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  1. Re:Sounds interesting but... on Micron Kicks Off Mass Production of 12Gb DRAM Chips (anandtech.com) · · Score: 1

    That frequency is extracted from the data lines a trick that works just fine at USB speeds, and then utterly fails at the type of speeds we expect RAM chips to use.

    LPDDR4X: 4.266 Gbps per pin.
    USB 3.0: 5 Gbps per pin.

  2. Re:anybody surprised? on US Indicts Chinese Hacker-Spies In Conspiracy To Steal Aerospace Secrets (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    With trade imbalanced so heavily, China needs us much more than we need them.

    What? How does that work? China has all the manufacturing, a billion consumers, and a huge cash surplus. What do they need the USA for?

  3. I'd rather have the Chinese listen to me [effortlessly] than the rest of the world.

    A backdoor for anybody is a backdoor for everybody, eventually.

  4. Alternatively you could also include bluetooth support so if you needed better control and had time/space to setup you could just use a full blown mouse.

    The Gemini has (er, will have, if they ever build it) two USB ports.

  5. They had so many CxO positions that they had to move to a CxyzO system.

  6. Re:Ford and the Fed on Amazon Will Raise Its Minimum Wage To $15 For All 350,000 US Workers (recode.net) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Current median US house price is roughly $200k, so if Bezos wants to deserve a comparison to Ford he needs to up wages to about $39 an hour.

    In 1915, $5 would buy a quarter ounce of gold. To keep up with Ford, Bezos would have to pay ... 1/32 oz/hour ... $1200/oz ... $37.50 an hour. I'd say your math checks out!

  7. Re:What kind of premise is this? on Automation: The Exaggerated Threat of Robots (flassbeck-economics.com) · · Score: 1

    That's a dangerous game for the 1% to play. Once the culling starts, nobody is safe. For reference see every single violent revolution in human history.

  8. Re:How many bugs in, say, 10,000 lines of code? on The Linux Kernel Has Grown By 225,000 Lines of Code This Year, With Contributions From About 3,300 Developers (phoronix.com) · · Score: 1

    If kernel code is like most code, and it probably is, there is about 1 bug per line of code. So 10,000 or so.

  9. Re:Faster attack when you have physical access on Almost 'All Modern Computers' Affected By Cold Boot Attack, Researchers Warn (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Even an encrypted hard drive can be cracked, it just takes time. And if I have the drive I can take as long as I want, hours, days, months, years, it just depends on what I think is on it and how much time I'm willing to invest.

    All the computers in the world can't crack AES-128 in your lifetime.

  10. Re:How many planets do you want on Pluto Should Be Reclassified as a Planet, Experts Say (sciencedaily.com) · · Score: 2

    So how many planets do you want?

    The more the merrier!

    How many moons should Jupiter have?

  11. Re:InB4 Why on Samsung and LG Unveil 8K TVs (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Every TV image you've seen has been displayed at non-native resolution. When you watch a 1920x1080 TV, you're actually only seeing about 1890x1060 pixels. For obscure historical reasons, TVs overscan the video image. So if a show is recorded at 1920x1080, the image that's displayed on your 19201080 TV is actually a crop of the center portion of the original image, enlarged to fit the 1920x1080 pixels of your TV screen.

    While I don't necessarily doubt what you say here, I'm having trouble reconciling it with my experience.

    My monitor displays a 1920x1080 frame buffer which exactly fills the screen. The MPEG file saved from the OTA broadcast (verbatim, no transcoding) is specified as 1920x1080. The frames decoded from the MPEG file are 1920x1080 and fill the screen exactly.

    So where does the rescaling / interpolation / anti-aliasing happen?

  12. Re: Certified Fresh = The Last Jedi on Why Don't We Care About The Rotten Tomatoes Scores Of TV Shows? (digg.com) · · Score: 1

    MovieChat has discussion forums like IMDB used to have. It's a lot smaller but better than the nothing that IMDB has now.

