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  1. Re:So what about my CO2 spewing SUV? on Kilauea Volcano Erupts On Hawaii's Big Island (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    [q]until the sheriffs and law enforcement arrived and that was not "ok" anymore[/q]

    This is just another version of "might makes right".

    The reputation of shoot-out at the OK Corral is not justified. You were far more likely to be killed by Indians than "outlaws". And that was well earned, honestly, considering how horribly the government treated the Natives.

  2. Re:But how much energy is used by traditional fiat on Nobody Knows How Much Energy Bitcoin Is Using (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    The same with be true with BTC or other crypto currencies.

    The physical cost of that money may go away, but the costs of accounting for it and protecting it digitally will not.

  3. Re:But how much energy is used by traditional fiat on Nobody Knows How Much Energy Bitcoin Is Using (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Pointless, really.

    I don't NEED a bank to spend money.

    If you want to include the BTUs my body expends trading money with some dude, sure

    So let's assume the article is write 0.5% of worldwide power generation, and my local electricity charge of $.20/kwh

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_energy_consumption
    Says in 2012, WW energy consumption was 20900 TWh.
    so 20900 M kwh.

    $4,180,000,000

    I think I did that math right.

    Your assumption is that the money spent on banks and other institutions would NOT be spent in a BTC regime, and I beg to differ.

    The costs of using Bitcoin do not scale linearly, and go up the more transactions that are on the ledger. There is probably 10 orders of magnitude more cash (real or digital) than BTC transactions.

    https://blockchain.info/charts/n-transactions?timespan=all

    Shows a maximum of 500K confirmed daily transactions in BTC.

    Shit, this happens in my city of 50K probably every day,

  4. Re:But how much energy is used by traditional fiat on Nobody Knows How Much Energy Bitcoin Is Using (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    0.5% of worldwide power generation?

    No amount of dollar bills ever cost that much per year.

  5. Re:Here's the problem, feds, listen up on Tech Giants Hit by NSA Spying Slam Encryption Backdoors (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Bullshit. 9/11 was a law enforcement fuckup. The FBI sat on valid intel that some of the terrorists were learning to fly plane but not land them.

    The deaths of 3000 people is insignificant to the privacy and security of every person still alive.

  6. Re: Thanks but no thanks, Intel on Intel's 10nm Cannon Lake CPUs Won't Arrive in Mass Quantities Until 2019, Company Says (pcgamer.com) · · Score: 2

    Which other hypervisors offer live migration across VM hosts?

    Xen is the only other one I know about:
    https://support.citrix.com/article/CTX115813

    Q: Does XenMotion support live relocation of virtual machines between Intel-based and AMD-based host systems?
    A: No, XenMotion supports live relocation of virtual machines between systems with the same type and manufacturer of processor.

  7. Re: Thanks but no thanks, Intel on Intel's 10nm Cannon Lake CPUs Won't Arrive in Mass Quantities Until 2019, Company Says (pcgamer.com) · · Score: 1

    VMotion doesn't require Windows. You can VMotion any supported OS.

    https://partnerweb.vmware.com/programs/guestOS/guest-os-customization-matrix.pdf

  8. Re:Fabbing 10nm hasn't been easy on Intel's 10nm Cannon Lake CPUs Won't Arrive in Mass Quantities Until 2019, Company Says (pcgamer.com) · · Score: 1

    Exactly.

    A switch away from intel will kill the performance users.

    You'll lose them all to the surface books.

  9. Re:Intel in full damage control mode. on Intel's 10nm Cannon Lake CPUs Won't Arrive in Mass Quantities Until 2019, Company Says (pcgamer.com) · · Score: 1

    Can you elaborate?

  10. Re:Sorry, I don't think so on Genealogy Websites Were Key To Big Break In Golden State Killer Case (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    I believe the Founding Fathers would have considered DNA subject to 4th amendment protections. IE: Get a warrant.

    I cannot control where I shed skin and hair.

  11. Why are you bullish on blockchains?

  12. Most likely already has a shitload of crypto, and saw what the news of the Bitcoin ETFs did to the price, and now lending their support to them will cause it to go back up so they can cash out the rest.

    You. Will. Be. The. Bagholder.

    Again.

  13. Re:Necessary to integrate product lines on Apple's Redesigned Mac Pro is Coming in 2019 (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Oh god no. A switch away from Intel would be the nail in their coffin.

    No more VMware fusion or Bootcamp. No more performance. All new drivers for everything.

    I guarantee it. Switching to ARM will be the end of Mac OS. You will lose the developers. Though Ballmer was a fucking monkey, he was right.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vhh_GeBPOhs

  14. Re:Apple has been lost for a while, hardware-wise. on Apple's Redesigned Mac Pro is Coming in 2019 (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    No.

    But contract with someone with volume - get them to make you a mostly identical version of a wide-production motherboard that apple can put their special license ROMs on (or a special TPM the add in a seperate step).

