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  1. Re:more COLLEGE FOR ALL HS's is not what we need! on Laurene Jobs Awards $10M To Pet Charter School Network of Zuckerberg, Gates · · Score: 1

    Very mixed? I find it to be pretty consistent. The majority were retards going in and are retards coming out.

  2. Re:Ch-Ch-Ch-Changes on Apple Replaced the Headphone Jack On the iPhone 7 With a Fake Speaker Grill (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Even a slight breeze will throw altitude, as inferred through a barometer, off by a huge amount.

  3. Re:So in other words it's used and is useful on Apple Replaced the Headphone Jack On the iPhone 7 With a Fake Speaker Grill (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 1

    Barometers measure pressure.

    What happens when the air pressure changes? Barometers are fucking less for mobile devices unless you're comparing them to a known-accurate barometer somewhere else or you already know you're at a fixed altitude (such as being at sea). Barometric altimeters require constant calibration to normalized air pressure readings.

    The very idea of a phone having a barometer is asinine if you live anywhere that has weather.

  4. Re:So in other words it's used and is useful on Apple Replaced the Headphone Jack On the iPhone 7 With a Fake Speaker Grill (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Unless you're in a lab kept at 1 STP. Of course it is.

    Using a barometer to measure altitude is retarded to the point of it being a cliche physics exam question (measuring the height of a building with a barometer).
    Are you rapidly climbing stairs or is there a storm a comin'?

  5. Re:I can't not read that as "Baby Kale" on Windows 10 Haters: Try Linux On Kaby Lake Chips With Dell's New XPS 13 (pcworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Acai isn't bad, but it's not good either. The wave of popularity it rode was entirely manufactured and undeserved. The marketing push was obnoxious.

  6. Re:I can't not read that as "Baby Kale" on Windows 10 Haters: Try Linux On Kaby Lake Chips With Dell's New XPS 13 (pcworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Quinoa had a disgusting rise in popularity recently. Not sure what caused the fad. Did some quack claim it was a "super food"?

  7. Re:Dell Linux Laptops on Windows 10 Haters: Try Linux On Kaby Lake Chips With Dell's New XPS 13 (pcworld.com) · · Score: 1

    You could get an external GPU. No, it won't be portable, but it'll work.

  8. Re:I can't not read that as "Baby Kale" on Windows 10 Haters: Try Linux On Kaby Lake Chips With Dell's New XPS 13 (pcworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Kale is a trash crop. I can't wait for the fad to die. Then again, it'll likely be replaced with something equally as obnoxious and awful. Remember flaxseed? Remember quinoa? Remember acai? These are some bad member berries.

  9. Re:wrong buzz word slashdot on Windows 10 Haters: Try Linux On Kaby Lake Chips With Dell's New XPS 13 (pcworld.com) · · Score: 1

    A hater is one who hates. Reasoning doesn't play into it.

  10. Yup.

  11. Reap what you sow >>>> "right to be forgotten"

  12. That's when you do a charge back via your credit card.
    It's my go-to whenever someone tries to dick me around. I've never been denied and no one has ever tried to fight it because they know they're in the wrong.

  13. The design is such that the phone bends easily, the solder used is shitty and brittle (thanks, RoHS lead-free solder), and the thing has no where to efficiently dump heat. Further, they use shitty fucking BGA/LGA instead of PGA save space.

    Manufacturing can't fix that. Are you accusing them of not using the correct materials or not putting things together properly? If so, please detail your accusation. What, exactly, did manufacturing fuck up?

  14. Re:And you guys thought Samsung were bad on Apple Is Still Ignoring One of the Biggest iPhone Engineering Flaws of All Time: 'Touch Disease' (slashdot.org) · · Score: 2

    The 6-year old kid wasn't burned by a Note 7. It was an older phone. Further, there are videos of the kid and mom. Feel free to watch and judge for yourself. I think it's pretty clearly a cash grab scam. The bandage on the kid's hand, the kid falling down on that hand, etc. Pretty transparent.

    The Jeep case is also likely a money grab. The guy seems very concerned about his "point of pride" Jeep and all his aftermarket accessories and modifications. Pictures show a stock Jeep, burned to a crisp (which Jeeps tend to do all by themselves).

  15. Re:Another way to get people to buy new phones on Apple Is Still Ignoring One of the Biggest iPhone Engineering Flaws of All Time: 'Touch Disease' (slashdot.org) · · Score: 1

    The motherboard in your phone has plenty of peripherals, including the touch screen and controller, the connections to radios and antennas, the battery, etc.
    Fuck off. It's a motherboard.

  16. Re:Another way to get people to buy new phones on Apple Is Still Ignoring One of the Biggest iPhone Engineering Flaws of All Time: 'Touch Disease' (slashdot.org) · · Score: 1

    Yup. Only Apple calls it a logic board. To the rest of the world it's "motherboard" or "main board".

  17. Is Apple going to sue Elon Musk for impersonating Steve Jobs?

  18. Re: grounds for optimism on Android Wear Hopefuls Call Timeout On Smartwatches (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Most TVs operate at a fixed refresh rate. It sucks because the hardware is typically physically able to run at a bunch of lower rates but everything's locked down.
    At least 120 Hz panels handle nearly all content cleanly. The only thing you'll get screwed on is PAL (25 fps) shit.

  19. Re: grounds for optimism on Android Wear Hopefuls Call Timeout On Smartwatches (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Nearly all TVs run at 120 Hz now and call it 240 Hz (or 480 or even 960). 3D is supported on nearly all major TVs, even if it's not advertised in a big callout on the box. The trick is no one cares and no one bothers to buy glasses or seek out 3D content.

    Even if 3D is pointless, 120 Hz is great because 24 FPS content, 30 FPS content, and 60 FPS content all pa nicely. About the only thing that doesn't are the abortions that were the Hobbit movies in 48 FPS. I don't think there's been a release at that frame rate outside of theaters, however. 120 Hz also all but guarantees decent motion performance and response times (crucial for gaming), but it doesn't do a damned thing to guarantee low latency.

  20. Hack on Hacker George Hotz Unveils $999 Self-Driving Add-On (pcmag.com) · · Score: 1, Troll

    GeoHotz isn't a hacker, he's a hack. Stay far away.

  21. As much of a shitshow as the US is, I always enjoy seeing Europe flailing about in lunacy. It's what it does best. That and be at war with itself.

  22. About the same odds as BoA foreclosing on your house and sending the sheriff to physically remove you despite the fact that you don't have a fucking mortgage.

  23. five word employee handbook [businessinsider.com] then you just might get what you want: Use good judgement in all situations.

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  24. Shut down the internet for bad actors, yes. You can't let bad hosts play on your network and then expect your network to be invited to the party all the other networks are throwing.

  25. Re:DDoS Defense on Someone Is Learning How To Take Down the Internet, Warns Bruce Schneier (schneier.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    DDoS patterns are pretty obvious, and you don't need fancy DPI either.

    Happy-go-lucky packet forwarding works when everyone plays by the rules. That's not the case. You have to respond, and the ONLY response is to throttle/block the traffic. The further upstream you do this the more effective it is, but the wider impact it has for legitimate traffic. That's why step 4 is critical for the target.

    It's a very simple solution to a very simple problem. DDoS is just the normal internet at an abnormal scale. All effective responses go against the general design of the internet because they involve removing a host from the internet or portions of it. So you want to limit responses to be as close to the source as possible to avoid impacting all the good actors.