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  1. Considering the decline in code quality... on Bad Code May Have Crashed Schiaparelli Mars Lander (nature.com) · · Score: 2

    ...in recent years, it wouldn't surprise me one bit

  2. Re:Awesome law on Swedish Administrative Court Bans Drones With Cameras (abc.net.au) · · Score: 1

    Yes, legislation is -sadly- unrelated to legislation and water is wet, we agree on that.

    Further on.

    Are we talking about:

    1. using a remote camera with live viewing but no recording (fpv),
    2. recording video or
    3. publicizing?

    Because no matter how much you legislate or (legislate and enforce), what i described in the previous circumstances is (and very likely will remain, even in the future) pretty much impossible to detect or enforce *with current technology*.

    don't know what you mean by "you'll upload it anyway". That i can be found out of i upload the video? Sure, but that's irrelevant to the method i used to obtain said video. A completely unrelated action.

    can't see how you will get anywhere with this

  3. Re:Awesome law on Swedish Administrative Court Bans Drones With Cameras (abc.net.au) · · Score: 1

    how, exactly, will you find that i have a telescope pointing wherever the fuck i want? the telescope is completely hidden from outside observation.

  4. Re:Privacy Defined on Swedish Administrative Court Bans Drones With Cameras (abc.net.au) · · Score: 1

    grandparent is not suggesting we live in a "zero privacy world"

    he is merely making an observation: in this day and age, unless you are inside your home with your blinds down, you are probably being recorded. whether you like it or accept it is irrelevant. Whether we have laws about it is also irrelevant. That is the reality we live in. As i wrote in another post, i may have a telescope with a super high resolution camera strapped to it, in my home, behind a hole in my windowblinds, taking shots of anything within my field of view a hundred kilometers away. What law can stop me? Or do we now regulate telescopes too? Mirrors and lenses after that? It's pointless to even consider it. By all means, propose, support and uphold any laws you want, just remember that they do not actually protect your privacy when you are anywhere publicly accessible.

    second, authoritarian regimes do not wait for the truth to quash all opposition. They will do whatever they want.

    only honest people use only truth, not lies.

  5. Re:Awesome law on Swedish Administrative Court Bans Drones With Cameras (abc.net.au) · · Score: 1

    "You don't get to record my private property remotely."

    damn... and i just bought this telescope and a 20 MP DSLR to mount on it and was planning on shooting UHD videos of anything and everything visible from right behind my window, where nobody could ever find out about it... Guess my plans have been foiled.

    the law will certainly help you to not get your private property remotely recorded by a kid that flies his toy quad for his enjoyment. The "drone" he is flying has a camera, you say?! Unacceptable! So what if it doesn't record, but it is just a camera for FPV flying with the image quality of a battered 80s VCR http://i.imgur.com/hufds6g.jpg ? BANNED!

    keep hugging the law book as if it's a security blanket, while the world around you moves on

    when you realize that in this day and age, whether you like it or not and whether you accept it or not, the only time it is possible for you to be "in private", is inside your home with your blinds completely shut. Anywhere else, someone, somehow, from somewhere, is recording you. Possibly in stereo.

  6. goddammit :|

    second line should read:
    a sub-$1k pc today would have no problem rendering a 10 year old game like shadow of chernobyl at the resolution and refresh rate necessary for VR. (the link was a gameplay video of the game)

  7. a $3k computer is necessary only for really modern graphics.
    A https://www.youtube.com/watch?... at the resolution and refresh rate necessary for VR

  8. Re:Johnson and anti-incumbent on Oversight Orders Reddit To Preserve Deleted Posts In Clinton Investigation (thehill.com) · · Score: 2

    there is no christ in the old testament

    the old testament is not for christians

    being christian is meant to follow christ's example

    (i'm an antitheist)

  9. far beyond? it was at least two years behind.

    christmas of 2005 i got an htc wizard

    it was incomparably better than the iphone

    and it came about two years earlier

  10. Re:Not really groundbraking on A Very Detailed Dissection of a Frame From DOOM (adriancourreges.com) · · Score: 2

    i even forgot to modify the value, which assuming is an arithmetic ALU op, would take 5 cycles, so the correct total duration is 8.5 μs, not 7.5 μs

  11. Re:Not really groundbraking on A Very Detailed Dissection of a Frame From DOOM (adriancourreges.com) · · Score: 2

    the mos 6510 in the c64 can do read-modify-write in 6 cycles and it is somewhat pipelined.

    the saturn doesn't have such an addressing mode.

    you would have to read a byte (15 cycles), load a byte constant in another register (5 cycles) and write the result (14 cycles)

    so while the c64 is clocked lower, it can do it in 6 microseconds, the saturn needs 7.25 μs

    plus, the MOS 6510 has lots *lots* more addressing modes than the saturn. There is no pre-post increment, no offsets, etc

    You don't know what you are talking about. Go away.

