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  1. Re:What? on Chromodo Browser Disables Key Web Security (thestack.com) · · Score: 1

    Comodo is well known for lousy security. That they're still trusted by major browsers is a miracle. Never use any of their products if you can avoid it.

    Then again, as far I am concerned there are only two reputable SSL vendors: GlobalSign and Let's Encrypt. The rest have either issued fraudulent certificates at least once or they simply shouldn't be in the business in the first place.

    With my luck, that probably means that GlobalSign is secretly owned by North Korea and run by the Illuminati or something. Even then they'd be better than most of their competitors.

  2. However, the FPU is powerful enough that it is unlikely that you can saturate it with only a single APU handling the integer side of things. It is possible that wwalker hit the FPU limit, but I would guess that it was some other scaling problem instead. Memory bandwidth or cache perhaps, or simply hitting TDP and throttling.

    Getting 60% per-core performance on a 16-way isn't that terrible anyway.

    Not that I would recommend AMD for anything serious these days, sadly.

  3. Re:TV DIED with LONG paid for ads by the consumers on Price Dispute Means 800k Customers Lose TV Channels In Sweden (telecompaper.com) · · Score: 1

    In Denmark the TV license is mandatory if you have any device that can watch national TV. Since national TV provides streaming with support for phone, tablets, and computers, there are very few households who do not have to pay the license.

  4. Re: Net Neutrality? on Utility Targets Bitcoin Miners With Power Rate Hike (datacenterfrontier.com) · · Score: 1

    Because if the smaller warehouse changes owner and gets used for something else, it is likely that the something else will need some power, but unlikely that it will need as much power. That means the power company is stuck with over-built infrastructure.

  5. Re:BitCoin vs. Global Warming on Utility Targets Bitcoin Miners With Power Rate Hike (datacenterfrontier.com) · · Score: 1

    Hydroelectric is a finite resource all by itself. Right now, particularly in North America, the strange political environment surrounding electricity distribution prevents hydroelectric power to be shared by the whole US, which means that you can add electricity consumption to hydro-heavy areas without increasing pollution.

    Hopefully the US will soon realize that free markets are a good idea and implement a proper grid and a decent trading platform. When that happens, the bitcoin guys can no longer benefit from market failures.

  6. Re: Hah! on Perfect Coin-Toss Record Broke 6 Clinton-Sanders Deadlocks In Iowa (marketwatch.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    Odds of 1 in 56 will win you $2 in Mega Millions when buying a $1 ticket. So yes, she basically "won the lottery", or least "won in the lottery". Not in the way that most people think of when you say winning the lottery, though.

  7. Re:GDP Grew 6.9% in 2015 on China Likely Cut GHG Emissions In 2015 (greenpeace.org) · · Score: 1

    Again, you are basing this on a per country basis, not a per capita basis. If you split the US up into individual states, the pollution will the be far smaller. Split up into districts and you can practically make American pollution disappear.

    Your way of calculating is fraudulent.

  8. Re:GDP Grew 6.9% in 2015 on China Likely Cut GHG Emissions In 2015 (greenpeace.org) · · Score: 1

    So, because Europe and the US are richer, we have the right to pollute more. We are not as bad as China, because although we pollute more, we also enjoy life more.

  9. Re:what the hell do you want? on Ask Slashdot: Affordable Hardware For Remote-Booting USB Devices? · · Score: 2

    The slickest thing would be to get a PoE switch which lets you cycle power on its ports. I have no idea if such a thing even exists, but I would have to bet it does.

    Every managed PoE switch that I have seen supports disabling PoE per port. Some offer true power cycling support with just one command/one click, with others you have to turn the port off then on again, but they all have a way of doing it.

  10. Re:GDP Grew 6.9% in 2015 on China Likely Cut GHG Emissions In 2015 (greenpeace.org) · · Score: 1

    Do you seriously believe this stuff?

    You are complaining about CO2 emissions before 1850! They were so close to nil that cumulatively, we can just ignore them. The world emitted more fossil CO2 last year than it did in the entirety of human history before 1850.

    In fact, from 1850 until 1980, Europe was ahead of America in CO2 emissions.

    There are more than twice as many people in Europe as in the US. You would certainly expect Europe to be far ahead of the US in CO2 emissions.

    It was terribly tempting to just mod you troll. Perhaps someone else can come along and do it.

