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  1. Re:CPU and storage probably upgradable, eventually on iMac Pro Teardown Highlights Modular RAM, CPU and SSD Along With Redesigned Internals (macrumors.com) · · Score: 2

    Back in the Pentium 4 room heater days a company called Zalman made a case like that. Multiple heat pipes made both sides of the case a giant heatsink.

    It was fairly marginal. If your room had little airflow it wouldn't work. Even a tiny amount of forced airflow makes a huge difference.

  2. Re:Wolff's book is a solid work... on White House Bans Use of Personal Devices From West Wing (cbsnews.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Bannon was on the national security council and had TOP-SECRET clearance. Now Trump says he has lost his mind. Bad judgement.

  3. Re:Wolff's book is a solid work... on White House Bans Use of Personal Devices From West Wing (cbsnews.com) · · Score: 2

    My senior policy advisor? I had nothing to do with him.

    My campaign chairman? Only with me for a short time.

    My national security advisor? A liar.

    My foreign policy advisor? He was just a coffee boy.

    Don Jr? Fake news!

  4. Re:Monopolies gonna monopolize. on Opinion: Chrome is Turning Into the New Internet Explorer 6 (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    I think I'd rather run JavaScript in a sandbox. I haven't got time to audit all this stuff, and the sandbox is a relatively secure environment that requires no effort to set up.

  5. Re:Intels updates also slow down AMD chips that do on By Next Week, Intel Expects To Issue Updates To More Than 90% of Processor Products Introduced Within Past Five Years (intel.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm wondering how far back they will really go. 5 years ago my CPU was still on sale (i7 2700k) and is still a pretty good processor. I have no desire to upgrade, especially as that means a new motherboard etc.

    5 years is rather short for a CPU.

  6. Re:Wolff's book is a solid work... on White House Bans Use of Personal Devices From West Wing (cbsnews.com) · · Score: 2

    A book by Bannon would have been largely ignored if it wasn't for Trump's tweets and the lawsuit. The way you deal with these kinds of exposés is to ignore them, not give then credibility.

  7. Re:Daily Mail is fucked on AI System Sorts News Articles By Whether Or Not They Contain Actual Information (vice.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    The Daily Mail is 97% opinion, but does usually include the facts at the very end of the article. The trick they use is to split the article over two pages, or make it long enough to people don't get to the end.

    A classic example was a story about the EU banning companies from claiming that bottled water cured dehydration. They had endless quotes from outraged morons ranting about the terrible EU and it's idiocy. Then right at the end someone sane explaining that dehydration is a medical condition with a variety of causes, many of which cannot be cured by drinking water, and the blanked rule on making unsubstantiated or misleading medical claims in advertising stands.

  8. Re:Shouldn't they, of all countries, know better? on Germany Starts Enforcing Hate Speech Law (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    We could discuss the finer points of this, but you seem to have some preconceptions that are too much effort to bother with. I've pointed them out in the past with links to my posts that contradict them, and you still cling to them.

  9. Re:Agreed. on Yes, Your Amazon Echo Is an Ad Machine (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    Some toothpaste is definitely better than the basic stuff, especially if you have specific issues like sensitive or stained teeth.

    What you should really be asking is why do you need advertising? Adverts are mostly lies, what you need are honest appraisals and tests.

    In the end I had to test several toothpaste products myself, because there wasn't much reliable information several years ago.

  10. Re:Shocking... on Price Tag On Gene Therapy For Rare Form of Blindness: $850K (apnews.com) · · Score: 1

    This is a general problem in many democracies. Younger people don't vote as much as older ones, so get screwed.

  11. Re:Underpromise, overdeliver on Analysts Expect Tesla To Miss Its First 2018 Model 3 Production Target (usnews.com) · · Score: 1

    I agree, I think the current hardware will never do FSD. They promised free upgrades to people who already bought FSD, which could get expensive.

  12. Re:They built something that obeys laws of physics on Apple Will Replace Old iPhone Batteries Regardless of Diagnostic Test Results (macrumors.com) · · Score: 1

    A better solution would be free battery replacements. That's what Google did with the only other phone to have this problem, the Nexus 6p.

