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  1. Re:Major Colvin by sconeu · · Score: 2 · on Using a Bomb Robot to Kill a Suspect Is an Unprecedented Shift in Policing (vice.com)

    1988 called. It wants its movie back.

    RC car bomb scene from The Dead Pool

  2. Re:Won't Help Much by Sax+Russell+5449D29A · · Score: 1 · on Researchers Add Software Bugs To Reduce the Number of Software Bugs (networkworld.com)

    Dick Cheney taught us all about the unknown unknowns.

  3. Re:karma's a bitch by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Baton Rouge Police Database Hacked In Retaliation For Killing of Alton Sterling (dailydot.com)

    when the opposite is true

    I will just leave this here. https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

  4. Re:Why use we keep secrets? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Facebook Messenger To Get End-To-End Encryption

    Terrorists are killing in the name of their religion and you are using your religion to argue against them?

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

  5. Re:Holding out for fanless by TeknoHog · · Score: 1 · on NVIDIA Announces GeForce GTX 1060, Fierce Competition For the Radeon RX 480 (hothardware.com)

    If you do graphics intensive applications (image editing, video editing, CAD, etc) or applications that can benefit from offloading tasks to GPU (via whatever technology/cores/execution units/stream processors the cards offer), then possibly/probably but the improvement may not be worth the extra cost, power, and or noise that comes with the discrete GPU.

    What do you mean by offloading? In my experience, image and video editing don't use enough GPU power to justify a discrete card. The main work is done on CPUs, and some OpenGL features might be used for filtering. Unless, of course, you offload the actual work to GPUs as well.

    Even so, today's Intel graphics do plenty of OpenGL (see shameless plug for example). CAD will generally benefit from "real" GPUs due to better conformance/precision, not so much due to raw speed; see this Intel HD bug for example.

    Video encoding/decoding might be a useful offload, but software will give you much better encoding quality. Hardware encoding is mainly useful if you need real-time encoding for live streaming. Hardware decoding is more generally useful and you'll find it on many Intel HDs too.

    Heavier Open[CG]L is an obvious reason to get a discrete GPU, but anything else, not so much.

  6. And go... by Tomahawk · · Score: 1 · on Putin Gives Federal Security Agents Two Weeks To Produce 'Encryption Keys' For The Internet (gawker.com)

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

  7. There is only one answer... by MrKaos · · Score: 1 · on Putin Gives Federal Security Agents Two Weeks To Produce 'Encryption Keys' For The Internet (gawker.com)

    Interney keys, Putin Mr

  8. Re:Lol, and I want.... by michaelwigle · · Score: 1 · on Putin Gives Federal Security Agents Two Weeks To Produce 'Encryption Keys' For The Internet (gawker.com)

    Will unicorn-scented ice cream suffice? :P https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

  9. Frankenstein's monsters? by gatzke · · Score: 2 · on Robot Stingray Is Powered By Rat Heart Cells (ieee.org)

    I, for one, welcome our new zombie rat-stingray overlords.

    Seriously, add some fiber optics, LEDs, and a Raspberry Pi and we have some awesome robots. Think BigDog / PetMan but organically actuated. Encapsulate the fibers in the special fluid that keeps them alive and we have a cool metal-free actuator (that currently only lives a week). Still very cool.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

  10. Re:Remember that by macs4all · · Score: 2 · on Baton Rouge Police Database Hacked In Retaliation For Killing of Alton Sterling (dailydot.com)

    So you think the federal government is going to use tanks

    Oh! how quickly we forget...

  11. Re:karma's a bitch by bongey · · Score: 1 · on Baton Rouge Police Database Hacked In Retaliation For Killing of Alton Sterling (dailydot.com)

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

  12. Re:15% performance increase by ShooterNeo · · Score: 1 · on NVIDIA Announces GeForce GTX 1060, Fierce Competition For the Radeon RX 480 (hothardware.com)

    Both models are indistinguishable in performance. https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

    TLDR : the only game that shows a difference is one where the 480 doesn't have enough GPU power to render the higher resolution textures that eat up more than 4gb of VRAM.

  13. Re:Yet another example of EU overreach by Plammox · · Score: 1 · on European Union's First Cybersecurity Law Gets Green Light (bloomberg.com)

    Dear Coward Anonymous: Please point out where I am lying. In the meantime, have a look at this video. I think Alan Moore's vision of a totalitarian Britain would agree with you.

