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  1. Re:Just kick the hacker countries off US servers. on The World's Top-Selling Video Game Has a Cheating Problem (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    That does absolutely nothing about US players using Chinese-made hacks.

  2. Re: The Plan. on Turning Soybeans Into Diesel Fuel Is Costing Us Billions (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    "For one thing, how far away from the equator you live affects how much sun you get never mind local weather patterns."

    Actually, the closer you get to the poles, the higher your average yearly insolation. You don't want to be near the equator for solar.

  3. The slump is internal manipulation on Bitcoin Watchers Running Out of Explanations Blame Slump on Moon (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 2

    Go look at CoinMarketCap's historical charts. Pretty much every cryptocurrency moves in almost exact lockstep in rises and dips. That wouldn't happen in a diverse crypto economy, the fluctuations would be much more varied instead of nearly perfectly identical. This is a dead giveaway of inside manipulation and cashing out while the cashing out is good.

  4. Re:You shouldn't have to depend on hackers. on Hackers Seem Close To Publicly Unlocking the Nintendo Switch (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    "Can't happen in the USA at least, due to the DMCA. If the publisher makes their own cartridge which bypasses the executable signing to run unsigned code, that violates the anti-circumvention clause."

    That alone violates the anti-tying clauses in the Magnusson-Moss Warranty Act, because you can bet good money Nintendo would try to not honor the warranty on a system that had unlicensed cartridges used upon it.

  5. Re:How about LEGISLATONG. on Democrats Are Just One Vote Shy of Restoring Net Neutrality (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    How about ditching your iDevice first and using a functional computer?

  6. Bullshit patents on Bank of America Tops IBM, Payments Firms With Most Blockchain Patents (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    They didn't invent this tech yet they're patenting the shit out of it.

    The people that work at the USPTO need to be shot.

  7. Re:Should Planned Obsolescence for Tech be a crime on Apple Investigated By France For 'Planned Obsolescence' (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    "Whatever the reason, the phones already could not support that processor speed without shutting down. So your smart-ass comment was inapplicable, but instead of simply acknowledging that like a civilized person you change your tack."

    You say as your first words are "Whatever the reason," which means you lost. good on you!

  8. Re:What replacement for Google Earth? on Mozilla Tests Firefox 'Tab Warming' (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 0

    Your web Google Earth utterly sucks and can't even handle basic things like ASTER data. Perhaps you should get the required permissions to install said program. Or get back to actually doing your job?

  9. "The daily volume for bitcoin is less than $150M"

    As of right now coinmarketcap has it at 13 BILLION for 24h volume.

  10. Re:What replacement for Google Earth? on Mozilla Tests Firefox 'Tab Warming' (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    Why the fuck are you not using the standalone google earth program or app?

  11. Re:Not really on California Will Close Its Last Nuclear Power Plant (sfchronicle.com) · · Score: 2

    "There will never be enough land to use solar at productive levels"

    This has been debunked time and time again. You could meet the entirety of the world's energy needs at current typical PV efficiencies with about 50,000 square miles of PV. Pretty much cover the northern half of Arizona with panels and call it done. Do a few more stations like that around the globe in strategic places and have unlimited power 24/7.

  12. Re:Morons on California Will Close Its Last Nuclear Power Plant (sfchronicle.com) · · Score: 1

    "Practically the entire current California government and the infected 9th Circuit of the US Court of Appeals seems to be doing what they can to either destroy or damage prospects for the future."

    No, you can lay that blame on the Eastern District of Texas.

  13. Re: Morons on California Will Close Its Last Nuclear Power Plant (sfchronicle.com) · · Score: 1

    You're wrong. For regular-level (through high school) education, California sits flat-middle at #25. For higher education (college/university) it ranks #3. California spends more on welfare, but that's because of the overall population size, as California still holds about 40+ million people despite the recent flights out. Tennessee has a higher percentage of its 6.6+M population on food stamps or other form of welfare (1+M food stamps recipients alone, 16-18% of the state population.) California doesn't even rank in the top 10 for welfare recipients.

