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Project much, Seth?

Eugenics projects were tried all over the place in the 19th century. We'd sterilize criminals, poor people, persons of certain races or nationalities, the mentally ill et al. You don't have to bring up Germans in WWII. We did plenty of it here in the US, too. It never worked out the way people...

It's an architecture thing. Google wraps a lot of stuff in to the Play Services Framework, which can be updated on everything even going back to Android 3 or 4. That's really the important part of the OS (and if you don't believe me, try using an AOSP device without Play or Amazon Services). The...

I don't think there's such a thing as a big enough battery. Maybe if it lasted a week or something. I find that I can go two days without charging if I ignore the fact that I have my phone, but if I'm shooting video I'm only going to get ~4 hours out of it no matter what I do. And I'd rather...

What you'll want is to set up a failover connection using something like dd-wrt or tomato. You'll have to configure a couple VLANs and set up a script to change the default route for the dd-wrt box when the fast connection dies. There's examples of how to do it on the dd-wrt wiki.

For that to happen Iranian actors would have to buy or manufacture a suitcase nuke and construct it within US borders. Maybe they could drive one from Tehran to Berlin, Paris or Moscow. A dirty bomb made with radioactive waste is a lot more achievable, but they can do that right now and that has...

SD, the Iraq withdrawal was set by a timetable agreed to by the Bush administration before Obama ever took office. I think you know that. You're just choosing to ignore it. We didn't squander a damned thing. We changed the regime and installed a friendly regime. Everything beyond that was...

As opposed to, you know, starting another round of wars in the middle east, yes. Taking a hard line is just going to create more and more intractable conflict. We can't truly put a stop to any other nation's nuclear ambitions without military force of some sort. We got concessions in exchange...

The Patriot Act is a creation of a particular moment in time. I believe it had already been written at some right wing think tank or other that was just waiting for the right moment to spring it on the country. It is literally impossible to read, because it is not a document that describes new...

I'm 40 and I can still hear into the 20kHz range. I objectively have better hearing than most people my age. I also have enough of a music background to follow individual instrument parts while listening to an orchestral recording. I find it relatively easy to hear artifacts of low bit-rate...

I might have read this, but here's the thing: I recognize author's name. He's very active in the Pickup Artist scene, which is a particular brand of manipulative misogyny that leads to a particular brand of entitlement mentality common to Reddit/Voat MRAs, Gamergate Dickwads and my older...

... unless you like removable batteries and card readers. LG delivered the Android M update for my phone on midnight, January 1st, 2016. Sprint made it available immediately. I've continued to get OS updates from LG in a timely fashion. I know Samsung abandons hardware at the drop of a hat but...

This has to be one of my favorite election stories of the last few weeks: Donald Trump's Social Media Handlers appear to have locked him out of Twitter.

What I'm not seeing when I look at Syncovery is any indication that it stores files in a backup format. It looks more like a front-end to rsync. I need to sit down and play with this stuff more than I have.

Android is an open system running on relatively open hardware that's largely manufactured by the lowest bidder in a country with a monolithic security apparatus. There are going to be exploitable flaws everywhere. You could probably flash Ubuntu or NetBSD onto your phone but you'd be giving up...

I listened to a cam on Sunday. Didn't really watch it, but I played it while I was working on some stuff. This was a mild obligation for me since nerd girls are going to talk to me like I've seen it anyway. Not going to comment of visuals except that apparently the entire DC Murderverse happens...

What's the definition of smaller? 5", 4.7", something like that? I had it in my head that the Moto G was a "small" phone but I just looked and it's still a 5" device.

There might also be a solid case for Blackberry Hub, which is $1/month. I installed it on somebody's phone today. It ties together Personal, Business and social media messaging and calendars and might be really cool if you have a lot of that stuff.

Probooks are like Dell Vostro or Lenovo E series. They're consumer models with business support. That's not the worst thing ever but it doesn't really help the brand, either.

The Surface 3 has a different digitizer than the 1st and 2nd-generation products. It's a step down from the older ones as I understand things. I don't know why Microsoft hasn't implemented Swiftkey for Windows yet. They own the company. Swipe-to-type is one of my big beefs against Windows on...

It's my image viewer of choice. I never liked IrfanView's UI.

Cartoon-Harley was Joker's Psychiatrist (yes, she's a medical doctor), who was sufficiently manipulated by the Joker to abandon that life and take up with him. She got her original costume by stealing it from a costume shop. Cartoons being cartoons, that was the model for her for the remainder...

From what I'm reading, the last Thinkpad T-series models that are capable of supporting 2xHDD + mSATA/m.2 are the Tx40-series. You have to look at a Tx60p to get one that will actually boot off m.2; lesser models will only use them as caching drives. I understand that the ultrabay has always...

Maybe a Precision 6700? My first thought would be to track down a one or two year old Workstation model rather than trying to bring some consumer-grade 17" POS up to snuff. As far as getting software, having Office, Xnview or Picasa, WinAmp and either VLC or the K-Lite Codec pack would probably...

