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Nothing like "pissing off your best customers to make more profits" as a business model, is it.

"It's a bold strategy, Cotton. Lets see how it works for them" source

Debbie Wasserman Schultz is a deep mole. Trump planned this as early as 1999 when he got her elected to the Florida Senate.

It's whether the Trump's and Pajits of this world do enough damage to take pass that runaway point.

Designated Shitting Oceans

the price of bitcoin has recovered around $300 since March 25th, however this is only because people have no way to get money out of bitfinex except to buy bitcoins. there are complaints about delayed withdrawals from multiple users who tried to withdraw just before the price run up http://i.imgur.com/O7IWseg.png

Why, yes, yes I am!

http://i.imgur.com/r2FaqsH.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/O7Nv6MG.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/qaGFvL2.jpg

And a lot more - those are just the most recent playthings.

Why, yes, yes I am!

http://i.imgur.com/r2FaqsH.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/O7Nv6MG.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/qaGFvL2.jpg

And a lot more - those are just the most recent playthings.

Why, yes, yes I am!

http://i.imgur.com/r2FaqsH.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/O7Nv6MG.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/qaGFvL2.jpg

And a lot more - those are just the most recent playthings.

The GOP didn't "roll the dice". They knew what was going to happen because Trump has a time machine

John Wick kill Count graphic: http://imgur.com/gallery/xAzze...

I just got this answer on 2014 - http://imgur.com/a/vDDD2

"1. Fastest SSD. Not my benchmark [9to5mac.com]; but, BTW, where's yours?"

http://i.imgur.com/wZ0cjjt.png - you dare compare a laptop to anything I have and it will stomp the shit out of your CRAPPLE any day.

And there's still room for expansion in that configuration, too.

Hardly a fair comparison; since that is NOT a laptop, and costs as much as a cheap house! A Cray can outperform any Dell, too; but what's the point? You're just grandstanding. NO Laptop, not even a Sager, has that much crap in it. It simply wouldn't fit. Try again. And if you claim that really IS in your Sager, then I want the model number.

"80 Gbps of raw I/O"

Dude, I have THAT MANY LANES OF PCI-E 3.0 per motherboard (of which there are 4 in that config.)

Again, what's your point? You're comparing a LAPTOP to some sort of monstrosity that dims the lights when you power it on! FFS!!!

"Sorry, the new MBP DOESN'T even GET to the thermal limits. According to multiple reviews [notebookcheck.net], Both the CPU and GPU run flat-out 100% duty cycle 24/7. They really did fix it. Try again, Slashtard."

As I look at three brand-fucking new ones, dead from overheating/deballing of the SoC, which I'm being paid to repair. Try again, oh ye who has no Apple repair certification.

Now I KNOW you're lying! What "SoC" would you be talking about in a MacBook Pro? The TouchBar controller? And why would YOU be working on a has-to-be-under-warranty 2016 MBP? These days, Apple wouldn't pay Depot Repair for an under-warranty unit. It would go straight back to Apple. They have all-but killed-off "Certified Repair" centers for Apple stuff.

And I may not have an Apple Repair Cert.; but I have certainly done my time on electronic repair benches, before I got a better job.

Most of that weight is battery, and modern GPUs barely use all that much power, so much that nVidia dropped any distinction between desktop and mobile - all nvidia mobile GPUs are desktop-GPUs now, since you've had your head in the sand for about five months or so.

Who cares what the weight is from. It's still a LUGGABLE.

"1. Fastest SSD. Not my benchmark [9to5mac.com]; but, BTW, where's yours?"

http://i.imgur.com/wZ0cjjt.png - you dare compare a laptop to anything I have and it will stomp the shit out of your CRAPPLE any day.

And there's still room for expansion in that configuration, too.

"80 Gbps of raw I/O"

Dude, I have THAT MANY LANES OF PCI-E 3.0 per motherboard (of which there are 4 in that config.)

"Sorry, the new MBP DOESN'T even GET to the thermal limits. According to multiple reviews [notebookcheck.net], Both the CPU and GPU run flat-out 100% duty cycle 24/7. They really did fix it. Try again, Slashtard."

