it would be cute if that were the reason, but really what they want is to overcharge for video services and only by keeping broadband slow can they keep Internet video from entirely replacing everything else.

one can produce elmental mercury from ore with alchemy. At least that's what I'd assume you'd call it.

and yet "we need to" fine the solar plants that are frying a few birds while all the mercury from coal plants probably kills three orders of magnitude more.

I know, let's protest the solar plant and then head out to KFC for an afterparty. We'll toast to the bureaucrats.

'ipv4 hardware' (huh? what IS that, btw? does this imply that ipv6 is not in 'hardware'? how strange to describe things)

Not sure what he was on about but, yeah, IPv4 is always in ASIC on big gear and part of the slow IPv6 adoption curve is that there is a lot of big expensive gear deployed with IPv4 in ASIC and IPv6 is only done on the anemic CPU.

We're probably 2 of 5 years into the required replacement cycle, but it is significant. One of the wrinkles with the recent Cisco "Internet is too big" bug was that the hardware has ASIC slots for 1 million IPv4 entries, 500,000 IPv6 entries, but we already have 490K IPv4 entries and if there were as much IPv6 adoption, the combined totals would break out of ASIC today and nobody wants to think about going to the CPU and main memory for core routing, ever.

Apparently, all they have to do is stop trying to trademark the name (which is clearly derived from Twitter). That's it.

So how much free PR is this little "disaster" going to net them?

Feel free to check back on the 25th and prove me wrong (unless they're actually out of money).

For those who don't know, Argentina is on the brink of economic collapse yet again. Their occupying government has ruined the currency with wishful thinking as if it didn't just happen a decade or so ago. They've been trying to negotiate away all the bad debt they've run up and not everybody is letting them off the hook this time. Like good bureaucrats they're probably looking to tax anything that moves.

3% tax on Netflix? pfft - last time they confiscated pensions and retirement accounts. Oh, sorry, they didn't confiscate them, they replaced the negotiable cash value of them with government-backed bonds. Which rapidly fell to zero value.

FWIW, the US DoL floated an RFC on 'protecting' retirement accounts by replacing them with bonds a few years ago. Nobody should be undiversified in their retirement savings jurisdictions.

Dude, it's Slashdot, you have to say, "does learning to replace a transmission outweigh a degree in mechanical engineering?"

It's OK. We play this game:

The servers are really slow.
Your app is pegging the CPU. It didn't yesterday. What did you deploy?
Nothing.
What did you deploy?
Well, just an update to module foo.
What does the update do?
It adds a feature to do X.
What's the big-O of your algorithm to do X?

This is where the deer-in-the-headlights look begins. And the sysadmin analyzes the "developer"s algorithm and shows him why it's n^3 and how to make it nlog(n).

Being able to swap out a transmission is good, and if you're designing a transmission you better damn well know how somebody is going to swap it out, but just because you can swap out a transmission doesn't mean you're ready to design a new one.

Car people have it easier, though, because car factories are really expensive. But that also limits the possbilities of having 999 crap new transmission designs for one brilliant one that the factory owners' employees never thought of. Mixed blessings.

> To me, that indicates a JAVA vulnerability, not a Linux vulnerability.

Right. Just like Nigerian 419 scams are conducted in English, so English is a vulnerability.

Interesting parallel - both 419 and this vulnerability stem from people who fail to utilize the absolute minimum of self-protection mechanisms.

And the attackers in both cases deliberately exploit these low-hanging fruits of incompetence. It's a good economic strategy - why pick the high fruit when you don't have to?

Of course, our worries stem from the fact that at some point all the low hanging fruit (or slow antelope if you'd rather) are gone.

sudo rm -r /
It has advantage of removing all viruses.

Just the ones alphabetically before /lib*/libc+

Watch out - those crazy virus writers will start statically linking!

I know I'll never order from Sears again (other service companies carry parts on their trucks), but I hadn't thought of just making it illegal to provide bad service...

