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  1. HDMI, USB type, and Thunderbolt merging on New HDMI Mode Will Allow USB-C Connections (techhive.com) · · Score: 1

    USB type C can already go underthunderbolt and thunderbolt supports external video cards to boast performance ... weird.

    In actually they are merging together as they just use each others protocols and can adjust electrical settings and drawl on demand.

  2. Re:Ads redirecting on mobile on Amazon Suddenly Stops Selling Student Loans (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm on mobile and I keep getting auto-redirected away from Slashdot to scammy websites.

    Adblock browser. It is not slashdot but an adnetwork which uses another adnetwork who has a client in Russia. The same one saying my phone is infected I am getting on mainstream sites too

    Shakes head

  3. Re:So? on Amazon Suddenly Stops Selling Student Loans (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Interest rates on Wells undergraduate loans for four-year colleges range from 5.94 percent to nearly 11 percent on a fixed-rate loan and 3.39 percent to 9.03 percent on a variable-rate loan. Rates on the bank’s loans for community and for-profit colleges can climb to nearly 14 percent. That’s a far cry from the pricing the government offers. The government charges undergraduates 3.76 percent interest and graduate students 5.31 percent interest on new loans for the 2016-2017 academic year. Federal loans are only offered at fixed rates, and students don’t need co-signers with stellar credit to qualify for the lowest rate.

    Instead of getting all upset, people should then simply take the federal loan instead of the Wells loans. If they can't get the federal loans for some reason, then it seems unreasonable to demand that private banks match federal rates.

    Pauline Abernathy (TICAS): "Students should consider other schools if a school requires them to take out a private loan."

    So, if you want to take out a 7% loan to get a $2400 Nanodegree on Udacity, Pauline wants to stop you; she wants you to put that on your credit card at 20% or, "better" yet, spend tens of thousands of dollars and waste several years of your life at the kind of institutions she is in bed with. And she probably thinks that she is doing you some good by forcing you to do this.

    This is a textbook example of why costs in the US educational system are spiraling out of control:

    Well duh. You give out free money the cost of goods go up!

    Same with healthcare. The more laws you put down where anyone can make money and be required by law to pay you no shit the CEO's are going to jerk up prices to the sky. Insulin that used to cost $45 a shot in 2001 is now $3000! Why? Well why not free money right?

    Car insurance used to be dirt cheap before it was required law. Now the federal government guarantees you can't loose money and wall street brokers will sell your debt for a gain so people raise the prices.

  4. Re:The banks are criminal organizations on Amazon Suddenly Stops Selling Student Loans (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Not only do they engage in fraud, but also money laundering. To this day, they and HSBC and BoA, etc. etc. etc. remain immune and untouchable. And we continue to stand by and reelect the politicians that also benefit, totally distracted by *he who shall not be named*, not that anybody cared beforehand.

    It is probably a wise move for Amazon to keep its distance, lest they get caught up in this tornado and lose everything.

    Well no shit. Gays can't marry and we need the wall ASAP to solve all our problems!

  5. Re:How many OSes can use a bypassed GPU at one? on New Intel and AMD Chips Will Only Support Windows 10 (pcworld.com) · · Score: 1

    The video is freaking cool is why I linked the youtube :-D

    The crazy Xeon based system did have intel video for the host which was the Linux console and each GPU was added and binded with KVM to each guest OS session including the USB peripherals. I dunno but it shows you can get up to 95% native speed with a type 1 hypervisor with a bypass on a bare metal hypervisor. The HOST OS was run a flashdrive with Unraid, Ubuntu Linux, and other utilities. But you can run it on a hard disk if you choose Linux as your host OS.

    Go play with it? Maybe someone who uses it can comment. I met one guy who did just this but used a different GUI client for his Vms with KVM. I was really surprised as I assumed a VM is crap for all but server apps and I was wrong.

  6. Re: Step 1 EMBRACE on New Intel and AMD Chips Will Only Support Windows 10 (pcworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Oh a good type -1 bare metal hypervisor like KVM and not crappy virtualbox can handle gaming VM's just fine :-)

  7. Re:KVM != KVM on New Intel and AMD Chips Will Only Support Windows 10 (pcworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Linus tech tips tested this out no this ran the real GPU.

    With unraid which a version of KVM you can watch the freaky most ultimate nerd porn of all time with 7 gamers 1 CPU with a $30,000 gaming system. Unraid is a distro with a custom version of KVM with GPU bypass.

    In the second video each VM did 4K with AMD nano running close to full speed ran games like Crysis 3 at max at 120 FPS and ran 3d mark benchmarks in Windows 10 guests with 4 cores for each user.

