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  1. Sucker: It's the Indian's... They're taking all our jobs for half the salary.
    Groucho: Well give them more money then!
    Rim Shot.

  2. Re:You know what this means! on Chrome is Getting the Ability To Play FLAC (theverge.com) · · Score: 5, Informative

    Firefox will do it too!

    Firefox added FLAC support in Firefox 51

  3. 1: Weaken the integrity of the field of journalism by up-feeding fake news. 2: Promise to strengthen the integrity of journalism for money. 3: Profit.

  4. Re:50 Watts, huh? on Dell Unveils XPS 27 All-In-One With 10 Speaker Dual 50W Sound System (hothardware.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    So, does the sound system consume 50 watts of power in operation, or is it capable of converting 50 watts of power into sound?

    Uncle Doug explains it pretty well.... https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

    TLDW... Input 1k signal. Plug amp into a load with a known resistance. Turn up volume till it is max volume distortion free. Measure voltage to the load. P=V^2/R. This will give you RMS output.

  5. Re:512TB of address space means nothing on AMD Unveils Vega GPU Architecture With 512 Terabytes of Memory Address Space (hothardware.com) · · Score: 2

    Most high end GPU cards available have 8Gb, a large number of budget versions settle for 4Gb, and only a few offer 16Gb. Marketing this as a stand out point is iffy.

    What you will find is that most cards have only a fraction of their RAM as addressable, so a 16GB card either 4 or 8 gigs addressable. The increase to 512GB is a godsend to AI researchers and other fields with large datasets.

  6. Dear "My Government" on Obama Administration Releases Searchable Archive of Social Media Posts (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Dear "My Government",

    Stop it. Stop posting to trash websites. Just stop.

    Anyone else need help? 5 mins for $5 and I don't make change.

  7. Re:First rule of journalism. on Intel Core I7-7700K Kaby Lake Review By Ars Technica: Is the Desktop CPU Dead? (arstechnica.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    If the article ends with a question mark, the answer is "No". Because if they had evidence to say it, they would have just put a period.

    The articles linked end with periods. The headline ends with a clickbait, troll, sensationalist shit-up-the-internet question. Ars used to be better than that.

  8. Surveillance != Security on China Renews Calls For Tighter Cyberspace Security (reuters.com) · · Score: 2

    Headline says security. Article says surveillance. Please fix.

  9. Re:Still optimized for Intel on HandBrake 1.0.0 Released After 13 Years Of Development (fossbytes.com) · · Score: 1

    I find it astounding that an i7 2600 laptop running at 2.2 ghz can outperform an AMD 8350 at 4.4 ghz at Handbreak.

    This likely has more to do with the compiler optimizations (and other optimizations) of libav 12.

    I 'think' this is loaded as an external library, you you may wish to attempt to DL the source and compile with AMD centric optimizations and see what happens.

  10. We need to blame Tesla, and not the stupid laws (that we voted for the representatives that voted for). Please Elon, fix our collective stupidity by breaking the law., instead of having us voters fix the stupid laws we've enacted. This way, we get to blame some rich white dude when things go wrong, which is much better than taking responsibility for ourselves.

  11. This is extremely disappointing to me. How does one reconcile the 400 GFLOP performance of the X1 with the 1TFLOP that was reported earlier? How do they intend on securing 3rd party support with 1/3 the power of a PS4?

  12. Re:Make updating easier on Ubuntu Survey Discovers 'Consumers Are Terrible' About Updating Their IoT Devices (ubuntu.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    How many motherboards, routers, webcams, and other devices did I go through that stopped working after applying a firmware update following the instructions given by the manufacturer?

    Even worse, after bricking a device and requesting support, you're asked the insulting question, "What issue were you trying to resolve by updating the firmware?", as if you've been doing something wrong and tampering with the device causing it to fail.

    Any not-horrible tech vendors out there that you would recommend?

  13. Yes, let the purge of climatologists began. After all, King Trump will demonstrate, unlike King Canute, that he can stop the tides!

