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Comment: Re:As Frontalot says (Score 1) 631

by klui (#46354263) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Do You Still Trust Bitcoin?

Exactly this. It's just like PKI is sound but the security of a system comes down to its implementation. Unless these Bitcoin exchanges are audited or have best practices put in place one could never know who the next victim of these hacks would be and therefore a person's wallet would always be in jeopardy. If I were to have a Bitcoin wallet, I would have used Mt. Gox since they're the biggest, oldest, and original founding member of the Bitcoin Foundation. Little did everyone know they could come down so soon.

I'm not against Bitcoin but it's much too soon to start relying on it as a stable currency.

Comment: Re:*sigh* (Score 1) 417

by klui (#45982013) Attached to: Microsoft Extends Updates For Windows XP Security Products Until July 2015

just opened most used and largest excel workbook (~1.3MB) and excel memory usage was ~4.3M memory use and 9.1M VM size (in task manager)(winxp sp3)(excel 2003). Cannot imagine excel taking up more than 1GB except if there is a memory leak.

You need to imagine harder or don't do a lot using Excel.

I have a 100+MB spreadsheet that's connected to a database back end with pivot tables and graphs/charts. Open it up and it takes around 400MB. Imagine developing it. You would have lots of other programs/clients opened as you're integrating everything together. I very much doubt you could have developed it under XP 32-bit or you would have had to do so much finagling you would have gladly punted the machine.

Comment: Re:*sigh* (Score 2) 417

by klui (#45972329) Attached to: Microsoft Extends Updates For Windows XP Security Products Until July 2015

I would have thought so, too. But my current machine in the office isn't running too many development/management tools and it's using 4.5GB. The largest RAM hog? Outlook at 400MB. There are a little over 100 processes. I can't imagine someone who uses Excel on a regular basis using less than 6GB.

Comment: Re:Halfway through my MBA... (Score 2) 343

by klui (#45477431) Attached to: Elon Musk Talks About the Importance of Physics, Criticizes the MBA

Pretty sure if MBAs were running Tesla, they would have waited for lawsuits filed for the fires before they did anything, let alone giving customers a free retrofit by mere recommendation rather than mandate from the NHTSA. It's just running the numbers, where goodwill and customer satisfaction is difficult to measure in a spreadsheet.

Comment: Monster cable territory? (Score 1) 241

by klui (#45386365) Attached to: First Arab Supercar Costs $3.4 Million, Has Diamond-Encrusted Headlights

Didn't the doors look a bit flimsy/wobbly when it was first opened?

The end of the video links to the Devel Sixteen that claims will have 5000 hp, go from 0-60 in 1.8 sec., with a max speed of 348 mph. I don't know about you but these cars seem like they're for autophiles who use Franklins as toilet paper. Who knows how well they will perform.
