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  1. Re:Cons of a headphone jack. on Sorry, Apple, the Headphone Jack Isn't Going Anywhere (yahoo.com) · · Score: 1

    "The jack cannot tell what you're plugging in"

    This is completely wrong. For almost 15+ years PCs have had auto-sensing jacks. It would be entirely trivial to have such a capability in a phone.

  2. Re:Remember when Apple went full USB? on Sorry, Apple, the Headphone Jack Isn't Going Anywhere (yahoo.com) · · Score: 1

    As input device ports go, PS/2 is far more secure than USB, with true NKRO. PS/2 port can't allow a malicious mouse to identify itself as a storage drive.

  3. Re:PS/2 wasn't hot pluggable on Sorry, Apple, the Headphone Jack Isn't Going Anywhere (yahoo.com) · · Score: 1

    Actually, most motherboards now days have a hot-plug PS/2 port on them. Just for shits and giggles I'm switching between my Model M and my HP 5181, and this is on an older Athlon64 II X2 DDR2 motherboard.

  4. Re:Remember when Apple went full USB? on Sorry, Apple, the Headphone Jack Isn't Going Anywhere (yahoo.com) · · Score: 2

    The bandwidth alone on A2DC makes BT lossy and horrible. I can't stand using BT on my BT headphones, and use the AUX-in cable port on them instead.

  5. Re:HTC on Sorry, Apple, the Headphone Jack Isn't Going Anywhere (yahoo.com) · · Score: 0

    If you have to worry about 15mm of insertion space on a device which is easily 4x that in length or width, you have incompetent engineers.

  6. Re:This is illegal. on Laid-Off IT Workers Worry US Is Losing Tech Jobs To Outsourcing (www.cio.in) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    "You been paying attention to what he's done and said?"

    Yes, for the past 20+ years. Apparently you have not paid any attention to him until recently, which makes you a complete moron for trusting him.

  7. Uhh, we were doing 1536 horizontal lines at 120+ Hz back in the days of Quake 3. What's the excuse for languishing for almost 20 damned years, and REGRESSING to 1080 horizontal lines halfway through that time frame?

  8. You must also have some really, REALLY bad vision - http://i.imgur.com/Vn4DAsw.png as that screencap shows there is no direct submit button after the text field. In fact, you are forced to preview your post before you hit submit.

  9. Re:TOC not OSCAR on AOL Is Cutting Off Third-Party App Access To AIM (9to5mac.com) · · Score: 1

    " It sounds like Ars and friends don't know what they're talking about and couldn't be assed to do a little research."

    So, in other words, business as usual over at Ars?

  10. Re:Telegram and Discord on AOL Is Cutting Off Third-Party App Access To AIM (9to5mac.com) · · Score: 2

    Telegram and Discord both still doesn't have a basic usable contact list, so I have no fucking clue what the shit you mean by features.

  11. That's what you get on Amazon's Cloud Service Has Outage, Disrupting Sites (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    When you rely upon someone else to handle the shit you should be handling, this is your just reward.

  12. Re:No surprise here... on Google Pulls the Plug On Its Pixel Laptops (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    Brisk sales yet I can't order any to use for mine exploration recording.

    My ass.

  13. Re: Holding Back Progress on ZeniMax Files Injunction To Stop Oculus From Selling VR Headsets (gamespot.com) · · Score: 1

    No, that was figured out by companies which had worked with VR/3D headsets LONG ago. Guess you never played a mech battle game in the arcade where you had to pull down a helmet over your head (and hold onto the control sticks attached to it) back in the 90s.

    High-res dual LCD screens, high refresh rate. Too bad the game itself was low resolution.

    This shit isn't new, at all.

  14. Re:Fake News on World's Only Sample of Metallic Hydrogen Has Been Lost (ibtimes.co.uk) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    " people who are deliberately trying to deceive, frighten"

    So they're terrorists and we need to press to have them charged as such - what the fuck are YOU doing to further this?

