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  1. Re:Only problem is ... on Thunderbolt On Windows: Hardware and Performance Explored · · Score: 1

    http://www.oczenterprise.com/ssd-products/z-drive-r4-cloudserv.html

    At 1.4 million IOPS (6 GB/s), it needs a PCIe gen2 16 lane slot. How much does it cost? I haven't a clue. But that's gotta be fucking grease lightning to work with!!!

  2. Re:does this affect offspring? on DNA Modifications Change As We Age · · Score: 1

    I thought telomeres shorten as you age with each cell division. It's why alcohol and tobacco users biologically age faster than non substance abusers. I've personally seen a 36yrl women look like she's in her 60s. The thick leathery skin, bags under the eyes, and excessive skin wrinkles are proof of that. To my knowledge, such damage can't be reversed.

  3. Re:Ironic elephant in the room on Drones, Computer Viruses and Blowback · · Score: 1

    Most of the people of Afghanistan are uneducated and illiterate. Foreign policy and global affairs are meaningless to them. Meaningless because they don't understand the adjacent tribe let alone any other nation outside its borders. They really are that clueless. They may have heard of a nation called American and its red white and blue, but that's it. That's all the majority of Afghans know.

    So then why do they hate us? Religious fundamentalism. To the extreme Taliban, freedom and self-determination is an act of hubris. I grave sin according to the teachings of Islam. There is no other form of law, governance, or way other than what's written in Quran. That's why they hate us. America to the Taliban leadership (and its followers) is the absolute antithesis to their message. But I agree. Bombs alone will not win the hearts and minds of the Afghans in the long run.

  4. Re:dear low IQ partisan assholes: on UN To Debate Taxing Internet Data · · Score: 1
  5. Re:And people wonder why the US holds it so tightl on UN To Debate Taxing Internet Data · · Score: 1

    Keep your friends close. Keep your enemies closer.

  6. Re:Net Neutrality on UN To Debate Taxing Internet Data · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Maybe that's the point. Shut out the FOSS community to do away with the competition. I'm sure many companies would be in favor of this. It's the whole pay more now in taxes, earn a lot more revenue later.

  7. Re:Crappy AMD drivers?! on AMD/ATI Video Drivers: Unsafe At Any Speed · · Score: 1

    Look. I'm no fanboy here. I've build plenty of AMD and Intel boxes. Back in my gaming days, I would flipflop between ATI and nVidia cards. One thing is for certain however. nVidia is *not* worse. They may be more expensive or overpriced for what you get. They're drivers might even be bloated. But nVidia drivers have always, and I mean always been superior to anything ATI have coded. That whole .NET framework dependency (is that still a problem, I don't know) was always a major PITA when setting up a new PC. What AMD needs to do is shitcan their entire driver dev team and start over. They have great silicon on the card, but the drivers suck absolute balls!

  8. Re:DHS CS Expert. on CryptoCat Developer Questioned At US-Canadian Border · · Score: 1

    No. I wouldn't put it past DHS to do something like that. It's just the average DHS monkey is too fucking stupid to even know what a keylogger is!

  9. Re:Monkey Magic viewers on An Asian Origin For Human Ancestors? · · Score: 1

    WTF?! Is that the new rickroll or something?

  10. Re:What about genomic testing before marriage/mati on Sequencing the Unborn · · Score: 0

    The ultimate in totalitarianism. State sponsored fertility engineering where a sperm is pre-selected from a bank and matched with the right women to become impregnated -by law- when she turns 18. There is no choice about it. The government decides who your offspring will be. Both the mother and father have no say so. Marriage is just a social aspect to raise government engineered children. The ultimate form of God. How could they not resist such power and control?

  11. Re:Very Pukey. on John Carmack Is Building a Virtual Reality Headset · · Score: 4, Informative

    That feeling you got was from the low optical refresh rate for each eye. Similar to the sick building syndrome where you have faulty fluorescent lighting ballasts. The Nintendo Virtual Boy suffered the same problem with its low oscillating mirror rate.

  12. Re:Sleeper agent? on Richard Feynman's FBI Files Released · · Score: 1

    And the Government has a propensity for "publishing" bullets. It doesn't make it right, but it's been known to happen. And as they say "May you live in interesting times". Well, actually not. But you know what I mean.

  13. Re:so what is ipv6 good for? on World IPv6 Launch Day Underway · · Score: 1

    Wont this cause more traffic for ISPs, or will it make transfer more efficient for their network? The answer will have huge implications for adoption.

    As someone that knows very little of IPv6 (I don't work with) other than the basic concept, someone please enlighten me.

