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  1. Re:Great timing on Linux 3.3 Released · · Score: 1

    I'm interested in those 20 other cases. I work with mainframe hardware which can have virtually every piece replaced while the OS is still running (piece by piece). OS uptime is measured in years. Kernel patches aren't extremely important as AIX started with BSD which has a great security record & most of the apps are very safely written by the company that uses the mainframe. Systems like this still exist, but clustering has taken the vast majority of their need.
    Heartbeat pings for takeover actions work well. So does doing everything 2x-3x and later cleaning up, which is how mainframe accuracy works.
    For multi-stream traffic like http & voice, you stop routing to a maintenance target & wait for the sessions to end worst-case. You must have extra capacity.

  2. Re:Huge problem on Instant Messaging With Neutrinos · · Score: 1

    Error correcting codes & repetition. See the Wifi spec.

  3. Spec Doc on Have Online Comment Sections Become Specious? · · Score: 1

    Combined, this post is one of the greatest spec doc collections for building an impressive comment engine I've ever seen. Anyone up to unifying the needs (or listing possible reasonable forks) so that coders can get started?

  4. Re:Eggs? on Microsoft's Azure Cloud Suffers Major Downtime · · Score: 2

    Or for free, if anyone's interested: http://www.ubuntu.com/cloud

  5. Re:Legal? on 300k Organic Farmers To Sue Monsanto For Seed Patent Claims · · Score: 1

    Welcome to how Americans have lost hundreds of rights. Corporation vs [small group | Individual]. The corporation is always right due to better lawyers, rewriting of the laws, or just that it's "more valuable" to the broke taxing entity.

  6. Re:Not sure which side I fall on in this on Proposed Law Would Give DHS Power Over Privately Owned IT Infrastructure · · Score: 1

    Government gets infiltrated & bought, that's a fact. Giving "government" this access IS giving terrorists the access.

  7. Re:Hot damn, it's about time on First Run of Raspberry Pi Boards To Be Completed Feb 20th · · Score: 1

    Exactly! I recently bought some Wireless N cards for $8. My purpose for these is server-like (Arduino-like almost) where 256mb is plenty. The $25 saves $2 and still gets N wifi.

  8. Re:I would pay $2/month... on Moglen: Facebook Is a Man-In-The-Middle Attack · · Score: 1

    So you're describing the need for the Free, Open-Source Software model. Software paid for "initially" rather than a subscription basis that allows each individual user of it access to the source code that applies to them. Each person's computer would directly contact another so users would directly host their own information. Like everyone with their own webserver, but strict management where a "Friend-Accept" equals their SSL public key being accepted as a Client Certificate into your SSL-side of your site where the private data resides.

  9. Re:The ocean frontier - not on Remembering Sealab · · Score: 1

    We already have the tech to build space elevators or pipelines that would work on Mars (as well as mag-launchers). There's also sufficient raw materials to launch to space that could then become a container. If it's one-way (Mars to Earth only), then it's feasibility is much closer to reality.

  10. Re:Your right to what? on BTJunkie No More? · · Score: 1

    Beyond that, when the governance of a people by a government "for the people" varies drastically from how those people see a government should behave, it's time for the government to change.

  11. Re:Difference between Android and Linux ?? on Details Emerge About Spark Linux-Based Tablet · · Score: 1

    Because of the library differences, not yet. But there's hope with PulseAudio growing the compatibility libraries to replace AudioFlinger. If Wayland gets off the ground sufficiently, it may replace SurfaceFlinger. The combination would allow most Linux programs to share the important hardware daemons (Video, Sound, Net). I'm not sure if V4L2 would be needed to share the cameras, etc. The thin BusyBox layer could easily be added to, so it should be possible, but hasn't happened.
    If that's too much change, JNI connections could be made to existing sharing libraries that could be extended to providing the regular library APIs.

  12. Re:22 light years on New Exoplanet Is Best Yet Candidate For Supporting Life · · Score: 1

    I always thought of artificial as referring to the fact that it was not able to replicate or repair its physique. That means it was stood up, exists at only the maintaining whim of another.