As I look at three brand-fucking new ones, dead from overheating/deballing of the SoC, which I'm being paid to repair. Try again, oh ye who has no Apple repair certification.

Most of that weight is battery, and modern GPUs barely use all that much power, so much that nVidia dropped any distinction between desktop and mobile - all nvidia mobile GPUs are desktop-GPUs now, since you've had your head in the sand for about five months or so.

Jeff Bezos is not as bad as Donald Trump, but Bezos says and does things that show he isn't thinking carefully.

  Remote control over drones can ALWAYS be eliminated or hijacked by radio frequency interference.

Technology ALWAYS has failures, like those at Three Mile Island, Fukushima Daiichi, and Chernobyl.

  Amazon drone delivery: nine ways it could go horribly wrong

I don't want drones near where I live. Will drones be allowed near where Jeff Bezos lives?

I'm sorry about your schizophrenia. It's a devastating condition which ruins many lives. I'll be praying for your recovery.

Actually, you aren't far from it, AC. As evidenced from the entire Slashdot staff being comprised of manatees which arrange "idea balls" to come up with headlines, they have really crept in to every crevice and orifice on the planet.

Jeff Bezos is not as bad as Donald Trump, but Bezos says and does things that show he isn't thinking carefully.

Remote control over drones can ALWAYS be eliminated or hijacked by radio frequency interference.

Technology ALWAYS has failures, like those at Three Mile Island, Fukushima Daiichi, and Chernobyl.

Amazon drone delivery: nine ways it could go horribly wrong

I don't want drones near where I live. Will drones be allowed near where Jeff Bezos lives?

Pornhub apparently had a popup which stated it had automatic sharing to Facebook after watching a video... https://imgur.com/gallery/msFA...

I do so love people who think their side's shit doesnt smell

You know what I like? Cookies. But you know what I find amusing? People who pretend that something isn't the case and a particular ideology which proclaimed "we're the ones pushing for free speech" are now the ones censoring. I mean, just look at this picture and tell me what's wrong with it.

I'll give you a hint, those are both pictures taken on the same university campus.

Windows 10? No.

Because he didn't - it's 3 kilometers away from the ocean horizotally and 150 metres away vertically.

http://i.imgur.com/txrhwsu.png

Ahh, yes. The famous ocean-side villa...3 kilometres inland and 150 metres above sea level...

I wonder what he knows that you don't...?

These should be required reading for programmers AND designers. I'm looking at you Mr. shitty designer/programmer that only lets me put 13 characters in for my (first) name.

* Falsehoods about Names

* Falsehoods about Time

* Falsehoods about Computers, aka, Murphy's Computers Laws

* 97 Things Every Programmer should know

Al Gore's beachfront mansion: 3 kilometres inland and 150 metres above sealevel? What beachfront is that?

God I wish I was a rat...

It's easy: run for congress. If you make it you'll be transformed in no time!

Programmers love to use the cop-out

"Premature Optimization is the root of evil"

dogma which is complete bullshit. It tells me your mindset is:

"Oh, we'll "fix" performance issue later."

Except later never comes. /Oblg. Murphy's Computer Law:

* There is never time to do it right, but there is always time to do it over.

As Fred Brooks said in Mythical Man-Month.

"Show me your flowcharts and conceal your tables, and I shall continue to be mystified.
  Show me your tables, and I won't usually need your flowcharts; they'll be obvious."
-- Fred Brooks

Which can be translated into the modern vernacular as:

* Show me your code and I'll wonder what your data structures are,
* Show me your data and I'll already know what your code is

There are 2 solutions to this problem of crappy library code.

1. You are benchmarking your code, ALONG THE WAY, right?

Most projects "tack-on" optimization when the project is almost completed. This is completely BACKWARDS. How do you know which functions are the performance hogs when you have thousands to inspect?

It is FAR simpler to be constantly monitoring performance from day one. Every time new functionality is added, you measure. "Oh look, our startup time went from 5 second to 50 seconds -- what the hell was just added?"

