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I read the short story that it's based on and have NO FREAKING CLUE how they can make that into a movie without destroying the central conceit of the written work.

Chicago wouldn't be HORRIBLE, but AFAIK the best Summer Olympic venues in the USA would be LA and Atlanta. LA has the transit infrastructure and plenty of huge stadiums already and Atlanta still has the facilities from whenever its Olympics was, which were already some of the cheapest games in...

Something very amusing to me happened over the weekend. The Hugo Awards for Science Fiction in media were given for this year. That by itself is fairly unremarkable, but for the last few years there has been a concerted effort by white male conservatives, usually called the Sad Puppies, to...

sed, A+, Network+, Server+ and Security+ are all good entry-level certs. They're all pure book learning, but the tests are expensive and the certs expire after two years. If you can convince somebody to pay for the tests, go nuts. You can probably get through A+ with a few days of study. In an...

I'm in the fast cadence beta updates ring on my Thinkpad and I've had it for months. It's been fine.

I really do wish we had European style ownership of personal information here in the USA. California has a state law that requires notification of theft of personal information and that's a start. I have a feeling that if that were not law in California, we'd never even know about a lot of data...

Shockwave 12.1 for Windows seems to have been the issue. I still don't know why it was a problem, but any time it was getting invoked, my PC would drop out of its hardware accelerated video mode. There might be a better way to do it, but I had to sit there with a web object inspector, my ad and...

Not a problem man. I'm sitting here and watching Process Explorer and flipping through Imgur with Palemoon and Chrome right now. I'll catch a pattern eventually.

That's not even remotely safe. I also use the same collection of addons and configuration on all my other machines, which don't have any issues.

I turned off the Desktop Experience for Windows Server entirely and... Nope, no pauses. Of course, that also means my video card is doing nothing but sucking electricity for no reason.

I ran in to something like that on my Thinkpad. I just disabled Hibernation. I've never seen a Windows machine where it's not buggy in some way.

The Assistive Upgrade goes straight to the Anniversary version, too. Oh, and it didn't uninstall Spybot 2.4, like previous major Windows 10 updates have.

Main display, whichever one it is. Windows doesn't accelerate video on secondary displays unless you have something that's stretched over from the primary, so this probably isn't surprising. If my pointer happens to be over on one of the other screens, I can continue to interact with that...

This is driving me mildly nuts and I've done a few rounds of testing without making any headway, so I'm just going to ask others. My main desktop (Haswell-E, 80GB RAM, GTX970) freezes when I encounter certain web videos. The freeze lasts 1.5 seconds or so, just long enough to be annoying but not...

So did my Chase Visa. How long until they scale that one back?

Do you have a small SSD? My classroom systems upgraded over the weekend and they seem to. They were upgraded and then fresh installed, so they shouldn't have had a Windows.old otherwise. But yeah, if you search for it, you can find a place to get Windows 10 via an upgrade loophole regarding...

It's not out of place. Lots of people have cameras out. If you're looking at someone's 500 hour labor of love costume, it's something they want others to see. When I see something important. I stop, stand still and move carefully. Most of what I'm recording will just get cut regardless.

I have a Chase Amazon Rewards Visa. They lowered the reward levels today. I used to get 5% back on Amazon purchases, which is fantastic since I buy a lot of stuff that gets reimbursed or is billable somehow. Now it's just 3%. Goddammitsomuch.

i3 + SSD is absolutely the way to go. But that's a terrible configuration in a consumer machine because in a lot of cases they reserve the SSDs for Gaming/Prosumer products and don't even give the options on the low end or midrange. Look at what's on offer at a Best Buy and you'll see what I...

It's several versions out of date, which is one of the reasons I asked.

These problems would go away if they'd just make at least a few 5:4 or 4:3 panels.

I'm doing the underhanded "Assistive Technologies" upgrade loophole just now. I installed Windows 8.1 on a machine and I'm going to try moving it to 10. It's painfully slow compared to just installing off a flash drive but if it works, I think I'm OK with that. Also, if you're getting the...

SD, are you messing with madVR with Kodi or still just MPC?

You might look to see what you can do in an Intel NUC, given his modest needs. I'd probably direct him to Office 365 if he wants 2016, or else pick around some of the usual suspects to find an Office 2010 license if he doesn't care about getting the latest version. In this case the NUC might...

The Edgerouters are pretty easy to set up with a source config file like the ones in this article. Once you've got one more-or-less working like a "consumer" router", you can worry about the details of getting other stuff working. Here's an article on how to failover two WAN links in EdgeOS. But...

I put my phone on a short lanyard that falls around my sternum. I walk around the entrance to a comic book convention. I've never done four full hours of video but I've done more than two several times and I could see going longer if I didn't want to go do other things. Even two hours of video...

The best thing about Interstellar is its Hans Zimmer score. I couldn't even finish the movie.

Christians DO engage in fairly organized efforts to kill people. I realize you probably haven't spent much time around any health services provider where someone might go to have an abortion, but they're not worried about Muslims in those places. Do you remember the Colorado Springs shootings...

It's unlikely that any video I shot would be of such interest to merit use of a dSLR.

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.