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  1. HD 6310. The open source 2D driver is alright but there's nothing workable for 3D, and ATI dropped it years back.

  2. Re:You Really Want To Go Down This Road MS?? on Microsoft Signature PC Requirements Now Blocks Linux Installation: Reports · · Score: 1

    Perhaps the price difference is only at the low end and pre-built. At any rate I've regularly purchased computers with Windows just because they were cheaper.

  3. Re:I Think this article might be a bit misleading. on Quantum Teleportation Achieved Over 7km of Cable (sciencealert.com) · · Score: 1

    A key is only information if it's a specific key. If you ask me for my key, you're requesting information. If you ask me for a key, then random data suffices.

  4. Re:You Really Want To Go Down This Road MS?? on Microsoft Signature PC Requirements Now Blocks Linux Installation: Reports · · Score: 1

    It will cost you significantly more to find a Linux PC with your desired specs, compared to buying a Windows PC and installing Linux on it. At any rate, some people also want to dual boot.

  5. I presently have no 3D graphics, because ATI couldn't be bothered to maintain a driver for more than a couple years.

  6. Re:MS Hates Linux on Microsoft Signature PC Requirements Now Blocks Linux Installation: Reports · · Score: 2

    Microsoft has kept that desktop Linux share at 1% (actually 2% now) with these sorts of tactics over the years. It pays off for them.

  7. Re:But There's Record High Ice in the South on NASA: Arctic Sea Ice 2nd-Lowest On Record (earthsky.org) · · Score: 2

    You seem to be incapable of understanding your parent post, which explaining why increasing Antarctic sea ice is a very bad thing.

  8. Re:Brought to you by SJWs on Vanity Fair Blames The Failure of Theranos On Silicon Valley (vanityfair.com) · · Score: 2

    Only in your dream world. Back in reality, hundreds of white men have gotten away with similar before.

  9. Re:They are pledging to something in 30+ years on GM Commits To 100% Renewable Energy By 2050 (cleantechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    More because "20 years away" is researchese for "it sounds plausible but we have no idea how to make it work."

  10. Re:The more hated windows 10 is on Windows 10 Haters: Try Linux On Kaby Lake Chips With Dell's New XPS 13 (pcworld.com) · · Score: 1

    It's too easy for Linux users to reinstall to get rid of the shovelware. And too likely since we all have different favorite distros.

  11. It's good to see Jehova's Witnesses are the second poorest. A little bit of karmic retribution.

  12. Man driving massive numbers of animal species to extinction is mass extinction, obviously. You doubt that man can do it? He's already done it as he settled Australia and the Americas, for a couple of big well-documented examples, and that was much smaller numbers of people using much more primitive tools.

  13. Re:Why do people continue to believe alarmist crap on The Sixth Mass Extinction Will Hit The Biggest Animals The Hardest, Says Stanford Study (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    You know why you're citing a 2012 article? Because in 2012 you could still cherrypick the strong 1998 El Nino year as your basis. If you stop believing that the world ended on December 21 2012, then you are no longer able to deny warming.

  14. At least said homeless guy doesn't have time to mug you if he's on the internet kiosk all day.

  15. The only plausible way the pardon will happen on ACLU Is Launching A Campaign To Convince President Obama To Pardon Edward Snowden (fusion.net) · · Score: 2

    Perhaps if Trump wins the presidency, Obama will use his last day in office to pardon Snowden -- simply to create a vocal domestic critic of spying during Trump's presidency in the hope of weakening his domestic spying powers. Not probable, but possible. If Clinton wins, it seems very unlikely he'd unleash a critic on her on his way out the door unless there's more animosity between them than is apparent. If Johnson or Stein wins, of course, then Obama doesn't need to do it because they will.

  16. Suborbital has almost nothing to do with orbital -- it's off by orders of magnitude and involves completely different factors. Blue Origin has yet to fly a rocket that can be developed for orbital flight.

  17. Re:Version number confusion on Microsoft Fixes Bugs in Skype for Linux (softpedia.com) · · Score: 1

    4.3 is the ancient, abandoned Skype for Linux which I'm still running. 1.7 is the new experimental version based on their webrtc client. Because 1.7 > 4.3, obviously.

  18. Re:The Utah? on NASA Shares Curiosity's New Mars Photos (nasa.gov) · · Score: 1

    There is frost on Mars though, Viking photographed it.

  19. Re:Wait! Don't tell them... on Microsoft Hopes To Hire More Coders With Autism (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1

    To prefer an asylum to prison one has to actually be insane, so I think he effectively demonstrated his insanity and belongs there.

  20. Re:Transcension Hypothesis on New Research Reveals Hundreds of Undiscovered Black Holes (phys.org) · · Score: 1

    Heck, there could be one on the Moon and we could still be missing it, and certainly anywhere else we've barely looked.

    In fact, for all we know, there could be hundreds of alien probes on the Earth itself. They would all be buried quite fast (fast in geological time) and we've dug up only an infinitesimal fraction of our planet's past.

  21. Re:Whatever on 10 Percent of the World's Wilderness Has Been Lost Since 1990s (livescience.com) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    How can you possibly believe we're not losing wilderness when population and resource use have expanded considerably over that time period? The only debate should be how much.

  22. Re:How to hide inconventient ideas on Facebook Features 9/11 Conspiracy Theory as 'Trending' (slashdot.org) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I think the more fundamental point for a sane person to consider would be this: no conspiracy would've changed the method used to bring down the buildings. If the CIA (for example) decided to take out the WTC with explosives and blame it on Al-Qaeda, they'd obviously accuse Al-Qaeda of planting the explosives by sending their operatives into the building or getting them jobs as window washers or whatever. All goals would be accomplished by that, and with less economic collateral damage too since it wouldn't have temporarily depressed plane travel. The only reason for the CIA to use hijacked airplanes would be if they felt that was the most effective way to take down the buildings, in which case they would've gone ahead and done it that way.

    Whether it's a conspiracy has nothing to do with the method selected to destroy the buildings. Heck, if one doubts how they were destroyed, one could much more plausibly argue that it was Al-Qaeda who rigged explosives and then pretended the planes did it because they wanted to scare people into thinking they could blow up buildings with just airplanes.

  23. Re:"Conspiracy theory" on Facebook Features 9/11 Conspiracy Theory as 'Trending' (slashdot.org) · · Score: 1

    It's technically true that Saudis were allowed to leave the country, including members of the Bin Laden family (who had long disavowed Osama), just like all other innocent non-suspects are allowed to go wherever they want. Only in Trumpland can the free movement of Muslims be considered a conspiracy though.

  24. Re:"Conspiracy theory" on Facebook Features 9/11 Conspiracy Theory as 'Trending' (slashdot.org) · · Score: 1

    Perhaps we should call it a meta-conspiracy theory. Al-Qaeda plotted an actual conspiracy (a pretty large one at that, and one they continued denying for a couple years after the event before deciding that owning up was better for recruiting), and the people we call conspiracy theorists believe that conspiracy was fictional and replace it with something even more bizarrely inexplicable.

  25. Re:Jumping the Shark on Facebook Features 9/11 Conspiracy Theory as 'Trending' (slashdot.org) · · Score: 1

    AOL died because only their dial-up business was ever actually successful, and dial-up went away. Not a comparable scenario.