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  1. Linus on McAfee Acquires VPN Provider TunnelBear (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 0

    I'm Linus from Linus Tech Tips and it's time to talk about Tunnel Bear! Tunnel Bear is paying me money to tell you about Tunnel Bear! I'm a fucking clown that puts out awful clickbait shit on YouTube! Tunnel Bear!!

  2. Re:Tank them all on Bitcoin Dives After SEC Says Crypto Platforms Must Be Registered (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Nvidia does not seem to be in any huge rush to replace to the 1000 series cards though, so who know when the next gen will be released.

    GTX 980 9/18/2014
    GTX 980 Ti 6/1/2015
    GTX 1080 5/25/2016
    GTX 1080 TI 3/10/2017

    With that cadence, the successor would come out around now. Yet we've heard nothing for anything on the consumer end.
    So we get to sit and spin, I guess!

    AMD has nothing to show after the flop that was Vega. Hopefully they can recovery quickly from the disaster that was Raja Koduri.

  3. Nah, that must have been a typo.
    The minuses were definitely there because I copied and pasted them in. I suppose they could have been encoded as some bizarre entity, but the pluses went through fine.

  4. Re:Tank them all on Bitcoin Dives After SEC Says Crypto Platforms Must Be Registered (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    AMD's high end Vega cards use HBM2.

  5. Re:Tank them all on Bitcoin Dives After SEC Says Crypto Platforms Must Be Registered (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 2

    Please please please let this tank all the cryptocurrencies so I can finally buy a new GPU for less than $200 over MSRP!

    It's too late in the game for that. Even if Ethereum crashes (it's the only coin impacting GPU prices in any meaningful way), you're not going to want to buy an existing new GPU.

    The smart money will try to buy the new generation of GPUs as soon as they're announced. Good luck.
    I recommend nowinstock.net for alerts for when preorders go up. And don't hesitate to pull the trigger - you can always cancel or return unopened (or resell) if you later decide the price isn't worth it.

    Another option would be to buy used GPUs at lower prices.

    The MSRP for existing models has already been raised, and it would take a lot longer for it to be lowered in response to a crash of Ethereum, and then for retailers to actually follow suit and receive and sell new stock at the regular price. And of course, the SOP for speculators is to treat crashes as an opportunity to buy low. Miners keep mining even when it's unprofitable on the presumption that the market will rebound. Ethereum would have to crash catastrophically or crash normally and stay low for an extended period of time for things to naturally correct.

  6. Don't know how, but Slashdot at the minuses.

    $9760.00
    +0.05% Past hour
    -9.08% Since yesterday
    -6.12% Since last week
    +40.08% Since last month
    +695.05% Since last year

  7. "Dives" on Bitcoin Dives After SEC Says Crypto Platforms Must Be Registered (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Anyone who knows anything about Bitcoin will tell you that such movement isn't even a fart in the wind.

    https://www.coinbase.com/chart...

    $9760.00
    +0.05% Past hour
    9.08% Since yesterday
    6.12% Since last week
    +40.08% Since last month
    +695.05% Since last year

  8. Useless on Time To Bring Back the Software User Conference (zdnet.com) · · Score: 2

    All of these conferences are useless. Here's what I want to know:

    What does your product do?
    How much does it cost?

    If you can't answer that on a single page on your website, you're full of shit.

  9. You're Killing Me, Smalls! on Microsoft Confirms Windows 10 'S Mode' (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    Hey, you want S Mode?

    A smode what?

    No, no, you want S Mode?

    I already have Windows 10 installed. So, how can I have a smode on top of it?

    You're killing me, Smalls! These are S Modes stuff, okay? Pay attention. First, you take your OS. You stick the locked down store on the OS. Then, you slowly screw the users. When the users give up, you force "upgrade" them to the new OS. Then, you lock them in. Then, you S Mode. Kind of messy, but it's profitable. Try some.

  10. Re:Q: Hardcore HRC EAT A CHILD video coming soon on Researcher Admits Study That Claimed Uber Drivers Earn $3.37 An Hour Was Not Correct (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    Thank you for posting this. I hadn't heard of it before, and after looking at it briefly it seems like I should have.

    Hmm, I wonder why the media isn't running with this story?
    QAnon is a hero.

  11. Yup!

  12. Re:another squandered brand on Google Is Selling Off Zagat (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 2

    Sears Roebuck, Builder's Emporium, Circuit City, Comp USA, Radio Shack, ...

    Are we just listing failures now?

  13. Re:Several decades? on Google Unveils 72-Qubit Quantum Computer With Low Error Rates (tomshardware.com) · · Score: 1

    No, first we need the improved battery tech that allows for higher capacities and almost instant recharging. Last I checked, it was 3-5 years away from being on store shelves.

