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  1. Re:Nothing to see here on YouTube Is Removing Some Nootropics Channels (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    I think youtubes capriciousness and lack of transparency suck. But, there is a difference in watching some flat earth videos or believing in aliens vs promoting taking a drug into your body.

  2. Re:Star map link very confusing on ESA Releases Largest Star Map Ever Online (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 2

    I was not referring to the 8MB image. I was referring to the size if all 1.3 billion stars were rendered. The image would be some % ofer 1.3 gigapixels. Rather large.

  3. Re:Star map link very confusing on ESA Releases Largest Star Map Ever Online (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    It is rendered from the data, which is available in the other links. You want to render all the stars, grab the data and do so. For one, I am glad the image was not any larger - I do not need my browser to choke on that.

  4. Re:on the nature of capitalist champions. on George Soros, Rockefeller Take Their Marks Before Diving Into the Cryptocurrency Pool (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 1
  5. Re:Funny on Canada Has Pulled Off a Brain Heist (axios.com) · · Score: 1
    Coal is a dead tech. Any government propping is just that, short-term gain and propping up a dying industry. It is happening whether you like it or not. Oil is next and it will go out harder than coal.

    A government should not be squandering treasure to hold up dying companies and technology. It should be using that treasure (your tax dollars) to prepare. Things like retraining workers to different industries, infrastructure improvements for towns affected to attract other business, etc. Not doing that means that the government is really only looking out for a few wallets now, not you or your family in the future.

  6. Re:just run the 2nd OS in a VM and call it a day on Ask Slashdot: Why Are There No True Dual-System Laptops Or Tablet Computers? · · Score: 3, Informative

    Or .. bring a decent tablet or chromebook. I have a gen 2 nexus 7 that I take for this. Has all my personal stuff, can get to work email if needed, great for personal banking/media/whatever in a hotel or airport. Small size, no potential for ANY exploit like an SOC that shares some other piece of HW and may have an unknown exploit leading back to storage on the host machine.

  7. Re:I am sick of the negative news/info/verbiage... on YouTube Is Full of Easy-To-Find Neo-Nazi Propaganda (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    I like EEVblog. Have never seen this old Tony. Will have to see what it is about.

  8. Re:I am sick of the negative news/info/verbiage... on YouTube Is Full of Easy-To-Find Neo-Nazi Propaganda (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    your comment is doubleplusungood

  9. Re:I am sick of the negative news/info/verbiage... on YouTube Is Full of Easy-To-Find Neo-Nazi Propaganda (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    BigClive is awesome! I don't watch it as much though as his videos tend to be longer than I want in a single session.

  10. Re:I am sick of the negative news/info/verbiage... on YouTube Is Full of Easy-To-Find Neo-Nazi Propaganda (vice.com) · · Score: 2
    There are great channels on youtube. The platform itself sucks, but if you want exposure and/or revenue it is the main contender.

    Some good channels:

    Tested
    AVE
    Cody'sLab
    Applied Science
    Practical Engineering
    Scott Manley
    ElectroBOOM
    Periodic Videos
    NileRed
    NurdRage

  11. Re:Low-power CPU; hacked sites; NoScript for secur on Google's Chrome Ad Blocking Arrives Tomorrow (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Yes to all of the above, but asking permission and then using the viewers computing resources for whatever makes the most sense for the content distributor is an interesting model. Does not have to be coinhive, also if you block the script, you could be blocked from the site, just as forbes and others do with adblockers now.

  12. TFA, not TFS states 25-30ms. If you have questions, maybe take time to actually read rather than shitpost. But, this is /.

  13. Re:How much lower latency? What speed? on SpaceX Hits Two Milestones In Plan For Low-Latency Satellite Broadband (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Did you read? These will be (extremely) LEO satellites as opposed to geo-sync ones. That means not 32000 KM up, but much closer. The biggest contributer to latency is the distance, so instead of 250-300ms up and another 250-300ms back to ground, you get 5-15ms one way. Total bandwidth is of more interest/concern to me.

  14. Re:Wait, whats a GPU? on Crypto-currency Craze 'Hinders Search For Alien Life' (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Well if SETI needs them, GPU must actually mean gray-skin processing unit.

  15. Re:Translation on Google's Chrome Ad Blocking Arrives Tomorrow (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    4th option - Coinhive: https://arstechnica.com/inform...

  16. Re:Most powerful... 13? on The Next Falcon Heavy Will Carry the Most Powerful Atomic Clock Ever Launched (space.com) · · Score: 2

    My kingdom for mod points.

  17. Windows does not allow one app to grab the focus and hold it without malicious trickery. The only thing that could is kernel level processes like UAC prompts. This has been the case for a long time.

    Of course an app can have modal windows within itself for UI reasons - this is perfectly normap

    In this case because chrome (and other apps) cannot legally lock the system UI, they do it by thrashing disk IO (which certainly has a large effect on memory and CPU utilization too), effectively freezing the system. IE a malicious workaround.

    My point about chromium is that if the GP was lamenting chrome not being open source and vetted, he is wrong - most of it can be. The major differences between chromium and chrome are the pdf viewer, and some proprietary media codecs that are closed and built into chrome. While I do not agree with some of what google does, Chrome is not malware and is probably the best browser out there.

  18. Chromium is open... what are you blathering about?

  19. Re:Wasted research. Answer already known. on Many Animals Can Count, Some Better Than You (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1
    Wasted? Understanding how brains handle mathematical functions useless?

    You must not be able to count the ways the research can be beneficial.

  20. I hat twatter and do not use it, but from all I have read bitfinex and tether are suspect at least and deserving of criticism. Do not know about Lee and coinbase, but I just sold a bunch of etherum and coinbase had my cash in the bank within a day, so no anecdotal issues from my end.

  21. If the authorities have keys to everyone's houses then you have:

    1. Made the location of those keys a target for criminals with a huge payoff.
    2. Made it easy for certain of the authorities themselves to abuse those keys for illegitimate purposes.

    The sickening thins is that this is a bi-partisan issue, that BOTH sides have horrible track records for. It seems that privacy and security of their constituents takes a back seat to anything else. Wonder why that is.

  22. Re:Nothing new here.... on Pedestrian Attacks Self-driving Car in the Mission (curbed.com) · · Score: 1

    A self driving car also has a pile of sensors and cameras. Good luck to that moron if that was the motive.

  23. Re:Louder? Sure, the rest? I don't even bother lis on Is Pop Music Becoming Louder, Simpler and More Repetitive? (bbc.co.uk) · · Score: 1
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

    This is much of why. Dynamics are gone for many recordings and 'remasters'/reissues. I think one of the reasons I like Tool is that they pay close attention to dynamics. They are rhythmically great, and lyrically great, but Adam Jones is not a very new idea driven guitarist.

    When dynamics are gone, and all is compressed (dynamically) together, it gets very tiring to my ears, very quickly.

  24. Re:That ain't be pop on Is Pop Music Becoming Louder, Simpler and More Repetitive? (bbc.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    You want better metal.. listen to bands like Elder, Mastodon, Sylosis, and for a real breath of little known fresh air, DVNE from Scotland.

  25. Not surprising... on Airbus A380, Once the Future of Aviation, May Cease Production (nytimes.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful
    In many topologies, a network with more nodes allows for more fail over paths and more flexibility, albeit at the expense of more complex routing. Routing however is not an issue - just look to the IT world for examples.

    So, it is not surprising - especially of the cost of mid-size planes decreases - that airlines would go this way.