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  1. Re:That is okay on Teamsters Seek To Unionize More Tech Shuttle Bus Drivers In Silicon Valley · · Score: 1

    Do you earn more than 40/hr? Is that hour better spent doing other things? If YES, then yes, you value your time enough to compensate somebody else less than your own value to do you work for you.

  2. Re:Bring on the lausuits on Republicans Back Down, FCC To Enforce Net Neutrality Rules · · Score: 1, Funny

    I bet you think companies should be free to dump toxic waste into rivers and lakes, and that emissions controls on cars is 'treading on you'. Idiot.

  3. Re:Operating at 20W gives zero improvement. on AMD Unveils Carrizo APU With Excavator Core Architecture · · Score: 1

    I wish those E3v3's were unlocked. I run my haswell i5 well above 4ghz and being locked would be slower than i've got, even with HT.

  4. Re:To answer your question on Intel Moving Forward With 10nm, Will Switch Away From Silicon For 7nm · · Score: 2

    Joke aside, AMD hasn't resembled Intel since the P2 days. P4 and Athlon were worlds apart. Haswell and AMD 8-core are vastly different even though they end up at the same multi-thread goal post. Zen is going to be some weird x86 AMD hybrid with HSA. Intel isn't even rolling HSA out any time this decade.

  5. Re:To answer your question on Intel Moving Forward With 10nm, Will Switch Away From Silicon For 7nm · · Score: 4, Funny

    Yeah my buddy used to bring home and show off things under NDA that would give competitors an edge too. He got fired.

  6. Re: To answer your question on Intel Moving Forward With 10nm, Will Switch Away From Silicon For 7nm · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Yeah laptops have some extreme thermal constraints that desktops simply have never had to deal with. Your average desktop chip is cooled by 8oz of alum and a loud, high speed fan (when PWM scales it up). Your average laptop has a postage stamp worth of heatsink fins at 2-4oz for weight budget, a heat pipe or two, and an anemic fan that can't move much air, and the air it IS moving is through a channel the size of a mouses ear.

  7. Re:Sad but not surprised. on NVidia Puts the Kibosh On Overclocking of GTX 900M Series · · Score: 1

    I fall under that age group and call it "practicality". I also don't give one *flying fuck* about the profit margins of a massive corporation that has shady business practices, so if i can rip them off while they rip me off, much the better.

  8. Re:"risks serious damage to the system" on NVidia Puts the Kibosh On Overclocking of GTX 900M Series · · Score: 2

    Correct. I had 200 out of 200 (for the math nerds, that's 100% of a large sample size) Dell Latitude D820's fail due to nVidia GPU. Never overclocked, barely ever used for gaming. The GPU was pretty useless to us but they came with them so *shrug*.

  9. Re:Trust your comm channels? End-to-end crypto on Valve Censoring Torrent References In Steam Chat · · Score: 1

    They don't need a MITM to run client-side regex against certain keywords.

  10. Re: I don't see the problem on Valve Censoring Torrent References In Steam Chat · · Score: 1

    You can poll the tracker and get your own stats. The trackers won't lie, or, at least, would be HIGHLY improbable to do so, since that would be complicated convoluted code to spot music and movie keywords and keep up with that over time.

  11. Re:Well duh on Valve Censoring Torrent References In Steam Chat · · Score: 1

    Or, yo(remove)u kno(remove)w... Break their regex.

  12. Re:The health benefit of alcohol on Alcohol's Evaporating Health Benefits · · Score: 1

    Hey now being pregnant will ramp your immune system into overdrive. Ipso facto alcohol can cure cancer.

  13. Re:Simple, they're ignoring the consumer market. on What Happened To the Photography Industry In 2014? · · Score: 1

    One thing your S95 can do that a smartphone can *never* do due to physics, is DOF/bokeh. And even then it's weak vs 1" or 4/3rd sensor compacts. RX100 ftw.

  14. Re:What happened? on What Happened To the Photography Industry In 2014? · · Score: 3, Interesting

    CPU performance has pretty much plateaued since nahelem/sandy bridge, with core 2 not being that far behind that. All the gains from die shrinks are currently being thrown into the GPU half. The difference between an Intel 3000 GPU on sandy bridge and haswell's 4400 is immense and that's just two generations and not counting Iris Pro.

  15. Re:Spaghetti on a slick wall fails to stick on Ross Ulbricht Found Guilty On All 7 Counts In Silk Road Trial · · Score: 1

    Fuck knows why, since he lived in california.

  16. Re:If he actually did all that... on Ross Ulbricht Found Guilty On All 7 Counts In Silk Road Trial · · Score: 1

    But if he's innocent, or framed, he just got rail-roaded for life.

  17. Re:Well damn on Confirmed: FCC Will Try To Regulate Internet Under Title II · · Score: 1

    Did the government ever try to censor POTS? What precedent is there they'd fail to apply that lack of censorship going forward?

  18. Re:Addendum: True story, AdBlock vs. Hosts on Google, Amazon, Microsoft Reportedly Paid AdBlock Plus To Unblock · · Score: 2

    Abusive spam does not trustworthy make.

  19. Re:Ebay Had the Same Problem on Don't Sass Your Uber Driver - He's Rating You Too · · Score: 4, Informative

    And as a result of that, ebay is flooded with the scammiest, worst buyers of any service anywhere. 3 out of my last 4 sales there got charged back and there was jack all I could do about it.

  20. Re:Maybe if Adobe fixed their broken updater... on Adobe's Latest Zero-Day Exploit Repurposed, Targeting Adult Websites · · Score: 1

    Just because the shady back-alley freeware does it, does not in any way make a good excuse for a AAA software vendor to do so. It just bogs them down in the same mindshare as the rest of the scumware vendors, as a scumware vendor. Not that I care about Adobe anymore. Their products have all been supplanted by superior alternatives at this point in time.

  21. Re:Umm..and telnet is insecure. on Why Screen Lockers On X11 Cannot Be Secure · · Score: 1

    Awesome. By the time Qubes hits a mainstream OS i'll be dead and buried..

  22. Re:Let's analyze the cyberspying code. on Anonymous No More: Your Coding Style Can Give You Away · · Score: 1

    I want to see it run Regin against sections of code in gnu/linux/systemd and see if the same NSA shills wrote any of it.

  23. Re:Screenshots on Windows 10: Charms Bar Removed, No Start Screen For Desktops · · Score: 1

    That last link looks like it'd be a sharp decent UI style for KDE, but my point was you can't expect a normal user to take stock-KDE and set *that* up from it to get something user-friendly. Stock KDE is a joke in itself but I won't go there since people that *use* kde change the defaults, but it's still like...Driving a stick shift with a twig.

  24. Re:Screenshots on Windows 10: Charms Bar Removed, No Start Screen For Desktops · · Score: 1

    Like KDE's user-unfriendliness. Seriously, teach the average joe how to configure KDE to emulate Windows 10. I fucking dare you.

  25. Re:Three-month-old Continuum screenshot on Windows 10: Charms Bar Removed, No Start Screen For Desktops · · Score: 1

    I've got the next gen iteration of your chip, an A4-5000 quad-core Atom-alike. 10 is blazingly fast on it with an SSD. To the point that only gamers and servers will need bigger cpu's like haswell/broadwell to do anything meaningful.