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  1. Re:Whew! on Big Trouble for Bitcoin (medium.com) · · Score: 1

    I spent mine on bolstering the down payment on my house. Than goodness I was bored and had those old Radeon 6950's way back when ;)

  2. Except that Apple wants to write most of the driver, you'd be right. Nvidia doesn't get to write the driver for the Macs, that's why there are never any direct graphics driver updates from any GPU provider for Apple hardware, it all goes through them. Apple gets the blame because they're the ones doing the development.

  3. Re:what about elevation? on Providing Addresses for 4 Billion People Using Three Words (mondaynote.com) · · Score: 1

    3x3 plus an apartment number? You find the building, you can find the sub-section of it. But the point is more for places that don't have solid street names and such, which aren't likely to have high-rises to any appreciable extent...

  4. Re:So much better on Providing Addresses for 4 Billion People Using Three Words (mondaynote.com) · · Score: 1

    If there's no simple street name or number or anything, there probably aren't going to be that many stories to deal with, either

  5. Re:Are all ten of them Java? on The Top Programming Languages That Spawn the Most Security Bugs (softpedia.com) · · Score: 1

    Except now node.js exists, and all kinds of people are doing things with it that JavaScript is horribly ill-suited to be doing...

  6. Re:Well, stop requiring such high pressures on Intel Skylake CPUs Are Warping Under Mounting Pressure From Third-Party Coolers (hothardware.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    They don't. The pressure rating for Skylake is the same as Broadwell, 50psi. Which ensures a good contact. What is likely happening is that some aftermarket coolers used more pressure because they're huge, heavy hunks of metal and needed more force to keep from lifting away, and those worked with the stronger substrate that Broadwell and earlier had, but not with Skylake.

  7. Re:Have you ever tried changing the 'culture'? on Linux Kernel Dev Sarah Sharp Quits, Citing 'Brutal' Communications Style · · Score: 1

    That shouldn't be a point of pride. "Thick skin" should not be necessary for a daily discussion, people should be able to act like adults, even when emotionally invested in their technological baby. It's one thing to have an argument, it's another thing to have to gear up for an argument for every single discussion.

  8. Re:Energy on The Effort To Create an 'Iron Man' Type Exoskeleton · · Score: 2

    Yes. It works great.

    http://www.instructables.com/i...

  9. Re:The only Gaming Notebooks are P&P on NVIDIA Announces GeForce GTX 980 GPU For High-End Gaming Notebooks · · Score: 1

    Why have 4K at 17", though? Or even 18"? I have a 28" 4K desktop monitor and it's gorgeous, but I can't even make out the pixels when I'm at a reasonable using distance. What benefit is 4K over 1440 on a laptop, other than requiring beefier gaming components?

  10. Re:Very sad - but let's get legislation in place N on Ashley Madison Hack Claims First Victims · · Score: 1, Informative

    But this isn't a bank vault. This was someone hiding the cash in a box under the bushes and claiming it was safe.

  11. Re:Ya, right on Police Training Lacks Scientific Input · · Score: 5, Insightful

    That's an assumption that'll get you killed.

    Lots of cops playing army without as much danger of being actually shot at. Lots of forces operating as for-profit gangs that do whatever they want. They'll shout "stop resisting" as they de-escalate the situation with violence.

    I'm not saying that there aren't any, or not even that most cops aren't good. But it doesn't take very many to poison a whole department, only a few in the higher ranks to run out the good cops.

  12. Re:Comparable on Windows 10 Still Phones Home With Data In Spite of Privacy Settings · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Pretty much every bit of Walker's trumpeting about his "success" in Wisconsin is a lie. I'd scratch him off post-haste if I were you.

  13. Re:Expect the Republicans to stop this... on Continued Cord Cutting Hits the Pay TV Business Hard · · Score: 1

    You can do your own doctoring, just like you can drive on your own roads.

    If you want to participate in the benefits of society, such as healthcare and maintained, safe roads and such, you pay your part. The biggest problem is the super rich and the corporations that have bought their way out of paying their part.

