Comment Re:5x9 reliability: "one reboot every year" (Score 1) 138
How cool. Thanks a lot for sharing, David Emery.
Comment Re:The reality of Sweden (Score 1) 467
Sure. I do not doubt that. But do you think that spending indicates what you get for your money? I remember a well functioning healthcare in my youth and compared to today the difference is wild. You can spend 12 hours in the emergency or more before seeing a doctor. Obviously, if you have been shot you get taken care of right away and that is all good - but that the mean case in the emergency can lasts for 12 hours? Is that super cool? The problems with the healthcase are many - it is not just finance.
The US healthcare has been shown many times to be extremely inefficient, yet is at the top of the list. Just to indicate what I am talking about - spending does not translate to quality.
Comment The reality of Sweden (Score 3, Interesting) 467
I am a Swede who left the country a few months ago. The Swedish system is not well funded at all. The health care is not what it used to be either - the population has grown some 20% in just 15 years whereas the health care system most definitely has not grown 20%. The tax base also has not grown 20%.
The Swedish "model" is inaction. How so many have failed to grasp that is beyond me. Not doing anything is not a model for crying out loud.
Submission + - Western Digital pulls a performance stunt (arstechnica.com)
castrox writes: Western Digital has quietly changed the technology in their marketed NAS drives and lowered the number of platterns driving down performance significantly.
From Ars Technica:
"Storage vendors, including but reportedly not limited to Western Digital, have quietly begun shipping SMR (Shingled Magnetic Recording) disks in place of earlier CMR (Conventional Magnetic Recording) disks."
From Ars Technica:
"Storage vendors, including but reportedly not limited to Western Digital, have quietly begun shipping SMR (Shingled Magnetic Recording) disks in place of earlier CMR (Conventional Magnetic Recording) disks."
Comment Re:Terrorists (Score 1) 161
Apparently the argument is that the radio waves weaken your immune system and makes it easier for you to develop COVID-19.
Comment What is this? (Score 1, Flamebait) 99
What is this? Cringely week? Give us a break.
Comment Re:Lower prices right? (Score 1) 471
Don't count on lowered prices. Here in Sweden the tax for food in restaurants was halved to 12.5% a few years ago. That had zero effect on prices and restaurants profits simply increased.
Comment Not an accident (Score 1) 241
The title says it was an "accident" which is incorrect. This was done with open eyes all the while security responsible protested and a lot of other IT people.
The director ordered this outsourcing project to continue and give access to the IBM contractors before they had been given security clearance. IBM's personnel are located in different countries such as Serbia, Poland, etc. The access is (still) administrative access to databases and data shares.
It's of course not just one big database but many. What's also not in the summary is that an encrypted inter-agency network was also exposed. Oops.
The motive of the (now ex) director's order was to speed up the project, because the transport agency otherwise would have issues with their daily work (issue driver licenses, etc.). The government has also been breathing down their necks to save money, hence this outsourcing (short-sighted madness).
It's a trainwreck from beginning to end, really. Heads will roll.
IAAS (I Am A Swede) as well..
Comment Re:Good riddance Gnome (and KDE) (Score 1) 134
I've fled KDE before when they launched the public alpha as a major release. Since back then it's improved hugely in terms of performance and usability. I used to be a Gnome fan, but the new UI, while usable on the TV, is unusable on the dev box.
About the bling and widgets/plasmoids I just don't use them so they're not a problem. It's a way of attracting a certain user group.
castrox
Comment Interesting (Score -1, Offtopic) 742
FUCK BETA.
Submission + - Ask Slashdot: Can some of us get together and rebuild this community? 21
wbr1 writes: It seems abundantly clear now that Dice and the SlashBeta designers do not care one whit about the community here. They do not care about rolling in crapware into sourceforge installers. In short, the only thing that talks to them is money and stupid ideas.
Granted, it takes cash to run sites like these, but they were fine before. The question is, do some of you here want to band together, get whatever is available of slashcode and rebuild this community somewhere else? We can try to make it as it once was, a haven of geeky knowledge and frosty piss, delivered free of charge in a clean community moderated format.
Granted, it takes cash to run sites like these, but they were fine before. The question is, do some of you here want to band together, get whatever is available of slashcode and rebuild this community somewhere else? We can try to make it as it once was, a haven of geeky knowledge and frosty piss, delivered free of charge in a clean community moderated format.
Submission + - Slashdot BETA Discussion (slashdot.org) 60
mugnyte writes: With Slashdot's recent restyled "BETA" slowly rolled to most users, there's been a lot of griping about the changes. This is nothing new, as past style changes have had similar effects. However, this pass there are significant usability changes: A narrower read pane, limited moderation filtering, and several color/size/font adjustments. BETA implies not yet complete, so taking that cue — please list your specific, detailed opinoins, one per comment, and let's use the best part of slashdot (the moderation system) to raise the attention to these. Change can be jarring, but let's focus on the true usability differences with the new style.
Submission + - NSA is mining people's address books (arstechnica.com)
castrox writes: Apparently the NSA has decided on full blown warfare against people's private life and decided it was a good idea to record and store address books off of people accounts. Many popular service providers are affected such as Yahoo, Hotmail, Facebook and Gmail.
When will NSA's hostility towards private life end?
When will NSA's hostility towards private life end?
Submission + - EU: Music piracy should not be a concern for copyright holders (arstechnica.com)
castrox writes: "Ars Technica writes that the European Commission has published research based on samples from 16,000 users. The research suggests there are no correlation between piracy and decreased sales, but very well the opposite. This leads to the conclusion that music piracy should not be a "concern for copyright holders".
A very popular belief among Slashdotters and others just got handed a official research document (from the EC, no less) to strengthen it! Link to the actual research: http://ipts.jrc.ec.europa.eu/publications/pub.cfm?id=6084"
A very popular belief among Slashdotters and others just got handed a official research document (from the EC, no less) to strengthen it! Link to the actual research: http://ipts.jrc.ec.europa.eu/publications/pub.cfm?id=6084"
Comment Not slashdot worthy (Score 1, Informative) 112
This video is lame. What did these guys accomplish? It is kind of hard to tell. 10 projectors + smoke. A guy claims there is a sphere -- well I do not see it. Now he says he is walking inside the sphere. Still do not see it.
What the hell is this?
