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Same mentality. You will take what we tell you to.

Yep. I find that this post by His Poetteringness sums up that attitude well.

Articles:

What I Hate About PowerShell

Is PowerShell really this bad?. Quote: "... the strangest mashup of Perl and VAX/VMS I've ever seen." Another quote: "... one of the most ass-backwards, lipstick on a pig, polished turd add-ons to the Microsoft stack in recent years."

Why Microsoft doesn't fix the long file name issues in PowerShell: Long Paths in .NET, Part 1 of 3. (Because the problem is in .NET.)

And don't forget the very poor writing quality of the documentation.

I use a voicemail service that transcribes the voicemail for me automatically.

How does it handle "international" accents?

It's fast to read a message but slow to write one.

It depends on how it's written. On a phone, you might be right. But on a computer with a full-size (or nearly so) keyboard, 80 wpm is more than possible. Anyone who routinely gets the "Slow Down Cowboy!" error message on Slashdot can attest to this.

For one the games on PC are really optimized for the xbone and will run like crap. Example? The shadow of mordor requires 4 to really 8 gigs of video ram to run well?? That is because the consoles have shared memory.

Not even true. You don't understand that with integrated cards system memory is shared memory, meaning you need 4-8GB of shared vram. This mainly applies to the mobile videocards from AMD and Nvidia but also Intel. The actual system requirements are 3-8GB of system ram, the actual required VRAM from my own copy? It uses tops 1.2GB out of 3GB(on my Sapphire 7950).

Batman Arkham nights could slow a $2000 PC easily to a crawl because it optimized for a console and an Indian third party did the PC port. It was so horrible it was pulled from the market. I heard it came back recently.

It also slowed consoles in many cases to a crawl because it was poorly optimized, the entire game was a gigantic clusterfuck because it was rushed out the door. Need another example of a gigantic clusterfuck? No mans sky.

Also you are comparing 2016 specs and not 2013 specs so that is not fair since the current consoles are near EOL.

It's perfectly fair. PC hardware prices continue to drop, meaning you get more bang for your buck for the minimum level entry requirements for a PC compared to a static console. When consoles are ~3 years behind the curve, and even when the updated generation of consoles comes out they'll be at par from this year.

Go Google YouTube videos on this? The console smoke checks the pcs if you go under $500.

No, it really doesn't. Once you start sliding under that they're about par. You can even build them for $200 and get the same performance. 720-904p at 30FPS which is what the current consoles use. Reminder that it was the current gen of consoles and console developers that pushed the "the eye doesn't need more then 30FPS" BS. Something that those of us who've been gaming since the 80's and 90's already knew was garbage.

No one cares about the PC anymore sadly and publishers obsess over piracy and market share.

PC gaming between both consoles is the fastest growing segment, simply because the current gen are completely lackluster and the current consoles are very low powered PC's compared to even mid-range PC's.

This gem was posted on reddit recently :

Operator <- : http://www.atnnn.com/p/operato...
Reddit thread : https://www.reddit.com/r/cpp/c...

Sued for what? Releasing an IP address (which is not identifying information as we all know) that was the source of a link that the poster KNEW was not authorized?

If that IP address leads them to contact a person, that IP address did, then, identify that person. Whether the link poster knew the source they linked to was unauthorized really doesn't come into play, as merely posting a link is neither a civil nor criminal offense. Uploading may be either or both, but then we have no proof (nor reaonable cause to believe) that the link poster and uploader are one in the same.

Because it allows Atlantic to determine who the employee was who broke his contract?

Well, for starters, by your own claim an IP address does not identify an individual, so no, it does not identify the uploader, even if the uploader and link poster were one in the same. Which brings me to point number two: the uploader and link poster are most likely not one in the same. Points three and four: the link poster broke no laws in posting that link and has no civil liability for doing so (that's #3), which means Atlantic has no leverage with which to coerce the link poster to give up his source (and there's #4).

Wanna bet that Reddit doesn't have a TOS that prohibits what happened?

You're on, how's $100M sound? USD, of course. Also, pay up.

reddit is designed and supported for personal use only. You may not use reddit to break the law, violate an individual's privacy, or infringe any person or entity’s intellectual property or any other proprietary rights.

