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  1. Re:This is telling on Microsoft Wants You To Trade Your MacBook Air In For a Surface Pro 3 · · Score: 1

    From watching the TV show Arrow, I've learned that Microsoft tablets are used for hacking into various corporate and 3-letter agencies.

  2. Re:Two things every bubble has in common... on The Bursting Social Media Advertising Bubble · · Score: 1

    or, with AdBlock et al, we have no eyeballs, instead of the fake ones :)

  3. Re:Overclocking is Recommended? on Open-Source NVIDIA Driver Steps Up Its Game & Runs Much Faster · · Score: 2

    BIOSes would generally set it to a default, low clock-speed.
    This is for setting it to the proper (non-overclocked) speed.

  4. Re:Early 2020s? on Construction of World's Largest Telescope Finally Underway in Chile · · Score: 1

    First Light slated for 2022, regular operation later.

    Expect a grand First Light party, not dissimilar to First Frost parties (gifts optional)

  5. Re:Seems Legit on NASA Funds Projects For Asteroid-Capture Plan · · Score: 1

    Came here specifically for this comment :)

  6. Re:Dog and the Car on NASA Funds Projects For Asteroid-Capture Plan · · Score: 1

    (they specified platinum, but there are probably plenty of others)

    Almost any platinum-group metals will be desired and mined if they can get to it.

  7. Re:So how is that going to work on Chinese Vendor Could Pay $34.9M FCC Fine In Signal-Jammer Sting · · Score: 1

    You don't have authorization to operate radio equipment in those bands, thus, no you should not be able to get one.

    Technically, "operate" and "own" are two different concepts, no?

  8. Re:First Amendment to what? on Google and Facebook Can Be Legally Intercepted, Says UK Spy Boss · · Score: 1

    [..] apparently to the surprise of some of its citizens, the US constitution does dot apply to other countries like the UK

    You misspelled the word "most" ...

  9. Re:I just use a real Android device on Android Needs a Simulator, Not an Emulator · · Score: 2

    I have my jolla development set up to simply send any program I working on straight to a phone, and run there as part of the compile+run procedure.

    With SSH access, QTCreator is basically SSH'ing in, deploying+running the app, and giving feedback straight back to my screen, while I have a separate shell running with SSH into the phone and while I'm reviewing the behaviour of the app directly on the phone.

    No need for simulators, emulators or other -mulators :)

  10. Re:yuck epresso on How To Make Espresso In Space · · Score: 1

    I never got the whole syrup thing. Coffee needs no flavoring. It has a flavor already. Its flavor is called COFFEE.

    It is also called several other things, most of which are profanities too harsh for the majority of the inter-tubes.

  11. Re:It's gonna be funny when our cellphone Internet on EU, South Korea Collaborate On Superfast 5G Standards · · Score: 1

    ...is consistently faster than our wired home connections.

    My VDSL connection (Belgacom) is slower than my 4G-LTE connection (Belgacom).

    Nope, nut funny, really.

  12. Re:Choice of vendor on Russian RD-180 Embargo Could Boost American Rocket Industry · · Score: 1

    you're not - you're buying the engines.

  13. Re:I'm gonna assign a unique IP address to each at on Microsoft Runs Out of US Address Space For Azure, Taps Its Global IPv4 Stock · · Score: 1

    Actually, why not solve it for all time? Given the estimate of 10^80 particles in the universe, then moving to 266 bit addressing (i.e. 80/log(2)) would allow each particle to be addressed individually. Bumping to 512 bit addressing would accommodate the typical logical addressing inefficiencies.

    Yeah, that'll work great, until we discover multiple universes...

  14. Re:PCworld doesn't honor unsubscribes on LinkedIn Spam Lawsuit Can Continue · · Score: 1

    Write to them, ask if there is a preferred contact at their legal department that should be referenced in a potential suit :)

  15. Re:Everyone's Personal Email Server on After Non-Profit Application Furor, IRS Says It's Lost 2 Years Of Lerner's Email · · Score: 1

    In a democracy, whether you voted for them or not, they are still your government, and they are still supposed to represent you.

  16. Re:Oh Well There's Your Problem on After Non-Profit Application Furor, IRS Says It's Lost 2 Years Of Lerner's Email · · Score: 1

    Same at a previous employer - they stated directly that backup/archiving rules set by the company were to minimize legal exposure during discovery.

  17. Re:Units! on Samsung Debuts Thin Galaxy Tab S With Super AMOLED 2560X1600 Display · · Score: 1

    Mediamarkt Belgium indexes their TVs in cm, but then provides details in inches :)

  18. Re:Captain something or other on NVIDIA Is Better For Closed-Source Linux GPU Drivers, AMD Wins For Open-Source · · Score: 1

    Has recently been renamed to Captain Puerto Rico.

  19. Re:Units! on Samsung Debuts Thin Galaxy Tab S With Super AMOLED 2560X1600 Display · · Score: 1

    I've travelled to quite a few European countries (I'm European), and most places, electronics-stores give screen-sizes in centimeters, not inches. Is more prevalent in east-european countries.

  20. Re:Run a completely new OS? on HP Unveils 'The Machine,' a New Computer Architecture · · Score: 1

    Working on the NonStop(tm) platform makes people's head hurt ... including the HP Support teams supporting it (a former customer preferred having me doing system stuff, instead of letting the people from HP touch it).

  21. Re:Still relevant nowadays? on Mesa 10.2 Improves Linux's Open-Source Graphics Drivers · · Score: 1

    Thank you!
    I knew there was cause to stay with /. still :)

  22. Re:Still relevant nowadays? on Mesa 10.2 Improves Linux's Open-Source Graphics Drivers · · Score: 1

    Big thank you!
    I knew there was cause to stay with /. still :)

  23. Re: ...if impurity levels grow with time. on Greenland Is Getting Darker · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Cannot figure out if you're being serious or not ..

    Am fairly sure no-one is spreading sand across Greenland, in the same way they do on the streets of Winnipeg Canada [sic].

  24. Re:Yes, good idea. on Fixing China's Greenhouse Gas Emissions For Them · · Score: 1

    I was contemplating a job-opening in Shanghai, briefly, but decided against it specifically due to health-concerns in relation to the general air-quality.

    Observation: I currenlt live in a European city, with yearly smog-warnings.

  25. Re:Still relevant nowadays? on Mesa 10.2 Improves Linux's Open-Source Graphics Drivers · · Score: 1

    you're doing OpenGL in QtQuick2? Is that even, uhm, sane? :)
    Any links to (open source) examples would be welcome, as I had a look recently, and simply got scared.

    Disclaimer: I use QML et al to develop a Jolla app, and have another app in an early planning stage, where I still need to figure out how to make nice graphs.