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  1. Re:When will VideoCards peak? on NVIDIA Launches GeForce GTX 1060 To Take On AMD's Radeon RX 480 (hothardware.com) · · Score: 1

    The other day Tim Sweeney of Epic games said we need about 40 TFLOPS to get realistic (non-human) visuals, Current generation is 5 to 10 TFLOPS.
    After that, we probably need it to run off of a AA battery.

    There's still some room to advance from where we are today.

  2. poor policies on Verizon To Hike Prices On Plans But Offer More Data (cnet.com) · · Score: 2

    I get it. So they just changed everyone to be half a plan above where they chose to be. If these people wanted more data, then they'd have chosen those more expensive plans with more data, but they didn't, so Verizon chose for them. It's like ordering a medium size and they say "oh, we give you more than medium, so you pay us more, no? Don't break contract or you pay us more then too. Have a nice day."

    I won't use Verizon mobile because of poor policies like this. I have a non-verizon plan that has unlimited data... but only the first 3GB is fast. After that, it's slower. I asked Verizon how I could make sure I don't pay more than my budget for data and they said I could have them turn off all data at 3GB or pay their relatively expensive overage charges. So they won't have my business.

  3. He's not operating under US laws. on Guccifer 2.0 Calls DNC Hack His "Personal Project," Mocks Security Firms (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    This comes accross as a monty python bit akin to "I spit in your general direction".

  4. Comedy Transcripts on Is The Future Of Television Watching on Fast-Forward? (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    KnockKnockWhosThereHarryHarryWhoHarryUpAndFinishThisJoke

  5. Alexa, teach my kid manners. on Parents Are Worried the Amazon Echo Is Conditioning Their Kids To Be Rude (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    Pets are conditioning my kids to be rude.
    For example, my kids often walk up to my dog and pet it.
    My dog needs to teach them that you can't just walk up to any person and pet them over an over.
    I need a dog that bites when someone tries to pet it so that my kids can become less annoying.

  6. Re:Hilarious and Intense? on Movie Written By Algorithm Turns Out To Be Hilarious and Intense (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm missing the context to see it as Hilarious. Maybe it requires sitting through other nonsensical movies written by humans.

    I think the actors made it Intense. If they had said the same things in a different tone, then perhaps it could have come off differently, such as sarcastic or seduceful.

  7. Re:HS diploma who failed geometry on Oracle V. Google Being Decided By Clueless Judge and Jury (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Actually, I liked where this was going. Let me try my ending:

    Imagine it's Valentine's day, and you go to the store to get your bonnie lass a box of chocolates. You have them gift-wrap it, and you go to the fancy restaurant where you have dinner reservations. The evening goes beautifully. You take her home, and she gives you a very exciting come-hither look. You offer her a chocolate, and she says she's not wanting that, but that doesn't dissuade you. You push it toward her mouth, pressing it against her teeth as she ever-increasingly tries to push your hand away. You switch hands and finally get it down her throat.

    As for the rest of the chocolates? You drop them in her mouth while she's sleeping, like windows updates.

  8. Re:Antitrust violation? on Microsoft Limits Cortana Search Box In Windows 10 To Bing and Edge Only (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    Of course they've learned from history.
    The profit they make will far exceed any fine imposed.

  9. "The projected growth maturation and installation of commercially available encryption -- what they had forecasted for seven years ahead, three years ago, was accelerated to now, because of the revelation of the leaks."

    That reads like the revelations only pushed it ahead by 4 years.

  10. Commander, they continue to fire these at us. I think they're attacking.
                                                      -- aliens probably

  11. not a new idea on Berlin Gets First Taste of In-Store Vertical Micro-Farms (rt.com) · · Score: 1

    So what. Home Depot has those occasionally during the year. You have to buy the whole pot though.

  12. I'm not sure I see why this is news on Google Scales the Great Firewall, Falls Off 105 Minutes Later (techinasia.com) · · Score: 1

    Having lived in China, it's somewhat pointless, if not frustrating, to have a search engine return results but upon clicking on the link you get a site inaccessible message. Depending on the status of crackdowns, whoever wants access to Google search in China can use a VPN and see the pages from the search as well.

  13. Impressions on Stephen Elop New Chief Innovator For Australia's Telstra · · Score: 1

    I think of Australia as the country with the worlds most deadly animals. This seems to fit with that.

  14. Re:I switched a brokerage account to paperless on Paperless Statements Not Always Best Choice, Says New Report · · Score: 1

    This!