  12. Re: Not really groundbraking on A Very Detailed Dissection of a Frame From DOOM (adriancourreges.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    I have a small shell script that does it for me
    now get off my subnet
    (i'm 36...)
    (and i missed an 'e')

  13. Not really groundbraking on A Very Detailed Dissection of a Frame From DOOM (adriancourreges.com) · · Score: 5, Interesting

    This kind of tricks were more popular in the older days when you couldn't even wipe a screenful of data in one frame-time, much less render a frame in a straightforward matter

    Today most coders rely on hadware speed to get away with things

    Go code a realtime 60fps game on a 4 MHz cpu with a 15-cycle byte read from memory, you'll have to figure out the weirdest shit

    compiled sprites, software pipelining, incremental rendering...

  14. Re:This is why we can't have nice things. on The USB Kill Stick, Priced at $56, Is Designed To Destroy Laptops, PCs, TVs (zdnet.com) · · Score: 2

    welcome to greece and other underdeveloped (mentally and socially) countries, where you can't have any conveniences because there are too many assholes that break stuff just because it's there (wouldn't that make them psychotics? There must be a DSM-V designation for people who have a habit to damage public property.) and too few people who are willing to step up to them.

  15. TSMC *designs* ASICs now? on Microsoft Details Its 24-Core 'Holographic Processor' Used In HoloLens (pcworld.com) · · Score: 1

    I thought they were just a fab company :|

  16. Re:Do we nned it? on Google Begins Rolling Out Android 7.0 Nougat (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    a better counterexample would be "why do cars need light switches? i only drive during the night and i have them permanently on"

  17. Re:Do we nned it? on Google Begins Rolling Out Android 7.0 Nougat (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    https://slashdot.org/comments....

    second, phone use isn't the same every day. One day you might not even get 8 hours of battery life, others you might get two days because you happened to not use it much.

    couple that with the above and you'll understand why i said you'd be luck if you even perceived any difference.

  18. Re:Do we nned it? on Google Begins Rolling Out Android 7.0 Nougat (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    yeah, 25% is quite significant

    however, that's for the completely ideal case i described.

    be happy if you notice any actual difference at all

  19. Re:Do we nned it? on Google Begins Rolling Out Android 7.0 Nougat (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    yeah, that's what it says on my device, too. 21%

    however, the total doesn't reach 100%. More like 40%

    the simplest conclusion from that is that the indicated percentage is untrustworthy

  20. Re:Do we nned it? on Google Begins Rolling Out Android 7.0 Nougat (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    what benefit will that give when most of the energy is consumed for the display?

    even if ALL the rest magically started consuming HALF of what they do now (which this fancy "doze mode" can not even dream to achieve), you'd still only see a 25% battery time increase at best.

  21. Knowing about things on Stop Taking All the Fun Out of Science · · Score: 1

    is not 'science'. Knowing how to repeat a recipe is not a scientific endeavour, neither is the process of repeating it. Your barber knowing about pH is not a scientific endeavour.

  22. USB on Rpi on Ubuntu Core Gets Support For Raspberry Pi 2 GPIO and I2C · · Score: 1

    Unless they improved on the historically dodgy USB sw/hw, there's little to be done.

    I'll stick to my cubieboard2... which also has sata.

  23. Re:Happily married? on Extortionists Begin Targeting AshleyMadison Users, Demand Bitcoin · · Score: 1

    the term is 'malakas'

  24. Re:Happily married? on Extortionists Begin Targeting AshleyMadison Users, Demand Bitcoin · · Score: 1

    Do you know how we call those that care only about their own happiness?

  25. Re:Happily married? on Extortionists Begin Targeting AshleyMadison Users, Demand Bitcoin · · Score: 1, Troll

    You are annoying.