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Comment Re:Yes, but.. (Score 1) 324

The ability to snap off encryption to analyze things at the wire is a lifesaver.

I think you will find that actually debugging code is sooo twentieth century. Get with it - these days, the game is to add a couple of new bugs every week, and claim its an upgrade.

And no! I can't even see your lawn from here.

Comment Re:Someone is going to get a surprise (Score 2) 101

A system that monitors 100,000 sensors and is capable of sending messages to almost 40 million people is not going to be done for free.

Depends on the level of mnitoring a day. One ping a day, and inbound alerts on "quake detected"? A PIII on ADSL would probably handle that!

Or, of course, you could give the contract to EDS, and pay $38B.

Comment Re:danger vs taste (Score 1) 630

NBC probably don't know that "Correlation does not imply causation", and if they do, they don't care.

More fat people drink the diet version ... well, seeing as it tastes awful, I would not expect thin people to drink it, would you?

Sales of diet Pepsi are falling because half of them are buying Pepsi Max instead. Not sure how it differs from the diet option. They both taste equally bad to me.

Comment Re:With the best will in the world... (Score 1) 486

The problem with the electric car is delivering the energy to the car (Hybrids fix this).

You can put in 1MWh of energy in Diesel in about the same time it takes you to put 1kWh of energy into a battery.

(And hoses to carry significant power levels of electricity are huge compared to those for carrying diesel, and a good deal less safe).

Comment Re:Different opinions (Score 1) 442

Why are there so many in Slashdot creating comments such as "Do you really think that systemd will kill your wife and eat your dog"?

Is it not obvious? Some people (mostly systemd supporters) are jealous of other (more normal, except perhaps here) users who are married with dogs. (I cannot comment on users who are married to dogs, but for them there is goatse.d).

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