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  1. Re:Insanity on Are Roads Safer With No Central White Lines? · · Score: 1

    If you are unsure about the oncoming car, you should slow down, even stop, to allow the other car pass. If not, it's your fault as much as the other driver's fault if something happens.

    (if you get hit while stationary it's hardly your fault)

  2. Re:Insanity on Are Roads Safer With No Central White Lines? · · Score: 5, Interesting

    How about keeping the lines on the edges of the road but removing the middle one?

  3. Equinix are extremely expensive compared to many other co-lo's.

    Their service is also abysmal - requiring you to escalate to your account manager for every single case, or you'll wait days for an acknowledgement.

  4. "NAS" that acts as HTPC on Ask Slashdot: What's Your Media Setup? · · Score: 1

    I've an ITX chassis with 5 HDDs in RAID6 for storage. It runs Kodi (formerly XBMC) and plays any 1080p content I throw at it , syncing the TV to the same Hz as the content, which is nice.

  5. Photo realistic? on Star Wars Battlefront Game Trailer Is So Realistic It Looks Like Movie Footage · · Score: 2

    Sure, the lightning is good. But photo realistic? Not even close. It looks awesome but come on.

  6. Touchscreen + Linux... on Ask Slashdot: Linux Distro For Hybrid Laptop? · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Put Android on it (seriously), or Ubuntu, or a distro with KDE4 geared towards tablets.

    The Linux userland support for tablets is really abysmal.

  7. Re:The measurements in question: on Data Center Study Reveals Top 5 SMART Stats That Correlate To Drive Failures · · Score: 1

    In other words: nothing new and people have been tracking these values for decades anyway.

  8. OnePlus One on Google Announces Motorola-Made Nexus 6 and HTC-Made Nexus 9 · · Score: 1

    I just got a OPO and this Nexus 6 does look awesome. No idea how I'll get it in EU though, so there's that.

    But better hardware, probably a better camera (does the OPO have OIS?), Android L. Mm.

    Also, less buggy touchscreen (looking at you Cyanogenmod/HW manufacturer)

  9. This webpage is not available Reload on A Horrifying Interactive Map of Global Internet Censorship · · Score: 1

    Looks like they censored themselves.

  10. SUSE/openSUSE using proprietrary software on OpenSUSE Forums Defaced, Email Addresses Leaked · · Score: 2

    ... no it's not shocking, you use the best tool for the job.

  11. Skip this one on AMD Radeon HD 7990 Released: Dual GPUs and 6G of Memory for $1000 · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Massive coil whine issues. No matter of HSF replacement or chassis sound proofing/dampening will get rid of it, the coil whine will be the loudest part of your computer when you're playing a game.

    How can AMD release a 1000 dollar card that has such a massive issue? The dual GPU ASUS card did not have this problem.

  12. Re:Not impressive on Open Source Gaming Handheld Project Wants Your Money · · Score: 1

    OK that's cool, it'll be able to run those systems fine I think.

    Now the problem is with emulators as usual is that it's not legal to download the ROMs for your system, even if you own the cartridge. (this might be system dependant)

    There are devices that can extract the ROM from a cartridge though, but I'm guessing they aren't that cheap (niche market).

  13. Re:Not impressive on Open Source Gaming Handheld Project Wants Your Money · · Score: 1

    Sure.

  14. Not impressive on Open Source Gaming Handheld Project Wants Your Money · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The specs are impressive, with a Ingenic JZ4770 1 GHz MIPS processor, Vivante GC860, capable of OpenGL ES 2.0, 3.5 inch LCD with 320x240 pixels; 4:3 aspect ratio, 512 MB DDR2 and 16GB of internal memory which can via external memory card be extended by another 32GB. N64 and PS1 emulation and everything below should be at full speed in time."

    No, that is not impressive. Super lo-res screen, slower than any phone that is available today. But it's open source, so I suppose that's good.

    But what is the point? Learning? Because the thing won't sell, like the previous models didn't do. You can have the best hardware, but if you don't have games for the device it doesn't matter.

    I, for one, would rather game on my phone which is faster and has a much higher resolution display, with a bluetooth connected game controller of my choice.

  15. vpn on How Some Chinese Users Bypass The Great Firewall · · Score: 5, Informative

    I was in China for 2 trips. used a US vpn both times, had no issues.

  16. Re:A lot on Ask Slashdot: What Video Games Keep You From Using Linux? · · Score: 1

    What?

  17. A lot on Ask Slashdot: What Video Games Keep You From Using Linux? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Steam on Linux will be nice.

    Mostly it's Battlefield 3 and the likes (new games with shiny graphics and DRM), they won't work well or at all.

  18. Encryption mandatory on NASA To Encrypt All of Its Laptops · · Score: 1

    Wait, NASA doesn't encrypt its laptops? Why not?

    Just use Bitlocker, it's enforced by GPO where I work. Or if on another system, truecrypt or just CryptFS.

    Why is this an issue?

  19. Re:Lowers barrier to entry on AMD FX-8350 Review: Does Piledriver Fix Bulldozer's Flaws? · · Score: 1

    I've always looked at it as number of CPUs (physical chips), number of cores (total, on all CPUs), number of threads (total cores, with HT or not etc).

    -way was a socket thing for me, but perhaps it's not.

  20. Re:Lowers barrier to entry on AMD FX-8350 Review: Does Piledriver Fix Bulldozer's Flaws? · · Score: 1

    8-way would mean 8 sockets on the motherboard, like http://www.supermicro.com/products/system/5U/5086/SYS-5086B-TRF.cfm .

  21. Many on Ask Slashdot: What Distros Have You Used, In What Order? · · Score: 2

    Started with Slackware in the early days, then moved to Debian. Stayed with Debian until Archlinux showed up, been with it since. However, been trying out Ubuntu for a few years every now and then just to check it out.

  22. Different networks on IPMI: Hack a Server That Is Turned Off · · Score: 5, Insightful

    We keep the management network and the production network on separate physical networks. So if you get into a box, you still can't IPMI to any other box.

    Also, this is not hacking, it's by design.

  23. Re:What's the useful limit? on 60TB Disk Drives Could Be a Reality In 2016 · · Score: 1

    I've noticed that when friends get faster internet access (100/10 or even 100/100) they tend to download less and less, and just stream the shows/movies they want to watch. For them loads of storage is not really necessary.
    Of course you still have the odd one who wants to download everything in 1080p x/h264 rips at 8-20 GB a piece.

    So, for people with slower speeds I can see they'd want to have more storage, as streaming is not an option. (no one rents discs anymore, there's a reason the shops are closing)

    Also, for the technical side, how do you back up 10TB (or more)? I suppose it would be necessary to have 2 HDDs in RAID1 with ZFS on top or something, to prevent the effects bit rot etc.

  24. Re:I can't remember my husband's passwords on Teens Share Passwords As a Form of Intimacy · · Score: -1, Redundant

    How are you doin' ?

  25. Re:Dual core for servers? on Intel Breathes New Life Into Pentium · · Score: 1

    That'd be perfect. 6x 3TB in RAID6 on that baby... 12TB in a small box!