    I think the term we've chosen is "Orange Julius Caesar"

  14. hundreds of security and privacy experts on Uber Defends Privacy Practices After Allegations It Spies On Riders (cnbc.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    "hundreds of security and privacy experts"

    Is it me, or does anyone else have difficulty believing that statement. I work for an F500 doing financial transactions and running the backend for home security companies worldwide... And I don't think we have "hundreds of security and privacy experts".

  15. There is no need to say "Low Cost Android Phones".... Mainly because there are no "Low Cost Apple Phones", and we already know that all "Low Cost Windows Phones" contain malware by virtue of being Windows.

  16. Re:Stop skimping on healthcare IT on Quest Diagnostics Says Personal Health Information of 34,000 Customers Hacked (cbsnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Healthcare is 10 years behind the rest of the industry in IT infrastructure.

    While I'm not going to disagree with your IT assessment, Quest Diagnostics is not a health care organization. They are for corporate drug testing. They are lab-techs, administrators, and...... What's the professional nomenclature for the dude that watches you take a piss? Either way, none of them have anything to do with the customer's health.

  17. Re:Let me put on my shocked face... on Uber Employees Used the Platform To Stalk Celebrities and Their Exes, Says Former Employee (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The normals will do whatever their peers/leadership are doing. If they have immoral peers and leadership, they will act immorally. If they have moral peers and leadership, they will act morally.

  18. Addressable memory on AMD Introduces Radeon Instinct Machine Intelligence Accelerators (hothardware.com) · · Score: 1

    Every time I see "16 GB of memory" on a GPU card, I have to ask the same question... Is all 16GB addressable? I've never been 'not' disappointed before.

  19. Actually it's anti-establishment nationalists vs. establishment globalists.

    It's people who begin their pontifications with "Actually" versus those who just say what they have to say.

  20. Nothing to do with fake news. on The US Government Funds A War On Online Fake News (bangordailynews.com) · · Score: 1

    Zero to do with "fake" news (as if real news exists). Everything to do with wrenching 160m from taxpayers and handing it to friends of big government.

  21. Re:Slashdot Trolling? on Destructive Hacks Strike Saudi Arabia, Posing Challenge to Trump (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I don't know if this is Slashdot trolling but these Trump articles need to stop, its getting ridiculous. A better headline would be "Saudi and Iran in cyber shitfight". Trying to shoehorn this into a Donald angle is an overreach.

    I'd mod you up, but you're already +5

  22. Re:Just a sec - on The Mac App Store Is Full of Scams (howtogeek.com) · · Score: 1

    Let's be fair for a moment here...

    Indeed... Let's be fair. When an app has a 1 star review, and 99% of the reviews say the app is a rip-off and that the customer was deceived, Apple should (fill in the blank).

  23. Re:Good then bad then good on Sugar-Free Products Might Actually Stop Us From Getting Slimmer (dw.com) · · Score: 2

    Then we broke those down.

    "We" didn't, the food industry did, so that they could sell more food and/or charge more for pseudo health labeling.

    If you want to see the benefits of switching from sugary drinks to artificially sweetened ones, the control group should be drinking sugar sweetened water ad libitum, not plain water.

    That would answer "whether". We already know "whether" and would like to understand "why".... Specifically, the mechanism by which Aspartame promotes weight gain / hinders weight loss.

  24. These talks about having the EC changing their vote, or recounts are delusional.

    IMHO, we shouldn't recount just because Trump was elected. We 'should' always validate the result and have one random state recount their ballots after the vote to verify the integrity of the voting and recount processes. It should be something that happens independent of whichever douche or turd sandwich wins.

  25. Demonstrating something we already knew. on False Porn-on-CNN Report Shows How Quickly Fake News Spreads (usatoday.com) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I think its good that a few individuals have found a way to cleary demonstrate what many people already knew... That the 'news' media is a joke, and only exists to serve the corporations which own the media outlet.