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  1. Re:$10 says it's a shitty DRM issue on Apple Seemingly Censors UltraFine 5K Monitor Reviews After Poor Feedback (thenextweb.com) · · Score: 1

    HDMI has DRM, but DisplayPort doesn't.

    Incorrect.

  2. If he also scraps the regulations that forbid communities from running their own co-op ISP I'll believe it.

    He doesn't have the POWER to "scrap" those "regulations", because they are laws enacted by individual states restricting those states' own municipalities.

  3. Barclay on NASA Names an Asteroid After 'Star Trek' Actor Wil Wheaton (cnet.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    When will we see asteroid Barclay?

  4. Re:Catastrophic man-made global warming on China Cancels Over 100 Coal-Fired Power Plants (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    the planet has existed for millions of years

    Er, the planet has existed for 4.5 BILLION years. There have been at least 5 major ice ages in geological history. The last one was from 110,000 to 12,000 years ago. We are currently in the early stages of an inter-glaciation period.

    The period of contemporary scientific research and record-keeping, as correctly pointed out, at about 150 years, represents about the last 0.000003% of planetary existence. If the existence of the earth were represented by the 1281 pages of the bible, the period of contemporary scientific research and record-keeping would be represented by less than the single last letter of the last word on the last page of the bible.

  5. Re:Pleasant surprise on China Cancels Over 100 Coal-Fired Power Plants (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    And if someone gets a little too frisky with China, and pulls some really dumb move, China owns something like a third of the total foreign held US debt.

    And what the fuck are you afraid they are going to do? Threaten not to collect their repayment? Stamp their feet? Think, man. Debt is furnishing cash money in exchange for a paper promise. We've ALREADY been paid; they are left hoping we don't go tits up and they lose all their investment.

    Now, if you wanted to observe that we have also sold off all our real estate and corporations to them, at least that would be a valid concern.

  6. Re:Ben Carson was right on President Obama Commutes Chelsea Manning's Sentence (theverge.com) · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    gender reassignment

    Bullshit. Can't be done. You can't reassign gender (whatever that is), or sex. All you can do to a male is mutilate it. Every cell in the organism still has X and Y chromosomes.

  7. Re:It's about landmass on China, Europe Drive Shift To Electric Cars as US Lags (reuters.com) · · Score: 2

    I had to look it up, EV's will run 60-80 miles on a full charge.

    Some only go 30. Others go at least 200. I don't claim they can replace ALL internal combustion cars, but don't exaggerate. Let's keep it real.

  8. Re:Well Trump has one thing right on Congress Will Consider Proposal To Raise H-1B Minimum Wage To $100,000 (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Evolve. The word is evolve, not evolution. And neither capitalism nor communism is what corruption comes from. Corruption comes from human nature, and the only way to combat it is by some incorruptible authority guarding against it with an eagle eye, and taking relentless vengeance against it when it does occur.

  9. Re:President rump... on US EPA Accuses Fiat Chrysler of Excess Diesel Emissions (yahoo.com) · · Score: 1

    You've only got eight more days to sing that song.

  10. Re:A few misconceptions there. MORE elastic on MIT Unveils New Material That's Strongest and Lightest On Earth (futurism.com) · · Score: 1

    it's not particularly brittle

    Spectacularly wrong. Carbon fiber is about as brittle as china. It has very little toughness. The plastic elongation is next to zero. The ability of steel, aluminum, titanium, etc to plastically deform when overstressed, absorbing enormous energy before rupturing, is what makes them so structurally useful. Carbon fiber acts just fine until it ruptures explosively when overstressed. When a tiny crack develops locally in metal, stress gets redistributed around it. You find that crack during regular inspection and take measures to repair it. In carbon fiber there is no such warning whatsoever.

  11. Re: Stop already with tying every disaster to GW on 2016 Was Second Hottest Year For US In More Than 120 Years of Record Keeping (climatecentral.org) · · Score: 0

    Athtoprogenic

    Stopped reading right there. Drunk, or stupid?

  12. Let's face it. It wasn't an actor, it was an actress. Old guys get acting jobs, and good ones. There are lots of 70+ year old actors, and a fair number of 90+. But there aren't many women much over 50 with acting jobs, and even over 30-40 they get relegated to side characters.