Seems the clause does exist. In fact, it's the 6th paragraph of the ToS and the 2nd term listed after the preamble. But, a violation of that ToS does not absolve Reddit of their responsibilities laid out in theor own Privacy Policy. It does seem as though they've got that covered:

We will not share, sell, or give away any of our users’ personal information to third parties, unless one of the following circumstances applies: [...] We may share information if we believe your actions are inconsistent with our user agreements, rules, or other Reddit policies, or to protect the rights, property, and safety of ourselves and others;

However, as this is a legal document, the legal definition of certain terms applies. Reddit, being an internet-based business, reasonably understands that it is unlimely that the link poster and the uploader are one in the same and, so, while they may reasonably believe that the link posted violated their ToS and may take action against him for that (by way of deleting the post containing the link and possibly banning the account, as laid out elsewhere in the Terms), they do not reasonably believe that this user is the uploader, nor that the user will lead Atlantic to the uploader, so the above does, in fact, not apply.

A court order, on the other hand, would provide such reasonable belief. If Atlantic has a case, they should seek one.

You think they want legal liability for any illegal use of their system that happens?

Well, no, they don't, that's why the above-linked ToS clause exists. You think they want legal liability if the IP address they hand over leads to the prosecution of, or a lawsuit against, the wrong person? Of course they don't, that's hwy they won't do it without a court order, which Atlantic can easily obtain if they have actual proof that the IP address they seek will help them track down the uploader. We have legal due process in this country for a very good reason.

Yep. Know it, in fact.

And yet you can't back that state

Sued for what? Releasing an IP address (which is not identifying information as we all know) that was the source of a link that the poster KNEW was not authorized?

If that IP address leads them to contact a person, that IP address did, then, identify that person. Whether the link poster knew the source they linked to was unauthorized really doesn't come into play, as merely posting a link is neither a civil nor criminal offense. Uploading may be either or both, but then we have no proof (nor reaonable cause to believe) that the link poster and uploader are one in the same.

Because it allows Atlantic to determine who the employee was who broke his contract?

Well, for starters, by your own claim an IP address does not identify an individual, so no, it does not identify the uploader, even if the uploader and link poster were one in the same. Which brings me to point number two: the uploader and link poster are most likely not one in the same. Points three and four: the link poster broke no laws in posting that link and has no civil liability for doing so (that's #3), which means Atlantic has no leverage with which to coerce the link poster to give up his source (and there's #4).

Wanna bet that Reddit doesn't have a TOS that prohibits what happened?

You're on, how's $100M sound? USD, of course. Also, pay up.

reddit is designed and supported for personal use only. You may not use reddit to break the law, violate an individual's privacy, or infringe any person or entity’s intellectual property or any other proprietary rights.

Seems the clause does exist. In fact, it's the 6th paragraph of the ToS and the 2nd term listed after the preamble. But, a violation of that ToS does not absolve Reddit of their responsibilities laid out in theor own Privacy Policy. It does seem as though they've got that covered:

We will not share, sell, or give away any of our users’ personal information to third parties, unless one of the following circumstances applies: [...] We may share information if we believe your actions are inconsistent with our user agreements, rules, or other Reddit policies, or to protect the rights, property, and safety of ourselves and others;

However, as this is a legal document, the legal definition of certain terms applies. Reddit, being an internet-based business, reasonably understands that it is unlimely that the link poster and the uploader are one in the same and, so, while they may reasonably believe that the link posted violated their ToS and may take action against him for that (by way of deleting the post containing the link and possibly banning the account, as laid out elsewhere in the Terms), they do not reasonably believe that this user is the uploader, nor that the user will lead Atlantic to the uploader, so the above does, in fact, not apply.

A court order, on the other hand, would provide such reasonable belief. If Atlantic has a case, they should seek one.

You think they want legal liability for any illegal use of their system that happens?

Well, no, they don't, that's why the above-linked ToS clause exists. You think they want legal liability if the IP address they hand over leads to the prosecution of, or a lawsuit against, the wrong person? Of course they don't, that's hwy they won't do it without a court order, which Atlantic can easily obtain if they have actual proof that the IP address they seek will help them track down the uploader. We have legal due process in this country for a very good reason.

Yep. Know it, in fact.

And yet you can't back that state

Yes it does have systemd and here's the person who made that call on Reddit saying why he made that call.

Also we have three out of six digits in common in our user IDs, that doesn't happen often for me and I have issues because that's the first thing I noticed about your comment. Cheers!

Snopes is as trustworthy as Politico after their chief investigative reporter sends their clinton articles to the DNC for revision. They can't even get basic things correct, and when it's something to the contrary to their viewpoint they still label it as fake. Even when their own links prove otherwise.

