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  1. Re:How the fuck did this slowness even happen?! on APT Speed For Incremental Updates Gets a Massive Performance Boost · · Score: 1

    That's truly shocking. Even a moron like me knows that is horribly awful design that sounds like it came straight from writing code on a COCO3.

  2. WTF is up with the graphics drivers issues?? on How To Clean the Cruft Left By a Windows 10 Upgrade · · Score: 1

    I'm running a laptop with a sandybridge i5 and an optimus setup and both video card drivers load and then before the login screen appears they error out and give error code 39. I have a machine at work that is doing the same thing and it has an nforce chipset with a nvidia 8xxx series chip. The current solution is the #1) never reboot, and #2) when windows forces you to reboot, simply reboot and uninstall the drivers after windows loads without deleting the drivers. The rescan the hardware from the device manager and they just reinstall and work like nothing ever went wrong. Both of these machines were upgraded from Windows 7, but I don't think it makes a difference. I've tried the beta intel drivers for windows 10, the beta nvidia drivers for windows 10, the stock windows drivers, the windows 8 drivers. All do the same thing. Sometimes when I reboot, they magically don't dump after almost giving the login screen. This is the only real problem I have had left now. I managed to clean up the mess that the widows 7 installations were in. Both machines now pass SFC. I had to rebuild the hives. I'm really reluctant to toast my installations and start fresh as I have a lot of things installed and such that would be a major pain to set back up again. Also to go through all that and have potentially the same exact problem wouldn't be exactly cool. This doesn't seem to be as widespread so I'm really puzzled what's going on with my machines. Anyone have problems with this?

  3. Re:But on Microsoft Ends Mainstream Support For Windows 7 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    This. I have no desire to stop running win7 anytime soon unless win 10 is magically awesome which I sincerely doubt it will be given the win8 debacle.

  4. Re:Doesn't really matter if they do patch it on Google Throws Microsoft Under Bus, Then Won't Patch Android Flaw · · Score: 4, Informative

    As an unhappy lollipop user on a 2013 nexus 7 all I can say is don't bother. My free ram has dropped from 1gb to 400mb. I can't even keep two tabs of chrome in ram now. I'm seriously considering downgrading unless google gets this release right. Furthermore we are up to version 5 of android and there is still no way to push security updates? That's a pretty serious fail IMO. Google might want to rethink that strategy before it seriously burns them in the long run.

  5. Re:Not always Free Speech on Chilling Effects DMCA Archive Censors Itself · · Score: 1

    Amen!

  6. Re: uh, no? on Alleged Satellite Photo Says Ukraine Shootdown of MH17 · · Score: 1

    We should have ousted him in the first gulf war. It was only through American involvement that he rose to power anyways. Remember, he consulted with the US right up to the kuwait invasion.

  7. Re: uh, no? on Alleged Satellite Photo Says Ukraine Shootdown of MH17 · · Score: 2

    Those sanctions worked great on Iraq. How many innocent children starved to death because of sanctions? How well are sanctions working out for the north Koreans? I know! they can just put some pressure on their government!

  8. Re:Wrong Title on Researcher Fired At NSF After Government Questions Her Role As 1980s Activist · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Guilt by association is a terrible and dangerous thing.

  9. Re:Pico and Femto cells on Mysterious, Phony Cell Towers Found Throughout US · · Score: 1

    OMG! LOGIC!

  10. Re:Move along. Nothing to see here on Climate Change Skeptic Group Must Pay Damages To UVA, Michael Mann · · Score: 1

    So the copious amounts of greenhouse gasses humans are pumping into the stratosphere don't affect global temperatures at all despite the overwhelming evidence that the earth is indeed getting warmer? No extinction level events are happening? Just a localized anomaly huh?

  11. Re:Video is fake on The View From Inside A Fireworks Show · · Score: 1

    The camera is stabilized. At one point the copter tilts enough that part of it is in the frame.

  12. Re:Okay, so this has what to do with fracking then on Oklahoma's Earthquakes Linked To Fracking · · Score: 1

    Because doesn't fracking fracture the strata and thus make the ground more unstable? Correct me if I'm wrong here. I don't know the magnitude, but it doesn't sound like a good thing to do overall. The whole thing is a bad idea period. How about just ending our addiction to oil? Nope. Can't do that while there is ground to rape and destroy so some cartel can stay in power for a few more years.

