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  1. Re:What Information? on Chinese Hackers Infiltrate US Army Database, Compromise Safety of Dams · · Score: 1

    Hopefully the SCADA systems have a password other than the default

    Can you finally change Siemens default password or will it still break whole system and is not supported like in the 'good old days'?

  2. Re:Those who would trade a bit of freedom... on Study: Limiting Bidding On Spectrum Could Cost Billions · · Score: 1

    Restricting AT&T/Verizon from bidding on it reduces freedom and reduces the free market more than letting all interested firms bid on it. We need a truly free market to reduce abuses, not more regulation.

    Freedom to make money is at odds with public good.

  3. Software Defined Networking is what small ISPs do. on Inventor of OpenFlow SDN Admits Most SDN Today Is Hype · · Score: 2

    It is used (without knowing they are using it) by people that avoided legacy one router/cable per task Cisco mentality.
    Remember Cisco 1700/2600/3600 and how doing ANYTHING on them cost you ass load of money? It was never a question of what should we do, it was always a question what thingamajiggy we should buy to do this one specific thing we want.
    Never generation stopped to give a shit about Cisco/Agere/Lucent/Juniper and started deploying all manner of embedded Linux/BSD with software routing. Sure it is slower than dedicated silicon, but it is also much cheaper and more flexible.

  4. Creepy old dude making those Videos on Hillsborough County (FL) Hackathon is a Sign of Increasing Tech Awareness (Video · · Score: 1

    He reminds me of Mr. Plinkett from RedLetterMedia.
    I totally see him following that girl after the event, kidnapping here and holding in his mums basement (mum is dead obviously, buried in same basement behind the washing machine)

  5. Re:Gotta be there on EVE Online Getting TV, Comic Book Adaptations · · Score: 1

    the greater the load, the greater the slowdown (which, by the way, is only indicated to players by a small dial on the screen, not an actual slowdown)

    wait what? no actual slowdown? Have you ever been in TD system?

  6. Re:Gotta be there on EVE Online Getting TV, Comic Book Adaptations · · Score: 1

    > Your average GPU can solve 500-700 of those MILLION TIMES PER SECOND, or million of those 500 times per second if you prefer. 500 million of those every EVE server tick.

    umm im off by 3 orders of magnitude, its billions not millions :)

  7. Re:Gotta be there on EVE Online Getting TV, Comic Book Adaptations · · Score: 1

    Also reinforcing before the fight usually means moving SOL from "slow" (3GHz) blade onto top of the line Xeon X5698 4.4 GHz servers (even faster than the Jita node).

    This model is not sustainable and pretty much sucks donkey balls.

  8. Re:Gotta be there on EVE Online Getting TV, Comic Book Adaptations · · Score: 1

    Interactions square as the number of players

    No it doesnt. How many times does your ship 'interact' with ships next to you in your fleet? How much do you interact with ships that are on ANOTHER GRID in same SOL?
    Of course that doesnt mean CCP wont suck - I also remember one blog post boasting about leet Python hax0r discovering every single additional missile on the grid was generating exponential load because of the data structure they decided to use.

    And a big limiting factor in the current size of the biggest fights is the lag. Lower it and more players will show.

    Let them. Space itself is the limiting factor, just like in a big crowd you reach a point where you cant add more people. Remove area of effect actions and you are left with many maany A-B point to point interactions. PERFECT for parallel processing. Your average GPU can solve 500-700 of those MILLION TIMES PER SECOND, or million of those 500 times per second if you prefer. 500 million of those every EVE server tick.

    So "time dialation" will always have a role.

    Yes, its so revolutionary they should introduce it into FPS games. Who needs 10Hz server tick when you can have 10 second ticks! We could call it Chess.

    Further, what's the point of a fancy remake of the parallelism architecture? They already get substantial increases in capacity over time from better server equipment.

    What remake ? Remake would suggest there is something there already. Also you fail math if you think its financially more efficient to buy top of the line servers (only those have high clocks) just so you can run PYTHON single threaded garbage code on them.

  9. Re:Gotta be there on EVE Online Getting TV, Comic Book Adaptations · · Score: 1

    You know what is even more proffered than graceful failure? Moving into >2000 year and finally supporting more than one CPU thread per solar system

  10. Intel to compete against Chinese $9 ARM chips? on $200 Intel Android Laptops Are Coming · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Bitch please, enough of those bad jokes.
    $200 Android tablets use $9-20 ARM A9 dual-quad core SOCs. How is Intel going to compete with that? Give chips for free and make it up in volume?

