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  1. Re:I have them disabled on New Study Shows Windows 10 Home Edition Users Are Baffled By Updates (zdnet.com) · · Score: 2

    Yeah, that was the one that worked. Wasn't not lazy enough to google it.

    According to systeminfo my box hasn't restarted since 2019-02-08, 8:59:56 PM, which was a power outage iirc.

  2. I have them disabled on New Study Shows Windows 10 Home Edition Users Are Baffled By Updates (zdnet.com) · · Score: 5, Informative

    There's some dark magic you can do to disable the automatic reboot. I did it months ago when I built my new workstation -- there's a folder buried deep under System32 that contains the 'Reboot' script. If you remove that and replace it with a folder named 'Reboot', then it will always fail to run the reboot-after-update phase of the update cycle.

  3. Re:This should not be a surprise on Apple is About To Do Something Their Programmers Definitely Don't Want (medium.com) · · Score: 2

    Well, yes, that's the point of Open Source. (Google did the same thing with Linux and Android).

    However, it's worth noting that in both the cases of iOS and Android, the kernel talking to the hardware is all that it really is. Darwin uses a bit more of the BSD userspace, but it's still only half an OS without the actual OS/X layer ontop of it. The value that the systems bring to the table are from the layers in the middle. No one would use just Darwin, and no one would use an Android device without the touchscreen UI.

  4. Is anyone really going to read it who cares? I imagine the biggest use of this will be trying to spoil this for others online.

  5. Re:HD resolution film doesn't mean it was shot as on HD Transfer of Star Trek: TNG To Arrive This Year · · Score: 1

    You keep an old NTSC TV around to watch them on...

  6. Re:and the saddest thing on Marking 10 Years Since 9/11/2001 · · Score: 1

    Or, you know, it will keep going down year after year.

  7. Re:so SkyNet is really a Wall Street computer? on Algorithmic Trading Rapidly Replacing Need For Humans · · Score: 1

    Thanks for not understanding how evolution, or the mind for that matter, works.

    We have facilities for communication and self-identity largely as a result of being hunters -- being able to "run a model" of our prey in our minds was massively useful. This structure then got applied to the self, and so the ego was born. (This is one of the currently en vogue evolutionary explanations for the rise of consciousness -- obviously not a subject you can create causal experiments to test easily).

    What evolutionary pressures are there for creating self-awareness in algorithmic trading applications (given that it would necessarily be less efficient, and likely introduce errors)?

  8. Re:clever humans can introduce "black swans" on Algorithmic Trading Rapidly Replacing Need For Humans · · Score: 1

    Then the algorithm corrects for that after seeing it once.

    You, coming up with a "plan" 10 seconds after reading an article -- you can't outthink people who are employed to come up with ideas for improving how the computer thinks.

  9. So what does this do different? on Google To Introduce New Programming Language — Dart · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I'm kind of confused as to where google is going these days.

    Is this just a side effect of hiring too many bored CS graduates -- put enough in a room together and they come up with their own languages?

    I just can't see this being used outside of google -- Web Programming is largely a solved problem, and there are already a plethora of options. Since MS and Apple won't touch anything that comes out of Google, it'll only ever be relevant on the server side -- which is where there are already too many options.

    Unless this does something radical -- and judging by what Go was, I doubt it -- this will probably be a niche thing they use internally.

  10. Re:Nothing to surprising on Marx May Have Had a Point · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Who was "we"?

    Wealthy capitalists pretty much spent the first half of the twentieth century indoctrinating every western culture they could into believing communism and socialism are capital-E Evil. Some places the propaganda took better than others.

    This is a direct factor in why the healthcare debate in the states is so broken. When a good portion of your culture genuinely believes that socialism is absolutely Evil, trying to build a modern system to help them is difficult.

    The silly thing is, is that there are huge sections of the US that are entirely funded by tax dollars (and they aren't necessarily what you think), but to ever acknowledge that in public, and to try and make it better, given that it is what it is, is heretical.

  11. Re:This is sick on Konami Announces a Game Based On a 2004 Battle In Fallujah · · Score: 1

    I dunno, why don't you ask some Germans. Or Japanese.

