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Comment not a copy (Score 2) 409

It was explained in, i believe Enterprise, that the ORIGINAL transported just scanned, copied, and destroyed but that the later models actually would scan and digitize the source matter and that the "you" that appeared at the other end was made of the same matter as the source. The transporter also had the ability to fill in the gaps of missing matter from a stockpile. AKA how they could have only an 80% pattern but could still reconstitute a person without weird issues. this would also explain how transporter duplicates and the like would happen. what it DOESNT answer is how mirror universe travel would happen with a transporter.

Also remember that transporters and replicators are NOT very different, as a replicator "beams in" items from a stored pattern and matter pool.

Comment read carefully (Score 2) 93

The article makes mention of the previously held limit of 2GHz. this is followed by stating "42% increase". this is a little misleading as the 42% is referencing from the stock 1.5GHz. The actual gains in OC per this firmware is only a 9% rise over the previous, which was already a 33% increase over stock. Had a few people look at it and ask how 2GHz to 2.14GHz was 42%.

Comment thats a confusing headline (Score 3, Informative) 147

just because people have clearances doesn't mean they have skillsets that would benefit this. It just means they don't have the markers that make them untrustworthy with highly sensitive information. there are plenty of people who hold a top-secret clearance that don't know where the "any" key is

it sounds more like someone got cyber-security industry confused with security clearance. i understand their need for cyber-defensive capabilities. some banks, like USAA, actually run their own in house cyber operations desk to help protect their digital assets. cyber-security as a trade spans across all digitally connected industries (govt, banking, industrial, commercial....) and they are all being head-hunted by the same groups. this would just be another company throwing their sharks into the feeding tank.

Comment future genius (Score 1) 298

this is the man that helped coin the term cyberspace. His influence with just this series alone can directly be seen in movies like the Matrix and The Lawnmower Man (the movie, not the Stephen King novel), as well as manga/anime such as Ghost in the Shell and Cowboy Bebop. so much of his futuresight is intertwined with modern pop culture and we don't even consciously know about it.

Comment half-information (Score 1) 202

these figures only cover pre-built computers, such as HP/Dell/Apple. This does not take into account home PC users that build their own computers from parts. Granted the DIY market has suffered past couple months due to crypto-mining eating up all the midrange video cards, as well as newer technology being released, which has caused some folks to "hold off" buying

Comment Phase-change cooling (Score 1) 181

They make Phase-change cooling kits that have a dedicated cooling block that mounts to the CPU to literally refrigerate the CPU. you have to pack all of the surrounding area of the CPU with moisture blocking foam to eliminate condensation.

these types of systems cost a couple grand and up but they do help you get the CPU down close to freezing.

as far as practicality, unless you are trying to severely overclock your CPU for ePeen score, or your ambient air temp is 120+F, they have no real world use above what a standard watercooling system will do you for roughly $100.

Comment .the .product? (Score 1) 418

this seriously reminds me of http://www.theproduct.de/

a 64KB file that provided fully 3d rendered graphics and high quality music. this was obviously a static designed presentation so its easy to tune to that level, as well as being 3d graphics versus video frames.

i see it being possible, but more as a post-content encoding method, than an on-the-fly method.

Probable, MAYBE. Practical, prob needs high CPU/GPU acceleration to be able to encode on the fly, and possibly on decode too.

Comment suicidal update (Score 5, Interesting) 281

I actually had the issue of Windows 10 deleting its OWN partitions. computer started running funny, then it BSODed and then would only boot to a flashing cursor. Booted into repair only to find that my system drive was reporting as 100% available. not even the Windows 10 system partitions were present. nothing could read any semblance of a partition table from the drive to recover any of my data.

Comment it already is.... (Score 1) 404

...kind of.

stock is nothing more than a logical representation of something we assign a value to for the purpose of exchanging it between owners. the value is not based on the stock itself, but based on the demand for the stock. Now replace the word "stock" in that statement with the word "bitcoin".

so hes proposing to back a stock like item with another stock like item. yeah. no sense made there.

the only difference really between stock and bitcoin is that stocks are fully regulated where bitcoin is not. the regulation is what helps stabilize to a point the stock market whereas bitcoin is insanely variable.

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