Yeah I too preferred the old computer games that eschewed CGI in favor of hand painted and animated models.

I wonder how many people realize you're not joking: the original Doom and Doom II models were literally clay models that were shot from various angles to make the final sprites.

If you're going to steal from reddit, at list link the source.

Yup, there are numerous problems with the design of No Man's Sky. Some find it boring, but the biggest one is that it doesn't bring anything new to the table:

Q. Can you mine the ground and build your own tunnels like you can in Minecraft?
A. No

Q. Are there Player-Owned-Structures like in Eve Online?
A. No

Q. Does it have multiplayer groups like Elite: Dangerous?
A. Technically it has multiplayer but since there is no grouping and no party quests it is kind of pointless play multiplayer. Worse, good luck even finding your buddies since everyone spawns in random locations across the universe! It will take you several day of real-time travel just to even meet.

Over on /r/NoMansSkyTheGame, I found this extremely handy comparisons between Elite: Dangerous, Eve Online, Minecraft, No Man's Sky, and Star Citizen.

Players share the same universe but start light years apart. There is no ability to group nor do party quests.

IMO, basically Elite:Dangerous, Eve Online, or Minecraft does it better.

Maybe someone has more up-to-date information?
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/Hey redditards and slashtards: The downvote is NOT "I disagree"

Here's more inspiration for your signature.

Here's a SFW link (WARNING: direct 125MB download).
It's a bit higher quality too, on first look, probably due to re-re-re-encoding.
Found on this Reddit in the top post.
Looks like a fun game, but probably not for diehard FPS or RPG gamers.

When was the last time you saw a cop car rollover during a chase?

You can probably catch one here.

Of course, you can have an accident with just routine driving, as the idiot who drove into a ditch near me found out. If it had been a little steeper, or a little wider, they might have rolled.

somebody asked this on reddit - full answer here: https://www.reddit.com/r/frees...

Any list of those so I can set them to 127.0.0.1 in my Hosts file?

That won't help you any, the IP addresses are hard-coded into the OS via dnsapi.dll, which Windows 10 will consult prior to the rest of the resolver stack (hosts, WINS, name servers, etc). You're going to need another machine between you and your internet connection, one with a proper implementation like iptables/ipfw/nftables/etc to drop traffic destined for those IPs.

Of course, the IPs of the telemetry servers are subject to change at Microsoft's whim, so you're going to end up stuck playing whack-a-mole. Me, I'm just not going to install Windows 10.

Yeah, I really dislike systemd. It sort of reminds me of dbus where upstream knows better than you. God forbid you share a computer with another person and they have a notification daemon installed and you don't want a notification daemon annoying you. If anything asks for a notification daemon, a notification daemon will start even if the program is fine with not having a notification daemon. I've actually forked dbus to accept an Activatable tag in the configuration files in /etc, to scan /etc/dbus-1 for system services, and to accept an Activatable= key in the services file.

"My concern is that we have a little function, daemon(), that does a simple little procedure to make a daemon that has worked basically unchanged across multiple platforms for maybe, what, 30 years? Now to do the same thing we need to add 150 lines of new, Linux-only code AND a library dependency."

"your computer is a special unique snowflake, I get it"

"Feel free not to use it, but then you're a "special snowflake" if you don't choose to use the suggested solution."

"If you want to be a slave to your Freedesktop overlords maybe. There is no freedom through Lennart, only from Lennart. Break your shackles, I offer you freedom."

Whoopsiedoodles.

https://www.reddit.com/r/DNCle...

https://www.reddit.com/r/DNCle...

Direct links to emails in here.

As an employed adult, when I manage to steal a few minutes away for gaming activities, I've found that I enjoy much more actually gaming rather than chasing down the latest drivers or spec-ing a new video card. YMMV

What kind of idiot are you? You're more likely going to spend 2 hours downloading and update for your console or games that you can't skip then you are for a PC. Hell I haven't updated the drivers for my videocard(sapphire 7950) since last year, and it's going along just fine with all the latest titles. Though I should probably do that tonight expecially for Doom since it's now updated to use the Vulcan API and there's a 30-560% increase in framerates depending on your videocard.

PC's just worked in 2003 and you can build a PC for $350USD that can kill both the PS4 and Xbox one with their shitty 30fps and 720-900p resolutions and plug it into the same TV you were using to play your console games on.

