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  1. It's called a 'clitmouse'.

  2. IIRC your describing Gate's law. Every year software gets 40% slower.

  3. Google has not been phished. That is not the same as not attacked or owned in some other way.

    But yeah, they clearly fucked up.

    With ubiquitous smartphones. I'm back to don't connect your work network to the internet, at all, for 90-99%% of staff. The rest get in through dedicated machines on a dedicated network, which are scanned for changes (which are logged) then reimaged, nightly.

  4. Laptops (and later phones and tablets) have always throttled. At least as far back as (IIRC) about Pentium 90s, when the technology was first deployed.

    The 'proper' heat sink is the one in your server. The fact you're dealing with a portable device means there will be compromises.

    You can undervolt and underclock your laptop and get what you describe. But you lose the momentary high performance 'feature', which actually is a feature for most uses.

  5. I'm skeptical of you cynicism. Your sig is a link to an idealistic, moronic, pure propaganda news program. Not an opposite reflection of Fox, an opposite reflection of Infowars.

    Taxes are the price of civilization? So more taxes more civilization? I'd like to introduce you to a concept called nuance, but you'd just dismiss it.

  6. Re: Don't let the marketeers market on SpaceX Enters a New Stage of Reusability (mashable.com) · · Score: 1

    Even better is 'wrecking it', accompanied by pelvic thrusts. That's class.

  7. Re:Honestly, this doesn't bother me... on American Airlines Is Using a CT Scanner To Screen Luggage At New York's JFK Airport (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    TSA is like UBI. They take a group of otherwise unemployable people and give them do nothing jobs.

    The world is full of these people, corporate world too. People who produce negative work, but are kept around, whole departments full of them. Worse than useless management layers etc.

    It's not by accident. They've got to be kept busy.

  8. Trash is like dirt. Some of it is 'ore', some of it isn't.

    Just be ready for the kids to be pissed when they learn there is no Santa, or recycling of anything but aluminum cans.

    I'm all for it. The younger they become cynics the better for the world. The sooner they learn about adult theater, the better.

    It will be a great day, every year when that first kid opens the dumpster to throw something in. Finds all the recycled paper, plastic, crayons, TP, snotrags and bandaids that they've all so carefully collected and sorted. Another set of eyes open, another lifelong conservate.

  9. Re: Recycling theater is ubiquitous. on There is No Guarantee That the Products You Recycle Are Actually Recycled, the UK Watchdog Warns (bbc.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Never let bamboo get started on your land. You are better off not knowing, even when it makes you look a little stupid (12:24 PM today, for example).

  10. Re: Space elevators on SpaceX Enters a New Stage of Reusability (mashable.com) · · Score: 1

    High strength per weight in no way implies low density. Even natural spider silks can be real structural. Feel like low test fishing line when you walk through it.

  11. Re: Space elevators on SpaceX Enters a New Stage of Reusability (mashable.com) · · Score: 1

    Drawn by a mathematician, or he would see the philosopher standing behind the mathematician, clearing his throat politely.

  12. Re:Pay went DOWN since 2000 on Visualizing the Best and Worst Paid Jobs in the Tech Sector (howmuch.net) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Put 2000 in context. The first dotcom bubble was going real strong in 2000. The most incompetent people I've ever seen warm seats were doing it in 2000, for fat bank.

  13. Re:Looking at TFA's graph... on Visualizing the Best and Worst Paid Jobs in the Tech Sector (howmuch.net) · · Score: 2

    Tall men earn more than short ones, on average.

    Wear elevator shoes during interviews. Even if you're tall. Every inch counts (preemptive: that's what your mom said).

    I wonder if 'Amazon women' earn more money?

  14. Re:More useless salary comparisons on Visualizing the Best and Worst Paid Jobs in the Tech Sector (howmuch.net) · · Score: 1

    Anybody doing IT is going to end up doing at least a little dev. If only scripts.

    It can be an incubator, learn the hard practicals, produce enough value to live. Learn to code better. Eventually you code well enough. You _should_ have learned to code better in high school or younger, but never too late to get better, never stops, get used to it.

  15. Re:can the lenses keep up? on Mobile Photography Set For Major Quality Bump With Sony's 48-Megapixel Sensor (newatlas.com) · · Score: 2

    https://petapixel.com/2013/08/...

