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  1. And yet I'm going to become VP of one of California's oldest non-profits within a year. *yawn*

    Go play with yourself some more. Real people are talking and discussing things.

    Bet you didn't know shit about the hidden debug feature in the 3310, did you?

    Shit's been known about since like 2003, too.

  2. Police auction. You learn who had what and where it came from, as required by law.

  3. No, we need a right to strike back on Microsoft Calls For 'Digital Geneva Convention' (usatoday.com) · · Score: 2

    A guaranteed right for civilians to strike back against state-sponsored attacks that should not be targeting them should be enshrined into law. All forms of warfare. Collateral damage? No fucking longer, because it will be your ass.

  4. Facebook's video offerings for live video on the desktop SUCK (forcing you to go through OBS and other shit,) mobile app is bloated as a dead whale considering what it does, I can only imagine the FB 'app' bogging down any TV to where you'll be stuck with 480x720 vertical (because idiots with phones) video because the processor in the TV will be bogged down by the bloated 'app.'

    Even on my Droid phone, fairly powerful, FB Live SUCKS. Tinychat and Camfrog do not have this problem.

  5. I can tell you failed your basic reading comprehension and critical thinking tests in middle and high school.

    Because nowhere, NOWHERE did I condone shit, especially since I'VE GOT A FUCKING TITANIUM LEG IMPLANT THANKS TO A DRUNK DRIVER.

    You self-assured assumptive fuckwit waste of condensed energy.

  6. Re:Not Even Kidding on Iconic Feature Phone Nokia 3310 Coming Back this Month, VentureBeat Says (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    "Zero chance of catching any malware."

    I had an old Nokia 3310, bought at an auction for $3. Did a ROM dump, it's got gov't loaded firmware on it, it used to belong to a well-known Memphis drug dealer.

    So much for that zero chance.

  7. "Driving a high performance sports car, severely drunk, the wrong way on a one way street into oncoming traffic is the cause for their deaths"

    I can't wait for your inability to read to catch up with you and take your life on the road when you can't see a fucking One Way sign or similar...

  8. Re: So much for the singularity on Intel Confirms 8th Gen Core On 14nm, Data Center First To New Nodes (anandtech.com) · · Score: 1

    Meanwhile, we're already using similar tech in fabrication of LEDs to control the Auger effect so we can obtain higher efficiency, so....... no, I'll keep being based in reality while you stick around with your head up your ass.

  9. "That said, $21 an hour is a rather laughable wage in a State with a high cost of living like California."

    Yea, if you choose to live in the shitty congested metro areas. That's before taxes 3,360/mo, or roughly 2,240 after taxes . Rent for a 2-bed 2-bath apartment around my area runs about $1,100mo, if you're smart and run LED everything and laptops your utility bills are sub-$100 (and water/sewage/trash is paid for in pretty much any apartment complex) and your internet/phone/TV is at worst $150/mo total without some special offer. So we're looking at $1,350-ish a month. Food isn't taxed and you're far better off shopping at the ethnic markets, where you can get an entire month of meat, veg, grain, bread, and dairy for $175. Okay, we're at $1,525-ish. Let's assume you drive an economic 4-cylinder. Gas is hovering around $2.50/gal right now, you'll probably burn $250/mo in gas if you're really busy. $1,775-ish. Hey, weed's legal here, I'm a fairly hefty smoker and spend maybe $150/mo on good stuff. $1,925-ish. Hey, I can still knock a couple hundred into my bank account every month.

    And all it takes is living an hour outside of Los Angeles.

  10. Re:So much for the singularity on Intel Confirms 8th Gen Core On 14nm, Data Center First To New Nodes (anandtech.com) · · Score: 1

    A carbon atom is roughly 0.3nm in diameter. I imagine one could make a three-atom long transistor from carbon given how it can be made conductive or non-conductive, putting it at just under 1nm total package size.

  11. A better start would be to change the name entirely because MeTaL for graphics already existed (and is still in use in one of my OLD machines just to demonstrate what a failure it was.) S3 anyone?

  12. Re:Yo dawg on Samsung Factory Fire Caused By Faulty Batteries (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    The politically-incorrect term for that is Jewish Fire Sale.

  13. Re:"Hot spare" is a give away on Western Digital Unveils First-Ever 512Gb 64-Layer 3D NAND Chip (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    "The spinning drive consumes electricity,"

    Who the fuck uses spinning drives now days?

    Your shopping lists are for new stuff made TODAY. I can still get SATAII hot-swap drive bays for $10. My old Antec case came with them built-in (and the case was only $90.) Do you not know how to bargain shop?

    "Safe in case of a fire?!"

    I can tell you have never dealt with computer users whom are smokers. It's really easy - ashtray catches on fire due to negligence/carelessness. No time to unplug the computer tower - just grab the fucking handle of the hot-swap drive, yank, and RUN.

    Considering I've tested and demonstrated this scenario multiple times in the past, you'd think someone would've picked up on it by now. I guess you people aren't exactly very smart when it comes to real data safety.