  14. Re:It will be a pain in the ass to remember... on World IPv6 Launch Day Underway · · Score: 1

    but for a lot of us, the non humanreadability of IPv6 is a massive massive headache.

    There's an app for that.

    Google Fu KICK!!! Ha haaa

  15. Re:Sleeper agent? on Richard Feynman's FBI Files Released · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Divulge nuclear secrets that would otherwise provide America an upper hand in the nuclear arms race. Essentially, something close to another Klaus Fuchs.

  16. Re:Let me predict the future here. on Red Hat Clarifies Doubts Over UEFI Secure Boot Solution · · Score: 4, Informative

    And without OEMS, effectively you have no PC industry. Fact is, members of Slashdot including myself are the minority here. We are not going to change the way OEMs do business with Microsoft. Period. End of story.

  17. Re:Sell them system images on Flame Malware Hijacks Windows Update · · Score: 1

    Have you ever tried to use that though? It's not at all what you'd expect from a backup product - never could figure out how to use it to move to a new boot drive

    Oh ya, I've performed several BRM with both Windows 7 and Time Machine. Dead stupid simple as it gets relative to other backup solutions out there. I hate Backup Exec with a passion and Retrospect is buggy at hell. But I digress. Actually, Time Machine will backup an entire Mac including an actively running VM running under Fusion. Sweet! By design of course.

    Windows 7 Backup does have some limitations however. Both the source and backup drive must be set to MBR and not GUID partition table. This limits your BRM recovery volume (C drive) to 2TB maximum. SBS 2008 and SBS 2011 (Vista and Windows 7 based respectively) have the same limitation. Also, you cannot restore data to a drive smaller than what the original source once was. It must be equal or greater regardless of the actual data being backed up. Ya, it's stupid. Norton Ghost doesn't have this problem and it's old technology. Still, best implementation of a Windows native backup utility. Kicks the crap out of NTBACKUP.

  18. Re:No no no! on Startup Applies For 307 GTLDs · · Score: 1
  19. Re:Sell them system images on Flame Malware Hijacks Windows Update · · Score: 1

    Anyone working with Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Premiere, AutoCAD, ArcGIS, and Avid should not be VMed. What your suggesting for standard office users (Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, POS systems, and overall accounting) is a solved solution called Thin Provisioning . It solves all of your business related concerns. For the most part. Windows 7 Pro, Ultimate/Enterprise editions already includes a nice backup utility that can be scheduled and provide BMR restore functionality. If your an Apple user, Time Machine is its equivalent.

    Also, I've seen plenty of MS Exchange and SQL servers VMed that have had their disk I/O suck wind. And that's when their virtual disks have had its free space preallocated. I'm sure this is a solvable problem and mostly due to both improper implementation and over commitment of a shared SAN. But still, it doesn't bode well to virtualize disk I/O intensive servers and applications.

    Overclocking?! Guy, I don't build shit gaming rigs and I'm certainly not a benchmark queen. I'll take a real server and workstation populated with ECC memory and SAS drives thank-you-very-much.

  20. A records on Startup Applies For 307 GTLDs · · Score: 4, Insightful

    tickets.domain.com

    Next?

  21. You have to ask? on Do Solo Black Holes Roam the Universe? · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Hell yes they roam the universe. Just look at our national debt. That's one giant black hole right there. So massive the entire world has gotten sucked into the event horizon.

  22. Re:Sooo on Fighting Counterfeiters With Quantum Money · · Score: 1

    I have one that might be dead.

  23. Re:Sell them system images on Flame Malware Hijacks Windows Update · · Score: 1

    VMs suck for anything requiring decent video performance and GPU acceleration. It's been getting better with the latest release of VMWare, but still falls short. Also, nothing beats bare metal for performance. YMMV

  24. Re:Basic Economics! on Finding the Downside In San Francisco's Tech Boom · · Score: 1

    You, and people like you fail to see it because you choose to ignore reality and substitute it with your own. Supply and demand. Money is nothing more than a social construct, a metric, by how we rank among each other. Your thinking money = amount of work. Wrong. Wrong wrong wrong!! Money = social value in the tree of monkeys (humans). Ever wonder why Holywood actors, rockstars, politicians, CEOs, and all around famous people become so rich? It's because of their social rank and not the work or product they create. Why? Because we collectively say so. Not you directly, but indirectly for sure.

    You want to make lots of money? It's not just what you know, it's WHO you know.

  25. Re:UN takeover must be stopped? on UN Takeover of Internet Must Be Stopped, US Warns · · Score: 1

    Voting is a right...for US CITIZENS. So it's rather paramount that we identify who is and who isn't a citizen prior letting him/her vote.