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  1. Re:It will only be competition if you can find it on NVIDIA Launches GeForce GTX 1060 To Take On AMD's Radeon RX 480 (hothardware.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm curious. How does VGA passthrough work with virtualization? Is the host treated as a headless server while the one guest the VGA card is assigned to gets a display? Does the VGA card get reset and handed back to the host when that particular guest is shut down?

    Or do you have two video cards/monitors, one for the host and one for the guest? In that case, do you also have a separate keyboard/mouse for this guest? If not, how does the keyboard/mouse input get assigned to the guest? (Synergy?)

  2. Re:Test mode all the time? on Volkswagen Sued For Violating State Environmental Statutes With Dieselgate (theverge.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    It detects that it's running on the dynamometer. You'd have to somehow run it on an actual street to get the non-test-mode results.

  3. Re:Stupid python comment on The Slashdot Interview With Larry Wall · · Score: 1

    using % or , (comma), but for some reason "comma is safe" (I do not understand this syntactical inconsistency)

    In python, % is an operator, taking the items on the right-hand side and inserting them into the string on the left-hand side. This operator is not SQL aware, so the items are simply inserted into the string without even trivial escaping.

    The comma separates arguments, making the list of items a second argument for execute() to properly handle, hopefully using the database's prepared statement execution method.

  4. Re:Good! on Millennials Set To Earn Less Than Generation X (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Companies seeking skilled labor, from developers to the skilled trades, are still see labor shortages

    What a coincidence! I'm seeing a shortage of Maseratis. I'm certainly not going to pay the six figures that entitled car company thinks their car is worth, so I'll just buy a Tata instead.

    It's funny how many people think that labor is somehow exempt from the laws of supply and demand. Oddly, the people who think they shouldn't have to pay more to get more labor never seem to get called "entitled", despite the fact that they've come to the bargaining table with a set number in mind and immediately whine to the government when there's nobody willing to take their peanuts.

  5. Re:End government theft and poverty will go away on The Case Against a Universal Basic Income (vox.com) · · Score: 1

    you would have otherwise made another 15% hadn't the government stolen it from them.

    They don't tell you that because that's a lie and you know it. If employment taxes disappeared tomorrow, employees wouldn't get a single dime extra. The employers will say "you agreed to work for $x" and keep the rest as profit.

    I don't think UBI can succeed, but lying about it isn't going to help make your case.

  6. Re: Heck yes, on Slashdot Asks: Would You Eat Lab-Grown Meat? (dmarge.com) · · Score: 2

    Do you know what they do with the left overs after squeezing the ethanol out? They sell the corn mash as animal feed. The real problem has been drought causing ranchers to cull their herds hard. Fewer cattle to supply beef means higher prices for you.

  7. Re:Because independent variables are easier on Do You Have A Living Doppelgänger? (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    What do you mean people don't come with both ears on one side of the head? Dammit, now I have to redo all my math, and there's half my results out the window. Next thing you know, someone's going to tell me the nose always comes between the eyes!

  8. Re:What is the MightyMartian plan? on Newt Gingrich Says Visiting An ISIS Or Al Qaeda Website Should Be A Felony (techdirt.com) · · Score: 1

    Bring us a solution.

    Here, have some saltwater.

  9. Re:online forums software can be hard to update on Ubuntu Linux Forums Hacked -- IP Address, Username, Email of 2M Accounts Compromised (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    The real problem is that if you google for a tutorial, half the tutorials out there were written before modern database access techniques and nobody ever takes them down, so new programmers become "educated stupid" (to borrow from the timecube guy).

  10. Re:no end-to-end no streaming media on UK Gov Says New Home Sec Will Have Powers To Ban End-to-end Encryption (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 2

    This converts the certificate from the CA model to a trust-on-first-use (TOFU) model.

    It does not. It simply sets a flag saying you trust that certificate. If an attacker replaces it with a CA-signed certificate they control, then your computer will still trust that certificate under the CA model.

  11. Re:RF harvesting can work for power. on CleanSpace CO Sensor Runs On Freevolt RF Harvesting · · Score: 2

    is not suitable to power wifi or bluetooth devices

    What?! Are you telling me I can't scavenge enough power from background RF noise to broadcast a signal stronger than the background RF noise?!

  12. That's why we got HDCP as an attempt to plug the "if you can play it, you can save it" hole. And we know how it went.

