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  1. Diffusion over distance on Seagate Adopts Helium For a 10TB HDD (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Redo your work with a more realistic model and you will get it. The thickness of the objects to be diffused through are non-zero.

  2. Re:Open Source vs. GPL on Stallman's Legacy Halts At Hardware (hackaday.com) · · Score: 1

    Remember, it is better to sit quietly in a corner having everybody think you are a moron than to open your mouth and remove any doubt.

    All that for quoting someone and pointing out how ridiculous the quoted text is, let alone his very political sig.

  3. Re:Another victory for corporate corruption on TPP Signing Ceremony To Take Place In February (freezenet.ca) · · Score: 1

    I may not like North but I do believe in Due Process

    The pardon blew due process right out of the water as if at Royal command.

  4. Re:just go ahead and call it ReInvent on Javier Soltero: The Outsider Microsoft Tapped To Reinvent Outlook (windowsitpro.com) · · Score: 1

    See above for defining a special category to contain only themselves. Integrated systems used elsewhere with different suites or components do not apply.
    Why are you still going on about this? I addressed it on my first post in this thread FFS!

  5. Re:Wow. Just wow. on GNOME Settings Area Getting a Refurbishment (gnome.org) · · Score: 1

    but not having your settings window (or *any* window for that matter) resizable is abysmally retarded

    I had to buy a pile of new monitors after an inhouse developer made the same stupid newbie mistake. It's the "everyone's setup must be identical to mine" idiocy that also gave us so many MS Windows applications that would only run as Admin.

  6. Re:Plagiarize much? on GNOME Settings Area Getting a Refurbishment (gnome.org) · · Score: 1

    Since the link is included we can probably blame an editor for removing quotes or something instead of assuming the submitter made the mistake alone.

  7. Re:The window is now resizable, on GNOME Settings Area Getting a Refurbishment (gnome.org) · · Score: 1

    A window managers task is to manage windows. "Isn't that the application's responsibility?" may be the Wayland way of looking at things but X typically has it handled elsewhere.

  8. Re:systemd is a bigger problem than GNOME 3. on GNOME Settings Area Getting a Refurbishment (gnome.org) · · Score: 1

    I don't like SystemD ... at all. But I'm also sick of people crying "My system won't boot

    Yet sometimes it does not. Hanging on a wireless mouse USB dongle in one case with me, halting while trying to start ZFS where /home was mounted in dozens of instances for another. Those are both situations where an init system should not just hang there with no chance of user intervention. The previous system had fallbacks and allowed services to be skipped.
    It's beta software pushed as if it was release quality and it just keeps on expanding without addressing core problems first.

  9. Re:Linux Desktops on GNOME Settings Area Getting a Refurbishment (gnome.org) · · Score: 1

    What should it do if you run multiple copies?

    Understand that it's a second window of the same type and act accordingly.
    Think back guys, it's a thing that was handled well before this site even existed! Rob Malda wrote themes and applications for the a window manager that could do it FFS!

  10. Re:Linux Desktops on GNOME Settings Area Getting a Refurbishment (gnome.org) · · Score: 1

    The have, frequently and for many years, just not in gnome where the feature just wasn't on the list of things to do. Take a look at the enlightenment window manager for one example of size/position settings being retained. It's been one of the features in that WM since the late 1990s and probably in a few others as well.

  11. Re:Linux Desktops on GNOME Settings Area Getting a Refurbishment (gnome.org) · · Score: 1

    concept of remembering the size and position of a window when the window is closed

    That's one of the features of Enlightenment since about 1997. It probably has a setting for the centre thing as well.

  12. Re:Open Source vs. GPL on Stallman's Legacy Halts At Hardware (hackaday.com) · · Score: 1

    GPL is a failure in what it set out to achieve, which was nothing less than world domination

    I didn't think you could get more ridiculous than your earlier posts.
    Somewhere in yehaw moonshine county a community is missing a ...

  13. Re:Difficult to sympathize on Al Jazeera America Terminates All TV and Digital Operations (theintercept.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    That's blaming the owner not the org. The reason AJ seemed to become high quality from nowhere is because they bought a big chunk of the BBC that had been scrapped, and that portion is very much still run like the BBC.

