Comment Re:End of week (Score 1) 958
Fox News has Biden declared winner on their front page as well.
Comment Finally (Score 1) 958
This has been the longest Tuesday ever.
Comment Re:Golden age of remakes maybe (Score 1) 1222
Wrong again, it is just Pocahontas in Space
Submission + - Microsoft Blocking Windows 7/8.1 Updates on Intel Kaby Lake CPU's (arstechnica.com)
halfEvilTech writes: Last year Microsoft announced they where planning on blocking OS updates on newer Intel CPU's namely the 7th Generation Kaby Lake. Now, the answer appears to be "this month." Users of new processors running old versions of Windows are reporting that their updates are being blocked. The block means that systems using these processors are no longer receiving security updates.
While Windows 7 has already ended mainstream support, the same can't be said for Windows 8.1 which is still on mainstream support until January of next year.
While Windows 7 has already ended mainstream support, the same can't be said for Windows 8.1 which is still on mainstream support until January of next year.
Comment Re:Rule Change when it's in his best interest? (Score 2) 450
The GOP cited that in their rule change for Supreme Court justices. Before it was limited only to lower courts.
The rule was in place after the GOP refused to hear any Obama nominees. It was warned back then that it will come back to bite them in the ass and sure enough it did.
The one thing not coded in the constitution though is how many justices sit on the Supreme Court. That is actually in the Judicial Act of 1869 which set the number of justices to 9. It had been as high as 10 previously. But there is nothing stopping them if they have the votes to create a bill allowing more justices to be on the court and start flooding the court with them.
Submission + - Gorsuch Confirmed to SCotUS (washingtonpost.com)
halfEvilTech writes: The U.S. Senate confirmed Neil M. Gorsuch to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court on Friday. On a vote of 54 to 45, senators confirmed Gorsuch, 49, a Denver-based judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit. He will become the 113th person to serve on the Supreme Court and is scheduled to be sworn in Monday.
Comment Re:units (Score 1) 103
If you include the web archive for the LoC - then you are looking at just over 600 TB for 1 LoC unit.
As of July of last year the LoC has archived about 545 TB of web data, and add about 5 TB a month on top of that. In addition in 2012 the data size of the books and other media was about 15 TB.
sources -
https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2F...
https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fblogs.loc.gov%2Fthesigna...
Comment The biggest take away from this (Score 1) 157
Is that people still willingly have windows phones?
Comment Re:The point of the electoral college (Score 1) 1081
the how about the alternate approach? Instead of winner take all make the splits based on the states popular vote and divide them up accordingly.
Comment alternative approach (Score 3, Insightful) 1081
The Electoral College is due to the fact we live in a republic- the number of electoral votes is equal to the sum of the house and senate.
A better approach would be to divide the Electoral College votes proportionally to the vote cast in the sate. This would then still give candidates incentive to campaign in smaller or less populated states.
If we where to go to a straight out popular vote only then people will complain that it is always the big states like California and New York that decide every election and as such Presidential candidates will likely only stop in those larger cities along the costs and be damned to fly over country as they call it.
Comment Re: Single use? (Score 2) 761
My Nexus 5 supports FM just fine by using the headphone as part of the antenna and using the NextRadio app - http://nextradioapp.com/
Comment Re:This is why we had a 90% tax percentile (Score 1) 166
Based on your logic all sales taxes and their equivalents should also go away, after all all our money is taxed twice minimum. First we pay taxes when we earn our paychecks then we have to pay tax on those already taxed dollars when we purchase goods.
Comment And from the What-Can-Possibly-Go-Wrong Dept.... (Score 3, Insightful) 108
Google is opening up the naming suggestions for Android N to the internet.
hopefully no one submits Namely McNameFace
Comment Re:an easier way to make up revenue. (Score 1) 347
this would be fine if South Dakota had a State Income tax.
Comment Re:Read: You're going to need it for PSVR (Score 0) 67
Incorrect, 4k resolutions is 4x that of 1080p not twice.
resolution of 3840x2160 is not twice that of 1920x1080
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