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  1. Re:Not all pages on Chrome Now Reloads Pages 28% Faster (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    So basically if the reason for you reloading was because of porked resources on the page then Chrome now just ignores your request for a reload.

  2. Re:Details murky? on Russia Arrests Top Kaspersky Lab Security Researcher On Charges of Treason (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    That still doesn't make everyone arrested automatically innocent. And given the people involved their seems no political or business reasons to send the police after them. seems more likely these are just individuals caught laundering money from foreign government bribes.

  3. Re:Reading between the lines... on Ransomware Infects All St Louis Public Library Computers (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    If it is just workstations then yeah it should be a lot faster, however it has probably affected servers and hence they need to recover data from backups which tends to take considerably longer than just blatted a workstation with a new image.

  4. Re:Sharp TVs were about the best, weren't they? on Foxconn Considers $7 Billion Screen Factory In US, Which Could Create Up To 50,000 Jobs (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    they had their moments in history when they were best but generally they have been middle to upper end of the range with only brief stints at the top.

  5. Because people would abuse the process like they do for every other product that tries to accommodate local pricing considerations, with software this is even easier to do, a nice VPN and suddenly you are paying Ethiopian prices instead of US or UK prices. Open internet means such ideas simply don't work as people will work around it to get the best price.

  6. Re:The death spiral is continuing. on Microsoft To Lay Off 700 Employees Next Week, Report Says (geekwire.com) · · Score: 1

    People are staying with Windows, despite the horrendous shittiness of Windows 10, for one simple reason - they have nowhere else to go.....

    The interesting thing about your post is that you don't mention Chromebooks or Google office. I'm guessing that the Microsoft feels the breath at the back of their necks and instructs their astro-turfers never to mention them.

    because crhomebooks and google office are a bad joke when it comes to actually being productive.

  7. Re:Apache is trivial to exploit on Pwn2Own 2017 Offers Big Bounties For Linux, Browser, and Apache Exploits (eweek.com) · · Score: 1

    I would expect the Apache prize to be claimed pretty quickly, They seem to have gotten worse in recent years rather than improving.

  8. Re:What complete nonsense on NASA Is Planning Mission To An Asteroid Worth $10 Quintillion (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    Iron and nickel are abundant in the universe, if you are building in space you aren't going to be locked to such resource constraints (at least not for long).

  9. Re:3D TV is dead? on 3D TV Is Dead (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    no there is no disagreement, they claimed it was not a passing fad and it has proven to be a passing fad. whether they still like it/love it is completely irrelevant to that definition. I am certain just like the last 3 or 4 times 3D will come again, maybe next time it won't just be a fad.

  10. Re:Almost identical architectures on Report: PS4 Is Selling Twice As Well As Xbox One (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    sorry but that is bullshit. you just whined in the previous post that no technical reasons had been given for developers not flocking to this. secondly the architecture IS MASSIVELY different so it most definitely is true that it will be a significant barrier. the switch compared to the XB1 or Ps4 is about as significantly different as you can get right down to completely different graphics chipset architectures.

  11. Re:3D TV is dead? on 3D TV Is Dead (cnet.com) · · Score: 2

    I wonder how many people on here will come out and apologise for being wrong when they claimed people like myself were morons and dinosaurs for predicting it would pass as fad within a few years as too would 3D movies in cinemas

  12. Re:Almost identical architectures on Report: PS4 Is Selling Twice As Well As Xbox One (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    you want reasons that developers may not flock to this. Will give you lots

    Zero userbase and a past set of consoles that have failed for 3rd party
    Cost of porting, switch is a very different architecture to the 2 consoles it needs to get ports from which means games cost a lot more for a much smaller userbase
    Nintendo userbase has previously shunned 3rd party games, even when they had a large userbase 3rd party ports sold poorly
    The console is significantly underpowered compared to the other 2 consoles it needs to get ports from, this will make 3rd parties very cautious
    The console needs to support both a mobile display and a scaled up display both running with different levels of power creating additional complexity
    lastly Nintendo has had a declining userbase so the uncertainty as to whether there will be enough buyers to justify the development costs.

