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Comment Re:Most calls not really from Dish (Score 1) 247

To be honest he said 15 years of his life which means he may have start before Dish became spammers (not sure how long their scummier business practices have been around since I have a mental filter on snail mail spam that gets immediately recycled and my home phone is given out to noone who doesn't absolutely need it like our local schools or our doctors office).

Submission + - Ask Slashdot: GPU of choice for OpenCL on Linux?

Bram Stolk writes: So, I am running GNU/Linux on a modern Haswell CPU, with an old Radeon HD5xxx from 2009. I'm pretty happy with the open source Gallium driver for 3D acceleration.

But now I want to do some GPGPU development using OpenCL on this box, and the old GPU will no longer cut it. What do my fellow technophiles from slashdot recommend as a replacement GPU? Go nVidia, go AMD, or just use the integrated Intel GPU instead? Bonus points for open sourced solutions. Performance not really important, but OpenCL driver maturity is.

Comment Will it play Batman Arkham Knight? (Score 1) 114

My problem with this new card is, as far as I can tell it barely meets the minimum requirements for some next-gen games. Isn't the min req for Assassins Creed Unity like a GeForce 680?

The specs for all new games are out of whack with the latest generation of video cards. If you buy a $200 card, you should be able to play any game released in the same year (though probably not on Ultra).

I just don't want to pull the trigger on a $350 video card, but it looks like game devs are making that the entry level for AAA games.

Submission + - Barrett Brown, formerly of Anonymous, sentenced to 63 months

An anonymous reader writes: Barrett Brown, a journalist formerly linked to the hacking group Anonymous, was sentenced Thursday to over five years in prison, or a total of 63 months. Ahmed Ghappour, Brown's attorney, confirmed to Ars that Brown's 28 months already served will count toward the sentence. That leaves 34 months, or nearly three years, left for him to serve. In April 2014, Brown took a plea deal admitting guilt on three charges: “transmitting a threat in interstate commerce,” for interfering with the execution of a search warrant, and to being "accessory after the fact in the unauthorized access to a protected computer." Brown originally was indicted in Texas federal court in December 2012 on several counts, including accusations that he posted a link from one Internet relay chat channel, called #Anonops, to another channel under his control, called #ProjectPM. The link led to private data that had been hijacked from intelligence firm Strategic Forecasting, or Statfor.

Submission + - Quantum Computing Without Qubits (quantamagazine.org)

An anonymous reader writes: For more than 20 years, Ivan H. Deutsch has struggled to design the guts of a working quantum computer. He has not been alone. The quest to harness the computational might of quantum weirdness continues to occupy hundreds of researchers around the world. Why hasn’t there been more to show for their work? As physicists have known since quantum computing’s beginnings, the same characteristics that make quantum computing exponentially powerful also make it devilishly difficult to control. The quantum computing “nightmare” has always been that a quantum computer’s advantages in speed would be wiped out by the machine’s complexity.

Yet progress is arriving on two main fronts. First, researchers are developing unique quantum error-correction techniques that will help keep quantum processors up and running for the time needed to complete a calculation. Second, physicists are working with so-called analog quantum simulators — machines that can’t act like a general-purpose computer, but rather are designed to explore specific problems in quantum physics. A classical computer would have to run for thousands of years to compute the quantum equations of motion for just 100 atoms. A quantum simulator could do it in less than a second.

Submission + - The camera that changed the Universe

StartsWithABang writes: As the Hubble Space Telescope gets set to celebrate the 25th anniversary of opening its eyes to the Universe, it's important to realize that the first four years of operations were kind of a disaster. It wasn't until they corrected the flawed primary mirror and installed an upgraded camera — the Wide Field Planetary Camera 2 (WFPC2) — that the Universe truly came into focus. From 1993 to 2009, this workhorse camera literally changed our view of the Universe, and we're pushing even past those limits today.

