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  1. Re:How is this legal? on Ashley Madison Source Code Shows Evidence They Created Bots To Message Men · · Score: 1

    The bots are people. You just have to use your imagination in the realm of fantasy. Being for "entertainment purposes and all that". LOL, talk about these guys being taken for a ride!

  2. Re:Limited unlimited on Comcast To Charge $30 For Unlimited Data Over 300GB Cap · · Score: 1

    WRONG! That's 5.0Mb/s for HD (assuming only 720p), and 3.0Mb/s for SD content. Though with overhead and other traffic, I'd recommend at least 8 Mb/s of available bandwidth to ensure smooth playback without interruption for 1080. Other home devices that periodically squawk over the internet might cause a momentary hick-up if you're right at max usage. Again, that's assuming you're the only one at home. You could use QOS or prioritize by ethernet port, but whatever.

    Per Netflix, 25Mb/s is required for 4K content, but for most people, that's not an issue insomuchas either limited content and no newer TV that supports the format. It's right up there with 3DTV; it's a novelty for now.

  3. Re:I don't see the problem on Skylake Has a Voice DSP and Listens To Your Commands · · Score: 1

    Well that just goes contrary to my understanding of what the main CPU is supposed to do, crunch data, and as much of it efficiently as possible in the smallest package available. TDP rating be damned if it can handle it! If it's dark, it's wasted die space. Specialized hardware that's rarely used (relatively speaking) should resides outside of it via PCIe bus assuming latency and bandwidth considerations are met within the predefined scope of capability and need. Again, just my view on it. And because we're talking about PC CPUs, I don't see why a modern desktop process should be the equivalent of a SoC (System On a Chip). Ergo leaving dark silicon in place as video, wifi, audio, etc. Though for bandwidth and performance reasons, I get why the memory controller is on die. The video, however efficient the Intel HD stuff is, really should be external.

  4. Re:In small scale.. on Ask Slashdot: New Employee System Access Tracking? · · Score: 1

    Basically adhere to SOP of IT/HR On-Boarding and Off-Boarding process.

  5. Re:I don't see the problem on Skylake Has a Voice DSP and Listens To Your Commands · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The problem is that we have valuable die real-estate being taken up by this shit when additional L1/L2 cache, a core, or other SIMD instruction sets would be better. The market is full of DSP chips, why this, and why on the fucking die!

  6. Re:Why does the CPU need this? on Skylake Has a Voice DSP and Listens To Your Commands · · Score: 1

    I know servers have it, but I'm guessing modern computers now have a fully functional IPMI bus?

  7. Re:Tell your story walking. on A Farewell To Flash · · Score: 2

    And Flash can die in fucking fire!!!

  8. Re:If only... on Not All Uber Drivers Like Surge Pricing, Either · · Score: 1

    The US has lots -o- land! There's no reason people should be concentrated in a select few coastal cities. If it's too expensive, it mean you need to move! That includes janitors that can't live in San Fran to clean up the office; there's existing staff and robots for that. And if they really want janitors around, they can pay them a living wage to incentivize living there. Ditto for for the working guy (that's me too) that has to be at the office on time.

  9. Re:"unverified information" . . . ? on Proposed Rules Would Require Gov't Registration For Malaysian Press Sites · · Score: 2

    It's only "unverified information" until approved by whatever political party is in power. Duh!

  10. Re:Remember when America had science? on Chinese Scientists Discover Structural Basis of Pre-mRNA Splicing · · Score: 1

    We still do. It's just that many of those scientists end up going back to their home country to be back with family.

  11. Re:I remember ..... on Windows 95 Turns 20 · · Score: 1

    Not true. My Pentium 166Mhz PC had a MB with the 430FX chipset. It supported 32MB of RAM, though the chipset could support 128MB with the right amount of SIMM slots. Anyways, my system got upgraded to 24MB EDO and ran awesome with any game I could throw at it for the time.

  12. Re:Makes no sense on Not All Uber Drivers Like Surge Pricing, Either · · Score: 0

    In theory, proper pricing of a toll would pay off the bond quicker. As a result, more roads can be build and/or other forms of public transportation.

