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  1. Re:Comic Books or Graphic Novels? on Ask Slashdot: I Want To Get Into Comic Books, But Where Do I Start? · · Score: 1

    I call them ungraphic novels.

  2. I know what a biker is, but a birder? Is it what you call someone who loves doing birdwatching?

  3. Re: Still killed though on Police Chief: Uber Self-Driving Car 'Likely' Not At Fault In Fatal Crash (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Rich people rarely have any skills, so they're much lower on the priority list.

  4. Re:Good idea on Amazon Considers Buying Some Toys R Us Stores (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    The stores will be big enough because Amazon has precise data about what sells the most in a given area/city.

  5. Amazon will never stop! on Amazon Considers Buying Some Toys R Us Stores (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Even when they surpass Apple in 2019 as the biggest company in the world, they won't stop there!

    Why settle for being #1 when there's a number even higher: Number Zero.

    Amazon Zero: coming soon!

  6. Re:Still killed though on Police Chief: Uber Self-Driving Car 'Likely' Not At Fault In Fatal Crash (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 3, Funny

    How will it choose if it has to decide between killing 4 people or 1?

    In a microsecond, it will request the files of each person from Facebook, Google and the IRS and calculate the value of each person' life. If the one person is more important than the other four, those people will be dead before the car even hits them.

  7. The Triple A-Team!

  8. Re:what about cruise ships? on How a Virus Spreads Through an Airplane Cabin (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 2

    milling crowds

    Oh, so they have activities for makers now? Do they have 3D printers and laser cutters, or only CNC routers?

  9. Re:Like you have a choice? on How a Virus Spreads Through an Airplane Cabin (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    And as a backup, also carry a roll of duct tape.

    Signed,
    Red Green.

  10. You can't blame him? Really?! on Mark Zuckerberg AWOL From Facebook's Data Leak Damage Control Session (thedailybeast.com) · · Score: 1

    Zuck: Yeah so if you ever need info about anyone at Harvard
    Zuck: Just ask.
    Zuck: I have over 4,000 emails, pictures, addresses, SNS
    [Redacted Friend's Name]: What? How'd you manage that one?
    Zuck: People just submitted it.
    Zuck: I don't know why.
    Zuck: They "trust me"
    Zuck: Dumb fucks.

  11. Re:It has been and always will be used by CRIMINAL on Child Abuse Imagery Found Within Bitcoin's Blockchain (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Otherwise, by the same logic ISPs will become criminals for receiving and transmitting illegal data, thus killing the Internet.

    The same logic would also apply to cellphone carriers, gun companies, car companies, camera companies, cellphone manufacturers, computer makers, operating system companies, etc.

  12. Re:It has been and always will be used by CRIMINAL on Child Abuse Imagery Found Within Bitcoin's Blockchain (theguardian.com) · · Score: 0

    EVERYTHING can and always will be used by CRIMINALS.

    Outlaw everything to save our children!

    EVERYTHING can and always will be used by CRIMINALS.
    EVERYTHING includes children.
    Outlaw everything includes children.
    Outlaw children!

    And since without children we have no future, all human problems will correct themselves in a few generations.

    TL;DR: To summarize the summary of the summary: people are a problem” Douglas Adams

  13. Re:Raytracers are pretty fun... on NVIDIA RTX Technology To Usher In Real-Time Ray Tracing Holy Grail of Gaming Graphics (hothardware.com) · · Score: 1

    My first computer was a Colour Computer 2 with 64KB and tape drive. Floppy drives were incredibly expensive.
    My first modem was 300bps. After that I went to 2400bps, then 14.4kbps and finally 28.8kbps.
    My first PC was a 8086 running at 8MHz with 256KB.

    From some parts of your comment, you started before me (wide-carriage green-bar paper printers).
    From other parts of your comment, you started after me (AFAIK 320x200 in monochrome did not exist, you either had monochrome Hercules graphics or four-colours CGA, then later came EGA followed by MCGA on PS/2 and VGA on others).

    And no, I never had to cram anything into 4KB because my first computer was 64KB and the price difference between an ATtiny25 and ATtiny85 is so small that it doesn't matter for personal projects.

  14. It is, on the other hand, very board.

  15. Re:Raytracers are pretty fun... on NVIDIA RTX Technology To Usher In Real-Time Ray Tracing Holy Grail of Gaming Graphics (hothardware.com) · · Score: 1

    Wait a minute... 640x350? You did raytracing in 16 colours?! Yikes.

  16. Didn't Vulkan get destroyed on stardate 2258.42?

  17. No, you imbecile. You focus on Intellivision, Colecovision and Atari 7800.

  18. Re:Reminds me of a paper form Intel some years ago on NVIDIA RTX Technology To Usher In Real-Time Ray Tracing Holy Grail of Gaming Graphics (hothardware.com) · · Score: 1

    In the old days, all we had was 320x200 in 16 colours and we were happy with that.

  19. Re:Using Graphics cards for actual games? Wow!!! on NVIDIA RTX Technology To Usher In Real-Time Ray Tracing Holy Grail of Gaming Graphics (hothardware.com) · · Score: 1

    Yeah! I can't wait to see how much crypto-currencies I can mine at once with these new ray-tracing GPUs!

    Just kidding. All I got is my gaming PC with a single GPU that mines when I'm not playing games.

  20. Seriously, I don't really give a crap about which OS my gaming console runs. The only difference is that my gaming console happens to be a "PC".

  21. Re:Vaperware on Magic Leap Lifts the Curtains (A Little) (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Wow, vaperware, really? How is that different from vaporware?

  22. Re:/sarcasm Let's ban Math while we are at it ! on Trump Bans Venezuela's New National Cryptocurrency (cnbc.com) · · Score: 2

    "The order applies to U.S. citizens as well as anyone within the United States."

    So no, you cannot legally buy Venezuelan cryptocoins, ever. Trump said so!

  23. How much does the US army, navy and airforce waste every year? You think that is sustainable? Are you really that stupid?

  24. Wait, are you saying UBI will not work, or that once UBI is in place you will not work?

  25. Re:In this case, I agree with Microsoft on Microsoft Brings Native HEIF Support to Windows 10 (thurrott.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    The basic PDF format is secure, it's only data. That's what OS X/macOS/iOS supports.