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    A Reminder from AMD: Our Processors Aren't Affected by New "SPOILER" Vulnerability

    Easy - we've been burned before. You know, maybe the current AMD processors really are that good. But way back when, I bough tin to the "XP +" hype from AMD and built an AMD system. Probably my shortest lived desktop. I even went ATI instead of nVidia for the video card - and with Linux and...
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    Footage Shows a Click Farm in Action

    Oh it can - Dave Jones at EEVBlog on YouTube has done a couple of videos on the subject of pair for likes and dislikes, using examples where it has happened to him, and the YouTube analytics shows large masses of the dislikes coming from certain areas such as Vietnam, and compared to his typical...
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    US Bans Cargo Shipments of Lithium-Ion Batteries on Passenger Planes

    Storing LiPo batteries fully charged isn't good for the battery anyway. I'm sorry if you feel inconvenienced when your new device isn't 90% or better charged fresh out of the box. If anything, this will speed development of the next new battery technology. The energy density is lower, but I've...
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    Pennsylvania Legislators Re-introduce Bill to Tax Mature-Rated Video Games

    Philadelphia already does, with a "soda tax" that really only affects the poor who can't easily shop outside the city limits. This guy he's an idiot. Delaware County, yeah, that explains a lot. He's my age, but perhaps he led a sheltered life. He ought to remember when "video game" meant Pong...
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    YouTube Is Trying to Prevent Angry Mobs from Abusing "Dislike" Button

    There have been plenty of verifiable examples of both paid likes and paid dislikes. It's even obvious from the metrics, so they COULD do something about this even with automation. At least for relatively large channels - sorry, your subscriber base doesn't suddenly go from less than 1% of your...
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    Scammers Blackmail YouTubers with Copyright Claims

    That would help, I suppose. So would doing away with the completely useless DMCA and putting in place some actual reasonable copyright laws. Alas this too will never happen so long as Hollywood and the RIAA can lavish millions on Congresscritters.
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    Tesla Model 3 Owners Vent about Polar Vortex Affecting Cars

    Exactly what I came here to post. Last thing I would do if I had to park outside and/or on the street all the time would be to buy a $60K+ car. OK, I lie, I probably wouldn't buy a $60K car period - I DRIVE a car that cost that much new, but I bought it used for less than half that. It's cold...
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    Apple: You Can't Sue Us for Slowing Down Your iPhones Because We're "Contractors"

    In the meantime my daily drive 5S still works just fine..... SOmetimes I wonder what people do to their phones that kills them in short order. Besides the usual dropping types of things. For grins I dug out my old 3 and charged it up to see if it still worked - hey, waddayaknow, it does. It's...
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    Tesla Rival Nio Causes Traffic Jam as Software Upgrade Incapacitates Smart Car

    What? I've owned two different '99 BMWs (a 328 and a 540), a 2003 (X3), and my current car is a 2012 (135). They've all had the same central locking system that has been in BMWs for ages. If the doors are locked - you just pull the door handle twice and it lets you out!
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    Microsoft Highlights Xbox Adaptive Controller Users in New Super Bowl Commercial

    Such is the way of the world today, it seems. Extremism is EVERYWHERE. I hate Microsoft, because they did X, therefore, EVERYTHING Microsoft does is just for greedy profit mongering. No, that's not how it works. But that's how everyone ACTS these days. I was going to say it started with...
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    Tesla Rival Nio Causes Traffic Jam as Software Upgrade Incapacitates Smart Car

    Why in the hell is there EVER a reason making the door handle electrical? Not just this one, the Caddy XLR (which is just a Caddy Vette, the Vette has the same system) as well. Who does that and thinks it's a cool feature to have? Emergency release or not, the whole idea is just a problem in...
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    Terabyte-Using Cable Customers Double, Increasing Risk of Data Cap Fees

    Simple - the data link providers are also content providers and they don't really want people switching to streaming, they want people to keep using their content. Which is also why you see many providers not count the traffic streamed from THEIR services as part of your monthly usage. This will...
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    Upcoming Chromium Update Could Make Ad Blockers Less Effective