  13. Re:Backup? on One Developer's Experience With Real Life Bitrot Under HFS+ · · Score: 2

    This is a good idea, but not a solution. Often you have no idea that the file is bad until after the fact, in this case years later. I've had mp3 collections get glitches here and there after a few copies from various drives. If you have no idea the data is bad in the first place, your backup of the data isn't going to be any better. I would say that all of my photography I've collected over the years has stayed readable somehow. I do check in lightroom every once in a while, but I wouldn't be shocked to find a random unreadable file. Not good really, but there's probably not much I can do other than make sure that my files are verifiable.

  14. Re:Quit mucking with the UI on Ubuntu 14.04 Brings Back Menus In Application Windows · · Score: 2

    Goddamn right! I hate to say it, but I refuse to use ubuntu anymore because it seems like every new release is a total clusterfuck of new half finished ideas. I never liked gnome all that much, but even going back to version 2 would seem like an improvement at this point. Linux devs need to work together and produce a consistent UI, but no lets instead have different flavors of X and a million different desktop environments. Because that's so much better. Could you imagine how polished the UI would be if you combined all these teams competing to get to the same place? Go ahead. Cue all the fanboys that tell me choice is better.

  15. Re:Ugh "color run" on 'The Color Run' Violates Agreement With College Photographer, Then Sues Him · · Score: 1

    People starting out don't see their own self value and will do anything for exposure because they think exposure will bring them work. Its a hard lesson to learn that you don't just give away work for free.

  16. Actually you don't understand pricing of photographs at all. Companies routinely spend $10,000 and more to hire a photographer for just one day. 100,000 also accounting for damages. The maximum amount you can sue for is 30,000 per instance.

  17. But damages for copyright infringement vastly larger than their actual worth. Look into copyright law.

    http://www.law.cornell.edu/usc...

  18. $100,000 is a good ballpark figure. Infringement is punished with severe financial penalties to discourage it.

  19. Re:Of course on 'The Color Run' Violates Agreement With College Photographer, Then Sues Him · · Score: 2

    Actually willful infringement is worth quite a bit in the court of law. Its well within his interests to pursue this and if he doesn't it sets the example that this sort of behavior is acceptable.

  20. Aliens on Object Blocking Giant Tunnel Borer Was an 8" Diameter Pipe · · Score: 1

    I still think it was aliens. They put the pipe there!

  21. Re:"Presume" there's no pipe? on Object Blocking Giant Tunnel Borer Was an 8" Diameter Pipe · · Score: 2

    Did you even read the grandparent? The cutters can be replaced from inside the machine. If there is damage to the face, they may find it impossible to replace the cutters. The area where the cutter is located is under high pressure and inundated with water. Yeah, they can back it up, but that still leaves the pressure and water to deal with.

  22. Re:Staged hunt? on Illinois Law Grounds PETA Drones Meant To Harass Hunters · · Score: 1

    Just eat the bureaucrat. Nobody will ever have to know. :)

  23. Re:Write limits on Intel SSD Roadmap Points To 2TB Drives Arriving In 2014 · · Score: 1

    They were more of an issue with small drives and swapping operating systems. Those problems were overcome pretty early on with as you point out intelligent drive controllers that don't write data in the same place. Since the latency almost non-existent in SSD, there's suddenly almost no penalty for writes across the drive. With 2TB of space to work with it will take a very, very long time. I imagine drives of this size would be used for data storage more than anything, so it depends on usage. The average home user will likely never hammer their drive like a datacenter will.

  24. Re:Sums it up on Arizona Approves Grid-Connection Fees For Solar Rooftops · · Score: 2, Insightful

    How long will solar panel owners be paying off their 3.7 million dollar victory at $5 a month? What an incredible waste of money.

  25. This computer is held together with tape and glue! on Ink-Jet Printing Custom-Designed Micro Circuits · · Score: 1

    Tape and glue. LOL. Does this have any real application outside of rapid prototyping?