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  1. Re:The problem is the content authors. on Front-End Developer Decries 'Garbage' Design Choices on 'The Bullshit Web' (pxlnv.com) · · Score: 1

    It's not the makeup that's important - it's the personality.

  2. Re:The problem is the content authors. on Front-End Developer Decries 'Garbage' Design Choices on 'The Bullshit Web' (pxlnv.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Sucks for me then - got my gray hairs at 15.

    And isn't the most efficient algorithm the one that needn't be run? Much of the javascript on the web isn't necessary at all.

  3. Re:Simple, Regular and Consistent on Windows 10 Buggy Updates? Our Patching is Simple, Regular, and Consistent, Says Microsoft (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    How many times in your life have you started from scratch mate? Or are you just all talk?

  4. And with the same quality reasoning: forcing everyone to pay for security most don't need - isn't that filthy socialism?

  5. You don't think Amazon may include those in their "less than 1 percent"?

  6. Re:it's funny on European Court Ruling Raises Hurdles For CRISPR Crops (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 1

    That is a completely separate matter: products containing GMO over trace levels have to be marked as such anyway. And any GMO content, trace or not, have to be approved by the EU.

  7. Deprecation does not mean removed on Autodesk Drops Support For Alias, VRED In macOS Mojave Over OpenGL Deprecation (appleinsider.com) · · Score: 1

    But it means it is essentially an unsupported part of the system.
    Apple: We will not support OpenGL in the future.
    Autodesk: Then we will not support macOS in the future.

  8. Re:And we still hear how global warming is a hoax on 118 All-Time Heat Records Set Around the Globe (miamiherald.com) · · Score: 1

    People presents unusual cold/snow events as proof that global warming is a hoax. They are wrong.
    As are you.

    Exceptionally hot and cold years have been noted since we have documented history.

  9. Re:Practicing for Nation-wide Implementation on Boston Globe Outs Secret TSA Tracking Program 'Quiet Skies' At Airports (bostonglobe.com) · · Score: 1

    Socialist doesn't mean what you think it does...

  10. Re:What processing pipeline bugs are present? on Intel's 10nm 'Cannon Lake' Processors Won't Arrive Until Late 2019 (digitaltrends.com) · · Score: 1

    Silo?
    As usual some "bugs" (Intel erratas) will be fixed and some new created.

    Don't know what that have to do with Intels failure of getting their 10nm process up and running?

  11. Re:No parts for you on The Rogue Tesla Mechanic Resurrecting Salvaged Cars (vice.com) · · Score: 3, Funny

    If this was a computer company that refused to resale parts or provide repair information everyone here would be having a coronary.

    No.

    Someone how only Tesla gets a pass on this...

    No.

    Care to explain your position?

    No.

  12. Re:Real world tests on Samsung's 'Unbreakable' OLED Display Gets Certified (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    You beat me to it. A beetle (the insect) thrown from a tall building survives, a beetle glued to a rock will not.

  13. Re:Have they also invented an OLED screen... on Samsung's 'Unbreakable' OLED Display Gets Certified (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    If you use your phone 16/7 then OLED is probably a bad choice, not because the screen become very degraded but due to the uneven degradation mentioned in that article. Most people don't use their screens at maximum brightness and have the screen off most of the day and then OLED is a reasonable choice.

  14. Re:2018 DARWIN Award Nominee on An Open Source, DIY Spacesuit Is About To Get Its First Life Or Death Test (reddit.com) · · Score: 0

    Do you give that to Tesla* drivers too? Because no matter how many tests have been done on any safety critical equipment in the end there will always be a "life or death" test.

    (* selected for impact, replace with whatever brand of car you want. Yes, I'm microtrolling)

  15. Re:Part of the "war on freedom" series ... on New Crime-Predicting Algorithm Borrows From Apollo Space Mission Tech (digitaltrends.com) · · Score: 1

    Move to Somalia and get all the freedom you want.

  16. The algorithm doesn't care about race, only in crimes, so isn't racist unless there are more crime reported by racists due to being racists - and then the racism isn't in the algorithm.

  17. Re:If they can predict it 3 or 4 days in advance on New Crime-Predicting Algorithm Borrows From Apollo Space Mission Tech (digitaltrends.com) · · Score: 2

    Who kills the most people, the police or criminals?
    Who hurts more people physically, emotionally and/or economically, the police or criminals?

    I think you would get both of those wrong given the putrid bile above but the facts are out there if you'd be interested.

  18. Re:How about not blowing away work? on Windows 10 To Use Machine Learning in Latest Attempt To Make Reboots Less Annoying (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Strange, I've never seen that happen on this machine. OTOH I've seen the computer turned on by itself without updating anything which is irritating - perhaps due to some bug that fails to start the update.

  19. Re:How about not blowing away work? on Windows 10 To Use Machine Learning in Latest Attempt To Make Reboots Less Annoying (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    The big problem is the huge amount of (l)users that refuse to install security updates, often people that "know better" and never scanned for viruses as they "obviously" haven't been exposed.

    This solution is of course not ideal and a PITA in more ways than one. The best would be transparent security updates done in the background with a few seconds switch (with preserved program state) to the updated code when finished - but that isn't generally backwards compatible and potentially a huge PITA for programmers.

  20. Re:How about not blowing away work? on Windows 10 To Use Machine Learning in Latest Attempt To Make Reboots Less Annoying (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Do what I do: close the notebook (screen) triggering hibernation. The update crap is still there when turning on the machine again so it's not perfect...

  21. Yes that was pretty much what happened - BECAUSE THE CORE PROBLEMS WERE ALREADY CORRECTED.

    There haven't even been 20 years and history revisionism is going strong.

  22. Actually gathering information however it's commonly released to shame people.

  23. Re:Got my Model 3 on 7/2. . . on Elon Musk Calls Boss of Tesla Troll Who's Heavily Invested In Oil Industry (electrek.co) · · Score: 1

    I suggest you go calibrate your thinker - it is making illogical inferences.

  24. Re:It's time for the merge! on ReactOS 0.4.9 Is Entirely Self-Hosting, Fixes FastFAT Crashes (appuals.com) · · Score: 1

    All text just to indirectly call Musk an idiot?

  25. "The attack works on Intel, AMD, and ARM ..." on Researchers Detail New CPU Side-Channel Attack Named SpectreRSB (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 5, Informative

    Citation needed. I'll provide the one in the paper: "Although we did not demonstrate attacks on AMD and ARM processors, they also use RSBs to predict return addresses"

    I'll also note that the only demonstrated working attack is against Intel SGX enclaves, something that is Intel specific. There are demonstrations that do not expose information within a process and between two co-operating processes however those are normally not a security problem.

    No doubt some type of attack using the return address stack is possible on AMD, ARM, and other processors with branch prediction. However that isn't demonstrated and it isn't claimed in the linked paper.