    I think I just found a use for the old Atom SFF box I built a bunch of years ago - heck it already has Ubuntu on it, so pihole here I come.
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    Upcoming Chromium Update Could Make Ad Blockers Less Effective

    Always use a VPN back through your home network, instead of just using whatever public connection you find. That's one way of solving the problem.
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    YouTube Bans Dangerous Challenges and Pranks Videos

    I guess Electroboom will have to pretty much shut down his entire channel now. I can only dream that some day there will be a company that stands up against this removal of personal responsibility instead of just caving, but clearly anything Google-related will not be it.
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    PremiSys IDenticard System Vendor Ignores Security Researcher Findings

    This stuff really shouldn't surprise anyone who has worked in IT for any length of time. If I had a dollar for every time I saw an application where everyone connected to the database as SA, or even when there was a dedicated group for access, it was assigned the sysadmin role at the server...
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    Future Windows 10 Builds Will Reserve Storage and Tabulate It

    You have to be doing more than just a 'few' extra things. My work lappy has a 250 GB SSD. Shows as 237GB usable space. I currently have 150GB free space. This machine has Windows 10 1803 along with all of Office 2016, Visio, Visual Studio, SQL Server, Hyper-V (the VMs are on another drive...
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    Intel Mixes Atom, Core and 3D Stacking in Lakefield

    I only ever built on Atom system, but my experience is completely opposite what others have said. I built a SFF cube system to run my model railroad. Pre-affordable SSD days, and actually I went with a 5400 RPM drive for power savings. I initially was going to run Windows on it, but thought...
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    Microsoft Wants to Kill Passwords, Starting with Windows 10

    SO why did you sign up your personal phone for the 2FA, instead of registering your work phone? Since you reference a personal phone that would tend to lead one to believe you have a work phone as well. I gave up on that crap years ago, I hate carrying a whole bunch of different devices around...
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    An Analysis of the Z390 Socket Proves the Extra Pins Aren't Necessary

    Glad to see there are some actual engineers here who "get it" and don;t just jump on the "Intel is trying to bilk us" bandwagon. And no, EE and ME coursework do not overlap, despite the old joke that ME is just EE without the imaginary numbers. A car analogy that might work. So the car...
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    Ultima Thule Looks Like a Peanut

    First Jimmy Carter builds a railroad car Then he actually build a space ship? Whoa!
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    Ultima Thule Looks Like a Peanut

    Remember, the entire world rides on the backs of the space elephants. They just have to convince the giant space turtle to head towards the peanuts.
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    Star Control: Origins Has Been Removed from Stores Due to DMCA Take Down Notice

    This is why the original system gave you TWENTY EIGHT YEARS. MORE than enough. This extending into perpetuity is nothing more than a gift to giant corporations like Disney - how is continuing to copyright Mickey Mouse benefiting Walt Disney, who's been dead almost as long as I've been alive? 14...
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    Streaming Is on a Collision Course with ISP Data Caps

    Makes me glad to love where I do - in the Northeast. I've really had no problems with Comcast - other than the idiot tech who was ready to re-wire the hardest to replace cable in my house because he stuck his test equipment on the line from the pole BEFORE the lightning arrestor which was the...
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    Credit Card Chips Fail to Halt Fraud, Survey Says

    Let's get the REAL statistics, shall we? Chip and pin does nothing when the store does not have a working chip reader. Still FAR too many places have a note taped over the chip slot telling you to swipe. I once played around with credit card terminals for a project we did where I used to work...
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    Apple Devices Bricked By Helium Leak

    Ovenizing a quartz crystal for temperature stability is not small, cheap, or easy. It's not an alternative to using MEMS components, not at all.
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    Apple Revitalizes the iPad Lineup and Announces New Mac Mini and MacBook Air

