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  1. Re:Playstation 32X on Sony Working on 'PlayStation 4.5' With Enhanced VR and 4K Support (kotaku.com) · · Score: 2

    The Sega 32X was a bolt-on; like an amped up Nintendo FX chip concept. It tried to be a "Saturn Lite" console, but no where near its ability.

    This is more of a "Playstation 4 Plus". Plays all PS4 games, but the Plus supports optional 4k (for titles that support it) and enhanced VR

  2. Re:Almost Anything Else is Better on Tavis Ormandy Criticizes Meaningless Antivirus Excellence Awards (softpedia.com) · · Score: 1

    Application whitelisting, generally by publisher certificate, is the only way to lock things down meaningfully. Use hash-based exceptions for unsigned apps.

    Agreed 100%.

    Too bad all the tools are priced for enterprise.

    It's already in OSX. I've had to grant the exception for one app, but it's rare.

    Allow app downloaded from:
    -Mac App Store
    -Mac App Store and Identified developers (what I keep mine set too)
    -Anywhere

  3. Re:In 10 years this will run on phones. on Google's AlphaGo AI Beats Lee Se-dol Again, Wins Go Series 4-1 (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    I just imagined chef's knife wielding Furby standing over me in my sleep.

  4. Re:My experience this is true on Study Finds That Humidity Has More Effect On Drive Failures Than Temperature (rackcdn.com) · · Score: 2

    Yes, relative humidity percentage matters to temp. Meaning, it's ok to have 50% humidity if it's 78F, but not between 60 and 70. So if you can't get rid of the water with an AC system, paradoxically having a higher ambient temp should in theory be better for your drives.

  5. Re:Dreamcast Was First... Or Was It? on Xbox Live Now Supports Cross-Platform Multiplayer With PS4 (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    It was a "successful" launch of service which took actual payment for rendered services. None of it was vaporware hypothetical. it was real.

  6. Re:In 10 years this will run on phones. on Google's AlphaGo AI Beats Lee Se-dol Again, Wins Go Series 4-1 (theverge.com) · · Score: 2

    No no, you're thinking is all wrong. In 10 years, we'll pitting our phones together on the same table and have them play it out while placing winning bets . It's sorta like putting two Furbies in front of each other; useless, but endless fun :)

  7. I know I'll catch hell for suggesting it - "breaking the internet" and all that - but perhaps it would be best if users could opt out of certain domains at the OS level. For example, I have no intention or desire to surf .RU. None at all. As far as I'm concerned, it would only serve me malware at the very least. I would block .OM there too.

  8. Re:Why bother? - decentralize IT on China Criticizes Subsidized Ride-Hailing Apps As Anti-Competitive (thestack.com) · · Score: 1

    Why is is that Facebook and Uber have remained centralized all these years. Want to control logistics, profit, and privacy (your content), the solution is to throw all this into P2P mode. Want to go offline and take your content with it, fine, shutdown the computer hosting the content. Should a user stumble across an old user thread, if the PC that was associated with isn't online, the content is listed as N/A. None of this shit about storing years of user comments and photos. Further more, none of this BS about them middle-man creaming the near entire profit incentive for participating in services like Uber int he first place.

    It's time for people to pull their collective heads out of their asses.

  9. Re:Were there any benefits? on The Case Against Ratifying the Trans Pacific Partnership (michaelgeist.ca) · · Score: 2

    Yes, it makes the .001% that much more wealthy. The Earth will soon have no more than 50 dynasties, or Houses. The idea of a government representing sovereignty is nothing more than a facade, an abstract to the Houses that dominate the planet.

  10. Re:Really? on Microfluidic Cooling Turns Down the Heat On High-Tech Equipment · · Score: 3, Informative

    ...a power supply rated at 500 W can deliver 500 W of power to the system regardless of its efficiency, the efficiency tells you how much power it must draw from the wall to deliver those 500 W it does not affect its output capacity, a 500 W power supply that is 90% efficient can deliever the same amount of power as one that is only 80% efficient. If the power supply is 80% efficient it needs 625 W(500/0.8) from the wall, those extra 125 W are turned into heat by the power supply, while a 90% efficient unit would only be drawing 555 W from the wall, meaning it is dissipating only 55 W as heat, or only 44% of the heat the 80% efficient unit was creating.

    - Toms Hardware

  11. Re:It's simple. on Apple Might Be Forced to Hand Over iOS Source Code to the FBI (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    There will be a crypto government agency by which all forms of encryption certs and keys must be licensed with the Federal Gov by each company that wishes to use encryption in their product. Effectively, all this crypto stuff will be moved from the private to public Federal sector. Will it ban US products from other nations? Absolutely! Does the Gov give a fuck? Hell no.

