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  1. Re:I know you're trying to be funny, but... on Linus Torvalds: "GCC 4.9.0 Seems To Be Terminally Broken" · · Score: 1

    Found a link which is pretty much the same issue.

    https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubu...

    And apparently, according to some commenters, this has been around since the late 90s.

    And still hasn't been fixed.

  2. Re:I know you're trying to be funny, but... on Linus Torvalds: "GCC 4.9.0 Seems To Be Terminally Broken" · · Score: 1

    Yes, without root priviledges, and with properly set up security.

    Your SWAP is vulnerable. Start paying attention to it, especially if you're one of those experimental types that likes to put a SWAP file in RAM and encrypt it. Security holes, security holes EVERYWHERE. But they can't be easily exploited because the kernel locks as soon as the SWAP gets filled.

  3. Re:I know you're trying to be funny, but... on Linus Torvalds: "GCC 4.9.0 Seems To Be Terminally Broken" · · Score: 1

    No link, but go ahead and watch what happens when you set up a SWAP in actual RAM, encrypt it, and then fill it up.

  4. Re:I know you're trying to be funny, but... on Linus Torvalds: "GCC 4.9.0 Seems To Be Terminally Broken" · · Score: 1, Interesting

    "all proceeds smoothly."

    Until you submit a bug report about how every kernel can be hardlocked by an elementary school student and post the exact five steps it takes to do so.

    "Oh, the kernel is supposed to do that."

    No it isn't, Linus.

  5. Re:Enraged Customer doesn't bother to research on Enraged Verizon FiOS Customer Seemingly Demonstrates Netflix Throttling · · Score: 1

    So, why am I getting crap speeds for Netflix on both PS3 and PC except when I use my VPN, inside Verizon's own network?

  6. Re:Enraged Customer doesn't bother to research on Enraged Verizon FiOS Customer Seemingly Demonstrates Netflix Throttling · · Score: 1

    Funny enough, you're right, my VPN host is inside Verizon's network. But that still goes to show, it's quite possible Verizon is actively throttling that which they can see.

  7. Re:Enraged Customer doesn't bother to research on Enraged Verizon FiOS Customer Seemingly Demonstrates Netflix Throttling · · Score: 1

    "So obviously the traffic through the VPN is taking a different path."

    Oh? Funny, my VPN tracert shows it taking pretty much the same path across Verizon's networks before hitting Level3 and Netflix.

  8. Re:eSports really ? when darts is a sport, then, s on eSports Starting To Go Mainstream · · Score: 2

    " But a sport involves the combo of physical exertion,"

    Back in my day, lugging that goddamned 21" Trinitron CRT around with my almost as heavy loaded Antec P4 Server WAS the physical exertion aspect. Not easy for someone that's 6' and 145.

    Off my lawn.

  9. Re:Solar power? on Google Offers a Million Bucks For a Better Inverter · · Score: 1

    "On the other hand, if you want a solar-powered Chromebook, the inverter could be a deal-breaker on the weight."

    You wouldn't need an inverter, really. In many cases, low-power laptops run on ~10VDC, so a direct solar panel connection with resistor would be roughly fine to hit the battery through its charge controller. For those needing ~20V, you just use a cheap-ass boost converter and resistor before you feed to the charging/power circuitry.

    Been there, done that, made solar-powered headless laptop servers.

  10. Re:Why? on Google Offers a Million Bucks For a Better Inverter · · Score: 1

    600? 480VDC would be fine. 5A roughly? Easy-peasy.

  11. Re: I've heard this one... on Google Offers a Million Bucks For a Better Inverter · · Score: 1

    K. gimme an oscillator, variac, and an inductor.

    Deuces.

  12. Re:"to not look inside the box" on Google Offers a Million Bucks For a Better Inverter · · Score: 1

    " Also, why they claim they will not open the box up."

    And I would ask that I be allowed to personally observe my box during the entire time, if need be, to ensure that. That is all under the assumption I had such a device. I've seen it from AC-DC for LED drivers, but not that kind of efficiency in reverse.

  13. Re:110 or 240v on Google Offers a Million Bucks For a Better Inverter · · Score: 1

    Just about any component after the transformer will work fine, frequency independent, minus things like oscillators, radio crystals, etc. resistors DGAF, caps DGAF as long as you match or are lower than its rated voltage, diodes are voltage drops and DGAF about frequency...