  14. Needs better source by cdogg4ya · · Score: 1 · on UW, Microsoft Successfully Encoded 200MB of Data Onto Synthetic DNA Molecules (seattletimes.com)

    The article misses important information like which OK Go video this was. (Hopefully "This Too Shall Pass") given how Rube Goldberg this is...
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

  15. Re:And we criticise China? by __aaclcg7560 · · Score: 5, Funny · on UK ISP Sky Is About To Start Censoring the Web For All of Its Customers (betanews.com)

    Patrick Stewart on Human Rights

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ptfmAY6M6aA

  16. FACEBOOKISTAN by Jonah+Hex · · Score: 2 · on Facebook Decides Which Killings We're Allowed to See

    Just watched this last night, while I've heard of the issues with content moderators previously, this is the first time I've seen it all laid out including the censorship of legal political parties. Also to be found in the usual places if you'd like a download.

    Facebookistan Site
    Watch on YouTube Facebookistan english version

  17. Re:Hoping by bhv · · Score: 1 · on Second Tesla Autopilot Crash Under Review By US Regulators (time.com)

    Googletube is the knower of all, why read a "Manual" when you can watch one. https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

  18. boring by MrKaos · · Score: 1 · on Microsoft's Nadella Reshapes Top Management as Turner Leaves (bloomberg.com)
    This song sums this shit up - enjoy because it is also hilarious - very catchy words.

    meanwhile, slashdot, yeah

  19. Re:Microsoft is never going to get ahead by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Microsoft Targets The iMac With New All-In-One Surface PCs, Reports Say (networkworld.com)

    Don't forget Microsoft Songsmith and the many groundbreaking reimaginings of classic songs that it has made possible.

  20. Re:Microsoft is never going to get ahead by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Microsoft Targets The iMac With New All-In-One Surface PCs, Reports Say (networkworld.com)

    Don't forget Microsoft Songsmith and the many groundbreaking reimaginings of classic songs that it has made possible.

  21. Re:Obligatory by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1 · on UK Bill Introduces 10 Year Prison Sentence for Online Pirates (torrentfreak.com)

    That's a parody of an actual anti-piracy ad which is only slightly less ridiculous: "Piracy, It's a Crime"

  22. Re:No justice by geekymachoman · · Score: 1 · on DOJ Will Not File Charges Against Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton (politico.com)

    How Come ? Department of _Justice_ ? Hello, anybody home ?

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

    You people will never learn, will ya.

  23. Re: FBI director announced she IS guilty, won't pr by roman_mir · · Score: 1 · on DOJ Will Not File Charges Against Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton (politico.com)

    Why does it bug you? Did you really assume that USA was a nation of laws and not a nation of men?
    There are men and women like the Clintons, who are above the law.
    Then there are men (and possibly some women) like Irwin Schiff, who actually were severely punished for bringing up the real law.

  24. Sick and Tired by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1 · on DOJ Will Not File Charges Against Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton (politico.com)

    I'm sick and tired of hearing about the damned emails!
        - Bernie Sanders and lots of us others

  25. Re:Microsoft is never going to get ahead by Proudrooster · · Score: 5, Funny · on Microsoft Targets The iMac With New All-In-One Surface PCs, Reports Say (networkworld.com)

    They have done a few ground breaking things.

    1. XBOX Kinect
    2. The BING search engine featuring pretty background images.
    3. The Developers, Developers, Developers song by Steve Balmer, ex CEO.
    4. Visual Studio, Visual Basic, and .NET
    5. And who could forget Clippy and Microsoft Bob?
    6. The Ribbon Interface.

    and let's not forget about Microsoft Movie Maker. but they still didn't include it in Windows 10. :(

    So while it is a mixed bag, they are trying and experimenting. Oh and don't forget they own MINECRAFT now!

  26. Re:Microsoft is never going to get ahead by Proudrooster · · Score: 5, Funny · on Microsoft Targets The iMac With New All-In-One Surface PCs, Reports Say (networkworld.com)

    They have done a few ground breaking things.

