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  1. Re: Just disable it... on Measuring How Much "Standby Mode" Electricity For Game Consoles Will Cost You · · Score: 2

    POST (Power On Self Test). The time doesn't include bootstraping to the OS. For example, Dell OptiPlex machines boot very fast when compared with a 3rd party motherboard. Dell PowerEdge servers take a very long time. For those POST includes RAM, DRAC, PERC (raid card), and the IPMI bus.

  2. Re: Is it a problem with the technologies they us on Startups Increasingly Targeted With Hacks · · Score: 1

    You can't afford Microsoft if you're cash starved anyways, so it's a moot point.

  3. Re:Astroturfing on How Professional Russian Trolls Operate · · Score: 5, Funny

    In this case, wouldn't that be cosmoturfing?

  4. Re:Running joke on How Professional Russian Trolls Operate · · Score: 1

    I'm sure at some point AI will troll in order to play the rest of humanity like a stradivarius.

  5. Re:Easy Solution on Broadband ISP Betrayal Forces Homeowner To Sell New House · · Score: 4, Funny

    Home Owner: But but but, thats price is outrageous!!! How can I run my business if you guys are stomping my entire profit margin?

    Comcast: Because...we can :)

    Home Owner: But I have a business to run!

    Comcast: Look into my eyes; you don't work for yourself, you work for Comcast!!! *evil laughter*.

    Home Owner: What's your name!?

    Comcast: Skeletor!

  6. Re: Bummer on RSA Conference Bans "Booth Babes" · · Score: 1

    Rule of thumb: The higher the stilettos and more cleavage is exposed, the higher they rank on the slutty scale. Oh, and hoop earrings will guarantee you can take her home for a nominal fee!

  7. Re: i can't wait! on Micron and Intel Announce 3D NAND Flash Co-Development To Push SSDs Past 10TB · · Score: 1

    You joke, but for some of my favorite music I don't mind leaving it in WAV format. I can afford the space now.

  8. Re: Congress is a bunch of fucking retards on GAO Denied Access To Webb Telescope Workers By Northrop Grumman · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Victims, aren't we all?

  9. Re:Poor Linux support on What Makes the Perfect Gaming Mouse? · · Score: 1

    For electronics and contacts, use MAF cleaner as it's closer to electronic cleaner. Additionally, you can actually use it on the MAF which provides improved fuel economy, engine performance, and keeps the carbon buildup minimal while adding additional life to the O2 sensors and catalytic converter. MAF being one of the first important real-time sensors, it does leave an ancillary impact on the rest of the system.

    As for brake and carb cleaner, don't use them on electronics. Those are harsh solvents that leave a film of residue behind and can really harm some plastics. I suppose if you really had too on a failed mouse, use a short burst of it, then quickly chase with a can of compressed air to dry it out quickly. But you're rolling the dice on those results.

  10. Re:Poor Linux support on What Makes the Perfect Gaming Mouse? · · Score: 1

    Didn't have one. To he perfectly clear, I only solder wiring harnesses for car audio equipment and the occasional re-capping of amps and motherboards. I can't do fuck-all with these tiny delicate surface mounted components. Either I don't have the tools, dexterity, or knowledge how how to properly work on that stuff. So yeah, I'm done messing with that stuff.

    FYI, I managed to get my last mouse working better by hosing down the microswitches with CRC Mass Airflow Sensor Cleaner that I had laying around. So far so good.

  11. Re:Poor Linux support on What Makes the Perfect Gaming Mouse? · · Score: 1

    Agreed. I've gone through two Logitech Wireless Performance MX mice. I've used them so much that the microswitch started to malfunction in the left button. Aside from that, they're near perfect for both gaming and everyday use.

    BTW, I purchased new microswitches in attempt to repair the first mouse. It ended in failure as the PCB board was too thin. Whatever the narrow margin of heat needed to solder on that board was, I obviously didn't have the right equipment. My iron just plugged into he wall with a specific wattage rating; meaning it couldn't be adjusted with the dial. And the deconstruction of the mouse was a major PITA that often made putting the plastic feet back on next to impossible as the adhesive wouldn't stick as well. Oh well.

  12. Re:people are going to be saying on Germanwings Plane Crash Was No Accident · · Score: 1

    Doesn't a decompression automatically override anything a pilot or co-pilot can do? Assuming it's even feasible and hindsight 20/20, I would have informed the crew that oxygen masks would most likely be deployed and then proceeded to find a way to bust out a window. At that lower altitude, would the crew still pass out?? Anyways, door goes unlocked, and the pilot can proceed to pull that fucker out of the cockpit and regain control.

    Possible??

  13. Re:It's the home thing on Comcast's Incompetence, Lack of Broadband May Force Developer To Sell Home · · Score: 1

    The industry may have changed, but when I lived in Austin, TX (2004), I was employed with Time Warner Cable as a TSR (Technical Support Representative). Effectively, all of us TSR agents were Tier 2 with a few specialized in head-end equipment as Tier 3. When the phones got busy, it was not uncommon for the CSR (Customer Support Representative) to take the front lines as act as Tier 1 in order to clear the queue of silly stupid issues. This was in regards to both Internet, Cable TV, and Digital Phone Service. Anyways, the TSR guys had access to a whole lot of stats to the DOCSIS side of things including upstream, downstream dbmv and SNR levels from the coax side. Configurations could also be pulled. Yes, a dev can do basic TCP/IP troubleshooting from his end and isolate problem via a "divide and conquer" troubleshooting technique, but modem flapping, line noise, and overall infrastructure issue? No. You really need to be contacting a TSR for any known local and regional issues.