  14. Re:Corporate greed and stupidity is the only probl on Why Sharing Ransomware Code For Educational Purposes Is Asking For Trouble (betanews.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    More secure software is the goal

    No, selling stuff is the goal of many places that among other things care very little or not at all about security. Your bit about "If a company is (arguably) already treating security reasonably seriously" is very much the exception instead of the rule. I've reported gaping security holes that were left open for years and they were not taken seriously because nobody on the outside had been caught exploiting them - and that was on a cash handling system FFS!
    I don't condone those making the bugs public but I can see why they do it. Reporting a serious security problem to some places can both land the reporter in deep shit and still result in nothing being done to fix the actual problem. Management in such places sees taking action against the reporter as the complete solution to the problem. Their reaction to an open farm gate would be to shoot each cow on the way out instead of shutting the gate.

  15. Re:Precedent on EFF: Cisco Shouldn't Get Off the Hook For Aiding Torture In China (eff.org) · · Score: 1

    Similarly with several US banks. There are hundreds of reasons why it took Pearl Harbour to change things which is why it's not worth blaming IBM and why they and so many others were never punished.

  16. Re:EFF not for Freedom any more? on EFF: Cisco Shouldn't Get Off the Hook For Aiding Torture In China (eff.org) · · Score: 1

    Maybe so, but SuperMicro were seriously screwed over by the courts for selling to Iran because of the possible nuclear program uses of these servers despite them probably really ending up with the oil industry.
    Here it's not about "possible use", it's about "actual use".
    Should we discriminate against SuperMicro but give Cisco a free pass? There's no point getting warm and fluffy feelings about a company that screwed over it's founders and threw them out - treat them like a phone company, power utility, investment bank or whatever instead of thinking they are in some way connected to you or any sort of technology startup.

  17. Cisco have a track record on EFF: Cisco Shouldn't Get Off the Hook For Aiding Torture In China (eff.org) · · Score: 1

    Cisco have a track record. This is not the first situation like this.
    A classic example is sending security guards in to drag a guy out of a courtroom in Seattle while the hearing was in session - how's that for contempt for people and the laws that are supposed to protect them?

  18. There's significant and there's long enough on Seagate Adopts Helium For a 10TB HDD (computerworld.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Yes it's another failure mode that is going to give a harder limit on drive life than the current ones of spindle lubricant breaking down and polished surfaces fusing together. Seal things well and maybe they will last ten years before total failure, maybe only five, but a life of a few years is enough to bring them to market.

  19. Re:Oh yeah! on Seagate Adopts Helium For a 10TB HDD (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    How do they even get a hermetic seal?

    Draw a couple of snakes on a sealion?
    No, just bits of synthetic rubber and screw down on them really tight. If the pressure difference isn't huge between external and internal it's not very hard.

  20. You've missed that systemd is no longer just a init system and has even expanded to have another version of sudo. Upstart is limited to an init system and has far less points of failure - it's about getting a single simple job done instead of replacing everything in linux that doesn't have Lennart's name on it.
    A lot of commercial stuff has init scripts and is too slow moving to go chasing after a moving target like systemd whether it is good or not - hence stuck on RHEL6/CentOS6 where it will work due to backwards compatibility. The current gnome is another factor on the workstation side that makes the new releases undesirable, but that at least can be worked around.

    You also forget that the majority of the systemd "hate" comes from people actually using it on one or more systems who expected something of release quality and are getting hit by newbie bugs instead.

  21. Re:Another victory for corporate corruption on TPP Signing Ceremony To Take Place In February (freezenet.ca) · · Score: 1

    Yes, but North's treason was selling weapons to them less than a year after they had killed over a hundred US marines.
    It's about aiding an enemy and not abated by what a former enemy is doing decades later.

  22. Re:just go ahead and call it ReInvent on Javier Soltero: The Outsider Microsoft Tapped To Reinvent Outlook (windowsitpro.com) · · Score: 1

    Me and the rest of the world choose Exchange

    If really you think that you really know nothing.

  23. Re:Another victory for corporate corruption on TPP Signing Ceremony To Take Place In February (freezenet.ca) · · Score: 2

    I'll raise that to zealous gun owners led by a traitor that sold weapons to the Islamic terrorists Hezbolla (and Iran as well):

    http://nraontherecord.org/oliver-north/

  24. Re:just go ahead and call it ReInvent on Javier Soltero: The Outsider Microsoft Tapped To Reinvent Outlook (windowsitpro.com) · · Score: 1

    just like I once bought a BMW

    Are you so pathetic that you've got to turn everything into a pissing contest?

  25. Ben Ten free?