    1. XBOX Kinect
    2. The BING search engine featuring pretty background images.
    3. The Developers, Developers, Developers song by Steve Balmer, ex CEO.
    4. Visual Studio, Visual Basic, and .NET
    5. And who could forget Clippy and Microsoft Bob?
    6. The Ribbon Interface.

    and let's not forget about Microsoft Movie Maker. but they still didn't include it in Windows 10. :(

    So while it is a mixed bag, they are trying and experimenting. Oh and don't forget they own MINECRAFT now!

  27. Re:Microsoft is never going to get ahead by Proudrooster · · Score: 5, Funny · on Microsoft Targets The iMac With New All-In-One Surface PCs, Reports Say (networkworld.com)

    They have done a few ground breaking things.

    1. XBOX Kinect
    2. The BING search engine featuring pretty background images.
    3. The Developers, Developers, Developers song by Steve Balmer, ex CEO.
    4. Visual Studio, Visual Basic, and .NET
    5. And who could forget Clippy and Microsoft Bob?
    6. The Ribbon Interface.

    and let's not forget about Microsoft Movie Maker. but they still didn't include it in Windows 10. :(

    So while it is a mixed bag, they are trying and experimenting. Oh and don't forget they own MINECRAFT now!

  28. Re:Microsoft is never going to get ahead by Proudrooster · · Score: 5, Funny · on Microsoft Targets The iMac With New All-In-One Surface PCs, Reports Say (networkworld.com)

    They have done a few ground breaking things.

    1. XBOX Kinect
    2. The BING search engine featuring pretty background images.
    3. The Developers, Developers, Developers song by Steve Balmer, ex CEO.
    4. Visual Studio, Visual Basic, and .NET
    5. And who could forget Clippy and Microsoft Bob?
    6. The Ribbon Interface.

    and let's not forget about Microsoft Movie Maker. but they still didn't include it in Windows 10. :(

    So while it is a mixed bag, they are trying and experimenting. Oh and don't forget they own MINECRAFT now!

  29. Obligatory by MrKaos · · Score: 4, Funny · on UK Bill Introduces 10 Year Prison Sentence for Online Pirates (torrentfreak.com)

    You wouldn't steal a handbag...

  30. This Will Never Work by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Mozilla Is Building Context Graph, a 'Recommender System For the Web' (venturebeat.com)

    Another example is learning how to do something new, like bike repair.

    Bicycle Repairman is too busy fighting International Communism

  31. Re:Awesome by dpidcoe · · Score: 1 · on Tesla Autopilot 2.0 Is Coming This Year, Source Confirms (technobuffalo.com)

    Most drivers are pretty aware of their periphery, I've had people try to merge into me before and reacted appropriately. The only reason the car had to react to save him is because he was letting the autopilot drive and wasn't really paying attention. Exactly the thing that got him killed.

    This. A lot of the autonomous car proponents (and programmers in general for that matter, a lot of my co-workers are pretty scary drivers) seem to be under the impression that being "in the right" means you're somehow not going to have an accident and/or you'll magically be spared in the event of having one just because you had right of way and the other guy was an idiot. It never seems to occur to them that even accidents that would be 100% the other guys fault can be avoided if *they* actually pay attention not just for themselves, but for the other drivers on the road who may be distracted.

    I drive a small car that people often don't see, and as such I'm constantly watching what other drivers are doing and driving as if they're actively trying to kill me. Taking this example, https://www.youtube.com/watch?... . I remember specifically thinking the green car might try to merge into me and very intentionally made sure I still had an escape to the left as I was making the lane change. Had I not reacted and been hit, it would have 100% been the other guys fault and I'd have had the camera footage to prove it. However, my car would have been devalued (if not totaled), in the shop for weeks, and I could have been injured. I'd rather avoid an accident than get into one, even if it would have been the other guys fault. In my example, I wonder if an autonomous car would have done the same. It would definitely be easier for Tesla to just let it happen so they could point and say "look at all of these terrible drivers hitting our cars" than to troll through years worth of autopilot footage looking for examples of accidents that were prevented due to their cars planning out moves way in advance under the assumption that other drivers are morons.

