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  1. Allwinner is garbage on A $1, Linux-Capable, Hand-Solderable Processor (hackaday.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Allwinner is garbage. This is the shit you get in those chinese Raspberry Pi clones. The support and documentation are essentially nonexistant. If you even have a reference linux image to work with, it will break all of the time and never be updated

  2. Outlook likely does ship with Trident, since that is the embeddable browser component from Internet Explorer, but Edge really is a separate project

  3. Re:He didn't "pass away". He *died* due to neglige on Creator of TempleOS, Terry Davis, Has Passed Away (osnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Do you know the cause of death because I'm not seeing it. For all we know, he died of a heart attack

  4. So, more than two thirds of your non on-line purchases are tracked by Google

    "Google's third-party partnerships" surely means that Google themselves aren't tracking it directly, but rather get their data from the likes of Neilson and IRI, the same as everyone else.

  5. My mistake. Thanks

  6. Why would STEAM on the front of his car be "in reference to a magnet program which supports science, technology, engineering, arts and mathematics" and not to Valve's Steam platform that banned him?

  7. It adds to the discussion by heading off the dozens of comments that would have shown up saying the same crap. Now it is all wrapped up at the very top. Less BS to clutter up actual discussion. You're welcome.

  8. Blah blah blah tulips anyone? No intrinsic value. Ponzi scheme. Down to 0. So much electricity waste!

  9. Re:Canâ(TM)t trust Facebook anymore on Apple Removes Facebook's Onavo Security App From the App Store (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    You are being trolled. Don't feed it

  10. A good question, but I don't think the current state of cryptocurrencies is to blame for their silence. This site is bleeding users to death. They mostly all left here and went somewhere else

  11. Re:slight delta on Researcher Finds A Hidden 'God Mode' on Some Old x86 CPUs (tomshardware.com) · · Score: 1

    I agree. You are correct. I was trying to be somewhat apt and keep the explanation simple

  12. Re:Is it on the die? on Researcher Finds A Hidden 'God Mode' on Some Old x86 CPUs (tomshardware.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    Aighearach for some reason won't answer you directly, but I will. Fuzzing is when you essentially throw piles of random data at something, usually to try to get it to break. Like if you were building a web browser, you know it works when the HTML is valid, but what if it isn't? What if it not only isn't but what if it is total random garbage? What if it is total random garbage that is 100MB large? You throw "fuzz" at it and see if it triggers any problems. In this case, they probably tried all sorts of invalid opcodes and used all sorts of random data in the registers until they found this

  13. Re: Marketing Firm on MoviePass Will Increase Price, Limit Availability of New Movies (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    With their new pricing, I would have to see 4 shitty movies a month to "break even". This has to target areas with normally ridiculous pricing AND people willing to see a handful of non-blockbuster films a month.

  14. Re:Way to make money? Force customers to pay month on With DaaS Windows Coming, Say Goodbye To Your PC As You Know It (computerworld.com) · · Score: 2, Informative

    ReactOS will never be a viable Windows substitute. Ever. A HUGE advantage Windows has over even Linux is its platforms. MFC and ATL, Terminal Services, Internet Explorer/Shdocvw.dll, VB6 runtime, etc will just never be implemented. While it may be binary compatible, the software backend just doesn't exist. And if you are ok with Windows sans everything that makes Windows Windows, then you can just move to Linux or something else just the same.

  15. Re:Feedback? on Mozilla Is Rebranding Firefox and Wants Your Feedback (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    Wait, are you still pissed threw out XUL because it was a huge piece of shit? That is like bitching that Edge doesn't allow you to use ActiveX controls.

  16. Re: Distopian future.. on Slashdot Asks: Which is Better, a Basic Income or a Guaranteed Job? (timharford.com) · · Score: 2

    But what if rather than a credit score we could look up some score based on your net contribution to society?

    Not everybody can contribute something positive to society. That is just how it is. Also life isn't fair.

  17. Re:Good luck blocking all autoplay on Firefox Blocks Autoplaying Web Audio (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    You don't need an extension. Firefox already has the media.autoplay.enabled setting in about:settings. Set it to false.

  18. Re:Serious question: on Apple Releases iOS 11.4.1, Blocks Passcode Cracking Tools Used By Police (theverge.com) · · Score: 0, Troll

    How? Let's skip the rhetoric.

  19. Re:I've been using Model Ms for 20 years on 'Why I Use the IBM Model M Keyboard That's Older Than I Am' (yeokhengmeng.com) · · Score: 1

    It is great that you have one (or two) that work for you, but it isn't for everyone. First, a LOT of modern machines don't have a PS2 port and the PS2->USB adapters don't work perfectly. Another is the lack of a "Windows" key. I scoffed at that one myself for a long time, and then it became a real hinderance as a lot of shortcuts are only usable via said key.

    Repair is not easy and rarely perfect. Once the springs and buckles start to where, it is a countdown on the life of the keyboard. And if a spring breaks/bends it is a nightmare. Which lastly brings us to purchasing one. You have no idea what you are going to get. Sellers go out of their way to list the product like "What you are getting is what you see in the picture only! We make no guarantees of functionality or anything not pictured".

    It became too much of a chore to stay in the cult. I broke down and bought a Unicomp Classic 103 key layout. It isn't exactly the same, but it works well enough that I have no regrets.

  20. WTF Tramadol? on Feds Ran a Bitcoin-Laundering Sting For Over a Year (theverge.com) · · Score: 0

    Tramadol is like Ibuprofen++. It is very hard on the liver and used by people that are in actual pain because you can't get high from them. What the actual fuck is the point of this?

  21. Also beware of re-using variables, something that I have seen is very easy in VB - a variable is re-used and suddenly contains a new data type

    Why in the hell are you using a typeless variable in VB?

  22. Re:Of course not on Comcast Says It Isn't Throttling Heavy Internet Users Anymore (cnet.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Metered utilities like gas and electric have an actual cost for consuming an actual resource. Even if we are arguing that metering internet is reasonable, it isn't at the level they wish to charge.

  23. Re:I forget who on Solar Has Overtaken Gas, Wind As Biggest Source of New US Power (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 4, Informative
  24. Re: It's called Prior Art on Inventor Says Google Is Patenting His Public Domain Work (arstechnica.com) · · Score: -1, Troll

    Thanks Abby. Gibbs is standing behind you with a Super Big Gulp. McGee already hacked the NSAs PHP algorithm

  25. How exactly is a hacked router going to cause a client app on a machine behind it to listen on anything other than localhost?