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  1. Re:What? on Plug Touts Expandable Storage Via USB Drives Plugged In At Home · · Score: 1

    There will also be some infrastructure needed for VPN support - at least for routing, key exchange and NAT traversal.

  2. Re:What? on Plug Touts Expandable Storage Via USB Drives Plugged In At Home · · Score: 3

    It's VPN, a NAS file server and desktop software integration.

    I'm especially curious about their APIs and whether it'll be hackable.

  3. Re:What? on Plug Touts Expandable Storage Via USB Drives Plugged In At Home · · Score: 1

    Yup, that's the main point. And that you can send links that allow access to a single file.

  4. Re:ummm? on Plug Touts Expandable Storage Via USB Drives Plugged In At Home · · Score: 1

    It looks like a newer Pogoplug without the licensing and better software. That would make it worthwhile.

    I'm wondering if the network traffic is encrypted and if the hard drive(s) can be encrypted (when I want to run a backup of my private files at the office.)

  5. Re:NIMBY on The Aging of Our Nuclear Power Plants Is Not So Graceful · · Score: 1

    > Our society craves more power (of all kinds!) and capitalism flourishes when each participant is continuously consuming more and more.

    The US are past peak cars and peak passenger-miles. Peak total energy won't be long. After that, terminal decline. Much of that can be compensated for by efficiency improvements but not all.

  6. Re:NIMBY on The Aging of Our Nuclear Power Plants Is Not So Graceful · · Score: 1

    Southern California here. Brownouts occur every few months (to the point where some equipment resets; visible flicker in the light occurs every few days.)
    We had a half day power failure a year or so ago and several hour long blackouts over a few weeks back in 2000 with the Enron fun.

  7. Re:Just for windows? on Samsung Launches 3200x1800 Pixel ATIV Book 9 Plus Laptop · · Score: 2

    I haven't seen any mention of a price though, and that worries me a bit.

    If you have to ask...

  8. Re:Ignore the FUD, here's the truth on Microsoft Reputation Manager's Guide To Xbox One · · Score: 4, Informative

    3-4=-1.

  9. Re:Sales Pitch on Intel Removes "Free" Overclocking From Standard Haswell CPUs · · Score: 1

    Why is anybody going to leverage TSE as long as only a relatively small fraction of CPUs support it?

  10. Re:Transactional Memory support on Intel Haswell CPUs Debut, Put To the Test · · Score: 1

    I dearly hope this meager performance improvement gives AMD a chance to catch up a bit.

  11. Re:"Transistors maintain the same operating freque on Intel Claims Haswell Architecture Offers 50% Longer Battery Life vs. Ivy Bridge · · Score: 1

    AMD CPUs run 4.4GHz stock. There must be a different reason. It might be a tradeoff between complexity and pipeline depth.

  12. "Transistors maintain the same operating frequency on Intel Claims Haswell Architecture Offers 50% Longer Battery Life vs. Ivy Bridge · · Score: 2

    Is that marketing speak for "we were unable to increase the operating frequency"?

  13. Re:Yeah... on 97% of Climate Science Papers Agree Global Warming Is Man-made · · Score: 1

    It's not going to wipe all of us out, just a few billion. A minority, in the cooler and well-off areas of the earth is going to cope. Note that does not include the interior of the US.

  14. Re:Which side is truly anti-science? on "Dramatic Decline" Warning For Plants and Animals · · Score: 1

    The side that demands proof is clueless about the scientific method. There is no such thing as proof in science, only in math.

  15. Re:Here's the evidence you're looking for on "Dramatic Decline" Warning For Plants and Animals · · Score: 1

    s/private advertisement/private enterprise/

  16. Re:Here's the evidence you're looking for on "Dramatic Decline" Warning For Plants and Animals · · Score: 2

    Allan Savory has been torn to shreds. His speech was blatant advertising for his private advertisement and real scientists wrote papers that took him down.

  17. Re:Yep on "Dramatic Decline" Warning For Plants and Animals · · Score: 1

    And phytoplankton is in serious decline too.

  18. Re:350ppm on "Dramatic Decline" Warning For Plants and Animals · · Score: 1

    We're seeing a number of feedbacks already being triggered - the arctic ice cap melt being the glaringly obvious one.

  19. Re: 350ppm on "Dramatic Decline" Warning For Plants and Animals · · Score: 1

    Yeah, German re-unification worked exactly like that. Canada and the US were only separated because the Brits occupied the Canadian territories, just like the Soviets occupied East Germany. Right?

  20. Re:More FUD. It was much higher 450 million years on "Dramatic Decline" Warning For Plants and Animals · · Score: 1

    Assuming you didn't forget the /s:
    Are you aware of the state of the biosphere back then? You may want to look up what kinds of plants and animals lived back then.

  21. Re:Mularkey on "Dramatic Decline" Warning For Plants and Animals · · Score: 1

    You forgot

    * Global warming is real and man-made and bad, but now it's too late to do anything about it and we have to adapt.

    That seems to be the current line in the sand.

  22. Re:Timeframes on "Dramatic Decline" Warning For Plants and Animals · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Bah. You have it wrong. If you have kids you're biologically required to be optimistic. Cognitive dissonance trumps reality every time.

  23. The skinny on climate change on "Dramatic Decline" Warning For Plants and Animals · · Score: 1

    I just ran across Kevin Anderson's lecture again. Watch it.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RInrvSjW90U

  24. Who runs ChromeOS anyway? on Real World Stats Show Chromebooks Are Struggling · · Score: 1

    I'll bet a large number of buyers are installing a more usable OS like Chrubuntu, or even some generic distro.

  25. Re:Linear Growth? on Observed Atmospheric CO2 Hits 400 Parts Per Million · · Score: 1

    Yup. The rate of increase dropped a bit in 2009, that was it.