  14. Re: ludicrously and patently unconstitutional on Rhode Island Bill Would Impose Fee For Accessing Online Porn (providencejournal.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    The second amendment does not represent an individual right, but a collective right for members of a well-regulated militia.

    Otherwise, out would be unconstitutional to have limits on other arms like missile launchers and grenades.

    Uh, the constitution set up the federal government and its powers, and anything not mentioned is reserved for the states or the people.
    Shit got hairy quickly, so we slapped on 10 new items that explicitly call out some bullshit. #2 explicitly states that people have the right to keep and use weapons.

    And yes, strictly speaking, preventing someone from owning a missile launcher is unconstitutional. If you disagree, change the constitution.

  15. Re:ludicrously and patently unconstitutional on Rhode Island Bill Would Impose Fee For Accessing Online Porn (providencejournal.com) · · Score: 1

    Both of your statements are entirely false.

  16. Re:ludicrously and patently unconstitutional on Rhode Island Bill Would Impose Fee For Accessing Online Porn (providencejournal.com) · · Score: 1

    It's NOT APK. It's someone posing as APK.

  17. Bitcoin wallets are just private keys, and people can and do store them everywhere, no app required.
    Some people are even dumb enough to store them in an unencrypted form.

  18. Re:Let the arms race begin! on Mysterious $15,000 'GrayKey' Promises To Unlock iPhone X For The Feds (forbes.com) · · Score: 1

    Correct.

    This is either something that makes use of a massive vulnerability in Apple's implementation, or it's the tried-and-true method of freezing/resetting the unlock attempt counter so you can brute forcing the password.

  19. Sucks on The Oscar-Winning Special Effects of Blade Runner 2049 (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    The movie sucks. Admittedly, it didn't suck as much as I expected it to suck, but it still sucked and was completely unnecessary.
    The best movie I've seen over the last year is 1922.

  20. Re:Who cares? on The Oscar-Winning Special Effects of Blade Runner 2049 (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Tyrell 2.0, Deckard 2.0, etc.
    I bet you like the First Order in the new Star Wars films, too.
    Or the new attractions in Jurassic World.

  21. Re:First on The Oscar-Winning Special Effects of Blade Runner 2049 (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    WTF are you talking about?

    They're "more human than human". He's dead, and the scene was a ripoff of (or "reference to", if you're being generous) the ending of the first movie.

  22. Re: The Broadband Mafia on Google Fiber Is a Faint Echo of the Disruption We Were Promised (vice.com) · · Score: 0

    In the majority of the US, the entrenched telecoms have been given government mandated regional monopolies by buying off politicians.

    This is actually false.

    Monopolies were originally granted in order to get someone to offer service. Most of those those monopolies were granted with a time limit. That time limit has expired in the vast majority of the US.

    Competition is not being stifled by legal monopolies. It is being stifled by the incumbent ISPs legally and physically getting in the way of competitors. That's why Nashville is in TFSummary - one touch make ready was an attempt to get the incumbents to stop physically blocking competitors. Also, incumbent ISPs have gotten several state legislatures to ban municipal broadband.

    Oh, it's actually false, but then it's actually completely true? You do realize you're agreeing that existing telecoms have government-enforced monopolies, right? You're saying they're "legally and physically getting in the way of competitors", and that they "have gotten several state legislatures to ban municipal broadband".

    They've bribed officials at every level and essentially own the wires, the right to run them, the right to access poles, the right to be an ISP, etc.

  23. Re:Google gets bored too easily. on Google Fiber Is a Faint Echo of the Disruption We Were Promised (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    It's not just that Google is manic. Google isn't big enough to be a national telecom.

    I've been saying it since they announced this shit, and I'll say it again: You need TRillions to be a national telecom, not billions. The existing infrastructure, the rights to it, the bribed officials at every level, and the existing laws that grant actual monopolies to existing ISPs are way more than Google has the ability to take on.

    If you try to put up an actual fight, the existing telecoms will lower price just enough to make your efforts not worth it financially. If you still press the issue despite it being a money pit, you'll face lawsuits out the ass from every small city who says you don't have access to those poles, wires, pipes, trenches, roads, towers, patches of dirt, etc. If you somehow prevail, the incumbent ISPs will go out in the middle of the night and just cut your lines.

    If Google wanted to disrupt things, they should have picked one city and saw it all the way through. As it is, a small handful of people in a few select cities have the privilege of choosing Google as an ISP, and odds are Google will spin off / sell off that business in a few years.

  24. Re:Dergulation? on Google Fiber Is a Faint Echo of the Disruption We Were Promised (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    It's more of Shelbyville idea.