    Above and beyond that; to me, the real value of wealth is in COL (Cost of Living). Take San Francisco for example. It's already reached maximum capacity for all but the most wealthy and exceptionally talented. For everyone else, GTFO! You're wasting your time and money living there as there are far better places to live that will let you keep more in your savings account.

  13. Re:If only... on Not All Uber Drivers Like Surge Pricing, Either · · Score: 2

    So? Why is this a bad thing? In fact, it serves as a daily reminder of what supply/demand forces DO! Here in Houston, our I-10 Katy toll has difference pricing depending on time of day. I wouldn't be surprised if this turns into real-time pricing based on traffic in response to real-world events such as a traffic accident and weather.

  14. Re:It's a shame many are prone to failures on Twenty Years Later, Nintendo's Virtual Boy Is Still an Oddity · · Score: 1

    Some people will repair the LED strip via mail-in. The problem occurs even if it's in mint condition, and then powered on for the first time. Meaning, it's not the usage that wares them out, rather age breakdown of the material (oxidation??).

  15. Re:Cell wear == Engine Wear ? on MIT Researchers Discover "Metabolic Master Switch" To Control Obesity · · Score: 1

    The candle that burns twice as bright burns half as long.

  16. Re:4/5 in favor on Finland Considers Minimum Income To Reform Welfare System · · Score: 1

    So while failure (in life) shouldn't destroy you, it shouldn't be brushed aside or even rewarded either. Part of the reason automotive insurance is so expensive is because it costs money to fix property and care for the injured. So if you have people that don't fear making proper decisions, they will make them poorly for they now have a system they can lean on; but then so does everyone else and thus the system just falls apart. Just like communism.

  17. Re:If they don't replace they lower the value. on Evidence That H-1B Holders Don't Replace US Workers · · Score: 2

    It's why you rarely have Sys Admins these day. What you have are CTO and IT directors who managed the H1Bs and outsourced workforce from their desk in the US. Entry level IT is not needed in the US, AT ALL!!!

  18. Re:Oh realy? on Lightning Wipes Storage Disks At Google Data Center · · Score: 4, Interesting

    How rapid? I'm of the understanding that the first bolt ionizes the pathway in the air thereby reducing the resistance for the subsequent strikes to follow. All of this occurring within a few seconds.

  19. Re:Who the FUCK leaves RPC open to the internet! on Reflection DDoS Attacks Abusing RPC Portmapper · · Score: 1

    Morons that put their Windows servers behind the DMZ. Otherwise you have to port-forward, and I can't imagine why it would be anything other than 80, 443, and maybe 3389 (RDP for terminal services) and 25 for Exchange.

  20. Re:Still need RAM on Intel Promises 'Optane' SSDs Based On Technology Faster Than Flash In 2016 · · Score: 1

    Aside from the physical characteristics, we're heading back to the same L cache paradigm that magnetic Core memory had. It was both non-volatile storage and RAM.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

  21. Low power = stacking? on IBM 'TrueNorth' Neuro-Synaptic Chip Promises Huge Changes -- Eventually · · Score: 1

    So if 48 of these dies can be stacked in a 3D package, it's only throwing off 3.36 watts of heat??!

  22. Re:Every Tuesday Is Patch Tuesday on Microsoft Patches Remote Code Execution Hole for Internet Explorer · · Score: 1

    I suspect this is how CryptoWall 3.0 is getting machines infected.

  23. Re:Capitalism is killing them on Breathing Beijing's Air Is the Equivalent of Smoking Almost 40 Cigarettes a Day · · Score: 3, Informative

    Two words. Delta Smelt. That is what happens when you have rabid environmental policies run amok.

  24. Re: This already Exists on Google's Project Sunroof Tells You How Well Solar Would Work On Your Roof · · Score: 1

    Depends on the build and year the home was built. But Ashton Woods builds some of the best homes in America; if not the world for the money in today's market. I've know, I've walked many homes. Of course, they're not the only ones that build nice homes, but again, it depends on who, what, where, and when.

  25. Re:Real numbers on Google's Project Sunroof Tells You How Well Solar Would Work On Your Roof · · Score: 1

    Aren't LEDs used for grow lights these days? Just asking.