It's the actual release date of Duke Nukem Forever. This news will be huge... earth-shattering even.

I imagine:

Lawyers: $7,999,999.
Privacy Policy Education Fund: $1.

It's the end of the lime for them alright, and it's sad to see such a historic piece of software going out on a such a sour note.

Is it really that big of a deal? Any text will need to be scaled up. I'm typing this on a 13" Sony Vaio (Z12) with "Full HD" (Best Buy speak for 1920x1080) and I wouldn't be able to see anything if I hadn't scaled up the fonts. Our eyes can only make out so much detail, and I think this new screen might be a bit beyond what most people will need for a quality small-screen experience.

But my Chrome updated silently... I thought it was supposed to either ask me or let me know an update is available. Surprising.

The paper was preliminary to begin with. It is currently withdrawn in order to fix minor typos and because currently "enough unresolved issues with the paper exist to foster a healthy sense of skepticism". This is a good thing for now.

The original discussion was in a Google Doc but has since moved to a wiki.

Info: Previous post explaining the proof more clearly
Paper (not wort reading for most of us)

Actually they stole the Coast Guard's initialism, which is even worse because it's obvious that all the letters are the same when repeated out loud!

... to make it clear that you won't be doing it (TritonSort, thanks for leaving that out kdawson) on your desktop at home:

• 10Gbps Networking
• 52 servers x 8 cores each = 416 CPUs
• 24 GB RAM per server = 1,248 GB
• ext4 filesystem on each, presumably with hardware raid

I think this is cool, but.... how fast is it in a more practical situation?

source

People might think it's funny when their AI friend has a funny accent, but it's cheaper to outsource these things to India! I assure you people will be amazed and perplexed by how wonderful this AI is, but maybe curious why it has an hourly cost....

Sorry a bit hasty there. The port 6363 is a backdoor for a Westel modem. HTTP Server header is Server: WSTL CPE 1.0 .

50940 is unresponsive.

Just ran it on all ports overnight, here ya go. Omitted all but the 3 useful lines,

PORT STATE SERVICE VERSION
6363/tcp open tcpwrapped
50940/tcp closed unknown

the join removal. But what about the partitioning features that have been on the table for quite some time now? The scaffolding is already there, but implementing partitioning is still quite a chore. I just want to be able to gracefully create/manage partitions as in Oracle. There are also a few papers floating around out there with proof-of-concept parallelization/optimization schemes that can be applied with partitioning knowledge.

Google probably wants to use the data for their own analysis. So, I suggest all of Slashdot team together and forge a large volume of the most bullshit data that will convince Google that, without a doubt, they need to make every first search result named "Frosty P1ss!" linked to goatse in order to make their customers happy.

From TFA (emphasis mine):

Somehow I am starting to think that exaggeration in the media goes too far sometimes....

And their only reason for making it is so THEY can specify the required DRM compliance for high-bandwidth devices. It was the foremost issue during development. It's the only reason they've re-branded and protocol-ized existing technology. HDCP 3.0 anyone?