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  1. Re:Not the biggest on Tour Houston's Texas-Sized Hackerspace (Video 1 of 2) · · Score: 1, Funny

    Everything's bigger in Texas. Even our lies.

    After all, we got Bush, Jr. living here.

  2. Re:It has the same problem as anything else in Tex on Tour Houston's Texas-Sized Hackerspace (Video 1 of 2) · · Score: 1

    Dallas used to be nice but Deep Ellum is going to crap, Bar of Soap is no longer there, half of the good bars have closed down, bleh.

  3. Re:Disable option? on Why iOS 7 Is Making Some Users Feel 'Sick' · · Score: 1

    DISABLE, not reduce, moron. Go back to school.

  4. Re:On the plus side... on Why iOS 7 Is Making Some Users Feel 'Sick' · · Score: 1

    "btw. what decent smarthone has this pricetag? none?"

    Every one you don't get through a middle man and get directly from the manufacturer in China.

  5. How hilarious on When Criminals and Terrorists Communicate In Real Time · · Score: 2

    "If that happens, terrorist attacks will become a form of theater in which terrorists not only get to write the play but also act as the primary producers of the coverage of the event."

    Oh, you mean like the US Government is doing?

  6. Told you this product was going to be spammed here on The MinnowBoard is a Low-Cost, Open Hardware Single-Board Computer (Video) · · Score: 1
  7. Useless in NT 4.1 on Malware Now Hiding In Graphics Cards · · Score: 1

    Windows NT4.1 explicitly disallowed DMA to video memory. Want to venture a guess as to why?

    But of course, now you get DMA to the video card in later versions of Windows. Devs hated not having DMA.

    Reap what you sow, instead of trying to follow good security practice.

  8. Re:Today I learned on AMD Unveils New Family of GPUs: Radeon R5, R7, R9 With BF 4 Preorder Bundle · · Score: 3, Insightful

    You mean today you just crawled out of your hole, considering AMD has all three consoles, and they're about to drop a brand new graphic architecture to the table.

  9. Re:'MANTLE' was the game-changing announcement on AMD Unveils New Family of GPUs: Radeon R5, R7, R9 With BF 4 Preorder Bundle · · Score: 2

    " limiting developer"

    Not OpenGL. Extension not there? Just add it in. Can't do that with Direct3D.

  10. Re:At the risk of being labeled troll on AMD Unveils New Family of GPUs: Radeon R5, R7, R9 With BF 4 Preorder Bundle · · Score: 1

    I never had a problem with my crap of the line HD4200. Sure, it's not going to run the latest and greatest at any respectable frame rate, but hey, it worked and didn't die.

  11. New Family, My Ass on AMD Unveils New Family of GPUs: Radeon R5, R7, R9 With BF 4 Preorder Bundle · · Score: 4, Informative
  12. Hypocritical on Mozilla Plan Seeks To Debug Scientific Code · · Score: 0

    Mozilla better work on de-bloating its own code first.

  13. Re:Joking or utterly stuffed hardware? on Valve Announces Linux-Based SteamOS · · Score: 1

    Nothing wrong at all. Cables are fine, no packet loss, no packet collisions (I removed any and all hubs from my network years ago.)

    If it's anything, it's the shitty Belkin N-router causing the delay.

  14. Re:Indoctrination and Propoganda on California Elementary Schools To Test Anti-Piracy Curriculum · · Score: 1

    "and Deep Space 9 was the first to actually show the economics of its main cast"

    They only showed that for Quark and a couple of non-main characters.

    You must be thinking of Babylon 5, where economics actually played a role in the plot of the series.

  15. Re:Impractical? on What Will Ubiquitous 3D Printing Do To IP Laws? · · Score: 1

    "Lightweight and underpowered does indeed translate to economical."

    So why aren't our vehicles running from lawnmower engines?

    Oh, you still have no clue that if you're underpowered enough, you simply won't get fuel economy and thus you end up wasting MORE FUEL.

    Look at the moron AC still not understanding a goddamned thing.

  16. Re:Compatibility on Valve Announces Linux-Based SteamOS · · Score: 1

    9ms over 20 feet of Cat5e from my laptop to the router to the other computer 3 feet away physically but connected by another 20 foot length of Cat5e.

    So not bad. Certainly usable for most things, excepting the most twitch-festy FPS games and fighting games which are seriously timing/frame dependent.

