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  1. LAWL on Intel To Cut IoT Jobs (electronicsweekly.com) · · Score: 1

    So predictable that an AC comment on Slashdot predicted it a few weeks ago.

  2. Re:Now what? What Intel & AMD are doing! on HP Answers The Question: Moore's Law Is Ending. Now What? (hpe.com) · · Score: 2

    https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-...

    Registry settings that can be modified to improve operating system performance

    This section provides a description of recommended values for several registry entries that impact operating system performance. These registry entries can be applied manually or can be applied via the operating system optimization PowerShell script included in Windows PowerShell Scripts.
    Increase available worker threads

    At system startup, Windows creates several server threads that operate as part of the System process. These are called system worker threads. They exist with the sole purpose of performing work on the behalf of other threads generated by the kernel, system device drivers, the system executive and other components. When one of these components puts a work item in a queue, a thread is assigned to process it.
    The number of system worker threads should ideally be high enough to accept work tasks as soon as they become assigned. The trade off, of course, is that worker threads sitting idle consume system resources unnecessarily. Modify and/or create the following REG_DWORD values in the registry and then set to the recommended values listed below.

    The AdditionalDelayedWorkerThreads value increases the number of delayed worker threads created for the specified work queue. Delayed worker threads process work items that are not considered time-critical and can have their memory stack paged out while waiting for work items. An insufficient number of threads will reduce the rate at which work items are serviced; a value that is too high will consume system resources unnecessarily.

    AdditionalDelayedWorkerThreads
    Key: HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\SessionManager\Executive
    Value: AdditionalDelayedWorkerThreads
    Data Type: REG_DWORD
    Range: 0x0 (default) to 0x10 (16)
    Recommended value: 0x10 (16)
    Value exists by default? Yes

    The AdditionalCriticalWorkerThreads value increases the number of critical worker threads created for a specified work queue. Critical worker threads process time-critical work items and have their stack present in physical memory at all times. An insufficient number of threads will reduce the rate at which time-critical work items are serviced; a value that is too high will consume system resources unnecessarily.

    AdditionalCriticalWorkerThreads
    Key: HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\SessionManager\Executive
    Value: AdditionalCriticalWorkerThreads
    Data Type: REG_DWORD
    Range: 0x0 (default) to 0x10 (16)
    Recommended value: 0x10 (16)
    Value exists by default? Yes

  3. Re:Kind, compassionate idiots on The White House Now Has Zero Science Advisors (cbsnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Preventative care doesn't lower costs, though. It increases them. A particular individual may get lucky and have something detected early, but the vast majority won't.

  4. Re:Not all toxic waste is equal on Study Claims Discarded Solar Panels Create More Toxic Waste Than Nuclear Plants (nationalreview.com) · · Score: 1

    Try Recyling Nuclear waste.

    What is nuclear waste? Why is it dangerous?

    Oh, it's radioactive? Then it can be - get this - re"cycled" and used in a smaller reactor! Hell, Toshiba has designed micro-sized reactors that would fit in your fucking backyard.

    But ooooooooooooooooooh no, the nuclear boogeyman gonna git u! NUCLEAR BAD!!! Evil white scientist man need to take nuclear emergy and go home! ME NO UNDERSTAND SO ME AFRAID!!

  5. Re:Efficiency on The White House Now Has Zero Science Advisors (cbsnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Pohl's law: Nothing is so good that somebody, somewhere, will not hate it.

    Show me a man who hates a good bowel movement and I'll show you a liar.

  6. Re:Kind, compassionate idiots on The White House Now Has Zero Science Advisors (cbsnews.com) · · Score: 1

    The Republicans killing the three main elements that would have kept the prices lower, and the ACA working - expanded medicare coverage, individual mandate and initial risk corridor subsidy - is what made the increases higher than they should have been, and is why it's crumbling, especially in red states, that then affect everyone else.

    The Republicans haven't killed anything yet. Obamacare is still the law of the land, and I'm forced to pay in thousands to get zero back out.

  7. Re:This is a *good* thing on Japan Wants To Put a Man On the Moon, Accelerating Asian Space Race (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    I agree, but lets be fair. The U. S. of A. did it forty-eight fucking years ago.

    Going to the moon is the space equivalent of getting a masters degree. It is more than most will do, but not pioneering new science. And just because you did it 50 years ago, doesn't mean it is not a valuable learning experience for those doing it today.

    LOLWUT

    Your first two statements dismiss the significance and value of going to the moon. And no, it's not the equivalent of getting a Master's degree when you're the first and only to have done it.
    Your third statement then goes on to say that it's a "valuable learning experience".

    So which is it?

  8. Re:This is a *good* thing on Japan Wants To Put a Man On the Moon, Accelerating Asian Space Race (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    I agree, but lets be fair. The U. S. of A. did it forty-eight fucking years ago.

  9. Except for one thing... what to do with all of these Rats?

    Are you a fucking millennial? Everyone who isn't a fucking millennial knows what to do in this situation.

    We simply unleash wave after wave of Chinese needle snakes. They'll wipe out the lizards.
    "But aren't the snakes even worse?"
    Yes, but we're prepared for that. We've lined up a fabulous type of gorilla that thrives on snake meat.
    "But then we're stuck with gorillas!"
    No, that's the beautiful part. When wintertime rolls around, the gorillas simply freeze to death.