Topic at hand: I wouldn't recommend a console to anyone, especially since they're both underpowered PC's that you can't do a quarter the shit you could on a PC. While being locked into a console ecosystem that punishes you, and requires you to pay for multiplayer support and basic functions that are free on the PC.

Dating is only tiny sliver of what meetup.com. Take for example the hundreds of these politics-related meetups.

And if the results are bad for the Dems, will you all publish?

Of course, they will. Avast is a scamware company. They thrive on misinformation, fear, and publicity.

http://avastscam.com/a-track-record-of-fraud/

Avast's CEO has even blamed its affiliates for their scams, which he claims they deactivated and are no longer forwarding phone calls from their 800 numbers to, but once the bad press died down, nothing changed, and their current affiliates are still scaring grandpas and grandmas everywhere into shelling out hundreds of dollars for worthless Avast products that claim to fix problems that those people didn't even have in the first place.

The only story that everyone seems to be missing right now is the fact that a well-known scamware company was able to place wireless hotspots within the Republican National Convention, and is actually bragging about it after the fact. I ask you. How many convention goers used their credit cards from the convention floor during that time? How many people logged into their banks to wire donations? How many used those hotspots to check email from their own private insecure servers sitting in their homes? Don't tell me that Democrats are the only ones doing it. Colin Powell, for instance, admitted as such for when he was Secretary of State.

By letting Avast scam artists get into their convention, the republicans really made a huge mistake.

Or I'd hit '1' and set the phone next to my radio.

That's what Lenny is for...

It has nothing to do with GPS or GLONASS. It's because Pokemon Go (like Ingress) uses Google Maps data, and Google Maps data is less specific in South Korea due to national security restrictions. (2, 3, and this Reddit thread about why Ingress doesn't work in South Korea)

Since Pokemon Go features are tied to map data on roads, landmarks, and buildings, and South Korean maps don't have that data, Pokemon Go doesn't work... except in Sochko, which as a quirk of the grid system is exempt from the data granularity restriction.

From 27 Apr., 2016: "Don't use Dolphin browser in incognito mode" https://www.reddit.com/r/Android/comments/4gnb2b/dont_use_dolphin_browser_in_incognito_mode/ From 25 Oct., 2011: "WARNING: Dolphin's collection of your browsing history": http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1319529

Although I appreciate the citations, citing limitations of a version that is 5 years old is kind of like complaining about an unpatched issue in Windows XP.

Dolphin stopped forwarding URLs five versions ago. And that "play history" file doesn't even exist on my version.

In other words, I will continue to use Dolphin. It's limitations are minor compared to Chrome/Google tracking and Firefox/Mozilla change-the-best-browser-out-there-into-Chromeshit.

From 27 Apr., 2016: "Don't use Dolphin browser in incognito mode" https://www.reddit.com/r/Android/comments/4gnb2b/dont_use_dolphin_browser_in_incognito_mode/ From 25 Oct., 2011: "WARNING: Dolphin's collection of your browsing history": http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1319529

Oxygen is deadly.

To anaerobic bacteria, sure ;)

Apparently you can breathe 100% oxygen, it just has to be at a lower pressure. I was aware they had a 100% oxygen atmosphere on (at least) Apollo 1, which contributed greatly to the fire.

today I learned

Ummm ... here's better info about why the name was chosen:
https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/...

Spam-free??? Can you give an example? Last time I checked (it *has* been a while) misc.rural, comp.lang.pascal.borland and others were a cesspool of spam.

The first thing to note is that a lot of spam is quite old. It's not at all uncommon for unused groups to have a lot of spam listed from ten years ago, if you're using a provider that has 2,500 days retention or something like that. Imagine how much spam your inbox would have if you scrolled for ten years and neither deleted anything nor had much in the way of filtering at that time. I'm not saying it doesn't still happen, but 'sort by date' is your friend.

That said, comp.misc has lots of active users, as does alt.comp.os.windows-10 and alt.windows7.general. If you're of the non-Microsoft persuasion, alt.os.linux.ubuntu is pretty active, as is alt.os.linux.debian, comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc, and comp.mobile.android. I'll concede that none of the Pascal groups I looked through seemed to be anywhere I'd like to actually invest my time. On the non-computer related front, rec.arts.drwho.moderated gets reasonably active during the broadcast season, and misc.legal.moderated has some really interesting discussion regarding case laws and has a number of actual-lawyers who participate.

