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  1. Re:Is Windows 7 supported? on AMD 2nd Gen Ryzen Processors Launched and Benchmarked (hothardware.com) · · Score: 0

    Its still going to be a serious hit to modern games.

    Just because the GPU passes through, doesn't mean the CPU doesn't take a hit. Unless, perhaps, with some sort of ultra-thin OS "dedicated VM host" instead of hosting on Linux or Windows.

    There are various benchmarks and stats to read online if you're so inclined.

  2. Re:Bringing competition back to the market on AMD 2nd Gen Ryzen Processors Launched and Benchmarked (hothardware.com) · · Score: 1

    I like my AMD but you need to be more specific.

    Because Intel's patches only have large impacts on tiny code thats run super often, that saves it's state. Network packet handlers in servers.

    On games, if you lose 2%, you've still got a CPU 382% faster than the highest AMD CPU, for like, $180.

    Again, I'm posting from an FX-8370. But get your facts straight.

  3. Re: Duh? on Finland Is Killing Its Basic Income Experiment (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 0

    "I don't need work"

    Hah. Tell that to all the retired men who either get part-time jobs, or basically die from loss of testosterone from lack of purpose.

  4. Re:veterans? on Amazon Employee Explains the Poor Working Conditions of An Amazon Warehouse · · Score: 1

    Wait, I thought progressives told us IQ is meaningless.

  5. Re:It's Trump's Fault on Southwest Airlines Engine Failure Results In First Fatality On US Airline In 9 Years (heavy.com) · · Score: 0, Troll

    You people are worse than the "trolls."

    Can we go ONE thread without jumping backflips off of moving platforms in 4-D mental gymnastics to blame LITERALLY EVERYTHING on the President?

    Except when the economy gets better. Then it's the previous President to thank.

  6. I have Windows Enterprise.

    It's just as shitty as my Pro computers. Half the "privacy" features you think you can disable, break other essential parts of the operating system... like Windows Update.

  7. Re:Good gravy on Pentagon Reports 2000% Increase in Russia Trolls Since Friday (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    >That being said, no one is going to jail for not being careful enough with classified information. They will lose a security clearance though.

    WTF. They sent that Navy guy to jail for the EXACT SAME kind of "unintentional" disclosure.

    https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Kr...

    Where do you get your weed, I want some.

    You crazies love to cite that "blacks get treated differently for the same crime" but apparently, "super-powerful, affluent, white women, married to an ex-president" don't get treated differently for the same crime?

  8. Re:They forgot to take the 'take one free' sign do on 19-Year-Old Archivist Charged For Downloading Freedom-of-Information Releases (www.cbc.ca) · · Score: 1

    It's basically like going to a library and pulling your book. And then there's another whole row of books right next to yours and you look at them that just so happens to be "FORBIDDEN KNOWLEDGE!@#!1111".

  9. Re:Edit Address Line Is Not Hacking on 19-Year-Old Archivist Charged For Downloading Freedom-of-Information Releases (www.cbc.ca) · · Score: 1

    And war is peace.

  10. I used: VIRUS DETECTED

    for awhile

  11. Re:Obama campaign? Redirect to /dev/null on Facebook Launches Bug Bounty Program To Report Data Thieves (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Seriously. It's hilarious to watch the mental gymnastics of Google's CEO openly tauting that he's DIRECTLY working with a presidential candidate to "use our data" to help the candidate.

      - Facebook sold some ads. Who the fuck reads Facebook ads?
      - Google literally used their entire platform (read: tracking your information) + "muh algorithms" to assist a candidate.

    And IN RETURN, the CEO got, and I quote, "a virtual open door to access the White House at will"

    https://www.googletransparency...

    https://theintercept.com/2016/...

    https://mashable.com/2009/04/2...

    https://www.wired.com/2008/11/...

    https://www.politico.com/story...

    https://www.theguardian.com/te...

    "Eric Schmitt, 'CEO of America' "

    And these are LIBERAL WEBSITES running these articles. So you can't even play the whole "alt-right / foxnews / fakenews / Russia-wrote-it" Red Herring bullshit.

    Of course, I don't know why we're restricting to Obama either. Under Hillary, they did the same thing (for likely the same quid-pro-quo arrangement):

    https://www.washingtonpost.com...

    http://www.googletransparencyp...

    https://qz.com/823922/eric-sch...

    https://www.politico.com/magaz...

    https://qz.com/520652/groundwo...

    So with literally DOZENS upon dozens of professional articles dedicated to the subject from dozens of separate news organizations, anyone who ignores this well-established fact is throwing their head in the sand and humming, and not worthy of a debate response and should be downvoted accordingly for low signal-to-noise ratio.

      -> Google did everything Facebook did, and far more.

  12. Uhh... calling Goodhart? on Ask Slashdot: Should CPU, GPU Name-Numbering Indicate Real World Performance? · · Score: 1

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

      "When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure."

    "All metrics of scientific evaluation are bound to be abused. Goodhart's law (named after the British economist who may have been the first to announce it) states that when a feature of the economy is picked as an indicator of the economy, then it inexorably ceases to function as that indicator because people start to game it.[6]"

  13. Re:Trump? on Microsoft Email Privacy Case No Longer Needed, Says The US (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Man, you guys really hate facts.

    Obama had 8 years of office, and never gave undocumented immigrants their citizenship.

    Downmod away! I can tell the closer I get to the truth, the more you react with votes instead of facts.

  14. Trump? on Microsoft Email Privacy Case No Longer Needed, Says The US (cnn.com) · · Score: -1, Troll

    >which was tucked into the spending bill that Trump signed March 23.