NOT: "Oh, we're about to ship in a month, and our startup time is 50 seconds. Where do we even begin in tracking down thousands of calls and data structures?"

I come from a real-time graphics background -- aka games. Every new project our skeleton code runs at 120 frames per second. Then as you slowly add functionality you can tell _instantly_ when the framerate is going down. Oh look, Bob's latest commit is having some negative performance side effects. Let's make sure that code is well designed, and clean BEFORE it becomes a problem down the road and everyone forgets about it.

2. You have a _baseline_ to compare against? Let's pretend you come up with a hashing algorithm, and you want to know how fast it is. The *proper* way is to

* First benchmark how fast you can slurp data from a disk, say 10 GB of data. You will never be FASTER then this! 100% IO bound, 0% CPU bound.
* Then, add a single-threaded benchmark where you just sum bytes.
* Maybe, you add a multi-threaded version
* Then you measure _your_ spiffy new function.

Library Vendors, such as Dinkumware who provide the CRTL (C-Run Time Library), _should_ be catching these shitty performance bugs, but sadly they don't. The only solution is to be proactive.

The zeroth rule in programming is:

* Don't Assume, Profile!

Which is analogous to what carpenters say:

* Measure Twice, Cut Once.

But almost no one wants to MAKE the time to do it right the first time. You can either pay now, or pay later. Fix the potential problems NOW before they become HUGE problems later.

And we end up in situations like this story.

I get e-mail notifications. They come to my real Inbox. The only comments that don't are AC.

It's how I found this comment..

Bonus is I don't have to keep refreshing the site to check my inbox. I know that isn't in the best interest of the advertisers but I can continue to check my e-mail if something comes up but close out of Slashdot and concentrate on getting *some* work done.

[Also, HTML is so 2000. Please support some flavor of markdown].

Next step is obvious. http://imgur.com/a/QmoPg

And if you actually read the news you'd know Russia has a nasty habbit of invading countries in their little sphere of influence that try to align themselves with us. As far as their hacking, the DNC hack is a million miles from Russia's only antiwestern internet mischief. Eastern Europe's internet infastructure faces continual harassment from the Russians or in other words, our allies are suffering constant harrassment by Russia.

Horseshit.

Reality: the United States overthrew Ukraine's elected government, after the duly elected government went with a low interest loan from Russia instead of one from the IMF, with the usual austerity measures attached. Do any of you American Exceptionalists think the U.S. would stand idly by if Russia had overthrown the Mexican government, complete with a Russian foreign minister bragging on video about the money they spent to do so? And then have the nerve to whine about Russia's [nonexistent] interference in our election. The "harassment from Russia" is even more laughable when you remember how much NATO has expanded since the fall of the Soviet Union.

So even if Russia had invaded Ukraine, it would only be a million times more justified than any American intervention you can name. But they haven't, or you'd have more than laughable evidence collected from the Facebook pages of Ukrainian fascists. If you think the existing Russian military base in Crimea is an invasion, then the U.S. has been conducting 900+ invasions around the world for some time now.

As for the election hacking, those who believed that story from the start showed they didn't learn a damned thing from the lies told about Saddam's WMD's and involvement in 911. Anyone who still believes anonymous sources in the CIA-funded WaPo after the last Wikileaks dump is now an outright fool. Even moreso when high level officials would rather accuse a right-wing Fox News host of working for Putin when asked to look in to the camera and say Russia was behind a specific attack.

dl;dr Russia isn't the problem. Your dumb imperialistic, American Exceptionalist ass is.

It's not just the snout that's changed.

Even with a massive margins of error, the trend in that graphic is concerning enough to at least be cautious. Jews are around 10 IQ points higher than whites and 60 IQ points higher than Australian aborigines for example. 30 of that max can be explained by nutrition, education and poverty, but making up the other 30 by environmental factors alone is near impossible.

Australian aborigines have scientifically proven, better vision than Europeans and probably any other demographic in the world. If the eye can differ in quality between groups of people who have evolved in separate continents for millennia, then why can't the brain - itself merely another physical organ?