Yes, virtually every topic one would potentially look at on Usenet has a metric ton more activity on a comparable vBulletin forum somewhere. Much as the 'Eternal September' is still referenced here and there, the masses seemed to have left Usenet and camp out on Facebook and Twitter, leaving a much smaller group of technically inclined people an experience reminiscent of the early days once again.
Eternal September provides free text-based NNTP access, with most paid providers providing block accounts for which even the smallest block will likely provide years of message board activity.

Apprently, Sega Saturn is also emulated with MESS, part of the hugely successful and popular MAME project.

No. Because GamerGhazi is built on a tissue of lies. And worse, they paid virtually no attention to this particular scandal, adding even more proof that it was mostly about the gaters' misogyny.

Look at you, still clinging desperately to the "mysogyny and harrassment" narrative and trying to ignore what GG accomplished.

Gamergate campaigned to inform the FTC of this kind of unethical behavior, and the FTC got involved as far back as December 2014 in direct response to Gamergate pressure, and Gawker was forced update their disclosure policy (and tons of articles that were then clearly in violation). And the FTC also updated their disclosure guidelines several times, including last summer (guess who was running an ethics campaign asking for exactly that?):
http://www.reddit.com/r/KotakuInAction/comments/38gocf/ethics_major_ftc_update_the_ftc_has_updated_their/

The section of the FTC's website that deals with disclosures was updated late last month:

https://www.ftc.gov/tips-advic...

Some of this new guidance directly reflects the language and particulars of the concerns GamerGate asked the FTC to address.

"Is "affiliate link" by itself an adequate disclosure? What about a "buy now" button?"

Consumers might not understand that "affiliate link" means that the person placing the link is getting paid for purchases through the link. Similarly, a "buy now" button would not be adequate

Does this guidance about affiliate links apply to links in my product reviews on someone else’s website, to my user comments, and to my tweets?

Yes, the same guidance applies anytime you endorse a product and get paid through affiliate links.

The revised webpage contains a great deal more language that needs to be analyzed but these two examples in particular reflect specific complaints GamerGate had about how Gawker Media handle their affiliate link disclosures. I know of no other group of people who were vocally complaining about this specific practice to the FTC. In addition, the FTC emails from my previous posts confirm that, yes, the FTC tailored part of their new guidance because of frequent complaints sent by GamerGate.

If you read further, there is specific language about requiring Let's-Players to disclose as well. And then there are the many, many sites that have updated their ethics policies. It's shameful that you will lie about an entire group of people because you and the press want to pretend that GG isn't the driving force behind all this ethics reform.

P.S. /r/GamerGhazi is an anti-Gamergate cesspool, so of course it is based on lies. But you already knew that.

P.P.S. Yes, Gamergate paid plenty of attention to this scandal. You did know that it was leaked by TotalBiscuit (during a time period when anti-GG was relentlessly shitting on him), right?

No. Because GamerGhazi is built on a tissue of lies. And worse, they paid virtually no attention to this particular scandal, adding even more proof that it was mostly about the gaters' misogyny.

Look at you, still clinging desperately to the "mysogyny and harrassment" narrative and trying to ignore what GG accomplished.

Gamergate campaigned to inform the FTC of this kind of unethical behavior, and the FTC got involved as far back as December 2014 in direct response to Gamergate pressure, and Gawker was forced update their disclosure policy (and tons of articles that were then clearly in violation). And the FTC also updated their disclosure guidelines several times, including last summer (guess who was running an ethics campaign asking for exactly that?):
http://www.reddit.com/r/KotakuInAction/comments/38gocf/ethics_major_ftc_update_the_ftc_has_updated_their/

The section of the FTC's website that deals with disclosures was updated late last month:

https://www.ftc.gov/tips-advic...

Some of this new guidance directly reflects the language and particulars of the concerns GamerGate asked the FTC to address.

"Is "affiliate link" by itself an adequate disclosure? What about a "buy now" button?"

Consumers might not understand that "affiliate link" means that the person placing the link is getting paid for purchases through the link. Similarly, a "buy now" button would not be adequate

Does this guidance about affiliate links apply to links in my product reviews on someone else’s website, to my user comments, and to my tweets?

Yes, the same guidance applies anytime you endorse a product and get paid through affiliate links.

