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Comment Re: Money scam (Score 1) 169

Yes, followers of absolutely any religion are marks, but not all religions are created equal.

On the other hand all of the Abrahamic religions do suck. Judaism was developed to give Jews title to lands other people were living in already, and where they were never more than an ethnic minority. Christianity was developed in order to get rid of the Jews. Islam was created for basically the same reason as Judaism, just for a different group. It's all political.

Comment Re:Ban closed routers (Score 0) 52

Open Source is not the magic wand to fix every security issue

Straw man

how many issues have sat in Linux for years or even decades before being found and addressed?

How many issues have sat in Windows for years or even decades before being found and addressed? You will NEVER KNOW because that information is a SECRET. You're acting like Linux isn't superior from a security standpoint when we all know it is, and it's sad. Bill Gates will never appreciate you.

Comment No (Score 2) 95

Apple support staff were unable to assist her

No. There is always something which can be done. There is ALWAYS a process for handling exceptions. Apple support staff were unwilling to assist her. The management in the support team is also part of the support staff, although they probably think they're above it.

Comment Re:great news (Score 1) 19

up until now "something" was doing the scaling to 720p, 900p or 1440p(my current monitor).

Is it your monitor, though? Isn't it your graphics card these days? The GPUs have had scalers which made it basically free for a bunch of years. I would notice a resolution change on the TV I use for a monitor, in fact I do notice them when they occur, and no matter what I watch or play that never happens automatically.

Comment Re:Well that's not a fair comparison (Score 2) 58

I mean back when Windows came out, there was virtually no "power save" on PCs.

If you mean Windows 3.0, it was for the 286 and there was no power saving that wasn't vendor-specific. For example I have a GRiDPad 1910 and that has a sleep mode. If you mean a recognizable version of Windows NT, it was for the 386 and there was still no standard power saving.

If you wanted to suspend to disk, your BIOS would do that for you.

The OS still had to prepare itself for sleep.

ACPI came out in 1996, well past the prime of Windows.

Yes, but Intel and Microsoft brought out APM in 1992. Their collaboration is a major reason why power management was bad on Linux for years. Microsoft wrote the tools that vendors used to make the tables for power management that went into the BIOS. These tools produced different tables for Windows and for other operating systems. Part of how Linux got to have working power management is that it just started claiming to be Windows, and getting access to working tables.

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