  15. Sounds like Cellebrite is an enemy of the people on Cellebrite Can Now Unlock Apple iPhone 6, 6 Plus (cyberscoop.com) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Sounds like the shareholders of Cellebrite need to be strung up by their necks until dead for allowing the government to spy upon us.

  16. Further Proof Wikipedia is Unreliable on Study Reveals Bot-On-Bot Editing Wars Raging On Wikipedia's Pages (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    I don't even need to say anything else, the subject line says it all.

  17. Re:Isn't it the victim's Echo they want info from? on Amazon Argues That Alexa Is Protected By the First Amendment in a Murder Trial (qz.com) · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    If you wanted the e-mail proof of that, I actually possess it. Amazon can go suck it's own dick, as it has fucked me over plenty of times that I've said fuck it and have copies of its email database, all 30+ gigs of the incrimintating evidence, thanks to asking of various entities if they have that kind of proof and then paying for it.

    Amazon is heavily involved in anti-trust actions.

    Bring it, Amazon,
    Alex Marshall McQuown
    4555 Pine Street, Unit 4-C
    Riverside, CA, 92501

    I'll kill you like I killed Electronic Arts for their Spore bullshit.

    Bring it on, assholes. I've got far more than you can bargain with. That includes source code.

  18. More bullshit fodder for a technology that is easily bypassed by built-in DNS entries.

    Thus proving he knows nothing about real security.

  19. Re:Jailbird san quentin "minerological society" on Microsoft Calls For 'Digital Geneva Convention' (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    Thanks for the extra libel evidence.

    I love it when you lose so hard you have to resort to personal attacks.

    I'm going to love to even more when the news of the lawsuit comes to bite you in the ass.

  20. Re:Who're u bs'ing jailbird? U SAID Microsoft liar on Microsoft Calls For 'Digital Geneva Convention' (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    Ahh, the moron looking at OLD NEWS (in which the e-mail was proven a FAKE - the header was TWO LINES LONG. Obviously fake.)

    See how stupid you are? Now I have you, Alexander P Kowalski, for libel, and the proof is right here, where you can't touch it, hide it, or deny it.

    Now to hunt you down and file suit.

  21. Re:Add it to the list on GE, Intel, and AT&T Are Putting Cameras and Sensors All Over San Diego (fortune.com) · · Score: 0

    California is a fucking blue state, you non-voting twit.

  22. " but nowadays zincs are relegated to the dirt-cheap-but-underpowered-for-most-real-uses"

    Found the electrochemically illiterate! Nickel-Zinc is way freaking useful. 1.6V nominal cell voltage, roughly same Ah capacity as Nickel Metal Hydride in the same form factor.

    Only problem is that it whiskers like mad, making the charge cycle count in the tens. If it were not for that problem, Ni-MH would be DEAD by now.

  23. Re:Too many cores. on Intel Supercharges Atom Chips With 16 Cores and Pro Level Features (pcworld.com) · · Score: 2

    "You want one core per NIC for these to make the best use of AESNI plus one or two more for management tasks."

    One Core per NIC? Given the drastically reduced connectivity in the C3000 versus even desktop Pentium line processors in the form of fewer PCI-E lanes, good luck getting one PCI-E lane per NIC, let alone one core per.

  24. Re:There are already 7 Continents on New Zealand May Be the Tip of a Submerged Continent (theoutline.com) · · Score: 1

    Yup, this was basic fucking elementary school stuff THIRTY YEARS AGO.

    Apparently the Geological Society of America needs to go the fuck back to school.

  25. Re:preposterous! on Serious Computer Glitches Can Be Caused By Cosmic Rays (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Absolutely zero. Cosmic radiation - a depleted nucleus - never reaches the ground. We detect them at ground level through their secondary effects (produced photons, electrons, etc.) They smash into another atom in the atmosphere and are gone.