  14. Re:Expect the Republicans to stop this... on Continued Cord Cutting Hits the Pay TV Business Hard · · Score: 1

    If making sense actually changed opinions, there wouldn't be any Republicans left in this country. Pissing into the wind, my friend.

  15. Re:Those making more than new minimum salary on Company Testing Standardized Salaries Is Struggling · · Score: 1

    I know, right? We should have high schoolers working those 24 hour drive throughs while they're supposed to be in school or late at night, earning a below-living wage. Real adults just wouldn't stand for that, and don't deserve any better if they do.

  16. Re:Samzenpus got hit in the head this morning on Clinton Plan To Power Every US Home With Renewables By 2027 Is Achievable · · Score: 1, Informative

    You can keep your plan if it's a legitimate insurance plan. Lots of shitty plans stopped being offered.
    It isn't a tax, as in it's not a line-item on your tax bill. By your logic, Wal-Mart is a tax, because they get corporate subsidies for their welfare-requiring employees.
    You can keep your doctor, if your insurance allows you to. Before the ACA there were those problems, too.
    It does cost less, overall. The rate of healthcare cost increases is the lowest it's been in decades. It's not about you personally, it's the overall trend. Not to mention more people now qualify for insurance.
    Overall? Most people have better coverage, and more people have coverage, period. If you lost coverage, it was only because you were profiting from the people who were paying for plans that didn't really offer any protection.

    Oh, and don't forget that the Baby Boomers are aging, and are creating a huge load on the system... that's driving costs up for everyone. But I'm sure that's Obama's fault, too.

  17. Re:Where's "Scroll Lock"? on Ask Slashdot: Why Is the Caps Lock Key Still So Prominent On Keyboards? · · Score: 1

    Command-C, command-V. It works in the terminal just like in the rest of your apps. It's one of the things that I actually prefer about the Mac that I'm working on nowadays.

  18. Re:Surprise? on Experiment: Installing Windows 10 On a 7-Year-Old Acer Aspire One · · Score: 2

    *pidgin.

    If you're going to gripe about someone's grammar, you really should ensure that yours is impeccable.

  19. Re:... and the hype for Windows 10 begins.... on Experiment: Installing Windows 10 On a 7-Year-Old Acer Aspire One · · Score: 1

    So what you're saying is there's nothing that'll make you happy with Windows 10. If you want the gearhead features, you pay for the gearhead features. I, for one, am glad that after I upgrade my parents to Windows 10 they won't have the choice to ignore updates. Same with 95% of people out there with computers.

  20. Re: They're not going to arrest him! on Police Not Issuing Charges For Handgun-Firing Drone -- Feds Undecided · · Score: 0

    Cars have substantial other uses. A gun-carrying drone has only a single reason to be carrying the gun, and that's to cause harm to something.

  21. Re:Who makes these decisions? on Windows 10 Home Updates To Be Automatic and Mandatory · · Score: 1

    Why would everyone use the Pro version? If you know what a driver is, you can probably consider using the Pro version. If you don't, like my parents, then having everything automatically update seems perfectly sane, and safer than not having updates done until someone looks at the machine.

  22. Re:Secure Boot on Windows 10 Home Updates To Be Automatic and Mandatory · · Score: 1

    My kingdom for some mod points...

  23. But where did the cats go? I've got a great bag right here...

  24. Re:New internet explorer on Is Safari the New Internet Explorer? · · Score: 1

    But if things don't work right for them, they have the power to force them to. Thereby forcing standards to the lowest common denominator, ie Safari, just like happened with IE6.

  25. Re:Already covered over at Hacker News on Is Safari the New Internet Explorer? · · Score: 3, Interesting

    What do you mean? Every single web view on iOS uses Safari's renderer. It's against the App Store rules to have your own renderer. The problem is that sure, if you design a website around Safari it'll work everywhere else, but it's a pain in the ass to design it to a 5 year old standard when all the other major browsers support other upgrades, extensions and capabilities that can make code easier/faster/better. It's most apparent when an open standard has replaced an Apple designed one that's inferior, and Apple refuses to change, such as WebSQL/IndexedDB.