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  1. Re:Yeah on Carbon Dating Shows Koran May Predate Muhammad · · Score: 1

    And if an earlier manuscript was found that dates to between 545 AD and 568, that's probably more relevant to discuss right now.

  2. Re: Well now Patrick will have to make a change on LILO Bootloader Development To End · · Score: 4, Funny

    the fundamental nature of how our computers boot is always up for GRUBs.

  3. Re:Entrapment on Secret Service Agent Pleads Guilty In Bitcoin Theft · · Score: 1

    Entrapment of whom? The person who wasn't charged with attempted murder? That's the only entrapment I can imagine and there was no charge.

  4. Re:Honest question: why? on World's Most Powerful Digital Camera Sees Construction Green Light · · Score: 2

    So you can crop it. A lot.

  5. Re:1500 HD TVs, how many other devices on World's Most Powerful Digital Camera Sees Construction Green Light · · Score: 1

    I was going to say, HD TV's aren't a high enough resolution unless you're just trying for a big number. Why didn't they just go for 10,100 SD TV's?

  6. Re:So can I sell my used copy? on Metal Gear Solid V PC Disc Contains Steam Installer, Nothing Else · · Score: 1

    I buy DRM-free video all the time. It's convenient, since all I do with DVD or Blu-Ray is break DMCA and rip them anyway. But physical media is a nice backup if you get rid of the storage cases. And streaming things I don't own is much better than the old business model of rental. But DRM-laden video that I bought, tied to a service that could disappear with my videos is not a situation I want to be in. I only buy a movie so I can watch on a whim 10 years from now when it may be near-impossible to find, physical or streaming. The new model doesn't fix that at all.

  7. Re:language of the heart foolproof on 3 Category 4 Hurricanes Develop In the Pacific At Once For the First Time · · Score: 1

    That's some nice apophenia, you've got going on there. Time to get medicated for schizophrenia, I think.

  8. Re:Douchebag Editors on 3 Category 4 Hurricanes Develop In the Pacific At Once For the First Time · · Score: 1

    I, for one, didn't understand it. I glossed over and ignored it and it wasn't until the parent comment that I realized it was a misspelling instead of just a really stupid/confusing thing to say.

  9. Re:The Purpose of a Pilot on Cities Wasting Millions of Taxpayer's Money In Failed IoT Pilots · · Score: 1

    Because the city is paying to find out if the idea is viable, rather than the company that wants to sell it.

  10. Re:So can I sell my used copy? on Metal Gear Solid V PC Disc Contains Steam Installer, Nothing Else · · Score: 3, Insightful

    And if you return it and get a "second" license so that you retain your right of first sale, then you're not stealing. Software "licensing" should not be able to take away your right to sell something after you've bought it (so long as you don't keep a copy for yourself). It works with DVD and Blu-Ray. That's why companies are trying to say "physical media is dead" and convince the next generation of people that it's true.

  11. Re:When The Lunatics Take Over The Asylum on French Woman Gets €800/month For Electromagnetic-Field 'Disability' · · Score: 1

    I was mostly asking if that was how they got their approval. But this is France, not the US, so I'm not sure if it's under that label there.

  12. Re:no surprise, what people use at home they use t on Ubuntu Is the Dominant Cloud OS · · Score: 1

    The default packages selected, mostly. Used to be that the server LTS version was supported for longer, but no longer true.

    My last project, I chose CentOS 6. But I literally had it down to which LTS OS had the most recent release so I didn't have to worry about a distro upgrade for longer.

  13. Re:When The Lunatics Take Over The Asylum on French Woman Gets €800/month For Electromagnetic-Field 'Disability' · · Score: 1

    On the other hand, can mental illness be considered a disability? Is that any part of this ruling?

  14. Re:try a real state on Kansas Secretary of State Blocks Release of Voting Machine Tapes · · Score: 1

    That's because most poor vote democrat because of social programs that only really work well in urban areas. The rural poor don't get much benefit but still pay the taxes for it. It's nothing to say about how progressive or backward people are. It's all purely selfish motivation and not the best interests of the country/state as a whole.

  15. Re:Don't care. on Kansas Secretary of State Blocks Release of Voting Machine Tapes · · Score: 1

    Both parties run out of money. One of them does it by not taxing enough, the other does it by spending too much.

  16. Re:In other words. on Kansas Secretary of State Blocks Release of Voting Machine Tapes · · Score: 1

    A FOIA should probably come with some serious strings attached, because it's just as important to protect the secret ballot and that's at odds with complete freedom of information.

  17. Re:Moronic on Backwards S-Pen Can Permanently Damage Note 5 · · Score: 2

    It might be over-designing, but it's a severe lack of engineering. We've had one-way insertion for a lot of things for a long time. SD cards insert and eject only one way with a similar spring lock.

  18. Re:Color options like different-coloured windows? on Windows Memory Manager To Introduce Compression · · Score: 1

    "Hey look at us, we're so cool, we can do transparency!"

    This is more of a side-effect of more GPU acceleration. The transparency is just proof that it was using the GPU, more or less (for the consumers that wanted that sort of proof/showoff). Windows 8 and 10 dumped most of that and went flatter than ever.

  19. Re:PSA: on Windows Memory Manager To Introduce Compression · · Score: 1

    Unless they changed more in Edge, "Internet Settings" in the Control Panel is probably the Edge settings. Go there and set it not to resume. I haven't used much with Edge, so I honestly couldn't say.

    Otherwise, finding the registry/filesystem location that saves the browser state and deleting it. Do you uninstall every program you have a launch problem with?

  20. Re:PSA: on Windows Memory Manager To Introduce Compression · · Score: 1

    Uninstall Edge just because it's resuming a browsing session after closing? That's a configurable behavior in Chrome and Firefox, too.

    How about you clear the browsing session data or turn off automatic crash recovery?

    Sure, it should let you close it. Beyond that, it's doing what you've asked it to do.

  21. Re:OSX in 2013. on Windows Memory Manager To Introduce Compression · · Score: 1

    Sounds like your distro is wasting RAM. It would be a lot better to put that idle RAM to use for disk caching.

  22. Re:Congratulations, Microsoft! on Windows Memory Manager To Introduce Compression · · Score: 1

    compressing pages on the way to disk is not quite the same as compressing pages to avoid the disk entirely.

  23. Re: Shocking on Researchers Grow Tiny Human Brain In Lab · · Score: 1

    The Matrix?

  24. Re: As a Linux supporter, I agree on SteamOS Has Dropped Support For Suspend · · Score: 1

    30W is like leaving lights on in a couple rooms 24/7. Not a lot, but not tiny. Most computers have a wake on RTC alarm feature, which can be set when sleeping the computer. So the computer can wake a couple minutes before the cron task is due to start.

  25. Re: As a Linux supporter, I agree on SteamOS Has Dropped Support For Suspend · · Score: 1

    But that's all irrelevant if you choose to leave your desktop on all the time. Some of us like to save power and anything over 5 seconds to re-open all applications and browser tabs is too much. S3 suspend doesn't require more than a few megabytes of RAM for hardware states and does not require swap at all. RAM is still powered during S3 sleep - even on a laptop. You're thinking of S5/hibernate (or hybrid sleep) which can be disabled without breaking S3.

    Swap is only relevant if you choose to hibernate - but you could get around 90% of those cases by just adding a UPS to your desktop.