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  1. Re:Useful Idiot on Snowden Queries Putin On Live TV Regarding Russian Internet Surveillance · · Score: 1

    He fled to safety.

    Which nations are most likely to be amused by your reveals and won't fold over for US diplomacy?

    Also it's not like he got a lot of offers?

  2. Re:Kim Philby II on Snowden Queries Putin On Live TV Regarding Russian Internet Surveillance · · Score: 1

    Yeah. Snowden is taking away your freedom!

    Like really! ... .. no.

  3. Re:Useful Idiot on Snowden Queries Putin On Live TV Regarding Russian Internet Surveillance · · Score: 1

    It's a shame we didn't fought over him.

  4. Re:Voluntary? on Snowden Queries Putin On Live TV Regarding Russian Internet Surveillance · · Score: 1

    Or he just want to push his agenda.

    "Hey US, why are you worse than Russia?"

    If Russia is better, it works.
    If Russia is worse but lie then maybe it get reveaked and still works.
    If Russia was as bad and admitted it it would still work.

  5. Re:Hours Played is a bad metric. on Steam's Most Popular Games · · Score: 1

    You're not a one dollar gut but you don't beat the $ 3.7-7.7 average? =P

    For the weekly bundles the second tier is $ 6.

    One have to beat $1 to get the Steam keys. I could see how the trading cards may eventually add up to that but harder with say $4.5 on a regular one or $6 on a weekly one.

    The again I've only used one game of the what? ~4-500 I've bought so far? (Not all on Steam.)

  6. Re:Scalded on Steam's Most Popular Games · · Score: 1

    Precisely. I don't think I have purchased or even seen a game in recent years that did not come with a listing of prerequisite hardware/software.

    "It told me the game required Windows XP or better so I installed Linux."

  7. Re:Hours Played is a bad metric. on Steam's Most Popular Games · · Score: 1

    But do you really get more money back from the cards than you pay for the bundles?

    You only buy at $1?

    Or do it because you kinda want the games anyhow and they become cheaper if you sell the badges?

  8. Re:Not a surprise on Code Quality: Open Source vs. Proprietary · · Score: 2

    Without seeing it?

    They patch at random and let evolution take care of the rest? ..

  9. Re:Wat? on How Does Heartbleed Alter the 'Open Source Is Safer' Discussion? · · Score: 0

    Is this happened a closed source product I guess the question whatever it would had been on purpose or not and whatever any closed source product could be trusted would had been way steamier here on /.

  10. Re:Wat? on How Does Heartbleed Alter the 'Open Source Is Safer' Discussion? · · Score: 1

    Also of course regardless of whatever the product is open source or propitary and paid for you can't from that draw any conclusions about the skills of the individual who have written the code but if it's a high prestige brand/project I guess chances are higher they have been more picky than if it's some small rather unknown one individual thing.

    The idea was to make it a point that you for instance may not want to trust the individuals who roll their own packages for your Linux distribution of choice and download from random page or trust THISISTHEBEST___INTHEWORLDBUTITSNOTAWELLKNOWNPRODUCT from someone rather unknown for instance.

    But I guess it all fails with this being OpenSSL which I feel is a high prestige / well-known product and where safety should be important and still it simply failed.

    Somewhat related I noticed that Fedora run OpenSSH by default and with the defaults (PermitRootLogin yes) and listening to the whole world which imho is completely retarded and I don't see why one would want to have that the default. I guess it could be argued that "Hey, someone may need that to access the computer after installation!" but I guess in that case let them set that up in the installer or make a special installation with such settings and really, do they use the regular installer but have no keyboard and screen hooked up so they can turn it on if they want to afterwards?

    It did seemed like none of the BSDs ran sshd by default. Which imho is much more reasonable. Whatever to allow root or not as default I guess one could argue on. Since the OpenSSH default is PermitRootLogin yes I guess it make some sense to keep that the default rather than changing it but I guess there has been some argument about that one too. A way of rescuing a poorly setup installation? Possibly better (imho) to just force people to redo it correctly if they mess up and really need some way to get in.

