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  1. How long until site owners start howling about their ads not rendering before the content the user actually cares about?

  2. Re:Those Bastids at Fark Rick-Rolled me! on April Fool's Day Roundup · · Score: 1

    You'll get over it.

  3. Where are the benchmarks? on Modders Get Intel's Coffee Lake CPUs To Run On Incompatible Motherboards (pcgamer.com) · · Score: 0

    Could you atleast attempt to prove that this mod is a worthwhile effort by posting some benchmark scores. I'm guessing these systems aren't stable enough to run most benchmarking suites reliably and even if they do the scores won't be much better than the same class of chip that Intel spec'd for that generation of motherboard.

  4. There is only one valid reason for this switch on Munich Plans New Vote on Dumping Linux For Windows 10 (techrepublic.com) · · Score: 1

    If your organization fully adopts Windows 10 then you can boot up anywhere in the world that offers internet connectivity and securely be connected to your corporate 'mother ship' with absolutely zero end-user expertise. Sure, linux gurus can achieve the same functionality with minimal effort but once again Microsoft wins the usability wars, IMHO.

  5. Additional detectors? on New Kind of Gravitational Wave Source Detected? (nature.com) · · Score: 1

    When the first LIGO detections were confirmed there was mention in the news that additional LIGO sites, potentially in Europe, were in the planning phase. Anyone have a source that discusses the timeline for additional LIGO sites coming online?

  6. Re:How is Satya still CEO? on 'Windows 10 Is Failing Us' (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    Have you checked the stock price of MSFT over the course of Satya's tenure as CEO? You may not love him bit the shareholders sure do.

  7. Okay, so it is time to design a device to detect an overvoltage condition on any external I/O pin and sound a LOUD audible alert and/or send an administrative alert over Wi-Fi. Will this add cost? Yes of course, but we live in an era where the cost is justified for those who deploy electronics in public spaces.

  8. Re:Wishful thinking... on Sega Saturn's DRM Cracked Almost 23 Years After Launch (gamasutra.com) · · Score: 1

    You would need a USB stick that implemented a secondary device to uniquely identify the USB stick to avoid piracy. Implementing something like ARM TrustZone in a USB secondary function device would seem to suit this purpose nicely. Games downloaded to your USB stick could then only be used when that particular USB stick is physically present on your gaming system.

  9. Re:$1 billion for staying on a search bar on Google Twists the Knife, Asks For Sanctions Against Oracle Attorney (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Google built a better mousetrap and the world beat a path to their door.

  10. You don't have to use keurig brand cups on Keurig Spends 10 Years Developing A Recyclable Coffee Cup (boston.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    These k-cup compatible pods are ~90% biodegradable. Keurig should license their design post haste.

  11. So if SpaceX fails, the taxpayer picks up the cost, with the billions we invested unlikely to ever be repaid. But if SpaceX succeeds, they reap the profits?

    My good fellow, you do realize that if YOU are capable of offering launch services that are as reliable and cost effective as SpaceX that you could underbid them and reap those profits yourself, right? So unless you command a fleet of orbital launch capable vehicles I suggest you STFU and GTFO.

  12. Don't tell Donald Trump! on Clinton Campaign Chair: 'The American People Can Handle The Truth' On UFOs (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    Can you imagine the wall Donald Trump would want built if he believed extra terrestrials were real? I'd kind of like to hear him explain how he would get them to pay for the construction costs.

  13. Hackers ruining our infrastructure on What's Frying the Electrical Systems On BART Trains? (ieee.org) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Which nation-state is sponsoring the hacking crew that will inevitably be blamed for this issue?

  14. VR is the hot new thing on Lens-Free Flat Cameras Make Use of Pinhole Technology (npr.org) · · Score: 2

    So make a headband 360 degree camera to capture video you can view with your VR headset. Also, make police officers wear these instead of the silly badgecams they currently use.

  15. Dr Strangelove on Debating a Ban On Autonomous Weapons (thebulletin.org) · · Score: 2

    -OR-

    how /. forgot about the nasty downside of an autonomous doomsday devie.

  16. Re:Given a choice in the 70's on Gene Roddenberry's Floppy Disks Recovered (pcworld.com) · · Score: 1

    How many linefeeds does it take to advance an entire ream of fanfold paper through a printer? No more paper, no more logging.

  17. I won't pick favorites here, I'll just mention that connected mobile devices go obsolete much faster than vehicles and vehicle manufacturers only care about vehicles they have already sold as long as some regulatory body makes them care. What I would like to see is an open standard for wireless display+input devices that can be a second screen for the mobile device that just about everyone has in their pocket these day. That way you can actually pay off that 6 year car loan before your factory infotainment system is completely worthless so long as you update/upgrade your "phone" on a regular basis.

    Yes, "phone" because who the hell makes voice calls anymore?

  18. Considering how crappy the default music player for Android is I wish WinAmp would really whip my smartphones ass.

  19. Or perhaps she is taking a round about way of saying that funding cuts have reduced NASA to the ranks of The Cutters in the race for extra-orbital manned space exploration.

  20. Starting a flame war with people who try to out-brag each other with regard to who has seen the worst racetrack collision up close and personal isn't worth your time. Some of them might actually be red-state congress-critters that would take no pause in going after what little funding NASA has left.

  21. Distributed work on Microsoft To Provide New Encryption Algorithm For the Healthcare Sector · · Score: 1

    Encrypting data using a homomorphic encryption scheme allows for meaningful computation on the encrypted data producing the results of the computation in encrypted form, without the need for decrypting it or requiring access to the decryption key.

    How long until someone comes up with a blockchain scheme that pays out for computational work done on encrypted data sets?

  22. Re:Work for free!! on $1 Bid Wins Government Open Source Software Purchasing Experiment (gsa.gov) · · Score: 5, Interesting

    If it builds your reputation then you will likely have additional customers looking to hire you at much more reasonable rates.

  23. Re:Wat? on Morocco's Solar Power Mega-Project (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    They ideally situated for solar plants like that.

    Am I the only one that thinks the combination of precision mirrors/optics and Saharan sand storms might not be a good combination?

  24. Re:Because evolution doesn't exist on 3D-Printed Teeth Can Kill 99% of Dental Bacteria (thestack.com) · · Score: 1

    Since "quats" are already used extensively as sanitizers in the health care and commercial food processing industries its possible that it has already contributed to the evolution of existing superbugs like MSRA. Now please excuse me while I autoclave my tinfoil hat...