    A bipartisan (read: tons of Democrats) group of representatives wrote the bill, passed it, and plopped it on his desk. A spending bill that was so big he said "He would never sign another one like it again."

    So yeah, shit on Trump all you want.

    But, if you want PROGRESS, maybe you should find out if your shit-head representative WROTE and PASSED the damn bill that took away your rights. Because as evil as Republicans are, pretending the Democrats aren't, is literally allowing shit bills like this to pass.

  15. Get ready newbs. on FCC Authorizes SpaceX's Ambitious Satellite Internet Plans · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    'Cuz I'm gonna pwn you with my 5000 ms ping!

    Starsiege: Tribes anyone???

  16. Re:Fact checking on Facebook Begins 'Fact-Checking' Photos, Videos (reuters.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I'm blown away that Slashdotters are fine giving Facebook, a multi-billion dollar corporation, the benefit-of-the-doubt regarding their ability to regulate and censor "effectively and fairly."

    But literally the SAME FRONT PAGE they're out for blood over Facebook (THE SAME COMPANY) over their data collection and selling practices.

    If we can't trust them to not sell our data to ENEMY COUNTRIES, then how can we trust them to regulate and censor "non-facts"?

  17. Re:Never imagined what a mess advertising would be on 90 Percent of Affiliate Ads on YouTube and Pinterest Aren't Disclosed, Says Study (theverge.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Really?

    Before or after:

      - Punch the monkey and win the prize! Flash ads WITH SOUND.
      - Pop ups with stroke lights and dicks
      - Pop UNDERS
      - Closing a pop up opens ANOTHER pop up.

  18. They already posted this?! on EA Created An AI That Taught Itself To Play Battlefield (kotaku.com) · · Score: 1

    How much do you guys get paid to post this marketting crap?

    There is zero "specialness" about a huge company, having some guy employ basic neural nets. The difficulty is not "can AI learn" it's "can AI act like a human" and that's the hard part. THAT is why Quake 3 had ZERO neural nets in their AI.

    This is nothing but a PR blurb.

    There are tons of actual AI videos (and channels!) on YouTube of people teaching AI to play 2-D and 3-D games from scratch. Post those here. But they wont... because nobody is getting paid off.

  19. The answer? on EA Created An AI That Taught Itself To Play Battlefield (kotaku.com) · · Score: 2

    Not that hard. Because they're not trying to mimic human behavior, they're simply trying to win a known system.

    This is nothing but a PR puff piece to market EA. Actual people have been doing "AI plays game" for years upon years. YouTube has TONS of channels dedicated to just that.

  20. I'm all for hating Microsoft... on Microsoft Removes Antivirus Registry Key Check for Windows 10 Users (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 5, Interesting

    ...but screw A/V vendors even more. There are countless devs on huge projects like Firefox and Chrome that talk about how horrible A/V vendors treat your system and even INJECT new vulnerabilities into your system.

    https://it.slashdot.org/story/...

    https://www.theregister.co.uk/...

  21. Slashdot... where the 4th matters, but the 2nd, we'll happily ignore or explain away.

    The 4th amendment was written before modern technology! The founding fathers never meant for us to have computers in our pockets!

  22. Re:Do you know what this will actually do? on Wikipedia Had No Idea YouTube Was Going To Use It To Fact-Check Conspiracy Theories (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 2

    Fuckin' typos + Slashdot no edits. >:(

    > will start to huge a huge influx

    Will start to HAVE a huge influx

  23. Do you know what this will actually do? on Wikipedia Had No Idea YouTube Was Going To Use It To Fact-Check Conspiracy Theories (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    This means the WIKIPEDIA articles will start to huge a huge influx of people who aren't normally wiki editors. And you know what Wikipedia is? Free for ANYONE to edit.

    So what does that do? It means Wikipedia articles that get linked will 1) Have huge bandwidth costs thanks to YouTube, and 2) get edited by people who love conspiracies and end up way shittier.

    Thanks, YouTube!

    Ever think that Rage Against the Machine's Evil Empire album came out like... 15 yeas too early? If they had any idea how big Facebook and Google would become, they would have come up with another 5 albums worth of content.

  24. Re:Stop utilizing 3rd parties on YouTube's New Moderators Mistakenly Pull Right-Wing Channels (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Which is FUCKING HILARIOUS.

    Because someone DID JUST THAT.

    Voat.

    And you know what happened? They got DDoS'd for weeks (if not months). And when THAT didn't stop it? They posted child porn, and then called their ISP and said "Look, you're hosting a child porn website."

    Yeah. All of those people who say "Start your own" are straight up liars. They don't want you to move... they want to "deplatform" you. A literal term, coined by the left. Once the PLATFORM changes? _They go after the next platform._

    They don't even hide it anymore. Look at this one. Where they want their readers to harass any company that supports the NRA, and keep a constant update of who is still holding out, and who has collapsed:

    https://thinkprogress.org/corp...

  25. Re:It's funny... on US House Passes Bill To Penalize Websites For Sex Trafficking (trust.org) · · Score: 1

    >How about just legalizing prostitution,

    Unless you legalize banging children, then you've still got the exact same problem. You've solved nothing.

    We either do, or don't, regulate people's activities. You can talk about moving the line, but simply removing it isn't an option. How is using a regulation to take down prostitution, any different than using the same kinds of regulations and enforcement... to take down child prostitution?

    The only difference is, you support one of those. But the actual enforcement of laws makes no distinction. You can still take down a site like Voat by intentionally flooding it with child porn (which _did_ happen). Or do you think that somehow, there will be less abuse if it's only restricted to stopping child porn? Because... if so, I'd love to hear it.