The revised webpage contains a great deal more language that needs to be analyzed but these two examples in particular reflect specific complaints GamerGate had about how Gawker Media handle their affiliate link disclosures. I know of no other group of people who were vocally complaining about this specific practice to the FTC. In addition, the FTC emails from my previous posts confirm that, yes, the FTC tailored part of their new guidance because of frequent complaints sent by GamerGate.

If you read further, there is specific language about requiring Let's-Players to disclose as well. And then there are the many, many sites that have updated their ethics policies. It's shameful that you will lie about an entire group of people because you and the press want to pretend that GG isn't the driving force behind all this ethics reform.

P.S. /r/GamerGhazi is an anti-Gamergate cesspool, so of course it is based on lies. But you already knew that.

P.P.S. Yes, Gamergate paid plenty of attention to this scandal. You did know that it was leaked by TotalBiscuit (during a time period when anti-GG was relentlessly shitting on him), right?

No. Because GamerGhazi is built on a tissue of lies. And worse, they paid virtually no attention to this particular scandal, adding even more proof that it was mostly about the gaters' misogyny.

Look at you, still clinging desperately to the "mysogyny and harrassment" narrative and trying to ignore what GG accomplished.

Gamergate campaigned to inform the FTC of this kind of unethical behavior, and the FTC got involved as far back as December 2014 in direct response to Gamergate pressure, and Gawker was forced update their disclosure policy (and tons of articles that were then clearly in violation). And the FTC also updated their disclosure guidelines several times, including last summer (guess who was running an ethics campaign asking for exactly that?):
http://www.reddit.com/r/KotakuInAction/comments/38gocf/ethics_major_ftc_update_the_ftc_has_updated_their/

The section of the FTC's website that deals with disclosures was updated late last month:

https://www.ftc.gov/tips-advic...

Some of this new guidance directly reflects the language and particulars of the concerns GamerGate asked the FTC to address.

"Is "affiliate link" by itself an adequate disclosure? What about a "buy now" button?"

Consumers might not understand that "affiliate link" means that the person placing the link is getting paid for purchases through the link. Similarly, a "buy now" button would not be adequate

Does this guidance about affiliate links apply to links in my product reviews on someone else’s website, to my user comments, and to my tweets?

Yes, the same guidance applies anytime you endorse a product and get paid through affiliate links.

The revised webpage contains a great deal more language that needs to be analyzed but these two examples in particular reflect specific complaints GamerGate had about how Gawker Media handle their affiliate link disclosures. I know of no other group of people who were vocally complaining about this specific practice to the FTC. In addition, the FTC emails from my previous posts confirm that, yes, the FTC tailored part of their new guidance because of frequent complaints sent by GamerGate.

If you read further, there is specific language about requiring Let's-Players to disclose as well. And then there are the many, many sites that have updated their ethics policies. It's shameful that you will lie about an entire group of people because you and the press want to pretend that GG isn't the driving force behind all this ethics reform.

P.S. /r/GamerGhazi is an anti-Gamergate cesspool, so of course it is based on lies. But you already knew that.

P.P.S. Yes, Gamergate paid plenty of attention to this scandal. You did know that it was leaked by TotalBiscuit (during a time period when anti-GG was relentlessly shitting on him), right?

PCMR doesn't mean high end. The PCMR subreddit's wiki lists a few recommended entry-level and midrange gaming PC builds. "The Crusher" beats the Athlon 5150-equivalent in the PS4.

Anecdotally, I have had the begging, pleading ask for help by 3 different users in 2 different continents - because their shiny machines now were so aggressively saturated by background activity that they literally could not open a new browser tab, or a second application.

Because I come from security, the friends mentioned each approached because they thought they must "have a virus" or "been hacked".

All 3 cases were taskman and perfmon checked - 100% disk utilization - in one case for hours. Not slouch machines. Each had 8 GB RAM - an amount I find miniscule, but perfectly functional for the other 3 Macs and 2 Ubuntu machines in my household.

Running through and making many services disabled or manual gave relief to two machines. The third, a Celeron-based Toshiba touch-screen all-in-one, required a forklift to 16 GB RAM.

Two main culprits are aggressive Windows Search and ridiculous memory optimization, with dynamic page compression. Superfetch caching seems to be totally counterproductive as well.

The single, most noticeable change was found here:

What fixed it for me is going to settings, system, notifications, and turning off "show me tips about Windows." I believe that was the one causing problems, though I turned all of them off besides the app notifications. System processes went back down after a restart and haven't spiked since.

https://www.reddit.com/r/techsupport/comments/3h4wjg/windows_10_high_disk_usage_100_ive_seen_a_thread/
I kid you f-ing not.

