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  1. Re:Finally on Windows 10 Start Menu Wins IDSA Design Award · · Score: 0

    Yeah, blowjobs cost money. Question is, how much did Microsoft pay for this one?

    I do believe I smell a shillin'

  2. Re:Oh bullshit on Google: Poor Kids Might Grasp Macbeth If They Code Like Kids At $43K/Yr School · · Score: 0

    What poor choices did the parents invoke that didn't provide a good foundational start early in life?

  3. Re:Ads on Hackers Exploit Adobe Flash Vulnerability In Yahoo Ads · · Score: 1

    Yeah, it's how these fuckers spread CryptoWall 3.0!

  4. Re:Proposed solution is more sexist on Researchers: The Thermostat In Your Office May Be Sexist · · Score: 2

    It's not the temperature, it's the humidity; at any temperature.

  5. Re:Troll on Sociologist: Job Insecurity Is the New Normal · · Score: 1

    Yeah well, spending over half-trillion per year in military expenditures comes at a societal cost. If those aforementioned socialist nations picked up the slack I doubt they'd have much of a welfare program left.

  6. Re:Truck Stops, Gas Stations, etc on Are We Reaching the Electric Car Tipping Point? · · Score: 2

    For being a convenient store, it's pretty damn inconvenient to walk through 109 degree weather all the way and back for a damn receipt. I'd like to track fuel milage with paper, but I'm not going to sweat my balls off to get it either. Hey, it's my choice. So it's mutual between me and the store. But if you really want my attention to come inside, BE HONEST ABOUT YOUR INTENTIONS. I dunno, say, offer promo or discount for taking the receipt inside. But if you're not going to print my receipt when I asked it to do so.

    Normally I shrug this stuff off as strange and an unusual intermittent issue. But i've seen this behavior happen all too often. It's a scam-o-ramma.

  7. Re:Simpler? on Google Straps Aclima Sensors To Street View Cars To Map Air Pollution · · Score: 1

    Wouldn't it be a lot easier to mount sensors on stop lights or buildings

    Biased much?! Because sniffing for C02 will be at the highest when cars accelerate from a red light to green. And that's not a true representative amount as such concentrations will dissipate into the atmosphere. And if you're going to take samples of a downtown area like NY, it's preferred that you measure indoor air quality for traces gases generated from the outside anyways to validate overall concentration that effect daily health; most people stay in climate control surroundings in the city.

  8. Re:Truck Stops, Gas Stations, etc on Are We Reaching the Electric Car Tipping Point? · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Randomly, the pump will display "please see register for receipt" upon selecting the print option. I've see it being random as the person after me (a friend), had his receipt print just fine. It's a fucking scam to lure people into the store and buy shit.

  9. Re:Streaming doesn't work on Windows 10 App For Xbox One Could Render Steam Machines Useless · · Score: 1

    No, this lust for streaming is really for cloud content providers. The idea that you have a thin-client gaming console and the hardware is virtual to the player. Want to upgrade your experience with more CPU cycles and better video? Easy, make a one-time payment and add a virtual upgrade module. Or perhaps you can play different games at different "experience index levels" which really amps up the back-end hardware requirement. It's how the infrastructure gets paid for.

    I don't mind the above model in some instances. Effectively, the console capability grows with the backend upgrades. But, let's not be under false understanding of what service model streaming is really for; and the consumer should be made aware of non-tangble upgrades and virtual hardware purchases.

  10. Re:A much more efficient air conditioner, too? on Sharp Announces Sales of DC Powered Air Conditioner, Other Products To Follow · · Score: 1

    8500 BTU might cool a room reasonably well, but its not going to provide whole-house cooling, either, and would require a pretty large battery array to run off battery. It might make sense for some kind of supplemental cooling setup where it ran direct off solar panels.

    Translation: Turn your detached garage attic into a whole new room. Place solar panels on the roof and cool it with a Sharp Air Conditioner. With renting, you can now pay back your investment and then some. Winning!

  11. Re:This order is worthless without funding on Obama's New Executive Order Says the US Must Build an Exascale Supercomputer · · Score: 1

    Julius Caesar says, Julius Caesar gets!

  12. Re:And the NSA? on Obama's New Executive Order Says the US Must Build an Exascale Supercomputer · · Score: 1

    For that, you would be using custom ASIC hardware, and lots of it.

