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  1. Re:Only for the elite on Can We Live Without Concrete? (cnn.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    It's called indentured servitude to the state.

    When you depend on the state, you will vote to empower the state to hold power over you. Because, no longer will people vote out of optimism of choice, rather, out of fear of having their state provided "benefits" taken away.

  2. Re:Slow news day? on Lightning Struck Her Home. Then Her Brain Implant Stopped Working. (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    It's the EMP given off from the bolt. For example, I've had lightning strike a lightning rod a few houses down from me. The only equipment taken out of mine was my WiFi router. Naturally, the antenna surged from the resultant and fried a chip.

  3. Re:not buying any more new computers & gadgets on 'Next Generation' Flaws Found on Computer Processors (reuters.com) · · Score: 2

    Good luck. From understanding the flaw, finding a solution, testing for unintended consequences, creating a new mask with the changes to fabrication....probably a year wait or longer.

    Best we can hope for is a microcode update that doesn't leave much of a performance hit.

  4. Re:CheckPoint VPN incompatible on Ask Slashdot: Any Idiosyncrasies of the New Windows 10 April 2018 Update? · · Score: 1

    Interesting. But just FYI, as far as I'm aware, the VMWare NIC is presented as a "physical" adapter to the OS. However, VPN virtual adapters is something that occurs at the application layer, and fudges itself as a real adapter if only to be part of the Winsock stack.

    But basically, what you just told me that any "NIC" adapter that's either non-compliant or buggy could fail in a Windows 10 upgrade irrespective of the fact it's on bare-metal or within a VM. Good to know. Next time I'll ensure my VPN clients, NIC drivers, and VMWare tools are updated prior to starting an upgrade.

  5. Re: CheckPoint VPN incompatible on Ask Slashdot: Any Idiosyncrasies of the New Windows 10 April 2018 Update? · · Score: 1

    It happened after I just finished upgrading from 1709 to 1803. And yes, there was a warning back when upgrading to 1709. But this time, there was no such warning; hence I trusted it was compatible and thus I pulled the trigger on upgrading.

    Obviously my trust was misplaced.

  6. Re:Blue Screen While Upgrading on Ask Slashdot: Any Idiosyncrasies of the New Windows 10 April 2018 Update? · · Score: 2

    Review the minidump files to find the offending driver or subsystem that's causing it. For an easy to view breakdown, you can use NirSoft's BlueScreenView

  7. CheckPoint VPN incompatible on Ask Slashdot: Any Idiosyncrasies of the New Windows 10 April 2018 Update? · · Score: 4, Informative

    Uninstall the CheckPoint VPN client first if you have it installed.

    During the upgrade process, it took an exceedingly long time than normal for a system with an i7 and NVMe drive (about an hour). Turns out that after it booted up, my entire TCP/IP stack wasn't working with any of my NICs. (Yellow bang next to all of them in device manager). The issue was te CheckPoint VPN client. Only until after I uninstalled it and rebooted did the issue clear up.

    As for the long installation time, it was timing out attempting to communicate online at which point it was never going to.

  8. So if someone tampers with the product in an attempt to fix it, then shoves it off to the manufacture, are they still on the hook for warranty repair? It's my understanding that these stickers are validate that the manufacture is the first to make repairs and not having to fix someone else's "fuck ups".

  9. Re:When I read one of these articles... on China is Now Monitoring Employees' Brainwaves and Emotions (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1

    But at the same time, I also lament that tech like this could actually work for our betterment...

    Pre-crime

  10. Re:Might be time to leave... on Talent War in Silicon Valley Demands High Salary (axios.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    San Francisco is basically one big-ass-giant "college campus" for the young to start their careers. It's not a place to raise a family in your 40s. That city entire MO is to constantly churn the young along. You go in, get experience, and then GTFO! It's pure insanity to think SF is to be a city for life living experience; you'll end up in the poorhouse after being kicked to the curb for your old age.

  11. Re: Thanks but no thanks, Intel on Intel's 10nm Cannon Lake CPUs Won't Arrive in Mass Quantities Until 2019, Company Says (pcgamer.com) · · Score: 1

    Hyper-V does as well

  12. Re: Thanks but no thanks, Intel on Intel's 10nm Cannon Lake CPUs Won't Arrive in Mass Quantities Until 2019, Company Says (pcgamer.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    ESXi is it's own OS that runs the bare metal that's known as the host. The entire purpose of that OS is to be the hypervisor for all VMs that will run on it. Technically, ESXi is known as a Type-1 hypervisor. VMWare Workstation as an application that runs on Windows, that would be a Type-2.

    Trivia time: Did you know that Microsoft Hyper-V is technically a Type-1. It's true. Hyper-V isn't a seperate application that runs on Windows; it gets away with being a Type-1 because it's part of Windows.

    In regards to the AC post - He/she is correct. You can't VMotion a running VM in HA mode from AMD to Intel and vice versa. In fact, even in a pure Intel host cluster, the entire cluster is rated at the lowest common denominator in CPU generations. So if one of your host boxes has an older CPU, all hosts within that cluster must be configured to only use instructions sets of that generation. Conversely if you wanted to upgrade the CPU instruction set capability, you just replace that one host.