After this change, 100% disk IO is still a boot-storm issue, and does not quiesce for 8-15 minutes from startup. However, after this point, the systems are usable, if not head-spinningly fast.

You have a system that is blindly trying to optimize a number of hardware and logical subsystems in different silos. The result is excessive taxing of disk, memory and CPU to pre-fetch, cache and compress - at the expense of performance of the shared resources they try to conserve.

This is the path Linux is headed towards. At least it's still 4-5 years behind. SystemDbusEtc... As they once said in Mad Magazine: "Yecccch."

The problem is that these are the new dumb millennials who can't find the "I Win Button".

It is easier for them to bitch about something then to ask others for help, let alone use 2 brain cells to google:

* Reddit PC Master Race Builds

Gee, if only geeks would share their knowledge. Oh wait, they already do:

* https://www.reddit.com/r/PCMas...

I've been building custom PC gaming rigs since the early 90's. This isn't rocket science. You spend a few minutes doing research -- or if you are really lazy

* http://www.tomshardware.com/t/...

Hell, if you can't even be bothered to think one could always go with Dell / Alienware.

What rating would the prime minister candidate give this website? How about if the company that provides ads to be displayed on that page accidentally or "accidentally" slipped an ad for a pornographic website into the list of ads to be displayed? Would that change the candidate's rating? How about if a random commenter had posted a section of an ultraviolent story filled with graphic depiction of torture, murder, and cannibalism?

Tell you what, Ms. Leadsom. I'll name a website, and if you can rate all the pages on it for the next seven days and have the general population agree with 50% of your ratings at the end of the week, let's go ahead with your plan. I name the website Reddit, including all its subreddits. Your time starts now. Good luck, and may whatever deities you believe in (if any) have mercy on your soul (if you have one.)

There is actually a write up that is worth a read by an electrical engineer on /r/amd

So if what he is saying is true it makes me wonder if maybe it's actually many motherboards that are non-compliant with PCI-e. Honestly I've seen some crappy boards with sub-standard components (anybody remember the great capacitor plague around 15 years ago?) so it would not surprise me.

Anti GMO is basically conspiracy theories. GMO leads to a lot less use of pesticides, and much higher yields:

http://www.theskepticsguide.or...

And roundup is not carcinogenic, Its the most used herbicide in the world for a reason:

https://www.reddit.com/r/SGU/c...

If you want to know more about the GMO, and why information about it is so very skewed, I can highly recommend listening to:

"The Skeptics Guide to the Universe Podcast. They research and talk at length about GMO related topics all the time. They made me go from anti-GMO to the other other camp. Sav the movie Food Inc.before which had me rallied up real good, but now I know it is largely made up bullshit, at least the GMO parts in it.

I recommend trying out Void Linux as well. IMO, it's basically the lightweight foldable chair of Linux distributions. It's designed to work on small SoCs like the RPi, and it's also systemd free, although I think it's possible to replace runit with it. See chair analogy.

https://www.reddit.com/r/torre...

https://www.reddit.com/r/firep...

Custom fucking rom on the Fire Phone.

Seriously, this is what Slashdot has become? A bunch of dumbfucks who can't google?

You need to work on your critical reading skills a bit. Take /r/subredditcancer, the first link on there is a to this image. The poster claims that "/R/Politicaldiscussion mod shut down political discussion that's in favor of brexit", but when you look at the image it's just enforcing the rules against racial discrimination.

The really odd thing is that it's an image, and in the discussion people have posted archive links to said image. Why not post an archive link to the reddit page in question? I can't find this post now, maybe you have a link?

Looking at KiA, aka those awful "gamergate" people, we see more examples of this. For example, they cite this as an example of a censored thread, but when you actually look at the original it's not censored at all. As usual, none of the links have any context or even before and after shots, so it's impossible to know what the real deal is. Censoring talk of TPP seems bizarre anyway, since it is openly discussed elsewhere on Reddit.

Another classic example is this. Note how the moderator says "all of your recent posts". We don't know if the other one in the image was the trigger. Even if it was, for statements like that context matters and we have none.

Can yous see a pattern here? Images used to mislead you. Lack of context and links to the original threads that would let you investigate yourself. For extraordinary claims like this you need extraordinary proof, so I remain unconvinced.

