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  1. Re: Good Time to Stop Hardware Obsolencene on Intel Optimistic About Its Next-Gen 7nm Process Technology (anandtech.com) · · Score: 1

    Perhaps the same benchmarks only show minor gains because they don't use the new instructions the more modern CPU's support.

  2. Re:Good Time to Stop Hardware Obsolencene on Intel Optimistic About Its Next-Gen 7nm Process Technology (anandtech.com) · · Score: 1

    AMD's gaming mode disables half the cores because half of them have a crippled memory bus. The four chip package only has two memory controllers. Two of the chips need to access memory via the other two.

  3. Re:I for one welcome... on 24 Amazon Workers Sent To Hospital After Robot Accidentally Unleashes Bear Spray · · Score: 1

    So you admit the UK is better than the USA, as they use 999 for emergency services.

  4. Re: I for one welcome... on 24 Amazon Workers Sent To Hospital After Robot Accidentally Unleashes Bear Spray · · Score: 2

    She's right though, bear spray would be excellent for attacking mountain bikers.

  5. Re:I for one welcome... on 24 Amazon Workers Sent To Hospital After Robot Accidentally Unleashes Bear Spray · · Score: 1

    When a human puts something in the wrong place, a robot hits it, ruptures a can of bear spray and every starts crying.

  6. Re:I for one welcome... on 24 Amazon Workers Sent To Hospital After Robot Accidentally Unleashes Bear Spray · · Score: 1

    There would be no risk if all the workers were replaced with robots.

  7. Re:I for one welcome... on 24 Amazon Workers Sent To Hospital After Robot Accidentally Unleashes Bear Spray · · Score: 1

    If a worker with a forklift did it, the forklift wouldn't be able to carry on its duty, as the operator would require medical attention.
    The robot just needs a hose down to stop contamination spreading and can continue running with minimal down time.

    Robots: 1
    Squishy bags of meat: 0

  8. Switch back to CRT's on Motion Impossible: Tom Cruise Declares War on TV Frame Interpolation (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Old CRT's have built in analog frame interpolation.
    You only needed 24FPS for smooth motion because the phosphors in the tube didn't respond instantly and blurred the frames together.
    Now with faster update rates for screens, it makes 24FPS seem choppy, so TV manufacturers do the blurring digitally or no one is going to "upgrade" to a TV that gives them a headache when they watch a movie.

    The better the screens get, the most processing they do to the image.

  9. Yeah, he just wants the camera angle to be right, so he doesn't look like a midget.

  10. People steal expensive cars because they're expensive.
    People steal fast cars because they're fun to drive.
    People steal easy to steal cars because they need a car to commit a crime.

    Someone probably stole your truck to rob someone's house. They then ditch it and set it on fire.

  11. I'm going to assume you have the came combination on your luggage as me.

  12. Re:A chromium based browser to download a chromium on Microsoft Is Embracing Chromium, Bringing Edge To Windows 7, Windows 8, and Mac · · Score: 2

    Because Microsoft will support it. Ticking the "Vendor support agreement" box is a requirement for a PHB signoff

  13. Bluetooth low energy is designed to do just that. Last years on a coin cell transmitting as often as every few milliseconds. Most do a few times per second.

  14. Yes, like my 2005 Accord. But who'd want to steal a 13 year old honda?

  15. Encrypted passwords? on Quora Data Breach Exposes 100 Million Users' Personal Info (cbsnews.com) · · Score: 1

    I hope not. That implies they're not one-way hashed and if they've stolen the encryption key too, they can obtain the actual password.
    That would be an amature security mistake on Quora's part.

  16. Re: You see police upset about strong encryption & on Qualcomm Announces the Snapdragon 855 and Its New Under-display Fingerprint Sensor (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    So when a hacker gets your porn collection and uses it to blackmail you, threatening they'll show it to your family, that's fine?

  17. Re:You see police upset about strong encryption &a on Qualcomm Announces the Snapdragon 855 and Its New Under-display Fingerprint Sensor (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    That's an article about how scanning two different fingerprints when the phone is expecting one means both fingerprints can unlock the phone.
    The phone thinks the two prints are different parts of the same finger.

    Sure, you could probably lift a fingerprint off a glass, 3D print a mold and make a fake one. But you only get 5 attempts to get it right. Then you need to enter the unlock code. Zero attempts if the phone is power cycled, or it randomly decides to disable fingerprint unlock, or it's been too long since the last unlock.
    That's how it works on Android anyway.

  18. Re:Talk about ignoring the elephant in the room on Elon Musk Says Autopilot Will Soon Recognize Emergency Response Vehicles (inverse.com) · · Score: 1

    As long as you fall asleep with your hand on the wheel, you're good. Until you approach an off ramp that the car confuses for a lane, and kills you when it hits the divider.

  19. Courier drivers would have something to say about that.

    Your average CAR doesn't drive 130,000 miles per year. People who do drive that far, with regular servicing, achieve similar mileage.

  20. So because a manufacturer chooses to spend more money on warranty parts than they received in the original transaction, that makes the product more reliable?

  21. Re:Make $XXm, get fined $XXk on Floyd Mayweather, DJ Khaled Charged For Illegally Touting Crypto Offerings (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    They've been ordered to pay back the money they were paid, with interest, in addition to the fines.

  22. Re:It's all because of the metric system... on 'The Supremacy of Japanese Cars Has Been 40-Plus Years In the Making' (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    First time I've heard someone claim that new car buyers are concerned about having to buy two sets of spanners to work on their car.

  23. Re:duh on 'The Supremacy of Japanese Cars Has Been 40-Plus Years In the Making' (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 2, Informative

    And it's on it's 3rd battery, after only 3 years.

  24. What hes actually saying is "We did what we have always and will always do. We compromised on due process, safety and regulations with the goal of getting more money. We're Uber, it's what we do."

  25. Re:Yes, tunnels have Environmental Impacts. on Elon Musk's Boring Company Cancels Los Angeles Tunnel Following Lawsuit (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    Nah, you just start digging. If something happens and all your tunnels turn out to be useless, well the subsidiary files bankruptcy and it's all someone else's problem.

    It's called startup culture. Think big, push forward, fail fast. Someone else will clean up your mess, hopefully after the IPO. The VC's are taking all the risk right now and you'll get paid either way.