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  1. I support this fully! on 33,000 Sign Online Petition Promoting Guns At Republican Convention (cnet.com) · · Score: 1, Troll

    In fact I think guns should be REQUIRED at Trump rallies.

    I really want to see all those racist idiots devolve into a freaking wild west arena fight.

    I'm a gun owner and even an ASSAULT RIFLE owner.. I have multiple AR-15's an AK47 and an AR-50 sniper rifle. But Every single person I have met that is a avid Trump supporter tends to be a racist out of control nutjob that is only able to function in society due to heavy prescription drugs.

    The funny part is, Trump is NOT a 2nd amendment supporter. that guy will pass anti-gun legislation as he has already talked about it, so I dont understand why the nutjobs are all rabid about him...

  2. You solve it by solving the freaking LAG issue. Sorry but the lag from the time I move my head to when the video moves is still huge and the the biggest problem.

    Get it down to 10ms and the sickness mostly goes away. the problem is that takes either lower resolutions or an epic buttload of processing and graphics card power. Insane amount of graphics memory to store all the textures in ram, for your location but at a full 360 view.

    This is why I laugh like hell that sony is going to sell a VR system for the PS4. It doesnt have a 10th of the Horsepower needed for VR.

  3. One can only hope. on Is Old Tech Putting Banks Under Threat Of Extinction? (bbc.co.uk) · · Score: 0

    Banks are one thing that society can do without. They are now corrupt and designed to be predatory.

    If something happens to eliminate banks, I would have a party in it's honour.

  4. "not a big deal" translation... on Wrecking Crew Demolishes Wrong Housing Duplex Following Google Maps Error (cnet.com) · · Score: 2

    "we have insurance to cover the fuck ups our crew does all the time. and those people will never get their stuff back..."

  5. AWESOME! on Have a Political Bumper Sticker? The FBI Might Be Snapping Photos of You (muckrock.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Time to slap stickers on random people's cars in parking lots.

    Enjoy the increased signal to noise ratio mister FBI man!

  6. Re:The fact that nobody else followed Apple... on Pebble Lays Off 25% of Its Staff, Smartwatch Bubble Set To Burst? (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    That is the problem, NONE of the makers want an upgradable system. all smartwatches could easily be slightly thicker and have the "smart" part an upgradable module you release and remove, then drop in the new one. But that is not as profitable as forcing people to buy a new watch every 2 years.

  7. They are still the #1 smartwatch on Pebble Lays Off 25% of Its Staff, Smartwatch Bubble Set To Burst? (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Outselling both Android wear/Samsung/LG/HTC/Apple almost 2 to one COMBINED.

  8. Now you can pay $19.95 for Crash Bandicoot 1 on your ipad, Sony found a new cash cow.

  9. Business owners and executives are fucking scumbags.

    There is NO LEGITIMATE REASON other than these assholes love being assholes.

    But then they also dont pay programmers honest pay rates either.

  10. Re:No thanks on AMOLED Displays Are Now Cheaper To Produce Than LCD (androidauthority.com) · · Score: 2

    Displayport to VGA adapters are easily found. i have two VGA side monitors that run off of displayport connections on the video card by using two $6.95 adapters.

  11. It's proof that trump supporters are brain dead and easily swayed by twitter.

  12. Re:No thanks on AMOLED Displays Are Now Cheaper To Produce Than LCD (androidauthority.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    LCD's from a decade ago. I have TONS of LCD monitors with LED back lights that still work perfectly 6-8-10- even 12 years later. Hell I have a pair of ELO touchscreen monitors that are 14 years old that still work great and they have the old CFL backlights.

    anything made today? it's all shit made as cheap as possible to make sure they break.

  13. Re:No thanks on AMOLED Displays Are Now Cheaper To Produce Than LCD (androidauthority.com) · · Score: 2

    manufacturers want the AMOLED.

    they utterly HATE with a passion anyone that keeps a product more than 1 year without buying a new one. Those kinds of customers are scum that are stealing from them.

