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  1. Re:Apparently AMD still holds the record though on Skylake Breaks 7GHz In Intel Overclocking World Record (hothardware.com) · · Score: 1

    I was about to quote the exact same thing. What world record? What 7GHz barrier? AMD CRUSHED that a long time ago.

  2. time to countersue on Wired To Block Ad-Blocking Users, Offer Subscription (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    Okay, I'll just sue them for hosting ads containing or linking to malware.

  3. so only I caught this? on Windmill Blade Molds 3D Printed By National Labs (energy.gov) · · Score: 1

    Assuming this story isn't from Europe, are you sure they made a mold? Or did they make a mould. I suspect that perhaps they made a mould based on context. Mould: a hollow form or matrix for giving a particular shape to something in a molten or plastic state. Mold: a fungus that grows in the form of multicellular filaments called hyphae.

  4. not new on Beyond the Liberator: A 3D-Printed Plastic 9mm Semi-Auto Pistol · · Score: 1

    A quick release valve on a pressure cylinder + a pipe and some kind of dart or other metal projectile can easily kill a human. Redneck home brews like this are not exactly new. People are just all excited because you can practically buy a 3D printer, download the mode, hit print, and you've got a gun. That's so much harder than basic pneumatic/plumbing knowledge...or the ability to follow directions on the internet with difficulty on par with baking cupcakes or building an ikea chair.

  5. A BMW customer? on Elon Musk Cancels Stewart Alsop's Tesla Order Over Complaints About Launch Event · · Score: 5, Funny

    Why am I not surprised that he's also a BMW driver/customer? He might as well get "stuck up, rich douchebag" tattooed on his forehead.

  6. why is this not a thing? on Dutch Police Train Bald Eagles To Take Out Drones · · Score: 1

    Can't someone build a $5 jammer and whoever is controlling a drone no longer can? There aren't many completely AI drones and they certainly don't cost under $1 million. That's easier than eagles and by definition a jammer for that frequency won't interfere with any electronics that the original transmitting controller for the drone would have.

  7. the other side of the story on Fine Brothers File For Trademark On Word "React" · · Score: 3

    On youtube, facebook, and comedy and meme sites the two are getting utterly destroyed. For example, one member said that one of the fine brothers' meth addict looking eyes couldn't be shown on youtube because Steve Buscemi has prior art. The real problem people see is first, they're "franchising" out something they don't own in the first place (a video format as opposed to their actual brand name) while secondly potentially preparing to sue everyone who reacts to viral videos in a similar way to their common format. Well guess what, anyone and everyone can make a "let's play" and it's a similar format because in the US you can't patent or trademark or copyright general presentation formats.

  8. maybe because it's not on Why Does Twitter Refuse To Shut Down Donald Trump? (vortex.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I hate Donal Trump but I also have a brain. Saying "some Mexicans crossing the border illegally are felons and rapists" is not racist, it's true and an actual political problem. What Democrats (and idiots) HEAR is "all Mexicans are rapists and felons." It's not like he's tweeting "white power" or something blatantly racist.

  9. She lives in pretend land on US Gov't Confirms Clinton Emails Contained Top-Secret Information (thenextweb.com) · · Score: 1, Informative

    I swear, Clinton lives in her own little reality. Her husband was impeached. She was caught lying soooooo many times. People generally don't like and distrust her. She got caught in like a dozen scandals. Now she's in the middle of possible federal charges and she's running for president! In fact, she got endorsed by Planned Parenthood and even their turbo-liberal base started lashing out at her and them. On what planet does she think she's going to win the election? The fact that she's still running is incontrovertible proof of mental illness and I don't think that's a great qualification for president of the USA.

    Hillary for Prison 2016!

  10. the ultimate troll on Filmmaker Forces Censors To Watch 10-Hour Movie of Paint Drying (ibtimes.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    I'd add 1 second of a swear word on screen somewhere inside the movie and if they didn't catch it, never let them hear the end of it.

  11. my experience on The Trouble With Intel's Management Engine (hackaday.com) · · Score: 1

    In my experience, on late model DDR3 and DDR4-based chipsets, the ME driver is unstable, does absolutely nothing, is now included in Windows Update so you can't ignore it unless you disable it. Some early model computers around 2009-ish will not boot if ME is turned off in the BIOS so why is there even an option in the BIOS to turn it off? NOBODY actually uses it for anything, even in most corporate IT environments. I also heard some computers can use it to turn on from a dead power off, allegedly. It's almost like Intel decided they had too much business and too much of an advantage over AMD and wanted to shot themselves in a foot a couple times.

  12. no it isn't on Netflix's Doomed Battle Against VPNs Begins (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 2

    Does the credit card reside in the same country as their IP address? THE END.
    In fact, take their credit card billing address and just use that for zone licensing and ignore their IP address. It's rather difficult to get a credit card with a billing address in a country you don't reside in and aren't a citizen of.

