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  1. Re: This is why we need givernment-controlled.,, on Six Missing HDDs Contain Health Information of Nearly a Million Patients (corporate-ir.net) · · Score: 1

    I just think it's hilarious you can take away everything that makes a free market insurance plan really insurance and expect Americans not to notice. I disagree a lot with what Bernie believes in, but he's the only Democratic candidate that actually says stuff that doesn't sound like complete lunacy when it comes to healthcare. Obama Care is a means to an end which is a single payer system. I'm not saying I agree with that, but the Obama Care system will collapse into a single payer or back into a free market insurance system. Although the middle ground may have been easier to pass than single payer, it's simply doesn't work. It was useful at setting up bureaucracies though.

    With that said the government has a terrible history with protecting our information. I wouldn't hold then up as a shining beacon of light if I were you.

  2. Re:Post your awesome and crazy theories here!!! on Discrepancy Detected In GPS Time · · Score: 1

    It's a glitch in the simulation.

  3. Post your awesome and crazy theories here!!! on Discrepancy Detected In GPS Time · · Score: 1

    I think the clock went through a pocket of dark matter and the time dilation caused the time discrepancy.

  4. Just tell them it's like an electric bridge to nowhere and they will fund it. They don't need to know how it works.

  5. Re: Just another ISP on How a DIY Network Plans To Subvert Time Warner Cable's NYC Internet Monopoly (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    I don't think you need to throttle, but you can have speed tiers. You would probably require each subscriber to use PPPoE to prevent abuse.

    If you have a node that is near a super node you will probably be using significantly more electricity and using more of your wireless bandwidth. That means less bandwidth for local traffic.

  6. Re: So? on To Solve a Rubik's Cube In 1 Second, It Takes a Robot · · Score: 2

    We need to protect the jobs of all the Rubik's cubes players. What else will they do all day? Destroy the robot!!!!

  7. Re: answer: no on Is Blockchain the Most Important IT Invention of Our Age? (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    The great thing about the blockchain concept is that it is distributed. There is no central server you can compromise.

    Unfortunately if you own a significant portion of the compute power in the network you can comprise it. Additionally the proof of work function used by bitcoin can be easily computed by special purpose hardware. There are countries and corporations with enough resources to take over bitcoin. One way to make that harder is use a memory-hard proof of work function, because memory is always expensive no matter how efficiently you can do the computation.

    If it ever became worthwhile for a government to compromise these systems, they will.

  8. Re: Zimply yooz Qwerty on France Says AZERTY Keyboards Fail French Typists (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    Wrong. Clearly you have your keyboard misconfigured in dvorak mode.

  9. Re: There's a reason Republicans... on 10 People Arrested In the Netherlands For Bitcoin Laundering (reuters.com) · · Score: 0

    First of all, most republican politicians are no longer fiscal conservatives. Second, fiscal conservatives would prefer less government control over our currency because what the fed does by devaluing our currency is basically a secret tax on all of us. You can't print as many bitcoins as you want when you need money. It's not controlled by a central authority.

  10. Re: What was the subject line in the email? on Adblock Plus Blocked From Attending Online Ad Industry's Big Annual Conference (arstechnica.co.uk) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    They are fools. Keep your friends close and keep your enemies closer.

  11. Re: Acronyms... on Hunting Malware With GPUs and FPGAs (hackaday.com) · · Score: 1

    That's an extreme oversimplification.

    If you assume you have 1000 threads of execution, you could execute each one independently on a 1000 core machine. This is not true on a GPU. Those threads on a GPU will be grouped together. Each thread in a group will be executing the same instructions, so you can't have each thread executing done independent code.

    Conventional CPUs can handle any permutation of branch. In the GPU if you have an "if-else" condition and some threads in a group do the "if" and others do the "else" you have to wait for the if case first then execute the else case.

  12. Re: How to tell a regulation has failed utterly on Opel Dealers Accused of Modyfing the Software of Polluting Cars (deredactie.be) · · Score: 2

    If you are idling at stop lights diesel sucks. If you are on a highway it's better.