As another example, the difference in intelligence between a border collie and bulldog is vast, and pit bulls are obviously much more aggressive than labrador retrievers. Human races are somewhat comparable to different breeds. We are okay speaking about these differences in dogs, but when it comes to humans, then we have to be all PC.

Are you using Windows 10? The article said it didn't work in earlier versions of Windows.

No I'm pretty sure it's windows 8.

I think the best estimate was this engineer here

https://imgur.com/gallery/KVdS...

17 billion in materials alone.

http://imgur.com/a/n0JUK

I think the best estimate was this engineer here

https://imgur.com/gallery/KVdS...

17 billion in materials alone.

http://imgur.com/a/n0JUK

ALSA headquarters

they should be paid at least enough to get them to the next season. This is why Donald Trump uses work visas for his seasonal workers. He doesn't pay enough for somebody to drop everything they're doing and work for him at Mar-a-Lago or whatever for 6 months. I'm always reminded of this.

http://i.imgur.com/UeZan.jpg back in my day this always did the trick.

It takes a special kind of idiot to (a) regard the 'media' as a monolithic entity (all the same people, sure!) and (b) heavily imply that Trump doesn't lie. Seriously.... LOL.

It takes a special kind of idiot to not see that there are organizations like Journolist around which exist to drive ideological narratives. That the media has been caught doing this numerous times. Including in other media like games media(see gamejournopros) Or media groups which will publish political propaganda directly from political parties as gospel truths. The DNC did that with multiple media organizations in the last election. The Obama administration did that multiple times, it became so common that the WH Press corps., openly wrote a letter about it. In most of the west, the 4th estate is broken and the people in it, are nothing but puppet mouthpieces trading favors for favors.

Now it's time for you to understand the difference when "Trump says something" and when an entire arm of a political party uses their weight in order to push an ideological view point, and the media accepts it as truth and repeats it. Or turns around and forwards it to the party in question to ensure it has ideological purity. Keep in mind, that in the beltway +90% of the reporters are democrat voters, donate directly to the DNC, and hold either democrat or progressive views. That drops to 80% outside of the beltway. Time for you to grow up a bit perhaps, and realize just how much institutional power the left has held for decades and why there is such a backlash brewing across the west.

Relavent

Fair enough, but just for fun I would like to to live in a country where people know that pi = 4 * integral(sqrt(1-x^2),x,0,1)) --https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=4+integral(+sqrt(1-x%5E2),x,0,1) -- http://i.imgur.com/VyUvzQK.png

As a programmer, i have had to read a many white papers and technical specifications. For a work project I started writing a perl script that used XMPP protocol to send messages to co-workers on a OPENFIRE server. For this I had to read the XMPP specifications, and OH MY GOD are they the most beautifully written and clearly explained technical documents I have ever had the privilege of reading: https://xmpp.org/rfcs/rfc6120....

And developing apps using the XMPP protocol was super easy and fun. Sadly, the protocol was mostly abandoned due to lack of features we have seen in proprietary implementations. E.g. XMPP clients don't have universal support for in-lined pictures and video (showing someone embedded youtube video or the picture instead of http://imgur.com/aabbbaa or http://youtube.com?watch=blah) It has no support for video messaging (it was build for chat and IM) nor does it have support for screen-sharing. Also if you close your XMPP client and someone sends you a message, you don't get that message when you log in again. Some servers implement an extension that kinda does this, but because its not an official part of the XMPP protocol its spotty and unreliable. Various XMPP clients tack one or multiple of these features onto the XMPP spec, but this fragmented support tends to drive people away instead of too it.

But if ALL you want is a protocol for real-time chat rooms and instant messaging of text-only, man is XMPP fantastic, cheap, easy to use, and reliable.

And when it does load, I can hardly read what's on the page, aside from the blue "Please Explain." The text that says "write here" is barely visible, too small and way too light. Light gray on white is not exactly conducive to a good UI.

