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  1. Re:Caution on Linux 3.15 Will Suspend & Resume Much Faster · · Score: 2

    If your UPS dies, a suspended machine is screwed just the same. There's rather little point in suspending a server: even ones that are off outside business hours are better off hibernating rather than suspending.

  2. Re:and yet even more on Vermont Nuclear Plant Seeks Decommission But Lacks Funds · · Score: 1

    Then what about massive subsidies for coal and oil industries?

    Let me know when every single power plant, every car is required to collect its waste and deposit it for storage. Only then you can call it equal.

  3. Re:The chain of trust is broken. on Fake PGP Keys For Crypto Developers Found · · Score: 1

    To do that, the attacker would also need to be able to intercept mail sent towards the real person. You can sign a key without using mail, but that's not what is done during usual keysigning, and asking an innocent person to do so would raise a suspicion. Yeah, intercepting mail is possible if you're resourceful enough, especially without DANE, but that's quite a hoop to jump through. This usually implies an organization, and with that resources, it's simpler for the attacker to find a bunch of shadier people to sign that fake key.

  4. Re:The chain of trust is broken. on Fake PGP Keys For Crypto Developers Found · · Score: 1

    And in this case, the fake key has zero signatures whatsoever. If it had any, they would either be a blob of also-fake unconnected keys, or someone proving his guilt this way.

  5. Re:Ok seriously though ... on Linux May Succeed Windows XP As OS of Choice For ATMs · · Score: 1

    How come? Both old-style threading and old libc are entirely user-space, and work just fine on new kernels. Linus is pretty adamant about not breaking userspace, even ancient syscalls.

    Stuff that doesn't work is limited to eg. 2.2 ipchains (replaced by iptables in 2.4), devfs and the like.

  6. Re:It's mere gas on Monster Hypergiant Star Discovered · · Score: 3, Informative

    Like all proper planets (ie, Pluto and the ilk excluded), Jupiter consists of a ball of rock and some atmosphere. It just happens that Jupiter's atmosphere is extreme, consisting of 86-96% of the planet's mass. Yet, being gas, you can't tell where it starts and ends.

  7. It's mere gas on Monster Hypergiant Star Discovered · · Score: 2

    Saying that these stars touch each other is like saying Jupiter's diameter is comes at some random point within its atmosphere. Both include a large amount of very sparse gas, with boundaries being fuzzy.

  8. Re:A little background on In Ukraine, Cyber War With Russia Heating Up · · Score: 2

    Problems that were staged by Putin's own special forces. Litvinenko is a hero of Snowden's calibre, yet somehow data he brought up isn't widely known.

  9. Re:extremist comparisons on In Ukraine, Cyber War With Russia Heating Up · · Score: 4, Interesting

    And even more, even if Janukovych were the ruling president, he would not have the right to request foreign troops, as that prerogative belongs only to the Supreme Council. But hey, Russia never cared much about validity of their excuses for invasion. And remember: they used the very same excuse on 1939-09-17 when invading Poland.

  10. Re: Why didn't they leave it in place? on PETA Abandons $1 Million Prize For Artificial Chicken · · Score: 4, Informative

    No, otherwise they wouldn't go on massive slaughter-fests. An animal PETA gets its hands on has an 84% chance of getting murdered within 24 hours.

  11. Re:IPv6 should have been entrenched before TLD pro on ICANN Considers Using '127.0.53.53' To Tackle DNS Namespace Collisions · · Score: 1

    this TLD proliferation shouldn't have been done

    Full stop. Your conditional clause is unnecessary and wrong here. As much as we need IPv6, the TLD diarrhoea should never have been allowed to happen.

  12. Re:is 10.0.0.0/8 really needed to be private? on ICANN Considers Using '127.0.53.53' To Tackle DNS Namespace Collisions · · Score: 1

    Having more bits makes it easier to manage your local ranges. When you have multiple locations and a bunch of VPNs between them, more address space means you don't need to squeeze it tightly -- something that always backfires once there's a need for expansion.