  13. You have never been asked out by a woman? That was how my first serious relationship started.

  14. Re:Yeh no shit on Why Most Electric Cars Are Leased, Not Owned (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Not sure about the used market being dead though. Maybe depreciation is bad, but those cars are attractive to people who want a commuter car and to businesses like taxi firms.

    My old Leaf is a taxi now.

  15. Re:Underpromise, overdeliver on Analysts Expect Tesla To Miss Its First 2018 Model 3 Production Target (usnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Until a few days ago the only way to turn the wipers on was to go through the touch screen.

    Tesla has been selling a full self driving option for over a year. Here's Musk's estimate of when the feature will be delivered to people who already paid and who are on 2-5 year leases:

    2015: in 2 years
    2016: in 2 years
    2017: in 3 years

    They make great cars, but really over-promise.

  16. Re:They built something that obeys laws of physics on Apple Will Replace Old iPhone Batteries Regardless of Diagnostic Test Results (macrumors.com) · · Score: 1

    They had a problem where the battery % went from 50 to 2 instantly sometimes, or the phone just crashed. I'm sure it wasn't designed to do that. I'm sure they didn't make a choice to have that happen after a year or two.

  17. Re:Easy to do for Net Energy Exporting countries on Norway Powers Ahead (Electrically): Over Half New Car Sales Now Electric or Hybrid (reuters.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Interesting that in Norway, a country that is sparsely populated in many parts and very cold (which reduces range) a lot of people like EVs. All the rubbish about them being unsuitable for the mass market or countries where you need to travel far or with bad weather is demonstrably wrong.

  18. Re:We can at least express support on US Calls On Iran To Unblock Social Media Sites Amid Protests (go.com) · · Score: 1

    I basically agree, but we are already doing those things. Well, okay, I suppose more countries could join in.

    The people of Iraq were quite cosmopolitan in parts too. The problem is that after a war everyone is vying for power, and the moderates tend to get crowded out by extremists who can very effectively get their vote out and make sure the ballot isn't split.

  19. Re:Bringing coal to Newcastle on Scientists Get Closer To Replicating Human Sperm (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    Even so, the fact that guys who can't procreate naturally are willing to spend large amounts of money on the problem drives research like this. Apparently having children that are genetically related to them is really important.

  20. Re:Shouldn't they, of all countries, know better? on Germany Starts Enforcing Hate Speech Law (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    If there are no rules at all, then that's just oppression too.

  21. Re:They built something that obeys laws of physics on Apple Will Replace Old iPhone Batteries Regardless of Diagnostic Test Results (macrumors.com) · · Score: 2

    It's a design flaw.

    The original problem was sudden drops in charge level. My girlfriend's iPhone 6 would go from 50% to 2% suddenly. That's because they use voltage to measure battery level, and when old batteries supply a lot of current the voltage drops more than with new ones.

    They "fixed" that flaw by slowing the phone down to prevent high current use.

    It's a design flaw caused by selecting a battery with a smaller cathode, which has a high voltage drop when aged. Other manufacturers use a battery a fraction of a millimetre thicker, with a bigger cathode surface area.

    FWIW, I am an electrical engineer who builds battery powered products for a living. We avoid this issue by looking at battery datasheets and ultimately doing accelerated testing of the entire lifetime.

  22. Re:Serious Question on North Korean Hackers Hijack Computers To Mine Cryptocurrencies (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    The malware they used has code from NSA and CIA cyber weapons that those agencies lost control of. As I recall the NSA leak was from an unsecured staging server.

  23. Re:Paper Ballots on New Bill Could Finally Get Rid of Paperless Voting Machines (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    This level of security is probably excessive, given that fraud is extremely rare and the lack of voter ID requirements anyway.

  24. Re:How about you butt out ? on US Calls On Iran To Unblock Social Media Sites Amid Protests (go.com) · · Score: 0

    Ugh... Can we please stop modding obvious what-about-ism posts up? What the last guy did is irrelevant, both to the point being made by TFA and to the behaviour of the current administration.

  25. Re:Pls. also call on Germany to unblock social med on US Calls On Iran To Unblock Social Media Sites Amid Protests (go.com) · · Score: 2

    Not really anything to do with the new law. She is under criminal investigation, so even before for tweets would have been removed, at least until the investigation / prosecution ends.