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  1. Re:NX and SSE2 on Microsoft's Windows 8 App Store Is Full of Scamware · · Score: 1

    They initially offered it in the store, and that buggy release crashed some PCs, including one of mine, on install. It then encouraged us to reinstall Windows from scratch, losing data, even though it was possible to recover back to Win 8.0 without data loss. It was a mess.

    They later moved it to Windows update, where it automatically installed correctly even on PCs that were screwed up by the Windows store 8.1 release, so I think you're imagining something that's not the actual reason, and the real reason was to drive traffic to the nearly-useless Windows Store.

  2. Re:Well, There You Go. on Climate Damage 'Irreversible' According Leaked Climate Report · · Score: 1

    You sound as far gone as Glenn Beck. You're completely lost if you actually believe the wingnut delusion that you've posted.

  3. Re:Beyond what humans can do on Climate Damage 'Irreversible' According Leaked Climate Report · · Score: 1, Interesting

    It's funny how delusional people like frikken lazers think that pointing out that he's in Republican alternate reality means that nuts are censoring his message. These AGW deniers are just as cracked as evolution deniers, and are often the same people. I hope he gets some professional help.

  4. Re:Prior art on Whole Organ Grown In Animal For First Time · · Score: 0

    What do you think went into the zygote? No eggs, or more than one egg?

  5. Re:Very subjective on Ask Slashdot: Would You Pay For Websites Without Trolls? · · Score: 0

    If someone is so crazy that they think a sky-fairy poofed the world into existence 5000 years ago, they might as well be a troll. Opposing viewpoints that are based in fantasy don't add anything to the discussion, and might as well be removed since all they do is remind us that there's a know-nothing subculture in America.

  6. Re:First World Problems on Ask Slashdot: What Recliner For a Software Developer? · · Score: 1

    >A "Zero G" chair, like the ones by Human Touch (I use a Human Touch Perfect Chair),

    Wow, the table part of those chairs is about the price I'd expect the whole chair to be, and the chair costs as much as a decent motorcycle.

  7. Re:This is going to end so well for them! on T-Mobile To Throttle Customers Who Use Unlimited LTE Data For Torrents/P2P · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Of course it this case it IS ethically right. There's no moral requirement to let abusive users who violate the TOS take up far more than their share of a limited resource.

  8. Re:Of course on Study: Firmware Plagued By Poor Encryption and Backdoors · · Score: 1

    You can't blame the summary.

    Anyone who's been here for more than a couple of days knows that the summaries are often extremely misleading.

  9. Re:Thank GOD on Intel's 14-nm Broadwell CPU Primed For Slim Tablets · · Score: 1

    4K video and pictures on a tablet would look amazing, and a 4K display could display text much more clearly than a 1080p one.

    The only thing that makes 4K on a tablet less desirable than 1080p to me is that a tablet would need a much faster, and presumable power-hungry, graphics subsystem to drive all the pixels in a 4K display, especially for gaming.

  10. Re:Really? on Cornering the Market On Zero-Day Exploits · · Score: 1

    >If you just tell the company and not anyone else, chances are they will thank you, or arrest you, then not put the time or money into fixing the problem.

    If you're fearful, and maybe it this case you're right to be, you can always anonymously report exploits to the company that released the software.

  11. Re:First.... on WHO Declares Ebola Outbreak An International Emergency · · Score: 1

    It's never to late to go insane.

  12. Re:They deserve it on California Man Sues Sony Because Killzone: Shadowfall Isn't Really 1080 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    720p is absolutely HD, regardless of what's happened to your mind.

  13. Re:First post on Snowden Granted 3 More Years of Russian Residency · · Score: 1

    >The longer he waits, the more he proves that he's really not interested in the cause, just in himself and getting his 15 min of fame.

    I just hope he realizes that America-hating blogger/grifter Glenn Greenwald conned him into committing a serious crime and ruining his life. If he still has delusions that he's some kind of hero as Putin's puppet, that's just sad.

  14. Re:First post on Snowden Granted 3 More Years of Russian Residency · · Score: -1

    >What Snowdon did was absoloutely morally the correct thing to do. He did it for his country and the greater good of its citizens.

    That's pure bullshit, and indicates that you're totally overlooking his treachery because you liked to hear one small part of what he revealed. How are you OK with his exposing our legitimate activities spying on terrorists?

  15. Re:He left in 1002? on Peter Hoddie Talks About His Internet of Things Construction Kit (Video) · · Score: 1

    Back then Apple sold actual apples and Quicktime was a primitive clock.

  16. Re:Legitimate concerns on UK Government Report Recommends Ending Online Anonymity · · Score: 1

    >I don't see any reason to think this is true. The RL identities of most bullies are already known to those being bullied, yet the bullying persists.

    Yep, and some of the most abusive right-wing lunatics on twitter post under their real names, because in the wingnut subculture being horrible, and bullying anyone who's smarter than the Fox News manufactured-reality crowd, is something to be proud of. When a whole subculture sucks, being terrible holds no social repercussions.

  17. I thought that the OR2 delivered a 1080p display on iFixit Takes Apart the Oculus Rift DK2, Finds Galaxy Note 3 Display Inside · · Score: 1

    It's disappointing to see that each eye is just 1/2 1080p because it uses a single 1080p phone display shared by both eyes.

  18. Re:Good... on Unesco Probing Star Wars Filming In Ireland · · Score: 3, Insightful

    When I re-watched Star Wars for the first time as an adult, I was shocked at how whiney Luke was. As a child I didn't notice how unlikable the character is.

  19. Re:A Progression of Complaints on UK To Allow Driverless Cars By January · · Score: 1

    If they can manage to use a passing lane to pass, then move to the right, they'll be less of a hazard to traffic than around half of human drivers.

    If they can operate at the speed limit, they'll be moving faster than most Prius drivers.

    Any complaints will be coming from morons.

  20. Re:What's the market for this? on $299 Android Gaming Tablet Reviewed · · Score: 1

    >. Who is the target market?

    People who don't live alone, and have to let others use their home theater at times, but still want to use the gaming PC that's in the theater.

  21. Re:Nvidia's support of Tegra has been abysmal on $299 Android Gaming Tablet Reviewed · · Score: 1

    Considering the low price, I don't think any insanity is required to take a chance on it, and I've been burned buy Nvidia before with a $1000 piece of 3D hardware that they dropped support for soon after its release. At least with this, you still have an Android tablet if Nvidia abandons it.

  22. Re:my ipad 2 still works on Do Apple and Google Sabotage Older Phones? What the Graphs Don't Show · · Score: 1

    My Galaxy note still works fine too, though I no longer use it as a phone. High end hardware tends to remain useful for years.

  23. Re:not a permanent fix on Laser Eye Surgery, Revisited 10 Years Later · · Score: 1

    My near vision out to about 5 feet improved tremendously in my early 40s, and is still crystal clear at 47. I expect that wouldn't be the case had I had surgical correction to improve distant vision in my 30s.

  24. Re:Another Malaysian Air 777 on Malaysian Passenger Plane Reportedly Shot Down Over Ukraine · · Score: 1

    >What, is the 777 supposed to be equipped with flares and chaff now?

    If the pilots are dumb enough to fly over a war zone, yes! They seem to have been far north of where they should have been.

  25. Re:PPC macs were awful on Nearly 25 Years Ago, IBM Helped Save Macintosh · · Score: 2

    A coworker has a power mac that with just a battery replacement works fine to this day. The only problem is that the change to Intel means that no modern software will run on it. It still works with the old software though, and the old version of Garage Band is still very usable today.