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  1. I wrote a stupid, I meant on top.

  2. Uhm... Don't new AMD processors come with the thermal compound already as a sticker underneath the processor it self and have done for years?

  3. Re: No surprise... on Intel Reacts To AMD Ryzen Apparently Cutting Prices On Core i7 And i5 Processors (hothardware.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Define the line where it is not price gorging, please.

  4. Re: I changed passwords for sites hosted on cloudf on Ask Slashdot: How Are You Responding To Cloudbleed? (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Just tested one of my own websites that use cloudflare on it, didn't identify it.

  5. Re: Some responses on Ask Slashdot: How Are You Responding To Cloudbleed? (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Weasyl is full of SJW furries, nobody cares.

  6. Re:What cloud on Cloudflare Leaks Sensitive User Data Across the Web (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    All "cloud" means is literally SOMEONE ELSES COMPUTER

    But I run my own cloud, so, no it doesn't. Stop lying.

  7. Re: Has he been invited to the white house? on PewDiePie Calls Out the 'Old-School Media' For Spiteful Dishonesty · · Score: 1

    Sorry, who are you again?

  8. Re:nothing had, nothing lost on Nobody Is Moving, Especially Millennials (nymag.com) · · Score: 1

    You don't mention anything about a car, hope the places you go all have good public transit.

    I don't own one and only live and work in places that have acceptable public transport (not really hard to plan for honestly), yes. I am going to be acquiring one this year.

    Tools for your profession?

    Even when I was doing hands on work, those tools were provided by the company. Unless you're a contractor, it's not likely you're going need those?

    What's that! Oh right, you don't create anything of value, at least nothing tangible.

    I sell stuff I can do without when I move. However, in my family where we typically move a lot, I know some of them move with a few more things than I do, typically using the postal system posting a pallet of things to keep costs low. Just make adjustments to the method that fits your circumstances.

    Then again, you're probably not that interested in this life style, are you?

  9. Re:Stuck on Nobody Is Moving, Especially Millennials (nymag.com) · · Score: 1

    how often have you actually met students that went to the point of contacting the organisations in the fields that they want to get into when they graduate and asked what they wanted minimum and what would be a recommended to obtain as far as qualifications, certifications etc. for someone with no experience for consideration?

    I realize doesn't say what I meant. I meant to say there, was to find out what should they work towards for graduation rather than after they graduated.

  10. Re:Stuck on Nobody Is Moving, Especially Millennials (nymag.com) · · Score: 1

    Did you grow up in the USA?

    Nope, I grew up in a few European countries though, I moved around in my childhood too.

    You must have been quite the visionary thinker and rebellious spirit to be able to make an accurate assessment of contemporary economic conditions and set off in a completely non-traditional direction after high school.

    I know you state this sarcastically, but sometimes it genuinely feels that way when I look at my colleagues, which is the sad state of affairs.

    Most kids in the USA are repeatedly told that a college education is critical to their future success.

    It really is the same thing over here in Europe. Yet, when you look at many who graduate out of university with qualifications, they can't even get work most of the time unless they some how managed to land a summer job in a related field (in which case they can sneak into the industry through claiming 'experience', which often isn't even dependant at all on their university qualfiications).

    For the vast majority of people, the only options are taking on debt or serving in the military for a few years.

    I have a friend in New York who is took the same path I did, which is to get a couple of certifications in the fields he wants to work in (that can be done in a month of intense study) in rather than spending years in university and he's been very succesful too.

    but I think it's a little harsh to blame people for the "stupid decision" of going to college when they've endured years of well-meaning propaganda telling them it's the right thing to do.

    Honestly, the typical situation I see is that people don't even know what they want to do, so they don't setup plans to work towards anything, which leads to this very problem. Universities are great, but if you say "Imma study computers", get into computer science and then get confused why you can't get a job in network administration because you've got a qualification that gives you practical knowledge for research work but are missing the science degrees to be accepted in any research institute and some how expected that it should be enough to get a network administration job with no experience or knowledge... Sorry, but, I wouldn't say these people are blameless.

    The "well-meaning propoganda" also wants you to think about what you want to do and plan ahead for it, along with doing basic research, which is something I did thanks to that propoganda (but something I find next to nobody else does in my generation). Now, of course I'm generalizing here, but, how often have you actually met students that went to the point of contacting the organisations in the fields that they want to get into when they graduate and asked what they wanted minimum and what would be a recommended to obtain as far as qualifications, certifications etc. for someone with no experience for consideration?