    But then again, you're the one advocating off-site backups, which means you don't have full 100% control. No wonder we're having so many data breaches and losses these days - stupid solutions like the one you propose just make it inevitable.

  14. Re: "Hot spare" is a give away on Western Digital Unveils First-Ever 512Gb 64-Layer 3D NAND Chip (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    I have. Apparently you've never built and tested RAID 1 *MIRRORED* drive arrays, before.

  15. Re:Interesting Anti-Apple First Posts on Apple's Ultra Accessory Connector Dashes Any Hopes of a USB-C iPhone (theverge.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    https://discussions.apple.com/...

    Considering cheap regular 30-pin to USB cables have had this problem, I knew it'd take less than TWO SECONDS OF LOOKING to find one related to Lightning.

  16. Re:One standard to rule them all on Apple's Ultra Accessory Connector Dashes Any Hopes of a USB-C iPhone (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    " It is a terrible, horrible, flaky, unreliable nightmare connector suitable for use only in disposable products. If you haven't had problems with it, then you obviously aren't being nearly as hard on your charge connectors as you are on your headphones."

    I'm harder on my connectors and devices than 99% of the population here, almost guaranteed with my highly corrosive skin excretions. I haven't had a TRS plug die on me in ages, just the internal wiring going to the jack due to shitty strain relief designs.

  17. "And when it does get thrown out, it's full of ferric ferrocyanide, which is fairly toxic."

    Ferric Ferrocyanide is bound to iron and won't bind to your blood cells due to that. It's safe and that is why it was included in pretty much every children's chemistry set to this very day. It's also an FDA-approved food additive/colorant. The only real use restriction it has is that it is not intended for cosmetics which get applied to the lips.

    Sources: Environment Canada, NLM, FDA, European Commission.

  18. " My e-reader also ‘just works’"

    Until you break your screen.

    You got any non-paper archives that have lasted several thousand years, or even a couple hundred?

    That's what I thought.

    You can't hack paper, either. Thus it's a far more secure medium for information storage.

  19. More like silicon-level change. The problem seems to be caused by a highly-biased transistor which has too thin of a gate.

  20. Re:"Hot spare" is a give away on Western Digital Unveils First-Ever 512Gb 64-Layer 3D NAND Chip (betanews.com) · · Score: 2

    "wasting a slot in your enclosure for a "hot spare" is just that — a waste. Here is my proof of it [algebra.com]"

    That's a really horrible 'proof' You keep a hot spare so you can simply yank the drive and run in case of a fire, thus your data is still safe, or if you want an off-site backup, you just yank the drive, plug the fresh one in and mirror to it, and take the drive you just pulled wherever you need to go.

    And the hot-plug bays for such a thing are like ten bucks. If you aren't going to spend even a measly $10 to improve your data redundancy, you might as well not bother with data redundancy at all.

  21. This guy is a complet4e moron! on Overwatch Director Speaks Out Against Console Mouse/keyboard Adapters (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 0

    "We have lobbied and will continue to lobby for first-party console manufacturers to either disallow mouse and keyboard and input conversion devices or openly and easily support mouse and keyboard for all players"

    The consoles DO support keyboard and mouse openly for everybody (zero problems playing UT3 on the PS3 with keyboard and mouse.) YOU fucking failed to put that support into your game, Kaplan.

  22. "Always easy to spot the liberal"

    Always easy to spot the law-breaking political fuck. You republicans, democrats, and liberals are all the same, pushing the blame elsewhere when you're to blind/lazy/stupid/retarded/cowardly to own up to your own shortcomings.

    Meanwhile, I'm the only person with any common sense. You should all go fuck yourselves.

  23. Re:Rust will be what replaces C/C++ on Mozilla Binds Firefox's Fate To The Rust Language (infoworld.com) · · Score: 2

    " Not to mention that it has even taken much longer for big changes in C++ to be adopted than Rust has existed"

    And the reason for that is TESTING. That's right, the people that made C++ actually bothered to test this shit themselves, instead of just releasing shit to people to test because they're too fucking lazy to do it themselves, like 95% of programming languages made and released today.

  24. Re: But don't worry... on Lawsuit Claims Apple Forced Users To iOS 7 By Breaking FaceTime (appleinsider.com) · · Score: 1

    No, they do not. The UI has become incredibly laggy on my fiance's 4S since iOS 8. Everything lags loading up, trying to use talk features in chat programs is a pain because of the touch UI lag, the phone's barely usable as a phone, even, because answering (again, due to UI lag) has become very difficult. Multitasking? Nope. A simple fucking image in Safari has to redownload if I go away from the browser window to another program.

    iOS is a piece of utter shit.

  25. Re:Some of the best satire on False News, Absurd Reality Present Challenges For Satirists (apnews.com) · · Score: 1

    "while at the same time ignoring political rallies being shut down by violent"

    I'm not ignoring shit. When a smug assumptive shit like you starts talking about me like you fucking know me, I have to wonder what bullshit point you're trying to make and prove.

    By the way, Libertarians, Republicans, Democrats, I hate you all. Given half a chance, I'd Nazi-punch every last one of you ignorant fucks into the ground.