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  1. Re:Plants on Growing Flowers In Space (nasa.gov) · · Score: 0

    Or just get biology completely out of the mix and instead upload human consciousness into computers?. I'm sorry, but if we're really talking about long duration to trek the farthest reaches of space, even to planets such as Jupiter, supporting fragile biology doesn't seem very logical.

  2. Re:Taxpayers - I *order* you to cough up $4 billio on Obama Proposes $4 Billion Investment In Self-Driving Cars (transportation.gov) · · Score: 1

    If you could borrow $18.2T...

    What can't go on forever, WONT!. I've got savings in GOLD; and you can kneel before my cock if you think you can just take it from me!

  3. Re:Taxpayers - I *order* you to cough up $4 billio on Obama Proposes $4 Billion Investment In Self-Driving Cars (transportation.gov) · · Score: 1

    It's the mindset that needs to die, not fixating in the argument of "just" 4 billion over ten year. When you add up all the pet pork projects, that shit adds up real quick!

  4. Re:rubberneck verge on Big Trouble for Bitcoin (medium.com) · · Score: 1

    AKA a self-fulfilling prophecy.

  5. Re:Not That Uncommon on Can Your Hardware Top 18 Years and Ten Months? (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    P2V the OS/App stack and sock it away for a rainy day. Should you need them, just boot the VM. But yeah, get rid of that hardware; you'll have too sooner or later, and it's portable by nature of being abstracted to another host hypervisor.

  6. Re:Netware 3 on Can Your Hardware Top 18 Years and Ten Months? (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    But the spindles though! All HDDs have a MTBF rate, and if that server has been running near 24/7, it's greatly exceeded that lifespan. While yes, technically you could find new old stock SCSI drives, it might be exceedingly expensive or used drives with a dubious history.

    Just migrate to a NAS or a Windows Server. Not you, but the client should be made aware of the risks of running on such old hardware and the potential down-time, if not dataloss that would occur

  7. Re:Dice sucks dick. on The Best Ways To Simplify Your Code? (dice.com) · · Score: 1

    It's a feedback loop. Post stories in a manner that treats its readership like 14 years old, and we'll act 14 years old; which I'm fine with BTW cause being old sucks ass.

  8. Re:Sold my Nest on Nest Thermostat Bug Leaves Owners Without Heating (thestack.com) · · Score: 1

    Depends on the age of the house. Newer homes have much better insulation and radiant barrier below the roof. So for the same SQ footage in the same city for the same KW per hour cost, one home might blow $400 worth of electricity whereas the newer one might only hover around $120 with the same HVAC equipment and usage patters.

  9. Re:Just fight it on NY Bill Would Force Decryption of Smartphones On Demand (onthewire.io) · · Score: 1

    In all honesty, NY be pissing in the wind. Even if you illegally broke the NY law of preventing access to encrypted data via contraband hardware, the fine or jail time could be less than self-incrimination. Meaning, said person might get less for pleading the 5th and just take the lumps from the state.

  10. Re:Just fight it on NY Bill Would Force Decryption of Smartphones On Demand (onthewire.io) · · Score: 1

    They could do both. They could add an option that states if you're currently in NY or not, so as to re-encrypt data with a key that's accessible to local authorities, and the option to re-encrypt again once you leave. You have to abide by state law when you're in that state. So it's technically doable, just really hard on the flash memory if you travel in an out of the state; or you could just leave it in NY mode no matter where you're at. Trouble is, it won't scale well when all other 49 states are asking for the same thing. No to mention other nations that want their own key.

    The only winning strategy long-term is not to give in. Once they do, it's over and downhill from there.

  11. Re:Normally I side with the EFF, BUT on EFF: Cisco Shouldn't Get Off the Hook For Aiding Torture In China (eff.org) · · Score: 0

    So I've had an interesting discussion about this with my co-workers. In short, yes, sovereign nations have their own laws. So unless US law states otherwise that's applicable to a person or company, it's perfectly legal to aid and even architect methods of oppression abroad. Or to simply put, morality and law are two entirely separate things and not to be conflated. Meaning, while one may be modeled after the other, they're not intrinsically bound as absolute.

    So how do we change it as US citizens? Law. Talk to your representatives. I've been reminding that at one point the export of cryptography to China. But thanks to Bill Clinton, that limitation is no longer in effect. Time to reverse that trend if you want morality to be enforced under law.

  12. Just fight it on NY Bill Would Force Decryption of Smartphones On Demand (onthewire.io) · · Score: 1

    Fuck it. Apple and Google should just accept market share loss and tell NY to go fuck itself. Maybe then the locals would complain and and fight to have the bill abolished. Just accept the fact that money is a casualty of this war (for privacy) and that it's all part of the deal.