  13. Re:There's a finite amount of sex in the universe on Einstein's 'Spooky Action' Has Been Demonstrated On a Massive Scale For the First Time (sciencealert.com) · · Score: 1

    Building upon this theory, there may very well be quantum entanglement when it comes to sex. For example, some guy manages to c*ckblock another guy without even being in the room.

    That other guy is called the "ex-boyfriend". The c*ckblocking occurs the moment she thinks of him.

  14. Re:Too bad -- they were fantastic routers. on Apple Discontinues Its AirPort Router Line (9to5mac.com) · · Score: 1

    Well you're right, Bonjour Sleep Proxy is only on the Apple Airport routers. However, mDNS (multicasting, effectively Bonjour) is supported on many networking routers and APs, including Ubiquity based equipment. That said, the parent is correct; Apple will eventually deprecate iTunes and all local medial storage/playback. Oh, I'm sure you can cache cloud media for mobile usage (like in an Airplane), but it all get's tied back to the cloud.

    As for me? I'm seriously looking into a 2 disk Synology unit that will act as both my NAS and media. I'm sure I could roll my own solution for cheaper, but, I'm a sucker for elegance and simplicity (I'm not wanting to futz around with that stuff). Who knows, I might find another brand. But my point is, I'm not going to be tied back to Apple any longer despite having iTunes serving me so well. It's a shame really, but cloud streaming is where the industry is headed and I don't want any part of that.

  15. Re:Too bad -- they were fantastic routers. on Apple Discontinues Its AirPort Router Line (9to5mac.com) · · Score: 1

    Ubiquiti's home product, AmpliFi, blows the Apple AP out of the water. It's mesh too. You can extend the range with extra repeaters that you plug into the wall. The experience is darn "Apple-fied" easy. In fact, I fully expect with near 99% certain that Apple Stores will be stocking the AmpliFi units as direct replacement of their own Airport. And if they don't, well, Apple is just fucking stupid.

    Yeah, they're that good.

    https://amplifi.com/

  16. Because that would be an admission that they've done something wrong. And they rarely admit that they've done something wrong or apologize

    For a moment there, I had myself fooled into thinking this was a critique of Nintendo....or Sony...or any Japanese company for that matter... They do the same shit.

  17. This applies to any new tech including cars - Never buy the first year of any new model/generation; it will have bugs!

    Actually, this applies to software as well. I've learned that with OSes; specifically in firewalls, I'm always conservative to stay a generation behind, but still new enough that it's in mainstream support that it's both mature and always patched with the latest in critical updates. You can't do that with hardware design flaws.

  18. Most Chinese believe the propaganda the CCP controlled media is saying about the US. Now, I don't live in China, so my perspective is through the voice of others of what I'm hearing. But I tell you, I strongly believe this Anti-US conditioning is all part of the PLCs plan to take Taiwan by force. If so, we're headed towards thermonuclear confrontation if that happens. I shit you not!

  19. Re:Someone's been watching Black Mirror... on Chinese Journalist Banned From Flying, Buying Property Due To 'Social Credit Score' (cbslocal.com) · · Score: 1

    BINGO! Exactly!

    Make no mistake about it, the "social credit" score isnt' about ran numbers, it's where you ladder-rank among other citizens. And what do you to to climb that rank for "benefits"

    1, Don't do crime
    2. "Volunteer" to do free labor for the state (communism)
    3. Bribe your way to the top.

  20. Re:Someone's been watching Black Mirror... on Chinese Journalist Banned From Flying, Buying Property Due To 'Social Credit Score' (cbslocal.com) · · Score: 2

    Killing +100 million people makes you the leader..

    Why of course, YES! It's an axiomatic truism in that "The world is governed by the aggressive use of force"

    It's not a statement of how it should be, rather, a perspective for how it is.

  21. Re: It's amazing... on Amazon Will Now Deliver Packages To the Trunk of Your Car (theverge.com) · · Score: 5, Funny

    You just need a trunk monkey to protect your stuff.

    https://youtu.be/AidAXgq9dWc

  22. Oh, but DLL hell was a major issue back in Win9x era; i'm very surprised it never plagued you. However, the rest of your comments are valid.

    Unless Microsoft re-engineers the entire OS with a future Windows 11 (or whatever), I'm not sure WinSXS is going away gracefully.

  23. Would his sentence not be reduce under good behavior? It's my limited understanding that it can be reduce while in jail with the remainder on probation.

  24. That's what the disk cleanup feature is for; to purge superseded files that have been replaced by prior updates. But the WinSxS is there to prevent the old days of "dll hell" when installing and running applications.

  25. Re:Removed RegEdit? on Microsoft Plans Version of Windows 10 For Devices With Limited Storage (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    It's done on purpose. The Lean addition could prove popular enough to offset the standard edition of Windows. MS basically is offering this administratively PAINFUL edition of the OS as a last resort.

    Basically, if you need Lean, don't expect to troubleshoot or fix error. For that capability, upgrade the hardware.