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  1. No, I mean 5+GB.
    Both my work macbook pro 14,3 and those on display in apple stores after reboot and opening activity monitor will show Memory Used around 5.2GB. My work mark often however around 15gb memory used + swap used. And there isn't much running - The stupid kernel takes between 1.1 and 4.6gb on its own at any time.
    The last OS X that was actually good was 10.6.8, and they became gradually bloated after that with 10.10 being the first to be completely broken with 0 QA done on it.

  2. XML is not human readable for any legal and/or regulatory definition of "human readable"

  3. Re:Running it from another drive? on Windows 10 Spring Update Improves Linux On WSL With Unix Sockets and More (anandtech.com) · · Score: 1

    Why another drive? NTFS has had junction points for ages (at least since XP). You can mount a partition as a folder, just like you do on *nix. Check it out.

  4. Hopefully never. Latest OS X takes 5+GB of ram just to start. Windows 8.1 professional takes 900mb of ram to start.

  5. Re:Good thing the world embraces GMO rice then! on As The Planet Warms, We'll Be Having Rice With A Side Of CO2 (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    If we are to effectively reduce CO2 emissions gasoline/diesel need to become prohibitively expensive to the point that you simply can't drive a daily commute to the next county, while still being cheap-ish enough to allow discretionary use, like emergency run to the pharmacy, or like driving the van with all the family to Grandma's place for thanksgiving. You know, like you can Vacation on Hawaii once or twice a year, but not every day.
    Every day commute should be either public transport (preferably track vehicles) and bicycles/walking. The only way to force it is to make gas prohibitively expensive.

  6. Re:Simle minds expect simple solutions on As The Planet Warms, We'll Be Having Rice With A Side Of CO2 (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    Mod this up.

  7. Re:Good thing the world embraces GMO rice then! on As The Planet Warms, We'll Be Having Rice With A Side Of CO2 (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    BS. The malnutrition is not due to lack of carbs, it is due to lack of overall calories. The human body does not need carbs for anything. We run very well on a bit of fat and a little protein.

  8. Re:Good thing the world embraces GMO rice then! on As The Planet Warms, We'll Be Having Rice With A Side Of CO2 (npr.org) · · Score: 0, Troll

    Blame Usians and cheap gas. Make the gas $17 per gallow (to be on par with EU) and watch the carbon go down a bit. While we are at it, also ban ACs. ACs are two edge swords, they heat the outside, and also use electricity that has to be generated with additional heat.

  9. I'm safe on FBI Seizes Control of Russian Botnet (thedailybeast.com) · · Score: 1

    I have a home home router not a home office router. My home office is connected via a hub to the intenets.

  10. How? on Faster Flights Are Coming With New Satellite Tracking Technology (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1, Informative

    How does that make flights faster?
    The typical speed limitation is either for optimal fuel consumption or staying under the constructive limit where your wings no longer provide lift but you stall. You can increase either of them without making a new, re-engineered plane.

    And for the ares around airports, where you enter a hold or a landing pattern, air traffic control radars already know where you are.

  11. Re:Why this is news on Intel's First 10nm Cannon Lake CPU Sees the Light of Day (anandtech.com) · · Score: 1

    CPUs are fast enough. We don't need radical improvements every year. We need price cuts and security fixes. We don't need process shrinkage that urgently.

  12. Re:Long term: Bad for the web on Firefox Moves Browsers Into Post-Password Future With WebAuthn Tech (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    There are no yubi models protected by pin. None of them has a physical keypad. I actually have several.

  13. Re:Another dead Firefox release. on Firefox Moves Browsers Into Post-Password Future With WebAuthn Tech (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    First, developers do not care about client side security issues, the developers will get their revenue or not, as long as they do not put functions server side that require something that the browser does not support.
    Second, how much revenue can people who are still running XP produce for a website? Even in China, XP machines a handmedowns, they are consumption devices, not devices for purchases.