    Do you even basic electronics?

  14. Re:110 or 240v on Google Offers a Million Bucks For a Better Inverter · · Score: 1

    Just about anything apartment-wise after the 80s uses split phase 240RMS/277 typical peak.

  15. Re:it's 240V in USA/Canada on Google Offers a Million Bucks For a Better Inverter · · Score: 1

    I just finished building and wiring up a full hydroponics building. You get ~277V, split-phase, and in reality, it's higher than that, because it's 120VRMS and upwards of 170V peak, so you're looking at a potential spread of 340V or more.

    "There really isn't any such thing as 110V or 230V in the USA/Canada,"

    From a technical standpoint, yes. From a practical standpoint, not really. RMS is good enough. Trust me, if the electronics we have were not that robust, they'd have been fried long ago. Hooray for tolerances.

  16. NATO Citizens Onboard on Malaysian Passenger Plane Reportedly Shot Down Over Ukraine · · Score: 1

    If it is found to have been shot down, this is going to be a perfect excuse for NATO to walk right on in and pacify the Eastern Ukraine.

    But that's *IF* the plane was shot down.

  17. Re:Dude! Sounds like a real way to make some bread on Biohackers Are Engineering Yeast To Make THC · · Score: 1

    The stuff I make with Fleicshmann's tastes better than most stuff one gets at the grocery store here in California.

    I make mine usually from hibiscus tea and wild red grapes found in the Santa Ana riverbed, and raw cane sugar.

    Absolutely fucking tasty.

  18. Re:Wow. on Rocket Scientist Designs "Flare" Pot That Cooks Food 40% Faster · · Score: 1

    "Actually, with the fins being on the outside for this design, I think it would be less efficient compared to jetboil."

    Nah. The fins up the side provide more surface area to capture waste rising heat. This also allows for better and more even dispersion of heat throughout the surface area of that which you are cooking, since instead of only heating the bottom you're getting the sides as well.

    Jetboil still suffers from having the fins being confined to the bottom.

  19. 7.5x that of copper on Scientists Have Developed a Material So Dark That You Can't See It · · Score: 1

    Man, I'd love that stuff cooling my LEDs! The tiniest bit of airflow over something like that would be all one needs to keep even intense arrays like the MK-R cool.

    I wonder if this could be grown on the backside of an MCPCB, negating the need for a heat sink and allowing just a fan over it to cool.

  20. Re:This isn't anything new. on Biohackers Are Engineering Yeast To Make THC · · Score: 1

    Ever since the 90s, starting in Florida with testing on various tomato cultivars (because of the high trichome content on the plant itself.)

    Fuck man, I learned about this stuff in Ag. Sci. in high school in 1997.

  21. Re:Ewww... on Texas Town Turns To Treated Sewage For Drinking Water · · Score: 2

    I don't think you fully comprehend my point. I'm only saying RO will easily remove the pharmaceuticals. You might still get other elements present besides oxygen and hydrogen, but you're not getting any molecular structure much larger than a water molecule through those pores, which would incidentally include pretty much every pharmaceutical ever made.

  22. Re:Dude! Sounds like a real way to make some bread on Biohackers Are Engineering Yeast To Make THC · · Score: 1

    " You don't use the same yeast for wine as you do for beer, and that's different from the one you use for bread."

    I do, and I get great results every time.

    "Turbo" yeasts and specialty brewer's yeasts tend to suck. Fleischmann's active dry yeast? Works like a charm. I can even make 20% port non-fortified with that stuff.

  23. Re:Woah, wait a minute ... on Biohackers Are Engineering Yeast To Make THC · · Score: 1

    Even better. Yeast producing both THC and alcohol. Instant cannabeer without the other brewing steps!

    THCquila? :)

  24. Re:This isn't anything new. on Biohackers Are Engineering Yeast To Make THC · · Score: 1

    The rest of the world has been at this for over two decades. Where have you been?

  25. Re:Ewww... on Texas Town Turns To Treated Sewage For Drinking Water · · Score: 5, Informative

    "Don't know about memory but reverse osmosis water certainly does contain some of the pharmaceuticals you crapped out."

    Uh, considering the membrane has pores small enough to remove a sodium ion, and pretty much every pharmaceutical made is much larger than a single sodium ion, good luck getting through the filter.