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  1. Re:Another misleading headline on Nearly 25 Years Ago, IBM Helped Save Macintosh · · Score: 1

    There exists a noble, altruistic corporation that roams the lands doing the good work.

    What about Oxfam and other ngo's ?

  2. Re:source code of the processor? But software pate on SRI/Cambridge Opens CHERI Secure Processor Design · · Score: 1

    In terms of software patents, there's some annoying precedent that a software implementation of a architectural patent can be infringing. The MIPS architecture that we implement has LWR and LWL instructions that accelerate unaligned loads and stores. These were patented (the patents have now expired) and the owners of the patent won against someone who created a MIPS implementation where these two instructions caused illegal instruction traps and were emulated in software. The software implementations were found to infringe the hardware patent.

    I have one of those in my home-router: a Lexra LX4189. It's a real shame though, such legal shenanigans didn't help the MIPS ISA overall.

  3. Re:Creepy on DARPA Successfully Demonstrates Self-Guiding Bullets · · Score: 1

    It does take away all the awe I will have for future "elite" snipers. Those that have
    correct sighting and wind adjustments down. Now you just need a patient man with an advanced firearm.

  4. Re:Creepy on DARPA Successfully Demonstrates Self-Guiding Bullets · · Score: 1

    So don't you sight the laser with the scope anyway ?

  5. Re:Creepy on DARPA Successfully Demonstrates Self-Guiding Bullets · · Score: 1

    I think I'm off by an a millionth (picometer vs micrometer).

  6. Re:Creepy on DARPA Successfully Demonstrates Self-Guiding Bullets · · Score: 1

    Those were unforeseen costs (the price of failure), this would be an up-front cost. You bet they do let the accountants loose on this one.
    Same for the insufficient armor your troops have (it was too pricey for the good stuff yet total cost of the war should have covered it a thousand times over).

  7. Re:Creepy on DARPA Successfully Demonstrates Self-Guiding Bullets · · Score: 2

    C'mon the effect of gravity on photons is negligable even at ranges of 1-2 km. How much is the drop after 7 microseconds of travel time (~250 micrometers if my math is correct, but I doubt it) ?

  8. Re:It's a tool vendor, not a target, issue. on Ask Slashdot: Best Dedicated Low Power Embedded Dev System Choice? · · Score: 1

    What about consumer electronics (washing machines, microwaves, smartphones, routers, AP's) or critical industrial systems
    where I would image RTOS to be necessary (VxWorks, QNX) ? I can't imagine Windows CE dominating in those spaces.

  9. Re:Cheap windows laptop on Ask Slashdot: Best Dedicated Low Power Embedded Dev System Choice? · · Score: 1

    But you see you are in the Windows CE embedded niche. Your vision is clouded.

  10. Re:Not convinced on Meet Carla Shroder's New Favorite GUI-Textmode Hybrid Shell, Xiki · · Score: 1

    No cut ?

  11. Re:Next Big Thing! on Meet Carla Shroder's New Favorite GUI-Textmode Hybrid Shell, Xiki · · Score: 1

    You can just press !!, and type your shell command in vim to do the same.

  12. Re:VMware, then the trash can on Ask Slashdot: Is It Feasible To Revive an Old Linux PC Setup? · · Score: 1

    I concurr, don't hoarde ! Nostalgia is an overrated emotion.

  13. Re:Sorry but... on Open-Source NVIDIA Driver Steps Up Its Game & Runs Much Faster · · Score: 1

    I've had multiple nvidia cards as well: geforce 2 mx, geforce 5200 (CRAP), geforce 6600, geforce 8600 gt, geforce 9500, geforce 660 and geforce 760 gt which I'm currently using.
    The binary blob has always delivered decent performance, this in big contrast to nouveau.

    But it does have some issues:
    - When you switch from X to tty and back, sometimes you get a black screen as tty and will continue to have unusable black ttys from that point on.
    - X and system lock ups do occur after some uptime
    - The driver installer (re)moves libEGL.la, which is needed to compile stuff.

  14. Re:OT but Nouveau, any NV2A progress? on Open-Source NVIDIA Driver Steps Up Its Game & Runs Much Faster · · Score: 1

    Now, where is my arctic silver?

    I always wonder, is there an expiration date on thermal paste. I keep buying new ones because I don't know and it's cheap.

  15. Re:The OpenSSL Disasters were a result of attitude on Russia Wants To Replace US Computer Chips With Local Processors · · Score: 2

    What I wonder is Isn't the entire CA trust chain suspect now ? If so, why is everybody acting like nothing happened ?
    Aren't we all just covering this up out of practical pragmatism then ?

  16. Re:Russia on Canada Poised To Buy 65 Lockheed Martin F-35 JSFs · · Score: 1

    Which brings us neatly to the F-35: it is meant and conceived as a stealth bomber but not as an air dominance fighter. So will it enable the US and it's allies to dominate the skies? For me that is the real question.

    I dont think that's true, IIRC the F35 is meant to replace F16/F18 jet's which are multirole/jack of all trade fighterjets.
    The B2 is a stealth bomber. And in today's air battles it's the capabilities of your guided missile systems that win your "dogfights" anyway.

  17. Re:So... on Microsoft Is Paying Brazilian Users In Skype Credit To Switch to Bing · · Score: 1

    Google is hell-bent on making a magic textbox that "does everything" but that forces people to use additional keywords like "near" or "loc", which basically transforms the "single textbox" in a poorly implemented command-line. This is bad UX, plain and simple.

    What's wrong with keywords ? For me it works very well, while Bing seems like a modern incarnation of Altavista.

  18. Re:How is it broken, exactly? on The Internet's Broken. Who's Going To Invent a New One? · · Score: 1

    How is DNS made more insecure by DNSSec (which is an abbreviation for Domain Name System Security Extensions) ?

  19. Re:Q: Why Are Scientists Still Using FORTRAN in 20 on Why Scientists Are Still Using FORTRAN in 2014 · · Score: 1

    Only 8 arguments, I've seen monstrosities with > 20 arguments all with 2 or 3 letter names.

  20. Re:XP Patch on Microsoft Cheaper To Use Than Open Source Software, UK CIO Says · · Score: 1

    According to this https://technet.microsoft.com/... only the server core versions
    of the server products (2008,2012) did not have a vulnerable IE version included by default.

  21. Re:You know what professions are difficult? on The Ways Programming Is Hard · · Score: 1

    Farms do it as well. It's too risky to let the male pig hump the female pigs.

  22. Re:"there's not much to indicate difficulty" on The Ways Programming Is Hard · · Score: 1

    Yes and the tech industry would become a niche again. Computers are wonderful, someday we (the world) might even have 5.

  23. Space Pirates on Group Wants To Recover 36-Year-Old Historic Spacecraft From Deep Space · · Score: 1

    Let the satellite hijacking begin.

  24. Re:Left-Wing Propoganda on Criminals Using Drones To Find Cannabis Farms and Steal Crops · · Score: 1

    Spin this thing however you like. Women should be able to choose an abortion.
    Childbirth is an intensive and dangerous undertaking, and they have the right to choose if they want to take that risk.
    Stop embellishing your Misogyny and enter the 21th century with the rest of the world.

  25. Re:Left-Wing Propoganda on Criminals Using Drones To Find Cannabis Farms and Steal Crops · · Score: 1

    Ssome rights, privileges only start to apply from a certain age.
    Driving, Drinking, Fucking, "You must be this age to drive the rollercoaster".
    You loathe these "arbitrary points" as well ?