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Comment Re:Almost half a year .... (Score 2, Insightful) 98

My Lumia 640 packed it in recently so I tried Android (ZTE 7 Plus, Marshmallow). Dear dog, I hated it so much - didn't give a shit about the apps, and the UI experience was so bad. Found a 950 XL in excellent shape on Gumtree, awesome phone and a pleasure to use. Calls, texts, messaging, email, browsing all work perfectly.

And *still* getting regular updates from MS.

Comment Re:It's serious as it affects all Intel cpus (Score 1) 416

For massive calculation computers already isolated from external influence this is a non-issue

Theres a proof of concept exploit that allows a VM to access the host and other VM's. A classic breakout exploit.

Cloud providers will be shitting themselves over this.

Comment Re:This is LITERALLY KDE "Activities". (Score 1) 302

Yah that was my first thought to. Problem with KDE was the complete fuckup the devs made of explaining and implementing it. I suspect even most of the devs had no idea what they were meant to be. I really tried with activities, but as with most cool KDE features it was never fully implemented, what was implemented was half assed, buggy, undocumented and eventually abandoned.

I have more faith in MS actually making something out of this, from the demo they already seem to have it clearly defined and usable. I just hope it will include non-ms apps, I need to be able to use firefox and thunderbird with this.

Comment Not as common as Windows Architectures? (Score 1) 83

because Samba is just "not as common as Windows architectures.

There are a *lot* of NAS devices out there running linux with default SMB shares. Updates take some time for them to be prepared - if they are at all. Even longer for them to be installed by users - if they are at all.

Worse, there are probably even more MFD's (Copy/Scan/Print/Fax) devices in every business, corporate, enterprise etc. And they almost all run embedded linux with Samba and default shares, for document storage, scans, secure print etc. And they will almost never be updated - Canon, Ricoh, Xerox, Sharp, Toshiba etc.

Comment Re:Great.. Methane.. (Score 4, Insightful) 132

Natural gas hydrate consists of methane locked in water crystals that also are called flammable ice. It is an enormous untapped energy source formed under high pressure and low temperatures in permafrost or under the sea. It is regarded as a clean energy option with high energy density and huge amounts of reserves. It releases less than half the amount of carbon dioxide when burned as do oil and coal, ministry officials said.

It releases a lot less carbon than their existing coal fired plants and shit load less particulates, so a big improvement in that regard.

I guess the danger is that it could slow their move to renewables.

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