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Comment Re: new ATA driver? (Score 1) 7

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 Re:It's not the Blocks, It's about the Message (Score 1) 27

No, you can't ban them entirely. Kids still need phones for emergency communication, especially on the trip to and from school. I do like the idea of restricting access to phones in school, but kids must still be able to access them in an emergency, e.g. by cutting open the RF shielding pouch. My instructions for my daughter in the case of an active shooter event or any other emergency was to ignore the teacher, climb out the safest window, and RUN to get away from the danger as quickly as possible, then call me to come pick her up.

Comment Nothing new. (Score 1) 27

When Facebook decided that to comply with COPPA they wouldn't allow anyone under 13 to create an Facebook account, everybody in my daughter's generation just lied about their age and created an account anyway. Now they all have Facebook accounts that say they are 5 years older than they actually are, because Facebook gives them no way to correct the lie. OF COURSE people are going to find clever ways to work around age restrictions! And in the age of the internet, those ideas will spread very quickly, resulting in a continuous arms race.

Comment not an endorsement (Score 1) 52

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:What could possibly go wrong? (Score 1) 99

Who is going to pay you for winning that bet when homo sapiens is gone? My personal theory is that in the long run the Earth's temperature is regulated by volcanic activity, i.e. when the planet heats up, there is more volcanic activity, eventually leading to spewing millions of tons of sulphur dioxide into the atmosphere which then causes global cooling simular to "nuclear winter". There does seem to be a marked increase in volcanic activity lately, but that might be because we are now in the Age of Data Acquisition and and doing a lot more monitoriing of everything. The other problem is that the correction caused by volcanic activity is far too slow to prevent mass extinctions.

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