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  1. Can you hack space time? You have physical access. Where's your teleportation device? Your time machine?

    DIDN'T THINK SO.

  2. Samsung Pay works in far more places than Android Pay.
    Android Pay works in a bunch of places, just like Apple Pay does.

    I don't use any of them. I was using Android Pay because there was a promo to get $xx cash back for using it 10 times by June 30th or July 31st, but then my grocery store swapped their payment terminals and they support neither Android Pay nor Apple Pay (they're supposed to, it just doesn't fucking work). I didn't heat the quota, and didn't get the $xx cash back bonus. Fuck it.

  3. Re:US stock market at record highs on Seed Funding Slows in Silicon Valley (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    There are a lot of stories about products that seem so far fetch that made it in spite the general consensus.

    Name 3 "far fetched" products that "made it" (to sustainable profitability) to come out of silicon valley in the last decade.

  4. Re:Why does BTC win this one? on Bitcoin Splits in Two Amid Feud (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    That doesn't make Bitcoin inferior. It just means you can't use it for tons of tine, pointless transactions with instant confirmation.
    If you DO want to use it for that, pay a transaction fee.

    People are only forking because they want to have their cake and eat it too. They're even resorting to scaremongering and FUD with the whole spiel about the Chinese. Hint: If the fork takes off, the Chinese farms will switch over and the situation will repeat itself.

  5. Re:Flame Bait on Is the iPhone 'Years' Ahead of Android In Photography? (9to5mac.com) · · Score: 1

    If it causes the signal to be recorded or reproduced inaccurately, it's a defect.

  6. We're scheduled to buy new licenses for Acronis and I'm sick of some of the bullshit, so Veeam is being considered. I think they're cheaper with our contracts, too.

  7. Re:also $550 THREADRIPPER quad ram and 64 pci-e on AMD Unveils Radeon RX Vega Series Consumer Graphics Cards Starting At $399 (hothardware.com) · · Score: 1

    The socket is keyed slightly differently, I believe. I'm not exactly sure.
    AMD could do it because Intel trotted out an 18 core part for bragging rights. It'd be a huge FU.

  8. Re:Not sure how effective this will be... on With 200 Million Daily Users, Giphy Will Soon Test Sponsored GIFs (techcrunch.com) · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    I don't know, but I'm sure creimer will link you to a "relevant" book about it on Amazon.

  9. It's Acronis. Acronis vmProtect / Acronis Backup for VMware (they changed the name). The new version (which we don't have a license for) is called something else.

    I found out that Acronis requires SMB1 by disabling SMB1 and then having all hell break lose with the backups until I reenabled SMB1 on that server.

  10. When our data center loses power, it is pure luck if the UPS works, the generator kicks on, and cooling stays on.

  11. Re:also $550 THREADRIPPER quad ram and 64 pci-e on AMD Unveils Radeon RX Vega Series Consumer Graphics Cards Starting At $399 (hothardware.com) · · Score: 1

    Yes, in current samples that is the case. There's nothing stopping them from releasing an SKU with 32 cores. The socket can handle it.

  12. Re:Got a nvidia card last week... on AMD Unveils Radeon RX Vega Series Consumer Graphics Cards Starting At $399 (hothardware.com) · · Score: 1

    To be fair, the driver doesn't contain the telemetry, the "GeForce Experience" application does.

    Unless you like tweaking settings or want to use Shadowplay for recording, you don't need that application. You can use the latest WHQL drivers from Windows Update or go to somewhere like Guru3D and get the extracted driver files without all the bullshit.

  13. Re:also $550 THREADRIPPER quad ram and 64 pci-e on AMD Unveils Radeon RX Vega Series Consumer Graphics Cards Starting At $399 (hothardware.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm waiting for 32 core Threadripper parts with 8 channels for RAM and 128 lanes of PCIe. The server parts (Epyc) have this, and the Threadripper parts are nearly identical. They even have 4 dies under the heatspreader just like the Epyc parts. (Each die has 2 "CCX" modules which each have 4 cores.)

  14. Re:Discount prices at the end of the mining hype on AMD Unveils Radeon RX Vega Series Consumer Graphics Cards Starting At $399 (hothardware.com) · · Score: 1

    Etherium can't be mined with ASICs.

    Sure it can. It's just that no one has bothered to make ASICs with memory sizes suited to mining Ethereum.
    Why?

    1) The difficulty spikes are such that an ASIC that is profitable one day can be worse than useless the next day. With Bitcoin, you get a more gradual and more predictable difficulty change, and ASICs lose profitability pretty much in lock step along with it. Ethereum ASIC profitability would drop off a cliff once you run out of memory.

    2) Because that same development money is better (and more safely) spent mining Bitcoin.

  15. That's just for the GPU core. The total power draw of the card approaches 300 W for the normal full (64 CU) version, and 350 for the water-cooled full version.

  16. Re:I Found It on FCC Says Its Specific Plan To Stop DDoS Attacks Must Remain Secret (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Nixon's plan was to nuke. He was told that wouldn't be happening about 5 minutes into his term.

  17. Re:Ummmmm Link for how to turn it off? on Microsoft Won't Patch 20-Yr-Old SMBv1 Vulnerability (You Should Just Turn the Service Off) (onmsft.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    Keep in mind there's a server component and a client component (regardless of whether or not you have a "server" OS), and you probably want to disable both.

  18. I have backup software that only works with SMB1.
    Game over.

  19. Pixar was veeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeery lucky to get attached to the Disney name.
    Disney without Pixar would still be Disney.

  20. Re:then dont' make it public on LinkedIn Says It's Illegal To Scrape Its Website Without Permission (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    No, only one side has legitimacy.

    If you complain about people using information you post PUBLICLY, you are an idiot.
    This doesn't even rise to copyright infringement.

  21. Pixar was a company he bought off from George Lucas, who needed cash after his divorce, that burnt through his money until Toy Story came along, and then took credit for something he had almost nothing to do with..

    When did he take credit for anything at Pixar except funding it for the initial 10 years? He never said that he did any of the work in those early years. For the first 10 years Pixar did run on Job's money, however, he engineered the first Disney deal that led to Toy Story. Jobs also took Pixar public. Jobs was CEO until Disney bought it out in 2006 which saw Pixar rise to be the juggernaut it is today. So Jobs did a lot for Pixar.

    From your story, it sounds like Disney did a lot for Pixar.

  22. Re:Don't worry about burglars- toddlers will kill on Hacker Cracks Smart Gun Security To Shoot It Without Approval (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    1300 children get killed by firearms per year.

    So?

  23. Meekrow Cheep on Samsung Ends Intel's 2-decade-plus Reign in Microchips (ap.org) · · Score: 1

    In his brain. Those crazy Russians.

  24. No one wants to pay for YouTube. Give it up.

  25. Re:Here's an idea on Why Your Call Center is Only Getting Noisier (mckinsey.com) · · Score: 1

    He linked to a page about adding a SHARED mailbox, which is something only admins can do, then claimed that page DOESN'T answer the question when it in fact does.

    So no, the OP was not "spot on".

    Further, if you Bing "How do I add a mailbox to Outlook?" you get the following right in front of your face. It's actual content on the top of the results page, not a regular search result, extracted from their support forum (see the poor grammar):

    How Add mailbox to Outlook?

            On the File menu, point to Open, and then click Other User's Folder.
            Type the name of the person you are sending the message on behalf of, or click Name to select the name from the Global Address List.
            Click OK.
            Add the other user's folder to your Navigation Pane. On the Tools menu, click Account Settings. On the E-mail tab, click the Exchange account, and then ...

    Manage another person's mail and calendar items - Outlook