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  1. Re:Fuck linux and systemd on Systemd Named 'Lamest Vendor' At Pwnie Security Awards (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    PBI packaging was sent to that happy packaging ground in the sky some time ago. Before PC-BSD was renamed TrueOS, IIRC. BTW, warden has been canned, too.

  2. Re:Why not OpenBSD? on Systemd Named 'Lamest Vendor' At Pwnie Security Awards (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    TrueOS uses FreeBSD 12 current which is over a year awhile

    What are you trying to say in English? Because that is gibberish. And what is a "food afternoon"?

    The only one of those things that is any more than trivial to install is a DE. You can get all the rest in a few SECONDS using "pkg install sudo bash gnuls".

  3. Re:Why not OpenBSD? on Systemd Named 'Lamest Vendor' At Pwnie Security Awards (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Aighearach is the dictionary definition of an ignoramus.

  4. Re:Fuck linux and systemd on Systemd Named 'Lamest Vendor' At Pwnie Security Awards (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 5, Informative

    What the fuck are you babbling about, schmuck? FreeBSD has an excellent binary package system with automatic dependency resolution: pkg. The user doesn't need to compile source from ports except if he wants something to be built with unusual options (same as linux, incidentally). All you need is "pkg install foo" and it will fetch the package foo and all its dependencies from the repo and install it.

  5. Terminology on An End To Phone Pranking (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    I object strenuously to the term "prank call" for this sort of behavior. "Crank call" is a bit more appropriate, but still hopelessly inadequate. This is selfish sociopathic behavior of the worst, most disgusting kind.

  6. Re:Bizarre on An End To Phone Pranking (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    Yes, I am depressed by the actions of stupid, evil people. But not surprised.

  7. Re:So now that this is public info... on An End To Phone Pranking (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    In general, people who are prank calling the Coast Guard probably aren't terribly bright.

    In general, making stupid assumptions is stupid. And of what use is "in general"?

  8. Re:Sod locked firmware on Ask Slashdot: How Can You Avoid Routers With Locked Firmware? · · Score: 1

    It's pronounced "ow" as in "ouch", dipstick. Not "aw". Sheesh.

  9. Re: Green Bar is the probem. on Let's Encrypt Criticized Over Speedy HTTPS Certifications (threatpost.com) · · Score: 1

    You keep using capital letters in a domain name. You know that's now how that works right? All domains are always lowercase, and even if you type them in manually your browser will switch it to lowercase.

    It would be more correct to state that name lookups for DNS queries must match with case insensitivity. "example.com" is identical to "Example.com", or "ExAmPlE.CoM".

  10. Re:Missile defenses on The US And Australia Are Testing Hypersonic Missiles (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    Are you sure shining a laser on something already designed to withstand unthinkable heat wouldn't be more like threatening the devil with a match?

  11. Re:Perhaps he can recover some dignity... on Sean Spicer Resigns as White House Press Secretary After Objecting To Scaramucci Hire (cnbc.com) · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Nazgûl

    All right, what were you trying to write and why are you too stupid to use the Preview button?

  12. Re:Baloney on Public Service Announcement: You Should Not Force Quit Apps on iOS (daringfireball.net) · · Score: 4, Informative

    Utter bullshit. A GlobalTop FGPMMOPA6H standalone complete GPS module (as used in, e.g., the Adafruit Ultimate GPS breakout) draws 25 mA at 3.3 v during acquisition, and 20 mA at 3.3 v while tracking. And it does all those same things you list. "Very computationally expensive", my ass. All the analog and digital stuff is run off a single tiny MediaTek chip MT3339, which includes a radio and an ARM7EJ-S core. The processor clock runs at no more than 98 MHz.

    If you have a 2000 mAh battery, it ought to run the entire GPS load, minus display mapping, for 100 hours. You shouldn't be able to detect any effect at all in "minutes".

  13. Wrong. A sheep whose brain is nothing but a marshmallow to begin with cannot deal with evaluating a variety of sources and viewpoints.

  14. Imagine a world where there is no Breitbart. Nothing but an echo chamber of lying cucks.

  15. Re:'trolley' ? on Michigan Will Build 25 Self-Driving Trolleys In 2017 (observer.com) · · Score: 1

    What the hell are you talking about? What kind of illiterateville do you come from? A trolley is short for trolley car. A trolley car is an electric railcar that runs on tracks laid in the street.