    So my guess is the answer is yes with the setup like Linus had with Unraid flavor of KMS with running CAD, games, etc. For the record I have not run KMS. I do hyper-V and VMware Workstation. Hyper-V has GPU bypass too and is also a type 1 hypervisor on the latest WIndows 10 anniversary build. I have not tested games yet but after writting this post sounds like a fun thing to try out :-)

  8. Re: Goodbye Windows. on New Intel and AMD Chips Will Only Support Windows 10 (pcworld.com) · · Score: 1

    So is your Android phone and Google Chrome which if I bet many I say you use and do not complain.

    MS is not spying on your documents. Just Cortana search and statistics. I am not saying I agree but the hyperbola on slashdot with Windows 10 hate is epic. I feel this site has turned into a place where young geeks wanted the latest and greatest and try new technologies to one 15 years later filled with old men afraid of change.

      The pro XP comments here shocked me and turned the tide! How can an IT professional and geek LOVE 14 year old technology and fear something new ... On slashdot of all places?!

  9. Re: Goodbye Windows. on New Intel and AMD Chips Will Only Support Windows 10 (pcworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Google KVM? It's a type 1 hypervisor which talks directly to hardware at native speeds at bare metal.

  10. Re: Goodbye Windows. on New Intel and AMD Chips Will Only Support Windows 10 (pcworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Google KVM and Linus tech tips 1 PC 2 gamers?

    A type 1 Hypervisor natively talks to the hardware unlike a crappy type 2 like virtual box.

  11. Re: Goodbye Windows. on New Intel and AMD Chips Will Only Support Windows 10 (pcworld.com) · · Score: 1

    http://www.geek.com/microsoft/...">Really?

    The old 1990s paranoia here is getting quite old. I used to come to slashdot because of truth and intelligent conversation. Now it seems more like going to a conservative Church instead with ideology

  12. Re: Goodbye Windows. on New Intel and AMD Chips Will Only Support Windows 10 (pcworld.com) · · Score: 1

    It means your system administrator didn't setup the GPO group policy right on the OU in active directory for delegated printer access.

    That's their fault and not Windows 7

  13. Re: Testing for rowhammer? on New Cloud Attack Takes Full Control of Virtual Machines With Little Effort (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    It's a bug in implementation. Not low quality hardware as this is designed to share ram like a pointer

  14. How safe or Azure and Amazon clouds on New Cloud Attack Takes Full Control of Virtual Machines With Little Effort (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Many and mean corporations are moving to the cloud or already there.

  15. You mean like from an Amazon E3 or Azure VM

  16. Re: Step 1 EMBRACE on New Intel and AMD Chips Will Only Support Windows 10 (pcworld.com) · · Score: 1

    It will effect both

    Folks I know many hate MS here but this isn't a conspiracy to lock out via DRM locked boot loaders competitors.

      It is rather CPUs do not do just math anymore. Theo from OpenBSD explained it as in support for Intel graphics, wifi, irst data raid, NvNE, USB type c, etc

    Intel doesn't want to support a million different OSes where the ancient kernel is not designed with things like mobile power management in mind.

    Xeons too have Intel graphics, USB type c, irst and erst raid. No you can't run Win 7 just as you can't run old Android jelly bean 2.2 on a shiny new Samsung Galaxy 7 note.

    Another question to ask is why would you? Windows 7 is so old it doesn't even support USB 3! Look it up? You need a third party app or driver.

    So run a modern OS including Linux and run Win 7 in a VM if your heart desires.

  17. No thank you on Lenovo's 'Yoga Book' Laptop Is So Thin It Needs A Touchscreen Keyboard (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    THe MS Surface is still the thinnest and Lenovo comes with malware like spearfish by default .... oh and the spyware is installed as drivers which means even if you do a fresh install Windows Store will automatically install the crapware again making it perpetual and impossible to remove!

    Fuck em. I will never buy a product from such a company.

  18. Besides my other sarcastic post I want it to die! Oracle is our enemy here. Thanks to Oracle it is illegal now to use wine or any API that resembles something else.

    Also thanks to Oracle it is illegal to use POSIX utilities like awk, sed, grep, and even bash! Yes, if it takes the arguments and is source compatible it is copyright violation as Sco or the open group owns the syntax

    Gee thanks a lot.