  13. Re:Evidence on What Happens To Your Files When a Cloud Service Shuts Down? · · Score: 1

    That's the angle to take! Remind Microsoft, Google, Apple, Amazon and IBM that they will lose serious $$ in their cloud investments if they can't promise safety from a full takedown raid. The only way for them to do that is to change the laws. And their pockets (even for just the cloud) are far bigger than the media.

  14. Re:Evidence on What Happens To Your Files When a Cloud Service Shuts Down? · · Score: 2

    Ceph is a filesystem that distributes over known nodes and auto-rebalances when new members are added or removed as well as overbalancing "hot" reads. It may be interesting to see how many nodes one can add.

  15. Re:Moratorium and Research, or War on Ask Slashdot: What Can You Do About SOPA and PIPA? · · Score: 1

    Transferable copy rights and lobbying corporations are incompatible.
    Copy rights are a corporate cause they are willing to buy laws to encourage.
    Are copy rights a sliding scale or a slippery slope?
    Even without lobbying, copyrights are likely to accumulate in corporations without other rules in place. Then it's an individual against a mega-corporation every time.

  16. Re:Abolish copyrights and patents. on Ask Slashdot: What Can You Do About SOPA and PIPA? · · Score: 1

    Forget entitlement. If information was free then we'd work on physical goods manufacturing and have stable production skills (not law-based for their existence). The government would invest in public research. Programming would focus around robotics of manufacture. GPL open source would exist via contract law. We'd be headed in a much more positive situation (after a transition period).

  17. Re:I get the concerns on Ask Slashdot: What Can You Do About SOPA and PIPA? · · Score: 1

    Microsoft Windows. Any DeFacto standard for that matter.

  18. Re:not totally ridiculous, just too much on Pirate Party Leader: Copyright Laws Ridiculous · · Score: 1

    Well some art is "made" by copying. Shakespeare told almost no original story, but vastly improved the way ancient ones were told. Disney too.

  19. Re:Is this really a big deal? on Raspberry Pi Has Gone To Manufacturing · · Score: 1

    They make that, it's called an Arduino!
    Have a single GPIO pin go to an Arduino instructing it to use its drivers (already written) to operate its shields.

    Easier to code, less knowledge required for custom wiring. Sounds like the way to go.

  20. Re:Is this really a big deal? on Raspberry Pi Has Gone To Manufacturing · · Score: 1

    I'm a hobbyist who never could commit to micro-controllers because of a lack of EE experience. Arduinos are an improvement, but not fast enough for computer-like logic, for example the Raspberry Pi can do sound from any GPIO port due to it's speed. With USB, visual processing is possible. I work with Linux and can bring-in tons of libraries that do this stuff for me. For example, Reprap could run exclusively off one of these (with no computer attached).
    This potentially could begin the next era of computing: affordable, widespread custom automation

  21. Re:Not going to work... on Qualcomm Wants a Piece of the PC Market · · Score: 1

    Best-Buy is selling Android 3 tablets right now with USB connections allowing Keyboard and Mouse. Alternative Office apps work, more business apps go non-IE6 web-based, and legacy goes away. Between online application purchases with rankings & the sales pitch of "Quad-core" ARMs or lower power bills, I think Android desktops have a chance as the superior, virus-free, and unified experience.

  22. Re:Good move on Coders Develop Ways To Defeat SOPA Censorship · · Score: 1

    DNS's weaknesses are information freedom's biggest threat. Using law to hurt DNS takes time. This is the best thing for information freedom as gets us far from a limiter like DNS while we still can have an easy transition.

  23. Re:Evaporation on Chinese Government Ramps Up Weather Control Efforts · · Score: 1

    What butterflies! Have you seen our record drought? Wait a minute....

  24. Re:Mod parent up! on Ask Slashdot: How To Get Non-Developers To Send Meaningful Bug Reports? · · Score: 1

    Here we add to that some walked memory. You can specify certain addresses as the target for a block of memory, then the crash tool can return that structure as well as use its pointers to return other structures. With this, you can know a program's state. Add to this some log files that can optionally have a large amount of output, and you have a picture of the history.

  25. Re:And still... on Chrome Becoming World's Second Most Popular Web Browser · · Score: 1

    Webkit was never designed to have hooks, and therefore took the Chromium team some effort to get the little bit of customization their plugins allow. What you describe is more a fork of the direction Chromium took to add customization.