    Sheesh.

  16. The best era of Asimov's, by contrast, was the Gardner Dozois era in the 80's and 90's. But then the SJW's took over the science fiction profession and replaced him with a woman. Now that magazine just features touchy-feely fantasy stories where every story is written by a woman and any semblance of actual science fiction is long gone.

    That trend took sway in earnest at Analog in the 70s after starting to bubble up as early as the 60s. Also, I have piles and piles of Science Fiction Book Club titles by female authors which I never cracked open.

  17. Archive.org became hipsterized in terms of site design some time ago. It used to be very elegantly laid out and you used to be able to actually find things. Bunch of tasteless infants.

  18. I wish there was an archive of Analog Science Fiction and Science Fact, formerly Astounding. That one always seemed liked the thinking man's reader to me. The golden age for me was the 1950s through 1960s into the 1970s.

    Murray Leinster, Christopher Anvil, Poul Anderson, Isaac Asimov, Keith Laumer ... those were the days.

  19. Then what makes it clear to Bank of America account holders that "bankofarnerica.com" (that's ARNERICA) isn't the site they're looking for?

    Their eyeballs looking at the URL in the address bar, and their brain interpreting the text, makes it clear. Unfortunately, as in your example, it can be pretty subtle, and if UTF-8 URLs catch on, it becomes downright impossible, as UTF-8 has multiple code points which render indistinguishable from each other in various fonts.

  20. Keycap printing on Enthusiast Resurrects IBM's Legendary 'Model F' Keyboard (popularmechanics.com) · · Score: 2

    Dye sublimation is better than just simple-minded surface printing (which is utterly unacceptable), but double-shot injection molding is preferred. Too bad they did not make the right choice. Big black mark.

  21. Re:Nanny state socialism on Oregon Raises the Smoking Age (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1

    People smoke because of addiction.

    Bullshit. No one ever smoked their first cigarette because they were addicted. People smoke because they choose to try the experience. They may then become trapped by addiction, but that's not why they started smoking.

  22. Re:Better distro suggestions? on 'Severe' Systemd Bug Allowed Remote Code Execution For Two Years (itwire.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    That's easy. FreeBSD! It is POSIX, UNIX philosophy through and through, and not only completely free of Poetteringitis; it's free of all immature and incompetent vanities and warped design crazes.

  23. Re: Batteries and Control systems are expensive on There Is a Point At Which It Will Make Economical Sense To Defect From the Electrical Grid (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    You are so far afield as to be ridiculous. Get real. This thread sprang from the post: "It might also be easier to buffer. Just pump it into a tank at your side, if there's an interruption in supply, you still have this reserve." The proposal was for a single home to "pump" natural gas into some kind of a pressure vessel in the home. That is the scale we are talking about. Your system of trucks carrying LNG to homes does not exist. Any discussion of large-scale liquefaction plants is completely irrelevant.

    There is no source of LNG to an individual home. Nor even CNG. All you have is the gas main.

    Did you even bother to consult the references I provided?

  24. Re: Batteries and Control systems are expensive on There Is a Point At Which It Will Make Economical Sense To Defect From the Electrical Grid (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    Compressing natural gas from essentially 0 bar gauge (1 bar absolute) to 170 bar takes ideally about 110 kWh/kg. Liquefying it from a the same starting point takes about 270 kWh/kg.

    I'd call that considerably more than a "little bit" more expensive. It's considerably more than twice as much, and that's before accounting for increased plant cost which has to be amortized.

    And liquefaction efficiency is poor at small scale. A 1 gal/d plant is about 10% efficient. A 100,000 gal/d plant is about 35% efficient. I doubt if compression efficiency is much dependent on scale.

    Reference - warning: PDF
    bar = psi / 14.7
    kWh/kg = Wh/lb * 0.646

  25. Re:It will also require a change in law on There Is a Point At Which It Will Make Economical Sense To Defect From the Electrical Grid (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    Actually, on inspection of the bill, every single item is billed per kWh. No kWh would by zero $. In fact, I would be sure to use a little of their power so they wouldn't get crazy suspicious. I don't know what they could do to me. Terminate my account maybe, I guess.