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  1. Re:So far all she can do is try to make people loo on Carly Fiorina Calls Apple's Tim Cook a 'Hypocrite' On Gay Rights · · Score: 1

    There is Palin, but Fiorina is new and more experienced.

  2. Re:Trusted Posotion? Do nothing but backup on Ask Slashdot: Dealing With User Resignation From an IT Perspective? · · Score: 1

    Too early.

  3. Re:Why? on Ask Slashdot: Dealing With User Resignation From an IT Perspective? · · Score: 1

    but I could see the plaintext of your ssh connection to a CISCO switch.

    Is Cisco's ssh weak (known private keys?) or does your inline IDS somehow man in the middles it ?

  4. No shit sherlock on License Details Hint MS Undecided On Suing Users of Its Open Source Net Runtime · · Score: 1

    We all know it's a trap.

  5. Re:We don't need density! We need longer life! on Toshiba Announces 3D Flash With 48 Layers · · Score: 1
    Then what do you recommend the OP to which I was replying ?

    I'm tired of throwing away several Intel or Samsung SSDs every week. My last set of nine Samsung 840s that I installed in development desktops lasted less than 90 days before they wore-out. Yes, we're hard on drives, but it's ridiculous how much time our IT department is throwing away due to the fact SSD drives are considered disposable and die so quickly. They're crap. There's a reason you still see 15k spinning rust in data centers. MLC SSDs are garbage that should not be legal to be sold.

  6. Re:We don't need density! We need longer life! on Toshiba Announces 3D Flash With 48 Layers · · Score: 1

    Then try SLC Enterprise SSD's.

  7. Re:The butting edge on Toshiba Announces 3D Flash With 48 Layers · · Score: 1

    A DVR works better with a mechanical disk anyway with a fixed bit rate in a continuous motion access.

    Huh, but SSD's are also a lot faster on sequential reads than mechanical disks.

  8. VFS on No, It's Not Always Quicker To Do Things In Memory · · Score: 1

    I hope thjis is not just the kernel VFS and cache doing a better job with their memory management than the researcher's code.

  9. Re:4 words... on Energy Company Trials Computer Servers To Heat Homes · · Score: 1

    Mining cryptcoins is deplorable. It is an activity of the selfish and greedy.

  10. Re:noatime,nodiratime on Apple Doubles MacBook Pro R/W Performance · · Score: 1

    Well, I'm a linux guy too, but to be fair to the windows folk HFS+ only achieves that performance by using a 16kb block size, not by having a performance filesystem and thus was very wasteful with disk space - especially when you consider how many small files exist on an fs.

    What benchmark made you conclude that HFS+ is faster than NTFS when using big block sizes ?

    No the disk performance crown still resides with Linux users that have access to enterprise grade filesystems like murderFS, ahem I mean reiserfs, xfs and other performance kings of that ilk.

    Does anybody still use reiserfs and what makes it "enterprise grade" ?

    I'm sure that there are macOS users out there who know how to retrofit such a filesystem into their BSD kernels, but that is hardly a stock MAC, it's BSD functionality. Even then I'm not sure if BSD supports configurable IO and CPU schedulers or a pre-emptable kernel - not that 99% of mac users would even understand why that is important.

    Mac OS X still depends on old mac system 6/7 filesystem functionality like resource forks, these are not that easy to "retrofit" in ufs/zfs.
    A lot of the IO schedulers are implemented mainly to have some IO fairness because mechanical hard drives are very easy to saturate.
    These aren't that useful anymore when you can push 500.000 IOPS to a set of SSD's. And don't diss the FreeBSD storage subsystem: ufs allows for consistent backups without having to use volume management and creating a snapshot beforehand (LVM2+ext4).

  11. Re:As a recent buyer of a mid-2014 MBP on Apple Doubles MacBook Pro R/W Performance · · Score: 1

    That, and they're engineered to use standard parts, not exotic and maintenance-hostile ones.

    When was the last time you replaced a "standard" laptop GPU ?

  12. Re:Already exists in PC systems. on Apple Doubles MacBook Pro R/W Performance · · Score: 1

    You need the 512 GB model to reach speeds above 1080 MB/s according to the specs.

  13. Re:Apps? on Microsoft Has Received 1 Million Pieces of Feedback For Windows 10 · · Score: 1

    What about utilities or goodies. Can we use that ?

  14. Re:Your justice system is flawed, too. on How To Execute People In the 21st Century · · Score: 1

    look at you: concerned because i dehumanize a mass murderer?

    Yes because he is still a human.

    you do not possess coherent morality

    I never claimed I did. And I very much doubt you possess it as well.

    you respect and tolerate all. until someone disrespects and lacks tolerance. then you give back exactly the same

    O tell me oh wise one, where did I stop tolerating you ?

    to tolerate intolerance is only to invite the destruction of your belief system

    Cute very cute. Now give me one in Latin.