  32. Safe Toys Are No Fun by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on More Than 500,000 Hoverboards Recalled Because of Fire Hazards (go.com)

    Letterman's Dangerous Toys

  33. What's Old is New Again by Ironclad2 · · Score: 2 · on Pod Planes Could Change Travel Forever (cnn.com)

    The Fairchild Pack Plane, from 1950: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

  34. Re:warranty length by TemporalBeing · · Score: 1 · on How Sony, Microsoft, and Other Gadget Makers Violate Federal Warranty Law (vice.com)

    My wife likes her iPod and iPad mini; but in both cases we're hitting issues not generally hardware issues but software issues - they can't get upgraded beyond certain versions, and apps, etc are starting to not be available on them so they're coming to be SOL despite being perfectly usable.

    Name ANY tech device for which that ISN'T the case. "Support" and "Upgrades" have a lifespan. Apple is almost always near, or at, the top as far as that goes. Time does move on. but it doesn't mean the device, the OS, or the Apps on it magically stop working, does it?, next!

    My wife's first (second?) gen iPod Touch. Upgrades only go though I think iOS4. Her iPad Mini I think is only getting upgrades through iOS8.

    Of course the key in there is "lifespan" - and the "lifespan" defined by Apple may not be what it is defined by its users. These are still perfectly good devices.

    Apple refuses to replace the glass

    You mean "under warranty"? Or do you mean "They want to replace the entire Digitizer, when YOU think its just the "glass" that is broken"? Or do you mean "They refuse to even repair it at all at any price"?

    Only the glass is broken; and yes we took it to an Apple Store and they said they won't fix it. I doubt warranty had anything to do with it; they would have been happy to give her a discount on a new device if she turned it in, but that was it. So yes, Apple refused to fix it for "any price".

    And of course, your statement "it's difficult to find a third-party vendor to do it" exposes you for being either a bald-faced liar (more likely) or a complete idiot. Heck, if you're not a complete klutz, you can even do it yourself (which I think was the whole point of TFA) iFixit even has some nice step-by-step guides, what more could you want?

    I've advised her of several vendors that claim to do it; but she has yet to take it in. I'm not saying it can't be fixed - it most certainly can. My point was regarding Apple's service, not third party vendor service.

  35. Proof of Concept by puddingebola · · Score: 1 · on 'New Way of Stealing Cars': Hacking Them With A Laptop (marketwatch.com)

    Motherboard's "How to hack a car" from a couple years ago. https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

  36. Re:Colour me skeptical... by unrtst · · Score: 2 · on Pod Planes Could Change Travel Forever (cnn.com)

    Don't the majority of crashes occur on takeoff or landing?

    One could argue that all crashes technically occur on landing. ;)

    The majority of them, yes. But there are mid air crashes. Ex: New York City United Airlines vs Trans World Airlines: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
    But yeah, it's generally not the fall that kills you.

  37. Niggers Beware by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1 · on Pod Planes Could Change Travel Forever (cnn.com)

    ~~~ Trump 2016 ~~~ Trump 2016 ~~~ Trump 2016

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

    ~~~ Trump 2016 ~~~ Trump 2016 ~~~ Trump 2016

  38. Re: Visual computing by Waccoon · · Score: 2 · on Man Builds Giant Homemade Computer To Play Tetris (bbc.com)

    Sweet. Audio RAM scans were pretty popular, too. It was always fun to play back memory and listen for certain patterns and guess what kind of data it was, which was easy in the days before everything was compressed (or encrypted).

    Closest thing I've heard that was similar to what you were doing is when engineers would put an AM radio next to a PDP-11 computer, and listen to the CPU working. By programming the CPU with differently timed loops, they could produce music over the radio.

  39. Sounds like by BigSlowTarget · · Score: 1 · on Hyperloop One Says It Can Connect Helsinki To Stockholm In Under 30 Minutes (theverge.com)

    monorail...Monorail...MONORAIL

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

  40. Re:Bad advice to forgo the V6. by sethstorm · · Score: 1 · on New Cars Are Too Expensive For The Typical Family, Says Study (gulfnews.com)

    Fuel and maintenance costs are not static.

    Besides, if I want a glowing red turbocharger, it's going to cook my burgers. Not in my car.

