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  1. Re:We're already being controlled by technology. on Tech Billionaires Are Asking Scientists For Help To Break Humans Out of Computer Simulation (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 1

    If 42 is an answer, what the hell was the question? I think I'll need to build a simulation that will use its compute power to reverse engineer it. I'll need a few people to help me out in the Attic with this project, too.

  2. Re:STOP! THINK! on Interviews: Ask Martin Shkreli a Question · · Score: 1

    I hypothesize that Whipslash saw a mountain of opportunity to offload a stalling investment into and told his 'editors' to put this baby into a nosedive directly at it. Seriously, I'm at a loss to explain why anyone would allow this shit on the site aside from a deliberate and willful sabotage attempt.

  3. Re:Doctor Doctor Give Me The News on Multiple Linux Distributions Affected By Crippling Bug In Systemd (agwa.name) · · Score: 1

    Wow...ok. It's called I power off the system when I'm not expecting to use it within the next several hours, and I have the network card disabled when the system is off. Therefore, its connection to the internet only exists when It's powered on, hence its connection is not permanent. I really hope you didn't pull a muscle with that excessively long reach for something to troll on.

  4. Re:Doctor Doctor Give Me The News on Multiple Linux Distributions Affected By Crippling Bug In Systemd (agwa.name) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I've got 3 separate servers that all run different OSes. 1 in-house with direct control running Gentoo with OpenRC. Then there's the two VPS's. One is running CentOs 6.7 with Upstart. Then there's the PoS VPS I have free on Microsoft Azure running Ubuntu something-or-other with SystemD. Nothing critical is on this server...it just serves as a lab environment and data passthrough. The only time I've ever run SystemD on a system I own with physical access was on my primary desktop...which is never permanently online to begin with.

    There have been too many points with a systemd system that I don't trust. Nothing to date with the system has personally affected me to say it's as worthless as I think. I just never trusted it because it just felt too much like a Windows Registry clone in how it worked, which in itself screams that it cannot be trusted. This bug seems to prove my intuition correct.

  5. I use TWM you insensitive clod!

  6. Re:don't get your hope up on No Man's Sky Under Investigation For False Advertising (polygon.com) · · Score: 1

    Read it aga...oh never mind. I'll spell it out for ya, Francis.

    $2 Theater on Half-Price Tuesdays.

    Normal price for a movie: $2.

    Half-Price: $1.

    $1 divided by a 2 hr movie = $0.50 per hour.

    Got it, now?

  7. Re: don't get your hope up on No Man's Sky Under Investigation For False Advertising (polygon.com) · · Score: 1

    If what you say is true and tested by you, then the theaters you go to absolutely suck and you should stop giving them money in the first place.

    Though rare, there have been a few times that I've received a refund on a movie that was so utterly bad that no one in the chain deserved to get my money. The most recent notable instance was the 2011 remake of "The Thing." Granted since then I've become a hell of a lot more selective in what I'm willing to go to the theater for.

    Finally, before someone says "You haven't received a refund after sitting through the entirety of a movie," yes, I have. I have sat through an entire movie, thoroughly hated it, and received a refund afterward without being grilled about it. This situation only ever happened twice, when I was with a group of friends carpooling and there was nothing else within walking distance to occupy my time while I waited for them to finish. I always had my reasoning statement to back up my request, but I've not once had to use it.

  8. Re:don't get your hope up on No Man's Sky Under Investigation For False Advertising (polygon.com) · · Score: 1

    Read it again. Given a 2 hr movie, he's paying $0.50 per hour of entertainment.

  9. Re:Yawho? on Yahoo's Delay in Reporting Hack 'Unacceptable', Say Senators (zdnet.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    We're talking about senators here... you can't spew that much bullshit without having impacted bowels.

    Oh, by the way: your attempt at pedantry fails as a secondary definition for impacted literally means "strongly affected by something." Or, to see for yourself read #9 on the linked page. Also; by literally I mean that to be without exaggeration or inaccuracies.

  10. Re:Why is Windows 10 the benchmark? on SolidRun x86 Braswell MicroSoM Runs Linux and Full Windows 10, Destroys Raspberry Pi (betanews.com) · · Score: 0

    Because a $35 Arduino is within the price range of a $40 Pi; of which both share low level micro controller functions (GPIO on the Pi can function similarly to the Digital / Analog pins on the Arduino). Sure there's significant differences that make a Pi and Arduino board apples and oranges, but at the bottom line, if you've a project that only needs a micro controller that runs a fixed routine that would rarely change go Arduino. If you think you might need that, plus a little more computing power to run an emulator...or to program the low-level directly without necessarily requiring a full computer tower to build and transmit a sketch, it's nearly nothing to pitch a few more $$ and go with the Pi.

    Comparing this SoM to the Pi, however... there's no crossover to truly compare. The price points are way too different. There's functions the Pi has that this SoM doesn't (GPIO for example). The SolidRun SoM is more fit to be a low-end desktop replacement than the Pi could ever be. Seriously the SR SoM is more fit to be compared to a low end Laptop ($160 range) as there are many more common points between them, price not being the least of them.

  11. I once knew someone online who said she was into food porn.

    It was sex...using food.

    I didn't talk to her much after that. I'm not even 100% sure it was a "she".

    thanks for helping me remember that.

