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    Amazon Announces Plan to Fight Counterfeits

    That's why it's called Project Zero: Amazon gives zero fucks about counterfeits.
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    Researchers Find a 19 Year Old Bug In WinRAR

    Except, compiling the DLL with ASLR or DEP would have absolutely no effect in this bug. There is no reason for the researchers to even mention ASLR or DEP, except to play Buzzword Bingo. Fortunately, the .ace archive format was never widely adopted (if it was ever adopted at all). According...
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    Windows 10 Will Finally Offer Easy Access to Linux Files

    Microsoft doesn't want Linux users to be left out of the fun. Windows 10 corrupted two of my hard drives last week. Only the 5th or 6th time that has happened in the last couple of years (compared to zero times with Windows 7). Fortunately, I'm extremely anal about doing backups, but...
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    The 16GB of HBM2 on the Radeon VII Is Needed for Real World 4K Video Production

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    AMD Can't Shake Off US Class-Action Lawsuit over Bulldozer "8-Core" Advertising

    Windows reports your hardware configuration just fine. What you are talking about is something completely different. The amount of RAM you have installed (actual physical RAM) and how much of it is actually usable by you, is not the same. The OS has to use some of it in order to function...
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    Win 7 Pro unstable...Which OS should I install?

    I have used Acronis TrueImage for backup/restore for almost 10 years and what you are describing is . . . . . . . insane. I can boot from a USB thumbdrive with Acronis on it, and do a full system restore, pulling in the backup image from an external hard drive, in less than 20 minutes total...
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    Jack Black's YouTube Gaming Channel Hits 1 Million Subs with Only One Video

    Years ago, Adam Corolla was asked "What's the secret to a successful podcast?" "Be famous"
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    OLED monitor news

    Yes. For 4K, anything less than 32" is just too small and cramped. Probably need a minimum of 40" for 8K.
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    Mozilla CEO: Microsoft's Adoption of Chromium Is "Terrible" for the Web

    He's right, but, he's also partly to blame for this problem. Mozilla has spent the past few years destroying everything that made Firefox popular in the first place and driving users away.
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    Seagate Debuts First 16TB Hard Drive

    Wow. That's a lot of porn. Until we get 8K. Then, I'll need two.
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    Bing Flags VLC's Official Site as Dangerous

    Sort of like Ask Jeeves, but worse.
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    3dfx Voodoo 5 6000

    Oh the good old days :) and a Viewsonic monitor, too ;)
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    Intel CPUs Are Vulnerable to New PortSmash Side-Channel Exploit

    Don't see too many guys named Billy Bob in Finland.
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    Western Digital Announces 15TB Hard Drive

    Wow. That's a lot of porn.
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    The Verge Ridiculed for "How We Built a $2000 Custom Gaming PC" Video

    I do run a semiconductor fab out of my bedroom, you insensitive jerk. :p:cool::)
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