    Pick any manufcaturer who has decent volume - Supermicro would probably be a good choice for the Mac Pro. ASrock, ASUS, both make great home user motherboards.

    Walk back away from the 2 year upgrade cycle - give people something they can get 10 years out of, because at this point YOU CAN. It's not like we're making the dramatic leaps of 1990-2010 here anymore. Most of the advances are in GPUs at this point

  15. Re:Apple has been lost for a while, hardware-wise. on Apple's Redesigned Mac Pro is Coming in 2019 (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    If they made a decent machine, and charged a premium say 10% of what I could get for a hard-core ASRock or ASUS and let me put in CPU and memory upgrades and gave me ports like NVDIMM and lots of PCI x16 slots (for workstation), and something straightforward on the desktop, like just replacable CPU and memory for the Mini, then they'd have a Windows killer everywhere.

    Not twice the price, 3 times the price, but 10-20% premium.

    I'd replace almost all my Linux boxes in a heartbeat. Bring back the MBP 17, or at least give me 32G of RAM at an under $2500 price point... ugh.

  16. Re:Apple has been lost for a while, hardware-wise. on Apple's Redesigned Mac Pro is Coming in 2019 (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Fuck, they could just OEM the whole thing to Asus and rebrand it and still come away with a fuckton of profit.

    https://www.asus.com/us/Motherboards/X99PROUSB_31/
    Older Model, probably $300 new when it came out...

    Or this http://www.asrockrack.com/general/productdetail.asp?Model=EP2C602

    $350 from Newegg. Convert one of the PCI x16 slots into a Thunderbolt port... Update to DDR4, maybe.

    XEONs pack a hell of a wallop in cores.

    Do that, at half the price you're charging for the Current ash-can.

    And give me an upgraded home Mac MIni. Something halfway between what we got now and a Future 36 core (2 cpu) Mac Pro.

  17. Re:Everybody gets what they want on 1.1.1.1: Cloudflare's New DNS Attracting 'Gigabits Per Second' of Rubbish (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    If it's Free, it's going to be used to gather data from you and then resell for value.

    Period.

    Even if it's not free, odds are your data is going to be aggregated and sold.

    It may be anonymized to some extent, but get a large enough sample of data from enough sources and you can be deanonymized.

  18. Dumb Dumb Remember Spyglass, everyone? on Microsoft: We'll Help Customers Create Patents But We Get a License To Use Them (zdnet.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    To anyone choosing to suck on this carrot, may I remind everyone what happened with Internet Explorer and Sypglass?

  19. My mistake, there were a few i7 processors with >=8 cores

    https://ark.intel.com/Search/FeatureFilter?productType=processors&CoreCountMin=8&FamilyText=Intel%C2%AE%20Core%E2%84%A2%20Processors

  20. You are most certainly correct. To replace dual E5450 would require an 8 core i7.

    E5450 is LGA771

    i7 is not. So you WOULD need a new motherboard. Quite likely the memroy would work (DDR3 and ECC) .

    There are NO 8 core i7 processors.

    Either way, you're looking at $4-500 for a modest increase in TDP and cache, and maybe burst performance.

  21. > rather need more than 6GB RAM

    This right here.

    I'm sick of downpurposing CPUs and being restricted to some stupid memory limitation. The NUCs are a fine example of this.

    They'll last 10+ years most likely, and in those 10 years still be limited to 8GB - 16GB.

    The only reason I'm updating some of my Atom machines is memory limitations, and I'm doing it with non-bleeding edge stuff. Intel doesn't really like the hobbyist I guess.

  22. Or run your own DNS with Digital Ocean for $5/mo.

    Email too if you want.

    > yay for the cloud?

    Yay for MY cloud.

  23. Re:Cloud storage on Amazon's Music Storage Service Will Remove MP3 Files on April 30 (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    I use FreeNAS, but have Plex running on a NUC with an external USB drive that I make internet accessible in a DMZ.

    I'm not wasting my RAIDZ space on FLAAC audio.

    Cost me $150 for a lifetime plex subscription to have offline sync on my phone/tablets.

    Screw the cloud.

  24. Re:Evidence please on James Webb Space Telescope, NASA's Next Hubble, Delayed Again (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Not sure if you remember, but back before Ares became a thing a bunch of NASA insiders proposed Jupiter, which is what SLS obviously evolved from. Seeing how history played out makes me angry that 5-7 years was wasted on Ares.

    But you are right - if SLS is a viable product, maybe ULA and Orbital ATK (Thiokol) should foot the bill for it and compete for launches.

  25. Re:Not a feature.... on IETF Approves TLS 1.3 As Internet Standard (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    Seriously, what would it take to get a Rpi Based KVM?

    Open source BMC is one place I figured would get some traction - all options are like $300 minimum per node. I'm lucky, my Supermicro boards come with BMCs, but again, not open.