  12. Re:"Hi, tech support?" on Software Bug in F-35 Radar Causes Mid-Flight System Reboot · · Score: 3, Interesting

    777 or 747, can't remember which. Many years ago I took a flight from Chicago to Shanghai. Once we've boarded the plane, we sat there for a longer than usual amount of time. Eventually the pilot announced a delay due to "technical difficulties" and a technician was dispatched soon thereafter. After another 15 minutes or so, the pilot announced they had to reboot the system and we would be well on our way. Sure enough, all power was cut - the lights, seat displays, etc. I can't remember if they had the engines idling or not; either they were still running unaffected or they shut them down prior to the reboot. But the real fear I had was what happens if another reboot is needed 30k, feet in the air. I just hope the technician needed a hardware swap and not clearing an unknown unreproducible software glitch.

  13. Re:Nothing to see here on Software Bug in F-35 Radar Causes Mid-Flight System Reboot · · Score: 1

    Why bother with Windows when you're now in the sky?

  14. Re:Milestone on Human Go Champion 'Speechless' After 2nd Loss To Machine (phys.org) · · Score: 1

    I want to see a computer vs computer match!

  15. Oh, I'm not defending MS by any means. This is a shake-down to put the onus of Intellectual Property enforcement on the ISPs rather than MS having to pay for the resources to do this themselves.

  16. A Fortune 500 will have an internal IT department that's already setup a KMS server by which to activate machines internally. What you're talking about would be the use of MAK activation, and it wouldn't be appropriate in your scenario.

  17. Re:License-plate forgeries on China Car-Tracking Scheme Could Allow Higher Fuel Prices For Gas-Guzzling Cars (thestack.com) · · Score: 1

    Due to the traffic and combined with the fact Shanghai is city of wealth in China, if you're rich enough to pay that much for a license plate, you're probably rich enough to pay for a nice foreign car. If you want to see this in action at the extreme, just look to Singapore. China knows this and in fact their domestic automative industry is forced to sell cars in smaller cities as they just can't compete in the larger cities with rationed/expensive plates.

  18. License-plate forgeries on China Car-Tracking Scheme Could Allow Higher Fuel Prices For Gas-Guzzling Cars (thestack.com) · · Score: 5, Interesting

    For those that aren't aware: the license plate can cost more than the car itself; hence the forgeries.

  19. Re:why not use the car's odometer? on China Car-Tracking Scheme Could Allow Higher Fuel Prices For Gas-Guzzling Cars (thestack.com) · · Score: 1

    It's china. They're big on the whole Orwellian "BIG-DATA" tracking and analytical oppression for maintaining a political grip on power and maintaining relevancy for the next 10,000 years. The CCP has a mindset of a dynasty. It's structured to protect its own interests first and foremost. Once you understand that, everything else they do makes perfect "harmonious" sense.

  20. But at least Donald is conservative enough to stick with the tried and true nose candy of choice - cocaine. Unlike McAfee that does all that wacky zombifying bath salt shit; no thank you.

  21. Re:Gold is the only real money on Bitcoin's Nightmare Scenario Has Come To Pass · · Score: 1

    Gold is great until you need more of it, which you always do, because economies grow (all being well) and extra money is needed to support that.

    I don't buy into the whole Peak Gold argument. There's plenty of gold in the oceans and whatnot, it's just too expensive to go after it. Once the value goes up, so will the resources be directed to find more of it. But let's assume the argument that we have reached Peak Gold. That's ok, so as it gets more expensive, we diversify into Platinum and other nobel metals. From there, move on down the the red headed stepchild - silver. And from there, we go to copper.

    This isn't a problem.

  22. Re:Nuclear weapons aren't the deterrent on Kim To N. Korean Military: Be Ready To Use Nuclear Weapons At Any Time (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    It's why you let that regime wither on the vine by imposing sanctions and a naval blockade. Would that spark war? Sure, absolutely it could. But isn't going to war with them now better then waiting until they have a 100+ nuclear weapons? Just rip the bandaid off now and get it over with. Otherwise, it will fester and be far deadlier of a situation than you can possibly imagine. A few cities might fall, but that's just the cost of being feckless. This regime should NOT exist in the first place.

  23. Re:Ah, PDF - should have stopped at 1.5 on Windows' Built-In PDF Reader Exposes Edge Browser To Hacking (softpedia.com) · · Score: 2

    Unless you think they simply don't care about this shit

    Haven't you heard? Microsoft is all about FEATURES. Bugs, exploits you say? That shit is for little people. But if something happens, I'm sure you can get Cortana to summon a useless idiot from India to help you out; for a fee of course.

  24. Re:This guy over here.... on FBI Should Try To Unlock iPhone Without Apple's Help, Lawmaker Says (csoonline.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I'll give the benefit of the doubt that he's using the word hard drive interchangeably with storage. Now, if he actually thought he could pull the platters apart vs pulling data off with a cable or a manual flash chip migration to a breadboard, then yes, he's a fucking moron.

  25. Re:Geo Political Interference on Renewable Energy Shows Strong Gain In U.S. (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Hillary supports expanding H1-B visas.

    Of course she does. She's a globalist that's by and for the global elite. The World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos would approve of her in this regard most assuredly.