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  1. You're right about industry best practices for hygiene, cost, and implicitly energy use and environmental impact, but, It's not fucking Tony Blair you piece of shit britbong.

  2. Those records could be very edifying to the public. I do understand that it might necessarily be a slow-ass I2P torrent, for legal reasons.

  3. Re: Is that all that it takes? on London's Heathrow Airport Halts Departures Over Drone Sighting (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Yes it's called augmented proportional navigation and it's been known for decades.

  4. Re: Zero Risk assessment about a 500g drone on London's Heathrow Airport Halts Departures Over Drone Sighting (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    If anyone does it *once*, then we can start worrying about what happens if it's done enough times.

  5. Re:Trend towards illegibility on Amazon's Thin Helvetica Syndrome: Font Anorexia vs. Kindle Readability (teleread.com) · · Score: 1

    Alternately, just disable hinting. Hinting is a menace.

  6. Re: Port Design on Some Reversible USB-C Cables/Adapters Could Cause Irreversible Damage · · Score: 1

    I believe the suggestion was a parallel diode that would be reverse-biased in normal operation. If a cable was connected with the polarity swapped, it would clamp the negative voltage and trigger the overcurrent protection on the driving end.

  7. Re:carsickness on Will Robot Cars Need Windows? · · Score: 1

    The word you are looking for is "through".

  8. Re:Too Expensive, i7 naming sucks ass on Intel NUC5i7RYH Broadwell Mini PC With Iris Pro Graphics Tested · · Score: 1

    The machine from 2005 isn't even enough for web browsing, though.

  9. Re: Moral on Hackers Using Starbucks Gift Cards To Access Credit Cards · · Score: 1

    Black market Starbucks. Now I've seen everything.

  10. Re:Remember TEMPEST? on Scientists Extract RSA Key From GnuPG Using Sound of CPU · · Score: 2

    In practice though, I though GPG was used to encrypt a randomly generated AES key, because symmetric ciphers are much faster than most asymmetric ones. There's no way to conduct a chosen plaintext attack, because the plaintext is a tiny fragment of random data with no particular significance.

  11. Re:Poor man's TRIM on Ubuntu Wants To Enable SSD TRIM By Default · · Score: 1

    Compressible data should never hit disk. For your scheme to work, the OS's encryption layer would have to detect runs of your magic byte and send them through unencrypted. Much easier to just use an out-of-band method like TRIM.

  12. Re:First hand experience on Apple 27-inch iMac With Intel's Haswell Inside Tested · · Score: 1

    The games I tried work well on high settings

    You are either mistaken or lying. There is no way in hell you are playing games on high settings on a 2560x1440 display with a laptop graphics card.

  13. Re:Their definition of "Moral" is the problem. on Just Thinking About Science Triggers Moral Behavior · · Score: 1

    wat

  14. Re:Their definition of "Moral" is the problem. on Just Thinking About Science Triggers Moral Behavior · · Score: 1

    Does humanity have value? Yes, I've decided that it does.

    Well that's a silly assumption...

  15. Re:Reality is not FUD on Why PBS Won't Do Android · · Score: 1

    I don't. Every time I open an app on my phone, it has a non-negligible probability of causing some other app from being evicted from memory. Web pages seem to be mostly immune to this problem. I tried several different Reddit apps, but I always end up going back to browsing Reddit with Firefox, because it's so much less of a hassle to pop open another tab and look something up on google or Wikipedia.

  16. Re:Wait a minute, there are ads on the internet? on Fearful of Reader Reaction, Facebook Delays Video Ads · · Score: 1

    Adblock Plus works just fine in Firefox mobile.

  17. Re:Really? on First Looks At Windows 8.1, Complete With 'Start' Button · · Score: 1

    The Windows key has summoned the start menu since XP at least.

  18. Re:Really? on First Looks At Windows 8.1, Complete With 'Start' Button · · Score: 1

    A lot of the old apps are still there, windows key + r then typing calc.exe and enter will run the old one still IIRC, but that makes it about as user friendly as Linux :p

    This is not so. Linux did away with file extensions for executable programs years ago. =P

  19. Re:Not good enough on First Looks At Windows 8.1, Complete With 'Start' Button · · Score: 1

    All 6 of the hobbyists that actually did so will be very glad to hear of that change.

  20. Re:If you don't like metro... on First Looks At Windows 8.1, Complete With 'Start' Button · · Score: 1

    it takes approximately 1 second longer to resume from hibernate than from sleep

    Are you sure it's actually resuming from hibernation and not hybrid suspend? Even with a fast SSD, reading a moderately sized memory dump back in could take more than 10 seconds.

  21. Re:Not good enough on First Looks At Windows 8.1, Complete With 'Start' Button · · Score: 1

    No need. S3 suspend has been a universally available feature for over 5 years (and nearly universal before that). Just run pm-suspend and your power consumption will drop below 10W, with no loss of working state.

  22. Re:That's fine on Fedora 19 To Stop Masking Passwords · · Score: 1

    sometimes I have to type twice to hit the correct %^*( character

    Why are you using those in passwords? Just make it longer. Remember, if you have to hit the shift key, you could type two characters instead and have a far stronger password.

  23. Re:Great! Now fix TrueType! on Google and Adobe Contribute Open Source Rasterizer to FreeType · · Score: 0

    Oh god please no. Windows' text rendering looks terrible.

  24. Re:bloat on ORBX.js: 1080p DRM-Free Video and Cloud Gaming Entirely In JavaScript · · Score: 1

    If we go by memory footprint, Chrome is Eclipse.

  25. Re: bloat on ORBX.js: 1080p DRM-Free Video and Cloud Gaming Entirely In JavaScript · · Score: 1

    Use Firefox sync to keep your profiles the same?