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Comment Re:Why Encryption? (Score 1) 63

If you're planning mission critical communications over the radio you're doing it wrong.
That's what he said.

I'm sorry but this is the dumbest most irrelevant comment put on Slashdot. We're not talking about "radio waves". We're talking about TETRA Land Mobile Radio systems used for a specific purpose. And no precisely no internet traffic goes over this system because the bandwidth for it is on par with an ISDN line from the 1990s.

Context is important when having a conversation, please follow the context being discussed.

That's not what you said initially above. Just use LTE ip radio or something equally secure and call it a day. Also, ISDN is plenty of bandwidth for voice. Ultimately, you are the one commenting stupidly. There exists several secure implementations for radio voice communication so you were wrong because we ourselves use radios for very secure mission critical communications and we aren't alone, duh!

Comment Re:Year Of Linux On The Desktop (Score 1) 154

I was installing FreeBSD from two floppies and a network connection. 30 floppies is tragic.

It was faster to use 30 floppies if you had to install on several computers or wanted/needed to re-install many times. Downloading everything over dialup every time was tragic. You could put the 30 floppies content on a local NFS server for even faster installs although if that's what you meant although.

Comment Re: Time to end DEI (Score 1) 77

I'm all behind that. Originally we were a representative republic. There were rules.

I would not have been able to vote under those rules, but I could live with that (for a reason).

(That would be better that watching my 76 year old friend vote straight Democrat because TT convinced him the R's would take away his $2100 a month free money (mental disability) away from him. It sucks living in Oregon sometimes.

Not much popular opinion to start with there. Only comes after all candidates are confirmed to have basic abilities.

Being able to pass a high school math exam would be a good start for me.

Being able to spell constitution would be another good one.

Comment Re:Lol. I've already switched to Linux. (Score 3, Interesting) 68

Still hung up on a good alternative to Publisher

If it makes you feel any better, whether you're on Windows or Linux, you need to be looking for an alternative to Publisher... it's been deprecated and has an EOL about a year out. You can, of course, continue to run it, but I can't imagine running any MS software that doesn't get security updates anymore, especially one that's an Office component.

Comment Re:Oh....it's about... (Score 2) 47

What's soccer? Is that where you put socks on cars? We're talking about a sport played with a ball and feet. The fact you weirdos confuse it with handegg is your own problem.

There are at least half a dozen different games called "football," none of which are the One True Football(TM). Soccer is a shortening of Association Football (itself named to differentiate it from Rugby Football which was codified earlier), and was, in fact, used as slang shortly after the codification of Assocation Football around 150 years ago.

You can identify the condescending assholes that already know that because they use terms like "handegg" to feign ignorance of this when they demand you stop using a word that's been in use for a century and a half in favor of their preferred terminology.

Comment Re:Micron is dropping ddr4 (Score 1) 30

ddr4 and older pcie suck speed wise. With recent pcie (5+) and ddr5 and recent CPU you can easily run AI workloads with very acceptable performances without a GPU. I recently upgraded an old monster server running 50+ vms with 256GB ram and 48 CPUs and I replaced it with a relatively smaller 128GB ram server with 12 CPU (12 x AMD EPYC 4244P 6-Core Processor 1 Socket) and the new server is running much faster since it has ddr5, pcie5, uses SSD only and some vms run AI loads without any GPU which I couldn't have done efficiently on the older server.

I assume it's the same for gaming, a relatively smaller and cheaper but newer machine will give you better performances.

Lookup at the speeds here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Submission + - SPAM: Ask Slashdot: How many of you are using RSS readers?

alternative_right writes: I use RSS to cover all of my news-reading needs because I like a variety of sources spanning several fields in politics, philosophy, science, and heavy metal. However, it seems Google wanted to kill off RSS a few years back and it has fallen out of favor. Some of us are holding on, but how many? And what software do you use (or did you write your own XML parsers)?

Comment Re: seafloor carbon-fiber cannoli (Score 2) 123

Thats a really ass backwards way of putting it. They regulations were so bad, they instead broke regulations so they didn't have to follow the other regulations. thats gobbledy gook for they did the cheapest thing possible knowing it was shit and not safe because they were self regulated.

Submission + - SPAM: The Soviet Union's secret tsunami

alternative_right writes: Days and months passed without any recognition of the tsunami and earthquake. Even an interview with a Russian volcanologist, Alexander Evgenievich Svyatlovsky, was stored as a "state secret," despite him merely explaining how the tsunami had originated.

Such secrecy was common at the height of the cold war, with Chernobyl and other disasters often being underreported by the Soviet authorities. It was only after the release of state archives in the early 2000s that the full picture could be told.

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