    But then we have the issue of input/output lag on the TV itself, at least older ones. Most newer ones now days have something to enable a lower-latency gaming mode. My TV has no lag on the VGA connection.

  17. Re:Compatibility on Valve Announces Linux-Based SteamOS · · Score: 1

    Okay, now what's the TEMPORAL difference?

    Probably enough to make any game needing real-time interaction to fail spectacularly.

  18. Re: Easy! on CCC Says Apple iPhone 5S TouchID Broken · · Score: 1, Informative

    You don't know how the fingerprint scanner works, so obviously you don't have a clue how my attack works.

    Hint: IRON-WAX TONER

    Go back to school and re-learn what materials can create capacitance fields. Take the iPhone apart and see it's the exact fucking same scanner you'll find on any cheap-ass laptop, a capacitance fingerprint scanner - the same fucking ones available on any laptop. Then go learn how a laser printer works, and maybe then you'll have enough education to know how my attack works.

    Or you can shut the fuck up and let people that have done forensic work with the police, such as myself, speak.

  19. Re:Easy! on CCC Says Apple iPhone 5S TouchID Broken · · Score: 1

    "As photocopiers don't tend to deal in capacitative imaging, neither input nor output, I'm dubious."

    Plenty of laser printers use a capacitive iron-wax toner.

    I've got blocks of the stuff that respond wonderfully to a magnet and can set off the capacitance-based anti-theft scanners at the entrances to many stores.

  20. Re: Easy! on CCC Says Apple iPhone 5S TouchID Broken · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Reproducible to a T, though I used a different method.

    1. Get boyfriend to lock his new iPhone with his fingerprint.
    2. Lift said fingerprint from his fresh drinking glass with tape and a light dusting of coarse graphite powder before applying tape.
    3. Make fingerprint better viewable by optical scanners by dusting with extremely fine graphite powder after transfer to white paper.
    4. Scan and print on copier using capacitive iron-wax toner.
    5. Fingerprint security? Same bullshit from the beginning 2000s, with the exact same fucking flaws.

    I was bypassing this exact same crap with the exact same method on IBM ThinkPads and HP NC/NX model Business-class notebooks years ago.

  21. Re:Easy! on CCC Says Apple iPhone 5S TouchID Broken · · Score: 1

    Toner has iron particles, which makes it capacitive.

  22. Re:Confused as usual. on Apple Starts Blocking Unauthorized Lightning Cables With iOS 7 · · Score: 1

    Nope, not officially. You will get Kernel panics. You will need software like XPostFacto to even get it to properly install, or install it on a machine that does properly support it and swap out the hard drives afterwards.

    I guess you've never used a NW0ROM based iBook.

    10.2.7 was removed from distribution due to defects.

    Many school districts were STUCK with this particular revision on their G4 PowerBooks.

    Flextronics in Apple had to keep copies of this system image for supporting those poor school districts, which were sending these exact same laptops back every other month.

  23. Re:Confused as usual. on Apple Starts Blocking Unauthorized Lightning Cables With iOS 7 · · Score: 1

    It's no joke. Back during the G3/G4 processor days (used in iBooks and PowerBooks) multiple versions of OSX would not install on certain motherboard revisions. School districts were STUCK with one revision of OSX or another, and could not upgrade or downgrade. Wrong motherboard installed by the repair tech? When it got to me and I looked up which school district you were in and which OSX version you got, I'd start to load it up. Wrong OSX for that laptop motherboard? Kernel Panic during imaging. Send it back to the repair tech and tell them to install the correct logic board.

    Didn't help that the iBooks had 4 different models, usually only told apart by the size or location of the iBook logo.

  24. Re:Impractical? on What Will Ubiquitous 3D Printing Do To IP Laws? · · Score: 1

    "lightweight underpowered"

    That does not translate out to a fuel-efficient car.

    Look, it's an AC post that has no clue (except for the Metro 50 MPG, but that's ONLY in a manual transmission version from 1989, and the fuel-injected model wasn't out until 1995, the third generation of Geo Metro.)

    Go figure.

  25. Re:FUD article on Apple Starts Blocking Unauthorized Lightning Cables With iOS 7 · · Score: 1

    Perhaps you should go learn a bit about electrical engineering. The cable isn't the issue, it's the charger block that plugs into the wall.