Submission + - Sen. Sessions, calls STEM shortage a hoax, appt to head immigration (computerworld.com)

dcblogs writes: The Senate's two top Republican critics of temporary worker immigration, specifically the H-1B and L-1 visas, now hold the two most important immigration posts in the Senate. They are Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), who heads the Senate's Judiciary Committee, and his committee underling, Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.), who was appointed by Grassley on Thursday to head the immigration subcommittee. Sessions was appointed one week after accusing the tech industry of perpetuating a "hoax" by claiming there is a shortage of qualified U.S. tech workers. "The tech industry's promotion of expanded temporary visas — such as the H-1B — and green cards is driven by its desire for cheap, young and immobile labor," wrote Sessions, in a memo he sent last week to fellow lawmakers. Sessions, late Thursday, issued a statement about his new role as immigration subcommittee chairman, and said the committee "will give voice to those whose voice has been shut out,” and that includes “the voice of the American IT workers who are being replaced with guest workers."

Comment Re:Probably sold out to CIA a long ago (Score 0) 184

Because Adam Baldwin is pro-GG and Ratzo is very anti-GG so he probably thinks that while he can peddle his point of view it's a bit outrageous that people who disagree with him can do the same.

I keep slipping that stuff in there hoping /gg'ers will post replies under their account names. Like Lt. Aldo "The Apache" Raine, I like to be able to see my gamergators coming.

But I guess the shame factor prevents them from doing so. I can understand that.

Comment Re:it would start a war (Score 1) 323

Could those have been addressed? No idea. It was great when I reached university though and all that shit went away.

Bless your heart. So much of growing up (and parenting) is just random, it seems. It's good that you can see how things changed for you. Maybe you come to some understanding of what played into the change. You'd probably be a good parent.

Most of what I remember about my kid's early and middle school years was fierce love and hope. Fortunately, my wife seemed to have a pretty good grasp on the complicated stuff of young girls, but even then, I remember a lot of cluelessness on our part. It was mostly a matter of doing our best to be honest with her and honestly listening to what she had to say.

I'm honestly glad it worked out for you. And it seems to have worked out for us, too.

Comment Re:But there is no need, everyone is peaceful?! (Score 1) 148

Where Muslims dominate government, law becomes Sharia sooner or later. That is not a world in which you and I will be permitted to believe whatever we want to believe, and if we insist upon it, one in which we will not be permitted to exist.

Perhaps you missed the bit of history where Spain was controlled by Muslims for nearly eight hundred years with Jews and Christians living freely and being left to practice their own religion, and then they were kicked out and the Christian leaders that replaced them forced the Jews out under penalty of death if they did not convert or leave?

Comment Re:it would start a war (Score 1) 323

and if my kid HAD cyberbullied, they would be so grounded. I'd take the smartphone away and they'd have a Jitterbug like Granny.

You know, as the parent of a now-grown daughter, I sometimes wonder what I would have done if I found out my kid was a bully. I mean, bullies are just the worst, at every age group and in every socio-economic category. And the thing is, once a kid has become a bully, I'm not sure what kind of parenting is going to get that out of them. Grounding won't do it, because they'll just get more pissed off and take it out on some kid that's too scared to talk about it. Even if you were that kind of parent, it's not something that can be beaten out of them (obviously). Medication doesn't help sociopaths (I don't think).

You know, there are only a few things that would make me feel like a failure as a parent. I don't care if my kid was gay or transexual or wants to be an English major or run away and join the circus or get tattoos on their eyeballs and listen to Disturbed records.. I'd still love my kid. But if I ever found out my kid was a bully, either in real life or online, hassling people for how they look or their gender or lifestyle or making threats or doxxing people or wearing #Meninist t-shirts, I think I'd give them a very serious talking to and then just start hoping they move out early and don't call home too often and maybe grow out of it before they ruin too many lives. Either that or drown them, but then I'd go to jail (unless the judge was the parent of a bully or a bullied kid, in which case I might get let off with a warning and $50 fine).

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