    Of all the companies I talked to, none of them told me to get an "computer science degree", "arts degree" nor "women's studies" (why are "women's studies" even so popular in the UK and Belgium right now?).

  11. Re:Support System on Nobody Is Moving, Especially Millennials (nymag.com) · · Score: 1

    Tell us again how easy it is to move with just an airplane ticket and a bag. We're not tired of it, yet.

    Tell us again how hard it is to move. We're not tired of it, yet.

  12. Re:Move for jobs... on Nobody Is Moving, Especially Millennials (nymag.com) · · Score: 1

    Where do you live when you get there? A homeless shelter? Or do you mean that you already secured a location previously (paid first, last and deposit on a rental for example)?

    A service apartment, if you arrange in advanced and book a couple of months, you can generally barter the prices down to something close to actual regular apartment prices, no deposit. It really isn't that difficult when you've done a little research.

  13. Re:Move for jobs... on Nobody Is Moving, Especially Millennials (nymag.com) · · Score: 1

    And you slept in........? Showered at.....?

    Service apartment.

    Most people have to supply a deposit and first month's rent

    Unless you use a service apartment, which generally aren't that more expensive than a regular apartment if you barter a little.

  14. Re:Bubble on Nobody Is Moving, Especially Millennials (nymag.com) · · Score: 1

    Yes, and also a band of loonies who want to reunite with EU-loving Catholic Ireland. Nice to be living in fear of that.

    Honestly, I'm not afraid of that in Ulster at all.

  15. Re:Bubble on Nobody Is Moving, Especially Millennials (nymag.com) · · Score: 1

    And yes, as a first time buyer in the UK, you can get a loan over 6x your salary for a house that you will never be able to afford

    I live in Belfast, a capital city that has everything that is in the UK. You can find two bedroom house is 50,000GBP. Entirely affordable. You can get pretty large houses outside of Belfast that are six bedroom for around 100,000GBP.

    The mortgage you pay on those is less than if you're renting here (400GBP/month for renting the two bedroom house, council tax included). Council tax even includes unmetered water, bin collection etc.

    There are places you can move to in the UK and own that are easily affordable (I even have two fiber internet connections at home, no lack of utilities here).

  16. Re:Move for jobs... on Nobody Is Moving, Especially Millennials (nymag.com) · · Score: 1

    Moving also means a considerable expense.

    It's a considerable expense for people who are unable to move like in the old days of money issues, where people just packed up a bag pack, case and then moved. Which is something my family and I have been doing for generations.

    Moving is only a problem for people who can't let go of their material things.

    moving always entails a considerable financial investment.

    It's cost me typically only a airplane ticket and bus or taxi. Not really considerable in my view.

    Would you move across the country and spend what you might make in 3 months on it if you know that your chance to even still have the job in 3 months is really low?

    Probably not, but I can afford to move with much less than one month's sallary

  17. Re:Support System on Nobody Is Moving, Especially Millennials (nymag.com) · · Score: 1

    I used to think it would be fun to move around the world. However, now that I have kids

    My parents did this before I was born and after I was born.

    moving isn't practical

    Honestly, it's entirely possible, the issue is that you and/or your family isn't practical enough to do it. Generally whenever I've moved, I took a plane ticket and flew to my destination with just a bag pack and hold bag. The cost of moving for me has been generally just been the cost of the plane ticket. The rest of my family moving hasn't been much different to that.

  18. Re:moving all the time is dumb on Nobody Is Moving, Especially Millennials (nymag.com) · · Score: 1

    the perpetual movers will be the people having their first kid at 45 and no spare cash from having their rent increase all the time

    I know several people who fit that description, except they have plenty of spare cash. Perhaps you could show me your data source as my annecodal evidence shows otherwise?

  19. Re:Stuck on Nobody Is Moving, Especially Millennials (nymag.com) · · Score: 1

    They can't move if they don't have the funds to do so, or the new job to move into.

    As a millenial, I moved countries and homes for the price of airplane tickets. I only took what I needed in my bag pack and a suitcase.

    Things should improve for them over the next 5 years as Boomers retire, freeing up some upward mobility, but there is a lot of ground to make up.

