If they're saying APK is right when he's wrong (in fact every browser minus IE/Edge explicitly IGNORES the OS HOSTs settings) then lol those aren't slashdotters, they're fucking APK shills.
Uh, no. We just run an array of LEDs in series to match mains voltage and just use an AC-DC rectifier, or just use the newer solid state all-in-one packages. Easier, smaller, more efficient.
" LEDs require PWM controllers, often other microprocessors, expensive metals, and hell, often a fucking fan."
Which bullshit ones are you buying? Every single LED in my home is constant current driven, has a tiny bit of bitch metal for a heatsink (excepting my aquarium LED which is extruded aluminum,) and many have lasted over a decade now. No fans. No microprocessors. No flicker. No headaches.
Sounds like you don't bother doing research on your bulbs before buying. Oh, and all my non-specialty LEDs were $0.99.
"but anyone who believes that it's going to be ten years is living in a fantasy world."
I'm looking at Greenlite LED bulbs made in 2008, still going strong at nearly 24/7 operation in my rock display cabinets.
The power supplies inside do not hold up to vibration, so they can't get used in my lapidary grinder, but they otherwise last for quite a long time. Still brighter than the newest CFL available, at just over half the power (these LED bulbs are 15W.)
"They violated the qualcomm patents because they implemented part of the modem components in software without licensing the patents qualcomm had on those components."
Sounds like you're the deluded one. Removing the need for hardware by using software is novel and unique, Qualcomm didn't do it, and thus Qualcomm shouldn't have had any fucking win related to that.
Are you too stupid to know that 5G would still require almost literally the same kind of fiber deployment? At that point, you might as well just wire fiber up to the houses (because the range on 5G is fucking DISMAL, like only as good as typical wi-fi type dismal.)
"It's the media and uninformed laymen who are screaming about AOA indication being optional; the response from the experts/authorities is generally a shrug."
No, my response (being a nearly-licensed-to-fly-alone 'expert') is that you're a fucking moron, and that this was seriously Boeing being cheap fucking bastards.
There's a reason why my friend went to work for Airbus instead of Boeing. Two words - QUALITY CONTROL.
"I have more than a few boxes of cds, many of them so badly aged that I can't read them any more"
You can flat-lap the original backing off with 1200 grit diamond abrasive, and apply a new backing. The data layer in non-CD-R(W) discs is in the plastic, not the reflective layer.
"but turning voice into text on the order of milliseconds takes quite a bit of computing power."
Uhh, Dragon Naturally Speaking worked on fucking Pentium II processors. It only takes a lot of computing power today because nobody knows how to fucking code.
I've already fucked with Windows 7 thanks to NSA releasing Ghidra. I've fixed most of the security issues, and fixed the INTENTIONAL degrading of GPU performance, and re-acquired my rightful framerate in basic fucking games like Windows ports of REGULAR DOOM (Before the update that halved the RemoteFX performance in Wndows Server 2008R2, I was getting 60+FPS in the Windows Doom port using Zandronum. After that update hit my system, I got roughly 25 FPS. This is repeatable across games like TABG, PUBG, Dead by Daylight, and more.)
Also of note, Windows 7 has a neat little backdoor. I won't say anything more than look at your Explorer process if you accepted the telemetry-enabling Win7 updates. Even if you disable Windows Update across the board with shit like group policy restrictions (on those versions which support it,) they will still infect you with updates, it's literally built-into the Explorer process itself. And without Explorer running, you can't run Windows.
Game fucking over. Microsoft has literally violated the shit oiut of the CFAA, and nobody will do a thing about it.
You fucking cowards. I stand here, about to win my 4th settlement against massive companies for violating our laws, and you hetero faggots just mill around thinking you can't risk your job because of court shit - GUESS WHAT, BY LAW THEY CAN'T FUCK YOU OVER FOR HAVING TO GO TO COURT.
Second Protip: If you can't AFFORD to file suit, the courts have you covered there, with a goddamned FEE WAIVER upon proving you don't have the income to pay for this. GET OFF YOUR FUCKING ASS AND SUE, YOU COWARDLY FUCKS.
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But it isn't SOLID PLASTIC, as I am suggesting.
Persistent malware!
When you're doing all that data slurping through the rootkit that is Easy Anti-Cheat and such.
The Chinese must love you for that, given you're already 40-ish percent owned by Tencent.
Typical 7-digit fucktard.
I can find you through all kinds of shit Android permits.
It just takes LOGIC. Something most of you fail at, and yet I've managed to make plants grow without light.
Please try again when you have an actual understanding of what you use.
"Gun Log SPC is godsend for avid shooters"
And a godsend for those wishing to possibly prove intent in a court of law.
Fucking moron, ANY data can be used against you (Hence why "anything you say can and will be used against you in a court of law.")
Stupid fucking git. Advertising your ammo capacity to the government which should have no business in your 2nd Amendment rights.
You must be one of the idiots that uses IE/Edge exclusively, because FireFox/Chrome explicitly ignores the OS HOSTs file.
