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  1. Re:Speed v.s. reliability on AMD Catalyst Linux Driver Performs Wildly Different Based On Program's Name · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Don't underestimate the power of human laziness.

  2. Speed v.s. reliability on AMD Catalyst Linux Driver Performs Wildly Different Based On Program's Name · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Speed increases may be sacrificing some reliability or cutting some corners. In a FPS game it may be worth it to reduce number of bits in the graphics to increase the frame rate in fast moving images but if you work on photo editing then you want precision rather than speed.

    Maybe looking at the name of the executable was an easy way around that.

  3. The real winners on Popular Torrent Site Disappears From Google After Penalty · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The real winners are the malware creators that get their sites listed at the top now.

    In order to take down the torrent trackers providing grey warez the real black ware market feeding the true criminals and terrorists are getting free space to install adware and whatnot instead.

  4. Still too much on A Welcome Shift: Spam Now Constitutes Less Than Half of All Email · · Score: 3

    It's still too much, it has to be stopped, and the penalties for junk mail and online fraud are way too mild.

  5. Re:Short Circuit on Which Movies Get Artificial Intelligence Right? · · Score: 1

    You mean R2D2? I find R2D2 quite plausible, C3PO not so plausible as an AI.

  6. What about Data in Star Trek TNG on Which Movies Get Artificial Intelligence Right? · · Score: 1

    What about Data in Star Trek TNG?

    An entity of absolute logic that strives to be more human - as an opposite to the Vulcan mind - reaching for absolute logic.

  7. Re:Who makes these decisions? on Windows 10 Home Updates To Be Automatic and Mandatory · · Score: 2

    Another workaround is to block the Update site addresses in your firewall.

  8. Re:Little Ice Age followed a warm period on Mini Ice Age: Nothing To Worry About · · Score: 1

    The "Little Ice Age" was up to 500 years give or take - with some warmer years. But we don't really know what the future will hold - will we get a new "little ice age", a few cold winters/summers or will we get a new full-blown ice age?

    The last option is the most worrying.

  9. Re:Blame, Recriminations and new Taxes on What Will Happen When Cascadia Subduction Zone Slips · · Score: 2

    I'm not worried about quakes, they are of course bad but the effects of them aren't long lasting. I'm more worried about when Yellowstone decides to erupt.

  10. Re:No decrease does not mean an increase on Robots Appear To Raise Productivity Without Causing Total Work Hours To Decline · · Score: 2

    Better is relative, maybe you have a more comfortable life today, but at the same time there's a lot less freedom too today, especially since 9/11.

    Larger house also mean that you will have more room for stuff you don't use.

  11. Re:Same date to Kill Facebook too? on Facebook's New Chief Security Officer Wants To Set a Date To Kill Flash · · Score: 1

    I wouldn't miss it.

  12. Re:How about 2015 July 15 0000UTC? on Facebook's New Chief Security Officer Wants To Set a Date To Kill Flash · · Score: 1

    There are still enterprise applications out there that depends on the Microsoft Java plugin.

  13. Re: Greeks surrender: no restructuring on European Agreement Sets Up Third Greek Bailout · · Score: 1

    Is there anyone that still have bank savings in Greece left?

    Those that have assets left in Greece have converted it to valuable assets by now so there's not much left.

  14. Re: I would sell it on Ask Slashdot: If Public Transport Was Free, Would You Leave Your Car At Home? · · Score: 1

    Where I live public transport usually doubles the transportation time compared to car - on good days for the public transports.

  15. Re: Sunk cost fallacy on European Agreement Sets Up Third Greek Bailout · · Score: 1

    It's like giving a drug addict more snd stronger drugs in the hope he will recover.

  16. Re: Greeks surrender: no restructuring on European Agreement Sets Up Third Greek Bailout · · Score: 4, Insightful

    It's Greece - they will get a new government instead and the agreements will be ignored. At worst it will be a hostile takeover. It wasn't long ago that Greece had a non-democratic government.

    It's probably easier and cheaper to abandon the Euro for Greece.

  17. Re: Never heard that one before on J.J. Abrams On "Star Wars" Cast's Racial and Sexual Diversity · · Score: 1

    Just consider the real world, there are a large variety of personalities out there. Jarjar is a stupid personality, but we all need something to dislike. In episode 4 to 6 it wad C3PO that was uncool but it didn't end up as widespread net hate because the net didn't exist.

  18. Re: How much you got? on Oracle Bullies Enterprise Clients Into Cloud Purchases, Consultant Claims · · Score: 1

    If you can make MSAccess work on Linux.

  19. Re:The Charlie H killers were roommates on Snoopers' Charter Could Mean Trouble For UK Users of Encryption-Capable Apps · · Score: 1

    In addition to this - if you want to exchange sensitive information then do that in messages using steganography. Key messages on activities can be attached covertly to images or other bodies of text.

    So the bad guys will still be able to get their messages through while good guys messages regarding commercial secrets may end up being leaked.

  20. Re: How much you got? on Oracle Bullies Enterprise Clients Into Cloud Purchases, Consultant Claims · · Score: 1

    For the majority of cases MariaDB is sufficient, it's only when you need to do specialized stuff that it may not be sufficient, but that's the same with every database - you end up into the realm of vendor specific details.

  21. Ads on Ask Slashdot: Measuring (and Constraining) Mobile Data Use? · · Score: 1

    If you browse the web, make sure you have adblock activated. Firefox supports this.

    Also in android there's a built-in feature to allow you to see which app that consumes most bandwidth.

  22. Re: Phishing? on Ask Slashdot: Dealing With Ongoing Suspected Identity Theft? · · Score: 1

    I agree, I frequently get mails for netflix account that actually are scam mails. I don't have netflix, so it's easy to just junk them.

  23. Re:yes. tried one. on Ask Slashdot: Have You Tried a Standing Desk? · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I have the opportunity to work standing as well as sitting at my desk since it can be elevated. However I don't think that standing is much better, the problem is non-movement.

    Unfortunately working with computers is hard when walking around.

  24. Re: Good on Greece Rejects EU Terms · · Score: 1

    The current party is just a sign of the desperation in Greece, and the cause is a select few rich persons that now have put a large amount of money needed for Greece in bank accounts in Switzerland and other profitable places.

    Corruption is one side of the coin, the Euro is another. The Euro is a currency that builds tensions, not eases them. And the ECB leaders have invested a lot of prestige and effort into the Euro so if it starts to crack they will look like fools - which they actually are.

  25. Re: Good for greece on Greece Rejects EU Terms · · Score: 1

    The Euro is a currency that never should have been created, it has damaged the development of Europe for a long time.