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Comment How do people back up personal code? (Score 1) 227

For business code I imagine your company has its own repository management and mirroring, but for personal projects how do you backup your code? I feel like most students/outside of work programmers just throw it up on GitHub, but that may not be the best strategy. What do you do?

Submission + - MSI and ASUS Accused of Sending Reviewers Overpowered Graphics Cards (theverge.com)

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An anonymous reader writes: TechPowerUp discovered that the MSI GeForce GTX 1080 Gaming X card they were sent for review was running at faster GPU and memory clock speeds than the retail version. This was because the review card was set to operate in the OC (overclocking) mode out of the box, whereas the retail card runs in the more regular Gaming mode out of the box. This may result in an unobservant reviewer accidentally misrepresenting the OC performance numbers as the stock results from the card, lending MSI's product an unearned helping hand. The site found this was a recurring pattern with MSI stretching back for years. Fellow Taiwanese manufacturer ASUS, in spite of having better global name recognition and reputation, has also show itself guilty of preprogramming review cards with an extra overclocking boost. Needless to say, the only goal of such actions is to deceive — both the consumer and the reviewer — though perhaps some companies have felt compelled to follow suit after the trend was identified among competitors. The Verge notes that TechPowerUp revealed its finding on Thursday of last week, and has not received any official response from either MSI or ASUS. They did update their story to note that MSI addressed the matter, in a comment provided to HardOCP Editor-in-Chief Kyle Bennett, back in 2014.

Submission + - 74% of Netflix Subscribers Would Rather Cancel Their Subscription Than See Ads (allflicks.net)

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An anonymous reader writes: AllFlicks conducted a survey of more than 1,200 people on Reddit, asking them a series of questions regarding ads on Netflix. "Would you rather pay more for Netflix or see advertisements while you stream?" they asked. Of more than 1,200 respondents, an incredible 90% said they'd prefer a price hike to ads. "The sweet spot appears to be $1-2 [more], which 57% of respondents chose as their upper bound. A further 22% said they could go as high as $2-3 more, and less than a quarter were willing to go higher." The next question they asked: "If Netflix started showing ads, would you cancel your subscription?" Nearly 74% said they'd be done with Netflix if ads debuted on the service. AllFlicks writes, "Netflix's users are sending the service a pretty clear message: if the service starts selling ads, customers would consider leaving."

Comment Re:Jingoism and Nativism (Score 1) 242

by Bobo (#52194941) Attached to: Apple Not Allowed To Open Stores In India

These policies are clearly jingoistic and nativistic. Why should the people of one country be privileged over the people of any other? Just because they were born there? That's not thinking globally. That's the kind of thinking that leads people to believe that building walls is the solution to problems.

+4 Insightful? Jingoistic? Where oh where are these free trade crusaders when the H1B-pocalypse rears its head? Oh right, it's patriotism when "we" want to do it, it's nativist protectionism when "they" actually do it. I'm sure the race and nationality of "us" and "them" is completely orthogonal to this completely coincidental hypocrisy.

Comment Re:LEGENDARY!!! (Score 1) 62

by Bobo (#52068453) Attached to: Legendary Sound Designer Jory Prum Passes Away At 41
You don't really get it. AC's are good for people posting who wouldn't be able to otherwise, and affording people the ability to post without having their speech policed. Those are good things I support. But, comments like yours and the OP are the price we have to pay for having nice things. I didn't say it wasn't worth the cost, I just said a cost exists. A point you have now made for me.

Comment Re:LEGENDARY!!! (Score 1) 62

by Bobo (#52068069) Attached to: Legendary Sound Designer Jory Prum Passes Away At 41
Comments like these remind us of the cost of supporting AC's. Regardless, I for one treasure this part of Slashdot. It's a good feeling to know that geeks and their contributions are remembered and celebrated. Much love to you OP, Jory, and his family and friends. Thank you for posting this.

Comment Re:Enough with Diversity (Score 0) 265

So this is a difficult and systemic problem that is going to take lots of eyes and wise input to slowly work towards solving; and we won't see significant improvement for about a generation. DAMNIT.

We'd better set up some advocacy groups ASAP to try and help figure out good ways to deal with this problem.

I appreciate that solutions like quotas and subsidies are harrowing, and quite possibly not ideal. But people in comment sections like this freak out at the mere mention of anyone even approaching the problem.

Very true, one might even be tempted to call it a "knee jerk" response ;)

Comment Pao was on your side, idiots (Score -1, Flamebait) 265

What's sad is that the knee jerk sexist responses here only prove Pao's point. Something that flies straight over the heads of those who attack her - especially since she was the one in Reddit defending their right to free speech, even as they used it to drag her through the mud. http://m.motherjones.com/mojo/...

Comment Re:First Amendment violation (Score 1) 126

by Bobo (#51987235) Attached to: US Begins Dropping 'Cyberbombs' On ISIS
Actually you're wrong. The only rights reserved for American citizens in the Constitution are the right to hold public office and the right to vote. Even the words you quote from the Constitution don't say what you think. They just say the Constitution applies to the United Started of America. This is exactly why Guantanamo detainees were able to file (and win) habeas corpus cases like Rasul v. Bush: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wik...

Comment Re:meh (Score 1, Insightful) 191

by Bobo (#51977381) Attached to: Hacker Collective Attacks KKK Sites

Shocked they haven't tried to change the pages with support ad's for trump to try to push he is racist some more. At this point KKK has been pretty peaceful and certain other group won't say (#blacklivesmatterbutnottootherblacklives) are ones that loot and burn buildings down when they find an something that happens they can protest for even when the something is for a criminal that played a stupid game and won a stupid prize.

Defending the KKK while denigrating black civil rights activists, +4 insightful? Yup, /. isn't racist at all. Cue the -1 hate chorus.

Comment Hilarious (Score 2) 287

This is an entertaining hail mary to try and distract from the various investigations, emails, and fundraising transcripts etc. "We'll be transparent, we promise! The American people *deserve* to know about UFO's." The meeting where some intern came up with this idea had to be followed by "It's so crazy it might just work!"

Comment This is dumb (Score 1) 93

by Bobo (#51838087) Attached to: FBI Wants To Access Terror Suspect's Skype Records
The NSA has full video and audio of Skype conversations following PRISM. They actually had audio of Skype before it was sold to Microsoft, and bragged about getting video shortly after in the Snowden leaks (published by Der Spiegel I think). Wtf is the NSA doing with this information? Wasn't this their whole justification?

Comment Unity on top of NT POSIX and SFU/SUA? (Score 1) 492

by Bobo (#51807071) Attached to: Confirmed: Microsoft and Canonical Partner To Bring Ubuntu To Windows 10

Can someone with more knowledge of Microsoft's relationship to POSIX/Unix chime in? It looks like in NT there was a POSIX subsystem, and then later a Windows Services for Unix (SFU) later replaced in Vista/Win 7 with a Subsystem for UNIX-based applications (SUA).

The wikipedia articles don't mention any collaboration with Canonical. Does anyone know if TFS is actually just talking about running a desktop environment like Unity ontop of SUA in Win 10?

Comment Why should we care? (Score 1) 55

by Bobo (#51763281) Attached to: Computer Use Could Help Predict Early-Stage Alzheimer's
Is that a lot in terms of hippocampal volume for humans? Were there confoudnkng factors like more computer use associated with more work or volunteer activity or communication with others? How much does an increase of 0.025% decrease the relative risk of contracting Alzheimer's? A lot lacking from the summary...

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