    As for me, I'm a sysadmin working in the MSP IT industry. Server, networking, migrations, anything and everything short of dev work. We have 3rd party connections for that, and thats only what they do, and they do it well.

  14. Re:Help us, P2P Kenobi, you're our only hope. on Comcast's Incompetence, Lack of Broadband May Force Developer To Sell Home · · Score: 1

    Uh, no. Most likely the GRE protocol would get broken. Well, perhaps an SSL VPN might work.

  15. Re:Infrastructure yes, service no on Comcast's Incompetence, Lack of Broadband May Force Developer To Sell Home · · Score: 1

    they probably know a lot more about networking than some guy just trying to get cable.

    I wouldn't go that far. Sure, he probably RDP, VNC, or SSH into his remote servers with the occasional upload/download to them. But being in IT and knowing quite a a few devs, they're quite abstracted from the physical layer of things. But boy can they sure talk their head off about all the different programming languages they know.

  16. Re:It depends on No, It's Not Always Quicker To Do Things In Memory · · Score: 1

    Starting with Windows 8 / 2012, developers have restricted disk / volume I/O access. I'm not sure how this plays in regards to the testing, but link below nonetheless.

    https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-...

  17. Re: it always amazes me on Feds Attempt To Censor Parts of a New Book About the Hydrogen Bomb · · Score: 1

    Starfish Prime was rated at 1.4mt and detonated 250 miles above the earth.

    "Starfish Prime caused an electromagnetic pulse (EMP) which was far larger than expected, so much larger that it drove much of the instrumentation off scale, causing great difficulty in getting accurate measurements. The Starfish Prime electromagnetic pulse also made those effects known to the public by causing electrical damage in Hawaii, about 1,445 kilometres (898 mi) away from the detonation point, knocking out about 300 streetlights, setting off numerous burglar alarms and damaging a telephone company microwave link. The EMP damage to the microwave link shut down telephone calls from Kauai to the other Hawaiian islands.[5]" - Wiki

    And that was before the IC (microchip) was in use. Inverse square law and all, depending on locality and yield, that could fry enough gates on chip to shutdown whatever it's tasked to control. In this case, the electrical grid and water pumping infrastructure.

  18. Re: it always amazes me on Feds Attempt To Censor Parts of a New Book About the Hydrogen Bomb · · Score: 1

    It's called MAD (Mutual Assured Destruction). It remains to be seen what a theocratic regime that's been harping on the return of the 12th Imam via an apocalypse will do. The regime could quite very well see the atomic bomb as the instrument by which to bring forth this event.

    http://pjmedia.com/lifestyle/2...

    Me? Who the fuck knows. At the end of the day, man is driven by power, money, and greed. Their own Revolutionary Guard could sack top officials if push came to shove, but that's predicated on an unfounded desired outcome vs. them actually using the damn thing.

  19. Re: How many minutes until this is mandatory? on Ford's New Car Tech Prevents You From Accidentally Speeding · · Score: 1

    so you get bunching, then break out, then bunching, then break out, etc.

    Bugs the shit out of me. That, and the "pacers" that refuse to break formation with the car beside them when only two lanes are available in a single direction. I've found the best way to deal with this interesting. Just back off a ways until they slow down some, then accelerate hard and pass in front of them! Use safe judgement of course. So while you can't reason with someone else's subconscious, you sure can "hack" it to your will.

  20. Re:The real reason on Australian Company Creates Even Faster 3D Printer · · Score: 1

    You know, I thought it was pretty badass that someone copied the starships from Star Citizen and printed them out IRL.

    https://forums.robertsspaceind...

  21. Re: it always amazes me on Feds Attempt To Censor Parts of a New Book About the Hydrogen Bomb · · Score: 0, Troll

    In the case of Iran, it's been reported that they have plans to detonate a high altitude nuke above the US to generate an EMP. Once the infrastructure goes out, 90% of the population would die out from lack of water and supplies. They know this. Morally and religiously, they can say "God did it" because the actual explosion itself never killed anyone directly.

    Now, you still trust those zealot fuckers with a nuke?!!!

  22. Re: I can see this working! on Ford's New Car Tech Prevents You From Accidentally Speeding · · Score: 1

    Depending on whom is spreading their legs, and where.

  23. Re: How many minutes until this is mandatory? on Ford's New Car Tech Prevents You From Accidentally Speeding · · Score: 2

    Just lock in your speed with cruse control within the legal threshold. That's what I do on the interstate when it's clear. You get there safe and can not stress out about blowing past posted speed limit. Besides, let someone be the jackrabbit.

  24. Re: Are the CAs that do this revoked? on Chinese CA Issues Certificates To Impersonate Google · · Score: 1

    Next stop is for actual CCP or PLA boots on the ground. I'm convinced the velvet gloves come off. Either code a back door into your web services for official government access, or don't have a physical presence in the mainland. As for the MITM attack, totally legal. What are you going to do, sue the Chinese government??!

  25. Re:Pilot program for Insurance industry on Chevy Malibu 'Teen Driver' Tech Will Snitch If You Speed · · Score: 1

    Well well well, look what just made the news. It was predictable.

    http://www.engadget.com/2015/0...