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Comment Re:No, these companies need to follow the law (Score 1) 273

Look, I get that these guys are trying to do something new. And for that I applaud them and their efforts. However until there are new laws supporting the sort of things they're trying to do they need to follow the current laws especially regarding employment.

Like say threats?

"An Uber driver left a woman a voicemail message threatening to "cut [her] neck" if she cancelled a taxi with him again."
http://www.independent.co.uk/n...

They have been suspended, whatever that means in Uber world.

Submission + - Pirate Bay Founders Acquitted in Belgium (torrentfreak.com)

An anonymous reader writes: A Belgian court has acquitted Pirate Bay co-founders Peter Sunde, Gottfrid Svartholm, Fredrik Neij, and Carl Lundström of criminal copyright infringement charges. They created the site in 2003, and were found guilty of similar charges in Sweden in 2009. The men have had continued problems legal problems since then, and one such case arose in Belgium for alleged copyright crimes committed between September, 2011 and November, 2013. However, since the founders have had nothing to do with the site since 2006, the prosecution couldn't make its case.

Comment GameWorks, great another Windows service (Score 1) 61

I run Nvidia software, it installs 5 services, 4 of which I have disabled; only the Display Driver service runs. I don't play games in 3D, stream video any game servers, or need to be told when to update my drivers. I also don't need my graphic card settings changed at the whim of a program (service).

Now GameWorks is shown, which would be service when/if released. Much like their Physics engine (PhysX) that I've never known a game or application I've used use.

The PhysX directory is not only the first directory in ones Windows Path, if you remove it or place it to the end it fixes the "error". Meaning that directory is checked first for any application (.exe), .dll, .bat, .cmd or anything called. Yes you can speed up your Windows OS drive by putting that directory at the end of the Path, mayhaps not by that much but every little bit helps.

"C:\Program Files (x86)\NVIDIA Corporation\PhysX\Common" is the path and one of those services I have disabled does stop the "error" from being found, replacing it at the beginning of the path. I disable them all after a driver update so not sure which; but Nvidia Geforce Experience Service sure seems a good bet.

And I do play games when I can, Battle Field 3 (all high or max video settings) still a favorite.

Comment Re:Warning: DO NOT USE SAMSUNG SSDs IN LINUX SERVE (Score 1) 195

We've been using Samsung drives in "non production" status servers, embedded servers, etc. and have had a terrible time of it. The first drives we bought a few years ago (840 Pro) were good, but we've seen Samsung SSDs run entirely through their write capacity (as reported by SMART) and then go dead when not even mounted! Turns out we aren't the only ones to get bit by buggy Samsung drives.

And the 10 year warranty that interest me - running a 32Gig SSD drive for a week I lost 48K of the drive.

It's or bytes written.

"Samsung guarantees the 2TB 850 Pro for 10 years or 300 terabytes written (TBW), and the 2TB 850 EVO for five years or 150 TBW.

840 Series 120GB/250GB/500GB 3 years
840 PRO Series 128GB/256GB/512GB 5 years (73 TBW for enterprise applications)"

http://www.samsung.com/global/...

Comment Re:Step 1 (Score 1) 195

Clearly you're not a gamer. 60 GB installs are the norm these days.

Battle Field 4 (40-60 GB) - with a SSD drive you can be in game and take 3 of 5 objectives you need to hold, before any other storage device user can even begin to play. With a dual monitor or viewing the web based map one can watch it going down while the loading continues.

Comment My son answered a telemarketer's questions (Score 1) 215

He didn't see a problem with it, this while all around him were telling him to just hang up, don't talk to them.

I just happened to be visiting when he got another one, hanging up in disgust and damn tired of it; guess they sold his number as one who will talk and it was non-stop.

Comment Now comes the hard part (Score 1) 1

"Adobe has responded to the leak and said that it hopes to have a patch ready for the vulnerability by Wednesday (8 July) - though as many people don't typically update on a regular basis, this vulnerability is likely to continue to affect a large number of users."