    The people who live traditional ways by acquiring material things they can't dispose of and wish to follow traditional marriage concepts will lose out here too. It's only them who are having the issues.

    The biggest thing to help them integrate fully into the economy would be some student loan relief.

    That would reward people who made stupid decisions. I don't have student loans, yet I hold a few certifications and I am well respected in my field. Again, this is only issues for people who stick to traditional methods instead of adapting to modern day conditions.

  20. Re:Labor to trust an HTTPS proxy's root cert on Most of the Web Really Sucks If You Have a Slow Connection (danluu.com) · · Score: 1

    Is the software provided for all five of Windows, macOS, GNU/Linux, iOS, and Android?

    For Astra Connect, I remember on Linux I had to do manual configuration, not on Windows or macOS. Couldn't tell you about iOS or Android.

  21. Re:Labor to trust an HTTPS proxy's root cert on Most of the Web Really Sucks If You Have a Slow Connection (danluu.com) · · Score: 1

    Providers don't offer a proxy because an HTTPS proxy requires each user of each browser on device to add the proxy's root certificate to the certificate store used by the profile associated with that user, browser, and device.

    Over here in Europe, it's been pretty standard in my experience for Satelitte provides like Astra Connect to provide their own software that sets this up.

    Non-technical users are unlikely to successfully complete this process for both the OS-wide certificate set and the separate NSS set used by Firefox.

    Hence the software.

  22. HTTP proxy server? on Most of the Web Really Sucks If You Have a Slow Connection (danluu.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm not sure why your provider isn't offering a HTTP proxy server (as is standard for Satellite providers) that has all the sufficient timeout values you need as standard to workaround these latency issues?

  23. Re:Headline doesn't really match actual news on Apple Seeks To Position Metal as Part of New 3D Graphics Standard For Web (appleinsider.com) · · Score: 1

    Oh hi, Anubis IV!

    I'm very interested in your claim about Metal being designed to deal with "untrusted code" and would like to see your practical example that shows how Metal is designed better than known extensions designed to deal with "untrusted code" in OpenGL (these functions are usually the only ones available in environments where trusted code is an issue), such as ANGLE_instanced_arrays, EXT_blend_minmax, EXT_color_buffer_float, EXT_color_buffer_half_float, EXT_disjoint_timer_query, EXT_frag_depth, EXT_sRGB, EXT_shader_texture_lod, EXT_texture_filter_anisotropic, OES_element_index_uint, OES_standard_derivatives, OES_texture_float, OES_texture_float_linear, OES_texture_half_float, OES_texture_half_float_linear, OES_vertex_array_object, WEBGL_color_buffer_float, WEBGL_compressed_texture_atc, WEBGL_compressed_texture_etc, WEBGL_compressed_texture_etc1, WEBGL_compressed_texture_pvrtc, WEBGL_compressed_texture_s3tc, WEBGL_debug_renderer_info, WEBGL_debug_shaders, WEBGL_depth_texture, WEBGL_draw_buffers and WEBGL_lose_context.

  24. Re:If the k+m is mapped onto the controller... on Overwatch Director Speaks Out Against Console Mouse/keyboard Adapters (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Unless a game has a nerfed max directional input, or the steps of it are too course, a good mouse movement to joystick position map should be indistinguishable from a mouse input for the user.

    From experience with both controls, I have found that mouse movement is more erratic than joypad movement, you could probably determine mouse usage through the constant variances in movement that way -- However console players in theory could reproduce this, but it wouldn't be a normal way of playing on a controller.

    I'm curious though, of you can flip around a joystick as fast as a mouse, why use the adapter?

    I use keyboard and mouse primarily because I get something I can only describe as "hand cramps" on controllers easily.

    But, moving on, I find the mouse offers precision in movement that I can't reproduce in an analog stick. I find it easier to get a crosshair on to a target and stop moving, or lead than I would with a controller (even with aim assist).

    These are just small things however in a game like Overwatch, where you should be maintaining awareness and one person alone can't carry a team unless their skill level is way beyond. In which case, they'll get matched up against and with people around their levels in the matchmaking system. There are also sufficient heroes that you can go around with next to no aim and can do a lot (Winston, Symmetra, Junkrat, Mei, Reinhardt, Mercy etc.)

  25. Which ones, I can only think of 3

    I'm not really interested in digging up more titles especially when it doesn't invalidate my point of:

    there are games that are crossplatform between all five.