Heretic2 - Slashdot User

Comment: Re:bad idea (Score 2) 240

by Heretic2 on Friday April 27, @02:39PM (#39824405) Attached to: China Plans National, Unified CPU Architecture

Another downside is simple -- heterogeneous environments make life easier for the blackhats. If everything used the same architecture, it means that a low level bug that can get code executed in ring 0 (to use Intel's terms) would affect everything from the embedded device, all the way to the supercomputers. Having different architectures means that damage due to a bug similar to the F0 0F bug of yore would be limited and containable.

I think you mean homogenous environments.

Comment: This story is pretty nerdy alright... (Score 0) 995

by Heretic2 on Wednesday April 11, @09:23PM (#39652545) Attached to: Zimmerman Charged With 2nd-Degree Murder

Not. I don't come here to read about shit posted everywhere else.

Comment: LOL @ Gowalla people that went to InstaGram (Score 1) 162

by Heretic2 on Monday April 09, @04:59PM (#39623095) Attached to: Facebook To Buy Instagram For $1 Billion

OK, so, I know some people that were at Gowalla when Facebook acquired them. Some of them bounced to InstaGram. Well, gratz to them, their option values just went through the roof, but now they're back with golden handcuffs to stay at Facebook where they didn't want to be in the first place.

Comment: Server compute? How? (Score 1) 57

by Heretic2 on Friday March 30, @09:35PM (#39531155) Attached to: Tegra 4 Likely To Include Kepler DNA

How will they bring GPU compute to servers when they killed their FP64 performance? nVidia and AMD just flip-flipped their GPU-Compute prowess in regards to FP64.

Comment: More pissed when Burning Man sold out (Score 1) 221

by Heretic2 on Wednesday March 28, @01:10AM (#39493407) Attached to: Google I/O Sells Out In 20 Minutes

Sold out of tickets that is...

Comment: Re:No HCl or Al2O3 involved here.... (Score 1) 165

by Heretic2 on Thursday March 08, @05:10PM (#39293439) Attached to: Amateur Rocketeer Derek Deville's Qu8k Rocket Flies to 120,000+ Feet (Video)

No idea what you people are saying, but it's cool as shit either way.

Comment: Re:So, was Stratfor taken down on orders of FBI? (Score 1) 278

by Heretic2 on Wednesday March 07, @08:15PM (#39282331) Attached to: Details Of FBI Surveillance In Lulzsec Takedown Emerge

Oh, I don't know about the FBI loosing credibility here. It seems like they rather elegantly took care of two birds with one stone, by birds I mean LuhlSec and Stratfor. Parts of the FBI obviously had a beef with Stratfor to have manipulated LuhlSec into taking them out. Likely rightfully so according to some of the fraudulent financial activities/insider trading their internal emails reference. I'm guessing some FBI agents weren't too happy with this group but faced internal pressure to not pursue the matter further... The FBI has thusly demonstrated they have extra-legal ways to take you down even if you think have enough inside political ties to keep the FBI off your operations, they're willing to work outside the system to getcha.

I can't wait to see how this plays out, this is more interesting than any drama on TV or the theatres. My take away, neither the LuhlSec crew or Stratrfor crew were anywhere as smart as they thought they were.

Comment: Re:All the President's Men (Score 1) 176

by Heretic2 on Wednesday October 05 2011, @12:27PM (#37613744) Attached to: Wiki Editor Helps Reveal Pre-9/11 CIA Mistakes

That manager was named Richard Earl Blee and he is now the subject of a documentary by Ray Nowosielski and John Duffy, of secrecykills.org, who confirmed his identity using techniques right out of the 70s film All the President's Men.

They had an FBI Associate Director feed them information?

Well, if you listen to the interview @ http://secrecy-kills.s3.amazonaws.com/BleePodcast1.m4a George Tenet--former CIA director--slipped up and gave the information necessary to identify Richard Earl Blee: His last initial and the fact he was a controversial son of former CIA officers. The last initial and the other information was enough to narrow it down to one person. So drop the "Associate," an "ex-" and change the acronym, and yes, exactly.

Comment: Re:Open-Source my ass! (Score 1) 257

by Heretic2 on Thursday September 29 2011, @04:19PM (#37558758) Attached to: Teach Your Router New Tricks With DD-WRT

Again: Where exactly is the source to the bcrm47xx driver? In a binary fucking BLOB.

Comment: Re:Open-Source my ass! (Score 1) 257

by Heretic2 on Thursday September 29 2011, @04:17PM (#37558712) Attached to: Teach Your Router New Tricks With DD-WRT

Since when has dd-wrt been "Open Source?" It's very much closed-source. OpenWRT is actually open source, as in, you can download the code, modify, and compile it yourself. dd-wrt is closed, and often includes proprietary drivers.

the source IS AVAILABLE and has always been.

svn co svn://svn.dd-wrt.com/DD-WRT

http://svn.dd-wrt.com/browser

Just because you've checked binary blobs for wireless drivers into a source control system, and made access to the source control system public does NOT mean it is "Open Source." Good luck modifying a bcrm47xx driver in dd-wrt! Hope you like to edit in hex or binary.

In summary: Not Open Source.