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  1. Re:This is why God invented encryption on Loss of a Single Laptop Leads to $50k Fine Against Idaho Hospice · · Score: 2

    This is just not true. I had a three-year-old laptop converted to full hard disk encryption and the change was not noticeable. Most CPUs now have hardware encryption acceleration, and those that don't have it already have fast enough math processors to handle the encryption.

    I should mention that in the federal space there are new "data at rest" security requirements and many of the databases in use today are already encrypted on disk.

  2. This is why God invented encryption on Loss of a Single Laptop Leads to $50k Fine Against Idaho Hospice · · Score: 4, Insightful

    This is why God invented encryption.

  3. Re:It'll Just work..... on Ask Slashdot: How Do You Deploy Small Office Wi-Fi SSIDs? · · Score: 1

    Perhaps you can help clear up a debate that has been happening on and off for years.

    Is it really necessary to space the channels so far apart? It seems to be a conventional wisdom that flies in the face of the intent of the standard. Sure, the spectrum does overlap somewhat, but isn't the protocol and the air interface designed to handle this situation gracefully?

    It sure does in the city where we have multiple APs coming in five-by-five on each and every channel.

    Thanks in advance!

  4. Building is decades obsolete on Empty Times Square Building Generates $23 Million a Year From Digital Ads · · Score: 5, Informative

    The One Times Square building is decades obsolete for an office building. However, as a mounting point for the multimedia signs, it is very functional. The empty floors provide power and space for the equipment required to run the signs and the massive equipment required to cool the equipment that runs the signs.

    Plus, it's at the crossroads of the world.

  5. Perl 6? on Perl Turns 25 · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Okay, so let's have a roll call of those of us using Perl 6 in production.

    Hands?

    Anybody?

  6. And this is a secret how? on Silicon Valley's Dirty Little Secret: Age Bias · · Score: 2

    And this is a secret how?
    I developed grey hair in my early twenties.
    Depending on whether I've dyed it back to its original color, the experience of age bias is universal, whether tech firm, fellow parents, or getting carded for liquor.

  7. Don't be evil, indeed. on Judge Accepts $22.5M Google Fine In Privacy Case · · Score: 1

    Don't be evil, indeed.

  8. Not if you knew about ocean dumping on Fukushima Ocean Radiation Won't Quit · · Score: 2

    You might think that the Fukushima disaster "caused by far the largest discharge of radioactivity into the ocean ever seen," but not if you weren't already aware of the over five decades' worth of ocean dumping of atomic waste.

    Honestly.

  9. Deeper on Google's Server Cooling Plan Produces 4ft Alligator · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Probably because deep water source cooling needs to be 217 feet deep to be effective or be a very large lake, or both.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_lake_water_cooling

  10. Re:If your #1 product kills children, you fail on Buckyballs Throws In the Towel · · Score: 1

    You're right, it wasn't Girder and Panel. It was Riviton by Parker Brothers.

  11. If your #1 product kills children, you fail on Buckyballs Throws In the Towel · · Score: 1

    If your #1 product kills children, you fail.
    One of my favorite toys growing up was Girder & Panel. It was suddenly removed from the house after about a year because it was recalled. The reason? Kids were eating the rubber rivets and killing themselves.

  12. Re:Fuel logistics on Con Ed Says NYC Datacenters Should Get Power Saturday · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The government is not "screw[ing] over the little guy" as you so eloquently put it. The non-road diesel fuel is dyed specifically because that fuel's tariff does not carry road tax. Road tax pays for the roads. This is what the situation is really about. So many violators were using non-road fuel that they had to take steps.

    All licensed truck drivers implicitly understand that you do not put non-road/farm fuel into a road vehicle if you intend to keep that vehicle in revenue service. It's intuitively obvious to everyone, but it's too bad your drivers were either ignorant of the law or chose not to follow it.

  13. Re:Our datacenter is in lower Manhattan.. on Con Ed Says NYC Datacenters Should Get Power Saturday · · Score: 1

    Even Sirius Satellite Radio decommissioned their midtown satellite uplink facility the moment they acquired the Vernon, NJ uplink facility in the northern exurbs.

