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  1. Re:Already been burnt by the price on Apple Recalls Beats Pill XL Speakers As Fire Risk · · Score: 0

    Please share. I submitted a question to slashdot asking about recommendations for high end headphones for someone with a hearing disorder (severe tinnitus) and it got rejected.

    It probably got rejected because you're a fucking retard if you want to use headphone while you already have a severe hearing disorder AND you want to overpay for the privilege.

  2. Re:Broadwell is yesterday's news. Bring on Skylake on Intel Releases Broadwell Desktop CPUs: Core i7-5775C and i5-5675C · · Score: 1

    DP is superior to HDMI. Yes, trash TVs have HDMI, but that doesn't change the fact that DP is the better choice every single time.

    As for Thunderbolt 3 taking over everything? Intel can't let a spec sit still for more than 6 months. It would take 6 years minimum for OEMs to adopt Thunderbolt 3 on hosts and peripherals to the point that they feel safe using it as the primary connection for everything. And by then we'll have Thunderbolt 9 (still over copper instead of optical).
    And of course, there's no incentive for OEMs to do this - USB 3 is fine, DisplayPort 1.2a and 1.3 are fine, and Ethernet is fine. Thunderbolt simply costs way too much to implement (especially if you want to make a cable longer than a few feet). Daisy chaining shit is a novelty, and it's a novelty that's supported by USB, DisplayPort, etc. The mass market doesn't need 40 Gbps. The mass market hardly needs 10 Gbps of USB 3.1 for data or 32.whatever Gbps of video+audio+whatever of DP 1.3.
    Thunderbolt is FireWire all over again. Niche and expensive.

  3. Re:One connector to rule them all. on Intel Adopts USB-C Connector For 40Gbps Thunderbolt 3, Supports USB 3.1, DP 1.2 · · Score: 1

    Any modern computers will not allow DMA access except for, you know, computers today that have Thunderbolt, FireWire, etc.
    http://www.breaknenter.org/pro...

  4. Re:Odd thoughts: on Microsoft To Support SSH In Windows and Contribute To OpenSSH · · Score: 1

    Beyond that, you can get a list of all the available commands and the number and types of parameters they take.

  5. Re:Odd thoughts: on Microsoft To Support SSH In Windows and Contribute To OpenSSH · · Score: 2, Insightful

    help copy
        you Linux asspie

    As someone who spends a lot of time RTFMing (often on shit I have no intention of ever using), I'll say that MS's documentation shits all over the inconsistent hodge podge you get on the Linux side. Thorough, explicit, detailed.

  6. Re:Molex is a company, not a connector on Intel Adopts USB-C Connector For 40Gbps Thunderbolt 3, Supports USB 3.1, DP 1.2 · · Score: 1

    Did you have a point? Or did you just want to point out that Molex is a company and the 4-pin molex connector (that doesn't even have a specific name for generic versions) is not the same thing as Molex the company?

  7. Ants.
    Water bears.
    Grass.
    Mold.

    We've tried and failed with several things, such as mosquitoes and rats.

  8. Re:Batman: Beautiful, isn't it? on FBI Is Behind Mysterious Flights Over US Cities · · Score: 1

    Oh Batman, please tell me more about your NULL KEY ENCRYPTION.

  9. Re:One port to rule them all... on Intel Adopts USB-C Connector For 40Gbps Thunderbolt 3, Supports USB 3.1, DP 1.2 · · Score: 1

    If you absolutely need more than 2GB/s for your attached RAID/GPU then you will need an active Thunderbolt cable to reach 40Gbps.

    No, if you want to use an external GPU or an external, high-speed disk [array], then you use external PCIe cables and bypass the thunderbolt layer bullshit entirely.
    My old external PCIe cables are rated for PCIe 2.0, but even that (64 Gbps after overhead) is more than Thunderbolt 3's theoretical max of 40 Gbps.

  10. Re:A Nuclear power plant on your legs on Intel Adopts USB-C Connector For 40Gbps Thunderbolt 3, Supports USB 3.1, DP 1.2 · · Score: 1

    The USB 3.0 cable in front of me is thinner (including outer insulation) than a single wire on a 4-pin molex connector in my desktop.

  11. Re:2x or 4x the bandwidth is not enough on Intel Adopts USB-C Connector For 40Gbps Thunderbolt 3, Supports USB 3.1, DP 1.2 · · Score: 1

    HDMI has infinitely more audio capacity than DVI.

    No it doesn't.
    HDMI audio capacity is X Mbps (depending on revision, whether or not you want to count the auxiliary/ethernet/ARC channels as "audio capacity", etc.).
    X is not infinite. HDMI has X more audio capacity than DVI.

    Relatively speaking, HDMI has (X / 0) - 1 times more audio capacity than DVI. X / 0 is undefined. It is not infinite.

  12. Re:One connector to rule them all. on Intel Adopts USB-C Connector For 40Gbps Thunderbolt 3, Supports USB 3.1, DP 1.2 · · Score: 2

    You're basically plugging directly into your PCIe bus. It's fucking RETARDED security-wise.

  13. Re:Broadwell is yesterday's news. Bring on Skylake on Intel Releases Broadwell Desktop CPUs: Core i7-5775C and i5-5675C · · Score: 1

    Idiots are waiting for HDMI 2.0.
    People with brains are waiting for DisplayPort 1.3.

  14. Re:Jesus on Scientists Discover Sawfish Escape Extinction Through "Virgin Births" · · Score: -1, Redundant

    You have evidently never hung out with sawfish. It's all they talk about.

  15. humans can make ANYTHING go extinct

    You greatly overestimate your species.

  16. Re:Back in the day (off topic) on Cybersecurity and the Tylenol Murders · · Score: 1

    Your parents named you "shit Jim"?

  17. Re:Refund Bitcoin? on Ransomware Creator Apologizes For "Sleeper" Attack, Releases Decryption Keys · · Score: 1

    It can't be me because I never would have designed it to be reversible. I would have just told people to pay up for the keys after overwriting their files with random data. It's like half the work.

  18. Re:Tiny robots will cure cancer on Tiny Fantastic Voyage Inspired Robots Are Starting To Get Reasonably Mature · · Score: 1

    The robots would rather kill everything.

  19. Re:Refund Bitcoin? on Ransomware Creator Apologizes For "Sleeper" Attack, Releases Decryption Keys · · Score: 2

    Wild, rampant, and baseless speculation.
    He could have found Jesus and decided to not be mean to people.
    He could have multiple personality disorder.
    He could be a dog with a computer randomly pawing at the keys.

  20. Re:This is why I stick with mid level cards on NVIDIA's GeForce GTX 980 Ti Costs $350 Less Than TITAN X, Performs Similarly · · Score: 1

    I thought all Alaskans were owned by the Discovery channel and worked on reality shows.

  21. At least they're not using UDP.

  22. Re:APPS? x86 *APPS* on Emulator Now Runs x86 Apps On All Raspberry Pi Models · · Score: 1

    APPL was chosen for a different reason.

  23. Re:APPS? x86 *APPS* on Emulator Now Runs x86 Apps On All Raspberry Pi Models · · Score: 1

    Agreed - apps are what you get at Chili's.

  24. Re:APPS? x86 *APPS* on Emulator Now Runs x86 Apps On All Raspberry Pi Models · · Score: 2, Insightful

    App the apps while apping apps!
    What the fuck ever happened to "program", "application", "software", or "code"?

  25. Re:Good news for Netflix on Microsoft Edge To Support Dolby Audio · · Score: 5, Interesting

    It's not a Silverlight limitation. Netflix limits the general web user to stereo for piracy concerns.