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Comment Re:4K waste of time (Score 1) 49

I'd love if my switch could do 4k, I've got a Sony 4k projector and a large acoustically transparent screen. Our Xbox One X looks amazing, the PS3 still looks great, but the Switch feels quite dated. Targeting 4k for the easier output means we should be able to get a true/sustained 1080p output, a massive improvement. E.g. Breath of the Wild was only pushing 900p when plugged in and would chug in certain points, I'd love to revisit it at 1080p and a sustained 30FPS (if 60FPS isn't possible).

Comment Re:e-cigarrettes arent tobacco (Score 4, Insightful) 246

> for nicotine, there is no "good" range, and it is far more addictive.

Are you sure about that? From what I've read, there's a potentiating effect of the nicotine caused by MAOIs in tobacco. Further, I have a very hard time finding studies about the health effects of nicotine that isn't from tobacco (smoked, chewed, or otherwise ingested). The health effects of nicotine sans tobacco seem akin to those of caffeine.

Comment Re:3rd way (Score 2) 410

The legal system starts from a state of presuming the innocence of the accused. A person on trial for a criminal offense has no expectation that they must "prove [their] innocence"; it is the job of the state to prove the accused is guilty of the charges.

In other words, it's not the password itself that is problematic. The issue lies in compelling someone to provide information that, effectively, causes the person to make testimony (whether for or against themselves, it does not matter).

Comment Re:Better solution: (Score 3, Interesting) 56

AC is right in his reasons, but I disagree with the conclusion. Even audited source code has had vulns found, years after multiple audits. How you define "fail[ing] security testing" is the crux of the discussion.

What irks me is that many of these companies (Hikvision and Dahua, for example) clearly use statically-linked, GPL OSS, but they stall (for me, two years now) in releasing source code. Hell, the piece I did get from them was a git sync of the components I called out, and not much more. Thing is, these companies are all China-based, how would you even enforce such a law upon them?

Comment Re:Hmm (Score 2, Informative) 892

If a man and a woman both use the same tactics for negotiation, the guy will, on average, be rewarded for it more than the woman. There is a lot of evidence that there is subconscious bias applied - guys are seen as "hard negotiators/motivated/etc" while gals are seen as "high needs/bitchy/demanding".

Comment Re:Militia, then vs now (Score 1) 1633

It wasn't introduced there, it was codified. The right to keep and bear arms, along with other rights in the BoR, were considered pre-existing rights of free people. The rights were written to record that those rights should be protected and guarded against (federal) government intrusion. Later, the constitution was amended to say that the state governments, too, must respect those fundamental rights. The Slaughterhouse cases fucked that up for a bit, claiming that the only things protected were those rights attached to national citizenship (e.g. passports), but substantive due process saved that part of the 14th amendment.

If the second amendment were removed from the constitution, it wouldn't alter the right, but it would likely lead to significant bloodshed in this country. Doing so would be seen as removing a guaranteed freedom that existed before the formation of the country and was considered so important that it was put into the founding document of the country extremely early. Not only would the second have to be removed, but also the 9th, given the history of the right to keep and bear arms. Just because it was no longer listed as a right could not be construed to deny or disparage other rights that are retained by the people.

Comment Re:Multi-Monitor Support in 2013?!? (Score 5, Informative) 278

Not quite. I used to work on the windows display management kernel and did a ton of testing when we brought back heterogeneous in Win7. In XDDM (XP Display Driver Model), heterogeneous was allowed, but it had issues when drivers would conflict. You could find some setups that worked and some that didn't, largely based on the drivers, cards, and the alignment of the planets.

When Windows Vista came out the drivers moved to WDDM (Windows Display Driver Model). This model initially disallowed heterogeneous configurations. In Win7, heterogeneous support was again allowed, partially because the OS now tracked monitor connectivity state (CCD - connecting and configuring displays). Previous versions of windows had left that to the individual drivers, which could cause conflicts and loops of bad behavior ("value add" software from vendor x sets "clone" mode, then from vendor y sets extend mode, and they fight back and forth, for example).

So in Windows, it was allowed for every release except Vista, though it wasn't really supported or tested well until 7 and beyond.

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