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It's on its way, should be there tuesday. ygpm with the tracking details

I've got a 970 SSC (PN: 04G-P4-2975-RX). I'd have to ship, but how much are you offering?

Tim Cook said that he's willing to take the case to the Supreme Court. I suppose he could be stalling for time and just lying about it, but his stated plan sounds entirely believable.

Three assumptions: Civilians have access to encryption the government can't crack ("high-grade encryption" for the purposes of this post) Terrorists have access to the same things that the general public does before their actions (either because we don't know who they are, because we don't want...

As near as I can tell, your position logically requires banning personal use of high-grade encryption entirely - the underlying situation isn't meaningfully different if their laptop was encrypted with BitLocker, some open-source encryption project, or an implementation that they wrote...

In 2013, slightly over 36 thousand people in the US died of chronic liver disease or cirrhosis - the 11th leading cause of death in the country. Fewer than 3500 US citizens died in terror attacks between 2001 and 2013, including both domestic and overseas attacks. You're telling me that the...

Honestly, this whole argument is ridiculous. Cracking encryption like only helps after the tragedy has happens - we should just ban guns so those tragedies never happen at all. The government's looking out for us - what's the problem?

Apple doesn't have the password. The OS was deliberately designed such that they couldn't do exactly what you're saying.

I disagree that the result will be detrimental; in fact I believe that ruling in the FBI's favor in this case would set the detrimental precedence. I would much rather have secure and private devices than fine Cox for internal copyright policy; while both are notionally good things (many people...

This is in the papers because they haven't done that to Apple yet? Obviously? "Once Pandora's box is open" is pretty clearly in the future tense. Is your argument that, because the iphone isn't 100% secure, we should deliberately weaken its security further?

Regardless of what you think about the other legal points, this one is pretty clear - Apple bills the government for the work and, so long as it isn't wildly unreasonable, the government pays.

It seems exceedingly likely to me that Apple has (or could fairly easily develop) the capability to ignore that part of the software update process. That said, I think Apple's doing the right thing here. Firmware designed to do this would almost certainly be relatively easy to modify to work on...

Clockspeed is not the only metric for how fast a processor is (and isn't even a particularly useful one, as you know full well).

Do you really expect free speech on other people's sites? This site certainly doesn't provide it - Kyle's pretty strict (something I'm generally thankful for).

There were 4 comments in the thread and you couldn't be bothered to read them closely enough to realize the person you quoted was talking about Dirty Bomb?

...are you planning on posting about every steam beta client update? There's a new one practically every weekday.

I'm already charging 3 devices every night - what's one more?

EDIT: Sold

I'm torn between buying the game once it comes out for PC and turning my back on it for the console exclusivity crap.

Huh. So they do. They didn't have one when I bought my current card (a 760). From looking around though, it looks like GVR only works on particular titles (whereas shadowplay works on any window, or even the desktop) and shadowplay can handle up to 4k resolution, whereas GVR compresses down...

Shadowplay is the big one I care about, now that freesync panels have started to come out and AMD cards support backlight strobing. I'm sure other people have other preferences.

I'm actually running a pair of 840s in raid 0 for my primary drive, and while I notice the speed boost on occasion (500 MB/s -> 800 MB/s), the really noticeable benefit is that you have a larger logical drive. Since you've got those 1tb drives anyways, I wouldn't bother.

Most gamers are happy to just take the update and move on (especially on steam, given that that's one of the big draws of the platform). It doesn't screw things up particular much, it's an easy upgrade, and most people really just don't care about the minor annoyances.

Yep. 2017 - year of Linux on the desktop!

...is dropping the physical home button really considered a good thing on a device of that size? It's not like you can use the thing one-handed anyways.

Those bits might be better on paper (and I haven't looked them up, so maybe they aren't), but between the thermal/power issues inherent to a laptop and the fact that PS4/XB1 games will be specifically tuned for that hardware, I'd be very surprised if the Surface Book was a more powerful gaming...

Here's hoping they return to a brightness slider. I haven't seen a single good reason why they dropped it.

It's a strange one, because at this point it looks like the best plausible outcome is for ATI to get spun back off to be productive on its own, while the core AMD business is left to die. Anyone have any idea how often the acquired company is the one that survives?

Around 90% of the top 500 are on x86-64. The top 10 is a little more diverse - only half of those are on x86-64.

Just Xeons? Honestly, do people even make supercomputers without humongous GPGPU clusters? I wonder if they're using Xeon Phis and including those under the Xeon name. (Not calling you out Steve - I don't see any mention of anything else even in Penguin's press release).

Pay $10/month or install ad block (or just deal with the ads). I'm genuinely curious how many people they need to buy in to make back their money on this project.

Nevermind, that was advertising one of their shows. Still the same quarter, just two months later. Not a good day for me and calendars.

Wasn't it like a third off for prime day? Disregarding the rest of the "sale", that might be enough of a discount to sway a few people.

What's the count on major android security breaches for this year?

To the best of my knowledge, blower coolers only really shine in multi-card setups. Also, if you're willing to drop a little core clock (1216 MHz -> 1165 MHz) and take a refurb, newegg has a 970 very similar to your top card for $280.

Yeah, nothing says "I am a reasonable human making a point you should listen to" like tens of thousands of dollars of property damage.

As I understand it, the drive only fries whichever chip contains the USB controller. I think that's still the PCH (how long until that's on the same chip as the CPU, though?). A little on the pricey side to fix, but not really a total system failure. Your data's fine at the very least.

FF really doesn't play anything like TF2 ever did. I'm not sure why you'd recommend it as a replacement.

Yeah, I know. I really just want something to replace TF2, since valve's been busily coating that game in raw sewage for the last half a decade.

It's funny - I was super excited for this when the first information came out, but the more I've seen the less interested I became. Stuns and slows in an FPS? Seriously blizzard?