    Even Microsoft is not that evil and is at least changing with porting PowerShell, SQL server, ms code editor, and Azure hosting. Oracle is going the other direction. Let's let Java die a horrible death and not look back as it is our new biggest enemy. They are not worthy of our time

  19. Subpoena generator on Slashdot Asks: What Are Your Favorite Java 8 Features? (infoworld.com) · · Score: 1

    I love the fact when a non sanctioned language generates a lawsuit on demand when interacting with the APIs

  20. Re: The problem with GPL on Linus Loves GPL, But Hates GPL Lawsuits (cio.com) · · Score: 1

    Technically if I sold my company that is a redistribution according to the GPL. The buyer would be forced to give away the asset for free which is why the lawyers I met do not like it.

    I am not saying I like EULa's from MS but I was making a point. I can link to com objects in a crappy VB written program but still can sell it. MS has no problem with this at all as long as I paid for their software properly to make it.

    What if for example I use a GPL api call for printf (making this one up) but make everything else in house and spent millions. I want to sell my company. Am I freeloading as now the whole product goes GPL as it counts as a redistribution? I know viral sounds offensive, but it is what RMS wanted to end proprietary software.

    I think Apache, Xorg, FreeBSD, Samba, node.js, and others do well for BSD/MIT licenses. We got PF sense, Juniper, Early Cisco IOS, MacOSX, Windows share and printer support for mac/linux users, and can now use Visual Studio community edition for odd things like Android and node.js development. No you did not misread that as MS code editor is cross platform and even runs on Linux thanks to BSD licensed code.

    I think everyone wins and yes some capitalism is nice for progress in addition of academia and community.

  21. Re:if nobody enforced the GPL by litigation on Linus Loves GPL, But Hates GPL Lawsuits (cio.com) · · Score: 1

    You mean those greedy capitalists that employee and make products like Cisco, Juniper, PF Sense, MacOSX? All were based on BSD because it was more free and have contributed to everyone both users, venture capitalists, and customers who want to buy. Everyone won.

    Apache and XORG are BSD/MIT and so is Samba. They make great free software you use reading this. I have no problem with Apple, Google, and even MS using these. Visual Studio 2015 community edition has node.js support and so does the MS code editor which has a linux version by the way. Thanks to a BSD license it was possible.

    If you do not want to use it then great. But some of us have no quarrel and even encourage those who want to make money. I think both free, academia, and capitalism can all work hand and hand.

    But yes GPL is a problem if you want to sell your assets and they are GPL licensed. Technically that is another party and your buyer has to give out their product for free. This is not about stealing someone's elses work. This is about just freaking using a GPL api and have the rest of the code in house?!

  22. Re:I like GPLv2 too, but there's just one thing on Linus Loves GPL, But Hates GPL Lawsuits (cio.com) · · Score: 1

    The problem is just that. Geeks do not know the difference between LGPL and GPL. Yes you can not link under GPL without your program being GPL. Go read the license? The game is in violation of the GPL which I assume was RMS point to get rid of proprietary software.

    Most think they can write an api and GPL and it can be used for all. Not true.

  23. Re: The problem with GPL on Linus Loves GPL, But Hates GPL Lawsuits (cio.com) · · Score: 1

    Who the hell would buy my asset if they had to give it away to competitors for free?

    Sure the code is free for the user but not for the developers or owner which is my point. BSD is free for both as tax payers came from both. Everyone wins. I think it's immoral to force people to do things they don't want to do.

    I am also capitalistic. If someone wants to make money and needs resources from people full time and not volunteers they should do just that. BSD allows this

  24. Re:Not sure it's worth living that long on 'Longest Living Human' Says He Is Ready For Death At 145 (telegraph.co.uk) · · Score: 2

    My point is those who say the times today are the worst ever and spew some right wing stuff do not know their history. Times were bad in the 19th century. Awesome too if you are educated and middle class (even more so than today) but very tough and brutal. Factories, 18 hour shifts, no EPA laws, children working, people being shot out west looking to escape the missery of the east and fed to pigs, corruption, and crazy dictators and radical ideologies were the norm.

    People think Victorian era paradise and Jane Austin, and wonderful class. Not the above

  25. Re:The problem with GPL on Linus Loves GPL, But Hates GPL Lawsuits (cio.com) · · Score: 1

    No the GPL takes away my freedom to develop software the way I like and use. The BSD license gives me freedom to do whatever I want like making a firewall product or a cloud app without having to give out my investor funded work away and I can sell my company as it's assets have value because they are not free.

    A license should never telll you what to do. Even a MS EULA doesn't tell me what I can do with the software I use or create. Only how much I need to pay for extra usage or features.

    In this way the GPL is the most restrictive license out there.