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Comment Re:I wouldn't worry about commercial use... (Score 1) 8

It might be relatively easy if you modified some angles in ways which are subtly different, but in a way unlikely to be caused by manufacturing or scanning artifacts. But more realistically and importantly, you might also subpoena the relevant files if you had reasonable suspicion that they were using your files as the basis. Files in hand, it would be easy to prove unless intentionally obfuscated, albeit somewhat trivially.

Comment Re: new ATA driver? (Score 1) 8

The idea of this OS is that it will support Windows drivers, so it's potentially a way to use hardware which only works with windows. Any other use case you might imagine is better handled in some other way. And even that one is probably better handled with old windows on old hardware...

Comment not an endorsement (Score 1) 53

That's not because mainframes are priced attractively. It's because VMware is now spectacularly overpriced.

PC clusters have all but killed mainframes because for the vast majority of tasks they make more sense in every way. It's only a very few jobs that make more sense on a mainframe today, when clustering is mature.

We already knew BCM is largely crap, so this ain't news. It's just a ham handed ad.

Comment Re:The classic web development problem. (Score 4, Insightful) 167

Why would any competent person agree to work for Trump's White House? Seems like a career-limiting move to me.

There are sadly many people who ought to know better who still support him. A person can be intelligent in some ways and not in others, or just have some kind of specific fault in logic which causes them to believe a specific stupid thing. I believe the majority of those cases are explained with cognitive dissonance, but it really boils down to willfully maintaining a blind spot to make oneself feel better.

Comment Re:Better than qemu-kvm? (Score 1) 53

For workstation stuff? QEMU/KVM is just fine. What you get with VMware is their "enterprise-y" features that aren't necessarily easy or available with QEMU, such as high availability, failover, backups, shared storage, software defined networking, templating, PCI / USB passthrough, etc.

The only one of those things you don't get with libvirt is SDN, the networking is fairly primitive yet.

Comment Re:No cookie for you! (Score 1) 42

Ah. I suppose that's mostly true, but have you considered laying on more protection? It's true that in most cases this simply renders the website inoperative, but in this case I got more functionality than you did. Sometimes I cannot make a website work within what I'm willing to allow in Firefox, and then I open that page in Chromium...

Comment Re:Isn't this fraud? (Score 1) 82

Have you heard of the Wheat and Chessboard problem? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... Humans are bad judges of numbers, but let's run with it for a second. What's reasonable? 120% cap?

That's a good question, and I suspect it could be argued over all day; I don't have a proposed cap as I've put no thought into what the exact number should be. My proposal is long on support for personal responsibility but short on details, sorry.

Short of a fixed cap you literally can't make a rule that won't somehow be worked around.

In order to keep my proposal compatible with capitalism I haven't proposed a fixed cap, just that in order to have a higher salary you must also take on more responsibility.

Comment Re:Distrubtions with compiled in module: (Score 2) 63

This really points to a couple of things being true.

1) Distributions build too much stuff in and not enough as modules.
2) It's a PITA to build everything as a module, which helps explain 1)

I've built a lot of Linux kernels over the years, fewer in recent ones but still have done it occasionally. And it's the same now as then in that building a kernel which is more modular means running into more gotchas.

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