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  1. FDA or FCC? on Are America's Big Telecom Companies Suppressing Fiber? (salon.com) · · Score: 1

    What does the FCC have to do with us staying regular with a high fiber diet?

  2. Lenny on New Apps Fight Robo-Calls By Pretending To Be Humans (nola.com) · · Score: 4, Informative
  3. Re:Ban royalty on Ban Fortnite, Says Prince Harry (gamespot.com) · · Score: 1

    Are you sure? At least in the United States, its making a comeback.

  4. Re:This is an opportunity. Not a problem. on Automation Threatens 1.5 Million Workers In Britain, Says ONS (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Minor correction - after 200 years of automation, a lot of dumb Americans are still working 12+ hours a day. Why?

  5. They could take a page of out Facebook's AI and just self-censor itself in its entirety ;) https://tech.slashdot.org/stor...

  6. Re:Same issue with POWER on Linus Torvalds on Why ARM Won't Win the Server Space (realworldtech.com) · · Score: 1

    As an interesting aside, the original Killer NIC from Bigfoot Networks has a PowerPC chip, and can be used as an accelerator for the Amiga :

    https://hothardware.com/news/amiga-enthusiast-gets-quake-running-on-killer-nic-powerpc-processor
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P3k-6_-5ZIM

  7. Re:At this rate... on Year-Over-Year Smartwatch Sales Jumped By 61% In the US Last Year (bgr.com) · · Score: 1

    Obligatory XKCD : https://xkcd.com/605/

  8. What interviews? A lot of management types have trouble even discerning who the most capable person is from the stack of bodies they currently have reporting to them ;)

  9. Almost correct, but adaptive difficulty was first introduced into the franchise in Oblivion, not Skyrim. There are mods to turn if off.

  10. Re:Isn't that blatantly on 'Google Isn't the Company That We Should Have Handed the Web Over To' (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    That's what Pi-hole is for!

  11. Pfft... who uses that sh*t Cadence Genus/RTL Compiler and Tempus/ETS all the way! :P

  12. Re:With spinning disks, you do not know either on Why I'm Usually Unnerved When Modern SSDs Die on Us (utoronto.ca) · · Score: 2

    You must have missed how Samsung royally screwed up with the 840 and 840 EVO firmware. Or on the mechanical side of things, lookup how they messed up the SpinPoint F4's firmware and tried to hide it ;)
    Not biased against Samsung or anything, as I still have several SpinPoint F3s in service, as well as a bunch of 840 Pros and 850 EVOs.

  13. Re:Academic grades are what you can parrot! on 'What Straight-A Students Get Wrong' (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    I would correct you on one point. Your GPA in grad school DOES matter, in the sense that you are expected to get A/A- while still fulfilling your research and publication obligations.
    At least that is how it was for me during my doctorate. Not a problem as I had a 4.00 in undergraduate, and would have had a 4.00 in grad school if not for pissing off a professor in an analog IC design class.

  14. Jeez, what part of DFW? I'm in Addison / Farmers Branch and have no trouble doing 220/35 all day long with Spectrum.

  15. It is not that simple. You can't just take a pile of Verilog source, even code that runs fine on an FPGA, and slap it onto real silicon. There is a huge amount of work fitting the design to the process. Of course, you could just make a metalized gate array, but that will give you little advantage over just sticking with a core on an FPGA.

    Just place-and-route alone can be a pain in the rear, let alone functional verification, design for test, synthesis, etc.

  16. Re:Call me when they roll it back on Microsoft Releases Windows 10 Build 18290 With Start Menu Improvements (betanews.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    As someone who actually organizes and extensively uses keyboard shortcuts with the Start Menu, this writeup hits home : http://www.classicshell.net/wh...

  17. Re:Yes, That's True on Nobody's Cellphone Is Really That Secure, Bruce Schneier Reminds (theatlantic.com) · · Score: 1

    Yes there is. It's called yanking out the battery, though user replaceable batteries seem to be going the way of disco.

  18. Easy, it's called LTSB / LTSC ;)

  19. Re:Skype, there is a name I haven't heard in a lon on Microsoft Will End Support For Skype Classic In November (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    Uh, I've got bad news for you. Skype was "un-decentralized" by Microsoft when they bought it, ie. everything flows through MS' servers and gets piped straight to the NSA ;)

  20. This review nailed it :
    https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Employee-Review-WTS-Paradigm-RVW22558549.htm

    "[Pros] No positives I can think of"
    "[Cons] Work environment is so bad you literally might be shot by a co-worker"

  21. Correction : TI proper is in Dallas (on Greenville Ave) Other semicon companies in Dallas - Maxim Integrated, ON Semiconductor, Qorvo, and a few more. As for Austin, everyone's there (Intel, AMD, Broadcom/Avago, etc.)

  22. is a cube with decently high walls, or better yet an office. Who gives a damn about natural light in a open-plan sh*thole?

  23. Just bring back the classic Skype UI, and take old Yeller (Skype for Business) out back and shoot it. Yes, I am still running 7.38.0.101 (classic UI, everything still works), but who knows how long that will remain supported?

  24. Re:Are you fucking kidding me? on Judge Rules AT&T Can Acquire Time Warner (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    I don't see how it's invisible, since I can see it flipping me off!

  25. Re:Talk about male privilege on Suicide Rates Are Up 30 Percent Since 1999, CDC Says (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Herbivore men, it's a thing : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...