    Yeah, my 4K monitor works 100% better in Linux than in Windows. I have had 0 flickers with the noveau driver and displayport since switching to Linux, where on Windows, the screen would have horizontal black bands flicker across it on a daily basis, and at least once a week the screen would just go black while browsing the web or playing a game and just refuse to come back until the monitor was powercycled.

  13. Because it works by delaying frames on Ask Slashdot: Why Don't Graphics Cards For VR Use Real-Time Motion Compensation? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    In order to add a frame between 1 and 2, you have to have received both frame 1 and frame 2. People are already getting sick because what they see and do don't match, you're going to make it worse by making what they see lag further behind what little the headset picks up.

  14. Re:Posting jobs is so 2000 on Tech Job Postings Are Down 40% On Popular Job Boards (medium.com) · · Score: 1

    That means their office is located in one of those shopping center strips, between the dry cleaner and the payday loan place.

  15. designed using micro-services on large-scale distributed computing and container-based environments on the Cloud

    This is where Arnold hangs up and tells the kid the Java developers are dead.

  16. Re:Always on Ask Slashdot: Is It Ever OK To Quit Without Giving Notice? · · Score: 4, Funny

    Based on OP's demand to show as much loyalty that they show you, your brother is now required to give 4 years' notice.

  17. Re:Private Company on Facebook Decides Which Killings We're Allowed to See · · Score: 5, Insightful

    If you don't read the newspaper, you're uninformed.
    If you read the newspaper, you're misinformed.

    -- Mark Twain

  18. Re: I remembe seeing her on TV on Theranos Faces Congressional Inquiry Over Faulty Blood Tests (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    I think I can invent a whole new way to process blood tests so they can work with just a tiny drop of blood!

    -- over-self-confident millennial

    I can't make my invention work so I'll just buy other people's equipment, dilute the drop of blood until I can fill the test tube, and tell people I invented a whole new way to process blood tests!

    -- fraudster

  19. Re:Keep it simple on TP-LINK Loses Control of Two Device Configuration Domains (helpnetsecurity.com) · · Score: 1

    These days, routers seem determined to pick random IP addresses to try and force you to use their configuration tools. My home router is .1.254. Thankfully route still works to tell me where the router is.

    Chrome used to do a pretty fancy thing where it would autocomplete your router's IP address (and say that this is your router's address). It doesn't seem to do that anymore.

  20. RIP tazed guy, another victim of slashdot's inability to support unicode.

  21. Re:Yep. on Security Researcher Gets Threats Over Amazon Review (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    The original Catcher in the Rye quote was about being so uninteresting/difficult to interact with that nobody would ever bother you.

    Laughing Man's trick was managing to achieve that while still participating in human society.

  22. Re:Install GRC's "Never 10" on Microsoft Prepares One Final, Full-Screen Get Windows 10 Nag (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Yeah! just run this program you downloaded off some random website with admin privileges! That's what I should have told my mother!

  23. Re:That's not "net neutrality" on Europe's 'Net Neutrality' Rules Fail to Ban BitTorrent Throttling (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 1

    it's hard to see how preventing DDoS attacks at the network level

    I believe the vast majority of DDoS attacks could be trivially blocked outbound from the source if ISPs performed egress filtering on their end-user networks that check to make sure the packet leaving their network has a source address that is inside their network. Many of these attacks involve using spoofed requests to DNS servers and other "reflector" services that return a large amount of data to what it believes is the source IP. It is hard to argue that blocking improperly addressed traffic and blocking bittorrent are the same.

    As for the rest of your argument, I mostly agree, yet still I worry that once you say you can throttle people by protocol, Comcast can make a "special" protocol just for Hulu and throttle everyone else not using that protocol. Personally I think the correct thing to do is to only sell what you can deliver, and if you can't deliver 150MBit to everyone then stop letting people take that offer.

  24. Re:Please shut up on The Moral Dilemma of Driverless Cars: Save The Driver or Save The Crowd? · · Score: 1

    You are in a self driving car on a freeway going 100kph, out of a fucking wormhole 10 children and a puppy suddenly appear in your lane, in the other lane appears a brick wall. Which do you want the car to hit, what if you're also Jeff motherfucking Goldblum and have to save the world?!?!

    In that situation the only acceptable solution is to execute a bat turn and recalculate a path through the saner part of the city.

  25. Re:Not quite always on The Moral Dilemma of Driverless Cars: Save The Driver or Save The Crowd? · · Score: 1

    That's actually kind of a lot to expect from a computer at this stage though

    Which is why I'm not riding in a driverless car at this stage.

    To butcher a quote from the Matrix: "when you're ready, you won't have to swerve"