    TLDR: Sold for $80k, in the 60s, and doesn't work. Zeiss being silly, mocking the trend of the time.

  16. Re:a tiny phone lens can only admit so much light on Mobile Photography Set For Major Quality Bump With Sony's 48-Megapixel Sensor (newatlas.com) · · Score: 1

    A micro 4/3 is a nice, functional, smaller choice.

    Often the same sensor as the small sensor 35mm DSLR, which becomes full field in the smaller form factor.

    But, of course it means all new lenses. I had real good luck with used from japan vendors on Amazon. Some of those guys just NEED the newest stuff. Year old, half price. Prime lens, F0.7 for about $200.

    You still have to carry it, about half the bulk.

  17. Re:contracted work on Visualizing the Best and Worst Paid Jobs in the Tech Sector (howmuch.net) · · Score: 2

    HVAC puts you in 115 degree attics and crawl spaces with 1 cm clearance and brown recluses.

    Every day in the heat. Grunts in that job get paid because they have to be.

    Do new construction, not maintenance, if you can. Maintenance 'crawler' is a kids job, because it will wreck you if you're not a kid with no health issues.

    In the meantime, enjoy the AC.

    At least try and get a new job in support somewhere better. Maybe climb up to testing, somewhere that does dev. The fact is that if computers are just overhead, you will be overhead. Go work support somewhere that makes money with computers, doesn't even have to be directly with software development. Do a better job picking your next employer. Best time to look for a job is when you have one...no time like the present. etc

    Avoid any business that produces pure commodities. Those are always run by marketing.

  18. Who else was electable?

    Living in CA my vote was wasted anyhow, so I did vote for the best of the available choices, Vermin Supreme!

  19. Re:Sony XZ(2) with IMX300 sensor... on Mobile Photography Set For Major Quality Bump With Sony's 48-Megapixel Sensor (newatlas.com) · · Score: 1

    They've been notorious for it for 30+ years now.

    Sony makes the best CCDs, what is Nikon going to do about it? Sony will likely sell them the next best batch if they pay a little extra. Gives them an edge on Olympus.

  20. Re:Megapixels aren't quality on Mobile Photography Set For Major Quality Bump With Sony's 48-Megapixel Sensor (newatlas.com) · · Score: 1

    Too much is alway better than not enough!

    Unless 'not enough' triggers 'div by 0' (e.g. not enough children, not enough Clintons in white house etc, YMMV).

  21. Sony XZ(2) with IMX300 sensor... on Mobile Photography Set For Major Quality Bump With Sony's 48-Megapixel Sensor (newatlas.com) · · Score: 1

    23 megapixel, 960 fps (IIRC at 720p). Good low light performance for tiny glass (f 2.0).

    Already the best mobile phone camera. Higher resolution will just get you clear pixels of blur.

    Sony has a long history of keeping the best CCD chips for their own cameras, selling the high defect ones to other camera companies.

  22. And politicians...it will keep them out of trouble.

  23. Re:Recycling theater is ubiquitous. on There is No Guarantee That the Products You Recycle Are Actually Recycled, the UK Watchdog Warns (bbc.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    If you RTFA, you'll see that you are wasting your time. It's all ending in the landfill.

    Not just in England, I doubt Germany is any different. They tell you it's being sorted, but they are losing money on every truckload, so sooner or later, they come to their senses.

  24. Re:Recycling theater is ubiquitous. on There is No Guarantee That the Products You Recycle Are Actually Recycled, the UK Watchdog Warns (bbc.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Robots aren't magic, it will remain an economic decision.

    The problem is that the world is full of idiots. 'Recycle the stuff that makes sense to recycle' is fine, but the devil is in the details. That should have always been true, but yet here we are...

  25. Re: Pro Russian Bots Saving Roscosmos on SpaceX Enters a New Stage of Reusability (mashable.com) · · Score: 1

    So what? America was big enough to pay for Russia's ENTIRE space program when their economy was 'passed out drunk, face down in a pool of puke in a gutter'. Because it was better than Russian rocket scientists selling their services to the 3rd world.

    The FACT remains, nobody cares what they claim it costs, only what they charge.