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  1. Re:Too little, too late on Mazda Announces Breakthrough In Long-Coveted Engine Technology (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    I am guessing you don't know how oil is sold, do you? Supplies are quite often bought years and years in advance at a pre-negotiated and fixed price over those years. That glut already exists - it's been pumped out to meet their contractual obligations for the future.

  2. Symbols not such a bad idea on The Man Who Wrote the Password Rules Regrets Doing So (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    Increasing your character set makes it harder to run brute force attacks and even randomly guess a password, even when the increase in character count is fully known.

    Changing every 90 days was a bitch, though, agreed.

  3. These people must not drive on interstates on You Can Trick Self-Driving Cars By Defacing Street Signs (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    "For example, there's no reason to have a certain sign on certain roads (Stop sign on an interstate highway)."

    I can think of at least two places on I-15 which have a stop sign directly on the interstate, and one on I-40.

  4. Re:Only on Linux on AMD Confirms Linux 'Performance Marginality Problem' On Ryzen (phoronix.com) · · Score: 1

    I have an actual background in hardware and software troubleshooting. This is very clearly the sign of bad code, not bad hardware. Testing for similar problems under both Windows and my Hackintosh boot partitions, using software compilation tools on a high thread count. Oh, BTW, since Windows 10 has a SMT Scheduling problem with Ryzen (but only Windows 10, Windows 7 is unaffected) again this tells me that it's clearly in the newer software implementations, not hardware, as I'm unable to trigger the SMT bug using Slackware and Linux kernel 2.6.39 but can reliably trigger it in any kernel 3 and higher.

  5. Chrome quite often fucks up and eats 100% CPU, driving the CPU power usage through the roof and making the VRMs overheat. FireFox? Nope. Doesn't happen!

  6. Only on Linux on AMD Confirms Linux 'Performance Marginality Problem' On Ryzen (phoronix.com) · · Score: 1, Interesting

    That tells me someone's code is fucked up, not that AMD's processors are screwed. Ain't happening on my Hackintosh, ain't happening on my Windows box.

    Did someone let Grsecurity do the SMT kernel code?

  7. Re:Prove it's true on Linux Kernel Hardeners Grsecurity Sue Open Source's Bruce Perens (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Prove your point by citation from the case itself - you can't.

  8. "This is the point. Why should it mean increased profit for airlines rather than lower prices for passengers?"

    Why not both? Without having to pay pilots, hey could lower the prices for passengers and still make a profit. Might need to spend a bit more on the insurance but that's the breaks.

  9. Re:Too bad for Intel with MB incompatibility on Preview of AMD Ryzen Threadripper Shows Chip Handily Out-Pacing Intel Core i9 (hothardware.com) · · Score: 1

    My AM2+/AM3 mobo supported both DDR2 and DDR3.

    Intel ever offer anything like that?

  10. "I WILL NOT burn through the power that a GTX 1080 consumes"

    I bet you had no problem saying that while running a fucking GTX 780, at nearly DOUBLE the TDP of a fucking Threadripper or GTX 1080.

  11. Re:Prove it's true on Linux Kernel Hardeners Grsecurity Sue Open Source's Bruce Perens (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Hah! Try again. A license to drive, a license to operate heavy machinery, a license to fly, all are contracts (I should know, I have all three.) According to Black's Law, a contract is: "an agreement between two or more parties creating obligations that are enforceable or otherwise recognizable at law."

    When you go to get your license, you agree that you will abide by all rules and restrictions placed within the range of your license. In return, the state agrees to grant you the ability to operate such machinery in the manner proscribed as long as you maintain your registration and follow the laws relevant to that license (in the cases where the state is the grantor of the license, at least, e.g. driver's license.) In a warehouse (forklift operator) you sign a contract when they license you for the specific facility you are operating at which states you will follow all safety rules relevant to that machinery, or else you face the risk of losing your license to operate that machinery or even lose your job.

    That is a contract no matter how you or any court ruling might try to stretch otherwise.

  12. Re:Prove it's true on Linux Kernel Hardeners Grsecurity Sue Open Source's Bruce Perens (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    A license is a recognized type of contract. Much like your license to drive is actually a contract.

    But please, continue being obtuse for the sake of being a retard.