  14. Re:dat burn-in tho... on AMOLED Displays Are Now Cheaper To Produce Than LCD (androidauthority.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    find a video of a travelling red/black bar and play it for an extended time on the screen. This is how you fixed burn in problems on plasma TV's and it should work the same on an OLED.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

  15. Re:Based on the video, it's still total shit. on GNOME 3.20 Officially Released (softpedia.com) · · Score: 0

    No, it just underlines the fact that Developers make for shitty UI designers.

  16. Re:Best improvement on GNOME 3.20 Officially Released (softpedia.com) · · Score: 0

    Nope... It's still something that nobody will use.

  17. Lots of handwavium on this.... on OLO, World's First Portable 3D Printer Prints On Top Of Smartphones (hothardware.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    There are a LOT of things that dont make sense to me. smartphones dont put out a lot of light and it varies based on phone, it's not like 1000 lumen projectors used for real photometric 3d printers. so a print would take insane amounts of time..... so what happens when I get a call during a print?

    they really dont give any good details for someone to make a good decision on.

  18. Re:Chain of custody? on FBI Hires Cellebrite To Crack San Bernadino iPhone (reuters.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Chain of custody does not matter in regards to TERRORISM.... and if you are against that then you hate america.

  19. Re:apple can pull some DCMA BS and sue them on FBI Hires Cellebrite To Crack San Bernadino iPhone (reuters.com) · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I for one hope so. The DMCA is a piece of shit legislation, and if apple uses it it will be the only time it is used properly. to poke a stick in the eye of government goons.

  20. Absolutely, spread spectrum communication is very hard to detect, and we are currently only looking for intentional beacons on a specific frequency based on a scientific guess.

    Also looking for signals not beamed into space at insane power levels is pretty much impossible for us. even if a standard 100,000 watt omnidirectional TV transmitter was only 1 light year away we would never be able to detect it's signal because of the inverse square law will put the signal below the background noise well before it got here.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

    Once you do the math even on a 1 million watt transmitter, it becomes obvious why we can't hear any alien routine communications. an alien race 100 lightyears away would need to tightly beam the signal directly at us with such immense power that it would be a large government funded project.

    And that assumes a simple Carrier wave transmission. if aliens are anywhere advanced as we are, there are communication modes that are difficult to detect even when you are near them because of how wide of a spectrum they use or they hop around in frequency so fast.

  21. Re:Maybe increase the product longevity on 9.7-Inch iPad Pro Is Apple's Last Chance To Save the iPad Line (bgr.com) · · Score: 1

    Blame Henry Ford for that. He used to have teams of techs scouring junkyards looking at Ford cars as to what parts on them still worked... and then had then make those parts cheaper.

  22. The NSA and FBI etc are trivial to thwart.. I did it to my ex NSA professor at college.

    I bet him a solid 4.0 in his class that I could get an encrypted message past him and he would not be able to detect it. He agreed.

    I sent him 10 files 1 had a message that I encrypted. the other 9 had the contents of /dev/random encrypted into them that matched the same bit length message all encryption blocks were 100% identical in size.

    I won and was told I cheated.... I asked him if Spies follow rules and get in trouble if they cheat....

  23. Re:All your music... on Music Streaming Sales Outstrip Digital Downloads For First Time (thestack.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    I just call up Aerosmith and have them come over and play for me in the living room.

    I wont listen to Metallica anymore after what Lars did to the carpet last time....

  24. Re:All your music... on Music Streaming Sales Outstrip Digital Downloads For First Time (thestack.com) · · Score: 1

    $13 a month and I dont use all my phone data..... Sirius XM also works where cellphones dont.

  25. Thinking or Indoctrination.... on US Army Creates Virtual Reality Dome To Assess Soldier Thinking During Combat · · Score: 1

    Several friends of mine that are war vets all have said they don't trust the current recruits because they follow orders without question. One friend that has been a life time warrior and has went back for 3 tours of duty mustered out because of how the new guys act.

    So will their simulator be used to get rid of the guys that don't blindly follow orders? will they put in scenarios where the best and correct course of action is to frag the CO?