    This past weekend I tried to access statements from two different accounts at Chase. I logged in and saw some of my remaining accounts, but the ones I wanted were closed. The balances had been at zero for a few months and there was no online way to get any statements or even 2015 tax forms for them. It was as though they had never existed.

    Taught me a lesson. I will continue to get paper statements.

    It would also be nice if there were a program that you could automate login and retrieval of all your monthly account PDFs (like Mint.com, but for PDF copies).
    Somebody start that website and let me participate for a cut.

  15. Too bad it's probably browser-only on Google Targets Fake "Download" and "Play" Buttons (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 1

    Can they get Microsoft to stop trying to trick me into downloading Windows 10?

    So far, I've run the programs to strip those notifications and updates from my system, but Microsoft keeps getting trickier.

  16. Re: What's the deal... on First Hidden Electric Motor In Cycling World Championship (cxmagazine.com) · · Score: 1

    As a student, I found it helpful to remember that my home was filled with 0.1 HP light bulbs.

  17. Build on what already exists on Ask Slashdot: Economical Lego-Compatible 3-D Printer? · · Score: 1

    I'm going to assume that you're not trying to save money from buying Legos, because that's kind of foolish, but instead trying to make custom parts to fit within the Lego system. Your best bet may be to use, at a minimum, 1x1 lego plates (round or square) for the attachment points and use a cheaper 3D printer with a material that bonds to that plastic (ABS, I think).
    You can use other Legos to build supporting structures for the printer to build around and keep the 1x1 plates in place and aligned during the process.

    If that doesn't solve your problem, then I think you'll need to add a lot of money somewhere to get a solution.

  18. Re:no, just no on NY Bill Would Force Decryption of Smartphones On Demand (onthewire.io) · · Score: 1

    Between the selfies taken in less clothing, yoga pants, and widespread acceptance of the see-through scanners at airports, It looks like a growing number of Americans are less concerned about concealing their bodies too. Look at me. Follow me. Like me.

    I'm less worried about the power given to the people who are instituting these tracking laws (some of them believe it is for good, and other believe it will earn them a quick buck). Instead, I'm more worried about the psychopathic power-mongers that such a powerful vantage-point will eventually attract.

  19. Re:Idiot on Peter Thiel: We Need a New Atomic Age · · Score: 1

    This guy is an idiot. Renewables haven't failed, they are rapidly improving and winning against everything else on economic grounds. Nuclear isn't failing because of fear, it's because it isn't economically viable.

    From the summary: "...have all attracted interest not just from academics but also from entrepreneurs and venture capitalists like me..."
    It looks like he's not an idiot, but instead an investor that is encouraging people to change regulation so that something he's invested in can become more profitable. I didn't read the article, though, so I could be too quick to judgement.

  20. crazy people on ISIS's Hunt For a Bogus Superweapon · · Score: 1

    Haha. What idiots will believe that there's a weapon of mass destruction in that area that they need to find?

  21. Encryption pushes toward equality on Manhattan DA Pressures Google and Apple To Kill Zero Knowledge Encryption (thestack.com) · · Score: 3

    The more power you accumulate in one place, the more that place will attract greedy psychopaths and power-mongers. Imbalance of information knowledge is power and the key to domination. Encryption while on the grid is one of the few ways we have to prevent an accumulation of power that can be abused by those attracted to it. It puts everyone closer to the same footing. Equality of power in each citizen is what made our country strong. If we want to save lives from devastation over the next couple of generations, maybe we should make encryption stronger and invalidate any secret courts and secret laws... because... you know... imbalance of information.

  22. Cue the music on Xerox PARC Creates Self-Destructing Chip · · Score: 1

    Diddle-little-liddle-little
    dun dun dun-DUN, dun dun DUN-dun, dun dun dun-DUN, dun dun DUN-dun
    Na na naaaaaa, na-na naaaaaaa, na-na naaaaaaa, na-nuh

  23. Re:I like it on Amazon Stops Selling Fire Phone · · Score: 1

    One of the first things I did was to learn how to put the google ecosystem on it along with the play store. Then it became as useful as most other androids.
    A quick search should give you one of several pages with instructions.

  24. Re:Overkill on Can Living In Total Darkness For 5 Days "Reset" the Visual System? · · Score: 1

    If you can sell an HD virtual reality system that simulates being in the dark you may be able to make a tidy profit.

  25. Re:This is called Kaya Kalpa in yoga on Can Living In Total Darkness For 5 Days "Reset" the Visual System? · · Score: 4, Funny

    I don't know what you mean by "jack up the wiring" but mushrooms will probably get you there and they're not dangerous.

    And they grow in the dark!
    I'm sensing an opportunity for synergy here.