    Not that I was considering it, but $150 price jump across all models for what? Face ID? I have the previous 10.5" iPad Pro. SLIGHT CPU performance increase, almost 2x on graphics (claimed) - well, I don't play any heavy duty games on it anyway. ANd face recognition instead of fingerprint. Seems...
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    Italy Fines Apple and Samsung for Performance Degrading Updates

    So, you've made my point then. Why is is Apple or Samsung's fault for trying to run new software on hardware that doesn't necessarily meet the system requirements? The OS upgrades aren't forced, you don't HAVE to install the latest one. If application vendors stop writing apps that work with the...
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    Italy Fines Apple and Samsung for Performance Degrading Updates

    Same with me, I'm still using a 5S. Because it still works fine, I haven;'t notices any issues since installing IOS 12 update, and it does what I need it to do. How much faster can I read my email or make a phone call? OK, so newer games are kind of slow - well, I don;t play many games on my...
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    YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki Opposes EU Article 13 Copyright Legislation

    Copyright laws are badly in need of revision, especially as it keeps getting extended to far beyond the original intent. It WAS to protect the creator - now it protects the corporations. This EU proposal is a step int he wrong direction. Again. That said, in the end I predict this is all just...
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    Study Finds That Taking Selfie Pics in Dangerous Situations Is on the Rise

    Think of it as evolution in action -Larry Niven
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    Amazon Raises Minimum Wage to $15 for All US Employees

    Let me just leave this here. Yes, it was required for my Engineering degree. It was, as far as I know, required for just about EVERY major. With such a high demand, Engineering majors took it as a Spring course, whereas Business majors took it as a Fall semester course (so their first semester...
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    Solar Roadways Aren't Worth the Investment

    Nope, not EVER. Because if you had these amazing cheap solar panels to do this they'd still generate an even BETTER ROI if installed on buildings or elsewhere such that they could be placed at the optimal angle for the latitude, AND where they wouldn't be shaded by rush hour traffic every day.
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    Everyone Should Be Terrified of Amazon’s Alexa Microwave

    Werd! Fried leftover spaghetti is AWESOME. My washer died over the weekend, now I need a new one. All of the new ones use some crazy ass computerized timer system and half of them can notify you of status through an app. NO NO NO. The simple electromechanical timer is the only thing that HASN'T...
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    Copytrack Announces Image Monitoring Deal

    And they make their money off the backs of the accused? So they have great incentives to consider something as infringing when evidence is circumstantial at best, and absolutely no incentive to improve their accuracy. Copyright has gotten way too out o hand. No, i don;t want my stuff stolen and...
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    EU Wants to Scrap Seasonal Time Changes

    This is what has always bugged me, especially when there is a claim that it "saves energy". How, exactly, does it save energy when the time is such that you need to turn on all the lights int he morning, AND turn on all the lights as soon as you get home? Wouldn't it save more energy if you had...
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    WIndows Interrupts Chrome and Firefox to Promote Edge

    Considering Google keeps prompting me to install Chrome when I use Edge - even though I already have Chrome installed on the same machine....
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    Startup Claims Solid State Battery Breakthrough

    Seems a Taiwanese company called ProLogium already has a similar thing. Great Scott did a video on them: Energy density is lower than lipo, but you can bend these thing, even cut them without them blowing up, and they even still work with chunks cut out. http://www.prologium.com/index.aspx
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    GoFundMe Homeless Vet Scammers Get Visit from Johnny Law

    Exactly. The days of "ZOMG!!! BMW!!!! They must be FILTHY RICH to afford that" are long past, plenty of mundane cars have caught up in cost, and even surpassed them. The brand of car has absolutely no bearing on it. A new car of any type is a scumbag move and pretty damn obvious considering they...
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    Wireless Carriers Begin Using Differentiation to Throttle Youtube and Netflix

    Yes, it is up to you to decide how to use the bandwidth you pay for, but most of us here are not so stupid as to stream the 4K version of a video to devices that can barely do 1080. The general public, who makes up FAR more of the user base than the entirety of this user base however, is...
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