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Comment Re: Well.... (Score 1) 558

Most milk bottles I've seen list volumes in both litres and pints, which solves the labelling problem fairly well in practice. You can usually work the difference between 1/2/4/6 pint bottles out from shape and size alone. I've seen 2 litre bottles in the past, but they're pretty rare.

The butter I have to hand is in 250g blocks, so is entirely metric-based for now.

Submission + - SPAM: Rene Auberjonois, Star Trek and Boston Legal Actor, Dies at 79

schwit1 writes: “Auberjonois was a prolific television actor, appearing as Paul Lewiston in 71 episodes of ‘Boston Legal’ and as Clayton Runnymede Endicott III in ABC’s long-running sitcom ‘Benson.’ He played Odo in ‘Star Trek: Deep Space Nine,’ and carried that role into video games, voicing the same role in ‘Harbinger’ and ‘The Fallen.’ He appeared in the movie ‘MASH’ as Father Mulcahy in the first of several collaborations with Robert Altman. Other film credits include Roy Balgey in 1976’s ‘King Kong’ and Reverend Oliver in ‘The Patriot,’ as well as parts in ‘McCabe & Mrs. Miller,’ ‘Eyes of Laura Mars’ and ‘Walker.’”
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Comment Re:Still conflating Meltdown with Spectre (Score 1) 204

I'd argue that this all comes down to patents. The OoO/speculative execution methods in the P6 architecture would be patented, and those P6 patents ought to be expiring about now. That means that using the fast Intel method of speculation would make sense if you are designing a brand new processor with OoO execution. The older ARM chips did little/no out-of-order or speculative execution, so the cost of adding any particular variant is probably similar.

Meanwhile, because AMD was competing with Intel directly on x86, they had to produce processors with OoO execution for years to keep up. The P6 patents meant AMD created their own implementation of OoO execution, and now the patents are no longer an issue, the cost of redesigning the chips meant that AMD stuck to their existing methods.

Comment Re:Can I post in polls? (Score 2) 85

I have just seen this happen, and it affects http://slashdot.org/ but not subdomains of the site. Adding "news." or whatever to the host name makes the site notice the login cookie. (The cookie values are identical for both slashdot.org and .slashdot.org, mind you.)

Comment Re:/etc/inittab (Score 1) 314

It's still possible in daemontools to run a shell script wrapper from /etc/service/foo/run around some real server in Java/Erlang/whatever. Stopping the service with "svc -d /etc/service/foo" will then entirely fail to kill the server process. I would imagine that the systemd's cgroup suport would avoid this happening.

Comment Re:"There's zero benefit a consumer gets from that (Score 1) 47

There's a reasonable argument for moving to 64-bit on security grounds too. The increase in virtual address space makes ASLR far more effective since there are many more options for positioning compared to 32-bit code. On top of that, any attacks are more likely to hit a unallocated page as opposed to anything useful (with some limitations of course).

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