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  1. Re:Chromecast Support on Ask VideoLAN President and Lead VLC Developer Jean-Baptiste Kempf Your Questions · · Score: 2

    Considering that more recently Google has gone out of their way to lock down the Chromecast protocol with obfuscation and secret keys, probably never.

  2. Re:"programs" on US Finds New Secret Software In VW Audi Engines, Says Report (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Typically, yes, but there are very high-end ECUs which can actually run multiple *programs* - for example F1 ECUs have separate programs to manage the KERS & TERS systems, sometimes they crash while the car is running and that's when you hear the drivers and crew talking about resets.

  3. Re:Witch hunt on US Finds New Secret Software In VW Audi Engines, Says Report (cnet.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    That depends on the cost-per-emissions, but it would certainly leave poor people with older cars paying more than new car owners. This is why many laws have exemptions for older vehicles.

    And on that note, the idea rewards wasteful people who change their car every few years, as a massive fraction of the car's lifetime environmental impact is in the production of the car....again a good reason to give older cars a break - that cost is already sunk and driving the car longer increases the interval to the next car being produced.

    You may recognize these environmental incentives as being very bad for a laissez-faire capitalist economy because it discourages people from buying more junk for no good reason. This is true, as long as the environment is an externality, capitalism is an environmental suicide pact.

  4. Just getting rid of Robert Mugabe would help Zimbabwe about as much as getting rid of Kim Jong Il helped North Korea...he's at the center of the problem but is far from the entirety of it.

  5. Re:Does anyone really download to their PC? on Microsoft, Google, Apple Could Be Requested To Actively Block Pirated Downloads, Says Report (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 1

    Uber-nerds commonly use servers, and torrents are becoming less popular with average joes, but most torrent users do download directly to their PC and hardly understand the concept of a server.

  6. +1 Insightful, -1 Vaguely Racist

  7. Yep there are plenty of them by me, and it's pretty explicit what they're for. Most are just small apartments being rented by the hour. When I drive past the signs advertising them, I say to myself in an old-timey carnival barker's voice "Fuck rooms! Fuck rooms! Get yer fuck rooms here!" XD

  8. Millenials have been fucked over to pay for Boomer's plummeting pensions and guess what, the goose has stopped laying the egg.

    More specifically, Reagan and Thatcher cooked the goose. Their apologists often report that it was delicious.

  9. Re:don't trust uTorrent on Mr. Robot 'Plugs' uTorrent and Pirate Release Groups (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 2

    I'm using an old version too because...legacy software problems.

    Many years ago, uTorrent was the best torrent client available by far, especially for Windows. I was using it back then and I'm still using it because getting off of it is hard, especially when you have a torrent collection which by RIAA/MPAA math should've single-handedly destroyed the world's economy. I've made two big migration attempts to Deluge but the first time I ran into a deal-breaking bug in Deluge and the second time I screwed it up (uTorrent is running in WINE which complicates things). Hopefully the third time will be the charm.

  10. Re: don't trust uTorrent on Mr. Robot 'Plugs' uTorrent and Pirate Release Groups (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    +1, Deluge is the best for Serious Business torrenting.

  11. Re:Scathing on WikiLeaks Releases Hacked Voicemails From DNC Officials (thenextweb.com) · · Score: 0, Troll

    Assange is doing this mostly because he has a personal beef with Hillary since he perceives her as one of the driving forces behind his effective incarceration (which is likely true), and partly because he doesn't like her war-hawkishness. He's stated all this before, you just have to put the pieces together.

    However the fact that he's risking putting Trump in the White House over this personal feud shows that he's just as immature and reckless as Trump himself, who has pledged not to protect certain NATO allies, has too much of a man-crush on Putin to tell him not to invade any more former Soviet satellite states, and has expressed interest in carpet-bombing ISIS territory and committing war crimes against the populations therein - a candidate who would stumble into many more wars than Hillary would even willingly enter.

  12. Re:That's the last straw: TRUMP IS A TRAITOR on Trump Calls For Russia To Cyber-Invade the United States To Find Clinton's 'Missing' Emails (gawker.com) · · Score: 2

    He's said it twice with a straight face, and he's said similarly ridiculous things in complete seriousness before. He's never done deadpan sarcasm before. Does he have to preface it with "This is not a joke, this is my serious face" before we can be sure he's serious?

