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Comment Re:good news for ECC memory makers (Score 1) 138

The test numbers in section 6.3 show that ECC mitigates most of the errors, as the bulk of them are single bit ones. And if you're on a system that's prone to this problem, the odds are you will see a warning about that ECC correction kicking in long before you'll hit one of the uncorrectable multi-bit errors.

Comment Re:Many DDR3 modules? (Score 1) 138

Memory speed can technically still be the bottleneck on large memory footprint games like BF4; see the bit-tech review for some numbers on that. The people chasing after PC gaming benchmarks reflexively use the fastest memory around though, and if you do that it's less likely for memory to dictate the speed limits.

Comment Re:Read the update (Score 1) 73

Read Before you initiate a “docker pull”. Note that it contains warnings about almost everything supposedly discovered by this researcher, and it came out before it. That's why no one in Docker land is even taking this seriously. People who are surprised by this aren't aware of what's going on with Docker by definition, because if they were they'd know this is old news.

Docker 1.X is a first release with lots of known limitations--this is one of them--plus the inevitable security issues of any new software. No one with any sense is putting it into production yet.

Comment Re:Proof of coding skill beats certs, *BUT*... (Score 1) 45

Dude, the whole "never get fired for buying Microsoft" thing is over. I work on large government contracts for a living now, and ever since Oracle's GSA contract was canceled, we can't expand fast enough to convert people over to PostgreSQL on Linux. The whole US government is Open Source First now, following the OS stack adoption of most fast growing companies today. It's only the tired old companies who still trot out their old Microsoft servers for everything, and who wants to work for them?

The Microsoft FUD anecdotes had a good run, but we're already at the point where innovative companies consider their software part of the same legacy mess as Cobol.

Comment Re:Oh boy, rewind to the Spanish Inquisition! (Score 1) 719

First, pointing a finger and screeching 'DENIER' seems a lot like pointing the finger and screeching 'HERETIC', lending credence to the whole environmentalism-as-a-substitute-religion theory.

We should also teach children to bully the kids who aren't vaccinated, by pointing at them and yelling UNCLEAN!

Comment Re:Crackers and milk [Re:News at 11..] (Score 1) 719

Cracker as a term predates slavery in the US; it actually predates the whole country. See the crackers on wikipedia or The Secret History Of The Word 'Cracker' for an outline of the theories and history here. There was a large enough intersection between white slave owners and the white people called crackers that it probably helped popularize the term, but they were not the same group.

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