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Comment Re: Yep same guy⦠(Score 1) 47

So if 100% of it does turn into energy, is that covered over the warranty or is it just long term expected behavior? What if it happens if it happens quickly in the short term? I lost the sheets of paper with other info that came with it.

Can I assume the new ones are still not warrantied if they exceed 3x10^8 m/s?

Comment Indigenous names? Which Indigenous name? (Score 1) 258

Using Indigenous names won't solve the problem either because most animals will have many different Indigenous names based on the language groups that cover the territory of that animal. So which word gets used? Which group gets ignored? The Cree dialect was one of the most widely spoken dialects of the Algonquian language group but its nouns differ far more within the group than the nouns of the Sioux language groups because those speakers had greater trade. The groups slightly west traveled even more but traded less so their nouns differ by a greater amount. If a bird is found in what is now a Cherokee tribal land but it used to be Osage land before the forced relocations, which indigenous name gets to be used? This of course repeats all over the world as each US sized land mass had a few hundred distinctive languages, many if not most of which are now extinct.

Comment Too much connected data? (Score 3, Interesting) 58

I think part of their problem is their codex is too large. The search engine can't correctly figure out how things are linked anymore since there is way too much data.

Take word like "monitor". Google thinks it is a computer display. It could also be a reptile, part of a roof, foldback speaker, a ship or about 50 other things. If the search codex shows a close enough association between a computer display and nearly every other use of the word, it is going to redefine the word into its own common use. You can find examples of this using terms for pipe organs which have a huge overlap with parts of CPU internals such as buffers, registers and accumulators are closely related in their respective fields.

I figure someone will come out with a search engine where the words then will have drop downs so the user can pick the type of thing they are searching on so they may be able to click on "monitor" and have one of the options "monitor - reptile"

Comment SSH can require both a key and a password (Score 1) 101

Many large networks have been compromised after something has obtained user level access and used that users keys to hit other systems. SSH can be configured to require both a key and a password and so far the malware hasn't been able to break that combo yet. Note that is not the same as putting a password on the key.

Comment NTP servers (Score 1) 71

For NTP servers, FreeBSD is much cleaner than Debian. It turns out that all the extras that are built into current Linux distros tend to screw up the timekeeping. That is my experience based on RPi 3 & 4 using 1 PPS GPS hats.

My primary issue with FreeBSD is there isn't a good way to remove unneeded parts of the base install such as compilers that might not be needed but that isn't limited to just that OS. I tend to use FreeBSD for nearly every project these days.

Comment Re:AT&T has captured all call records for deca (Score 2) 104

If you can find the city permits for the newer telco buildings built since the mid 1950s you will find a very large room named "tape room" in them. Those were often used for ADSL equipment until recently but by the early 1980s they would have enough equipment to record any call going through the place with a warrant.

Comment Ever try to buy a 400gb ONT? (Score 1) 45

For some odd reason there isn't a huge market for home grade 400 gb optical modems. Buying one seems impossible and even putting one together isn't a trivial task. The network cards are still about $1.5k per port. It takes 16 channels of PCIe5 per interface and enough cpu to control the packet flow.

Most fiber today can deal with 60 channels of 400 gb for a total 24Tbit per fiber. Most ISPs will split that 400 into 4x 100gb because the equipment to manage it is cheaper. There is some 800g stuff around but it is crazy expensive and usually still operated as 8x100.

What they appear to have done is the next step in the "terabit ethernet" yet missed the current spec goal of 1.5tb.

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