  13. Just HOW does this law violate the US constitution? This may be news to you, but the first amendment says (on this topic) only "CONGRESS shall make no law ... abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press". It doesn't say ANYTHING about what law state legislatures can make. I'm very pro-liberty, but in this case ... sorry to disillusion you.

    You want a better guarantee on this subject, get the US constitution amended. Good luck with that.

  14. Betteridge's law on Is The C Programming Language Declining In Popularity? (dice.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Betteridge's law of headlines. Answer is no. HELL no. Hell no, you royal asshole. Discussion terminated. OK?

  15. Re:Just another f***ing kludge to get around on Google Boosts Python By Turning It Into Go (infoworld.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    I think a lot of python users are not even aware of this. It's not a secret, and it's not just for lambdas. Semicolon is a perfectly legal statement separator in python. It's just that newline is ALSO a statement separator.

    if x < 1: print(x); print(y); print(z)

    is the same as

    if x < 1:
            print(x)
            print(y)
            print(z)

  16. Re:Please re-word: Jack Wallen's Best Linux Distro on Linux.com Announces The Best Linux Distros for 2017 (linux.com) · · Score: 1

    Agree. Everybody who knows anything knows Arch is the best for desktop, but I wouldn't use it for server.

  17. Re:Yet another standard on New HDMI 2.1 Spec Includes Support For Dynamic HDR, 8K Resolution (techhive.com) · · Score: 1

    Comcast Gigabit PRO (2gbps symetrical).

    Funny; there's no mention of any offering anywhere near that where I am. I could get 150/10, but it adds so much cost and my need is so slight that I stick with the 25/5.

  18. Re:I'm sure there's a reason... on New HDMI 2.1 Spec Includes Support For Dynamic HDR, 8K Resolution (techhive.com) · · Score: 1

    Human visual perception is limited to about 4000 pixels

    Arguably correct.

    and 256 different levels of color.

    Ludicrously wrong. Even 256 greyscale gives a painfully obvious stepping effect in a gradient. Even 16 million colors (256 R, 256 G, 256 B), while quite acceptable for most purposes, is readily detectable as deficient compared to 1 billion (1024 R, 1024 G, 1024 B).

  19. Re:I'm sure there's a reason... on New HDMI 2.1 Spec Includes Support For Dynamic HDR, 8K Resolution (techhive.com) · · Score: 1

    since most printed text is printed at like 72dpi

    Bwahaha. Yeah, back when we were using MX-80 dot matrix printers that was the case. Most laser printers are 300-600 dpi, and some are higher. Inkjet is usually several hundred.

  20. Re:Have they added curly braces yet? on Python 3.6 Released (python.org) · · Score: 1

    You are the very definition of a logic failure. As you yourself just quoted, PEP 8 says "Tabs or Spaces? Spaces are the preferred indentation method." And yet you think that it means tabs are just fine.

  21. Re:Have they added curly braces yet? on Python 3.6 Released (python.org) · · Score: 1

    Jesus, does anybody have to work with this guy? I've met some self righteous ass-clowns, but sheesh.

  22. You can buy a good quality 1TB SSD for $280 - much cheaper, faster, and incomparably better endurance than this thing. It'll be a little lighter and much more shock resistant and reliable than your hard drive for not a hell of a lot more $. You'll need an external USB-to-SATA enclosure, but you can get those cheap.

    And, yeah, 2TB is also available for an even better $/GB.

  23. That's about the best Arm64 board I've seen, but still comes up short despite being overpriced. No SATA, and no DIMM slots for real RAM expandability.

  24. Re:64-bit ARM SBC with 4 GiB of RAM? on Specs of Qualcomm's First ARM Processor Capable of Running Windows 10 Leaks (mspoweruser.com) · · Score: 0

    No, and even if I did, it still wouldn't have SATA, USB3, and the other things that would be necessary for it to be of any use.

  25. Re:Organization vs Gov't Hacking on FBI and Homeland Security Detail Russian Hacking Campaign In New Report (theguardian.com) · · Score: 0

    Only a fool would expect the Kenyan communist to ever behave in any way except the destruction of the Republic.