  41. try it on some odd road intersections to see how w by Joe_Dragon · · Score: 1 · on Tesla Autopilot 2.0 Is Coming This Year, Source Confirms (technobuffalo.com)

    try it on some odd road intersections to see how well it can read them.

    https://goo.gl/maps/4ZPHdY2Yyp... (red ball and arrow to move froward)

    https://goo.gl/maps/t3KKvqox3e... (same area)

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?... map of the same area (https://www.google.com/maps/place/Palatine+Rd,+Illinois/data=!4m2!3m1!1s0x880fa68d09ccd74b:0xfca0232fc69002a9?sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwj3lJXw-N3NAhWIlR4KHTsACy4Q8gEIHTAA)

    https://goo.gl/maps/3smiCDrMKe...

    https://goo.gl/maps/pAAP3ErXqn...

    https://goo.gl/maps/i2WCocaC7D...

    https://goo.gl/maps/tjStCbHVkS... (look both ways for more)

  42. Re:Awesome by quantaman · · Score: 1 · on Tesla Autopilot 2.0 Is Coming This Year, Source Confirms (technobuffalo.com)

    "I think it's likely that in the next few years more people will die because of the Tesla Autopilot than would have died without it"

    No, not likely. It's almost certain that Autopilot will be the *cause* of some deaths but it'll also be responsible for saving many more lives.
    The same guy who died in the tractor-trailer crash posted a video some months back that the car's reaction likely saved his life.

    This time around, he was driving very irresponsibly and the truck he hit was executing a maneuver that isn't allowed in sane jurisdictions - something that Florida has rarely been confused with.

    You mean this video?

    a) Even if he did get hit the likely outcome would have been the ditch. Dangerous and possibly fatal but a far cry from "likely saved his life".

    b) Most drivers are pretty aware of their periphery, I've had people try to merge into me before and reacted appropriately. The only reason the car had to react to save him is because he was letting the autopilot drive and wasn't really paying attention. Exactly the thing that got him killed.

  43. Re:DEC Logo as icon? by DRJlaw · · Score: 1, Interesting · on Man Builds Giant Homemade Computer To Play Tetris (bbc.com)

    Has /. gotten so young that nobody knows it means something more than just "digital", or has /. gotten so old that nobody remembers DEC?

    Or has DEC been dead and buried for so long (18 years) that someone has decided to repurpose the graphic simply because they can?

    *BINGO*

    DEC, dead. Compaq, dead. HP, dead enough.

    Let it go.

  44. Re:site is tanked by plover · · Score: 4, Informative · on Man Builds Giant Homemade Computer To Play Tetris (bbc.com)

    He uploaded them to YouTube a few days ago. https://www.youtube.com/watch?... is the grand tour. From there, you can find links to the other videos.

  45. Re:Video mirror by fabioalcor · · Score: 2 · on Man Builds Giant Homemade Computer To Play Tetris (bbc.com)

    Just found a faster mirror: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

  46. Re:Organ Donation by R3d+M3rcury · · Score: 2 · on Apple To Encourage Organ Donation With Health App (cnet.com)

    I was thinking more about this one.

  47. Re:Please, stop. by mobby_6kl · · Score: 1 · on Historic Route 66 To Feature Solar Road Technology (cnet.com)

    If anyone wants some more detailed rants, check out these videos by an actual electrical engineer explaining, with a lot of calculations, why this is all a waste of time:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

  48. Re:Please, stop. by mobby_6kl · · Score: 1 · on Historic Route 66 To Feature Solar Road Technology (cnet.com)

    If anyone wants some more detailed rants, check out these videos by an actual electrical engineer explaining, with a lot of calculations, why this is all a waste of time:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

  49. Re:Please, stop. by mobby_6kl · · Score: 1 · on Historic Route 66 To Feature Solar Road Technology (cnet.com)

    If anyone wants some more detailed rants, check out these videos by an actual electrical engineer explaining, with a lot of calculations, why this is all a waste of time:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

  50. Re:It is not like it was not expected... by hyades1 · · Score: 1 · on Top Gear Host Chris Evans Steps Down After Poor Ratings (theverge.com)

    You're right about skill sets, but Atkinson was being modest. I've seen him interviewed, and he was anything but boring. And just a little FYI: Top Gear was a bit more scripted than it seemed. It wouldn't have been a big stretch to provide lines for Atkinson, if he actually needed them.

    Here's an example of Atkinson chatting with Jay Leno...about cars, among other things. He seems relaxed and easy-going, and amusing rather than drop-dead hilarious: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...