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  1. Re:Why have we let ourselves come to this? on Fortnite is Generating More Revenue Than Any Other Free Game Ever (recode.net) · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Some people may not have the ground space, energy, or money to afford a real landscaped garden, mansion home, or even toy railway set, but they are happy with a virtual version that they can upgrade in their spare time.

  2. Re:FortNite is crapping gold bricks... on Fortnite is Generating More Revenue Than Any Other Free Game Ever (recode.net) · · Score: 1

    Most people only upgrade their PC gaming rigs every six years now. If a smartphone costs $600, and a high end gaming rig costs $4000, then they expect a similar lifetime.

  3. Some games like MMORPG's already do that.

  4. Re:Charming, as always... on LinkedIn's Forthcoming Analytics Tool May Boost Job Poaching (techtarget.com) · · Score: 1

    I know of directors who consider "recruiting bright graduates is like trapping wild animals" or that "bright graduates just need a kick in the right direction". Or they call their technical experts "webheads" or "renderheads".

  5. Re:IBM acquires companies, fires acquired employee on Layoffs at Watson Health Reveal IBM's Problem with AI (ieee.org) · · Score: 1

    I've worked with linear algebra and statistics for various projects. I've visited websites like encyclopediaofmath.org and have always wanted to see how all the different topics relate to each other in a graph network visualization format. Then be able to find the shortest path between two topics.

  6. Re:Canada, UK, & Australia beware on Layoffs at Watson Health Reveal IBM's Problem with AI (ieee.org) · · Score: 1

    Or PHB's.

  7. Re:And why talk about it? on Layoffs at Watson Health Reveal IBM's Problem with AI (ieee.org) · · Score: 1

    Especially if you were forced at legal gunpoint to sign an NDA agreement in order to be allowed to escape.

  8. Re:IBM acquires companies, fires acquired employee on Layoffs at Watson Health Reveal IBM's Problem with AI (ieee.org) · · Score: 1

    So why didn't IBM apply Watson to fields of science like Mathematics or Physics. Most of the discoveries that get announced are due to someone realizing that two apparently unrelated fields are actually related after all, and creating a shortcut in writing proofs.

  9. Re:What a priority on India Eyeing a New Monster 100GW Solar-Capacity Goal (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Power grid? This is a country plagued with Lucas electrics from their time dominated by the UK. The only people who have it worse are the Lebanese who not only have that fabulous British wiring but also benefit from French plumbing!

    Electric shower heads - now that's like combining the electric chair with a Swedish sauna room

    http://trialandstyle.com/edito...?

  10. Re: Strong Maybe? on NYT: 'Firefox Is Back. It's Time to Give It a Try.' (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    So now you won't be able to tell where Firefox is sending data to using Wireshark?

  11. Re:But will the pigs get cancers? on Scientists Genetically Engineer Pigs Immune To Costly Disease (theguardian.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    This article describes the purpose of CD163:

    https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/p...

    It is a receptor for hemoglobin, and is involved in hemoglobin clearance after intracerebral hemorrhage. It is elevated for anyone with myelo-monocytic leukaemia and infection.

    http://jvi.asm.org/content/91/...

  12. Re:But will the pigs get cancers? on Scientists Genetically Engineer Pigs Immune To Costly Disease (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    It might just be a little bit safer replacing that gene sequence that was removed with something non-coding for anything.

    In DOS game days, you silence a noisy game that didn't have a volume control by replacing the sequence E6 60 with 90 90, which replaced out 90h,AX with NOP, NOP. If you were to just delete those two bytes the whole game would just crash. There's always the risk that something else might use that sequence E6 60 like a jump address.

  13. Re:What's old is new again on Someone Is Taking Over Insecure Cameras and Spying on Device Owners (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    You could do that with SGI workstations as well. Login remotely, take a framegrab of the camera and record the microphone.

  14. You mean shodan.io

    https://www.shodan.io/

  15. Re:Even in the fishtank on Mature Fish Are Found In Deeper Water Because of Humans (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Small sharks eat fish. But larger and older sharks need to eat seals to satisfy their energy demands.

