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  1. Re:Not particularly useful, unfortunately on Endurance Experiment Kills Six SSDs Over 18 Months, 2.4 Petabytes · · Score: 1

    Write!

    (see, that's a joke son, a joke)

  2. Re:lame story is lame on Knock-Off Apple Watches Hit the Chinese Market Less Than 24 Hours After Launch · · Score: 1

    Oh, we cleaned up our pollution alright. In fact, it was so expensive that it was cheaper to manufacture in China. Perhaps you have a point. Guess the baton of progress finally gets handed off from China to Africa next. It's like enduring pollution is a rite of passage or something, right?

  3. ZZ Top on $7.4 Million Blurred Lines Verdict Likely To Alter Music Business · · Score: 1

    I thought this was settled precedent between ZZ Top and John Lee Hooker?

  4. Re: FAKE on Watch an Original NES Run Netflix · · Score: 1

    Then the cart is processing more data with an OS and TCP/IP stack than the NES can handle on its own would be my guess. The NES is just acting like a dumb terminal processing a real basic raster feed.

  5. Re:lame story is lame on Knock-Off Apple Watches Hit the Chinese Market Less Than 24 Hours After Launch · · Score: 1

    If the Chinese can copy and produce a fake Apple Watch in 24 hours after launch, imagine what their combined will could archive at cleaning up their pollution.

  6. Re: Scenario on New Evidence Strengthens NSA Ties To Equation Group Malware · · Score: 2

    He also had the acumen to navigate the situation with relative "competence" and remain alive to spill the beans. I say that because it's arguable whether or not he should have done what he did. Never the less, he wears a stiff gray hat. Even the most intelligent coders and IT folk couldn't pull off what he did, or have the balls to do it!

  7. Re:On a side note, if she wins the nomination on Clinton Regrets, But Defends, Use of Family Email Server · · Score: 1

    I admit, this will be interesting. The GOP is hell-bent in total self-distruction. I would not be surprised in the slightest if Clinton gets the nomination of the GOP succeeds in making Jeb Bush the nomination too.

    Me? I say fuck all em them bastards!

  8. Re:Clear to me on Clinton Regrets, But Defends, Use of Family Email Server · · Score: 4, Insightful

    It's a losing battle anyways. Clueless sycophants will defend politicians anyways. She's Ms. Clinton after all. Naturally she gets a pass.

  9. Re:Ok That's Pretty Freaky on Strange Stars Pulse To the Golden Mean · · Score: 0

    Noah doesn't exist. Whatever you thought you saw, was a figment of your imagination (along with everyone else's). Let's move on...

  10. Re:Enlighten me please on Reactions to the New MacBook and Apple Watch · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Packet loss. SNR level of the 2.4Ghz band is real shitty in major US cities. Even Comcast modems and el-cheapo printers are pumping out WiFi; thus flooding the spectrum. Trying to establish a terminal session (RDP, Citrix, etc) gets spotty, and certain databases can become corrupted (fuck you Quickbooks) upon a dropped connection.

    At home, I use 5Ghz for several reasons, lack of range is more than made up for a lower SNR level. This is a huge win for streaming Netflix via AppleTV device as my home isn't wired for ethernet (most aren't).

    Back at work, I will always use an ethernet connection when available. I will even seek out cubical space, vacant office or conference room that's wired when staying at a client office for several hours. WiFi is for phones and tablets, not everyday computing that involves slinging data over the network rather than general web browsing and e-mail checking.

  11. Re:Enlighten me please on Reactions to the New MacBook and Apple Watch · · Score: 1

    Apple couldn't leave just one damn USB port available, could they? People still sneaker-net with thumb-drives (flash drives) as it's far less complex and faster than AirDrop.

  12. Re:Ok That's Pretty Freaky on Strange Stars Pulse To the Golden Mean · · Score: 4, Informative

    Pi (film), 1998

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

    Yeah, I'm a fan of Darren Aronofsky

  13. Re:The Big News on CIA Tried To Crack Security of Apple Devices · · Score: 1

    Yes actually, it is. Democracy is dead. It's now a plutocratic club; once you're in, you're in baby!

  14. Re:The Big News on CIA Tried To Crack Security of Apple Devices · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Under nationalized healthcare, effectively YOU ARE GOVERNMENT PROPERTY!!!! Any activity that can effect the cost of healthcare to the nation can and will be legislated under the auspices thereof.

    Under national healthcare, your personal liberties are anything but!