  11. Re:Gotta be there on EVE Online Getting TV, Comic Book Adaptations · · Score: 1

    Apple store was so popular and packed with people I couldn't hold my phone "the right way" hence no reception.
    Club was so cool we spend whole night dancing .. while standing in line in a parking lot.

  12. Re:Gotta be there on EVE Online Getting TV, Comic Book Adaptations · · Score: 2

    to instate a time dilation factor of 90%

    I love it when fanbois tout shitty hacks and game limitations as main features of the product

  13. Re:I hope not. on Paul Thurrot Predicts November Debut, $500 Tag For Xbox 720 · · Score: 2

    Why would they remove Kinect when Kinect will make them money directly. They have a patent for identifying users in the room and selling this information, it will be on 24/7.

  14. Re:Barrel and slide/bolt too? on 3D-Printed Gun May Be Unveiled Soon · · Score: 2

    I think the difference between semi and full auto is placement of one hole.

  15. Re:"Needs"? on Europe Needs Genetically Engineered Crops, Scientists Say · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Soooo if I can grow less crops with less pesticides in the same block of land leaving the rest for nature is a bad thing ?

    You are definitely not a farmer. Less pesticides AHAHAHAHA. GMO is all about planting seeds that are super resistant to special proprietary pesticides. After that you spray the fuck out of your fields without worrying about the yield.
    You dont have to worry about weeds nor your plants dying from too much crop dusting. You have to worry about re buying seeds every single year and getting addicted to Roundup.

    Basically its the same scam as juicing healthy cows with antibiotics.

  16. they felt safer when using voice-activated texting on Hands-Free Or Voice-Activated Texting Not Safer · · Score: 1

    In other news Seat belts and airbags made users feel safer and drive recklessly. Lets ban seat belts and airbags!

  17. Re:Enhance it and zoom in on Boston Police Chief: Facial Recognition Tech Didn't Help Find Bombing Suspects · · Score: 1

    This technique is commonly used in plate recognition software for example. Program identifies all frames with plate, crops/scales/aligns and then goes to town. You can have grainy 320x240 of a car where plate looks like a white line 3-4 pixel high and it will still be able to extract real number out of it.

  18. Re:Summary should probably also mention... on IBM In Talks To Sell x86 Server Business To Lenovo · · Score: 1

    at least hitachi will make something of it... lenovo will just fuck everything up

    Hitachi got taken over by Western Digital

  19. Re:German industry lobby on Google Gets Consumer Service Ultimatum From German Consumer Groups · · Score: 1

    Yeah sorry, I was thinking universal healthcare

  20. Re:German industry lobby on Google Gets Consumer Service Ultimatum From German Consumer Groups · · Score: 1

    Yes. Germany also hates Valve because they are jealous. It has nothing to do with consumer rights.
    http://www.pcgamer.com/2013/02/01/valve-sued-by-german-consumer-group-because-steam-users-cant-resell-games/

    Those silly socialist Germans with their free health care and consumer rights.

  21. Re:It's to bad on Changing the Ratio of Women In Tech: How Etsy Did It · · Score: 1

    It's the brain.

    I saw a documentary once about why boys like car mechanics and exact things and girls don't.

    Here is your documentary https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-UoO3EFHj5k

  22. Re:Anti sexist policies are almost always sexist on Changing the Ratio of Women In Tech: How Etsy Did It · · Score: 1

    Somehow this problem didnt exist in ~1940.

  23. Re: Focus all you want... on Kobo CEO Says Not Selling Washing Machines Key To Overtaking Amazon · · Score: 1

    you can buy those at $1-3 per review

  24. Apple OEM licenses Android patents from Microsoft on Foxconn Signs Massive Android Patent Agreement With Microsoft · · Score: 2, Interesting

    This is brilliant. Company that mainly makes Apple products will license "Android patents" from Microsoft.
    Lets rephrase that. Microsoft hates Android, Apple hates Android, Apple tells its biggest client "go fetch". Foxconn does what its being told and promises to pay for something that doesnt exist and doesnt belong to a person it is giving money to. Whats more it will pay for every Android device it makes ... except it doesnt make any, it makes Apple devices.

    Its an equivalent of Nokia licensing imaginary Android patents from Microsoft ... oh wait, Nokia DID license those too haha. Whats next? Dell licensing those patents? HP? Maybe Lexmark or Adobe? or Procter & Gamble?

  25. Re:And... on Ouya Performance Not Particularly Exciting · · Score: 1