  13. Re:Isn't electron based, it's material based? on Intel and Micron Unveil 3D XPoint Memory, 1000x Speed and Endurance Over Flash · · Score: 1

    Type-R stickers.

    WTF is everyone talking about here? Fuck it, throw a few more Acura badges on it too.

  14. Re:Isn't electron based, it's material based? on Intel and Micron Unveil 3D XPoint Memory, 1000x Speed and Endurance Over Flash · · Score: 1

    Is it like core memory all over again?

  15. Re:And when she reneges on Clinton Promises 500 Million New Solar Panels · · Score: 1

    The former H1Bs stagnate wages, but they do produce. It's the later group that's a net loss in revenue for the American tax payer (citizen). It's the rich 1% in Mexico that should be footing the bill for their welfare, not us!

  16. Yes! Yes they will and ISIS has stated as such! Drones at least. But with AI logic being ubiquitously available, it's only a matter of time for them to implement it too.

  17. Re:DO NOT WANT on Intel Core I7-5775C Desktop Broadwell With Iris Pro 6200 Graphics Tested · · Score: 1

    FYI, you can disable Optimus in BIOS. Well, at least in a Dell Precision Laptop. I can only imagine it being a universal feature that can be user disabled on any computer.

  18. Re:And when she reneges on Clinton Promises 500 Million New Solar Panels · · Score: 0

    Pretty much. Although the idea of Bernie Sanders as another FDR (Franklin D. Roosevelt) frankly scares the hell out of me. We have so many poor immigrants flooding into our country that we're already heading towards another populist South American style form of corruption. Think Venezuela or Argentina; gimme gimme gimme followed by all those assholes in office that promise to deliver, but can't.

    Fact is, the math doesn't lie. The Democrats will win. Question is, how radical and populist will the next POTUS and congress be this election before the next one causes total implosion?

  19. Re:DO NOT WANT on Intel Core I7-5775C Desktop Broadwell With Iris Pro 6200 Graphics Tested · · Score: 1

    I could be wrong here, but I thought nVidia drivers leveraged the capabilities of the CPU GPU subsystem for co-processing in symbiotic fashion. Meaning, dedicated GPU performance in enhanced with the Intel integrated graphics even if you're not directly using it. Is that not the case?

  20. Re:Er...how? on California Legislation May Allow First Responders To Take Out Drones · · Score: 1

    Possibly via directional RF jamming. Just aim in the general direction and hopefully get the drone to either land on it's own and out of the way via "lost mode". From there, physically disable the unit (sack it, crush it, pull battery, etc)

  21. Re:If visiting Europe, card should have chip AND P on Cashless Adoption Growing In Europe · · Score: 1
  22. Re:If visiting Europe, card should have chip AND P on Cashless Adoption Growing In Europe · · Score: 1

    Yeah, they just started issuing out new VISA cards, but to my knowledge, MasterCard has yet to be on the ball. I'm sure the fiasco with Target and Home Depot had a lot to do with the push.

  23. Maintenance on Your Body, the Battery: Powering Gadgets From Human "Biofuel" · · Score: 1

    Our bodies are also remarkably good at performing maintenance in either the form of repair or replacement (cells). Electronic gadgets that extract energy via chemical process means will inevitably require periodic reconditioning.

  24. Re:There is no cure for absolute fucking stupidity on Techies Hire Witch To Protect Computers From Viruses and Offices From Spirits · · Score: 0

    Shorter version: You're white, and black people have a right to rob, rape, and kill you for past aggressions of slavery. You're task is to take it up the ass and penance for the sins of your father.

    How else do you explain the thug insanity of inner-city black kids running around like a troop of wild monkeys all while the politicians protect them from being policed appropriately?

    Tell you what, just wait till the Latino group (the next largest voting block) get sick and tired of it. And thank God that black women are now starting to conceal carry as well. They have a right to protect themselves!

  25. Re:If visiting Europe, card should have chip AND P on Cashless Adoption Growing In Europe · · Score: 1

    https://www.wellsfargo.com/chi...

    So are those cards not Chip and PIN by virtue of... "Sign *or* enter your Personal Identification Number (PIN) if prompted." ?