  13. Tremendous success! on DHS Forms New Cyber Hub To Protect Critical US Infrastructure (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    DHS was founded 15 years ago to prevent another Sept. 11, 2001, ...

    According to my calendar, there hasn't been a single Sept 11, 2001 since the DHS was founded. Heck of a job, guys!

  14. Re:cart before the horse? on The Peculiar Math That Could Underlie the Laws of Nature (quantamagazine.org) · · Score: 1
    I was hoping you had some sort of proof of your assertion that reality is equivalent to a formal language. That would be pretty cool.

    "There is some rigorous formal (i.e. mathematical) system that would be a perfect description of reality. Whatever the rules of that system are, those are the rules of reality, because that system is defined as whichever one has the rules of reality as its rules."

  15. Re:cart before the horse? on The Peculiar Math That Could Underlie the Laws of Nature (quantamagazine.org) · · Score: 1

    That begs the question. Consider mathematics, which cannot be completely described by any formal language, to the extent that there are true statements that cannot be derived from axioms (Goedel). Reality might have properties that cannot be derived or even stated in any given formal language. No matter how much you tweak and extend your formal language, some of reality will always escape it. Maybe. I'm not saying that this is necessarily the case, but I certainly don't share your certainty that reality can be completely ("perfectly") described formally.

    So I'll ask again, out of genuine curiosity: Do you have some reason to believe that reality is completely formally describable?

  16. Re:cart before the horse? on The Peculiar Math That Could Underlie the Laws of Nature (quantamagazine.org) · · Score: 1

    There is some rigorous formal (i.e. mathematical) system that would be a perfect description of reality.

    How do you know this? Reality might not be describable by any formal language.

  17. Re:Down with Pythagoras! on Stonehenge Builders Used Pythagoras' Theorem 2,000 Years Before He Was Born (techtimes.com) · · Score: 1
    About the author of said stupid article:

    Galanty Miller is a long-time contributing writer for the Onion News Network.

    So.... Satire, maybe? I can't figure it out. Poe's Law applies.

  18. Re:Lying to FBI: one reason you Never Talk to Poli on US Piles New Charges on Marcus Hutchins (aka MalwareTech) (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    The Constitution of the US applies to the US government everywhere and for all purposes. The Fifth Amendment prohibits the US government from compelling anyone (US citizen or not) anywhere (on US soil or not) to testify against himself.

  19. Re:Trust on Microsoft's Interest In Buying GitHub Draws Backlash From Developers · · Score: 2

    Nobody's going to run servers for charity.

    Well, nobody aside from literally every single charity in the world and millions of other not-for-profit entities. But you're right, other than them absolutely no one would ever do that. Unless it promotes some agenda other than making money. But obviously there's no such thing.

  20. Re:So you're not on FB,right? on Zuckerberg Grilled At Angry Facebook Shareholder's Meeting (mercurynews.com) · · Score: 1
  21. They didn't make your favorite dinner? They didn't tuck you in at night?

    All I wanted was a Pepsi, and they wouldn't give it to me!

  22. Re: I blame the late boomers more than the early b on Ask Slashdot: Did Baby Boomers Break America? (time.com) · · Score: 1

    They give you an official generation card when you become an American citizen.

  23. Re:I blame the late boomers more than the early bo on Ask Slashdot: Did Baby Boomers Break America? (time.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Linus is a later boomer

    Linus Torvalds was born in 1969. He's Gen X, not a Boomer.

  24. Re:There are lots of ways to play that game. on Ask Slashdot: Did Baby Boomers Break America? (time.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I had a friend years ago who was depressed. She was tall slim attractive, high salary, highly educated not a drug addict or gambler or anything. I suggested she go to live in India for 1 year and it would have solved her depression for life.

    Chronic depression does not work like that.

  25. Re:Would you like to buy a bridge? on 'I Asked Apple for All My Data. Here's What Was Sent Back' (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Bits is bits, man. It's just a bunch of ones and zeroes.