  15. Re:Your justice system is flawed, too. on How To Execute People In the 21st Century · · Score: 1

    why is this creature still alive, it is not a human being. it has lost the ability to call itself that by defiling basic morality to such a repugnant extreme. why is this thing still alive? so it can whine about video game privileges? this thing must die

    In war we all defile morality to repugnant extremes.
    Stop dehumanizing this man by calling him *it*. It's practices like that that help enable enormous atrocities (see Hutu - Tutsi genocides).

    again, please note: we are here on the very edge of atrocity. the crimes that shock the conscience at the furthest extreme. the worst of the worst of the worst. they alone deserve death from the state

    The atrocity scale edges' move according to the 'zeitgeist'. There is no real hard end.

    so india has the closest approach to perfect on capital punishment in this world.

    Yeah India. With their multilayered racist caste system. They know all about justice.

  16. Re:Your justice system is flawed, too. on How To Execute People In the 21st Century · · Score: 1

    I agree that (B) is becoming a lot more difficult, as available space fills up, and as nation-states impose moral strictures on other nation states; in that case, there is the suboptimal option (C) hide your differences from the larger society until such time as you can exercise one of the other two options, or until you die, or are caught.

    Nobody wants to be a foreigner.

  17. Re:Your justice system is flawed, too. on How To Execute People In the 21st Century · · Score: 1

    No confidence in the rehabilitative powers of the prison system :D ?
    To be fair these people would never get out, even in Europe.
    There are clauses that keep people a ward of the state after their prison time.
    These are designed for these sort of people, although they sometimes get used for political prisoners.

  18. Re:Better Arguments Needed on How To Execute People In the 21st Century · · Score: 1

    You think you should kill people without remorse because they killed people without remorse.
    It's psychopaths all the way down.

    But you can learn to kill and the remorse lessens with "practice". A lot of soldiers approach psychopath.
    So Isn't the government to blame a little bit for war-traumatised soldiers coming back from their stint of Hell and going ballistic (Timothy McVeigh) ?

  19. Re:HOWTO on How To Execute People In the 21st Century · · Score: 1

    Personally, I'm happy for the lack of availability of Euthasol for use in human executions. Anyone who deserves execution does not deserve a quick, painless termination, they deserve to suffer as much as possible. The only way to make it better is to make them suffer like their victims, and their victims are NOT JUST THE PEOPLE THEY KILLED, but also all the people left behind. When someone murders another innocent being, plans it out, does the execution and shows no remorse at all (all of these things are the requirement for the death penalty in most places) ... and it happens to be your loved ones ... then get back to me on your high and mighty horse, until then ... stop pretending you're so enlightened. You aren't, you're just naive and selfish and ignorant of reality.

    But that's not justice that's revenge.

  20. Re:Depends on Ask Slashdot - Breaking Into Penetration Testing At 30 · · Score: 1

    The other day I found a security problem due to the way the linux and BSD kernels handle ARP in different circumstances, and the interaction there created an attack surface. If the guy doesn't know much about networks, he's going to have a hard time of getting into the nitty-gritty.

    Hasn't ARP always been an attack surface (arp cache poisoning) ?

  21. According to this: http://www.servethehome.com/as... we can conclude that the 10GE silicon is on the motherboard.

  22. Re:This is good on edX Welcomes 'The University of Microsoft' Into Its Fold · · Score: 2

    Yes, as edX notes, this is an anomaly, but it isn't really clear to me what prompted the decision

    Money !

  23. The article doesn't say that they're integrated, just the summary. Maybe the mac is internal, but the phy (the power hungry part of ethernet) will be a separate chip. There's no way they stuck it in the cpu, 10G phy silicon is huge and heatsinky [google.com].

    Well according to this Intel powerpoint presentation http://download.intel.com/news... by Killeen Kristine it is integrated.
    There is some details on the benchmark methods in the fine print but it isn't throughput that they are testing it is concurrent sessions.
    Too bad there are no details on "Intel's reference board" so we can see if the heavy silicon is on the motherboard or not.

  24. Re:Wait...which one do you want? on Demand For Linux Skills Rising This Year · · Score: 1

    HR isn't looking for some basement dweller running Slackware on a 386

    Heej ! I feel personally offended by this. Although I'm in the attic running Slackware 14.1 multilib on a AMD FX8350.

  25. Re:Nope..... on New Seagate Shingled Hard Drive Teardown · · Score: 1

    So you disable one of the most important technologies to monitor your disks.
    Aren't you afraid you are sticking your head in the sand that way.
    What's left: log messages, iostat output ?