    And regarding trusted source code, prestige projects and whatever anyone is actually watching the code and finding the bugs. What happened with the claim about some backdoor in was it OpenBSD or OpenSSH? Was it just bullshit or something real? I guess the first question would be whatever anything/it was actually found, because without that the answer would of course be "we don't know" =P

    Guess I'm off-topic enough to not take it even further so I'll stop there :)

  11. Re:Problem with releasing an underpowered console on Titanfall Dev Claims Xbox One Doesn't Need DX12 To Improve Performance · · Score: 1

    This one just in:

    ARM is starting to become more competitive and some people think their portables are adequate ;D

  12. Re:Problem with releasing an underpowered console on Titanfall Dev Claims Xbox One Doesn't Need DX12 To Improve Performance · · Score: 1

    I guess one thing which may have changed is that the supposedly "PC gamers" and what is the average there may have decreased / isn't even counted for any more because so many have moved to more portable stuff so what one view as a "serious PC rig" as among the best there is out there whereas previously maybe the consoles was compared to a PC more people had.

    AKA compare the Xbox One to a tablet and you won't be disappointed by the performance ..

    EA made their claim how the PCs couldn't run the new FIFA 14 engine, some people are like WHAT?! but the thing is likely that yeah, the most dedicated gamers with the latest and most expensive gear could run it. But most people is either lagging the latest technology simply by when they bought their rig or they have a reasonably priced laptop or something such and that's not the latest and greatest gaming PCs and is inferior to the Xbox One and Playstation 4.

  13. Re:Problem with releasing an underpowered console on Titanfall Dev Claims Xbox One Doesn't Need DX12 To Improve Performance · · Score: 3, Interesting

    FWIV - Also 1080p games and with possibly more details and AA would still of course be nicer than 720.

    Xbox, 2001-2002. 64 MB 200 MHz DDR shared graphics memory, 733 MHz PIII-ish, 233 MHz NV2A.
    Geometry engine: 115 million vertices/second, 125 million particles/second (peak)
    932 megapixels/second (233 MHz Ã-- 4 pipelines), 1,864 megatexels/second (932 MP Ã-- 2 texture units) (peak)
    (CPU random page 3 GLFOPS, GPU? Nvidia supposedly claim 80, some Xbox book say 22 in total.)

    Xbox 360, 2005-2006, 512 MB 700 MHz GDDR3, 3,2 GHz Tri-Core PowerPC, 500 MHz Xenos, 500 MHz 10 MiB eDRAM.
    Maximum vertex count: 6 billion vertices per second, 240 GFLOPS
    Maximum pixel fillrate: 16 gigasamples per second fillrate using 4X multisample anti aliasing. Maximum texel fillrate: 8 gigatexels per second (16 textures Ã-- 500 MHz)

    Xbox One, 2013-2014, 8 GB DDR3, 1.75 GHz Octo-core AMD APU, 853 MHz AMD GCN, 32 MB ESRAM.
    1.31 TFLOPS.
    "Xbox One supports 4K resolution (3840Ã--2160) (2160p) video" (So for something like "New super mario bros" I guess 4K wouldn't had been impossible.)

    I don't know how much you can trust the numbers but from the claimed GFLOPS numbers Xbox One with be 5.5 * Xbox 360 which would be 3 * Xbox.

    But it took 4 years to get to Xbox 360 and 8 years to get to Xbox One.

    Still obviously better.
    Previously my impression was that consoles use close to top of the line hardware when released and as is I don't see the AMD APU as such, but it's still GTX 650-650TI area and more GK106 GTX 660 for the PS4 (looking at gflops alone.)

    That isn't the best you can get but it just recently was the "reasonable budget high-end" or something such, isn't the 760 still same GPU but higher clocked? Sure going all the way to 770/780/R290X may be worth it from a price/performance perspective but it's still up there.

    People have problem enough running QHD games with one graphics card. Gaming (advanced looking game) isn't something which would happen with current gen graphics so that's totally out of the question.

  14. They have got one flaw though on Fruit Flies, Fighter Jets Use Similar Evasive Tactics When Attacked · · Score: 1

    "There's a bunch of fighter jets in my pickled cucumbers!"

  15. Reply to Comment? on Navy Debuts New Railgun That Launches Shells at Mach 7 · · Score: 0

    Oxygen is most definitely not flammable. Please take a grade-six science class.

