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Comment Re:This Guy's Talents Should be Put to Good Use (Score 2) 198

That's easy, because the media doesn't report it. If however, you head down to your local police department/service, you can request a crime log for the week, some places even have daily reports you can pick up. Which lists all arrested offenses, and minor calls(vandalism, theft under, non-violent domestics, etc) out. In many cases these are published to the media every day, and they decide what they're going to tell the public.

Comment Re:slashdot - daily news about whiny bitches and S (Score 4, Insightful) 365

They're starting to enclave up in videogames, much like what happened with the atheism movement. It took a few extra years but the "atheism+" crap is now collapsing under it's own corruption and regular atheism is going along just fine still. And of course there's now a similar thing to gamergate starting in comic books and heavy metal. Everything they touch they turn into a political issue, and when they don't get their way they claim sexism, bigotry, racism, or whatever else to try and make people back down. Funny enough, many of them actually sexist, bigots or racists and that can be easily seen in their social commentary on twitter or facebook.

Comment Re:Some things you can automate, some things won't (Score 2) 56

General Motors has tried this a number of times at a variety of different warehouses including the National Parts Distribution Centers in Canada at Woodstock, Edmonton and in the US at the facilities in Ohio and Colorado. Even at the wage that most of the people make between $21-29/hr they're more efficient, have fewer errors, and process the orders more quickly than any automation system did. And they've been running tests and trials of it since the 1980's, and every time a human beats the machine. In the one case where they went with a full automation field trial, the warehouse was losing money. Where as a warehouse like Woodstock makes money hand over fist.

Comment Re: How many minutes until this is mandatory? (Score 1) 287

Strange, because on my GMC Terrain I can download the map updates for free. That car is almost 4 years old now, strange that it *was* the companies that made the stand-alone GPS units that didn't have lifetime updates for a very long time, I've still got my garmin from 6-7 odd years ago, where they wanted to charge $190/year for map updates.

Comment Re:Sure... (Score 1) 49

This means they've been storing passwords in plaintext. Why isn't this yet illegal?

Probably the same reason why people use SHA256 for hashing still, they're dense as a post and asking for someone to take it all.

Comment Re:Not really new on Windows either (Score 1, Informative) 178

I jumped from nvidia to amd because nvidia drivers have become so bad if you're not on the "current flagship" card. There have been a hell of a lot of serious problems with nvidia drivers over the last two years on windows machines. Off the top of my head: TDR problem caused by drivers, the original thread on the nvidia forums was nearly 700k posts long, with 3m views. The fix apparently was due to them dropping voltages so low it caused the card to crash, that was fixed for about three releases and then right back to the beginning. The 400,500,600 series hard-crashes and lockups, that caused their driver to be revoked. A variety of HDMI audio bugs, probably the most famous was the "take over" of the system audio and resetting it to HDMI when no HDMI device was connected. The fan throttle bug that burned out video cards.

There are performance issues, but I haven't seen any earth shattering problems like that on the amd side. And most of those problems on the nvidia side have to do with them moving their core driver team too quickly to the most current cards, and failing to leave enough documentation for the "b squad" driver team.

Submission + - Canadian Federal Court issues financial ruling on Teksavvy vs Voltage (michaelgeist.ca)

Mashiki writes: Defending privacy is expensive, as has been shown in the months on legal case between Teksavvy and Voltage. Voltage, is currently demanding subscriber information from Teksavvy, who've asked for $335k in expenses and Voltage who stated that it would only cost them $884. The judge ordered the payment at $11 per subscriber, or $22k in expenses. So does this mean that people who've been given a "notice and notice" will now be getting more legal threats from Voltage? It may end up back before the courts if Teksavvy decides that the requested amount is too low or whether or not Voltage will even pay the requested amount. Or it may end up quietly going away, if Voltage does pay, they will likely end up going after the individuals in question. As the courts have already stated, that filing a notice and not following through is considered copyright trolling.

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