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  1. Sounds like silicon dedicated to do a particular task.

    That's not terribly remarkable.

  2. Her name and his "crime" is public knowledge at this point. I think both of them (the victims) have been on TV and everything. They don't seem to be hiding.

  3. I use it any time I am doing something noisy with the phone and I am not alone. I prefer not to bother people and I prefer for background noise to interfere with what I am doing.

    Manners and pragmatism must be out of style these days.

  4. Far East Android phones can be just as expensive as iToys. The real problem is that you get used to the openness of Far East Android phones and can longer put up with the nonsense that Apple subjects you to.

    Salesmen at carrier phone stores even put it this way.

  5. Re:so there you have it folks. on FBI Finds 14,900 More Documents From Hillary Clinton's Email Server (go.com) · · Score: 1

    There is no need to slander a Green. Just being a Green is sufficient enough if people have the least bit of a clue.

  6. Re:How hard is it to find emails? on FBI Finds 14,900 More Documents From Hillary Clinton's Email Server (go.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    This wasn't "normal" discovery. It was half-assed discovery that might get someone sanctioned in different circumstances. Withholding evidence from a private party is bad enough. Withholding it from the Feds is yet another example of something that the little people get severely punished for.

  7. > As a moderate conservative, I'll be voting for Hillary. Any other choice is criminal.

    Never trust anyone that pushes too hard of a sale or wants you to act in panic.

    On the other hand, our system is supposed to be resistant to wannabe Emperors. If it isn't, then we have far graver problems than Trump.

  8. Re:SystemD? on Systemd Rolls Out Its Own Mount Tool (phoronix.com) · · Score: 1

    Except there is one very important distinction between systemD and emacs or vi.

    I get to CHOOSE with those. No one tries to shove a choice down my throat. We can all be civil about are preferences and go away with no hurt feelings and even easily accommodate the other side.

    There is no "peaceful coexistence" with something like SystemD. It's hostile to everything else by it's very nature. That's why it's un-Unix.

  9. Re:SystemD? on Systemd Rolls Out Its Own Mount Tool (phoronix.com) · · Score: 1

    That kind of means we have about 20 years before SystemD is ready for prime time. Instead, we have idiots trying to force a gravely pre-mature technology on everyone.

    Meanwhile film technology is still very robust and quite usable.

    Plus a lot of digital devices are pants even with their alleged advantages. Just because it's new shiny shiny doesn't mean it's going to be executed well.

  10. Re:SystemD? on Systemd Rolls Out Its Own Mount Tool (phoronix.com) · · Score: 1

    Oy. That's a systemD thing? I just got bit by that the other day when I had a drive failure. It filled my my drive pretty instantly. Never saw anything like it before.

  11. Re:SystemD? on Systemd Rolls Out Its Own Mount Tool (phoronix.com) · · Score: 1

    That's funny because I make HEAVY use of external media on Linux and I never have problems like this.

    Not really seeing the "performance" argument either.

    I'm probably one of the biggest "torture testers" on here.

  12. Re:Systemd the distro on Systemd Rolls Out Its Own Mount Tool (phoronix.com) · · Score: 1

    I am not even sure that wanting a Macbook is a good excuse for systemd.

    Been there, did that, wasn't impressed, came back.

    Pottering is like a politician desperately trying to tell you that the world is going to shit so that he can be the guy that comes in on the white horse.

  13. Re:Adolf hitler, lennart p, donald t on Systemd Rolls Out Its Own Mount Tool (phoronix.com) · · Score: 1

    I am curious about what you think actually sucks.

    I am not interested in lame trolling. I'm curious as to why you think I should care enough about this to change things.

    That kind of applies to the whole thing really (systemd).

  14. Re:Linux is a Blaster worm waiting to happen on New Linux Trojan Is A DDoS Tool, a Bitcoin Miner, and Web Ransomware (softpedia.com) · · Score: 2

    ...except this is NOTHING like Blaster.

    This is a Trojan, which by definition requires a great deal of user intent in order to work.

    No, this is much more like Microsoft Office.

