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Comment Re:"disproportionately"? (Score -1, Flamebait) 34

by BuckDutter on Monday August 25, 2025 @06:51PM (#65615458) Attached to: AMD Blames Motherboard Makers For Burnt-Out CPUs

Intel had the same issues but took the blame on themselves. AMD should be taking the fall for this. AsRock isn't rolling around in money like AMD is. AsRock actually assembles and makes products, AMD just has their chips made under contracts.

Comment That's not gonna stop them. (Score 5, Informative) 103

by BuckDutter on Friday August 15, 2025 @08:13PM (#65593110) Attached to: Chinese State Media Calls US a 'Surveillance Empire' Over Trackers In Chips

Trackers or not, it's never going to stop them from stealing foreign technology and attempting to copy it.

Comment Re:It's been a nice summer but not hot enough (Score 1) 159

by BuckDutter on Wednesday August 13, 2025 @11:21AM (#65587304) Attached to: Temperature Records Broken as Extreme Heat Grips Parts of Europe

Perhaps heating a pool of stillwater is not the most efficient use of energy in 2025.

Submission + - China's 'biggest threat' to US is a 'tech kill-switch' (the-express.com)

Submitted by fjo3 on Thursday August 07, 2025 @03:13PM

fjo3 writes: A cybersecurity expert has delivered a chilling alert that China represents the greatest technological threat to Western countries, possessing the ability to trigger a 'killswitch' on America's power grid at will.

In response to this disclosure, the United States has initiated numerous probes into Chinese-made technology, with various investigations revealing 'malicious, mysterious computer codes' that can be remotely triggered to disable critical infrastructure such as natural gas pipelines and electrical networks.

Comment Re:Eliminate gravity? (Score 0) 40

by BuckDutter on Thursday August 07, 2025 @07:34AM (#65572380) Attached to: New Work Achieves a Pure Quantum State Without the Need For Cooling

Wish I hadn't commented yet so I could moderate this upwards.

Comment Used to be superconductors. (Score 1) 40

by BuckDutter on Thursday August 07, 2025 @03:10AM (#65572044) Attached to: New Work Achieves a Pure Quantum State Without the Need For Cooling

Now it's quantum states. Can you say vaporware ?

Comment Re:Back up already (Score 2) 43

by BuckDutter on Thursday July 24, 2025 @05:34PM (#65543328) Attached to: Starlink Suffers Worldwide Outage

It belongs to Elon Musk so you are not allowed to like it.

Comment Re:I've known this for years. (Score 1) 19

by BuckDutter on Sunday June 22, 2025 @02:05PM (#65467933) Attached to: A Cracked Piece of Metal Self-Healed In Experiment That Stunned Scientists

You need an ingot of lead free, I don't think leaded solder "cries" when bent, you need a pretty thick bar, I would get the effect with solder spills that were 1/4 inch thick or something. Whole solder bars work better.

Comment Re:I've known this for years. (Score 1) 19

by BuckDutter on Sunday June 22, 2025 @11:09AM (#65467575) Attached to: A Cracked Piece of Metal Self-Healed In Experiment That Stunned Scientists

That's exactly what I thought, the high purity of the alloy + the fact there is no oxygen in there might be similar to what the article describes. at least makes sense to me.

Comment I've known this for years. (Score 3, Interesting) 19

by BuckDutter on Sunday June 22, 2025 @10:40AM (#65467505) Attached to: A Cracked Piece of Metal Self-Healed In Experiment That Stunned Scientists

You can bend an ingot of lead free solder many times and it doesn't crack, it feels like it's cracking, it even makes a sound, but cracks don't appear.

Comment Re:"Successfully launched and reached space" (Score 5, Funny) 137

by BuckDutter on Tuesday May 27, 2025 @10:37PM (#65409423) Attached to: SpaceX Starship Blasts Off In Ninth Test Flight

To be honest, anytime spacex is mentioned the comment section devolves into a political argument. /. isn't the place for this.

Comment Re:Here's my contribution to French language quota (Score 1) 166

by BuckDutter on Wednesday May 21, 2025 @07:36PM (#65394351) Attached to: Quebec To Impose French-Language Quotas On Streaming Giants

Tabernacle !

Comment Re:Two states of a hard disk. (Score 1) 71

by BuckDutter on Wednesday May 07, 2025 @02:31PM (#65359495) Attached to: Seagate Working To Develop a 100TB Hard Drive By 2030

Seagate has mach drives with double actuators that effectively double transfer speeds. This isn't exactly an issue.

Comment First. (Score -1, Offtopic) 181

by BuckDutter on Monday April 21, 2025 @04:08AM (#65320007) Attached to: Pope Francis Has Died

First.

GoDaddy Registry Error Knocked Zoom Offline for Nearly Two Hours (theregister.com) 17

Posted by msmash on Friday April 18, 2025 @01:20PM from the fire-dump dept.

A communication error between GoDaddy Registry and Markmonitor took Zoom's services offline for almost two hours on Wednesday when GoDaddy mistakenly blocked the zoom.us domain. The outage affected all services dependent on the zoom.us domain.

GoDaddy's block prevented top-level domain nameservers from maintaining proper DNS records for zoom.us. This created a classic domain resolution failure -- when users attempted to connect to any zoom.us address, their requests couldn't be routed to Zoom's servers because the domain effectively disappeared from the internet's addressing system.

Video meetings abruptly terminated mid-session with browser errors indicating the domain couldn't be found. Zoom's status page (status.zoom.us) went offline, hampering communication efforts. Even Zoom's main website at zoom.com failed as the content delivery network couldn't reach backend services hosted on zoom.us servers. Customer support capabilities collapsed when account managers using Zoom's VoIP phones lost connectivity.

Resolution required coordinated effort between Zoom, Markmonitor, and GoDaddy to identify and remove the block. After service restoration, users needed to manually flush their DNS caches using command line instructions (including the sudo dscacheutil -flushcache; sudo killall -HUP mDNSResponder command for Mac users).

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