  14. Re:Fuel logistics on Con Ed Says NYC Datacenters Should Get Power Saturday · · Score: 2

    The community of Great Falls, VA, experienced an odd situation during Hurricanes Irene, Isabel, and the 2012 Derecho. The local natural gas utility was unable to provide the bottle pressure required to maintain service in these areas due to the widespread installation of residential generators running on natural gas fuel.

    I don't live in Great Falls but I have a propane-powered generator only because of the lack of natural gas service. One thing that's nice about propane is that it is so stable that its storage life is virtually unlimited.

  15. Re:Fuel logistics on Con Ed Says NYC Datacenters Should Get Power Saturday · · Score: 1

    That old joke about asking for a dead person's apartment was about the absurd situation called rent control. It wasn't about real estate being at a premium.

    See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rent_control

  16. Why have data centers in Manhattan, anyway? on Con Ed Says NYC Datacenters Should Get Power Saturday · · Score: 1

    While shopping around for data center resources I was always amused by the data centers being offered on the island of Manhattan. Given the speed of light and the vast abundance of local meet-me rooms and extreme bandwidth on and off the island itself, coupled with the massive off-site capabilities established shortly after 9/11, why would I ever want to tolerate the risk and excessively high cost of a data center in Manhattan?

    Especially after 9/11, the idea just seemed silly. But then I listen to DI.FM and they're one of those services that has been severely affected by Sandy for having a data center in Manhattan.

  17. But will it be hardware accelerated? on Red Hat Devs Working On ARM64 OpenJDK Port · · Score: 1

    I hope it will be hardware accelerated. I have also wondered if Android's Dalvik VM took advantage of built-in hardware acceleration in ARM processors. It seems to be a waste if it's not used.

  18. Lousy low-res screen on Apple To Stream a Product Launch Live For the First Time · · Score: 2

    Wow, my Kindle Fire HD and Nexus 7 have higher resolution screens than that lousy disappointment Apple announced today.

    This screen is marginally better than even the Nook Color.

  19. Re:"Bad news" on Raspberry Pi Gets 512MB Filling · · Score: 1

    I haven't had a need to use more than the 256 megabytes it comes with but I will probably order another upgraded version anyway.

  20. Re:How about you update VMware Converter? on VMware: Hey, Other Cloud Services Exist · · Score: 1

    Why wouldn't you just build it as a VM in the first place, as opposed to building a physical and then converting to virtual?

    It *is* a VM in the first place. I use the converter to move the VM from one host to another host. Sure, I can copy the files and edit the vmx files, but I should be able to use VMware Converter, which we still cannot due to the incompatibilty.

  21. How about you update VMware Converter? on VMware: Hey, Other Cloud Services Exist · · Score: 1

    How about you update VMware Converter so it works with the current version of VMware ESXi Hypervisor?

    I wasted hours building a system just to find that VMware Converter cannot target VMware ESXi 5.1. Version 5.1 has been out for a month and still VMware Converter Stand-Alone is not compatible with it.

  22. Re:New non-HD version? on Adventures In Rooting: Running Jelly Bean On Last Year's Kindle Fire · · Score: 2

    The new Kindle Fire non-HD has 1 gigabyte of RAM and the very same processor is now clocked to 1.2 GHz. The other components are entirely the same except for the missing ambient light sensor which was never enabled on the original Kindle Fire to begin with.

  23. Re:I have a Kindle Fire and a Google Nexus 7 on Adventures In Rooting: Running Jelly Bean On Last Year's Kindle Fire · · Score: 0

    You completely missed the point.
    You can save a lot of money getting the Kindle Fire and the article explicitly describes how to replace the Kindle Fire OS. Did you even read the article at all?

  24. Not really one billion on The Computer Science Behind Facebook's 1 Billion Users · · Score: 2

    It's not really one billion users. As any developer in any online service knows, the real figure is around 30% of the actual reported total. Still, it's no small challenge.

  25. Raspberry Pi or Android Arduino? on BrewPi: Raspberry Pi and Arduino Powered Fermentation Chamber · · Score: 1

    I'm looking in my local RadioShack and I noticed the newer Android-powered Arduino.

    Since I'm not seeing Android on the Raspberry Pi, what would be the advantage of the Android Arduino over the Pi besides the much higher price and Android operating system? The Pi already has a fairly useful Debian with X Windows which I didn't see on the Arduino.