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  1. Re:Rugby players don't wear high tech helmets on The Orange Goo Used In Everything From Armor To Football Helmets (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    He said brain damage, not writing like a teenager.

  2. Re:The law of lame Slashdot question posts continu on Can We Replace Intel x86 With an Open Source Chip? (zdnet.com) · · Score: 0

    Do the last 20 Slashdot posts really end with a question mark?

  3. Re:No on Can We Replace Intel x86 With an Open Source Chip? (zdnet.com) · · Score: 2, Interesting

    The same people who paid to develop Linux, Red Hat, etc?

  4. Re:Rugby players don't wear high tech helmets on The Orange Goo Used In Everything From Armor To Football Helmets (cnn.com) · · Score: 3, Funny

    buddy Hey, rugyb palyer I was.

  5. Because back then, orange food colouring did not exist!

    Wait, that's not it...

  6. British company D3O

    Oh, sorry.

  7. Re: God bless America!! on Intel Hit With Three Class-Action Lawsuits Over Meltdown and Spectre Bugs (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Then I hope you enjoyed the video!

  8. Re: Stop buying Intel chips. on Intel Hit With Three Class-Action Lawsuits Over Meltdown and Spectre Bugs (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    I saw an arena of some kind where people were fighting, but really if you want PvP go play WoW on a PvP server. Or, you know, an actual first-person shooter game.

    FF XIV is first and foremost a RPG game to play with friends.

  9. That's still 32 bytes leftover and with a completely unrealistic specification of a thermostat with a 16-bit temperature, 16-bit humidity and 16-bit atmospheric pressure at a useless one update per second.

    I would consider one communication/update/packet per minute extreme for such a use case, which would be around 2.25MB of data per month.

  10. Re:Linus is Einstein Jr. on Linus Torvalds Says Intel Needs To Admit It Has Issues With CPUs (itwire.com) · · Score: 1

    FPGA, Linus, FPGA!

  11. Re:Zhaoxin on Linus Torvalds Says Intel Needs To Admit It Has Issues With CPUs (itwire.com) · · Score: 3, Funny

    Most likely to put backdoors into PLA are ColorFabb, Faberdashery or Proto-Pasta. But you'll have to download a 3D model of a backdoor first.

  12. Re:If only bitcoin stayed to it's original purpose on Bitcoin Debit Cards Suspended After Upstream Visa Rules Infraction (thenextweb.com) · · Score: 1

    Wait, are you saying Google Search was... a "re-search" project? Isn't that like, recursive or some shit? Why is there nobody afraid of the Singularity coming out of that?

  13. Re: Most important 2018 goal on Rust 1.23.0 Released, Community Urged To Blog Ideas For 2018 Roadmap (rust-lang.org) · · Score: 1

    Wrong! I get a rusty pipe and beat them with it till they quit or die. Stop being a fookin pushover!!!

    Ah, so that's where the name came from. Good to know!

  14. Re:How does a public blockchain die? on A Cryptocurrency Based On a Dog Meme Is Now Worth Over $1 Billion (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    The total blockchain size has nothing to do with the speed. It requires ever-increasing storage on a computer, however.

    Not all crypto-currencies use the same mining algorithms. Some don't even require much processing power and rely on other factors.

    Not all crypto-currencies have hard limits. AFAIK Dogecoin doesn't have one, so the miners don't have any incentive to drop the coin and move to another one. The people who have been mining Dogecoin for years are now seeing their investment in time, hardware and electricity finally pay of with a Dogecoin value above one cent per coin - which is more than what Bitcoin was worth in the first-ever transaction in which someone paid 10 000 Bitcoins for two large pizzas.

  15. Everyone who travels inside the Internet Tubes(tm), you ignorant fool.

  16. Indeed. Saying "the Nest learning thermostat only requires 50MB/week" shows a clear lack of knowledge about how much data this actually represents.

    52428800 bytes divided by 7 days, divided by 24 hours, divided by 60 minutes, divided by 60 seconds equals 86 bytes per second. For something like a thermostat, that is EXTREMELY WASTEFUL. Temperature fits in a single byte, but let's make it two bytes just for the fun of it. Let's say it also takes two bytes for the humidity and another two bytes for atmospheric pressure, just for the fun of it. Even if you add another 8 bytes for a 64-bit thermostat ID, that's only 14 bytes per second. What the fuck would be in those extra 72 bytes?

    Kids these days.

  17. Much infection. Such abuse. Wow.

  18. Only works if it's a water type Linux.

  19. Re:This Will Go Nowhere on Intel Hit With Three Class-Action Lawsuits Over Meltdown and Spectre Bugs (theguardian.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    Well, there's always the quad-core Atom, which runs like four asses.

  20. Re: Stop buying Intel chips. on Intel Hit With Three Class-Action Lawsuits Over Meltdown and Spectre Bugs (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Sure. As soon as Final Fantasy XIV can run on either of those.

  21. Re: God bless America!! on Intel Hit With Three Class-Action Lawsuits Over Meltdown and Spectre Bugs (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    ME! ME! ME! (probably NSFW, unless you do drugs)

  22. Yeah! macOS forever!

  23. Re:Maybe this will prompt a change on When F00F Bug Hit 20 Years Ago, Intel Reacted the Same Way (itwire.com) · · Score: 1

    oups, I missed the "fab" part.

    But why should Apple waste time and money building their own fabs and then pouring more money to keep them up-to-date? They're not manufacturing their own computers, their own RAM, their own SSD chips, etc.

  24. Re:Please explain cryptocurrency on A Cryptocurrency Based On a Dog Meme Is Now Worth Over $1 Billion (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Anyone can follow the transactions, but unlike banks they cannot block them.

  25. Re:Please explain cryptocurrency on A Cryptocurrency Based On a Dog Meme Is Now Worth Over $1 Billion (vice.com) · · Score: 2

    Let's say I start a project. I can easily put a Dogecoin or any other crypto-currency wallet address on the website so people can make donations.

    There wouldn't be a PayPal blocking the withdrawal of funds because of "reason X", no credit card company taking their cut and no bank freezing my account.