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  1. Re: I call BS on Enterprise SSDs, Powered Off, Potentially Lose Data In a Week · · Score: 1

    The modern day floppy-raid.

  2. Re:The core on Messenger Data Says Mercury's Magnetic Past Goes Back Billions of Years · · Score: 1

    That close to the sun, however... isn't it possible for the core to have some convective motion?

  3. Re:overturn murder conviction? on Prison Messaging System JPay Withdraws Copyright Claims · · Score: 1

    Given the crime rates in the US, I would have to question whether the deterrent is working.

    I'm pretty sure that the vast majority of convictions in the US wouldn't be eligible for capital punishment in any jurisdiction.

  4. Re:Huh? on Prison Messaging System JPay Withdraws Copyright Claims · · Score: 4, Insightful

    No. We are in a first world country where assholes in charge lie about what they are doing.

  5. Re:One word: Cloud on Unable To Hack Into Grading System, Georgia Student Torches Computer Lab · · Score: 1

    The charges could put him in jail for 7 years. That's up to the judge to decide, the officers are not responsible for that. (I'll couple that with my opinion that mandatory minimum sentences is the legislature interfering with the judiciary and executive branches, and needs to go away)

  6. Re:I must be old on Square Enix Witch Chapter Real-Time CG DX12 Demo Impresses At Microsoft BUILD · · Score: 1

    I'm sure you have. Care to share some examples?

  7. Re:She has a point. on My High School CS Homework Is the Centerfold · · Score: 2, Insightful

    That same bullshit happens no matter what you're looking at. They're teenagers. They'll see genitalia anywhere they look for more than 10 minutes.

    You'll note I left gender off of that... because gender doesn't matter much, here.

  8. Re:What's with the cynicism? on Square Enix Witch Chapter Real-Time CG DX12 Demo Impresses At Microsoft BUILD · · Score: 0

    You say this like it wasn't a perfectly valid reason to shit on it...

  9. Re:we want gameplay, not "imperfections in the ski on Square Enix Witch Chapter Real-Time CG DX12 Demo Impresses At Microsoft BUILD · · Score: 1

    Also, DX12 = the fail. News flash: there are more platforms now than Windows. Locking yourself into that ecosystem is pretty 20th century.

    No argument there, but progress needs to happen somewhere. We'll all benefit from it in the long run.

  10. Re:Shadows still not solved on Square Enix Witch Chapter Real-Time CG DX12 Demo Impresses At Microsoft BUILD · · Score: 1

    The focus appears to be on the shader pipeline and raw polycount. Shadow sample sizes may not be their focus.

  11. Re:I must be old on Square Enix Witch Chapter Real-Time CG DX12 Demo Impresses At Microsoft BUILD · · Score: 2

    Even with 4 GPUs, this level of detail with realtime rendering is impressive. If you were bitching about non-realtime, I'd be on your side, but this is realtime.

  12. Re:Graceful degradation on Long Uptime Makes Boeing 787 Lose Electrical Power · · Score: 1

    It is designed such that this would never be an issue. Why? Because you have to skip several critical maintenance periods to hit it. Imagine if you, somehow, kept your car engine running for two years. Ignoring the logistics of this, doing so means you cannot have changed your oil etc.

    Now, if it was on the order of 11 hours, that would be more of a concern.

  13. Re:Failsafe on Long Uptime Makes Boeing 787 Lose Electrical Power · · Score: 2

    ... not when they would all have nearly the exact same runtime - they would all hit the failsafe at around the same time.

    Not that this should ever happen in the air - as others have said, if the thing manages to run for this long, someone hasn't been doing maintenance.

  14. Re:Two data points make a trend? on Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin Launches Its First Rocket · · Score: 1

    Three. Carmack did the same, but he backed out I believe.

  15. Re:Solar rarely enough for the whole house on Tesla To Announce Battery-Based Energy Storage For Homes · · Score: 1

    80 square meters is only a 30x30' square. It's not unreasonable that you had that space above your home...

  16. Re:Poker Night with Pinocchio. on Allegation: Philly Cops Leaned Suspect Over Balcony To Obtain Password · · Score: 1

    It may have more to do with the people they are trying to train...

  17. wait chains... on New PCIe SSDs Load Games, Apps As Fast As Old SATA Drives · · Score: 1

    If what is done with the data as it streams to/from disk is the bottleneck, it doesn't matter if it's sitting in RAM for you before you need it, you'll still be bottlenecked.

    Of course, if you're waiting for disk I/O then there will be a difference.

  18. Re:Probably best on Automakers To Gearheads: Stop Repairing Cars · · Score: 1

    OK then, try a large tree or something that WON'T break. Because in that case, you eat the full force of it... with your nice and soft body.

    Modern cars do get mangled easily, yes - the idea is that they absorb the impact energies instead of you.

  19. Re:Probably best on Automakers To Gearheads: Stop Repairing Cars · · Score: 1

    OBDII is a diagnostics protocol, and whether or not the car's electronics supports it has nothing to do with what the electronics are actually doing.

  20. Re:great, chrome becomes even more annoying on Chrome 43 Should Help Batten Down HTTPS Sites · · Score: 1

    Ancient sun hardware.

    There may be a way to do so as it's running Solaris under the hood (getting to it is possible but comes with all sorts of "you are about to break warranties" types of warnings), but it's certainly not visible in the interface.

  21. Re:great, chrome becomes even more annoying on Chrome 43 Should Help Batten Down HTTPS Sites · · Score: 1

    No, because the vendor appliance does not allow non-ssl connections. Neither can you supply your own certificate/CA data.

  22. Re:Ehhh What ? on Mandelbrot Zooms Now Surpass the Scale of the Observable Universe · · Score: 5, Informative

    The set is not encoded in the universe, though the description of the set is. Else, every reference to "infinite" would, well, break the universe.

  23. great, chrome becomes even more annoying on Chrome 43 Should Help Batten Down HTTPS Sites · · Score: 3, Interesting

    For a good long while it's been annoying when dealing with mangled SSL configurations - at least firefox let's you tweak stuff in about:config to work around them.

    No, getting the site fixed is not always an option, and validation of the certificate is not always necessary. For instance, there was a good long while where Chrome was completely unusable with some of our ZFS storage appliances (which live on a nonrouted private management network) because of retarded cert validation changes. Sure, that makes sense when you are visiting your bank's site... but not so much when you're trying to get into something on 10.0.0.0/8 when you're directly connected to the thing with a crossover cable... and no, updating the software in the controller wasn't an option because of outstanding critical-level bugs.

    Fun times.

  24. Re:Thank god on Whoah, Small Spender! Steam Sets Limits For Users Who Spend Less Than $5 · · Score: 2

    You can buy wallet cards in various retail outlets with cash.

  25. Re:Tired of this from valve on Whoah, Small Spender! Steam Sets Limits For Users Who Spend Less Than $5 · · Score: 1

    Not even that - they are just limiting what the bots can do.