  13. Re:Prove it's true on Linux Kernel Hardeners Grsecurity Sue Open Source's Bruce Perens (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    You very fucking obviously did NOT read the case, otherwise you'd have clearly seen:

    "With respect to the General Public License ("GPL"), MYSQL has not demonstrated a substantial likelihood of success on the merits or irreparable harm. Affidavits submitted by the parties' experts raise a factual dispute concerning whether the Gemini program is a derivative or an independent and separate work under GPL "

    This clearly demonstrates the court as looking at the GPL as a valid contract. Plain as fucking day.

  14. Re:Prove it's true on Linux Kernel Hardeners Grsecurity Sue Open Source's Bruce Perens (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    And the person you just replied to explained why it is valid - contracts are held valid until ruled INVALID by a court ruling. Period. GPL got tested in court. It was not ruled invalid. Period. That means it is held as valid.

    Do you not understand the legal system?

  15. Re:We all saw it coming... on GNOME's Text Editor gedit 'No Longer Maintained', Needs New Developers (gnome.org) · · Score: 1

    "and instead of hitting ctrl-z you move your hand away from the keyboard, take the mouse, point it to undo, then click?"

    It works when I have to highlight something and undo it, because gedit's undo bufferis still utter fucking garbage.

  16. Re:Good news for coal! on Startup Unveils Revolutionary New Rechargeable Alkaline Batteries (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    "alleviate the radioactive waste from nuclear plants"

    Gee, it's radiation. Capture the fucking energy and convert.

  17. Re:I used to recharge alkaline batteries in the 70 on Startup Unveils Revolutionary New Rechargeable Alkaline Batteries (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    NiCd 9V chargers were 7.2V. Each of those cells in a 9V are considered dead at 1.2V full at roughly 1.5V. There are 6 of them in series, so at their 'dead' level they're matching the charger output voltage and the charger could not push their voltage any higher. You would have never charged your alkaline 9V off of that charger.

  18. Re:Prove it's true on Linux Kernel Hardeners Grsecurity Sue Open Source's Bruce Perens (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    You don't read /. much, do you? Progress Software v. MySQL, that was like a decade ago.

  19. Re:Prove it's true on Linux Kernel Hardeners Grsecurity Sue Open Source's Bruce Perens (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Second claim can be proven true as the GPL v2 has been tested and upheld in court as a valid contract. Grsecurity's actions - that I have witnessed in regards to their licensing - violates Section 6 of the GPL v2.

    With the second statement AFAIK being true, the first statement is automatically true.

  20. Re:We all saw it coming... on GNOME's Text Editor gedit 'No Longer Maintained', Needs New Developers (gnome.org) · · Score: 2

    "do you ever use the undo/redo buttons? or even print?"

    Yes. Often.

    "Plus there's a decent search and a file browser in the sidebar."

    And it's still nowhere as useful as a properly-indexed FS. Waste of space.

    Pass. Some of us stick to the 90s because performance and lack of bloat, plus nobody's going to bother targeting old stuff beause practically nobody worth targeting is using old stuff.

  21. Re:We all saw it coming... on GNOME's Text Editor gedit 'No Longer Maintained', Needs New Developers (gnome.org) · · Score: 1

    Wow, gedit went from usable to fucking touchscreen UI?

    I'm hoping he's quitting it because he got chewed out for this shit UI choice.

  22. Re:Not supported my ass on WikiLeaks Reveals CIA Tool For Hacking Webcams, Microphones (thestack.com) · · Score: 1

    The WOW64 statement wouldn't apply to Windows 2000 supposedly not being supported while the malware supposedly works on XP 32-bit.

  23. "The level it's toxic in humans is several million times higher than its found on produce. It's not bio-accumulating. If you were actually afraid of it because of "toxins", then you shouldn't be breathing AIR, which has more PPB of anthrax, than you'll find on your food in glyphosphate."

    Hi, I actually work in the agricultural sector, and have for over a decade. You will find glyphosate on almost every bit of your produce in the grocery store, and it's in the PPM range, not PPB.

  24. Key word in the post nullifies the suit on Linux Kernel Hardeners Grsecurity Sue Open Source's Bruce Perens (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    The key word/phrase is "it's my opinion".

    Grsecurity needs to be hit with a SLAPP countersuit.

  25. Re:Depends on what kind of immigrant on Silicon Valley Says Trump Plan To Reduce Immigration Will Hurt Economy (cbslocal.com) · · Score: 1

    Amen.