  13. Re:EFF not for Freedom any more? on EFF: Cisco Shouldn't Get Off the Hook For Aiding Torture In China (eff.org) · · Score: 1

    IANAL. However, a corporation has been established have "personhood" status. So for anyone out, please answer the following question:

    If someone flies from the US to say, China, and is authorized to assassinate someone, can that individual be extradited and tried for murder in the US being they're a US citizen? The answer should pave way to how Cisco should be handled.

  14. Ok, so we've got lots of CPU cycles and flash storage. As a driver, I could care less. If the automotive manufacture wants to leverage this technology for data analytics to improve product design and efficiency, so be it. But as a consumer, the increase in cost might make me shop for a competing vehicle; just so everyone understand.

    The "black box" recording is old news. I'm just waiting for it to become mandatory for insurance reason to establish negligent fault vs mechanical breakdown at time of impact. Oh, and automated speed ticketing based on GPS location. Might as well instal a thermal printer while they're at it to fine in in real-time. Fuckers!

  15. Re:I have done my own comparisons on BBC Confirms 50% Bitrate Savings For H.265/HEVC Vs H.264/AVC (bbc.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Don't forget the nightly builds too. https://handbrake.fr/nightly.p...

  16. Re:Unbiased source? on BBC Confirms 50% Bitrate Savings For H.265/HEVC Vs H.264/AVC (bbc.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Is there something intrinsic with all these codecs that Intel Quick Sync can do in hardware (CPU instruction set)? Or does the actual CODEC have to be baked in hardware?

    Wikipedia did mention something that I wasn't aware of, but makes sense in hindsight: "Quick Sync, like other hardware accelerated video encoding technologies, gives lower quality results than with CPU only encoders. Speed is prioritized over quality.[6]".

    I'm guessing people looking for the best quality won't be using Quick Sync after all, or rather haven't. This must be for the average person whom takes video with a cell phone, edits it on a computer, and posts to FB or YouTube.

  17. THat's when happens when you import reverse engineered jensen speakers. Amateurs.

    Me?? JBLs, Kickers, etc with Ministry and KMFDM blasted to 11!

  18. Re:This is driving me away from Windows on 'Get Windows 10' Turns Itself On and Nags Win 7 and 8.1 Users Twice a Day (infoworld.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm ok with Xbox users running Windows 10 stuff; no skin off my back. I love console gaming, but i'd prefer an open gaming platform (PC) in which I can drop in my own hardware. In fact, I'm open to the idea of going purely SteamOS. So MS either has me, or lost me, but I will not chase them.

  19. You're not going to be running the latest version of Quickbooks on Windows XP. And you won't be running the latest AutoCAD on Windows 7 in ten years from now. GET OVER IT!

  20. Re:This is driving me away from Windows on 'Get Windows 10' Turns Itself On and Nags Win 7 and 8.1 Users Twice a Day (infoworld.com) · · Score: 2

    For work: OSX for system administration, Windows 7 for business apps running as a VM under Fusion.

    For home: Windows 10 and beyond will be my official gaming platform. I could give two-shits about any of the rest of the crap. In fact, just fork it and make it an "XBox PC OS"; all I need is core functionality for gaming.

  21. Re:Try GWX Control Panel & Spybot Anti-Beacon on 'Get Windows 10' Turns Itself On and Nags Win 7 and 8.1 Users Twice a Day (infoworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Shiiiitt, so the running joke is true; Windows IS spyware!

  22. So, should we surrender the four years that we paid for to be hip and with the times?

    What's fair and what's reality are two entirely separate things. The short answer is -yes- get with the times; IT is a moving target of progress. There are cheaper options however; you can virtualize old Windows 95 boxes if you require legacy 16bit code to run over a mapped RS232 port as an example. It's ugly, but VM-ing an obsolete OS that's bound to custom legacy applications is doable.

  23. Re: Or they could, you know, abandon Communism on Cuba's Nationwide Sneakernet: a Model For Developing Nations? · · Score: 1

    It is the natural cyclical state of man to create, consolidate, and decimate resources. Lather, rinse, repeat.

  24. Re:Pull Out on German Carpenter's Testicluar Valve Could Mean An On/Off Switch For Sperm · · Score: 1

    No, but the other head sure is retarded. Babies happen, stupidity wins!

  25. Re: very resillient for a labor organization. on IBM Union Calls It Quits (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Kroger in the 90's. My first job. Also my first and last experience in joining the union. I was pressured into it not unlike someone being pressured into a multi-level marketing scam. I could have abstained, but all eyes were on me come time to sign the clipboard being passed around.

    I quit after seeing a huge chunk of my paycheck being used to pay the union dues. I washed cars and mowed lawns instead that summer; and it paid better too.