Is it an Adobe offer, or the malware updating itself.

Submission + - Astronomers teach a machine to see (ras.org.uk)

Jim Geach writes: A team of astronomers and computer scientists have developed a novel unsupervised machine learning algorithm — a combination of Growing Neural Gas and Hierarchical Clustering — to automatically analyse astronomical images. In effect, the algorithm performs the same task as a human 'eyeballing' an image, automatically identifying and labelling the points of interest. The team is aiming to deploy the algorithm on the next generation of astronomical surveys such as LSST and Euclid, but note that the algorithm could also find application in other fields, such as medical imaging and early disease diagnosis. Team member Dr Jim Geach said

Our aim is to deploy this tool on the next generation of giant imaging surveys where no human, or even group of humans, could closely inspect every piece of data. But this algorithm has a huge number of applications far beyond astronomy, and investigating these applications will be our next step

The results are being presented at the UK National Astronomy Meeting in Wales, and the details of the algorithm are described in this paper http://arxiv.org/abs/1507.0158...

Comment I've had one rule while on-line and followed it. (Score 4, Interesting) 202

Never post anything I wouldn't want my kids to read, this was long time ago; knowing that one day they may search my post out.

I've never been in a flame war and the only curse word I've ever used on-line - was go figure when chatting to my youngest :) now mid 20's.

I used a handle on the Usenet and only posted there, Googling that handle now gets 12,000 hits and all of them on .com sites, they are everywhere. Chances are very good if you Google a computer help question you'll come across a post of mine as a first hit at tomshardware.com (they must pay for that honor), a place I found as many of my post were showing as being from there..

Now many sites it appears use the Usenet postings as showing how busy/active their comment sections are. At least most are now showing up as "guest" or not able to be replied to (a reply that would never be seen nor sent).

I can't be held accountable for anything posted to a .com site under that handle, as I can't vouch for any of them not being edited.

Comment Re:Microsoft abuse example: Bad & good version (Score 1) 189

"... pardon us for having ZERO faith in the fact that Microsoft..."

No need for a pardon. Microsoft has a LONG history of being anti-customer, in my experience.

For example, people who "upgrade" from Windows 7 to Windows 10 will lose Windows Media Center without being told in advance, apparently.

Win7 was missing SNDREC32.exe, at 198K a down and dirty .wav player, just drag and drop .wavs on it and it plays them (it can be called and play a .wav before any other program can even load). I use it for ringtones, and other small sound files.

I copied it over and it works fine with Win7, but missing the .dll's to record (which I have no need for).

As for Windows Media Center I've never used it, so will never miss it if I have to go to Win10.

Windows 98, good. Windows ME, bad, Windows XP good, Windows Vista, bad. Windows 7, good, Windows 8, bad. See the pattern? Microsoft makes more money alternating good and bad versions, because people who buy bad versions "upgrade".

I took the high road dual booting Win95 with NT, Win98 with W2K, and XP, but yes every other "consumer" Windows OS has been a failure, I've never installed ME or Vista, I took everyones word on those two.

Comment Re:Just in time (Score 1) 189

The original /. article that mentioned a subscription OS was linked to a story that was shortly edited, saying it was wrong a subscription based OS was misunderstood by the author, and all mention of the word subscription removed from the story.

To be more precise
http://tech.slashdot.org/story...
Links to:
http://mashable.com/2015/01/21...
At the very bottom of that story is - Correction: Windows 10 will be a one-time upgrade, free for the first year of release, and there will not be a subscription model attached, as this post initially reported.

Comment Re:Just in time (Score 1) 189

Trying to be the best of both, and being good at neither is a good way to lose market-share. Which is where Windows is now. Windows is declining, and as Microsoft moves to the subscription model, will die even faster.

The original /. article that mentioned a subscription OS was linked to a story that was shortly edited, saying it was wrong a subscription based OS was misunderstood by the author, and all mention of the word subscription removed from the story.

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