Recent content by linuxgeex

sorry I meant filters, not lenses.

Dude, Polarization is not Quantum Spin Up/Down. Polarization is the plane of orientation of the light, and/or the direction of rotation of the EM field components as it propagates. Typical polarizing lenses polarize the light to a plane, so placing 2 lenses at 90 degrees to each other blocks...

Oh, and BTW if you want to buy drives for a home NAS, avoid Enterprise and NAS-focused models. Consumer models are designed to last the longest. Enterprise and NAS drives are designed for performance first, reliability second, you pay more and they fail more.

@JP76 See the Backblaze articles on HDD failure rates. SiezeGate is by far the worst offender, has been ever since they introduced the Caviar lineup, which is when they earned themselves the 'SiezeGate' moniker.

See the Backblaze article on HDD failure rates. SiezeGate is by far the worst offender, always has been.

So now Intel is moving from "It's not a bug - operating as designed" to "It's a feature! Vulnerable as Shipped."

What, no display out ports? Is this a CUDA accelerator?

I'm guessing you could also snip the wire to that pin. If the molex is working simply due to lack of connection then severing the connection would have the same result... use a pin to separate the ribbon, cut 2-3mm out of that wire, job done.

Unbelievable FUD. Believe it or not, the Internet is bigger than the USA. Believe it or not, hundreds of countries have no FCC and no Net Neutrailty. Believe it or not, our ISPs do the right thing because of basic Censorship rules and because fair market capitalism demands it. You Americans...

I realise that you guys think that the USA owns the world, but the Internet is bigger than you. There's hundreds of countries with no FCC, with no Net Neutrailty rules, and fair market capitalism is the only rule making our ISPs do the right thing. You Americans do remember fair market...

Quantum computers are basically the equivalent of FPGA for analog computing.

Hannibal: yes this will be bad for battery life. If you want good battery life you can limit FPS via about:config layout.frame_rate. I use 6fps in firefox for browsing on battery and then I switch to Chrome when I'm plugged in. Adblock and Noscript are also really good for reducing your...

Lucian speculates: "One side benefit of Mozilla making its web rendering engine act as a gaming engine does is that Firefox could become the best browser for 3D web games. Coupled with WebAssembly, which will allow game developers to port their C++ 3D games and run them at near-native speed...

If you used a social login, ie google account, then you didn't have a password to be reset and they may have just invalidated the platform secret so that you needed to authorize it again... many users wouldn't notice that they had to do that, they would just click the auth button and keep posting.

Touch ID isn't 20x more secure than Touch ID. Who'd've thunk it?