  15. Re:Price Controls? on California's Hot, Dry Winters Tied To Climate Change · · Score: 1

    Well the risk is certainly higher with public parks... Actually, I was thinking about not having a 5 yr old walk across the street alone to the park. Rather, they can play in the front yard with other trust-worthy neighbors or in the backyard; with friends, siblings. Parents should really be involved in all activities for children that young IMHO, but thanks to our industrial grind-frest in which both parents are required (dual income) to pay the mortgage and pay the bills, family time can be exceedingly busy at times. As such, proximity is important.

  16. Re:The Talisman came out when? on Dog Sniffs Out Cancer In Human Urine · · Score: 5, Funny

    Yet, despite this superpower, they choose roll around in the foulest smelling dead shit they can find

    Obviously your primitive sense of smell can't appreciate the wonderful bouquet of such odors that a dog can.

  17. Re:Price Controls? on California's Hot, Dry Winters Tied To Climate Change · · Score: 1

    Children and pets love yards. It's somewhat a standard living requirement for the suburbs.

  18. Re:Evidence indicates otherwise on California's Hot, Dry Winters Tied To Climate Change · · Score: 2

    2010 Toyota V6 RAV4 here. Rated 19 city / 27 Hwy. (4 cylinder is rated for 22 city / 28 Hwy). At best, if I remain under 60Mph, I can hold 32 MPG with cruise control. Though for be past year driving, my average MPG driving around Houston has been 24 MPG. That 30 MPG while doable, is under the best of conditions with no stop-and-go traffic and flat terrain. And while a hybrid will make that figure more reasonable, the ROI for paying the extra delta coast for the feature is most likely longer than 10 years anyways; which may not be worth it unless you either plan on keeping the car that long, or gas prices more than double.

  19. Re: how much it took on Laser Takes Out Truck Engine From a Mile Away · · Score: 1

    If it scales, certainly you can put an orbital weapon system in space, right?

    An assassin in space kills at the speed of light?

  20. Re:Global Warming Wiped Out Mars? on New Data Indicates Arctic-Ocean Sized Body of Water on Ancient Mars · · Score: 4, Interesting

    No, the magnetic field wasn't strong enough to shield against solar wind erosion.

  21. Re:FDE on Android doesn't work as of yet on Google Backs Off Default Encryption on New Android Lollilop Devices · · Score: 1

    FileVault2. As for lost data, yes, I've had a ribbon SATA go bad in the laptop; notorious issue as a result in material defect / breakdown in MacBook Pro's. Anyways, that's why I keep two external USB drives with current Time Machine backups around; both encrypted too. In fact, I've done a full MBR restore from one of the drives without trouble.

    With confidence I can truly say that both my MacBook Pro and external drives are fully encrypted and a system recovery has been performed successfully. Should either my laptop or a drive get lost or stolen, I won't break a sweat and worry about the data falling into the wrong hands. I would be pissed about being $1500+ out of pocket in lost hardware however.

  22. Re:Quick, make up something dark on Astronomers Find an Old-Looking Galaxy In the Early Universe · · Score: 1

    Meh. I'm just waiting for AI to become cognitive enough to figure it all out for us and announce a great revelation as to the origins of the universe. Some will be shocked, other amazed, perhaps others will face-palm at the new data. In that event, I'll be drinking a Dos Equis.

    Stay thirsty my friends.

  23. Re:FDE on Android doesn't work as of yet on Google Backs Off Default Encryption on New Android Lollilop Devices · · Score: 3, Insightful

    But how much? At least on Intel CPUs that have the AES-NI instructions, FileFault2 on a MacBook Pro is of minimal impact. Throwing a number out there, but perhaps less than 1% hit in performance?? And this is me running and compacting (cleanup) VMs (massive read/write operations) on an encrypted SSD. Certainly these new CPUs in mobile phones contain a similar feature as AES-NI, no?

     

  24. Re: Interesting idea, nasty downsides on New Seagate Shingled Hard Drive Teardown · · Score: 2

    There is even ransomware out there that exploits domain privs and actually attacks Active Directory to encrypt schema and the user information, which would shut an entire organization down.

    All users should be a member of the Domain Users group along with other security groups isolated to the share access they need. Only IT sysadmin should be using AD accounts that are Domain Administraors and Schema for utilitarian reasons only! Even sysadmins should have their own Domain Users AD account. Sadly, many sysadmins still conflate the roles with one account; very bad!!

  25. Re:Last straw? on ISIS Threatens Life of Twitter Founder After Thousands of Account Suspensions · · Score: 1

    And forced impregnation. "Sons for Soldiers" you can call.