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Comment Re:Colors? (Score 3, Informative) 94

In other words, they blue-shifted the image back into the visible spectrum, which I'm sure would do a decent job of counteracting at least some of the extreme red-shift you get from observing such distant objects.

Whether they actually tried to calibrate the blue-shifting (e.g. by looking for emission spectra), I don't know, but I'm sure it wouldn't be out of the question.

Comment Re:Two different things called MIDI (Score 1) 30

I wouldn't say that the MIDI synth in your PC is necessarily a different thing - it's "effectively" the same as a hardware synthesizer in that, if you've got an appropriate adapter hooked up to your computer (whether via USB, RS232, or the old DA15 "gameport" on old soundcards), it can receive MIDI data from other devices and convert into audio to play through your speakers.

I say "effectively" because real MIDI synthesizers probably do way more than the simplistic "Microsoft GS Wavetable Synth" on all Windows installations, but there are other MIDI synths on Windows (such as VirtualMIDISynth) which do a lot more.

Comment Re:MS account, really? (Score 1) 121

As far as I've heard, it's only required if you're running the Home edition - if you install the Professional edition, you can just click "Sign-in Options" during initial setup and select "Offline account". Granted, it'll still try to convince you why that's a bad idea, but it will still take "no" for an answer.
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Feds Seized Robinhood CEO's Phone in GameStop Trading Halt Investigation (vice.com) 20

Robinhood, the stock trading app that was subject to a record fine Wednesday, announced it intends to go public Thursday. From a report: In its filing documents, the company admits that many of its customers are furious about how it handled January's GameStop stock bonanza and that it is currently subject of at least 49 class action lawsuits related to trading restrictions it placed on the stock in January. The company also said it is under investigation by a series of regulators, state attorneys general, the SEC, and the U.S. Department of Justice in proceedings associated with the trading restrictions; the company said its CEO Vladimir Tenev has also had his cell phone seized by federal attorneys.

In January, Robinhood restricted the purchase of GameStop, AMC, and other "meme" stocks because the app literally did not have enough money to comply with regulations that require a certain amount of liquidity from companies that allow for stock trading. This restriction correlated with a days-long dive in the stock prices of GameStop, which skyrocketed in January and February and led to widespread calls from lawmakers, traders, and Redditors on the WallStreetBets subreddit to investigate Robinhood. Those investigations are ongoing, according to Robinhood's S-1 filing with the SEC. In its filing, Robinhood states that the fallout from these restrictions still have the potential to be disastrous for the company. âoeWe have become aware of approximately 50 putative class actions ... relating to the Early 2021 Trading Restrictions."

Comment Re:Viable Alternative (Score 3, Informative) 181

What about dog's milk?

"Nothing wrong with dog's milk. Full of goodness, full of vitamins, full of marrowbone jelly. Lasts longer than any other type of milk, dog's milk, (since) no bugger'll drink it. Plus, of course, the advantage of dog's milk is that when it goes off it takes exactly the same as when it's fresh."

Comment Re:Windows Caculator, seriously??? (Score 2) 102

That's not really a fair comparison, because most pocket calculators will also give you a result of 18 from that set of inputs. If, on the other hand, you switch the mode from "Standard" to "Scientific", you'll get the correct answer of 12. This holds true not only for the UWP app on Windows 10 but also the various versions of "calc.exe" dating all the way back to Windows 3.1.

Comment Only if you install KB4493132 (Score 1) 229

When I manually installed updates last week, I noticed an entry "2019-04 Update for Windows 7 for x64-based Systems (KB4493132)" in the "Optional Updates" section, whose "More Info" page clearly states that it's responsible for displaying the warning message about support ending. Thankfully, Windows 7 (and 8.1) still allows you to Hide individual updates that you don't want.

It would've been nice if the article had mentioned that...

Comment Re:Hey, MS, give them to people who will use them! (Score 1) 236

You were probably using the "Touch Cover", which is indeed very difficult to use (since there's no tactile feedback). There's also the "Type Cover", which is basically like a super-thin laptop keyboard (backlit mechanical keys), and it's also the only one available for the Surface 3 (it's a different size, and Microsoft seemingly didn't bother making a Surface 3 Touch cover). Unfortunately, the keyboard has to be purchased separately, and it's also rather expensive ($130).

Comment Re:Rife in the UK (Score 1) 210

"Hi, we've detected a virus on your machine etc etc"

"Which one? Is it my old [OS] system downstairs, or the newer one upstairs running [OS]?"

".....[click]beeeeeeeeeeeeeeee"

For best results, pick semi-recent Windows versions OSes (XP, Vista, 7, 8, or 8.1) that you aren't actually running and see if they actually try to guess which one it is, then see how they react when you casually mention that it's been turned off for the past several months or suffered from a hardware failure.

Comment Re:Windows server 2003R2 32Bit Hack (Score 1) 322

Considering that Server 2003 is a different underlying OS version (NT 5.2 / build 3790 instead of NT 5.1 / build 2600, having a completely different set of service packs), this might be easier said than done. The only way you could "safely" accomplish something like this would be to install Server 2003 [R2] and then somehow hack it from Server mode to Workstation mode. Now, if you were running Windows XP x64 Edition (which is NT 5.2), this would be much more plausible (because it takes the same updates as Server 2003 x64, including the service packs).

Comment Re:common and fun (Score 4, Informative) 301

If you really want to insert an IP address without it pointing to a real computer, you have a bunch of choices:

Including numbers greater than 255 just makes it look obviously fake.

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