See, you're doing the right thing there by telling you friends. I've done the same on Facebook (Sears told me that me hand-washing dishes for a month while I waited for a $70 part was reasonable under their extended warranty that I foolishly purchased and that I was lucky because people who have refrigerators that fail in the summer and have to wait six weeks for service are much more unhappy).

And I mean FOOLISHLY because, for Pete's sake, I'm in the support & service business and I never thought to ask Sears what their SLA is!

So, yeah, I'm going to buy my next appliance from the local mom&pop shop and pay more, which means I'm pre-paying for customer service I'll need later (dishwashers are essentially disposable after their warranty service now - a control board can cost $375 if it's an old enough model).

What the OP wants is to make it illegal for a Mom & Pop store to ever exist, because only the big megalocorps like Sears could ever afford to stock huge quantities of parts (and even Sears has closed down its branch parts counters in this economy). So, to the OP - screw you for being a corporate water carrier and enemy of the small business owner - you are what's wrong with society. If you want a service *PAY FOR IT*. Asshole.

"extreme" browsers like me. I run anywhere from 30 to 150 tabs open at a time. I'd say a nice average would be around 60 tabs

It's not Firefox and that's not extreme. I was just doing some Javascript profiling this weekend on slow performance with 1630 tabs (Tree Style Tabs, of course), with the winners for CPU eaters being HTTPS Everywhere 4.0's SSLObservatory and SessionRestore.

As much as I appreciate the EFF's efforts, I wound up disabling 4.0. Maybe 4.0.1 will be back with a vengeance.

Anyway, Firefox wasn't crashing, it was slow. Probably one of your in-profile databases got corrupted at some point ('restore from backup' is the most likely "fix"). I'm on Fedora 20, running stock Firefox.

It's free and pretty powerful.

It's only free if you're OK with 720p output, limited input, and not being able to move your source material to a different editor. The latter is actually the bigger risk because if Lightworks goes away (let's hope not) there'd be no way to buy the 'pro' version and get your data exported.

Otherwise it's $279 or you're on a subscription plan. It's probably still the best choice available, but be aware you don't just go buy a GoPro or a Nikon and plan on dazzling folks with the HD output with free Lightworks. From what I've seen, even iMovie parity on Linux costs $79/yr.

Even if you're very frugal and can use Free, it's probably smart to buy a month once in a while and export your projects.

well except two of the boards had issues after 6 months

Yeah, if you like the MSI, order two so you have a spare on hand. That's been my unfortunate experience. Found ASRock after those experiences and haven't looked back.

"We don't support Linux, use windows"

Because Linux users are a pain in the ass.

You can find a bugzilla from about five years back where I had a problem with the built-in NIC on an ASUS mobo corrupting memory. Several others had the same problem on the same series of boards, and we were exchanging notes and working together on the bugzilla. Initially ASUS was helpful and looped in Atheros. But once we had a clear pattern (I mean a pattern of bit inversions in the hex dump), both went radio-silent.

I mean, what were they going to do, recall all the motherboards in that line just because they were no good? My time was worth more than the $90 for the mobo but we figured initially that its was a Linux driver bug and were trying to get to the bottom of it.

Anyway, had to rip it out and replace it (no slots left for another NIC in that application). Went to MSI ("oooh, jap caps") but those toasted (literally, burn marks on the mobo) quickly, found ASRock and haven't looked back.

I have an ASRock Z97 Extreme 4 in my cart at Amazon. Now don't you guys go buying them all before I put in the order on Friday. ;)

Do you ever feel responsible or bad for all the lives 4chan have ruined?
I mean there's a lot of anons that have a very unhealthy relationship to their favourite board and spends most of their waking time posting.

You're assuming the premise that these posters would have had normal, healthy lives if they didn't spend all their time on 4chan. If we know they engage in unhealthy mental behavior by spending all of their time on 4chan, then it's not a stretch to posit that they may have otherwise been involved in crime, drugs, or other self-destructive behaviours. That 4chan is a detriment in these cases is far from proven, and reason raises the possibility of an opposite effect.