You could run USB and HDMI over Cat5 and just put the DVD drive upstairs on a USB3 connection.

I'd rather have a phone I can fix myself, but as I've said before I do have some interest in a water-resistant media player.

I suppose we'll find out if Helium drive are more reliable when Backblaze buys more than 45 of them and starts reporting numbers.

In what way is it better to not have the option to fully replace a battery than to walk around with a second object of approximately the same mass as a smartphone that is attached by a thin, tiny cord to my $600 pocket computer? FWIW, the LG V20 will be the first new device to ship with Android...

DC isn't the immediate problem, though they're not blameless. Warner Brothers executives seem to be. Nonetheless, the director of the new movie is having a Twitter-tantrum today. Here's the shame of this: DC's most popular female character is Harley Quinn. Not Wonder Woman or Catwoman or...

I noticed that Slashdot's headline on Backblaze is still incorrectly reporting that Seagate drives are the least reliable, when we know exactly what worst drives are.

The early ratings are in for Suicide Squad and it's not doing well. 34% on Rotten Tomatoes. It's being called a blatant rip off of the Avengers, Guardians of the Galaxy and Deadpool and words like "confused" and "misogynistic" pop up in a lot of the reviews I've read. One review noted that there...

I more or less live in my bedroom, even if I'm by myself. That's just my habit. I have more living space than I need and I don't mind sharing. Having company has real value for me. I know I'm not going to meet a romantic partner living where I do but I do place value on coming home to someone...

She's been my friend for years and she truly has nowhere else to go. Next stop for her is probably going to be a women's shelter unless she can find some other way to live.

Yeah. The only lag I notice is if I'm task switching in and out of the Imgur app. Which probably uses unreasonable amounts of RAM anyway. I did use ADB commands to disable a bunch of crap on mine though. Pre-release launcher, maybe?

Now we just have to get Dwayne Johnson to make a bigger one.

I maintain that Unreal Tournament games are the high water mark for the genre. Doom 2016 is really pretty but there's not very much variety in the settings (Outdoor Mars, Snowy Mars, Base Interior, Lava and Sparks Factory, Science Lab, Hell).

I think so. I believe that it basically adds or re-adds certain IPs to your hosts file and kills some services via group policy settings. There's no reason why that wouldn't work on Windows 7.

I don't have any control over her behavior. If I said she couldn't drink while she stays with me, she'd just drink someplace else and then drive here. I give her a place to stay, which at least keeps her from doing THAT. I have known alcoholics who have straightened themselves out. It does...

Spybot Anti-Beacon kills the Telemetry crap. GWX Control Panel does a good job killing the upgrade offers.

I knew the person I bought the phone from. They're not a sophisticated phone user. I encrypted then erased it, which is certainly enough to kill anything that might've been left over from her use. Why was it $44? Because that's what I had in my pocket.

Every other Star Trek movie is good. I feel like Star Trek needs to be on TV and not in movie theaters, but that cast is so high-wattage that it's never going to happen. The only way that Star Trek movies become events is that they reunite a cast we learned to love from seven seasons of a TV...

I bought an LG Volt 2 (Boost/CDMA) for a friend's birthday. It was $44 as a second-hand phone but honestly it's not bad at all. It's constructed in the same fashion as my LG G4, has the same tap-on for the screen and can be easily repaired. I'm hoping it gets Android M soon because the only real...

Games that have intense simulation components but no physics engine benefit from more cycles and/or more threads. Dwarf Fortress or a contemporary Civilization or SimCity game, maybe?

Yes. Cortana just "enhances" your Searches with results from the internet. It can also interact with your calendar and Email and some data on mobile devices if you have Cortana installed on them. Nothing it does is terribly useful or interesting and its mind-reading is so frequently wrong that...

The corruption is just a lot more transparent this election cycle. There's no doubt in my mind that these leaks happen one some level every presidential election, it's just that this time the public gets to bear witness to it. At the end of the day, I'm still going to vote for the people who...

My permanent houseguest is a full-blown alcoholic. She drinks a fifth (the middle size bottle?) a day and can do that without being visibly impaired. It's pretty sad.

Cortana is the internet-assisted search service in Windows 10. It annoys me by frequently not doing things I'd want it to do, so I always just turn it off.

They're removing end user control for some group policies. They may yet be exposed to domain members and managed systems.

Stranger Things somehow manages to blend ET and Stephen King's IT into something that borders on nostalgia porn for Gen-X sorts, which is the overwhelming majority of folks on this site. It gets slow in places but I liked it and find that depiction of childhood and school life in the 80s very...

I made 36 VMs and activated them just so I have them. Why not? I can use them for virtual desktops or whatever else. I might do 36 more today (I have LOT of extra technet keys). I don't have any hope that they'll survive being reactivated on different hardware, but I could see keeping a few...