. Re:Marital/Money problems??? on Linus Responds To RdRand Petition With Scorn · · Score: 1

    The software guys really can't do much about it. If the hardware guys don't plan well. Unless you think the kernel should have multiple redundant drivers. That seems pointless.

  20. Re:Marital/Money problems??? on Linus Responds To RdRand Petition With Scorn · · Score: 1

    Because they will not give anyone those sheets.
    Many of them go into phones where single microamps don't matter and at $600 each another $1 won't matter.

    Hell, just burn the parts list into some silicon and let a single command retrieve it all. Then you don't need to be able to probe the separate devices at all.

  21. Re:Why all the whining in the first place? on Linus Responds To RdRand Petition With Scorn · · Score: 1

    Is there any evidence of this being the case? Not the lower entropy idea, but RdRand being something intel does for the NSA?

  22. Re:Linus an example of ... on Linus Responds To RdRand Petition With Scorn · · Score: 1

    He can communicate fine, sometimes this is the best way. There is no need to tolerate morons. This kind of talk does nothing to damage anyone's reputation to anyone that has half a brain. There is a time for social graces and a time to say "Nvidia, Fuck you".

  23. Re:Marital/Money problems??? on Linus Responds To RdRand Petition With Scorn · · Score: 1

    I took it more to mean he was complaining about their conflicting pull requests. Not breaking other users use of the kernel is job 1. Getting your shit in is job 2.

    ARM SoCs present lots of problems to everyone who is not their designers I suppose. From the pointlessly closed drivers, oh wow an accelerometer, to the lack of any sort of way to probe hardware on boot. They seem to specialize in being a royal PITA.

  24. Re:Linus an example of ... on Linus Responds To RdRand Petition With Scorn · · Score: 2

    Which is why Linux is a millionaire and head of the worlds most used operating system?

    Social graces are fine for when they are needed. I do not hold them in contempt at all. There is a time and a place for them and everything else, this was not the time to suffer fools.

  25. Re:Why all the whining in the first place? on Linus Responds To RdRand Petition With Scorn · · Score: 1

    Fine it would lower entropy, but it would not make it totally useless.