Comment Executable documents... (Score 5, Insightful) 362

by GenP on Wednesday October 18, 2017 @12:22PM (#55390461) Attached to: The Internet Is Ripe With In-Browser Miners and It's Getting Worse Each Day

Even more reason to disable Javascript.

Comment Seems to be missing some Essential features... (Score 4, Insightful) 148

by GenP on Thursday September 28, 2017 @01:44PM (#55270723) Attached to: Not Many People Are Buying Andy Rubin's iPhone-Killer Essential Phone, It Seems

* User-replaceable battery * SD card support * Non-giant (5") screen

Comment Re:30 hour workweek experiment (Score 1) 153

by GenP on Friday February 24, 2017 @02:41PM (#53924487) Attached to: Panasonic Wants Employees To Relax, Limits Work Days To 11 hours

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Comment Re:Solution, the Internet Archive !!!! (Score 1) 348

by GenP on Monday October 03, 2016 @11:35AM (#53004431) Attached to: Vint Cerf Warns About the Perishability Of Human Knowledge

Well, assuming domain owners of the future don't obliterate the past with Archive-hostile robots.txts.

Comment Re:Hmm (Score 1) 129

by GenP on Monday January 30, 2012 @07:22PM (#38871063) Attached to: Assembling Your Own 3D Printer

PLA I'm guessing. What kind of layer height? 0.2mm?

Comment Re:QT Creator (Score 1) 90

by GenP on Thursday December 15, 2011 @11:31AM (#38383426) Attached to: Qt 4.8.0 Released

Hopefully they can put in the clang parsing frontend in soon.

Comment Not EGL. (Score 4, Informative) 50

by GenP on Thursday December 08, 2011 @06:14PM (#38308874) Attached to: IBM Releases Open Source EGL Development Tools

Not that EGL, nothing to see here, move along.

Comment Re:Yeah Baby (Score 1) 218

by GenP on Tuesday November 29, 2011 @01:46AM (#38199264) Attached to: CyanogenMod 9 Working On the Nexus S

Doesn't unlocking the Nexus S bootloader wipe the phone though?

Comment Re:Yeah Baby (Score 2) 218

by GenP on Monday November 28, 2011 @10:44PM (#38198080) Attached to: CyanogenMod 9 Working On the Nexus S

I'd like to run Cyanogenmod on my Nexus S but for the life of me I can't seem to find a procedure that will let me backup my entire phone before I root/wipe :(

Comment Re:Sorry (Score 3, Informative) 705

by GenP on Thursday February 03, 2011 @05:32PM (#35096132) Attached to: N.C. Official Sics License Police On Computer Scientist For Too Good a Complaint

If you can sustain ~80% maximum throughput, yes.

Comment Re:Big company (Score 1) 246

by GenP on Wednesday October 13, 2010 @12:06PM (#33883526) Attached to: Feds Discover 1,000 More Government Data Centers

How do you detect a port that's been "repurposed" to be the head-end of a bunch of NATed machines?

Comment Re:What's the need? (Score 1) 185

by GenP on Wednesday June 23, 2010 @02:50PM (#32668456) Attached to: Petaflops? DARPA Seeks Quintillion-Flop Computers

Real-time (or better!) simulation of biological systems.

Comment Re:Metaquestion (Score 1) 322

by GenP on Friday April 09, 2010 @12:31PM (#31790880) Attached to: All the Best Games May Be NP-Hard

Well, they are stories.

Comment Re:So buy intel video cards (Score 4, Insightful) 412

by GenP on Friday March 26, 2010 @07:11PM (#31633954) Attached to: Nvidia Drops Support For Its Open Source Driver

buy intel video cards

Oh? Where can I buy offboard Intel video cards?

Comment Re:...Or an arms race (Score 1) 646

by GenP on Tuesday March 23, 2010 @05:10PM (#31589348) Attached to: SSD Price Drops Signaling End of Spinning Media?

we'll need an OS-agnostic method of using PCIe cards as bootable block devices

Like pretending to be a single-channel SATA disk controller with one drive permanently attached?