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  1. Re:No equivelant replacement is a bad idea. on Ubuntu Drops Support For AMD's Catalyst GPU Driver (phoronix.com) · · Score: 1

    On the machine I'm using right now:
    * quiet but annoying noise all the time
    * badly distorted sound after suspend+resume until "killall pulseaudio"
    neither of these is hardware's fault as alsa works perfectly.

    I could actually use one of pulseaudio's features, redirecting streams on runtime between headphonesspeakers... had it worked correctly.

  2. Re:No equivelant replacement is a bad idea. on Ubuntu Drops Support For AMD's Catalyst GPU Driver (phoronix.com) · · Score: 1

    You're saying this as if PulseAudio was on the way to ever be ready. Like systemd, its author[s] ignore[s] all bugs that don't apply on his particular system.

  3. Re:It's called AdBlocker on MIT Creates Algorithm That Speeds Up Page Load Time By 34% (softpedia.com) · · Score: 1

    Ad blockers do more than 34%, especially if you block tracking rather than just visible stuff.

  4. Re:Another Sokal affair ? on Reason Excoriates Paper On "Glaciers, Gender, and Science" (reason.com) · · Score: 1

    Poe's law. This paper, like most of social "science", is indistinguishable from trolling about it.

  5. Re:Okay, but on Using Kexec Allows Starting Linux In PlayStation 4 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Launching Linux from FreeBSD is also known as "downgrade". Just sayin'

    Only if you'd run systemd.

  6. ODROID always kicked ass on Raspberry Pi 3 Is a Nice Upgrade, But Alternatives Exist With Faster Performance (phoronix.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    ODROID-C2 is real 64-bit rather than having 64-bit capable CPU but only 32-bit kernel and userland with the raspi team announcing that in several months they'll "consider" whether making 64-bit drivers is worth it.

    And the performance difference is MASSIVE. I own an ODROID-U2 and its contemporary RPi 1b -- even when overclocking the latter, Odroid wins in compile times by a factor of ~16, and that's assuming raspi won't start swapping due to its miniscule RAM. For a disk, Odroid can use either microSD or their fancy eMMC -- the latter is more expensive but drastically faster. And 100Mbit vs 1Gbit ethernet is not a negligible difference either.

    The only upside of raspi is that it ships from nearby countries (UK, US) while shipping Odroid from Korea means unpleasant mucking with the customs.

  7. Re:Story is BS on Kremlin Falls For Its Own Fake Satellite Imagery (thedailybeast.com) · · Score: 1

    Russians are not acting like Nazis. They are acting like Russians, which is worse. Compare with the pretext for them invading Poland in 1939.

  8. He wants for the investigation to complete while he still has power to meddle with it. Thus he does the obvious steps now that could delay the thing.

  9. Re:I could become POTUS on Windows' Built-In PDF Reader Exposes Edge Browser To Hacking (softpedia.com) · · Score: 0

    As BHO shown, the birth certificate can be even a cheap printout, so you can scratch that requirement as well.

    (Needing birth place instead of just citizenship is bizarre, and so is the whole birther kerfuffle -- but the "proof" presented is hardly a proof at all.)

  10. Re: Not to rub salt in anyones wounds on Rubio, Cruz Try To Kill Neutrality On 1-Year Rule Anniversary (dslreports.com) · · Score: 1

    You do not have to believe that Hillary Clinton is pure evil from the lowest depths of hell. Just that she is a self centered liar looking out only for herself.

    Actually, both are true. She's both pure evil of worst kind, and a lying bitch. If the primaries go as they're likely to go, you Americans won't be able to choose between lesser of two evils -- but only between two equally bad mindboggling evils.

    On par with our current government in Poland.

  11. Re:Ads == Malware Delivery and Nuisance Content on Google, Yahoo Cry About Ad-Blocking (cnbc.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Advertising is nothing but visual spam. It places non-relevant crap in place of information you actually look for, and in the best case is a waste of time.

    Thus, there's no such thing as "good" ads. As with all spam, if I wanted penis enlargement, I'd search for it.

