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  1. Re:Absence?! on How Ready Is IPv6 To Succeed IPv4? · · Score: 1

    Well, the address of every single one does change. If they are in local or global DNS, you have to change 10,000 entries.

  2. Re:Absence?! on How Ready Is IPv6 To Succeed IPv4? · · Score: 1

    You were doing good right up to where you brought in the population of the earth. What in god's name does the population of people have to do with the population of network peers? You could have just pointed out that putting every individual grain of sand on the internet ain't ever gonna happen.

  3. Re:Absence?! on How Ready Is IPv6 To Succeed IPv4? · · Score: 1

    Not to mention that the number of network peers bears no relation whatsoever to the population of the earth.

  4. Dear Pukeface on Intel Security Scares Ransomware Script Kiddie Out of Business · · Score: 5, Insightful

    You don't want to be a criminal? Well, you ARE one, dearie. Should have thought of that. I hope you spend your entire life behind bars. It will give you time to think about your fail.

  5. Re:1.5V alkaline vs 1.2v NiMH on Company Extends Alkaline Battery Life With Voltage Booster · · Score: 1

    All the devices I happen to have that use AAs will work just fine down to at least 0.9 v. Some of them work to 0.7 v.

  6. Re:opted out entirely on PayPal Will Be Able To Robo-Text/Call Users With No Opt-out Starting July 1 · · Score: 1

    You won't engage in a transaction that MAKES you use PayPal, and I won't engage in a transaction that DOESN'T LET me use PayPal. We cancel each other out. I'm not going to furnish my credit card info to random entities. Just not going to do it.

  7. Re:Opposing Reps wanted more Patriot Act on Senate Passes USA Freedom Act · · Score: 1

    Dear Bitch McConnell: fuck off and die.

  8. Re:Rand who? on Senate Passes USA Freedom Act · · Score: 3, Informative

    Spin it any way you want, the fact stands that an evil, bad bill failed Republican support 23-30 and won Democrat support 43-1. Period. Live with it.

    There are plenty of people, Republicans and others, who want to stamp out islamists carrying on war against the US and all civilized parts of the world, but we don't want to trample the rights and protections of innocents to do it.

  9. Re:Rand who? on Senate Passes USA Freedom Act · · Score: 3, Interesting

    What part of what has been going on did you not understand?

    Section 215 of the Patsiot Act, the one that authorized mass metadata collection, sunseted on Monday at 0000 hours because Rand Paul blocked Bitch McConnell railroading in a clean extension. It has been dead since then. Kaput. It was well on the way to being adjudicated unconstitutional anyway, but that has been 13 years coming, and still not 100% settled. Thanks to Rand Paul - and nobody else - that thing is now dead, regardless of whether the constitutionality is ever 100% settled.

    It was dead Monday, and it is still dead. The Freedom Act did not re-enact it. Bitch was trying to sneak in an extension so it wouldn't have to be re-enacted, but the son of a bitch got his ass handed to him by Rand. It is no less dead after passage of the Freedom Act horse shit.

  10. Re:Rand who? on Senate Passes USA Freedom Act · · Score: 5, Insightful

    A lot of good his little song and dance did... Eh, easy to speak up when nobody is listening.

    He single-handedly blocked continuation of authorization of mass metadata collection. That's what he did. A whole hell of a lot more than any of those other pukes did. You don't see mass metadata collection being re-authorized by this new act, do you? That's right. It's not.

    Yeah, this new act sucks. And guess what? It passed on the strength of democrats being in the tank by an absurd 43-1 margin. Republicans opposed it by 30-23.

  11. Re:Meet the New Act on Senate Passes USA Freedom Act · · Score: 0, Troll

    YEAs: 67 (D = 43, R = 23, I = 1)
    NAYs: 32 (D = 1, R = 30, I = 1)
    Not voting: 1 (R)

    Republicans were slightly more against the bill, Democrats were overwhelmingly in favor of it, and the two Independents were mostly split.

    Bullshit. That's not what those numbers say. Republicans were opposed (56% opposed). Democrats were completely in the tank.

  12. Re:Second post! on Perl 5.22 Released · · Score: 0

    Nobody gives a shit about perl6, and nobody ever will. Just call it something else, for god's sake; maybe ivory. Python4 isn't quite the joke that perl6 is, but close to it. Changes in the evolution of a computer language that don't preserve backward compatibility are stupid. C++ got good adoption because the degree to which it was and is not a perfect compatible superset of C is extremely small. The tradeoff was extreme complexity and a profusion of multitudinous ways to do things. Hence the way was opened for ground-up new languages like Java, go, rust, etc, etc.

  13. Re:To be more precise, Amazon will collect on taxe on Amazon Decides To Start Paying Tax In the UK · · Score: 1

    Of course politicians make sure that the public doesn't understand such things with demagoguery.

    Politicians make sure stupid people don't understand. There isn't much they can do to take away understanding from people who have brains.

  14. Re:Why ext4 on Linux 4.0 Has a File-System Corruption Problem, RAID Users Warned · · Score: 2, Informative

    Name one that actually boots the Linux kernel, and doesn't just run in user space. (Yes, I am a fan of ZFS, but not the Linux implementation.)

