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  1. Turn of fancy punctuation, and people won't call you out as an Apple user here. It likely looks fine to you and other mobile users, but your quotes (and anything else you can't type directly on a normal desktop keyboard) devolve into weird accented a's, TM symbols, and other madness on normal platforms. http://appleinsider.com/articl...

  2. Another one for wholly-owned phones. I don't want the latest phone that needs to be treated like some precious faberge egg.

  3. My limited experience with AmazonBasics (a couple of small-ticket electronics items) has been generally positive. Quality was acceptable, price was fair.

  4. My biggest gripe with their 'free 2 day shipping' is that there is no specific recourse for circumstances where the product arrives late. It's almost like they use it as an excuse.

  5. Re:Magnets on Why Airports Rename Runways When the Magnetic Poles Move (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    Yes.

  6. Re:Only 147 MB on Slack Now Available As a Snap For Linux (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    I looked into these at some point, Electron applications come packaged with an unholy shitload of not-likely-used javascript and whatnot from node.js, leading to a base executable size of something around 80MB.

  7. It's almost there! I think it's starting to draw the login prompt...

  8. Re:Rebooting more frequently? on Intel Says Newer Chips Also Hit by Unwanted Reboots After Patch (zdnet.com) · · Score: 0

    Yes.

  9. Re:Sales are flat because progress is flat on PC Market Still Showing Few Signs of Life (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    Chilling on Sandy/Ivy Bridge, but managed to snag a clearance GTX1080 before the miners went apeshit. Nothing I routinely do scales exceptionally well beyond a few cores. Probably going to refit with AMD this year, but still don't know... i7-3820 @4.3GHz/GTX1080/NVMe SSD that does something like 2.2/1.2 GB/s R/W still seems to have what it takes. I do, very deeply, appreciate the modularity of the x86 platform... I find it kind of cool to have a machine with hardware spanning a great many generations (until ~2012 when i built the SB box, all of my main machines still had floppy drives). If the pre-built PC market suffers a major collapse, I'd like to see a return to the backplane+everything-else-is-an-add-in-card model of building custom machines... would be nice to be able to have realistic options outside of Intel-derived architectures for serious personal computing.

  10. Re:Why should size matter? on FCC Undoing Rules That Make It Easier For Small ISPs To Compete With Big Telecom (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Clearly they are suggesting the object of their ire is actually an asteroid. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

  11. Well, at least it's not their whole product catalog... https://www.neowin.net/news/ar...

  12. Re:Something wrong here on Microsoft Says No More Windows Security Updates Unless AVs Set a Registry Key (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    Disable wuauserv, dosvc, and bits.... it's going to have an awfully hard time doing anything after that. I haven't found it to be able to re-enable itself under those conditions. Exception might be if it had updates queued during the next shutdown, though I'm not certain.

  13. Perhaps the groundwork needs to be laid for an open, modular FPGA platform, to allow for the creation/modification of CPU cores without having to rework the silicon weekly.

  14. Re:Sigh on Your Car May Soon Start Serving You Ads (siliconbeat.com) · · Score: 1

    Would probably not be particularly difficult to add an AUX jack to an older radio by tracing out the wiring to its internal amplifier.

  15. Re:Sigh on Your Car May Soon Start Serving You Ads (siliconbeat.com) · · Score: 1

    Consider a music player of any sort + a tape (or FM if you must) adapters... they worked surprisingly well for me in a '96 buick, and tided me over until I got an aftermarket cd player. Is nice going months (or as long as I care to) without hearing ads while driving.

  16. Re:No on Can We Replace Intel x86 With an Open Source Chip? (zdnet.com) · · Score: 2

    As I don't think it has been mentioned in this thread, AMD has been fabless for the better part of a decade.

  17. Re:If this works as well as ads in web pages on Your Car May Soon Start Serving You Ads (siliconbeat.com) · · Score: 1

    NoScript

  18. Re:If this works as well as ads in web pages on Your Car May Soon Start Serving You Ads (siliconbeat.com) · · Score: 1

    Sorry, car must update. Have some sponsored content while you wait...

  19. Re: And the other question. on Lindows Resurrected! Freespire 3.0 and Linspire 7.0 Linux Distros Now Available (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    Until you find its default behaviors do unkind things such as murdering screen/tmux sessions when your user logs off... clearly working as intended.

  20. Re:dont mess with my thermostat on Don't Pirate Or We'll Mess With Your Connected Thermostats, Warns East Coast ISP (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    It's a variety of various vesicles.

  21. Take it one step further... on Why Twitter Hasn't Banned President Trump (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    ... everything they put forth should be a matter of public record, and it should be a high crime to delete/tamper with it at all.

  22. Re:Fastest in the World on The FCC Is Preparing To Weaken the Definition of Broadband (dslreports.com) · · Score: 1

    Also think of the poor TLAs, imagine the datacenter they'd have to assemble to warehouse all that data... (only modest sarcasm intended)

  23. Re:Fastest in the World on The FCC Is Preparing To Weaken the Definition of Broadband (dslreports.com) · · Score: 1

    It's a nice thought, and we certainly have the technology available, but where's the profit motive, or even the money/manpower to fulfill that desire?

  24. Re:10MBps is just fine on The FCC Is Preparing To Weaken the Definition of Broadband (dslreports.com) · · Score: 1

    Depends on when and where you are; Comcast at my office (no other choice unless we want to spend 4+ figures on a buildout plus close to $1000/mo for 'enterprise' services) usually lays down 120x24, though the service is labelled 100x20. During the day, however, it averages something like 90/15 on a good day. Drops into the 50/sub-megabit region happen on a semi-regular basis.

  25. Re:this will not be a popular opinion on The FCC Is Preparing To Weaken the Definition of Broadband (dslreports.com) · · Score: 1

    Indeed, unpopular *opinion* is indeed unpopular... If I hadn't already posted here, I'd have done something about that.