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Comment sup 20721 (Score 0) 62851

by Gendou on Saturday December 14, 2019 @02:18PM (#59518938) Attached to:

ask ME anything not that other loser

Comment Re:Reports are that Blizzard is refusing cancellat (Score 4, Insightful) 210

by awing0 on Thursday October 10, 2019 @09:45AM (#59292028) Attached to: Overwatch Mei Is Becoming a Hong Kong Protest Symbol

Don't try to conflate cancelling your Blizzard account to China's actions or "cancel culture". Dropping your WOW subscription is "voting with your wallet" and has always been celebrated here.

Comment Re:After RTFA (Score 1) 157

by awing0 on Wednesday October 21, 2015 @01:43PM (#50775015) Attached to: Noise Protests Close Paris Data Center

I need this in football fields or Olympic pools please.

Comment Re:Fragmentation... (Score 1) 378

by awing0 on Monday August 17, 2015 @08:21AM (#50330655) Attached to: SteamOS Has Dropped Support For Suspend

I have suspend fail occasionally on my Lenovo notebook running debian 8 (systemd) and Win7. I have a desktop system with a Gigabyte motherboard, core i7 and suspend fails there too occasionally - same operating systems.
I have bad luck (or I'm too cheap). I think the Lenovo BIOS is the problem and I believe my SATA III controller is the problem on my desktop.

Comment Re:Pre-ordering (Score 2) 223

by awing0 on Thursday June 25, 2015 @12:34PM (#49986301) Attached to: Warner Bros. Halts Sales of AAA Batman PC Game Over Technical Problems

I regularly borrow, lend and trade games with real life friends in meat space.

Comment Re: Just take it in (Score 1) 479

by awing0 on Monday June 15, 2015 @08:20AM (#49913017) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Dealing With Service Providers When You're an IT Pro?

Well, throw some stuff out?

Comment Re:It's time to regulate software (Score 1) 253

by awing0 on Friday June 12, 2015 @10:10AM (#49897837) Attached to: Missing Files Blamed For Deadly A400M Crash

If software were regulated that way, it would have set the whole industry permanently back. Whatever country didn't regulate, say China, India or Russia would gain a huge competitive advantage. Realistically, how many deaths have been cause by software to warrant such a lock down?

Not to mention the coming AI systems. They are going to be pretty indeterminate by design.

Comment Re:Found car keys? Do u still look for them? (Score 1) 152

by awing0 on Tuesday May 12, 2015 @01:58PM (#49675333) Attached to: The Best Way To Protect Real Passwords: Create Fake Ones

So the car is like a fake car that drives you to the wrong building? Or does it do its best to kill you somehow?

Comment Re:edgerouter.. (Score 1) 225

by awing0 on Tuesday April 07, 2015 @02:07PM (#49423977) Attached to: How Ubiquiti Networks Is Creatively Violating the GPL

I just (as in this morning) ordered a pair of radios from them for a point to point link. Can anyone recommend good competitors for ubiq's point to point radios?

Comment Re:New version! (Score 4, Interesting) 264

by awing0 on Monday February 23, 2015 @09:22AM (#49110697) Attached to: Linux Kernel Switching To Linux v4.0, Coming With Many New Addons

Yes, exactly. I'm running Debian Jessie and I'm not really comfortable with binary logs. It takes decades of log practice and throws it away. For what? Search capability? Maybe there's some security benefit, honestly I don't know enough about it to comment. I'll be forwarding my logs to nice text files for the foreseeable future though, until I for one welcome my new systemd overlord.

Comment Re:Well, that's one way... (Score 1) 199

by awing0 on Friday February 13, 2015 @02:50PM (#49049335) Attached to: Torvalds Polls Desire for Linux's Next Major Version Bump

me too.

Submission + - Bruce Schneier: Why Collecting More Data Doesn't Increase Safety (cnn.com) 1

Submitted by Jeremiah Cornelius on Saturday May 04, 2013 @11:28AM

Jeremiah Cornelius writes: Bruce Schneier, security expert (and rational voice in the wilderness), explains in an editorial on CNN, why "Connecting the Dots" is a "Hindsight Bias". In heeding calls to increase the amount of surveillance data gathered and shared, agencies like the FBI have impaired their ability to discover actual threats, while guaranteeing erosion of personal and civil freedom. "Piling more data onto the mix makes it harder, not easier. The best way to think of it is a needle-in-a-haystack problem; the last thing you want to do is increase the amount of hay you have to search through. The television show 'Person of Interest' is fiction, not fact."

Comment Re:White paper on EXACTLY what a bitcoin is, pleas (Score 1) 385

by Gendou on Saturday March 30, 2013 @06:43PM (#43320901) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Should Bitcoin Be Regulated?

Protocol specification: https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.bitcoin.it%2Fwiki%2FProtocol_specification

1 Bitcoin can be subdivided into 100,000,000 Satoshis, the smallest possible unit under the current specification.

Comment Re:How to take a short position in Bitcoin? (Score 4, Informative) 583

by Gendou on Friday March 29, 2013 @01:22PM (#43312615) Attached to: Bitcoin Currency Surpasses 20 National Currencies In Total Value

http://mpex.co/
https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcampbx.com%2Ffaq.php%23trading
https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.bitcoin.it%2Fwiki%2FTrade%23Futures
https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.bitcoin.it%2Fwiki%2FTrade%23Forex
https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Ficbit.se%2F
https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.firstnationalib.com%2F

Submission + - EFF stops accepting Bitcoin, regifts all donations (eff.org)

Submitted by Gendou on Tuesday June 21, 2011 @10:26AM

Gendou writes: The EFF issued a statement that it will no longer accept Bitcoin donations, has not used any of the donations, and will transfer all past donations to The Bitcoin Faucet. See additional forum threads here and here.

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