Sure. Also to note /r/worldnews engages in censorship as well. You can look through this sub which tracks censorship. Or you can head over to this link here on KiA(aka those "awful" gamergate people, who continue to do their jobs tracking this stuff) which has also covered /r/news censorship. r/news has a long history of censoring anything that doesn't agree with their groupthink. TPP? Removed and you're banned. Islamic terrorist attacks in western countries? "Local crime story" removed and you're banned. Factually pointing out someone is wrong? That's racist. You're also banned. Mass sexual assaults? "Local crime story" you're also likely banned. Unless of course it happens in a non-western country and doesn't involve illegals...then that's okay.

    You can also check(NSFW on some links) r.go1dfish.me and pick the subs you want by sticking a sub at the end of it like this r.go1dfish.me/r/news/

Sure. Also to note /r/worldnews engages in censorship as well. You can look through this sub which tracks censorship. Or you can head over to this link here on KiA(aka those "awful" gamergate people, who continue to do their jobs tracking this stuff) which has also covered /r/news censorship. r/news has a long history of censoring anything that doesn't agree with their groupthink. TPP? Removed and you're banned. Islamic terrorist attacks in western countries? "Local crime story" removed and you're banned. Factually pointing out someone is wrong? That's racist. You're also banned. Mass sexual assaults? "Local crime story" you're also likely banned. Unless of course it happens in a non-western country and doesn't involve illegals...then that's okay.

    You can also check(NSFW on some links) r.go1dfish.me and pick the subs you want by sticking a sub at the end of it like this r.go1dfish.me/r/news/

Sure. Also to note /r/worldnews engages in censorship as well. You can look through this sub which tracks censorship. Or you can head over to this link here on KiA(aka those "awful" gamergate people, who continue to do their jobs tracking this stuff) which has also covered /r/news censorship. r/news has a long history of censoring anything that doesn't agree with their groupthink. TPP? Removed and you're banned. Islamic terrorist attacks in western countries? "Local crime story" removed and you're banned. Factually pointing out someone is wrong? That's racist. You're also banned. Mass sexual assaults? "Local crime story" you're also likely banned. Unless of course it happens in a non-western country and doesn't involve illegals...then that's okay.

    You can also check(NSFW on some links) r.go1dfish.me and pick the subs you want by sticking a sub at the end of it like this r.go1dfish.me/r/news/

Sure. Also to note /r/worldnews engages in censorship as well. You can look through this sub which tracks censorship. Or you can head over to this link here on KiA(aka those "awful" gamergate people, who continue to do their jobs tracking this stuff) which has also covered /r/news censorship. r/news has a long history of censoring anything that doesn't agree with their groupthink. TPP? Removed and you're banned. Islamic terrorist attacks in western countries? "Local crime story" removed and you're banned. Factually pointing out someone is wrong? That's racist. You're also banned. Mass sexual assaults? "Local crime story" you're also likely banned. Unless of course it happens in a non-western country and doesn't involve illegals...then that's okay.

    You can also check(NSFW on some links) r.go1dfish.me and pick the subs you want by sticking a sub at the end of it like this r.go1dfish.me/r/news/

Sure. Also to note /r/worldnews engages in censorship as well. You can look through this sub which tracks censorship. Or you can head over to this link here on KiA(aka those "awful" gamergate people, who continue to do their jobs tracking this stuff) which has also covered /r/news censorship. r/news has a long history of censoring anything that doesn't agree with their groupthink. TPP? Removed and you're banned. Islamic terrorist attacks in western countries? "Local crime story" removed and you're banned. Factually pointing out someone is wrong? That's racist. You're also banned. Mass sexual assaults? "Local crime story" you're also likely banned. Unless of course it happens in a non-western country and doesn't involve illegals...then that's okay.

    You can also check(NSFW on some links) r.go1dfish.me and pick the subs you want by sticking a sub at the end of it like this r.go1dfish.me/r/news/

Why only list DMCAs? Because they're a special subset of cases that sometimes makes Github look like the good guy? How about listing the repos they forced offline themselves for petty ideological reasons?

The 2014 report failed to list the takedown of the Gamergate hub, and this 2015 report doesn't mention how Github took down WebMConverter to strongarm the developer into changing its content.

Instead of using a broad, feel-good word like "transparency," they should just call it the DMCA report since that's the one specific kind of censorship it discloses.