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by techrat 12y ago
No. Due to the way that Apple designed the Lightning connector, it's not capable of higher USB specs than 2.0. Limited pins and the connector inside the socket only contacts one side at a time.
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by techrat 12y ago
C1 came first, is available now and has a fully open GPU whereas the Pi still relies on Broadcomm's mostly proprietary chip. C1 also allows you to add NAND directly to the board where the Pi is still limited to MicroSD. C1 also confirm
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by techrat 12y ago
Unfortunately his apology carries no weight as he's been called out on it before. http://www.reddit.com/r/Android/comments/2236jy/i_am_the_dev...
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by techrat 12y ago
Also all over Reddit now. http://www.reddit.com/r/Android/comments/2u9pol/developer_of... http://www.reddit.com/r/Android/comments/2u9zkx/dont_install...
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by techrat 12y ago
Seagate started tanking, not surprisingly, shortly after they acquired Maxtor. Generally the last good stretch of Seagate drives was just before 750GB was the top size. When the drives started reaching 1TB capacity... There were models wher
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by techrat 12y ago
Or: - They supposedly were collecting all this info and didn't think to warn Sony about any potential issues.
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by techrat 12y ago
There was this one game I picked up off the shelf at Target wayyyyyyyy back in the day (likely around 1990-1992) that had printed on the box a selling point that you could hear music without a sound card. It used the pc speaker. And sounded
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by techrat 12y ago
>Your position could still be accurately tracked though. If by triangulation alone...
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by techrat 12y ago
>But the assumption of password usage is that the password itself is never stored - the ciphertext of this cipher should itself not be available to an attacker. I think the Gawker leak alone is enough of a precedent to ensure that this c
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by techrat 12y ago
After the recent publishing of how Apple Macbook Pros with Thunderbolt ports can be bootkitted ... Yeah, knowing that USB 3.1/C can provide PCIeX/DMA access to the system is a touch worrying.
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by techrat 12y ago
kUbuntu. xUbuntu. lUbuntu. Honestly. Fuck Unity and Gnome.
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by techrat 12y ago
>I just dread the idea of moving to Linux again. I don't want to tinker that much. The thing about Linux is that once you've tinkered, things stay the way you are. Copy over your home folder to your next distro and just about e
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When AV apps go rogue – CleanMaster flags a competing app SD Maid as malware(plus.google.com)
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by techrat 12y ago
> Apple makes quality hardware. If it were otherwise, they wouldn't be able to charge so much. How's that Kool Aid taste?
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by techrat 12y ago
You'd think after 10 years having model after model of aluminium built laptops, Apple would have found a way to solve the heat issues they always have... but nope, they still think it's a good idea to put the heat exhaust vent rig
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by techrat 12y ago
Humidity. 50f in San Fran can feel downright chilly. 50f in Chicago is shorts weather.
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by techrat 12y ago
Also keep in mind that Indians also largely only wore leather. Leather is renowned for its great insulative properties. The other factor is wind exposure. It's easier to stay tolerant of cold when there's no wind. When that wind p
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by techrat 12y ago
>Assange has said he would go to Sweden if provided with a diplomatic guarantee that he would not be turned over to the United States[70] but the Swedish foreign ministry stated that Sweden's legislation does not allow any judicial
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by techrat 12y ago
Name one other incident where an international manhunt was conducted for what basically amounted to a groping charge. Also, from Wiki: Assange’s lawyers have invited the Swedish prosecutor four times to come and question him at the embassy,
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by techrat 12y ago
Desolation of Smaug has this issue as well. The only time the film felt truly deep and expansive to me was when Bilbo first stepped into Erebor and you got to see how massive the pile of gold was as it panned through the main chamber. Then
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by techrat 12y ago
My Chromebook turned xUbuntu system is already back online before the screen turns back on after opening the lid. All of the Macs we use in the studio are much slower than that.
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by techrat 12y ago
Even in terms of investment, you want steady, constant growth... not unpredictable swings.
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by techrat 12y ago
Yet... Bitcoin has performed worse than the Ruble. http://qz.com/312598/bitcoin-is-the-worst-investment-of-2014...
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by techrat 12y ago
Bitcoin, however, was still a worse investment over the Ruble for all of 2014 (So far.) http://qz.com/312598/bitcoin-is-the-worst-investment-of-2014...
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by techrat 12y ago
Not in the slightest based on his commenting history.
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by techrat 12y ago
What company do you work for so that we can thoroughly vet that you are not a part of any global conspiracies? If we do find something that could be a problem, you will be tried for crimes against humanity as a lowly employee trying to make
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by techrat 12y ago
And entirely preventable. Dude was an arrogant shitehead.
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by techrat 12y ago
That video also shows the prime failure in having an anarchy server: It's so easy to cheat. The guy has a radar and can spot any player before they could spot him. Then there's loads of other plugins that people use to find ore, h
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by techrat 12y ago
Politics of spite, not logic and reason.
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by techrat 12y ago
The next two years are going to be full of "wrong" votes.

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