gamad

Re:Equifax C.E.O. Richard Smith Retires After Huge Data Breach on Tuesday September 26, 2017 @11:46AM (#15339676)

You filed a "class action lawsuit?" More details, please. Who was the class? Why a "class action" when you were personally harmed in a major way?

Re:MongoDB has filed to go public on Thursday September 21, 2017 @07:56PM (#15308286)

I like MongoDB! It's web-scale:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2F-DItXtZs

MongoDB: A Policy of Censorship More Extreme Than Google

Posted by gamad on Wednesday September 13, 2017 @05:30PM
from the quillette.com dept.

http://quillette.com/2017/09/10/policy-censorship-extreme-google/

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Re:The Life and Death of the Touch Bar: Revisiting the MacBook Pro on Sunday August 27, 2017 @12:37PM (#15111475)

Exactly right. We do accurate-color work so I need a wide-gamut monitor I can calibrate. And we need NVidia "Pro" cards (with FP16 full-speed) support. The Mac "faithful" will tell you can can jerry-rig a side-car box and run your GPU cards over USB-C, but that's flakey and slow.

Re:The Life and Death of the Touch Bar: Revisiting the MacBook Pro on Saturday August 26, 2017 @09:55PM (#15108637)

I'm also a big fan of the Surface (and Windows 10, too!). We went from Mac to Windows and I have no regrets. (It was the desktop / high-end that pushed me over. No good "pro" option on the desktop.)

Re:DIY Powerwall Builders Are Using Recycled Laptop Batteries to Power... on Saturday August 26, 2017 @09:42PM (#15108578)

Someone licensed by their (US) state as an Engineer, and the only person (in most states) who can legally call himself an Engineer.

https://www.nspe.org/resources/licensure

Re:The Life and Death of the Touch Bar: Revisiting the MacBook Pro on Saturday August 26, 2017 @09:39PM (#15108559)

I can't imagine working without an ESC key. I think many of the complaints could have been alleviated if they left this one key on the machine.

Re:DIY Powerwall Builders Are Using Recycled Laptop Batteries to Power... on Saturday August 26, 2017 @09:34PM (#15108541)

I'm a EE, and a licensed PE. I wouldn't do this.

Re:Can we know what animals are thinking? on Saturday August 26, 2017 @10:28AM (#15105587)

I'm always afraid that if I knew what my cat was thinking I'd be disappointed. Like "I wonder if I can kill and eat him?"

Museum Visitors Damage 800-Year-Old Coffin by Putting Child in It for Photo

Posted by gamad on Thursday August 24, 2017 @06:11PM
from the nytimes.com dept.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/24/arts/museum-coffin-kid-photo.html?mabReward=ART_CTS2&recid=91341645-56ac-409b-60ff-6e8c241761a5&recp=0&moduleDetail=recommendations-0&action=click&contentCollection=Science&region=Footer&module=WhatsNext&version=WhatsNext&contentID=WhatsNext&src=recg&pgtype=article&_r=0

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Re:Sonos: users must accept new privacy policy or devices may “cease t... on Tuesday August 22, 2017 @09:20PM (#15077777)

Property tax is.

Re:Sonos: users must accept new privacy policy or devices may “cease t... on Tuesday August 22, 2017 @09:20PM (#15077773)

It's rent. If I don't pay my property taxes, the government will march in and take my house.

Re:Bitdefender Anti-Virus: Heap Buffer Overflow via 7z LZMA on Tuesday August 22, 2017 @05:37PM (#15076603)

I use Microsoft's own "Windows Defender" combined with Malware Bytes to catch any PUPs.

While I'm a very careful user, this combination, to the best of my knowledge, has kept me safe. (MalwareBytes caught a piece of commercial software that I paid $59 for -- a Blu-Ray player -- that tried to install a browser add-on that would have presented alternate advertising.)