  13. Re:A "clipped" audio signal is still a valid signa on Customer: Dell Denies Speaker Repair Under Warranty, Blames VLC · · Score: 2

    Sounding like crap has never stopped record companies before. It's the loudness war.

    Thus, there's little VLC can do as the signal is already compressed up the wazoo.

  14. Re:Liable *of not acting upon obvious infringement on German Domain Registrar Liable For Copyright Infringement · · Score: 2

    Here's a car analogy: it's akin to making the license number bureau liable because they haven't acted upon some hearsay that the car's owner keeps it dirty.

  15. Re:Boycott on Designer Seeds Thought To Be Latest Target By Chinese · · Score: 1

    You forgot Gnome 3. But still not as bad as Slashdot Beta.

  16. Re:I imagine it will stay on When Cars Go Driverless, What Happens To the Honking? · · Score: 1

    Electric cars could eliminate noise pollution. What did our bright lawmaker mavens did? Legislate it so electric cars must play artificial noise, because someone might be jaywalking with a nose in their smartphone.

    So I'd expect 50 years of the equivalent of having a person walk before the car waving a red flag before we can enjoy the benefits of new technologies.

  17. Re:Wine is not an emulator on Ask Slashdot: Is Linux Set To Be PC Gaming's Number Two Platform? · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Wine: an emulator of the win32 API+ABI on POSIX+X.
    WinXP/Vista/7/8: an emulator of the win32 API+ABI on NT.

    Neither is native in this sense.

  18. Re:units please on Tesla's Having Issues Charging In the Cold · · Score: 1

    We woke up to -21F this morning :-(

    And how much is that in degrees? :p

  19. Re:Passwords are stored in plain text anyway on FileZilla Has an Evil Twin That Steals FTP Logins · · Score: 2

    It's a FTP client! If you use passwords there, you're doing it wrong.

    It's an ancient protocol that sends logins and passwords over the network in plain text, and you're concerned with storing them on your disk unencrypted?

  20. Re:"confident they will be properly motivated" on Russia Backs Sending Top Students Abroad With a Catch · · Score: 2

    Well, he already has the crown.

  21. Re:But the ONE thing I want... on Google Chrome 32 Is Out: Noisy Tabs Indicators, Supervised Users · · Score: 1

    "keep cookies until you close your browser" means you can't elect to keep a cookie. I for one don't want to type in my Slashdot login every time, yet I don't want to allow 95% of sites to set permanent cookies. In Firefox, you can do it (clunkily) even with no extensions, or comfortably (defaulting to session cookies) with Cookie Monster.

    Chrome has no equivalent for this functionality, with or without extensions.

  22. Re:Chrome 64 on Google Chrome 32 Is Out: Noisy Tabs Indicators, Supervised Users · · Score: 2

    How long until the 64-bit version is released?

    "apt-cache show chromium-browser|grep ^Architecture:" says "amd64" for me.

  23. Re:Correction on Supreme Court Refuses To Hear Newegg Patent Case · · Score: 1

    Mod: +1 Hopeful.

  24. Re:slashdotted on 4K Is For Programmers · · Score: 1

    I agree and liked the 16:10 ratio more.

    16:10??? That's still crap! Why won't you get a proper 16:12 one? Narrow strips are bad in landscape, but if you try to put them in portrait they in turn are so narrow they're useless again.

    Just compare screen aspect ratio to paper sizes -- designed for ergonomy rather than Hollywood execs' wishes:
    16:9 1.77
    16:10 1.60
    16:12 1.33
    A3/A4 1.41
    letter 1.29

  25. Re:slashdotted on 4K Is For Programmers · · Score: 1

    1920x1080 2x2 means you get an useless aspect ratio. A pair of 16x18 displays is nice, no matter how many 16x9 is utterly pointless for any use other than watching bad movies.