> blacks that are actually black,

I call shenanigans. ;)

> near perfect color reproduction

LCDs surpassed CRTs a while back with IPS and derivative technology screens.

I just got rid of CRTs that cost over $1500 back in the day. I gave away one and recycled the rest and have only one left. I was keeping them for the vertical resolution but now that good 1440p and 4K monitors are in the $700-$850 range I didn't need the other CRTs any more. I am keeping that last one until I feel like dropping the coin on one more high resolution monitor.

Good riddance to CRTs. I always hated that sound. Every so often when I go to an office that has an old TV running, ugh. That sound always drove me nuts.
When composite-input TVs came out my dad would leave the TV on with the cable box and VCR off and I'd ask him why the TV is still on. He'd say "it's not on." It most definitely was and that annoying whine was driving me batty.

I used to take apart my TVs to put baffling in to cancel out that sound. I am 43 now and I can still hear past 17.5KHz. Why? Because it was drilled into me by my mom to not blast my ears with headphones, and when using power tools I use hearing protection. I have an even greater appreciation for my hearing now because once I got a sinus infection so bad it spread to both ears and I had 95%+ hearing loss for more than three months when my inner and middle ears filled with fluid, and there was so much pressure it perforated my eardrums, so I'm even more strict about hearing protection having experienced near-total deafness for an extended period. Since then certain frequencies cause some pain due to reverberation because those frequencies seem to be amplified to me - it may be due to scar tissue where my ear drums perforated or something, I don't know and haven't bothered to find out.

But flyback transformer whine? Ugh. Same with PC power supplies that are going bad - they have a very similar high pitch whine. When I go to my old office to maintain the servers for my partners, I need to stay out of the lobby because the power supply whines like mad. No one else in the office can hear it.

"Intel's strategically timed CES 2015 launch of their new 5th Gen Core Series processors for notebooks was met with a reasonably warm reception"

Was the warm reception due to inadequate cooling in those laptops? ;)

So what is your opinion of intersex people? If you don't know what that is google it.

The big difference is college isn't legally required. The only students who will go are those who want to go, and colleges won't be inclined to let kids slip through with a D-minus-minus just to get them through the system. The reason people graduate HS practically illiterate is because you can't force someone to learn. Make it optional, and require passing grades to stay in, and the problem is solved. If you don't pass, you don't get to go. If you fail, you're disqualified from the free program. (I would imagine. Didn't actually RTFA.)

This won't single-handedly solve all the problems this country faces with regard to education, but I think it's a great idea.

Bullshit.

From Intel's spec sheet for that processor:

Processor Base Frequency 2.7 GHz
Max Turbo Frequency 3.7 GHz

The rated full-time clock speed for that processor is 2.7GHz. The "max turbo frequency" which is intended for short jobs that are not massively parallel is 3.7GHz. This is not anything remotely similar to cable companies advertising 100Mbps where the only thing you ever see that speed is to their bandwidth test server.

1,700 words into this and one of his two conclusions is that flat-rate boxes are flat rate? (Up to 70 lbs which, IIRC, is printed on the side of the fucking box.) Kill me now.

... that involve me turning around for up to 30 seconds. It's cute. The lesson here is, if you let your machine out of your sight for a while, don't be surprised if it comes back rooted. Isn't rule #1 of computer security always "If you don't have physical security, you don't have security"?

What exactly is the vector here? Give someone a thunderbolt hard drive and hope they plug it in and hope they run a firmware update while the drive is connected? Oh no, this could affect potentially dozens of people per decade! Outside of very targeted attacks, who will get hit by this? And if you think you are targeted, the solution is simple: don't have anything but the power cord plugged in when updating firmware. (Which is how you are supposed to do it anyway.)

This isn't exactly a drive-by download.

I don't think he even knows this site has comments. Or that it's a website at all. He probably thinks he's just singing into a can.

Good. Cut down the number of channels. I now have about 900 channels of shit on the TV and nothing to choose from. Cut down the extra channels and deliver some quality programming. I'm constantly exploring TV shows that were on before I was even born - Hogan's Heroes, Bewitched, I Dream of Jeanie, and stuff like that. I couldn't be bothered with so-called "reality TV." My cousin was on one of those so-called "reality" shows and I never once tuned into it. No interest in that shit.

I'd rather go back to a handful of networks that offer quality programming, or better yet, loosen up "licensing" a bit so Hulu, Amazon, etc. can expand their offerings. I will not tune into "reality" TV shows. It's utter shit.

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I only recently finished convincing all my non-technie friends that the Internet is not a series of tubes; now I have to start explaining to them that bandwidth does not actually come in buckets. Do you realize how many pounds of email I'll have to write about this? Fuck it, I quit.

They're called hybrid words

Just a few favorites from their list of fifty...

Automobile - a wheeled passenger vehicle, from Greek _ (autos) "self" and Latin mobilis "moveable"
Biathlon - from the Latin bis meaning "twice" and the Greek _ (athlon) meaning "contest"
Claustrophobia - from the Latin claustrum meaning _confined space_ and Greek _ (phobos) meaning "fear"
Dysfunction - from the Greek _- (dys-) meaning "bad" and the Latin functio
Genocide - From the Greek _ (genos) meaning "race, people" and the Latin c_dere meaning "to kill"
Geostationary - From the Greek _ (g_) meaning "Earth" and the Latin stationarius, from statio, from stare meaning "to stand"
Hexadecimal - from Greek _ (hex), meaning "six", and Latin decimus meaning "tenth"
Metadata - from the Greek _ (meta) and the Latin data meaning "given" from dare
Monoculture - from the Greek _ (monos) meaning _one, single_ and the Latin cultura
Nonagon - from the Latin nonus meaning "ninth" and the Greek _ (g_nia) meaning "angle"
Quadriplegia - from the Latin quattuor meaning "four" and the Greek _ (pl_g_) "stroke", _ (pl_ssein) meaning "to strike";
Sociology - from the Latin socius, "comrade", and the Greek _ (logos) meaning "word", "reason", "discourse"
Television - from the Greek _ (t_le) meaning "far" and the Latin visio meaning "seeing"
 
... but I agree, "starivore" is right up (down?) there with "staycation". :-)

(All Greek characters replaced with '_' so Slashdot won't shit all over itself. Unicode? WTF is that? It's only 2015!)

High resolution audio does not guarantee they have not compressed the dynamic range to shit. It just means that instead of being mastered at 44.1kHz they have mastered it at a higher rate, like 96kHz.

It depends on the source. If I am listening to jazz, classical, or progressive rock (Pink Floyd) the difference is immediately apparent - especially through my home system. In my SAAB with its crappy stereo that I cannot upgrade without fudging up the CAN bus (the stereo head unit is a CAN hub - can you believe that?!) it's not so noticeable but on my home system with Klipsch reference series speakers or through even just halfway-decent headphones there is a WORLD of difference between 128kbps, 320kbps, and a CD or high definition DVD or Blu-Ray audio. On my home system highs are nice and crisp with the source material but with compressed audio the highs are distorted - almost a "sizzle" sound.

With highly compressed pop music, yeah, it's not much of a difference. It all depends on the subject matter.