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  1. Re:Can I play Bioforge? on Beta Release Nears For BeOS-inspired Open Source OS Haiku (computerworld.com.au) · · Score: 1

    Haiku's support of Nvidia cards is rudimentary (no graphics acceleration) and begins at NV4. However, I'm sure Riva 128 can do standard VESA graphics, so it should work fine. Bioforge requires no hardware accelerated graphics, so VESA isn't a problem.

    Soundblaster 16 is supported.

    But for realz, if you want to play Bioforge, you should just run it using DOSBox.

  2. Stupid. on Apple Says New China Tariffs Would Boost Prices On Some Products (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    The company said the tariffs would "show up as a tax on U.S. consumers"

    It's not a mere appearance, tariffs are a tax.

    "increase the cost of Apple products that our customers have come to rely on in their daily lives."

    If you specifically rely on Apple products for your daily life then you have really fucked up by "putting all your eggs in one basket".

  3. No, I would prefer CSS to be able to load a page of subelements from the server but only when clicked. You don't need a Turing complete programming language to solve dynamic loading.

  4. AKA insecure programs executing on your computer. We seriously need to ditch this kind of shit.

  5. Re:Is it a large-scale bird grinder? on World's Largest Offshore Wind Farm Opens Off Northwest England (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    These are a set of the LARGEST turbines in the world and they are offshore. Smaller turbines that are on shore are more likely to kill birds. These will never be bird grinders, you twit.

  6. Re:Is it a large-scale bird grinder? on World's Largest Offshore Wind Farm Opens Off Northwest England (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    These turbines are gigantic and move at a slugs place, so no these will never be "bird grinders".

  7. ... And there's still a ridiculous amount of derangement.

    When there is evidence of foreign interference and it's all leaning one way then it's not a matter of psychology. At this point, it's the people like you who are denying the possibility of interference by claiming other people suffer from "derangement" (and that our national security apparatus is plotting against their favored candidate, no doubt conspiring with multiple social media platforms) who are in a psychologically questionable state.

    It is ridiculous but not in the way that you believe.

  8. Re:Duty to Country? on White House Says Anonymous 'Coward' Behind New York Times Op-Ed Should Resign (freerepublic.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    If you think the President is unable to carry out his responsibilities, you have a duty to bring about impeachment and/or invoke the 25th Amendment.

    What do you do when congress is loaded with cowards who are far more interested in keeping power than performing their sworn duties?

    Going behind the back of and trying to undermine the Chief Executive in this fashion is unprofessional, cowardly, and unconstitutional.

    Unprofessional and cowardly are arguable but it's definitely not unconstitutional. The U.S. Constitution does not demand loyalty to anyone, not even the President. In fact, the U.S. Constitution is all about the limitations put upon government. The first amendment of the U.S. Constitution exists expressly so that we can speak out in opposition of those in power.

    I suggest you read the U.S. Constitution, it's pretty great, not perfect but still quite good.

  9. Re:Yes, they should on White House Says Anonymous 'Coward' Behind New York Times Op-Ed Should Resign (freerepublic.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    For those that support this guy, you do realize he completely validated every single post anyone ever made about the Deep State, right? I mean this is as Deep State as Deep State gets.

    Except the senior administration officials were people he hired. It's not the "Deep State" if you're the dummy who hired them. Then again, were you looking for the truth or just someone to blame for this clusterfuck presidency?

  10. What the fuck does OTT stand for?
    Over The Top?
    Object Type Translator?
    Off the Truck?

    Serously, what the fuck? https://www.acronymfinder.com/...

  11. A fundamental misunderstanding. on How Can We Fix The Broken Economics of Open Source? (medium.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    There is nothing wrong with how open source works, it works fine. The problem is what some people want from open source.

    Everyone wants infrastructure software to be free and continuously developed by highly skilled professional developers (who in turn expect to make substantial salaries), but no one wants to pay for it.

    Here's the conflict, people want something for nothing and that can work out sometimes but it means you are at the mercy of people you have no control over. That said, since it is open, you can hire people that you have control over to contribute to the code. The fact that few chose to do this demonstrates a failure in leadership rather than a failure in open source.