    But your comment is!

    (Damn is weird, I wondered what page I was on, if it was some blog post I had ended up in or whatever.) .. no html quote tag in it either? I'll keep it and post this way anyway just to show how stupid it is.

  16. Re:No jetpacks yet... on Navy Debuts New Railgun That Launches Shells at Mach 7 · · Score: 2

    Rocketpacks have been around for long, they run out quickly though.

    Jetpacks I think they also used later. (One of the guys really into it died (I don't think it was from the pack.))

  17. How often can they fire? on Navy Debuts New Railgun That Launches Shells at Mach 7 · · Score: 1

    As in can it shot down missiles or not? And if so which ones?

  18. Re:Harry on Most Expensive Aviation Search: $53 Million To Find Flight MH370 · · Score: 1

    And it's pretty clear that anybody with the skills to make it disappear as completely as it did is capable of more than just a little direction.

    Houdini ?

    That goat.cx-guy?

  19. Re:I need a handle, man on What's In a Username? the Power of Gamer Tags · · Score: 1

    I'll be known as ...

    ... Cowboy Neal!

  20. Re:So... on New US Atomic Clock Goes Live · · Score: 1

    It's dark outside.

    It's night.

    This wouldn't help me get to bed earlier anyway so why bother. (~04:42 local time as if it matters.)

  21. Re:Translation on London Council Dumping Windows For Chromebooks To Save £400,000 · · Score: 1

    As long as all they need is a browser they will be fine. ... heck, even SteamOS would be a better choice.

  22. Re:Politcs vs. Science on NASA Halts Non-ISS Work With Russia Over Ukraine Crisis · · Score: 1

    I kinda get the impression that possibly in the US the rich rules politics and in Russia the politicians rule the rich.

    Whichever is better? ..

  23. Re:Politcs vs. Science on NASA Halts Non-ISS Work With Russia Over Ukraine Crisis · · Score: 1

    No, just privatizing the resources and have the rich buy the rights to them and the production. .. If the people of Ã...land decided they wanted to be part of Sweden rather than Finland or had Alaska not belonging to USA and they voted to become part of the USA had that been much of a problem?

    I guess the real problem is Russia put troops there but then again without that happening they likely wouldn't have had the chance to vote. I'm not into what happened with the riots, coup and new government but the old was democratically elected wasn't it? And the US had interests in Ukraine getting closer to the west and who knows what they did to help the events which happened.

    The US priority isn't to make everyone happy and help everyone. Their interest is to help themselves. It's the same for Russia. The US want to be everywhere and be the preferred ally because they believe that benefits them.

    But now I don't know the true story and I live to far away from Ukraine and I can't really expect to get the correct information either from US or Russian officials. Last news was that even the government of the US get the correct information from the CIA.

  24. Re:Gee, so only a year of screaming on Microsoft: Start Menu Returns, Windows Free For Small Device OEMs, Cortana Beta · · Score: 1

    That's a silly comment considering Gnome 3 is made to have extensions isn't it?

    It would be like saying Irssi is a poor IRC client because some functionality other IRC clients includes in the binary isn't there without additional scripts.

    The thing is not everyone will need them, want them, prefer the same things and so on.

    So there's nothing wrong with making stuff scriptable and changeable.

    If Gnome3 showed nothing than the old diagonally black and white crossed screen with black and white popup menus it could still be good if that was the default and you could add anything you wanted on top.

    Personally I haven't used either of Windows 7 or 8 but I doubt I'd have an issue with either and would be able to use both.. Or Gnome3 if I took the time to learn how the user interface worked to begin with. My reaction to Gnome3 atm is somewhat like what I can imagine a Windows user reaction would be with CDE.

  25. Re:really? really. on Continued Rise In Autism Diagnoses Puzzles Researchers, Galvanizes Advocates · · Score: 1

    Since everyone is different and since the people within psychology want to be able to describe everyone and everything as far as the mind goes of course people will be described by various titles/diagnosed as belonging to this or that personal trait.

    Not that weird, "nerds" (not full-blown autism? But still placed under the same umbrella for some reason) have likely always existed but they was likely just seen as such or labeled as such.