  11. Official US Airforce Aircraft Identification Chart on CIA: 10 Tips When Investigating a Flying Saucer (cia.gov) · · Score: 4, Funny

    I cannot believe that no one has posted this yet:

    Official US Airforce Aircraft Identification Chart

  12. Re:Can't lock down with random MAC addresses on Tracking Protection In Wi-Fi Networks Coming Soon To Linux · · Score: 1

    Yes, you can implement it yourself quite easily on Linux for a 90% solution. Once you want notifications to the DHCP client, periodic changes of MAC address, selection of which networks to keep the factory MAC address on, and so forth, it is not so simple.

  13. Re:Can't lock down with random MAC addresses on Tracking Protection In Wi-Fi Networks Coming Soon To Linux · · Score: 1

    Most of those problems would be non-issues on public Wifi, as long as the MAC address doesn't change more often than say once an hour.

    If you are TFTP-booting on Starbucks Wifi you deserve what you get.

  14. Re:Can't lock down with random MAC addresses on Tracking Protection In Wi-Fi Networks Coming Soon To Linux · · Score: 2

    That is not how random MAC scanning works. The scanning is done with a random MAC, but actual traffic uses the real hardware MAC. Your MAC address based authentication is unaffected.

    Real random MAC on public networks has not been implemented by any OS yet, AFAIK.

  15. Re:10GbE isn't that interesting on AMD Unveils 64-Bit ARM-Based Opteron A1100 System On Chip With Integrated 10GbE (hothardware.com) · · Score: 1

    Are they actually built in ports though? Do they have 10Gbase-T PHYs?

    Personally I prefer DAC, which is fairly cheap all around, but 10Gbase-T is winning in the market. Slowly. I haven't actually touched any 10Gbase-T equipment yet.

  16. Mining is very niche though. Very few workloads are so embarrassingly parallel, and it's usually worth it to use an FPGA or (ideally) an ASIC for those.

  17. If you are doing GPU compute, you are unlikely to be interested in ARM. Those GPU's need to be fed somehow with data somehow, and the ARM won't keep up.

    We are still not at the point where GPU's can just fetch a bunch of data over the network by themselves, crunch it, and send it out again.

  18. Re:WTF is the "Cookie Law" on Attackers Abuse Legitimate EU Cookie Law Notices In Clickjacking Campaign (malwarebytes.org) · · Score: 1

    Because "collecting personal data" is also interpreted to mean cookies of pretty much any kind, meaning it applies to almost all website.

    That is because almost all websites collect personal data. They could just stop doing that; they have no legitimate reason to do so. Then the cookie warnings would go away.

  19. Re:WTF is the "Cookie Law" on Attackers Abuse Legitimate EU Cookie Law Notices In Clickjacking Campaign (malwarebytes.org) · · Score: 1

    Do you ever restart your browser? I mean other than for kernel or browser updates?

    Self destructing cookies gets this right. That add-on should be built-in functionality with an opt-out for the few who don't want it.

  20. Re:WTF is the "Cookie Law" on Attackers Abuse Legitimate EU Cookie Law Notices In Clickjacking Campaign (malwarebytes.org) · · Score: 1

    Because it is the bloody server owner who inflicts the tracking cookies on its users. Therefore it's their responsibility to make sure that the users are informed about being fucked over.

  21. Bloody EU legislators legislating mandatory spam pop-ups. What the actual F?

    The sites could just stop tracking non-logged-in users, then they would not have to put up cookie warnings.

    Self destructing cookies combined with I don't care about cookies solve most of the problem though.

  22. Re:Outlook's search on Javier Soltero: The Outsider Microsoft Tapped To Reinvent Outlook (windowsitpro.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Search in Outlook is a complete joke. It sometimes works if you search for just one word, but as soon as I put two words in, I get so many results that it could just as well show the entire inbox.

  23. The Zimbra client (without the server) does not seem all that impressive to me. My wife switched from Thunderbird to Zimbra because Thunderbird just isn't very good anymore, but the improvement was smaller than we hoped.

    Admittedly that is with a plain IMAP server, not with Zimbra server, but surely the UI doesn't change much just because you use a real Zimbra server.

  24. Re:Thermonuclear? on North Korea Claims It Detonated Its First Hydrogen Bomb (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Are you denying that the core functionality of a fusion bomb is the fusion part?

    Yes, that is what I am denying. I do not think it is fair to say that it is core functionality when it contributes less than 50% of the explosive power.

    Thermonuclear is obviously correct, and neutron bomb is fine too, but fusion bombs just aren't really fusion bombs.

  25. Re:Thermonuclear? on North Korea Claims It Detonated Its First Hydrogen Bomb (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    in order for the core functionality (fusion) to work

    There are, as far as I know, no existing bomb which gets more than 50% of its yield from nuclear fusion. H-bombs vary between those who get an insignificant amount of energy but a lot of neutrons from the fusion to those which get quite a large bang from the fusion but even more from fission.