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Comment Re: American Cougar Association of DICE (Score 1) 176

The problem is that at the beginning of senility, when the person is trying to hide it (from themselves as much as anyone), there are no care givers.

The problem is that there's no middle ground in our system between sane and nutbag, and we as a society tend to treat people who have the least mental deficiency like pets. People with any sort of physical deformity or other handicap are treated at minimum as well as anyone else, but we can still look down on the mentally unwell and infirm and mock them with some impunity.

If we can learn not to dehumanize people with mental problems, maybe they'll stop hiding them.

Comment Re:Yes, you ARE stupid (Score 1) 176

Keep in mind that in the time period she was raised 'trust' was the default in social interactions.

That raises the question, were people really more trustworthy then? Or were women simply not permitted to engage in as much economic activity, and consequently not exposed to as many frauds? Now that many more women have their own money, it's become even more worth it to target them — not that romance-related fraud is anything new.

Comment Re:Newsflash, the desperate have computers too (Score 1) 176

Why is a guy 55 with no intentions of marrying or "settling down" creepy to use your term?

I was annoyed by that sentence too, but I agreed with the last part — at least being honest. What's funny is that a percentage of women are definitely interested in someone who is not interested in settling down, and a further percentage who will attempt to change their minds. When I lived in Austin, I represented myself honestly as someone who was still trying to work out some relationship issues, and just couldn't see myself in a long-term relationship. In spite of that, and a ridiculously expanded waistline (I am vulnerable to Southern foods, like Kryptonite for Superman) I seldom wanted for intimate female company, much of which was (in my opinion) well beyond my league. I wasn't buying gifts, although I was paying for some dinners, which was frankly my pleasure.

There's just no need to misrepresent yourself to get laid, though I will say, it's more tempting in California. Ugh. This place is shallow AF.

Comment Re:Meh (Score 1) 351

So, it's the processor vibrating in the audible range?

If I had to guess, and I do because I'm not going to even think about how to debug Netflix on the Wii, I'd guess that Netflix is doing something highly idiotic to the audio driver which only causes problems during instances of high load.

I keep telling myself I will buy another thing to do that job and then I don't. But maybe this will be the year. I'm looking at that shield console.

Comment Re:Or... (Score 1) 114

In the driver, just output 30 fps content with doubled frames and you get fake 60 fps.

Someone would definitely notice something so blatant as that. You could instead do half-assed frames every other frame, doing a crappy skew instead of a proper render or something. That was the whole idea behind Microsoft Talisman... which failed not for technical reasons, but due to mismanagement. Mostly, the highly questionable decision to involve Cirrus Logic.

Comment Re:Speed v.s. reliability (Score 3, Interesting) 114

So they have a whitelist to deal with this problem rather than an API call. The cynic in me wonders how much AMD charges to have your game listed on that whitelist.

It won't work precisely like that. Instead, it'll be the influence of green privilege. Getting whitelisted will be easy for anyone who already spends a lot of money with AMD, and hard for everyone else... or anyone who spends a lot of money with nVidia.

The Courts

Class Action Filed Against Sling Media 112

New submitter DewDude writes: In case you missed it; Sling Media has been forcing advertisements into video streams from Slingbox devices unless you pay for a client application, which is only an option for Apple, Android, and Windows 8 devices. The issue will now head to the courts, as two plaintiffs have filed a class action suit against Sling Media, claiming the company participated in 'bait-and-switch' tactics by charging users for the hardware, then monetizing the streaming of content. The suit notes that Sling does not own the rights to the programming into which they are inserting advertisements.

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