  13. Re:Almost identical architectures on Report: PS4 Is Selling Twice As Well As Xbox One (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    well they are, how the fuck doesn't it make sense, they have a mobile type console. they have put themselves in no mans land, they are a poor underpowered console and an overpriced mobile device. I like Nintendo and hope they succeed but I just can't see it happening with the switch, everything is against them from lack of games, underpowered console, competing to get mobile market share and they are introducing paid online to top it off.

  14. Re:Almost identical architectures on Report: PS4 Is Selling Twice As Well As Xbox One (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    if Nintendo plans to just compete with mobile then they are fucked before they even start. They need to compete with Xbox and PS and get ports of the games targeting those platforms not the shitty mobile games which when given a choice the majority will just buy them on their mobile

  15. Re:Almost identical architectures on Report: PS4 Is Selling Twice As Well As Xbox One (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 2

    Switch is competing for game developers with the Xbox and PS, Nintendo has struggled massively with 3rd party support previously and it doesn't look like that will change much. There architecture is massively different and that makes them much more expensive to develop for. Xbox and PS are similar with a combined userbase of more than 80 million. Switch isn't destined for disaster but it has a lot of work ahead to be successful as apart from the gimmicky Wii Nintendo have been in a userbase slide for a long time now.

  16. Re:so what? on Report: PS4 Is Selling Twice As Well As Xbox One (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    not really, that is only true if a game was struggling for a userbase. One having 10 million COD users and the Other 5 will not make the slightest difference. COD/BF etc are all annual or biannual releases with a constantly moving userbase. This however might be true for some small unpopular games with very low userbases but then those type of games don't matter anyway.

  17. Re:gee i wonder who on Ukraine's Power Outage Was a Cyber Attack, Says Power Supplier (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    The US?

  18. perhaps you are confusing one of the more modern variants with the 370. the 370 backplane could not come close to even to the I/O throughput of a Pi. but that is hardly surprising given it is over 40 years old.

  19. battery life a braindead argument on Apple To Offer 32GB of Desktop RAM, Kaby Lake In Top-End 2017 MacBook Pro, Says Analyst (appleinsider.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    it boggles the mind that they use battery life as the reason for not making the option available initially, for people that have a legitimate need for more than 16GB of ram battery life is a secondary factor, especially when the lack of that memory will significantly impact your productivity and considering their target market of video and photographic professionals who legitimately have needs for that memory it really was a strange move.

  20. Re:OLED Display? Microsoft make $$$ on this? on Microsoft Patent Hints At Foldable Tablet Design For Surface Phone (trustedreviews.com) · · Score: 1

    all depends on whether or not it is x86 compatible so you can run your standard apps, especially the legacy ones. if it is then they will get an instant market in the corporate space at a minimum, I would happily trade my Android for one if I can also run my standard legacy apps which I currently have to use an RDP session from android to use.

  21. Re:Which CPU in this sheet? on Microsoft Patent Hints At Foldable Tablet Design For Surface Phone (trustedreviews.com) · · Score: 1

    basically as long as this time it is x86 compatible it has a decent chance. Trying to create a new viable ecosystem against Android or Apple at this point would just be more suicide.

  22. Re:FFS, I know exactly what was done... on How A Professional Poker Player Conned a Casino Out of $9.6 Million (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    5:12-114, it most DEFINITELY is illegal to use marked cards.

  23. Re: Fake news != Flawed news on How A Professional Poker Player Conned a Casino Out of $9.6 Million (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    the odds of winning did change as odds are calculated over the course of the shoe not an individual hand, by knowing when the odds were in their favour for an individual hand and increasing bets they have altered the outcome of the game.

  24. the simply telltale for card counting is the changing betting patterns as the shoe progresses, there really isn't a good way to hide that beyond constantly moving tables/casinos to try and avoid suspicion

  25. Re:They agreed to the cards on How A Professional Poker Player Conned a Casino Out of $9.6 Million (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    actually no because there is an overarching agreement that both parties are bound too which cannot be changed through agreements between the players and casino and those are the gaming regulations (Casino Control Act) which explicitly forbid the use of marked cards which Ivey has tricked the Casino into using and hence by doing so made the game invalid/illegal. Love to see Casino's get screwed but seems reversing it is the right decision as Ivey broke the gaming regulations by cheating.