  13. Re:The Theater Experience on James Cameron: Theater Experience Key To Containing Piracy (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 1

    Also it's not that hard to get a big-screen experience at home. With a digital projector and a couple of decent speakers, you can get a screen size that appears similar, BETTER sound, a nice lawn chair which is lightyears ahead of those small tightly-packed and questionably clean theatre seats, plus your selection of snacks and booze (and even other things ;-) ) AND you can pause or rewind the movie any time you like! I do this on the side of the house...only downside of my setup is vulnerability to rain! But if you have a garage with an empty white wall, that works well too.

  14. Frightening change in the last few days on Trump Calls For Russia To Cyber-Invade the United States To Find Clinton's 'Missing' Emails (gawker.com) · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Since Trump has been officially nominated, popular support for him on Slashdot has skyrocketed, even among individuals who I previously considered to be relatively sane and somewhat intelligent. Seems that all the conservatives have said to themselves "Well Trump is our party's candidate now, like or not, so I guess we better throw all our support behind this dangerous manchild."

    I'm sure most of them know that he's by far the more dangerous choice compared to Republican Satan and the responsible, adult thing to do would be to write in a candidate/vote 3rd party and hope for the best or settle for their protest vote at worst, but they advocate for Trump, for the glory of The Party.

  15. Re:That's the last straw: TRUMP IS A TRAITOR on Trump Calls For Russia To Cyber-Invade the United States To Find Clinton's 'Missing' Emails (gawker.com) · · Score: 2

    It's very hard to tell what of Trump says is a joke or not, probably by design, but this doesn't look like a joke. He's repeated his request on Twitter. With no razz emoticons or anything.

  16. Maybe a blond-haired blue-eyed straight white conservative judge who isn't a Muslim (or a Jew, just to be safe) and has no disabilities?

    Oh wait, also his blond hair is thinning on top so he grows it extra long and then swirls it around. Perfect.

  17. Re:How to disable Cortana on You Can't Turn Off Cortana In the Windows 10 Anniversary Update (pcworld.com) · · Score: 2

    Addendum: D'oh! Yes the registry mod will work on the Home edition.

  18. Re:How to disable Cortana on You Can't Turn Off Cortana In the Windows 10 Anniversary Update (pcworld.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    A method to do it with a registry modification is also in that article. It's not clear if it works for the Home edition though.

  19. Challenge accepted!

  20. Re:Waste of time on Obama Creates a Color-Coded Cyber Threat 'Schema' After the DNC Hack (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    My first thought, even though this system has nothing but the use of color codes in common with the terror alert levels.

    Using colors for this was a big mistake, if it had numerical or alphabetical levels nobody would bat an eye.

  21. And if enough retards like you do what you are proposing to do, Trump gets elected and appoints ultra conservative justices to The Supreme Court. Do you have any idea how badly that is going to fuck things up for this country?

    He should, he's old enough to vote and therefore has seen exactly what it's like to have a supreme court stacked with ultra-conservatives.

  22. Re:Who cares..?? on 'DNC Hacker' Unmasked: He Really Works for Russia, Researchers Say (thedailybeast.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    No conspiracy necessary. His campaign is over, he didn't get the nomination, now he's recommending that his supporters make the best of a bad situation and elect a ho-hum stay-the-course centrist, the only candidate who can realistically win enough votes to keep a bigoted, inept and childish protofascist from winning the presidency.

    If you have to step in a dog turd to dodge a bullet, you do it. It's the smart and sensible choice.

  23. Re:Bigger than the DO-X? on Chinese State Company Unveils World's Largest Seaplane (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Haha look at that big ridiculous thing, it's glorious! XD

  24. Re:ShinMeiwa US-2 on Chinese State Company Unveils World's Largest Seaplane (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Similar layout, but nowhere near "exactly."

  25. Re: Not as big as... on Chinese State Company Unveils World's Largest Seaplane (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    LOLWUT? There's nothing similar about those two planes, completely different layouts, even the fuselages are completely different