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Comment Re:And there's the little footnote (Score 3, Insightful) 212

Throwing the baby out with the bathwater much?

(Almost) all religions at the core teach forgiveness, compassion, and how to connect to the our innate divinity.

Beliefs aren't the problem, it is the actions of immature people that is. The sooner your stop judging others the more happier you'll be.

Comment Re:I guess the people have spoken (Score 1) 214

What pisses me off is shit like Star Trash: Disaster aka Discovery (STD) gets 5 seasons yet good Sci-Fi like The Orville, which is the proper spiritual successor to ST:TNG, struggles to get a Season 4.

Star Tard: Retard aka Picard was utter crap the first 2 seasons. How this crap got made boggles the mind.

Comment Re:So (Score 1) 82

> Intel still holds the top of the x86 cpu market.

LOL. Found the User Benchmark shill. /s

AMD: HEDT called. They want their Intel propaganda back.

Intel hasn't been top of the x86 market since the 50% price gouging/drop of the i9-10980XE from the previous i9-9900K when Ryzen and Threadripper started eating Intel for lunch in 2017. Even shill site User Benchmark is blind to how faster Ryzen is when they changed their multithreading scoring algorithm because AMD's Ryzen 3000 was making Intel look incompetent.

For gaming some games show i9-1900K to be faster while others show the Ryzen 7 7800X3D to be FAR faster.

For apps Blender is fastest on the 7950X than the 14900K in Blender. In general benchmarks AMD and Intel trade blows. For compiling Threadrippers kicks the 14900K to the curb.

Workload matters. It is imperative one does their own benchmarks because modern CPUs are extremely sensitive to throughput, latency, and cache usage.

Intel literally held gaming back a decade with quad-core before AMD made "Cores for Cheap" their unofficial slogan.

Submission + - SPAM: Stop killing games

sanf780 writes: Ross Scott, from the YouTube channel Accursed Farms, is championing a self described amateurish international effort called Stop Killing Games. The mission is explained as:

An increasing number of videogames are sold as goods, but designed to be completely unplayable for everyone as soon as support ends. The legality of this practice is untested worldwide, and many governments do not have clear laws regarding these actions. It is our goal to have authorities examine this behaviour and hopefully end it, as it is an assault on both consumer rights and preservation of media.

The website describes the best identified paths that you can contribute with, including exact procedures on how to contribute. As an example, Ross is using the videogame The Crew, published by Ubisoft, selling over ten million units. Ubisoft announced on December 2023 that the game is being rendered unusable on March 31st 2024. No effort has been made by the publisher to allow owners of the game to play the game.

There are some game developers that show that games may be preserved, as described in Eurogamer article Live service devs should make a private hosted version of your game when projects are shut down. These developers are the rarity these days.

Link to Original Source

Submission + - When Booking.com becomes Booking.Scam

benrothke writes: I shared a story of research by Elad Damari from Perception Point about attacks against Booking.com.
I then discovered that there’s an entire industry of Booking.com scammers who are exploiting people needing help. These victims will have their bank accounts drained afterward. With no recourse from law enforcement.
https://brothke.medium.com/whe...

Submission + - FBI Agent Says He Hassles People 'Every Day, All Day Long' Over Facebook Posts (reason.com) 1

schwit1 writes: The FBI spends "every day, all day long" interrogating people over their Facebook posts. At least, that's what agents told Stillwater, Oklahoma, resident Rolla Abdeljawad when they showed up at her house to ask her about her social media activity.

Three FBI agents came to Abdeljawad's house and said that they had been given "screenshots" of her posts by Facebook. Her lawyer Hassan Shibly posted a video of the incident online on Wednesday.

Abdeljawad told agents that she didn't want to talk and asked them to show their badges on camera, which the agents refused to do. She wrote on Facebook that she later confirmed with local police that the FBI agents really were FBI agents.

"Facebook gave us a couple of screenshots of your account," one agent in a gray shirt said in the video.

"So we no longer live in a free country and we can't say what we want?" replied Abdeljawad.

"No, we totally do. That's why we're not here to arrest you or anything," a second agent in a red shirt added. "We do this every day, all day long. It's just an effort to keep everybody safe and make sure nobody has any ill will."

Comment Re: how do they know who is driving the car or the (Score 1) 117

What part of "Whether they accept it is up to them." do you not understand???

Either party is free to cross out whatever terms they don't want on a contract. The other party is under no obligation to accept. If the terms are reasonable then they will accept. If not then they won't.

> Otherwise I would cross out the APR on a loan agreement and just write in whatever the fuck I wanted.

Tell me you know nothing about mutual assent without telling me you know nothing about mutual assent. /s

You CAN write whatever you want but good luck getting them to accept an "unreasonable" offer.

I did exactly this this for one job that tried to claim all MY past inventions on MY own time was theirs. I crossed that section out, initialed it, and they never batted an eye.

Maybe you should review what a contract is...

Comment Re:Complete nonsense (Score 1) 49

Just because YOU can't tell the difference between 120 FPS and 60 FPS does NOT mean 60 FPS is "fine". For me 120 is silky smooth, 60 is NOT. Instead of speaking for everyone you should ONLY be speaking for yourself: "I found 60Hz is perfectly fine for most gaming but YMMV."

The sweet spot is around ~100 Hz when decreasing returns kicks in. I discovered this back in the late 90's when I had a CRT monitor and noticed that when looking at it from the corner of my eye it would flicker at 60 Hz but not at 100 Hz. Today when I game I instantly notice micro-stuttering when the FPS drops from 120 FPS down to 60 FPS for a single frame.

Have you even tried VR?? Good VR requires 96+ Hz to stop people from getting motion sickness. This meme that "30 FPS" or "60 FPS" is fine needs to die in a fire.

As a professional graphics programmer mod parent as complete nonsense.

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