  10. Re:Past the boiling point of water? on Iranian City Soars To Record 129F Degrees: Near Hottest On Earth in Modern Measurements (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    Oh, you're trying to be pedantic? You've failed.

    You can only call it a "glass of water" if it's made of water.

  11. They're not an issue because this thing, like the Hyperloop, will never be built as described.

    You might as well worry about the effect of a goose crashing into the space elevator.

  12. Re:How long has this been secretly planned? on Elon Musk's Boring Machine Completes the First Section of An LA Tunnel (theverge.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    IIRC the machine was built for a tunnel somewhere else and he bought it, but wikipedia does not have it and I am not digging deeper.

    If only you had some sort of machine to help you dig deeper.

  13. Have you ever met a business owner? Or any human being? You're fucking clueless.

  14. Owned by != owed to.

  15. Re:Counterpoint on Toshiba Sues Western Digital For $1 Billion in Damages (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Countercounterpoint. I've had 2 WD drives fail in the past few weeks, and a month-old replacement for one of them has just failed.

    Never buying WD again.

  16. Re:HOW IS THIS 'MAKING AMERICA GREAT AGAIN'? on President Trump Attacks Amazon, Incorrectly Claiming That It Owns The Washington Post For Tax Purposes (recode.net) · · Score: 1

    How is attacking one of the largest American corporations 'making America great again'? SPOILER: IT ISN'T.

    SPOILER: YOU'RE AN IDIOT.

    Apple, MS, Google, Amazon, etc. are NOT good for the country.

    They make tons of money, pay slave wages to foreigners, and then hide all the profits offshore so they never pay a dime in taxes.
    How many fucking people could be given healthcare if those 4 companies paid taxes?
    How many US citizens could be given jobs paying a livable wage if those 4 countries had to abide by the rules for H1B visas?

  17. Were you asleep the last 8 years? 16 years? ... 300 years? The media bashes whomever's in charge. It's probably their job and certainly their income. Who bashes whom changes from time to time, but the idea's the same. Power has to be held to account.

    Were YOU asleep the last 8 years? The media gave Obama an 8 year long tug job.
    He got a fucking Nobel peace Prize for what? More shitty occupations in the Middle East? Expanding Gitmo? Expanding and abusing the powers "granted" by the Patriot Act to the point where he could murder a US citizen via a drone strike abroad?

  18. Yup. They understood it when they were bitching about Rupert Murdoch for years and years. But now they're somehow blind to the obvious.

  19. And Fox News, right wing radio and a whole raft of conservative media vastly outnumber the few openly left wing media outlets.

    LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL!

    For that matter, the right wing bias stays just about the same even if you include hard news media that strive for accuracy.

    Haaaaaaaaaaaahahahahahahaaaaaaaaa! HARD NEWS media! Striving for accuracy! WOOOOOOOOOOOW!

    Accuracy, of course, doesn't favour conservatives.

    Tell us how you really feel. Actually, don't. Your spelling of "favour" means you don't count.

  20. Quick fact check: Amazon doesn't own The Washington Post, Jeff Bezos -- in his personal capacity -- does.

    Quick sanity check: As long as Bezos runs Amazon, Amazon effectively owns The Washington Post.

  21. Re:Java Killer! on Microsoft Bringing EMET Back As a Built-In Part of Windows 10 (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    You have to disable EAF+ for chrome.exe within the "Apps" section of EMET.

  22. Re:Removable battery? on Samsung To Launch Refurbished Galaxy Note 7 in South Korea On July 7 (yonhapnews.co.kr) · · Score: 1

    LG V20?

  23. Re:I'm all for privacy and all that... on Does US Have Right To Data On Overseas Servers? We're About To Find Out (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    you cannot order a US citizen to commit a felony in another country.

    Of course you can, you shitwick. Ever hear of the military? We're not sending people over to pass out cookies.

  24. Re: I'm all for privacy and all that... on Does US Have Right To Data On Overseas Servers? We're About To Find Out (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    As would a certain someone holed up in a certain embassy.

  25. Re:You're missing the definition of a 'subsidiary' on Does US Have Right To Data On Overseas Servers? We're About To Find Out (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    A subsidiary is a local company established under local laws and subject to all local laws. It will have its own board of directors - who may well all be employees of the owning company, but still have a separate duty to obey the law. If such a subsidiary breaks the local law, it is a criminal offence and the directors become liable. If they are outside the country, the assets of the company may be seized.

    If MS sets up the Irish subsidiary to own and operate the servers, it will be impossible for that subsidiary to obey the US order - because it is a separate legal entity which the US courts have no jurisdiction over.

    Between those two legal doctrines, the case is clear. If MS DIDN'T vest ownership in its Irish subsidiary, then it is an idiot. This appears to be part of the story here...

    The court simply has to find that the Irish company is not actually a separate entity. And it's not. It's a shell set up to dodge the law (primarily to not pay taxes). They don't even try to hide it. It's trivial to trace it to actual US citizens. Declare the "Irish" subsidiary to be a shell under the actual ownership and control of Americans (because it is), then throw them in jail for hiding tens of billions from the IRS and breaking tons of other US laws (because they are).