  14. Re:Uber cuts corners on Uber Vehicle Saw But Ignored Woman It Struck, Report Says (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    As another local resident I call this BS. And if someone's night visions is at the level of the camera worse, that is medical reason enough that person to never be issued a driving license as that person will be suffering from cataracts.

  15. Re:It actually makes sense on UK Police Say 92 Percent False Positive Facial Recognition Is No Big Deal (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Indeed, thanks for catching that. I was also assuming that the criminals are distributed equally between all facial phenotypes

  16. It actually makes sense on UK Police Say 92 Percent False Positive Facial Recognition Is No Big Deal (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    For police work, identifying suspects, false positives only affect the overhead portion - rejecting someone identified. If however it had a false negative, then it would be an issue as it would let people who should be suspects go away free. For the moment, as long as they aren't looking for too many people , false positives just allow them to remind the LEO fearing folk that there is law and order in the land.

    What is dangerous is that if the rate does not improve, and you have 10/% of their population doing crimes, then they would have to constantly investigate and examine 100% of their population, which they won't be able to have the mass of staff to do.

  17. Re:Uber and people who authorized this experiment on Uber Vehicle Saw But Ignored Woman It Struck, Report Says (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    Its not movie studios don't have "fake" real towns built in their premises in California. Why weren't these used to test the car with individuals who consented to be stand-ins for cyclist, pedestrians and other drivers.

  18. Re:So who is to blame? on Uber Vehicle Saw But Ignored Woman It Struck, Report Says (engadget.com) · · Score: 2

    Exactly. The bridge is 16 lane widths, and crossed almost at 45 degree angle at that. It is very very wide. Heck.. at that angle at 45mph which is the allowed speed I need 3 lane widths (effectively 4.24 at that angle) to bring the car to complete stop.

  19. Re:They get into the US phone system somehow... on Robocalls, and Their Scams, Are Surging (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Not if you receive the call on Hangouts. It completes as VoIP to wherever you are running the application. Why would you want to forward instead of using the VoIP directly?

  20. Re:Not si simple... on Uber Vehicle Saw But Ignored Woman It Struck, Report Says (engadget.com) · · Score: 2

    If people follow at appropriate distance for the speed, no crash will happen.

  21. Re:So who is to blame? on Uber Vehicle Saw But Ignored Woman It Struck, Report Says (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    Wrong. At the speed the car was moving an operator should have detected the vehicle applying brakes about 3 car lengths before the car entered the shadow of the bridge (as to not put the passengers on the windshield). If the operator have punched the break pedal through the floor as the hood was entering the shadow the hit would not have been fatal, and it was possible to have full stop. It is a very wide bridge, several lanes of highway.

  22. Re:Sure sure sure on Microsoft Says 700M Devices Now Run Windows 10 (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    The link covers only the cloud services that MS offers. Unfortunately nothing relevant to windows 10.

  23. Re:It's not frivolous. on Nikola (Motors) is Suing Tesla (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    Didn't GM rename that car to Bolt?

  24. Nope. Keys are for encryption. Keys wrapped and bound to identity are called certificate. Gutting what the certificate meant, just to get to keys, is extremely stupid.

  25. You don't understand what the certificate is for. It is not the about the half page of data. It is about is the Corporation ABC LTD that is asking for certificate really Corporation ABC. This is because ultimately on the browser side you only see mapping between a certificate and domain name. But the CAs are separate from domain registries, and while domain registries guarantee uniqueness of the domain name, the CAs do not guarantee uniqueness of a certificate.
    With Let's Decrypt any compromise of DNS registration, routing or similar can result in legitimately looking certificate being issued to an illegitimate actor. Having both EV and DV does not work, or rather, in order to know if there is an EV cert, while you are seeing DV served to you, you need another system - this is where CT comes into play.
    IMO all certificates should be EV in the current internet if we want security.
    All certificates being DV (and no EV at all) is also feasible is we don't have CAs as separate entries from domain registries.
    But the current situation - Let's decrypt being able to issue a DV for any EV issued domain, is completely wrong.