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  1. While it's completely fine to use milk to make yogurt, cheese and such, you have to remember that in most countries, people buy milk so they can drink it. I wouldn't want to replace actual milk with anything else for that particular purpose, so having long-lasting milk is also important.

  2. Re:Temperature increase from what temperature? on Scientists Find Chemical-Free Way To Extend Milk's Shelf Life For Up To 3 Weeks (digitaltrends.com) · · Score: 1

    Meanwhile it seems like lower (not gonna call 6 digits low bud) UID monkeys make gross assumptions that often end up being false and feel the need to drag UID into the discussion as though it meant anything.

  3. Re:FFS Beau skip adding the additional links on Scientists Find Chemical-Free Way To Extend Milk's Shelf Life For Up To 3 Weeks (digitaltrends.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I didn't think it would be possible, but current day slashdot is in slightly worse condition than at the end of the DICE era.

    I have to ask... what? They've removed a lot of the crap DICE was attempting to pull, editing quality has improved somewhat, the comments section now supports partial Unicode (— éèêç etc.), I see fewer completely wrong submissions, and so on. Sure, there could be even more improvements, but to say that it's worsened is blatantly untrue.

  4. You can get the OG Pebble for $90 when it's on sale, sometimes a bit less. That's pretty close to what you're looking for, and it comes with 7 days of battery life, water resistance, always-on screen and a lot of control features on top of a pretty lively app ecosystem. No mic or speaker though (microphone is on the Time, speakers would be irrelevant since most people have headphones these days).

  5. Re:They sound completely insane on Saudi Arabia Revives 15-Year-Old Ban On 'Zionism-Promoting' Pokemon (timesofisrael.com) · · Score: 2

    Only good news is that this reaction is clearly borne out of fear: they're worried of losing their grasp, that the rest of the world will seep in and reveal how completely retarded their religious laws actually are. A religion assured of its dominance over the population wouldn't need to suppress that sort of thing, for they would trust their followers to remain loyal to the creed.

  6. SoftBank are the owners of Sprint and Supercell (developers of Clash of Clans, an absurdly successful mobile game), among other things. They're a very big Japanese corporation with tentacles in various areas, primarily telecommunications.

  7. *cough* The PS3 was soundly beat by the Wii, actually, and very much traded blows with the 360. Only the PS1 and 2 were a runaway success.

  8. A movie is watchable at 24 fps (not 30) because of motion blur, and even then, many movies suffer from it, especially 3D movies. You'd want 60 fps at least for a smooth experience which isn't entirely reliant on motion blur.

    The rest of your comment is just a stream of nonsense. Ray tracing isn't any more special than rasterization, and movies make extensive use of textures and nobody bats an eye.

  9. Re:Beyond a doubt on Elon Musk: Autopilot Feature Was Disabled In Pennsylvania Crash (latimes.com) · · Score: 1

    I never claimed the fault lied in either side, but your post was entirely one-sided, so I responded with the exact same argument, but flipped around.

  10. Current PS4 games regularly use a sub-1080p resolution to manage around 30 fps. 2.3x that performance will not give you 4K unless you make extremely large fidelity concessions, and that's still just for 30 fps, which is awful. Even PCs struggle with 4K so I don't expect to see that being used on consoles for anything other than movies.

  11. Rumors peg it at about RX480 level, probably a bit lower (power/heat constraints and all that). That's "on par" with the middle ground recent PC. A 1080 (and probably the Vega stuff AMD will eventually release) will trounce that easily, let alone SLI/Crossfire.

  12. Re:Beyond a doubt on Elon Musk: Autopilot Feature Was Disabled In Pennsylvania Crash (latimes.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Yes, because the word of the driver who totaled his car is also entirely reliable. I mean, it's not like he'd be liable if he crashed it himself, but could get a lot of money if Autopilot was the problem.

  13. But then you're "only" rendering on a 1080x1200 screen, which is quite a bit smaller than a 1080p screen, whereas I'm pretty sure from the "high resolutions" part of the submitter that they expected the full 2160x1200 at 180 fps.

    Besides, you don't need particularly novel tech to render on two buffers simultaneously, reusing as much of the work as you can. Stereoscopic rendering is just a change of matrices (ignoring the final projective steps), so you can reuse a lot of data and processing. Just rendering each eye independently is the dumb/brute force way, not to mention that one eye would always be a little late compared to the other.