  13. counting is fun on Caltech Astronomers Say a Ninth Planet Lurks Beyond Pluto (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 2

    This is what makes me think they're estimating the amount of matter in the universe incorrectly when it comes to the dark matter mathematical discrepancy. They can't even count our own planets correctly. I know the dark matter one is like 10:1 compared to visible light estimates but still, this really outlines how perpetually wrong astronomers are about everything.

  14. marketing on How Amazon's Drone Deliveries Will Work (yahoo.com) · · Score: 0

    I love Amazon's marketing strategy of release info about drone delivery, pretend it was all a practical joke when people laugh at it, then actually try to do it. Calling your own idea crap and then lying about it then doing it anyway is definitely the right way to promote your service.

  15. shouldn't that break the universe? on Distant Supernova Is the Most Powerful Ever Detected (osu.edu) · · Score: 1

    I thought a certain amount of photons in a certain amount of space could by itself collapse into a black hole or tear space or morph into higher wavelength EM or something or other. Like something bad. What are the odds that this did something like that?

  16. why not run it on gravity? on Kite Power: The Latest In Green Technology (thebulletin.org) · · Score: 1

    So wind blows in one direction for the most part and they want to use kites to generate power? Kites blow in one direction too. It takes energy to pull them back. That's why you don't make an unlimited magical energy generator that uses the power of gravity. Gravity pulls in one direction so eventually you have to lift the item against gravity. The same basic principal happens with wind and kites.
    So use that as a starting point and then look at the diagram of the ridiculously over-complicated kite system they somehow "invented" and compare it to a rotating wind turbine, one of the simplest machines ever created. I'll stick with the turbines, thanks.

  17. Re:Xenon molecule, huh? on The Hardware That Searches For Dark Matter (hackaday.com) · · Score: 1, Funny

    It's actually really simple. People who think dark matter exists because it explains why they can't do math properly also think Xenon can bond with itself.

  18. keep waiting on The Hardware That Searches For Dark Matter (hackaday.com) · · Score: -1, Troll

    Not going anywhere for a while? Grab a snickers...and throw it into the large hadron collider because that will tell you more about "dark matter" than this experiment. It's a lot more likely that dark matter and dark energy are just math errors that don't take into account proper universe/space expansion and doesn't understand how gravity really works.

  19. nice summary on NASA's Fermi Satellite Maps Entire Sky, Finds Mysterious Unknown Object · · Score: 1

    This just set the record for the least scientifically accurate summary ever posted on Slashdot. I don't actually think one single word of it is true.

  20. one feature missing on Facebook Replaces Flash With HTML5 For Videos (facebook.com) · · Score: 1

    Now if only they would join the 20th century and let people upload animated GIFs to their posts!

  21. MAAAAAAAAYBE they should go specifically after the ad networks hosting the "we're microsoft, your computer is broke, call us" scam ad networks instead of drive by download malware, which is barely even a thing anymore. You know, since the scammers are PRETENDING TO BE THEM, you would think they'd care.

  22. They're going to turn this into a brown thing on 12-Year-Old Sikh Boy Arrested In Texas After Bringing a Power Bag To School (salon.com) · · Score: 0

    I don't think any followers of the Sikh religion have ever blown anything up ever so this proves that ANYONE coming to school and joking about having a bomb will have consequences. But, of course, they're probably going to say since he wasn't white it's racism and everyone thought his was Arabic or some BS like that when in reality, even when I was 12, nobody asked or cared what your parents' origins were.

  23. here's a question on China Launches Dark Matter Space Probe (nature.com) · · Score: 1

    I have a question. You know how the voyager space probes made it as far as they did and the tiny, tiny, mega super tiny force in one direction that was unknown was determined to be the equal and opposite reaction from infrared photons leaving one side of the craft? NASA noticed something that tiny and verified it with calculations. If dark matter existed, wouldn't that have had a similar pull on one of the probes? It traveled through the entire solar system and saw absolutely no gravitational interference at all from unknown mass. I'd consider that a pretty effective probe that's accidentally looking for dark matter.

  24. I'm 28, I cancelled cable 2.5 years ago, and I refuse to watch another commercial as long as I live. I've hated them since I was 3 or 4 years old and cable did nothing. Fast forward and now how the hell do they think they're going to get around me times a fifty million or so aka everyone my age and younger? They shot themselves in the foot slowly and continuously by basing their business model on annoying the hell out of their customers with pointless, repetitive, low quality crap called commercials and now they've hit a dead end. Cable is dead.

  25. the simple solution on Why Is Gravity the Weakest Force? · · Score: 1

    Maybe it's because most physicists don't consider gravity a force anymore. It's a warping of space which takes a lot of energy/mass and that's why it's so weak.