  16. Re: Summary on Mature Fish Are Found In Deeper Water Because of Humans (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    For any generation of fish, some prefer different depths of water. The ones that get scooped out of the water by nets don't get to breed. The ones that survive, get to breed. That shifts the average preferred depth. And the process repeats.

  17. Frog-drowner is documented here, along with gullywasher and frog-strangler

    https://www.phrases.org.uk/bul...

  18. Re:DELETE YOUR ACCOUNT! on Facebook Will Harass You Mercilessly If You Try To Break Up (slate.com) · · Score: 1

    In theory. If you see my other post, websites like alumni forums, job boards and recruitment agencies all pretend to have deleted my data. But they still send me emails about job matches. I've even had recruitment agents call me up pretending that they found my resume on a job board, but since I had already deleted my details from that board, they had either saved a copy of my resume or were just phishing.

  19. Re:Just create a spam email address on Facebook Will Harass You Mercilessly If You Try To Break Up (slate.com) · · Score: 1

    This is a good way. It's not just Facebook that get's a bit clingy. A lot of these online job boards and other websites do the same thing. Even if you have unsubscribed, they still send you some clickbait with annoying messages with an unsubscribe button at the bottom. But you then have to login and/or create an account in order to delete it. But they may just want to verify your email address as well as your postcode and address. So the only way is a disposable burner email address that will disappear in six hours.
     

  20. Re:They could also be used to detect temp changes on Submarine Cables Could be Repurposed as Earthquake Detectors (economist.com) · · Score: 1

    It used to be possible to detect where a fault in an copper or fibre-optic cable through the use of time-domain reflectometry. Any defect would reflect some signal back, and the intensity/time could be correlated.

  21. Re:WALL-E on China Won't Solve the World's Plastics Problem Any More (wired.com) · · Score: 2

    Agreed. The worst offender are headphones with a built-in cable and connector. Due to wear and tear, the wire in the cables always ends up failing, or maybe it's that very thin piece of wire connecting the cable to the headphone. But once that cable has gone, the whole headphone set has to be thrown out; speakers, rare-earth magnets, plastic and cable. Bluetooth headphones are a bit better, but DJ style headphones have an extra connector to allow the cable to be replaced.

    For appliances like washing machines, the manufacturers are constantly improving the electronics and software. So the obsolencence is built in.

    Another example are those universal remote controls which never seem to be programmed for the latest brands of TV's and cable/satellite boxes, even after cycling through every of the thousands of code numbers. Those should have a SD card.

  22. Re:A SpectreNG-variant that uses Hyperthreading? on OpenBSD Disables Intel CPU Hyper-Threading Due To Security Concerns (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    One version is with memory read and write functions which are timed. Another is with floating point registers. This one involves hyperthreading. Just look through the Intel instruction manual and look for categories of instructions which haven't been covered yet.

  23. Re:Limitations of deadly viruses / deadly bacteria on Urgent Needs To Prepare For Manmade Virus Attacks, Says US Government Report (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    The longer it hangs out in the human body, the more change there is of the immune system detecting it and mounting a response. So like a cold virus, it's important to start replicating and spreading as fast as possible by getting the host to sneeze and cough.

  24. Re:Quantity game? on HPE Announces World's Largest ARM-based Supercomputer (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    For a modern supercomputer, the connections between the nodes are just as or even more important than the GPU cores and CPU cores that are on each node, and get a name; the interconnect fabric or fabric computing. These systems are rack mounted with each node on a single motherboard. Racks can be added and removed according to funding. Each node needs to transfer data to any other node within a few nanoseconds as well as load startup data and save checkpoints at fixed intervals. Some computing problems depend on different topologies of data to solve problems like 3D grids for weather simulation.

  25. Re:Does Windows Explorer do it differently, or Lin on macOS Breaks Your OpSec by Caching Data From Encrypted Hard Drives (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    Windows would also create auxiliary files showing the original device where a file was created. They used to appear using some options for the "dir" command, but are immediately visible when viewing them using Linux.