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Comment Re: VR Good, Oculus+FB bad (Score 1) 101

The artisan is not 4K per eye. Their âoe8Kâ product is, I believe. Part of why I didnâ(TM)t get that was the price, and part was performance, in that current graphics hardware canâ(TM)t adequately power it anyway especially for MSFS2020.

Hence I am hoping in a couple years it will be ready

Comment VR Good, Oculus+FB bad (Score 5, Interesting) 101

Facebook requirement is the #1 reason I did not even consider Oculus. I absolutely abhor when two completely unrelated things are arbitrarily made dependent on one another. I bought a pimax artisan headset. I like the wide field of view, works well with MSFS2020. I'm hoping in the next couple of years to upgrade my computer and headset again and get 4K per eye with good framerates.. I also want to buy a motion seat, just saw the yaw2 on kick starter. I think this is an exciting time for gaming - I haven't been interested in 20 years and now VR has rekindled my excitement!

Comment Re:Run a Tor exit node to conceal your illegal act (Score 2) 241

Could smart criminals just also run a Tor exit node, and just use it to blame anything that they get caught on?

A Tor exit node is just a tool used to obscure your location. Nothing more. So let's rephrase your question as such:

"Could smart criminals just tape over their house numbers, and just use it to blame anything that they get caught on?"

Uh... no...

A Tor exit node is the last "hop" or "layer" before data exits the encrypted tor network.

So let's rephrase the parent's question as such:

"Could smart criminals just operate a package exporting company and just blame other people when they get caught for exporting contraband?"

The answer is yes.

Comment Re:You see this in small businesses (Score 1) 616

Binary objects are obviously far more opaque than plain text when it comes to piping data between tools, and that is a negative thing for the reasons he just gave.

When your shell can decode these binary objects natively, they are not any more opaque than text encoded as a stream of ASCII or UTF-(8|16|32) bytes. PowerShell pipes btw work seamlessly with native executables and turn these objects into text so you can put a grep at the end of your chain of PowerShell (assuming you have gnu grep installed) to perform filtering the unix way. Powershell will turn text into an object (of type string), and the console spits out text in the end. You can redirect this text to a file.

In addition to all that, you have the ability to operate on .NET objects. You can compile C# and VB.NET classes on the fly. C# and VB.NET will let you call an unmanaged dll function (e.g. the equivilant of linking to a .so and making an API call). So I could write a script that call call any .NET DLL easily, and with a few lines of C#, call any unmanaged API call. That's really useful. Whatever isn't exposed to me as a PowerShell cmdlet, I can access with not a lot of code.

Comment Re:Amazon needs their head read. (Score 1) 126

Because that's not how Amazon works. Just because someone had a bad experience with a particular seller doesn't mean that you'll even get it from the same merchant. You're supposed to review the product. If you want to review the seller, then you do so after you finish the transaction with them. Amazon doesn't make this clear enough, in my opinion,

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