natermer

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by natermer 11y ago
Paying for rail doesn't do anything to alleviate the need to pay for roads though. The comparison really is paying for trolley vs paying for Uber (or whatever) Rail is only useful in certain situations and it's only useful if don
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by natermer 11y ago
If Darwin uses a Microkernel then so does Microsoft Windows. They are very similar designs. In case you are wondering: I don't think that Microsoft Windows uses a microkernel. Some versions of Mach are micro, other versions are not. OS
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by natermer 11y ago
> Can anyone even point to open, independently verifiable evidence that shows that torture yields good human intelligence? No, of course not. The thing that governments find desirable about torture is that you can make anybody say anyth
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by natermer 11y ago
If his threat worked then it doesn't mean he is stupid. The people that were stupid were the ones that took it seriously.
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by natermer 11y ago
None of the models have performed very well. You probably won't find a scorecard because it's embarrassing.
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by natermer 13y ago
Bingo.
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by natermer 13y ago
> More over, why so many perceived enemies who are US citizens? Why is the US government treating its own citizens as enemies of the state? My guess is because we are told that we live in a Democracy and our vote and our taxes going to a
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by natermer 13y ago
How about at least owning up to the shit we do that is bad?
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by natermer 13y ago
I donno. We are such a peace loving nation we would never do anything like finance a coup in a oil rich nation so we can murder and imprison the democratically elected leaders of a country in order install a tyrant so that we can hand over
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by natermer 13y ago
Your link isn't working for some reason. Keep in mind that it's common for governments and other political organizations to insert agitators for the purposes of attempting to discredit or change the message of a protest. Happens
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by natermer 13y ago
Well he can just sign another secret authorization. Maybe he already has. I am sure that in 5 years the number would be extended to 10 years. And in 15 years it would just be indefinite.
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by natermer 13y ago
> This is true for this specific program and only under the current policies. Let's just stop kidding ourselves and assume that the NSA stores our communications indefinitely, and design our software accordingly. Really? And you bel
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by natermer 13y ago
I like how these jerks think they can go around and just make up their own rules on what is and what is not allowed. Why don't they just admit that their lying sacks of shit, set fire to the constition, and admit what they think all th
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by natermer 13y ago
> It also doesn't support fglrx drivers, because the X version they use is too high. Friends don't let friends use fglrx. The open source drivers work fine. If I can run Gnome-Shell while playing StarCraft 2, Left4dead 2 beta and team f
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by natermer 13y ago
CentOS 5: Pure hell. CentOS 6: meh.
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by natermer 13y ago
Each bank is different. Some banks have shitty IT and other ones have dynamic IT that can adjust to fit changing realities. The reality is that you and Eric are right. Banks depend on techniques based on double book keeping accounting to re
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by natermer 14y ago
Apple hardware sucks at running Linux. If you are a kernel hacker and the idea of fixing compatibility bugs sounds like a regular afternoon then Apple hardware isn't so bad.
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by natermer 14y ago
Oh, and given that 'CipherCloud' seems intent on suppressing information about their cryptography it's probably a very safe bet that it's utter shit.
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by natermer 14y ago
Since I am not going to log into their blog thingy to answer their question as to why it was taken down I'll just answer 'Why the DMCA request?' It's illegal in the United States to have the capability or share information on how defeat cry
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by natermer 14y ago
Oracle's ZFS is now different then BSD/Linux ZFS. They have become incompatible file systems because Oracle has picked up their ball and taken it back home. For OSS ZFS the only upstream is 'collection of Illlumos'
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by natermer 14y ago
Most banks have 'negative interest'. Not only because the interest rates they offer for savings and checking accounts no where near is able to keep up with real inflation (which means you lose money by saving, from the get-go), but they cha
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by natermer 14y ago
public sector vs private sector metaphors are mostly nonsense. It's nice to say 'public sector' or 'publicly owned', but in reality the words and definitions are a creation of orwellian-style double speak. It's propaganda. Institutions like
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by natermer 14y ago
> I would personally prefer it to have those be government funded (like with CERN or NASA) and patent free as opposed to what’s happening with medicine <cut> I have to vehemently disagree with this. Copying ideas and making incr
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by natermer 14y ago
Yes. Theoretically 'first to file' still yields to 'first to publish'. But as I explained in my reply to my own post above this still means that it puts massive advantages into the hands of large corporate players at the expense of everybod
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by natermer 14y ago
To help put into a bit more perspective in case anybody is doubting the wrong direction of the first-to-file reform... Basically: "First to file" means that unless you are able to get your product to market and publish it before another per
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by natermer 14y ago
Patents, by function, are government granted monopolies over a idea or concept. So, basically, the person that holds the patents is guaranteed to have the ability to sue anybody that infringes on the patents. This is backed up the ability o
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by natermer 14y ago
You get best bang for your buck by purchasing hardware that is made by companies that support Linux with open source drivers. Example: Purchasing random laptop off the internet that runs other OS because it is cool and then trying to instal
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by natermer 14y ago
Well exposing it per application kinda defeats a bit of the purpose behind it. The point is that you get rid of the buffer so you get packet loss when the link to the other peer(s) is(are) saturated and allow the TCP congestion algorithms
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by natermer 14y ago
de·moc·ra·cy /diˈmäkrəsē/ Noun: 1. A system of government by the whole population or all the eligible members of a state, typically through elected representatives. 2. A state governed in such a way. 3. The cake is a lie.