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  1. Re:mining crypt -- as malware?...lets be realistic on Canonical Addresses Ubuntu Linux Snap Store's 'Security Failure' (betanews.com) · · Score: 0

    This will only happen if you overclock. Plus, if you read the code in the snap, it's limited to 1 or 2 threads, which on modern cpu's, won't be more than a small handful of watts. Pennies a day, worst case. Modern CPU's, on stock heatsinks, with no overclock, have zero risk of crapping out due to heat. They'll thermal throttle *long* before then. Usually at 90 or 100'C. I run server CPU's pegged out at 100'C and let the thermal mgmt do its thing and they're fine for the life of the cpu warranty. As designed, and intended, by the TDP and silicon specs. Stop overblowing this.

  2. It's not stealing if the user agrees to it in the TOS/eula. Hell. It's not even theft. Theft implies you take a thing and gain sole possession of it. All they're doing here is mildly increasing the electron usage of a cpu core or two. At full tilt, this might be a few pennies a day. And as electrons have no mass, there's nothing really there to steal.

  3. Re:I am waiting for the fanless version on Intel's First 10nm Cannon Lake CPU Sees the Light of Day (anandtech.com) · · Score: 1

    Their current 15w quad cores are as fast as my 80-something watt 4th gen desktop i5. Wattage != performance

  4. Re:A high ride is a good thing? on Ford To Stop Selling Every Car In North America But the Mustang, Focus Active (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 0

    A good bike is like 5 grand. That car is like, 500 dollars, max.

  5. Re:Great ad, but don't buy these drives on Samsung Announces 970 PRO and 970 EVO NVMe SSDs (anandtech.com) · · Score: 1

    Nice try, seagate. SSD's are reliable over years, under *excessive* abuse. Under *consumer* or moderate usage, they'll last for decades.

  6. It's the year of the linux desktop! For the gnomes that live in landfills.

  7. Re:Investments only go up right? on Students Are Using Their Loan Money To Buy Cryptocurrency, Study Says (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1

    Most of us want to die anyway, and it's not like defaulting on it will *truly* harm you. Just a little bad credit.

  8. Re:Bitcoin is Garbage on Child Abuse Imagery Found Within Bitcoin's Blockchain (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Go home banker shill

  9. DNC on Hacker Adrian Lamo Dies At 37 (zdnet.com) · · Score: -1

    When will killary stop killing her enemies? RIP Seth Rich Bernie would have won.

  10. Re:Just ask yourself one question. on Demand For Programmers Hits Full Boil as US Job Market Simmers (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Mcdonalds workers are underpaid. No business which depends for existence on paying less than living wages to its workers has any right to continue in this country

  11. Re:Just cut the cord myself on Cable Industry Finally Fights Cord Cutting With Fewer Ads (dslreports.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Plus, there's an amazing mental thing that occurs when you cut *all ads* out of your life (to the extent one can, anyway). ublock, netflix-only, pirating, etc. Watching an ad gives some soulless corporate free rent in your mind, sometimes to the tune of HOURS from a 30 second ad. That's time you spend *not being you, but being a corporate drone.*

  12. Re:Climate Change is real. on Sea Level Rise in the SF Bay Area Just Got a Lot More Dire (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    lmao. Sea level rise is so slow you can't even see it. Humans have *legs* and can simply walk away from it. It'll slowly creep into some housing, and kill some trees in a few centuries though. woo.

  13. Re:Fix it with some careful regulation on What Airbnb Did To New York City (citylab.com) · · Score: 1

    Have you ever been there? There's no shit on any sidewalks. You're thinking of India.

  14. Re:Fix it with some careful regulation on What Airbnb Did To New York City (citylab.com) · · Score: 1

    People commute 1-2 hours into san fran for shitty jobs. the IT bros get all the local housing.

  15. Re:Google gets bored too easily. on Google Fiber Is a Faint Echo of the Disruption We Were Promised (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    As opposed to all the boomers in charge of all the legacy, monolithic companies that are raping the planet and your wallet all in the name of the next bonus check for the god emperor CEOs? There's nothing wrong with young people, you're just a Luddite.

  16. Re:Meh on Flight Sim Company Embeds Malware To Steal Pirates' Passwords (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    > You copy some electrons harmlessly therefor you deserve your real world information stolen, potentially to real harm.
    News flash, but piracy doesn't harm anyone. It's either people that wouldn't have paid anyway, and thus not a loss, or people that use piracy as a demo and end up paying BECAUSE of it.

  17. Re:Good! on Amazon's Push Into Healthcare Just Cost the Industry $30 Billion In Market Cap (qz.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    And you're arguing, effectively, to genocide the unhealthy and the poor. GTFO with your class war, Ayn Rand bullshit. Every other civilized country works out great, with none of the straw men you brought up, lines, death panels etc. For profit health care denying coverage *is* the death panel.

  18. Price fixing and crypto on PC Market Still Showing Few Signs of Life (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    Between insane DDR4 price fixing and the GPU market having dried completely up to insane gouge levels... yeah. fuck buying a PC right now.

  19. Re: Yay, snowflake college on More Colleges Than Ever Have Test-Optional Admissions Policies (theconversation.com) · · Score: 0

    Not hitler.. Nothing racist, sexist, etc. Just remove anyone with an IQ under 80, anyone that voted for trump in the US (overlaps with the IQ solution though), and the neoliberals globally.

  20. Re: Yay, snowflake college on More Colleges Than Ever Have Test-Optional Admissions Policies (theconversation.com) · · Score: 2

    Naw, the new utopia will need smart people like me. I have grand vision.

  21. Re: Yay, snowflake college on More Colleges Than Ever Have Test-Optional Admissions Policies (theconversation.com) · · Score: 0

    idiot conservatives. Humans have the resources and tech to eliminate all obstacles in life, all struggle, all oppression, all hunger, etc. We just need to forcefully reduce the population to about 2 billion max.

  22. Re:I probably would have done the autism angle on James Damore Sues Google For Allegedly Discriminating Against Conservative White Men (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    > Welcome to Earth. I hope you enjoy your stay. Oh go rot in hell you sack of neuroatypical hating normie shit. You're either with it, or against it.

  23. I've never seen an emotional appeal fallacy, red herring, and straw man combined so efficiently. Kudos.

  24. Re:I probably would have done the autism angle on James Damore Sues Google For Allegedly Discriminating Against Conservative White Men (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Proper jury selection would rule anybody with prejudice against neuroatypicals out, otherwise it could be a mistrial anyway. Could also be a non jury trial with a properly educated judge. Plus, literally everyone knows a sociopath? wat? I will give you, that high functioning autism and sociopathy are easily confused, but an expert witness on the matter would clear up any differences. It all goes back to... how do you legally define "asshole". People have literally had cases of subjectively assholish behavior dropped because of "affluenza".

  25. Re:I probably would have done the autism angle on James Damore Sues Google For Allegedly Discriminating Against Conservative White Men (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    To some degree, but to another.. You can't legally define asshole. But say, the complete inability to read other people or predict their actions. This trait can easily be read as "asshole" to a subjective normie viewpoint, but on the autism side is just a misunderstanding that requires explanation in rational ways. Damore is a self-admited autist with the self-admitted above trait.