    You really should get out more. ZFS on Linux is not to be confused with the ZFS Fuse project. You can boot from a ZoL filesystem. In general ZoL is about as stable, complete, and reliable as any ZFS.

  15. Re:Won't someone think of the birds. on Energy Dept. Wants Big Wind Energy Technology In All 50 US States · · Score: 2

    If it's 30,000 ft at 3/4 ton per 1000 ft, don't you mean 22.5 tons? Not 20,000 tons?

  16. Re:Irresponsible. on Software Glitch Caused Crash of Airbus A400M Military Transport Aircraft · · Score: 1

    Parent and grandparent - tell that to the Marines. An Osprey had a "hard landing" (hah!) in Hawaii May 18. One Marine was killed and 21 hospitalized. There was a pall of black smoke rising from the "hard landing".

  17. Re:I don't understand.. on Microwave Comms Betwen Population Centers Could Be Key To Easing Internet Bottlenecks · · Score: 1

    Speed of light in fibre is about two-thirds that of vacuum.

    Direct-line distance from New York to Los Angeles: 3940 km
    Speed of light in vacuo (= approximate speed of electromagnetic radiation in air): 300,000 km/s
    Travel time: 13 ms

    If speed in fiber is approximately 67%, then travel time is approximate 150%
    Travel time: 20 mS
    The route on the surface is very unlikely to be an exactly straight line, so figure maybe 25 ms

    Half of the (round-trip) ping time is maybe 80 ms for a good fast end-to-end connection in practice. So we're talking less than 10% of that for difference between fiber and wireless, not taking into account the comparative number of repeaters in each case. Doesn't sound like this hare-brain idea would do anything significant for latency.

  18. Re:Republicans and their unhealthy space obscessio on Robotic Space Plane Launches In Mystery Mission This Week · · Score: 3, Interesting

    NASA had nothing to do with the microwave oven. Diathermy (therapeatic heating of human tissue by radio waves) was being used in 1930. Westinghouse demonstrated cooking food using short waves in the 1933 Worlds Fair. The cavity magnetron was perfected early in WW2. Percy Spencer noticed a candy bar in his pocket melting when he was working close to an operating radar in 1945. He experimented with heating food in a metal box fed from a magnetron the same year; Raytheon filing a patent for it. Raytheon built he first "Radarange" in 1947. A public vending machine was producing hot dogs in Grand Central Terminal in 1947.

  19. Re:have they changed their fuel supplier? on Russian Rocket Crashes In Siberia · · Score: 2

    Your fuel filter is so piss poor that it won't trap iron filings?

  20. Re:Pass because the price point is too high on Intel NUC5i7RYH Broadwell Mini PC With Iris Pro Graphics Tested · · Score: 1

    The DE3815TYKHE is also substantially bigger than the NUC. Roughly twice the size. Increased size confers better passive cooling.

  21. Re:Pass because the price point is too high on Intel NUC5i7RYH Broadwell Mini PC With Iris Pro Graphics Tested · · Score: 1

    The i3, i5, and i7 all require fans. Anything that size that takes more than a watt or two requires a fan.

  22. Re:Pass because the price point is too high on Intel NUC5i7RYH Broadwell Mini PC With Iris Pro Graphics Tested · · Score: 1

    I share those kind of concerns in general. The AOpen MP945 was an example of using an excellently engineered cooling system. There basically was nothing else in the box besides the CPU that made any appreciable heat. Mine was very quiet and never degraded. The NUC from what I've heard has similarly great thermal engineering. But when the cooling system on anything like this degrades or fails, you're going to have to try to find and pay for the expensive custom part. You can't just slap a new commodity fan in there.

    Interestingly, my AOpens have held up better than anything else I've had. An endless train of motherboards have succumbed to capacitor failure, but none of my AOpens.

  23. Re:Pass because the price point is too high on Intel NUC5i7RYH Broadwell Mini PC With Iris Pro Graphics Tested · · Score: 1

    Without a dBa @ distance measurement, with comparisons to other equipment using the same measuring equipment, "quite loud" is not really a useful characterization. Even then the dBa level alone doesn't tell you all you need to know about the acousic objectionability factor. My good old AOpen MP945 with GMA950 graphics (exactly the same size as the good, original Mac Mini) idles and even does useful light work in silence in a quiet residential room with nobody else in the house to make any noise, and without any radio or TV or air conditioner running. Even all out, it is plenty tame, on the good side of laptop noise. The cooling system in a dynamite design.

    But my AOpen GP7A with the power hogging NVidia graphics, even sitting idle, periodically roars like a bastard as some random daemon makes a quick tiny demand. When it is really working it sounds like a freight train or jet plane taking off, and oven-like air is rushing out of it.

    The NUC takes even less power than the MP945. Certainly the 5i3 is damn quiet. I expect the 5i7 isn't all that noisy. I'm pretty certain it is a damn sight quieter than that GP7A.

  24. Re:Too Expensive, i7 naming sucks ass on Intel NUC5i7RYH Broadwell Mini PC With Iris Pro Graphics Tested · · Score: 1

    And a million times the power drain and heat.

  25. Re:Pass because the price point is too high on Intel NUC5i7RYH Broadwell Mini PC With Iris Pro Graphics Tested · · Score: 1

    I don't disagree in the main, except that the NUC cooling system is not "whiney".