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Comment Same #$%@ here in Brazil.... (Score 1) 68

Here in Brazil same thing. They stole your phone while is unlocked, so they can rapidly change FaceID or biometrics to robber's face/fingerprint. Then all banking apps using fingerprint or FaceID gets emptied and worst, here banking apps offer fast loans with 1-click action. Iphone users have to take further and advanced steps to be protected or at leat minimize flaws from this kind of attacks. In my opinion somenthing as simple as using faceid or fingerprint to protect Settings manager would help a lot. The only option is to use 'Screen Time' features to block some apps that don't use any other protection method.

Comment Re:Only Linux? (Score 1) 462

Yet, worse. From TFA:

“The MIT researchers found that the separate cores were spending so much time ratcheting the [memory] counter up and down that they weren’t getting nearly enough work done,” the report states. However, the researchers also found that “slightly rewriting the Linux code so that each core kept a local count, which was only occasionally synchronized with those of the other cores, greatly improved the system’s overall performance.”

Stop FUD'ing please.

Comment Drivers and compatibility? (Score 1) 702

Come on! Ubuntu has worse drivers and compatibility against Windows?

The fact that iTunes is not compatible with Linux it's clearly not Ubuntu's fault. Apple has no interest in making it compatible with Wine or porting natively to Linux.

I doubt Windows has out-of-the-box drivers for everything like printers, usb, video, audio, chipset, raid, wifi (+broadcom!!), ethernet and even 3G devices without downloading drivers from different sites, installing and rebooting the SO!

Again, this comparison is just flawed or even FUDed...

Comment I don't see any difference at all... (Score 1) 641

Interesting if you compare to a democratic government and the critical decisions they make without any popular consensus...The people voted for that government and many time, their decision aren't orthogonal to people's desire, and unlike opensource,if you don't like it you can emigrate to other country. Yep..this is really hard to accomplish unlike opensource since you can fork the country and govern it the way you want or even you can change to another country or in opensource terms, to another project. The Ubuntu governors are taking some critical(design) decisions based on their know-how expecting the hole community to adopt it as a good decision.

Comment Re:OpenGL and the rant about marketing (Score 0) 515

Is not about whinning by anti-M$ goons. It's about anti-FOSS goons whinning we are tired of.

And yes, we have the cojones (b@lls) to compete with M$: Firefox, Linux, OpenGL, Java, Qt are these no competitors to M$ counterparts?

Face that, opensource is here to stay and eclipse closed-source solutions. Start learning good standards instead of clicking next/back/voila buttons...

Comment Re:Use MFT instead... (Score 0) 95

From the site: "Flash memory is a wonderful invention. It can randomly access data at speeds up to 60 times faster than a hard disk. Similarly, the newest MLC models are as cheap as enterprise hard disks. But Flash has a problem: when this data needs to be written back, the random write speed is often only 1/500th of the random read speed. As a result, most flash drives inherently perform a little better than some hard drives, and a little worse than others. Our patent pending Managed Flash Technology (MFT) solves that random write problem, enabling Flash Drives to write clusters of random data in linear streams, thus allowing it to write at the full Flash Drive linear write speed of forty to ninety megabytes a second (which is 10,000 to 22,000 4kb writes per second). Normal random writes put things back where they came from. Writing linearly requires us to put them where ever free space is available at this moment. This method of remembering things works as long as a memory table exists to tell you where a logical sector is at this moment. Similarly, MFT often extends the effective write-life of Flash SSDs by two orders of magnitude. While this may not be of practical benefit if you are using an expensive single-level cell (SLC) based Flash SSD, it may be absolutely critical if you want to use the vastly less expensive, but more limited erase-life multi-level cell (MLC) drives. That is the essence of MFT. In the following pages, we will consider particular elements in detail."

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