  14. you need a GPU capable of pushing at least a steady 90 FPS per eye, or a total of at least 180 FPS for both eyes

    Um, what? That's entirely wrong. You need a steady 90 fps, that's it. There's no doubling because of eyes, this isn't 3D TVs where you need to alternate frames. The only other concern is that the resolution is higher than 1080p.

  15. Re:Is it as treacherous as Ingress? on PSA: Pokemon Go Has Full Access To Your Google Account Data (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    Niantic hasn't been part of Google/Alphabet for almost a year.

  16. Re:Not to worry on PSA: Pokemon Go Has Full Access To Your Google Account Data (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    Do you even know how this sort of thing works? The app requests for those permissions when you install it, as with anything else, and granting it full access is going to be explicitly mentioned. They can't magically get into your Google account from iOS. More to the point, this is Nintendo and Niantic, neither of which are affiliated with Google (Niantic has been independent for almost a year). All this has to do with Google is that the app is requesting full access.

  17. Re:Stop with the binary sexuality on George Takei Opposes Gay Sulu In 'Star Trek Beyond' (hollywoodreporter.com) · · Score: 1

    Today’s binary sexuality is a cultural artifact. People are really on a spectrum. “Most people” are straight because they’re somewhere closer to the middle and therefore trainable to be straight. The people who are so gay or so straight innately that they can’t be trained are relatively rare (in the 10% range on either end).

    That's gonna need a giant [citation needed]. Look, I really enjoyed Jack's character, but even in Who and Torchlight, he was an outlier.

  18. Re:Why do people think self driving cars will catc on New Cars Are Too Expensive For The Typical Family, Says Study (gulfnews.com) · · Score: 1

    A current day non-smart no-nonsense car would've been exorbitantly expensive 20 years ago. Like everything else, costs will go down as more and more autonomous vehicles are created.

  19. Re:Yay Linux! on Linux Grabs More Than 2% of Desktop Market Share (w3counter.com) · · Score: 1

    Which doesn't imply that typical desktop vulnerabilities have been addressed at all. That web servers and databases are hardened won't change anything for your mom's facebook browsing. Browsers (and their plugins), office suites, email clients and so on are a whole new attack vector that's not had that much of a look at just yet on Linux.

  20. Re:Linux Users use Adblockers on Linux Grabs More Than 2% of Desktop Market Share (w3counter.com) · · Score: 1

    That's just like everything else: as a thing (doesn't have to be an OS or even software) becomes more mainstream, the proportion of power users and experts will shrink. Explosive growth for Linux wouldn't imply a whole bunch of new geeks suddenly appeared, it'd just mean more "regular people" started using it.

  21. Re:Tesla is handling this exactly backwards. on DVD Player Found In Tesla Autopilot Crash, Says Florida Officials (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    But it will happen again, and it will happen again for various other autopilots. Humans aren't perfect and I don't expect autopilots to be either, especially not something relatively primitive like Tesla's implementation. It's an assistance feature, a supplement to your own driving, and should be treated as such. To accept the blame opens them up for further blame if something goes wrong again, since people will think it was the system's fault again regardless of whether it was used properly.

  22. No, they'll deny responsibility based on the fact they clearly, explicitly state that you shouldn't be using the feature in that way. It's just like people drunk driving, texting while driving and so on: they do stupid shit and pay the price. It's merely one more way for them to win a Darwin Award.

  23. Re:There had to be a first case... on US Regulators Investigating Tesla Over Use of 'Autopilot' Mode Linked To Fatal Crash (cnbc.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    You might want to read up on the difference between compressive strength and shear strength.

  24. Re:Best business move AMD has done in a long time on AMD RX 480 Offers Best-in-Class Performance For $199/$239 · · Score: 1

    Nvidia has no interest in killing AMD off since they'd get regulated to hell and back. They'd have no competition at that point (no, Intel doesn't count). It's much better to keep AMD around in a roughly stable but weak state (which they will probably manage to do because Nvidia still carries a better reputation as a brand, and in part for good reasons) so they can't be a concern, but keep the regulators off their backs. It's the same logic Intel is following, at a guess.

  25. Re:Mechanism to Preserve Resources for Offspring? on Cancer Is An Evolutionary Mechanism To 'Autocorrect' Our Gene Pool, Suggests Paper (sciencealert.com) · · Score: 2

    Problem with that is that there is evidence that the opposite effect actually happens: cancer incidence could be reduced significantly by restricting caloric intake. This conclusion comes from the Okinawa centenarian study which is looking at the unusually healthy and long living population of Okinawa.