  15. Re:Which shows they're cooking the Books on Every Month This Year Has Been the Hottest In Recorded History (vice.com) · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    They need to go back to calling it "climate" change because facts on the ground differ. Either that or they need to account for people's contrary direct observations in some meaningful way.

    Although the Chicken Little routine doesn't serve any real purpose. It's like how in our day jobs, some suit running around screaming hysterically doesn't really help things.

  16. Re:As long as... on Fedora 25 To Run Wayland By Default Instead Of X.Org Server (phoronix.com) · · Score: 1

    Lame troll is lame.

    However, I take heavy use of features that are really only usable with BLOB drivers. This includes heavy use of 3D acceleration and hardware video decoding.

    Plus that little feature that's pervasive in corporations now but X-haters pretend is some sort of obscure silly nonsense.

  17. Re:If Google is doing something illegal on Oracle Is Funding a New Anti-Google Group (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    What part of current legal doctrine regarding fair use says anything about "profit"?

  18. Re:Browsers are shitty application platforms on Google Will Kill Chrome Apps For Windows, Mac, and Linux In Early 2018 (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1, Troll

    No, the task simply may not require the pretense that you have money to waste. Apple is pretty limiting both in terms of "productivity" or "user experience". They confuse crippled and restricted with "easy" and their own apps don't scale well to non-trivial use.

    The fact that tech moves on while requirements remain the same is why the PC market is in the crapper. We're no longer in the era where a few more megs of RAM or a few more megahertz of CPU is a big deal.

  19. Re:Linux Feature Compatible on Microsoft Has Broken Millions Of Webcams With Windows 10 Anniversary Update (thurrott.com) · · Score: 1

    90s? Were you even alive in the 90s? A camera that old would probably have something like a parallel port or rs-232 port.

    Which reminds me... did they ever stop putting those warnings for Windows on USB devices? "don't plug it in before you install the driver"

  20. Re:Not to remove a performance issue. on Microsoft Has Broken Millions Of Webcams With Windows 10 Anniversary Update (thurrott.com) · · Score: 2

    I am not sure this feature "enforcing non-exclusive access to the camera" even makes ANY sense in any use case you can think of.

    Although it sounds like a great way to spy on people by misusing the camera hardware on the sly when the user thinks it's being used for something else.

    Still not sure why such access would require the sort of sabotage that Microsoft has imposed upon it's users.

  21. Re:Microsoft broke my scanner once... on Microsoft Has Broken Millions Of Webcams With Windows 10 Anniversary Update (thurrott.com) · · Score: 1

    I don't suppose you've actually ever used one of these devices. It would not surprise me. Lemming trolls whine about Linux users being so cheap and backwards when that really describes themselves.

    A great number of webcams simply conform to the USB spec.

    No "special driver" required.

  22. Re:It's the OS that just keeps on giving on Microsoft Has Broken Millions Of Webcams With Windows 10 Anniversary Update (thurrott.com) · · Score: 1

    Linux is fine if you buy it the same way that an Windows user buys their machine.

  23. Re:Eleven reasons to be depressed abou the future on Eleven Reasons To Be Excited About The Future of Technology (medium.com) · · Score: 1

    > 1. Motor vehicle: depressing. No more buggy drivers. Think of the buggy whip manufacturers!

    "No more buggy drivers"

    Are you trying to be funny?

  24. Re:More like 11 reasons to be depressed about tech on Eleven Reasons To Be Excited About The Future of Technology (medium.com) · · Score: 1

    Yes, wonderful thing nature. When cattle first rose to prominence they were nearly wild creatures. They were grazed on the open range and just interacted with the local environment. This is what made them cheap and why beef became popular.

    Cows are very good at eating the things we can't.

    They are also kind of bad at eating the things we can.

  25. Re:More like 11 reasons to be depressed about tech on Eleven Reasons To Be Excited About The Future of Technology (medium.com) · · Score: 1

    The thing about water is that you can't really destroy it or use it up and it falls from the sky. Now if you are draining the local aquifer because whatever you are doing is really unsustainable, then it doesn't matter what it is really.

    If you're draining the local aquifer then Soy or Kale is really no more moral than Beef.