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  1. Don't Throw the Baby out with the Bathwater on IEEE-USA Criticizes Failure To Reform The H-!B Program (ieee.org) · · Score: 1

    Nail the slimy fuckers (Infosys, Wipro, Tata), and leave the rest of us legitimate H1B folks alone. Full disclosure : BS + PhD here in the US, H1B for ~3 years, now a permanent resident.

  2. Re:Everything ... everything is conspiring. on Ask Slashdot: Why Are There No Huge Leaps Forward In CPU/GPU Power? · · Score: 1

    Depending on your perspective, decaps are actually higher-frequency shorts (Z = 1/jwC) and are for cutting down on noise from digital blocks.

  3. As much as 4.4GHz? There are a ton of us running overclocked Sandys (2500K/2600K/2700K) at 4.7 - 5GHz. Comparing balls-to-the-walls overclocked Sandy and Kabylake parts (non-HT vs non-HT, HT vs HT), you'll see at most ~30% more absolute performance assuming a slight clockspeed advantage to Kaby.

  4. Re:Movies. on ISPs Finally Abandon The Copyright Alert System (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    Nothing wrong with good 'ol DVDDecrypter. I still use it to this day.

  5. No Shit Sherlock! on Study Finds Link Between Profanity and Honesty (neurosciencenews.com) · · Score: 1

    No Shit Sherlock!

  6. It didn't get a single torrent correct even with about 3,000 being seeded from a test IP.

  7. iWipe will just be a ripoff of the two seashells...

  8. You forgot Franklin's...

  9. Re:Yeah, but Broadwell-E 8-core procs run at 3.2GH on AMD Says Upcoming Zen CPU Will Outperform Intel Broadwell-E (hothardware.com) · · Score: 1

    You DO get the point of an IPC comparison, no?

  10. Agreed. Too many people take the BS shortcuts, ie. "A is healthy, B is bad, etc." Just eat what the f*ck you want, while obeying the cardinal rules : 1) cals in = cals out 2) IIFYM (if it fits your macros) Think of it like food budgeting, but with cals instead of $$$. You will naturally gravitate towards more filling but less calorie dense foodstuffs (greens, etc.). Those also happen to have the vitamins, etc. that you need. /donedeal

  11. Re:Angry PC Users? on Microsoft Losing Ground On Windows Store and UWP For Gaming · · Score: 1

    512GPU eh? How many Bungholio Marks does it score?

  12. Eudora? on Replacement For Mozilla Thunderbird? · · Score: 1

    Surprised no one has mentioned Eudora? Still using Eudora Pro 7.0.1.9 day to day for the last decade.

  13. Bet It Can't Limbo on MIT Researchers Develop 'Real Steel' Robot With Human-Like Reflexes · · Score: 1

    Like the real Hermes Conrad ;) http://s2.dmcdn.net/h1Bu/526x2...

  14. Magic of Metamaterials? on Bringing Back the Magic In Metamaterials · · Score: 1

    It's called bandgap engineering yo...

  15. Repost of a Good Quote from /. on IT Workers Training Their Foreign Replacements 'Troubling,' Says White House · · Score: 1

    The problem in the U.S. is not people who don't have skills. People have skills. The problem is that skills aren't valued. If you have skills, you will get paid shit. If you manipulate money, you will get paid a lot. This is why there's been such a geek brain drain into the financial industry. The U.S. does not value working for a living. We value gambling for a living.

  16. Re:I hope they realize... on 13% of CompSci Grads Have Starting Salaries Over $100K · · Score: 1

    Crap, meant to say ~$150K, maybe even closer to $200K.

  17. Re:I hope they realize... on 13% of CompSci Grads Have Starting Salaries Over $100K · · Score: 1

    It's not so much being flippant as it is being sad reality.
    ~$250K is the "new" true starting 6-figure income
    $100K isn't sh*t nowadays (eg. IC physical design jobs have been hovering around $100K since 2000. Don't tell me inflation has not taken its toll in the last decade and a half)

  18. DirectX 12 on First Windows 10 RTM Candidate Appears · · Score: 1

    That's pretty much the most compelling reason to switch to Windows10.
    Otherwise I'm peachy with my customized Win7x64 installs.

  19. Re: I lost interest when I saw brisket on When Nerds Do BBQ · · Score: 1

    I take it you've never tried Pecan Lodge in Dallas, or Franklin's in Austin?

  20. Re:From the article... on When Will Your Hard Drive Fail? · · Score: 1

    Simple. If you can afford the time, stress test a disk before putting it into use.
    I do this for all "new to me" (ie. new or used) drives. It better pass two rounds of back-to-back sector scan + zero fill without so much as farting in SMART, or I don't use it.

  21. Re:When do we get a real boost over 2013 speeds? on Intel Releases Broadwell Desktop CPUs: Core i7-5775C and i5-5675C · · Score: 1

    Wait another half a decade. A Haswell 4770K maxed out at ~4.5GHz (typical max if you do not delid) works out to be ~= 5.6GHz Nehalem i7. This is absolute crap if you consider that it was pretty much 5 years from Nehalem to Haswell, but I needed to upgrade some machines (i7 920 @ 4.1GHz) so went with Haswell and got only a 37% boost in absolute OCed performance for my trouble.

  22. Nanophotonic WG on Stanford Researchers Make Photonic Components Faster, With Algorithmic Design · · Score: 2

    The waveguide has a very small cross-section. Wonder how they coupled fiber to the ports. End-fire coupling directly to a fiber would be horrendously inefficient, since minimizing coupling loss requires both a good spatial overlap of the mode profiles and a good match of the effective refractive indices in the two waveguides.

  23. The only thing sagging are my 90 y/o grandmother's tits. We're working harder, longer and producing more per hour than any time in history (giggity)

  24. Head Up Ass on Samsung's SSD 840 Read Performance Degradation Explained · · Score: 1

    It's taking them ages to admit that the vanilla 840 has the same problem. Just like the silent data corruption firmware problem with their 2TB Spinpoint F4, which they purported to have fixed (just like the 840 EVO). Now before you mark me as a troll / flamebait, know that I do like some of Samsung's storage products. I have a bunch of 1TB Spinpoint F1, 1TB Spinpoint F3 and 512GB 840 Pro drives, all performing brilliantly and reliably.

  25. Yet Another SJW Article? on How To Increase the Number of Female Engineers · · Score: 0, Troll

    Do we really need another one of these?