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  1. ZFS also has SEND / RECEIVE to mirror snapshots to other ZFS installations on another machine. So yes, ZFS Snapshots pretty much *ARE* proper backups when implemented correctly, without the need or any other utilities.

  2. Re:That's nice and all, but on IBM's Watson Used In Life-Saving Medical Diagnosis (businessinsider.co.id) · · Score: 1

    Microsoft will gladly take that money https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

  3. Re:Stellerator on 'Star In a Jar' Fusion Reactor Works, Promises Infinite Energy (space.com) · · Score: 1

    Probably the EXACT same reason why the LFTR nuclear reactor fell behind... Because they cant be used to make bombs. Seriously. That's it.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

  4. Oh, that sounds like my most favorite MMO of all time: Progress Quest! :D http://progressquest.com/

  5. Re:How is this different from arbitrage on the NYS on Congress Passes BOTS Act To Ban Ticket-Buying Software (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    "bypass any computer security system designed to limit" What system does the NYSE employ to disallow bots? AFAIK, absolutely none.

  6. Re:between 3 and 10 Mb/s is slow? on Millions In US Still Living Life In Internet Slow Lane (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Thank you grandpa...

    Have you looked at the shit programming on TV today? Yes, this is why people choose what to what, and why Hulu and others have such successful businesses.

    Kids watching Youtube? Ever thought about all the amazing educational content on there, again, far better than TV or public education can even imagine to provide?

    Facetime (or other video conferencing) is a fuckton better than telephones. I'm just going to guess you don't even have a family? Some of us would actually LIKE to actually see the people we're talking to who live far away.

  7. Not only that, but CPUs are extremely power efficient while in their idle state. CPUs down-clock and turn off internal components dynamically while not in use, even for a fraction of a second... Nothing is at waste at all here.

  8. Re:Just blacklist the keywords of a click bait on Reuters Built An Algorithm That Can Identify Real News On Twitter (popsci.com) · · Score: 1

    Also blacklist any article which starts with a number in the title. This will kill about 95% of buzzfeed bullshit right off the bat.

  9. Re: in the context of tweets on Reuters Built An Algorithm That Can Identify Real News On Twitter (popsci.com) · · Score: 1

    Or you can simplify the forced boolean state in most languages for not-quite-boolean returns by using a double-not !! before the function name!

  10. MySQL is called that not because of "my"(self), but because of "My", one of Monty's (MySQLs creator) daughters is named My. This is also where the fork MariaDB (his daughter Maria) and the MaxScale (his son Max) applications got their names from, too.

  11. Too late, already there! I'm currently advertising a procedurally generated pile of horse shit.

  12. Re:Sigh. How many major standards wars is this? on Europe Is Getting a Network of 'Ultra-Fast, High-Powered' EV Chargers (theverge.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The exact same reason why open source software is never forked, and everyone agrees on one particular standard and implementation.

  13. Yeah, that whole "sellers, not buyers location" thing? We did away with that a few years ago here. And trust me, as someone who writes ecommerce software, this has been one of the largest fucking pains in the asses ever since. http://dor.wa.gov/content/find...

  14. Is this the new "flash without lag" meme?

  15. "The single biggest thing people can do to help keep their online identity safe is probably the easiest -- a solid password."

    Fucking cannot be absolutely more wrong on this one. Firstly, you "shouldn't" re-use passwords. So it isn't a "solid password", but instead a "solid password per web site". But what *IS* a solid password? That's right. Complex as fuck shit to remember. Upper, lower, number, specials, with a minimum and maximum that isn't even remotely consistent from web site to web site.

    The correct answer for the "probably easiest" way to protect online identity? Enable two-factor authentication on any site that supports it. Even just this alone is a HUGE improvement. Plus, sites like Facebook have login attempt notifications. So if someone even attempts to access your account, you are instantly notified on ALL devices at once of when/where the login attempt occurred and actively deny them your credentials.

  16. Re:Why is input lag still a thing? on Sony Accused of Censoring Negative Feedback On Its Bravia TVs Ahead of Black Fri (ibtimes.co.uk) · · Score: 3, Informative

    The primary reason has to deal with all the image processing bullshit that the displays have. On some models, disabling the display manipulation and filtering bullshit will get rid of the input lag, on others it wont.

  17. Maybe they were just playing old music CDs on some of their computers? Ya'know, the old Sony CDs that contained them rootkits...

  18. OUTER SPACE!! on FBI Hacked Over 8,000 Computers In 120 Countries Based on One Warrant (vice.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    According to the transcripts, the FBI also hacked OUTER SPACE! (check TFA, it is right there, this isn't a joke)

  19. Unregulated on No Evidence of Aloe Vera Found in the Aloe Vera at Wal-Mart, CVS (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    Unregulated product a sham, news at 11!

  20. Anonymity on Should Domain-Name Registrations Require A Verifiable Real Name? (blogspot.com) · · Score: 5, Informative

    This is all you need to know: https://www.eff.org/issues/ano...

  21. Re:LED vs LCD on The Next iPhone Will Feature An OLED Display, Says Bloomberg (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 2

    About color management: This is a two-fold problem. Both Google and Apple refuse to support *ANY* color management in their mobile OSes at all. Save an image in the AdobeRGB or ProPhoto RGB color space, view them in your web browser on the desktop and it'll properly translate the color information to what ever color space the desktop OS is running in. On the phones, they absolutely ignore all color-space information from the image, not even trying to convert it to sRGB. Checking bug reports online for both Android and iOS shows that both companies actively mark colorspace issues as "not fixing", as in, they actively acknowledge the issue and have done so for years, and are actively refusing to address it.

  22. BULLSHIT Facebook. My account was shoved into the A/B testing for this several months ago. Articles from known satirical web sites would be flagged as such, and this was such a praised feature at the time, too. We all got sick and fucking tired having to constantly link to Snopes or other resources to "prove" that a particular site was a satire site. The only real issue is that this system was primarily limited to just domains as a whole, so bullshit clickbaitery web sites that have marginal content once in a blue moon wouldn't be listed (Buzzfeed, Huffington Post, and similar)

  23. Re:So much for Kremlin doing the Hacking on Russian Banks Floored by Withering DDoS Attacks (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Exactly this! People (especially the media) conflate "web browser" with "the internet" - our series of tubes were perfectly fine the entire time! Just a section of name resolution was glitchy for a small region for a relatively small period of time. Those companies effected should have had redundant DNS providers, in which case a small latent DNS failover would have been the only real issue to end users.

  24. Installed but not used on Google Says There Are Now 2 Billion Active Chrome Installs (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    YUP! I have it installed on every machine I work on, yet use it on none except for extreme situations. Same goes for IE and Firefox. None are default. None get daily usage, only there for testing purposes and debugging things. My daily driver? Opera, AKA Chromium Stable.

  25. Speaking of Wikipedia being an "unbiased" source of information (OH THE LAWLZ), check out this article on why your idea is absolutely the worst possible way to implement things: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...