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Comment Re:The road to hell (Score 0) 545

So you're saying you'd rather keep working 80 hours a week, rather than moving and and get around the same pay but only put in 40 hours?

If you went somewhere that paid your normal rate for OT, you'd make double what you are now for those 80 hours. Or you could just work 40 and enjoy life outside of work.

Comment Re: Stupid, trucks cause the problem (Score 1) 554

Such a nice light dusting of snow.

While trying to find the average snowfall in Copenhagen that line "Snowfall occurs mainly from late December until early March, but snow cover seldom lasts long." came up.

So yes, biking there would work well in the winter. But many places in the US stay well below freezing for the entire winter and snow just keeps piling up.

Only some very special people try biking then, it's not exactly easy going through 2-3 feet of piled up snow.

Comment Re:Real tech fixes (Score 3, Informative) 99

The Blu Ray drive has nothing to do with the YLOD. Yes the laser can burn out, and I've had to do a single replacement.

YLOD is caused by micro fractures in solder eventually leading to connections failing. This is because the PS3 came out in 2006, which is the same time PC video cards were also combating the move away from lead based solder (thanks California, do you have that sign up that the state of California contains things known to cause cancer so anyone visiting or living there is aware?).

The YLOD and RROD caused both Sony and Microsoft to be very conservative with power and heat in the new console.

Comment Ubiquiti EdgeRouter and UniFi (Score 1) 427

For the same price has the higher-end consumer stuff you can get pro-level equipment.

Grab an EdgeRouter Lite: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00CPRVF5K/ for $95

and pair it with an UniFi AP: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B004XXMUCQ/ for $68

The EdgeRouter is not as user friendly as DD-WRT/Tomato, its OS is based of Vyatta. It has three gigabit ports you decide what you want to do with. Have one WAN and two LAN? Sure. Dual WAN fail over with LAN? Ok. WAN, LAN, and DMZ? Yup. Need more? Get the standard non-lite, or even go Pro. Software configure wise they work exactly the same.

Having an AP separate from router is also nice. Keep the router in the basement near the drop. Then just run CAT to a central area. The UniFi only has a single Ethernet connector and requires PoE which it includes an adapter for. It also supports seamless hand off, so if you have more than one, you can transition between them, and your network connection will stay open.

Comment Multiple PCs and multiple copies (Score 1) 210

Family sharing isn't a great solution. A library can only be accessed once, so you if are playing a game on your main PC someone else spouse/kid can't be on another playing a game out of the same library. The only real solution is for non-online games which is to go into Steam offline mode and the games can be accessed on two different machines.

Sony's system on the PS4 is slightly better. On machine is defined as the account's "home" system. Any content is then accessible from any other account logged into that console. You can then sign into another console with the account and access all of the content. Locking online multiplayer behind a pay service sucks, but the ability to play online is also shared with on the "home" system. So if you bought games digitally on one main account, you can easily play the same copy online with another person.

Comment Re:More or less (Score 1) 111

Will gamers see that much of an improvement? The PS4 and Xbone being x86 hardware is nice as the excuses on why a port to PCs can't happen, but both consoles are pretty sad when compared to current mid-range PCs let alone a high-end rig. The Xbone one is struggling to hit 1080p while the PS4 is hitting it, but at 30fps. This is matching or lower than the performance of a current mid-range PC and the performance gap will only widen.

It's good that AMD was able to get the contracts to get income as they have been struggling lately, but the Radeon 7000 series was a big of a disappointment, and were rumors of Nvidia branding the GTX660 as the GTX680 and the Titan was supposed to be the original GTX680. AMD new series is all rebranded cards save for the R9 290 and 290X. The cards a cheaper compared to Nvidia's offering, but they run hot and loud. Plus this article is discussing performance issues so maybe they aren't as good as the original look into them lead everyone to believe.

AMD really needs to buckle down and hit one out of the park. The Bulldozer was a dud, so the processor side of the business is also without a hit. I thought we might see the beginnings of an PC architecture redesign once you look at the new consoles, but I don't believe that anymore. I'm not hopefully that Kaveri is going to be the strike again Intel that AMD needs like the glory days of the Athlon 64 vs the Pentium 4, nor AMD releasing a GPU in the coming year that will force Nvidia to stop coasting along and release a highend card that is 80% of Titan SLI performance on a single card.

Comment Re:Yeah (Score 1) 111

Intel should can compete just fine in the low end market, and is starting to poke their nose into the mid-range. You can play Battlefield 4 with the integrated graphics of an i5/i7 desktop Haswell chip at 720p and low settings at 30fps.

Desktop processors running Iris Pro graphics may let Intel start stealing the spot light from AMD's APUs. I wouldn't count on Intel diving into the high-end market, so hopefully Nvidia won't be killed off. I also believe Nvidia has foreseen the end of themselves being anything but a high-end option and has innovated with PhysX, 3d Vision, and the new GSync.

Comment Re:Solution (Score 1) 470

I've had them overflowing with 12oz glass bottles I'm taking back to the store and the bags have survived multiple trips. I've had more issues with the handles on plastic bags ripping apart.

Recycling is a non-issue. And get this, it promotes the growth of more trees which will be used for paper.

Comment Re:Intel is keeping pace (Score 2, Insightful) 103

Why 1080p @60fps? Both the PS4 and Xbone will only be 30fps at the majority of games at 1080p. If Intel can reach parity with on board graphics to the new consoles that are just coming out they will have eaten into AMD's APU lead, since Intel currently crushes AMD when it comes to CPU performance.

Comment Re:What problem? (Score 1) 234

Maybe you should read the spec: https://www.grc.com/sqrl/phishing.htm

It says right on the page that an active attack could be mounted if you use a cross device authentication like you'd use in a public computer setting.

The computer you are accessing the site from it at a phishing site that displays an active QR code to log you into the real site.

Your cellphone you authenticate with is accessing the Internet via a cellular data connection so the IP of the computer and cellphone would be different.

Since a cellular-connected, camera-enabled device can be expected to have a different IP than any cross-device computer you're logging into, the SQRL client will usually be configured not to request any same-IP enforcement from the remote web server. In this instance, same-IP policy driven phishing detection countermeasures will not be available so the user will need to be vigilant about the sites being logged into in these cross-device circumstances.

The IP check would work if authenticating off a single device like a laptop, but it doesn't solve the public computer access problem that Steve Gibson was touting as solved.

Comment Re:What problem? (Score 1) 234

I don't see a comparison of ip addresses stopping a malicious site from pulling a real QR code and presenting it to the user who then authorizes the session. The fake page would then be logged in as the user and could do whatever it wanted.

This was the first thing I thought of as I was listening to the initial discussion.

Using it solely for unimportant account would make it more secure than using Facebook to log into other sites. At least the phisher would only get access as a single session rather than potentially tricking a user to giving them their Facebook login which they could then do more with.

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