    How many games have been made about WWII?

  12. Re:So...? on Slashdot Launches User Achievements · · Score: 1

    Ahh, I see I now have the "Level 80" achievement. Nice.

    It's not quite Insane in the Membrane, but it'll do.

  13. So...? on Slashdot Launches User Achievements · · Score: 1

    What does the WoW toon registration thing do? Do I even get an achievement for that?

  14. Re:/me shakes head on Battlestar Galactica Hosted At the UN · · Score: 3, Funny

    Yeah, they took some time out of their busy schedule of meetings with Bono to host BSG. At least it's a step up.

  15. Re:Screw this on Microsoft Shoots Own Foot In Iceland · · Score: 1

    He must be traveling at relativistic speeds. The past decade would only look like a few weeks to him that way.

  16. Re:It's official... on Obama Helicopter Security Breached By File Sharing · · Score: 1

    It's a quote from the play The Maid of Orleans (german) by Friedrich Schiller. It's likely being used as a signature here because of the Asimov book The Gods Themselves that used it as a title.

  17. Re:We're being weened of MacWorld on Apple Intros 17" Unibody MBP, DRM-Free iTunes · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Well, no.

    One of the unintended consequences of releasing a new model is that people will then proceed to buy up last years model, as the remaining stock has probably been reduced in price.

    They do want people to buy their laptops for September -- they would just rather they buy them at the older, higher price if possible.

  18. Re:And I seem to prefer KDE on Samba's Jeremy Allison On Linux's Future · · Score: 1

    Thank you for pointing that out. I just reinstalled my box on the weekend, and I was trying to handle my music collection. Amarok2 is ugly as hell, and seems to have less features (not to mention the ongoing problems I've always had with it stopping and starting all the KDE services every time it loads). I installed Banshee with apt, but only 1.2 is in right now, and it did not impress. 1.4 looks to have all the things I was missing.

  19. Re:Y-chromosome on Chemical Pollution Is Destroying Masculinity · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The XY zygotes could fail to develop into males (as described in other replies which actually understand biology), or they could simply spontaneously abort -- in which case, the parents would try again.

    If XY has a higher failure rate, then from a demographic standpoint there is a batch of babies that "should have" been males, but were born females because the male embryos failed. In this case, it wouldn't be about one physical baby that should have been male, but was born female -- but one kind of "demographic slot" should have been filled by a male baby, but got filled by a female baby instead.

  20. Re:Perl IS the problem on Why Corporates Hate Perl · · Score: 1

    I have never once heard those listed as "Perl mantras"... where is this coming from?

    "We will encourage you to develop the three great virtues of a programmer: laziness, impatience, and hubris." -- Larry Wall, Programming Perl (1st edition), O'Reilly And Associates

  21. Re:A right-wing movie on Delivering 8K VFX Shots For the Dark Knight · · Score: 3, Funny

    If there was a God, I'd thank him that I'm not you.

  22. Cool on You, Too, Could Be Batman In 10 To 12 Years · · Score: 1

    Mom? Dad? I got you tickets for the show tonight!

  23. Re:Good News for Blizzard, bad news for copyright on Blizzard Wins Major Lawsuit Against Bot Developers · · Score: 1

    I did the same thing (deleted all the characters, etc), but Blizzard in North America (I'm in .ca) refused to delete it, every tech pleading the inability to actually delete an account.

    Maybe there are some consumer protection regulations in play in Europe that don't apply here that force them to do it? I dunno.

  24. Re:Why do you think it is too hot? on An Early Peek At AMD's Radeon HD 4870 X2 · · Score: 1

    Uhh...

    When talking about the temperature of the CPU with respect to fan speed, the conversation is about dissipating a set amount of heat, not "not generating it".

    The energy is still there in the form of heat, it's just a matter of where it's located.

  25. Re:Good News for Blizzard, bad news for copyright on Blizzard Wins Major Lawsuit Against Bot Developers · · Score: 1

    If you, like I did, contact Blizzard and ask them to delete your account, you have no license anymore.

    How did you get them to go through with it? They refused when I tried.