    Asshole.

  12. Re:what we need here is a mentality reset on Chrome and Firefox Block Pirate Bay Over 'Harmful Programs' (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 1

    Darth Nadella: I am altering your operating system. Pray I don't alter it any further... not that your prayers, tears, and blood sacrifice matter to me.

  13. Re:Just give me Google Fiber on Why The FCC Chair Says Set-Top Box Reform Proposal Could Change (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    Sports!? Good God man...! Do you not know where you are posting??

  14. Which, with a significant enough attack vector, can bring a router to its knees as it gets overwhelmed with processing the ACL trying to compare netmask of what's in the block list against the masks of what's on the inbound line. Granted it takes a massive amount of traffic from an identified bad actor to do this; but it's not outside of the realm of possibility.

  15. The consistency is that every article that goes outside of Slashdot has that little green link next to the title. Links inside the summary are just a bonus, especially if it's a link to an alternate copy of the story where the primary one may be paywalled/ad-block-blocked.

  16. GPS Spoofing can be done in an app that in no way modifies the operation of or broadcasts through the phone's GPS antenna. It simply allows you to manually punch in the coordinates you want to represent as your location that the system will use instead of reading from the GPS antenna itself. This functionality was even included as part of the Developer options menu in the Android settings; though the current build installed on my Galaxy S5 seems to only allow one to specify an app that serves as the gps location provider ("Mock Location App"). One such option: Fake GPS Location

  17. Re:User-interface achievements on Apple's Next Year iPhone Won't Have the Home Button: NYTimes · · Score: 3, Funny

    You can only Retry, Abort, or Ignore.

  18. Re:Not stopping here on Apple's Next Year iPhone Won't Have the Home Button: NYTimes · · Score: 1

    You loved the iPhone for so many years and the past few iterations we've streamlined it like never before. Well...this year we're changing everything...again. This year we're discontinuing the iPhone name...as we've come up with a way to communicate with eachother, it's absolutely revolutionary. Let me present to you...the iBrain. With this innovation you will be able to communicate with each other in absolute real time. There's no icons to press to dial your buddy. With this ear piece unit that operates off your delta-waves, all you have to do is think about your buddy and a connection is immediately established where you can exchange the full range of your thoughts and ideas with him in naught but a flash of an eyelash.

    And why use Facebook anymore? With the iBrain, you can share more than just the image of the food before you... you can share in the whole meal experience. You can share the entire experience of the artwork you create, the machines you build, your day to day living experiences are all fed directly to your friends and love ones. All with Perfect Integration. And you will integrate perfectly with the new iBrain. With the iBrain there can be no successful impedance!

  19. Re:This doesn't convince me... on It's Official: You're Lost In a Directionless Universe (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 1

    We'd be able to detect the lateral movement of the universe as it's getting pushed towards the exhaust as the Wankel by design creates a direction for the gasses to flow as soon as combustion starts. The stationary edges of the engine (the fixed outer walls) would drag the universe while the moving compression edge would be pushing that part of the universe to go faster. This would give the universe a directional spin along a fixed axis.

    In a standard Piston cylinder ICE, the movement restricted to compression and expansion, this would limit any movement of the remaining particles (galaxies etc) to a fixed space of expansion and eventually back to compression as the piston starts pushing the universe out the exhaust. It's in this stage that we might be able to discern universal movement as it's expelled. As far as right now... we could just be existing at the part of the power stroke where we wouldn't be able to discern any movement. We'll need to wait a while to see if there's an exhaust stroke.

  20. Re:This doesn't convince me... on It's Official: You're Lost In a Directionless Universe (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 1

    But there are detectable swirls in the spin and direction of the individual particles of how the galaxies move relative to each-other; otherwise we wouldn't be able to see galactic collisions or note the universe expansion. We just can't detect any vortex axis where the universe itself is spinning. It's just expanding from a single point of intense combustion.

  21. This doesn't convince me... on It's Official: You're Lost In a Directionless Universe (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    This doesn't convince me that the universe isn't just a bunch of left over particulates from the power stroke of an ICE. A few hundred billion more years and we're probably going to start getting pushed out the exhaust valve.

  22. Re:Congrats Short-Sighted Investors on Super Mario Is Coming To The iPhone (popularmechanics.com) · · Score: 1

    Just imagine how a Metroid game along the lines of Prime or Echos would do in VR...or even AR. Except for the Morph Ball. That would hurt.

    Also, they would need to keep away from the Samus Whining Channel that they tapped into with Other M. Several of those cut-scenes were pointless with a narrative drawn out far beyond relevance... needlessly detracting from the flow of the station exploration and leaving me wanting for a skip option that was never there.

  23. It's made by Pepsi Co. and it comes in cans, bottles, draught, etc and is a staple drink among many American hackers. What did you think he was talking about anyway?

  24. Re:A solid block of oxygen-free copper on Sony's Signature Walkman and Headphones Are $5,500 of Ridiculous (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Sounds like the complete opposite of a living room. More like a crushing suffocation room.

  25. What the heck are you running? My 805cc C-50t has a 4.3 gallon tank and gets damn near 50mpg on a bad day when I'm catching 1-2 cycles at every light. 60+ on the country roads.