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Comment Re:Is that proven? (Score 1) 442

The systemd suite provides features such as faster boot times

I haven't seen any sign of that anywhere and I saw the opposite on a eeepc by about half a minute when I put a newer distro with systemd on it. Is there any proof or are the faster boot times just on the wish list?

It has been significantly faster for me. Anyway the reason is that it can run multiple scripts at the same time which sysv couln't (though upstart did something similar).

And you also likely boot from an SSD, right?

I can boot "soon to be ancient" Windoze 7 on an old Core2 Duo HP laptop in 2GB of RAM to the login GUI in less than 10 seconds from a SSD. Fast enough I would say for a bloated operating system like Windoze.

No, I was mostly refering to my old laptop which has an old spinning disk, and boot time went from a minute to under a half. On my workstation with an SSD, it went from 10 seconds, to well, i guess 2 or 3, practically instantanious.

Comment Re:Is that proven? (Score 1) 442

The systemd suite provides features such as faster boot times

I haven't seen any sign of that anywhere and I saw the opposite on a eeepc by about half a minute when I put a newer distro with systemd on it. Is there any proof or are the faster boot times just on the wish list?

It has been significantly faster for me. Anyway the reason is that it can run multiple scripts at the same time which sysv couln't (though upstart did something similar).

Comment Re:Good Business or Empire Building? (Score 2) 112

This really suggests that the Comcast/TWC merger had more to do with empire building (or expanding an effective monopoly) than good business.

Too often, mergers and acquisitions are driven by ego and result in an overall conglomerate that is less efficient.

Mergers are always done as a way to create a bit of chaos and negotiation opportunities so that CEOs and top shareholders can pocket a bit of the wealth they control, but isn't theirs.

Comment Re:How is it working in offline mode (Score 5, Funny) 117

Actually, after giving the article another read-through, I think I got it wrong in the summary.

Are you sure you're a Slashdot submitter?

Oh, I see you're new here. Don't worry, after a while you'll stop caring about having anything correct in the summary at all.

If you do manage to get the summary right, you can be sure an editor will fix that mistake.

Submission + - Comcast & Time Warner merger died

andyring writes: According to Bloomberg News, the Time Warner/Comcast merger of raw evil is dead. Comcast plans as early as tomorrow to withdraw the merger proposal, "after regulators decided that the deal wouldn’t help consumers, making approval unlikely" according to the story.

Comment Re:Dubious (Score 3, Informative) 686

I've only just turned 35 so am on the border of being a "millennial", but I thought that phrase referred to people around the 15-25 range who were teenagers around the 2000-2009 time frame. 34 seems a bit old... More like gen X or gen Y.

Generation X. The generation born by babyboomers, usually from 1970 to early 1980s. Teenagers in the late 80s and early 90s.

I think that what was shortly referred to as Gen Y are now millenials (Gen Y were those born too late to be Gen X).

Comment Re:all they have to do is lure them to a webpage (Score 1) 134

...read the paper.

it's like he said, you can detect that the network is being used or that there "probably was some user input".

With a bit higher sampling though, you can significantly narrow the likely password range, simply by using the timing of key presses.

But yeah, I want to see something like that demonstrated before worrying about it.

Comment Re:Nobody demanded publicly? (Score 1) 309

But somebody must have paid secretly. At one point in time this was called bribery and people doing this and got caught were put in jail. Nowadays it seems to be the law of the land... Oh no, the law of the chosen few - chosen by god or something like that.

Nobody Canadian did. The US has been demanding it publically for a long time.

Comment Re:Raise Them To Infinity! (Score 1) 309

Or have the original architect or construction company forbid me from modifying my own house. Or prevent me from selling said modified house to a new owner.

Word of advise. Never buy an house designed by a known architect. They sometimes have those kinds of conditions. I shit you not. Though it is more common in big business or government offices that signed something stupid when they had their new building designed.

Comment Re:They should be doing the opposite (Score 4, Informative) 309

Very little music is created in a vacuum, and the line between 'inspiration' and 'derived work' can be fuzzy and subjective.

So, are you ready to demonstrate, how copyrights have sniffled the development of Jazz, Rock-n-Roll, or Rap, for example?

If not, then your "concerns" about sniffling are nothing but attempts to spread FUD.

It has traditionally been allowed. All of those genres have grown up with being allowed to sample, make covers, and especially make music that sounds like other artists (what do you think genres are in the first place?)

Recently it was made illegal to make music that sounds like other artists: http://arstechnica.com/tech-po...

Comment Re:$100 billion for 150 miles? (Score 2) 189

600km/h is 3/4 of the speed of a modern airliner (

No, it's 2/3rds, Boeing 777 cruise speed is 905km/h, 747-400, 787, and A380 are slightly faster, A340 is slightly slower.

Well, depends on whether the airline is in the jet stream or not. Anyway, it is certainly not half, 1200km/h is faster than the speed of sound.

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