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GalacticDomin8r··on Debt Collection Companies Have Hijacked the Justice System
Probably, but the ones you'd want to live in would notify you first.
GalacticDomin8r··on Debian developer revisits FreeBSD after 20 years (2015)
So filing a QEMU bug on FreeBSD's tracker is supposed to help how?
GalacticDomin8r··on Debian developer revisits FreeBSD after 20 years (2015)
An even less accurate representation now than it was back then.
GalacticDomin8r··on Deodorants, perfumes, soaps pollute air at levels as high as cars
Ha like that time when I was a young clerk, a couple approached me recounting their earlier near-miss with a skunk.

Thing is, the skunk didn't miss and everyone knew when they came into the store.

GalacticDomin8r··on “Intel Core 2 bugs will assuredly be exploitable from userland code” (2007)
They were more than general points. Please don't poo-poo this as some sort of horoscope doom and gloom post. He specifically pointed out the the issues addressed in the recent disclosures:

> It is not just buggy, but Intel has gone further and defined "new ways to handle page tables" (see page 58).

The MMU, page tables, and TLB are all directly related.

GalacticDomin8r··on Some people swear by Alcoholics Anonymous and others despise it
Somewhat dated, but good:

https://www.orange-papers.info/orange-secrets.html

GalacticDomin8r··on Intel Responds to Security Research Findings
You might mean this one:

https://lkml.org/lkml/2017/12//27/2

GalacticDomin8r··on LAPD arrests man on suspicion of making deadly swatting call to Wichita police
> But these cops don't have the choice.

Why wouldn't they? They do have a choice. Of course it's more complicated than simply saying that, but it's ridiculous to suggest a cop doesn't have a choice in where they work or live or even the field in which they work. Being a cop is not compulsory and even offers more opportunities for movement than many other professions.

GalacticDomin8r··on Traffic Engineers’ Epic Fail
Try again using order of operations. It does not expand to (2*x)^2, it is simply 2x^2.

To say it another way: 4x^2 != 2x^2

GalacticDomin8r··on PostgreSQL Benchmark on FreeBSD, CentOS, Ubuntu Debian and OpenSUSE
Yeah it's not a super great article, one thing I prefer to see is ufs compared against ext and zfs under both OS's. Plus detailed info on the setup.
GalacticDomin8r··on PostgreSQL Benchmark on FreeBSD, CentOS, Ubuntu Debian and OpenSUSE
I think you meant so far ahead.
GalacticDomin8r··on PostgreSQL Benchmark on FreeBSD, CentOS, Ubuntu Debian and OpenSUSE
It may be related to the multi-threaded page daemon:

https://www.kib.kiev.ua/kib/pgsql_perf_v2.0.pdf

GalacticDomin8r··on Traffic Engineers’ Epic Fail
I'll make it even easier:

http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/impcal.html#c1

GalacticDomin8r··on Traffic Engineers’ Epic Fail
That's my point. The wiki definition you have cited is correct, but it doesn't compute with the article.
GalacticDomin8r··on Traffic Engineers’ Epic Fail
Why is the math wrong if this is a "traffic engineer"?

> A quick physics lesson: The force of impact from a car increases quadratically with speed. This means that doubling the speed quadruples the force of the impact.

That is absolutely not what quadratically means.

GalacticDomin8r··on Litecoin and Ethereum buys and sells are temporarily disabled
It's an economic compromise. They don't have to be happy about it, just sign the agreement. Or don't and forgo those customers who will only pay that way.

I doubt cypto currency is going to help that setup at all, and most likely it will just offer more avenues to do the same.

GalacticDomin8r··on The Big Vitamin D Mistake
What does that have to do with the price of tea in China? Not smoking doesn't mean you will not get lung cancer.
GalacticDomin8r··on Kata Containers – The speed of containers, the security of VMs
You mean like this?

https://www.freebsd.org/security/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-15:21...

GalacticDomin8r··on Kata Containers – The speed of containers, the security of VMs
That's quite true. Any serious FreeBSD will readily acknowledge such(eg https://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/jails.html), but the project does try to default to sensible security defaults for it's containers eg no raw sockets.

While not applicable to FreeBSD alone, this polemic thread:

https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=119318909016582

is a pretty accurate description of container level security and not much has changed. Stuff built on a foundation is always subject to the foundation's qualities.

GalacticDomin8r··on AMA: NY AG Schneiderman on net neutrality and protecting our voice in government
> How do these comments harm real people?

When they are used to justify policies that harm real people. That question is so silly I first thought it was rhetorical.

GalacticDomin8r··on AMA: NY AG Schneiderman on net neutrality and protecting our voice in government
What does your actions mean for residents in other states who have fake comments posted in their name? Should they still report them to you and are those fake comments actionable in any other way?
GalacticDomin8r··on Ancient data, modern math and the hunt for lost cities of the Bronze Age
> BTW, I believe the parent comment that you're replying to is a lazy joke referencing an old '70s song, not a serious argument.

Or your belief is a lazy attempt at understanding it, and you missed the double entendre even though you agreed with the point...

GalacticDomin8r··on Ancient data, modern math and the hunt for lost cities of the Bronze Age
As well known, 2/3 ain't bad.
GalacticDomin8r··on “Peer review” is younger than we think
The blog indicates this quite clearly and is speaking of only the formal, modern and monetized usage of it. Science itself is basically useless without some type of peer review in whatever form.
GalacticDomin8r··on Darwin-xnu: The Darwin Kernel
Have you tried nandfs? I have not, so I don't know if it meets your needs.
GalacticDomin8r··on Lscpu for OpenBSD/FreeBSD
> lscpu has predictable output compared to the dmesg.boot log file

The CPU info appears in the same place each time, assuming no other changes took place. Even if something did it would effect only it's relative position.

And yes the extra info provided by lscpu is very irrelevant for nearly all use cases.

> In my world parsing output from command line tools that use predictable identifiers in their output is easier than parsing similar data out of unstructured logs.

Sure, but if your argument is that you can't easily do this without the reinvention of the wheel, I disagree.

GalacticDomin8r··on Leveraging Duo Security’s Default Configuration to Bypass SSH Two-Factor Auth
> Have Duo had big outages?

I imagine a more relevant question for most is could Duo have a big outage.

GalacticDomin8r··on Why I left
My impression was more passive-aggresive with a large dose of narcissism.
GalacticDomin8r··on Why I left
Yeah because history always treats kindly those who believe the ends justify the means.
GalacticDomin8r··on Impact of breast milk on IQ, brain size and white matter development (2010)
What I find amazing is the amount of people who think nature will always DTRT. Take the laryngeal nerve of a giraffe or my myopia as examples.
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