    TL;DR: you dumbass MBAs are shortsighted nitwits who deserve to bear the responsibility for every security breach that happens under your blind-leading-the-sighted leadership.

  12. Re:Autonomous killing machines... on Google Funds A Starfish-Killing Robot To Save Australia's Great Barrier Reef (abc.net.au) · · Score: 3, Informative

    world-first robots to administer a lethal injection

    I thought, Google employees were very much against this sort of thing. And Electronic Frontier Foundation disapproves too.

    Or is it only bad, when American military works on it?

    Hmm... rudimentary environment management versus autonomous murder machines. Nope, totally the same thing!

    Yeah, sure "fish aren't humans" — will the robot (particularly, the software) require much rework to begin killing, say, enemy divers?

    it's not even fish they are killing, it's starfish! Starfish have a very distinct shape and move very slowly. You would need to completely rewrite all the computer vision software to have it kill any divers, much less enemy divers.

  13. Re:Let's talk about debt and committment on 30% of America's Student Loan Borrowers Can't Keep Up After Six Years (cnbc.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Stupid decisions should be painful, so as to teach people not to do them anymore.

    This implies that attending college is a stupid decision. However, there is significant evidence to the contrary.

    Honestly, someone should hit you upside the head for submitting that post because stupid decisions should be painful.

  14. Definitive answer: on Will Future Nuclear Power Plants Float? (thebulletin.org) · · Score: 1

    If they are made of wood or weigh as much as a duck then they will float. ;)

  15. Hmm... sure seems like they haven't changed.

  16. I would consider relying on Oracle to a threat to national security. Seriously, those bastards would gladly shut down vital server in the midst of a war over licensing fees.

  17. What's better than a new UI? on Google Is Revamping the Wear OS Smartwatch UI (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Add some useful functionality. Seriously, make it actually useful for something. Right now it's not even a good timepiece.

  18. Re:The false drives out the true on 'It Is a Challenging Time for the Internet: We Must Not Let It Be Undermined' (internetsociety.org) · · Score: 1

    Biological determinism?

    It's in fact not deterministic because it has been shown that how we react can be modified with a great deal of effort.

    Down that path lies the third rail of discussions about IQ

    This has nothing to do with intellect and everything to do with 25% of the population being cowards when threatened.

  19. Re:The false drives out the true on 'It Is a Challenging Time for the Internet: We Must Not Let It Be Undermined' (internetsociety.org) · · Score: 1

    The false can drive out the true, because it can be crafted to play to people's wants and needs and prejudices.

    This is a problem. Does it have a solution?

    I believe the actual problem here is people with oversized right amygdalas. The right amygdala is where fear is processed so people with these give too much weight to fear for high-order executive decisions. The result being humans that are easy to manipulate with the use of fear. Fox News has mastered this use of fear to hook nearly every prejudice and in return give viewers new ones prejudices.

    It's a recessive trait, so a simple gene therapy could eliminate it in all new generations. It won't fix everything but it will improve the situation. I also believe this would also vastly reduce the number of police shootings.

  20. I heard it's fast enough that it can run Crysis.

  21. *facepalm* You extracted precisely the incorrect meaning.

  22. Express your ideas with the mediums you have, not the mediums you want.

  23. Verizon's Moto on Yahoo, Bucking Industry, Scans Emails for Data To Sell Advertisers (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    Verizon: sociopathy!

  24. Re:I have no issue with this on After Court Order, 3D-Printed Gun Pioneer Now Sells Pay-What-You-Want CAD Files (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Trying to hide knowledge never protected anyone from anything.

    It's prevented terrorists from building and detonating a nuclear bomb.

    There are exceptions to every rule.

  25. Re:an "Open" internet on Internet Groups Urge US Court To Reinstate 'Net Neutrality' Rules (reuters.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    an open internet that only we can censor, de-platform, shadow-ban, and control. We're "neutral" platforms after all.

    With or without network neutrality, all those problems still exist. In fact, without network neutrality all those problem become even worse because giant corps can afford to pay off ISPs while your tiny startup would easily flounder under the weight restricted networking.

    You can create your own totally open platform and put the server on the internet but what you cannot do is force people to use it. It might surprise you but it's not your everyday decent folk that are flocking to "gab.io".