  14. Re:Not Soon Enough on California Will Close Its Last Nuclear Power Plant (sfchronicle.com) · · Score: 2

    "California doesn't have big ones because it has lots of little one."

    I can tell you don't live in California, especially southern California where there are four or five major fault lines. One goes, the others tend to resonate.

    Hayward fault is due for a major slip soon, ditto Elsinore despite its reputation for being a relatively 'quiet' fault line. If they both go at roughly the same time, SoCal could be utterly fucked; depending upon where on the fault lines the quakes start, that might trigger Andreas, causing an even larger quake and possibly triggering a slip of the Newport-Inglewood fault line.

  15. Re:Mars direct? on Ice Cliffs Spotted On Mars (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 1

    It will work better on Mars, as there's far less atmosphere to screw with the data.

    I heavily utilize ASTER and LANDSAT 7/8 all the time for materials prospecting here on Earth. I'd LOVE to be using these satellites on Mars. Check out the spots where you can find advanced Argyllic weathering occurring, and go fucking dig there.

    Or just scan the garnet sand dunes that were found a few months back. I'd kill to get to see those spectral readings.

  16. Re:The UK is right to refuse ambassadorship on Ecuador Grants Citizenship To WikiLeaks Founder Julian Assange (cbsnews.com) · · Score: 1

    You're an idiot. The UK does not control who Ecuador appoints as an ambassador or diplomat.

    Go the fuck back to school and learn about these things called 'jurisdictions.'

  17. Re:Note to self ... on Apple Health Data Is Being Used As Evidence In a Rape and Murder Investigation (vice.com) · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    Dick in the mouth to keep them from talking always worked for me! Caveat: You need at least 8 inches of cock for this to work.

  18. Re:Should Planned Obsolescence for Tech be a crime on Apple Investigated By France For 'Planned Obsolescence' (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Got news for ya - That's not the battery, that's the fault of the Apple designers. I've taken plenty of 'dead' iPhone batteries and hooked them up to an ammeter. They're more than capable of delivering 1C or greater.

    This is entirely the fault of Apple engineers for failing to understand basic electronics design.

  19. Re:$$S on Apple Investigated By France For 'Planned Obsolescence' (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    It got a security patch two days ago. Unlike your iDevices where Apple lies about support (The 4S quit being manufactured in Feb 2016 and
    Apple claims to support a device for 5 years after they cease production of the model. Why is the 4S not getting any patches or upgrades?)

  20. Source? AMD's own webpage where they talk about SEV and SME. Of course, this isn't new technology; we've had encrypted RAM for at least 15 years.

  21. I saw their brochure. They're renting you a shitty Antminer S3 which you can buy for $1500 flat out for like $3,000+ AND they take half your bitcoin mined.

  22. If you bothered to look more into AMD's statements, they have a much lower risk of exploitation because AMD encrypts everything in RAM with practically zero performance overhead. Even if exploited, you get encrypted data, which isn't the case with intel.

  23. Re:Does anybody actually read up on this stuff? on Apple Investigated By France For 'Planned Obsolescence' (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    "Most operations of the phone will remain utterly unchanged, just heavy workloads will be slower than previously."

    So... iPhones have their own Microsoft-made Meltdown workaround, eh?

  24. Re:Except Apple actually prolonged the life of the on Apple Investigated By France For 'Planned Obsolescence' (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    "They use slower parts because they are cheaper."

    No. They often use slower parts because the specification often calls for lower heat, or a design needs to be rigorously tested so there's something older that already meets those requirements and has the testing already validated.

    On the other hand, as I look at my 1970's W-grade (military) tubes driving my 1978 Super Reverb, sometimes things just needs to be overdesigned.

  25. Re:Lightbulbs on Apple Investigated By France For 'Planned Obsolescence' (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Dead wrong. Plenty of LED bulbs that have no switched-mode power supply. Some go as simple as to use a tank circuit to eliminate flicker and then use an LED array configured as a bridge rectifier.

    I can tell you've never actually done any real LED work.