So if you've got the remote, and have to push the button anyway, why not tap in "77" to change the channel rather than using voice commands.

Yes, I realize voice commands can do other things, but what are they really useful for?

It's insecure ON THE CLIENTSIDE. Nobody uses it on the client-side any more. Applets are dead and have been for years. Clientside features are still around only to support some crap legacy apps which should have died years ago.

And on server-side, it's as secure as anything. Probably more secure, as you get none of the memory issues or buffer overflow issues or other issues C/C++ has had for years.

--Coder

"Marshall is a small town that has been a hotspot for patent lawsuits for more than a decade now. US District Judge Rodney Gilstrap, who presided over this trial, oversees far more patent lawsuits than any other federal judge."

There are many things that can be done to reform the patent system. Perhaps something that could be done to reform the "justice" system is to restrict/reform this bullshit cherry-picking of venue.

We had more privacy simply because information was limited by a lack of technology. Pre-internet, you could often move away from your past, your drinking escapades weren't posted on somebody's Facebook feed, and when the government wanted to watch you, it required a certain degree of manpower and physical retention that meant it generally wasn't worth it for trivial details.

I didn't say it rationalizes it, just that it's not all that surprising.

Except that these are an "M" (for Mobile) series, not a card, but a chip. Also not something you buy individually, but rather what comes with the laptop, and makes the entire thing useless if it burns out.
For desktops, you can add cooling to support the OC, and if you do burn out the card it can be replaced. Few laptops support hardware upgrades or replacements for GPU.

Hmm, an underdesigned dam in China initially constructed in the 1950's - with safety features reduced from what was recommended - which had issues that were patched with assistance from soviet consultants. Apparently they were also communicating by telegraph and messages were lost...

That's a lot of deaths, but also in a country with a high population (meaning incidents have higher potential fatalities).

You know, I'm not sure "we thought things were less bad than they were because we didn't even have a proper assessment process" isn't exactly a positive note in their favour.

Out of curiosity, what deaths have hydro caused?

Seems to be a backfire to me. I'm actually happy that they're cautious enough to go offline in such a scenario.

Well, in this case it would be fear of committing illegal acts against a judge. You probably aren't going to be in such big shit for beating him at golf, possibly not for banging his wife (unless somebody can find charges to hit you with or you've done something else illegal in the act), but get caught directly committing an illegal act against the top echelons of the "justice" system... well that's just fucking stupid.

I think that Ads on FB may be more useful if they can fix some of the context-sensing (right now they're crap).

Last time I was on a PC vendor's site that had google ads. The ads of course work on what I was searching for, so of course they were displaying ads for heatsinks and CPU's AT COMPETING VENDORS (as well as a "you're the 1,000,000 visit, win an iDevice" shit).

Of course, why a decent online retailer (Tigerdirect) needs non-in-house banner ads is beyond me anyhow.

How about in a VM?
VirtualBox is free for personal/educational use, and I recommend it for people who still have a few legacy XP needs around. Heck, for one family member I setup her laptop with triple-boot: Windows 7, Linux, and XP (technically Linux with a command-line parameter that tells it to launch the XP VM in full-screen mode at boot).

I noticed that Target - which is pulling out of Canada - has a bunch of 4k 55" Element TV's. These are going for around $500 (less if you're in Canada and get the "liquidation" discount of 20%).

I wasn't able to find a huge amount of info on them, as it appears that Element made them exclusively for Target, but the few reviews I found seem to indicate they're not half bad.

After a certain point, it becomes less about how I could affect/change my life, and more about how I could affect others'