  12. Re:4.x ? on Linux 4.3 Reached End of Life; Users Need To Move To Linux 4.4 · · Score: 3, Informative

    As of today unstable uses 4.3.5.

    Then you need to update, current unstable has 4.4.2-2.

  13. Re:So, its like x86 already is? on Variable Instruction Computing: What Is Old Is New Again (hackaday.com) · · Score: 1

    If we're already recompiling per-install, it would be easy to randomize a lot about the code, making return-oriented-programming moot (or at least massively harder if you have too little entropy). Shell/perl/etc can be "compiled" into a scrambled form. We can randomize kernel syscall numbers even today. But all of that is worth comparatively little if the biggest risk, machine code, is easily exploited.

    If you can read code memory then this technique can be defeated -- but needing to have two separate exploits for the same hack raises the difficulty a great deal.

  14. Re:So, its like x86 already is? on Variable Instruction Computing: What Is Old Is New Again (hackaday.com) · · Score: 2

    Too bad both Intel and AMD keep their microcode closed. There's so much fun we could do if they were documented and non-Tivoized.

    Just the first use: shuffle opcode numbers, make your compiler emit those and recompile your software per-installation. Any exploits that use machine code are instantly thwarted.

    And that's just a start...

  15. Screw birds, my kitteh already changed to summer fur after all the warm days... then it snowed today.

  16. Re:Time will tell on Astronomers No Longer Need To Avoid the "Zone of Avoidance" · · Score: 1

    Low Alexa score isn't rock bottom, it means Slashdot readers are educated enough not to install spyware.

  17. Re:For containers on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS To Have Official Support For ZFS File System (dustinkirkland.com) · · Score: 1

    Except that for running containers you really want BTRFS rather than ZFS, as having many containers means you use your memory. ZFS shines on a file server where it can use all memory for itself and there's no need to actually use the page for a running process -- EXT4, BTRFS and any other well-behaved filesystem will share a page with processes that mmap it.

  18. Re:Why gifs? on Twitter Rolls Out GIF Button (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    webm is an avi-like format that allows sound -- do not want. We really should use APNGs instead of GIFs, but crappy browsers don't support them.

  19. Re:Related to recent government measures on Auschwitz Museum Releases Software To Rewrite Holocaust Nomenclature (thestack.com) · · Score: 1, Interesting

    They forgot the little detail that most death camps were reopened shortly after the war, operated for years by the Polish government (Soviet puppets but still).

    This excludes Auschwitz which was left as a widely-touted museum to show the world how bad the Nazis were, while the other camps were not spoken of, sometimes with all their traces actively purged.

    And yeah, I'm a Polack.

  20. Re:A nice step forward. on ReactOS 0.4 Brings Open Source Windows Closer To Reality (techrepublic.com) · · Score: 1

    The NT POSIX subsystem has been completely removed as of Windows 8.1 (and was in a sorry state since XP).

  21. Re:Not bad on The RIAA Says 1500 Streams = 1 Album Sale (riaa.com) · · Score: 1

    The stats are not only arbitrary, they're nonsense. My most played song is at 62, my favourite one at 26.

  22. Re: One super power please on 'Rogue Scientists' Could Exploit Gene Editing Technology, Experts Warn (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    This is largely a solved problem -- a good percentage of women in developed countries elect to deliver via cesarean section.

  23. Ie, instead of simply using google.com we now need a proxy to get uncensored results. A sad day.

  24. Re:I don't understand this on Researchers Discover a Cheap Method of Breaking Bitcoin Wallet Passwords (softpedia.com) · · Score: 1

    Then anyone with a botnet can stop you from authenticating forever by simply issuing a request every 2 seconds.

  25. Re:Just block the cookies.. on French Gov't Gives Facebook 3 Months To Stop Tracking Non-User Browsers · · Score: 0

    All of these but NoScript operate on a blacklist basis, which means you block only the top of the iceberg. Ad and tracking servers multiply like cockroaches they are, and thus keep getting through any blacklist. You have no real chance without something opt-in rather than opt-out, such as Request Policy.