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Comment Re:Why Encryption? (Score 1) 63

If you're planning mission critical communications over the radio you're doing it wrong.
That's what he said.

I'm sorry but this is the dumbest most irrelevant comment put on Slashdot. We're not talking about "radio waves". We're talking about TETRA Land Mobile Radio systems used for a specific purpose. And no precisely no internet traffic goes over this system because the bandwidth for it is on par with an ISDN line from the 1990s.

Context is important when having a conversation, please follow the context being discussed.

That's not what you said initially above. Just use LTE ip radio or something equally secure and call it a day. Also, ISDN is plenty of bandwidth for voice. Ultimately, you are the one commenting stupidly. There exists several secure implementations for radio voice communication so you were wrong because we ourselves use radios for very secure mission critical communications and we aren't alone, duh!

Comment Re:Year Of Linux On The Desktop (Score 1) 155

I was installing FreeBSD from two floppies and a network connection. 30 floppies is tragic.

It was faster to use 30 floppies if you had to install on several computers or wanted/needed to re-install many times. Downloading everything over dialup every time was tragic. You could put the 30 floppies content on a local NFS server for even faster installs although if that's what you meant although.

Comment Re:Micron is dropping ddr4 (Score 1) 30

ddr4 and older pcie suck speed wise. With recent pcie (5+) and ddr5 and recent CPU you can easily run AI workloads with very acceptable performances without a GPU. I recently upgraded an old monster server running 50+ vms with 256GB ram and 48 CPUs and I replaced it with a relatively smaller 128GB ram server with 12 CPU (12 x AMD EPYC 4244P 6-Core Processor 1 Socket) and the new server is running much faster since it has ddr5, pcie5, uses SSD only and some vms run AI loads without any GPU which I couldn't have done efficiently on the older server.

I assume it's the same for gaming, a relatively smaller and cheaper but newer machine will give you better performances.

Lookup at the speeds here:
https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2F...
https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2F...

Comment Re: 2004 called (Score 1) 49

Using vpn over dns or communicate over dns doesn't need anything to be compromised. See link below:
https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fgithub.com%2FAlexandreFe...

One would typically use it in a corporate environment to connect somewhere he can't otherwise at the risk of getting in trouble if he is discovered.

Comment Re:measurement lab or it didnt happen (Score 1) 37

and would allow you to download the entire Internet Archive in less than four minutes

Good point since you need a server to measure the bandwidth and I strongly doubt the "Internet Archive" has that capacity and that you would be the only downloading from the archive anyway. So, no it wouldn't allow you to download the entire Internet Archive in less than four minutes even if you sent it to /dev/null because I suspect even the Internet Archive doesn't have that writing speed in order to store the data so you most likely don't either.

Comment Re:How stupid are the Saudis? (Score 1) 52

Why should we care for that about some fancy "Assistant Keeper of Ancient Mesopotamian script" living an otherwise normal life in London with his wife and 5 children when we have our own very popular and famous rsilvergun available right here on Slashdot as a excellent resource for the task?

Comment Re:None of these people are so stupid (Score 1) 65

What really gets me is that this harms adults. Showing your ID at a beer store doesn't. Showing your ID at a dildo store doesn't. Showing your ID to get into a bar doesn't. Showing your ID to an officer when you're driving doesn't.

I wouldn't be so sure of that. A lot of these places have cameras and many officers even have body cams. It's just a tiny step to archive everything, plugin OCR, facial recognition and save everything in a database.

Some stores will even forbid you access to the store because their facial recognition cameras have identified you as a thief according to the databases they use.

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