    Cities compound the problem by having lots of stop and go traffic.

  13. Re: How to tell a regulation has failed utterly on Opel Dealers Accused of Modyfing the Software of Polluting Cars (deredactie.be) · · Score: 1

    My air quality is great, but I live on the west coast. I love the smell of ocean air.

    Even LA is a lot better than it used to be. I think we are making progress.

  14. It's been excluded too. Clearly it's far more likely that it's a alien megastructure.

  15. Re: It's not about safety on California Legislation Would Require License Plates, Insurance For Drones (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Good luck. Charging fees on drones is hard. tablets are easy because they are easily classified and fully assembled. They are also sold from mainstream companies.

    How are you going to do that with drones?

    $2 fee on the motor I bought from China? $5 for the frame?

    What's to stop you from 3d printing your own frame or buying a motor intended for an RC car?

    Many drones are assembled from parts shipped and sold directly from China. This will be a regulatory nightmare.

    It doesn't really even matter because no way California will build a plate that fits onto all drones and it's stupid anyway because it's not like a police officer can pull a drone over. A note on the aircraft with the drone owners name and email would be sufficient.

    California does not need to waste tax payers money regulating drones. The perceived problems are way worse than any actual problem and as much as I support state control over things, the FAA should handle any problems that arise from this because having different rules for different states is going to suck.

  16. Re: It's not about safety on California Legislation Would Require License Plates, Insurance For Drones (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    They are required to be registered and marked by the FAA.

    California typically charges essentially a property tax on aircrafts. Some try to avoid that by moving the aircraft out of state for most of the year.

    Plus, a property tax on a $600 drone won't even be worth paying a bureaucrat to process it. I guess thats never stopped California before.

  17. Re:why so hung up about arch? on Zero-Day Vulnerability Discovered In FFmpeg Lets Attackers Steal Files Remotely · · Score: 1

    Neither does Ubuntu, since everyone uses libav instead.

  18. Re:You're doing it wrong on Nvidia Blames Apple For Bug That Exposes Browsing In Chrome's Incognito (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 5, Funny

    >> I didn’t expect the pornography I had been looking at hours previously to be splashed on the screen

    I think you're either doing it wrong or you're not looking at the right stuff. (Hours? Really?)

    Not everyone's a minute man, Johnny Boy.

  19. Re: There's a reason... on Police Say They Can Crack BlackBerry PGP Encrypted Email (sophos.com) · · Score: 1

    If the following assumptions are true then pgp is secure.
    1. A non vulnerable encryption algorithm with adequate strength is used.
    2. Private keys are only accessible on the reading device.

    You can buy expensive locks and security system for your home. If you cut a hole in the wall chances are the alarm isn't going to go off.

    Linux guys tend to put everything valuables in a safe hidden 2 feet underground with the sophisticated security system. Even then if police physically have access that's when the self destruct kicks in.

  20. Re: I'll rain hell foam!!! on Preparing Countermeasures For Terror Attacks Using Drones (remotecontrolproject.org) · · Score: 1

    I'll just spray your done with my super soaker and see who wins.

  21. I'm thinking lasers. The carbon fiber frames will burn up quick.

  22. Right. Let's get rid of the terrorists and replace it with a psychopathic machine.

  23. Not HDMI on The Hardware That Searches For Dark Matter (hackaday.com) · · Score: 2

    processed by FPGAs on custom boards connected using HDMI.

    Just because you use hdmi cables doesn't make it hdmi.

  24. Re: Deja Voo of the Pentium 5 FDIV bug on Intel Skylake Bug Causes PCs To Freeze During Complex Workloads (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    It's not a bug. It's a "specification update". Get it right. Clearly you were using the wrong specification.

  25. Re: News for Nerds? on North Korea Expands Retaliatory Loudspeaker Propaganda (yonhapnews.co.kr) · · Score: 2

    That's not it. They just don't have enough North Koreans to scream into the other end.