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  1. Re:Sounds like an episode of Doomsday Preppers on DoD Declassifies Flu Pandemic Plan Containing Sobering Assumptions · · Score: 1

    No, Preppers will be shot somewhere on the road by a military patrol while trying to "bug out" and "sticking to their guns".

  2. Re:Hard drives warranty on SSD Annual Failure Rates Around 1.5%, HDDs About 5% · · Score: 1

    You are not making any sense. Im sure $4B a year net profit is scraping the bottom of the barrel in your book.

  3. Recoverable Failure rate: 99.9% HDD, 1% SSD on SSD Annual Failure Rates Around 1.5%, HDDs About 5% · · Score: 1, Troll

    Wrong stat.

    Yes, things to break, but its important HOW they break. HDDs have very 'nice' failure modes. You can recover bits from the platters as long as you do not put one in MRI machine or a fire. SSDs just DISAPPEAR from the system with data and encryption keys to that data and NO ONE including manufacturer can do recovery (they can put flash chips in reader and read encrypted bytes, but encryption keys were in the controller that just died).

    How about another one: Warning before failure rate? Again 90% HDD, 1% SSD.

    Do you know how many SSDs survive running out of spare sectors? Again about 1% :) 99% just die without going into read only mode.

  4. Re:Hard drives warranty on SSD Annual Failure Rates Around 1.5%, HDDs About 5% · · Score: 1

    margins are paper thin.

    WD and Seagate have a healthy 40% margin on every drive they sell.

  5. Re:Simple solution on Verizon's Plan To Turn the Web Into Pay-Per-View · · Score: 2

    oh its simple, you buy a ski mask and set fire to Verizon infrastructure at night for few months in a row.

  6. Re:Linus said something... on SSD Failure Temporarily Halts Linux 3.12 Kernel Work · · Score: 2

    His SSD died a natural death of old age.

    IMarv

    there is NOTHING natural about a drive that disappears without a notice with all of your data.

  7. Re:Really? on SSD Failure Temporarily Halts Linux 3.12 Kernel Work · · Score: 1

    no, they all write whole sectors at a time
    slc holds 1 bit in a cell
    mlc holds 2
    tlc holds 3 bits
    more bits = smaller difference in charge between values = less margin of error = almost order of magnitude less write cycles

  8. Re:Really? on SSD Failure Temporarily Halts Linux 3.12 Kernel Work · · Score: 2

    Yes, the mythical read-only mode that NO ONE could trigger while doing wear leveling tests on SSDs - they ALWAYS DIE suddenly and without warning.

  9. Re:Really? on SSD Failure Temporarily Halts Linux 3.12 Kernel Work · · Score: 1

    Your claim that most drives do this by default is ludicrous

    and yet it is true

  10. Re:Really? on SSD Failure Temporarily Halts Linux 3.12 Kernel Work · · Score: 1

    No, key is stored inside controller chip, it is only available to manufacturer and licensed recovery companies (using manufacturers backdoor) BUT that key is LOST if controller chip dies.

  11. Re:Start your own provider? on Ask Slashdot: How Do You Fight Usage Caps? · · Score: 1

    One nice trick some ISPs use is X speed during the peak hours, and 2x X speed off peak hours.

  12. Re:America would deserve it... on US Intercepts Iranian Order For Attack On US Embassy In Iraq · · Score: 0

    which likely means I'll get my contract extended or get recalled and get sent to another crappy country we don't belong in.

    Were you drafted by force? or did you sign up from your own will to kill people? What exactly are you complaining about?

  13. Re:Very little utility here on NSA-resistant Android App 'Burns' Sensitive Messages · · Score: 1

    I'm not confident that the NSA hasn't already solved the discrete logarithm problem at the heart of that method.

    http://arstechnica.com/security/2013/08/crytpo-experts-issue-a-call-to-arms-to-avert-the-cryptopocalypse/

    I think its about NSA submarining vulnerable elliptic curve keys into the standard

  14. Re:Chernobyl? Re:So Just So I'm Seeing This Clearl on Japanese Ice Wall To Stop Reactor Leaks · · Score: 1

    I didnt say there was no effect. I said cancer rates rose insignificantly compared to the rest of the planet.
    Did people die? yes. Did people die at same rates in other parts of the globe without radiation effects from the Chernobyl? YES.
    All in all effects of Chernobyl are meaningless compared to car accident death toll.

  15. Re:Chernobyl? Re:So Just So I'm Seeing This Clearl on Japanese Ice Wall To Stop Reactor Leaks · · Score: 1

    Chernobyl Death Toll: 985,000

    http://www.globalresearch.ca/new-book-concludes-chernobyl-death-toll-985-000-mostly-from-cancer/20908
     

    between 1986 and 2004
    All studies done on cleanup workers showed average percentage of cancer deaths to be same as for example in the US in the same period = there was no significant bump over a large population

  16. Re:On the plus side... on At Current Rates, Tesla Could Soon Suck Up Worldwide Supply of Li-Ion Cells · · Score: 1

    Tesla used 18650 because of economy of scale thanks to laptops, if laptops switch tesla will switch too.

  17. Re:Philantropy on Lenovo CEO Shares $3 Million Bonus With Workers · · Score: 3, Insightful

    No its not, you dont get rich by sharing to begin with.

  18. Re:Reality is complex on Global Warming Spreading Pests Far and Wide According To Study · · Score: 1

    Global Warming is just part of the problem, just a symtom, one where scientist can take a bunch of historical data and point a finger showing to even the dumbest persons that is happening

    Whats more, they can show to the dumbest person that it already happened before many times in earths history so we CANT DO SHIT ABOUT IT.

  19. Re:They're not trolls on Taking the Battle Against Patent Trolls To the Public · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Inventors are out of luck RIGHT NOW. Patent is just a piece of paper that gives you right to sue someone, but to sue someone big/important you need >$100K for lawyer fees.

  20. Re:What patent? on Apple Now Relaying All FaceTime Calls Due To Lost Patent Dispute · · Score: 2

    What is the patent involved here? Establishing a connection between two entities on an IP network? NAT traversal techniques? Usage of Interactive Connectivity Establishment protocols?

    No, its "telephony .. over the internet, on a COMPUTER!!1 or smartphone!777"

  21. Re:Where were the professionals. on More Bad News From Fukushima · · Score: 1

    It wouldnt be honorable to admit equipment is not suitable for the job = LIE IN YOUR FACE like a true Asian.

  22. Re:The answer is not the answer on Death of the Car Salesman? BMW Makes AI App To Sell Electric Cars · · Score: 1

    For me, the content of the answer is part of what I want. I pay equal attention to the way the salesman is giving the answer too. If I have the feeling he is bullshitting his way into a sale I know I have to ask more complex questions.

    So instead of buying a car you are buying VERY EXPENSIVE live performance? How about research the car instead of reading people and tea leaves?

  23. Re:Huh? What? on The Greatest Keyboard Shortcut Ever · · Score: 1

    The summary should read "Several browsers let you press Ctrl-Shift-T to reopen a closed tab. That is all."

    Why this is deserving of an article I don't know.

    not to mention some browsers let you just press CTRL-Z - the universal UNDO shortcut

  24. Re:Paywalled? on Using Pulsars As GPS For Starships · · Score: 1

    So his taxes paid for salaries that provide those IP or services ...

  25. NO Start Menu, its METRO menu ... METRO Button on Windows 8.1 RTM Trickling Out, With Start Menu and Boot-to-Desktop · · Score: 1

    How effin difficult is it to get the difference?