If they're saying APK is right when he's wrong (in fact every browser minus IE/Edge explicitly IGNORES the OS HOSTs settings) then lol those aren't slashdotters, they're fucking APK shills.
Start printing out highly-polluting plastic receipts! That'll teach those idiots in legislature what for!
"There is literally no where on the planet that Netflix is offered where they have relay servers that far away."
Central Northern Russia, northern China, etc..
Yes, I looked.
"There's no need for 4k streaming of anything, IMO."
High-def microscopic research done remotely?
I mean, I was doing that a DECADE ago.
Uh, no. We just run an array of LEDs in series to match mains voltage and just use an AC-DC rectifier, or just use the newer solid state all-in-one packages. Easier, smaller, more efficient.
" LEDs require PWM controllers, often other microprocessors, expensive metals, and hell, often a fucking fan."
Which bullshit ones are you buying? Every single LED in my home is constant current driven, has a tiny bit of bitch metal for a heatsink (excepting my aquarium LED which is extruded aluminum,) and many have lasted over a decade now. No fans. No microprocessors. No flicker. No headaches.
Sounds like you don't bother doing research on your bulbs before buying. Oh, and all my non-specialty LEDs were $0.99.
"but anyone who believes that it's going to be ten years is living in a fantasy world."
I'm looking at Greenlite LED bulbs made in 2008, still going strong at nearly 24/7 operation in my rock display cabinets.
The power supplies inside do not hold up to vibration, so they can't get used in my lapidary grinder, but they otherwise last for quite a long time. Still brighter than the newest CFL available, at just over half the power (these LED bulbs are 15W.)
Ding ding ding, this is correct.
"They violated the qualcomm patents because they implemented part of the modem components in software without licensing the patents qualcomm had on those components."
Sounds like you're the deluded one. Removing the need for hardware by using software is novel and unique, Qualcomm didn't do it, and thus Qualcomm shouldn't have had any fucking win related to that.
Never underestimate the bandwidth of a USPS truck packed with CD-ROMs full of pirated material!
Are you too stupid to know that 5G would still require almost literally the same kind of fiber deployment? At that point, you might as well just wire fiber up to the houses (because the range on 5G is fucking DISMAL, like only as good as typical wi-fi type dismal.)
"I don't want to pay for fiber to rural homes."
Your dumb ass already did with the Telecommunications Act of 1996. And the telecom companies gave neither you nor the rural communities shit.
What now, motherfucker?
"It's the media and uninformed laymen who are screaming about AOA indication being optional; the response from the experts/authorities is generally a shrug."
No, my response (being a nearly-licensed-to-fly-alone 'expert') is that you're a fucking moron, and that this was seriously Boeing being cheap fucking bastards.
There's a reason why my friend went to work for Airbus instead of Boeing. Two words - QUALITY CONTROL.
"That's the kind of thing you're suggesting here ...."
That'd be because, you fucking dumbass, that is the actual goddamned standard procedure for in-flight troubleshooting for large aircraft.
Try again when you have a fucking pilot's license. I'm 5 solo hours away from mine.
https://www.sciencealert.com/s...
You lose, fucktard.
"I have more than a few boxes of cds, many of them so badly aged that I can't read them any more"
You can flat-lap the original backing off with 1200 grit diamond abrasive, and apply a new backing. The data layer in non-CD-R(W) discs is in the plastic, not the reflective layer.
"but turning voice into text on the order of milliseconds takes quite a bit of computing power."
Uhh, Dragon Naturally Speaking worked on fucking Pentium II processors. It only takes a lot of computing power today because nobody knows how to fucking code.
Jesus fuck, Slashdot editors. Did you fail basic elementary school math as well?
I've already fucked with Windows 7 thanks to NSA releasing Ghidra. I've fixed most of the security issues, and fixed the INTENTIONAL degrading of GPU performance, and re-acquired my rightful framerate in basic fucking games like Windows ports of REGULAR DOOM (Before the update that halved the RemoteFX performance in Wndows Server 2008R2, I was getting 60+FPS in the Windows Doom port using Zandronum. After that update hit my system, I got roughly 25 FPS. This is repeatable across games like TABG, PUBG, Dead by Daylight, and more.)
Also of note, Windows 7 has a neat little backdoor. I won't say anything more than look at your Explorer process if you accepted the telemetry-enabling Win7 updates. Even if you disable Windows Update across the board with shit like group policy restrictions (on those versions which support it,) they will still infect you with updates, it's literally built-into the Explorer process itself. And without Explorer running, you can't run Windows.
Game fucking over. Microsoft has literally violated the shit oiut of the CFAA, and nobody will do a thing about it.
You fucking cowards. I stand here, about to win my 4th settlement against massive companies for violating our laws, and you hetero faggots just mill around thinking you can't risk your job because of court shit - GUESS WHAT, BY LAW THEY CAN'T FUCK YOU OVER FOR HAVING TO GO TO COURT.
Second Protip: If you can't AFFORD to file suit, the courts have you covered there, with a goddamned FEE WAIVER upon proving you don't have the income to pay for this. GET OFF YOUR FUCKING ASS AND SUE, YOU COWARDLY FUCKS.