Perhaps it is you who has a problem.

Let's try putting those two assertions that you evidently take exception to another way.

Can you see that the statement "Let's not assume that all cops are bad" is not in any way contradicting the statement "bad cops exist and should be dealt with".

Unfortunately no matter what mode it is in, the two FPU pipelines are still sitting behind a single FPU scheduler so the result is essentially the same.

My numerous benchmarks with bulldozer processors back this up, particularly with the likes of Matlab. Those processors are great for multi-process servers (web, email, etc) but useless for floating-point math (gaming, render farms, compute servers, etc).

Hell I'd settle for just having one FPU per core again and none of this "module" nonsense.
AMD jumped the shark for me in 2012 when they killed off their Phenom 2 line.

If this pans out perhaps we can get legal precedence against the horrible online ads that tell you there were 349856 problems detected with your computer.

Aww, so it's not quite in the same league as an etherkiller then?

FWIW, WFM on Fedora 20

That said, I am concerned that a lot of basic X11 features are disabled in big distros now. CTRL-ALT-+ used to "zoom in" by reducing the screen resolution while keeping the total viewport the same size.

Shift-NumLock would always activate MouseKeys. Now these features are often hidden behind some shakey framework.

I can see why CTRL-ALT-BKSP would be disabled but the rest were much more useful for end users.

That process works better for fungible young talent who might be plenty gifted but have no experience to set themselves apart from the pack. The best defense against seeing your job outsourced is becoming so good at it that you don't have much competition. The second best defense is becoming friends with the greybeards who are positioned to argue against the manager who wants to rightsize your job.

Sorry, son, but society (and the Supreme Court) voted and you're wrong.

Yep. There are plenty of banks to choose from that - whatever their other flaws - at least take security seriously. If your bank can't or won't lock down their website, then you already know that they're negligent in at least one area. What else are they neglecting?

I don't think it's extreme at all. I think we're past the point that's it's socially reasonable or responsible not to encrypt all traffic by default.

Even if you're 100% OK with visitors to your site being snooped on, consider that adding to the amount of crypto in use worldwide makes it hard for repressive governments to tell what their citizens are doing online. Maybe your site would be the straw that broke the Great Firewall's back and lets some kid read uncensored news.

Get off my lawn, sonny.

(Thinks tattoos can be ugly or beautiful, just like the people wearing them.)

4-digit UID, just over 40, no tats but I've thought about it. I've never considered anything massive like a sleeve before because I don't think it'd look good on me, but I couldn't care less if other people have them.

Outside of Portland, what percentage of the population has full sleeve tattoos? 1 in 10,000, maybe? I'm not asking to be funny; except for in very certain cities, those are almost unseen. Even working in San Francisco I see very, very few. Oh, there are lots of smaller tattoos, but sleeves are unusual.

I'll bet more people are sensitive to the materials used to make the watch than are unable to use it because of their ink. That's not Apple's fault or a flaw in the watch, though: no one product can be useful to everyone.