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  1. Because hardware makers quite often gimp shit on Why Does Microsoft Still Offer a 32-bit OS? (backblaze.com) · · Score: 1

    Like Toshiba, offering 64-bit systems but hardlocking them to 2GB RAM in bios.

  2. Re:this cost me a weekend once on Why Does Microsoft Still Offer a 32-bit OS? (backblaze.com) · · Score: 1

    The key itself is probably already in BIOS/UEFI with SLIC.

  3. Re: millennials? on 'Quit Your Day Job Is Garbage Advice' (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    No, you're the idiot. Go read a Marshall Brain book sometime and learn just how stupid you truly are. He even breaks down moving costs in one of them, and that was back in the 90s. Price then? Still roughly $5,000. Those same costs haven't gone the fuck away, you're just choosing to ignore them to make yourself look good.

  4. Re: millennials? on 'Quit Your Day Job Is Garbage Advice' (cnbc.com) · · Score: 2

    About a meter cubed each, and I had those shipped while I took a plane.

    Most trucking companies aren't dropping off a 40 ft trailer at your residential area (which likely has a "no vehicles over 2 axles" restriction, which also excludes the largest of U-Haul trucks,) let alone dropping one off at an apartment complex, where a huge chunk of the population resides, as there is simply no room for it.

    Then there was staying at a hotel for several days while waiting on approval to be shown apartments.

    Then there's the food needed to eat during that whole thing.

    And more.

  5. Re:U.S.-only on Skype Retires Older Apps for Windows, Linux (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    Yes, it does, which is how scammers steal cell phone numbers using said Google Voice two digit verification.

    As in I just fought this exact scenario two days ago for one of my neighbors who had her phone hijacked after listing her number on CL and fell for the scam.
    GV forwarded EVERYTHING.

  6. Re:TOS and NAT on Skype Retires Older Apps for Windows, Linux (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    You run the IRC server as a VPN service on your home system. That's how the fuck you do it. Plenty of ways to join multiple IRC servers together via each person's home connection (which offers server redundancy for the buffer cache in caseof netsplit/server failure on one end) and get things going.

    You must have less than a few months of experience actually running an IRC server if you're not aware of how it's typically been done and usually still done to this very fucking day.

  7. Re: millennials? on 'Quit Your Day Job Is Garbage Advice' (cnbc.com) · · Score: 2

    It cost me almost that much to move and all I had were 5 boxes of items.

  8. Re: millennials? on 'Quit Your Day Job Is Garbage Advice' (cnbc.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The ,main reason people don't/can't move is the actual cost of moving.

    The average cost is about $5,500.

    How many broke motherfuckers you know that have that much in the bank they can just drain so they can pack up and move?

  9. Re:U.S.-only on Skype Retires Older Apps for Windows, Linux (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    As if the world doesn't know what a VPN is.

  10. Re:Skype on Skype Retires Older Apps for Windows, Linux (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    If you need an EC2 or VPS to run an IRC server, you're doing it wrong.

  11. That was some serious artistic work in a game. The game alone could've made a pretty awesome essentially 'silent' film.

  12. Re:tulpenmanie on What the Hell Is Happening To Cryptocurrency Valuations? (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    Plenty of tools have been made from paper. In fact, the very discs I use to cut wood are nothing but paper, no abrasive. All you need is water and a proper binder.

    In fact, here's a guitar made from corrugated cardboard for you - https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

    You can also eat the dollar bill. Not a lot of nutritional value, but plenty of colon-cleansing fiber. Can bitcoin even do that for you?

  13. Re:What's happening on What the Hell Is Happening To Cryptocurrency Valuations? (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    "Not a single person who started using Bitcoin in the beginning were even trying to "make their money" back."

    Silk Road. End of Story.

  14. Re:I used Skype twice in the past year on Skype Retires Older Apps for Windows, Linux (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 0

    You couldn't make a free google voice call to find your phone?

    You *MUST* be new around here.

  15. Re:Skype on Skype Retires Older Apps for Windows, Linux (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    IRC has had plugins for servers to allow for buffering of messages for at least a decade.

  16. Re:What was the plan? on Skype Retires Older Apps for Windows, Linux (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    "How long ago did you purchase your phone running Android 2.3 "Gingerbread" new?"

    What I'm seeing here in California, many brand new 'free' LifeLine cell phones are old model Blu or ZTE phones still running 2.3.

  17. "If someone buys a low power device and expects to run AutoCAD on it, then they get what they deserve."

    I remember using AutoCAD on a 266MHz PII back in high school drafting class.

    What's the excuse for it running like dogshit now?

  18. No on Teardown of New iMac Reveals Upgradable Processors, RAM (macrumors.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    "removing the warranty voiding stickers on the backside of the logic board"

    We've got case law that explicitly forbids this. Quit spreading this fucking rumor.

  19. Re:What's happening on What the Hell Is Happening To Cryptocurrency Valuations? (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    "Actually, it becomes a Ponzi scheme [wikipedia.org] when the investments of new buyers are used to pay the returns on the investments of the earlier buyers."

    How the hell do you think Bitcoin got started in the first place?

    Somebody had to invest in it in order to get other people to invest so the original person/people could make their money back.

    That fits the fucking definition of a Ponzi Scheme right there.

  20. Re:tulpenmanie on What the Hell Is Happening To Cryptocurrency Valuations? (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 2

    " Cryptocurrencies are not just a fancy collectible, they perform valuable services in the real world."

    Can you eat that cryptocurrency? Can you melt that cryptocurrency down and make a useful tool out of it? Can that cryptocurrency be utilized to transmit or generate energy?

    No? It's just a fucking ledger, you say? Well, then.

  21. Re:Seems like a problem for science? on US Pays Farmers Billions To Save The Soil. But It's Blowing Away (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    First question: Plant kudzu everywhere. It's how we stopped it before. The only solution is more plants that hold the soil down, because that's essentially all they do besides converting nutrients into biomass, then dying and turning back into fertile topsoil.

  22. *looks at every .DMG he has on the only OSX machine he has - a G5*

    *Notes every single one of them comes with their own libraries or subsets thereof.*

    Uhh, Yea. See, originally, Apple did that type of format so there wouldn't be a mess of files all over the system.

  23. Re:Still no competition on Apple Makes iPhone Screen Fixes Easier as States Mull Repair Laws (reuters.com) · · Score: 2

    Don't forget that the Best Buy employees will "Need the password to your device to ensure repairs are effectively performed/video drivers are installed" while they surreptitiously snoop on your shit for the FBI.

  24. Re:this isnt a glass repair machine. on Apple Makes iPhone Screen Fixes Easier as States Mull Repair Laws (reuters.com) · · Score: 2

    " For that you'd need an annealer, or a reflow bed. you'd also need to have moulds and castings and a polish/tempering system. thats not feasible in a machine the size of a microwave oven."

    Lapidary/Glass worker here: We've got two tools the size of a microwave oven that does all of that for us. We've had them for over century. They're called a kiln and a flat lap/polisher. Those two tools alone do everything you just mentioned above.

    What we do NOT have is the ability to repair the broken traces which usually come inside the glass now days as part of the digitizer.

  25. Pentium? Try the Pentium II, which was released in 1997, and had speeds of up to 450MHz.