Oh, someone already made a diagram explaining compat with matrix http://i.imgur.com/nfivrKQ.jpg :)

The Vatican uses GNU/Linux both for their library servers,
as well as some info terminals.

“The philosophy of Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) is based on cooperation, common good and mutual benefit, and is in many ways consistent with the Catholic Church’s preferential option for the poor.”

The whole nvidia thing is a moot point; you don't even need to get that far to see the ads. Here's a collection of ads that have been found on Windows 10:

Ad to install Microsoft's shopping extension:
https://www.cnet.com/news/wind...

Ad to buy tomb raider from Windows store:
https://www.howtogeek.com/2432...
(Side note: This is why Microsoft no longer allows you to disable the lock screen on desktop systems. Yes, you can turn the lock screen ads off, but Microsoft wants you to get used to seeing it there meanwhile.)

Ad to browse bing for rewards points:
http://core0.staticworld.net/i...

Ad to install Office:
http://images.techhive.com/ima...

Ads to buy Solitaire:
http://images.techhive.com/ima...
(Side note: Windows 10 now includes lots of freemium and trialware apps in general, like Candy Crush, which is another form of advertising. Also, didn't solitaire used to be totally free?)

Ads in the share tool:
https://betanews.com/wp-conten...
(In that screenshot, most of these apps aren't installed, thus these are ads to install these apps.)

Ads in the ink workspace:
http://cdn.windowsreport.com/w...

Ad telling you to stop using firefox:
https://i.stack.imgur.com/l6JL...

Ad telling you to stop using chrome:
http://www.laptopmag.com/image...

Another ad telling you to switch to edge for bing rewards:
https://www.howtogeek.com/wp-c...

Ad telling you to subscribe to onedrive:
http://images.techhive.com/ima...

Ad to buy apps on the start menu:
https://davescomputertips.com/...

So TFA is correct, windows 10 IS an ad platform.

Why would I think that?
There's huge and ugly text box when you set the telemetry value in gpedit, stating that you can't really turn telemetry off. It even states that setting it to 0 won't work on non Enterprise machines.

All those things including Classic Shell only hide some the issues, they don't fix them.

My understanding is that Daylight Savings Time makes the sunrise time have a smaller range over the course of a year, at the expense of a more variable sunset.

Here is a chart.

My understanding is that Daylight Savings Time makes the sunrise time have a smaller range over the course of a year, at the expense of a more variable sunset.

Here is a chart.

https://imgur.com/a/rjvyh

You're full of crap. Two of the providers, Wave and Comcast, don't offer service in the same areas and have spotty coverage so you can't say there's "two." CenturyLink is doing gigabit trials on one street in Northgate the last I heard. Here's an address for someone I know that is just north of the U District, and their street can only get 1.5 Mbps DSL officially and dial-up in reality since CenturyLink can't get DSL to work:

http://imgur.com/WgSvnA5

Are you going to apologize now?

It's likely they're doing more than just reading. Slashdot visitors have been specifically targeted before, there's no reason to assume that's not ongoing.

fast enough to stream video. I know when I worked for GeekSquad in the Seattle area, I saw a lot of dial-up and 1.5 Mbps DSL connections that couldn't. I'd guess about 3/4 of the people I dealt with didn't like my neighbor:

http://imgur.com/WgSvnA5

CenturyLink has the phone monopoly here, and they're testing faster connections on one street. I haven't heard if they're going to allow more of us to have connections fast enough to stream video.

That >50% claim by Netflix is just a load of crap.

It's this. Yes, it does matter which party is in power. Studies have shown the economy does better under the Democrats. Again, it's not because they're Dems, it's because they're actively trying to govern instead of burning the whole place down.

And again, you're side stepping the issue I raised. Yes, large organizations (notice how I'm not using the loaded term "bureaucracy" like you did?) will have problems. But without them we wouldn't have gotten to the moon or had the bloody Internet you're posting on. More to the point (hey, I used that phrase correctly!) we can fix those problems if we try (as opposed to throwing our hands up like children and declaring it too hard/impossible).