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Good point. And I guess if that's his fetish and he has a dentist who is cool with it, more power to him.

Naw man. Throw a cheap XBMC/Plex client + some bluetooth speakers in there and set it up so you can run it from other Plex/XBMC systems. It's fantastic. Mount it on a wall in the back of the shower or something.

Well, yeah. The people I work for can't afford anything. Plus all these setups are going to be customized to hell and probably come with an infinite supply of support engineers, but on the off chance a number could come out, it would've satisfied some curiosity. The accounting for all of the...

They certainly can, if that's a module you need. I've not needed to investigate. I believe Untangle has its filtering module set up as part of a subscription package, but your standard-issue OSS system can probably run Squidguard if you want a free option.

It's fun to play with, but at the end of the day, it's a router in a low demand environment. Unless your requirements involve complex encryption or QoS needs, probably just about everything will do what you need.

There is zero evidence of this happening. Ever. Women getting violated by gender-conforming (cisgendered) males in bathrooms? Sure. But explicitly trans people perving on ladies? Please find some evidence of this happening. And there are already relevant laws for dealing with those issues...

Trump says stupid things and doesn't apologize. Here's the actual quote in question, though Mr. Trump has a history making insulting offhand remarks about Hispanics. "When Mexico sends its people, they're not sending their best. They're not sending you. They're not sending you. They're sending...

How much does one cost?

The GOP presidential nominee said without any tempering qualification that Mexicans are rapists. Is that somehow not racist? The party as a whole also believes, according to its longstanding platform, that women and homosexuals should be denied rights. That's the club to which republicans...

It did not stand out to me. But hey, if the racist, misogynistic, homophobic, anti-intellectual shoe fits, maybe you all could pull back on some of that rhetoric to make the comparison a little more remarkable than it presently is.

My biggest single knock against nvidia GPUs is that the cooling solutions seem to be of uniformly poor quality. They suck and die, followed swiftly by the rest of the card. Why would I want nvidia's reference cooler in the first place? Why would anyone?

No one in this thread or in timwhit's linked article used the term Nazi, SD.

Something surprisingly, shockingly non-trivial in Windows 10: Restoring the default Start Menu tiles. The powershell import-startlayout command is broken on Windows 10. I mean it just doesn't work for normal invocation. You can use it during a Deployment scenario, but it'll fail if you try to...

At home, my network runs through a VM with Untangle as the router OS. I could set up a router a whole lot of different ways and overall I don't think it makes much difference for anything I'm doing, it's just that I already had the Untangle VM set up.

Most of the time, when I see Bluestacks installed, it's so a kid can play Android games or run one of those mobile-only messaging apps. The people doing those sorts of things tend to be in the category of folks who know just enough to be dangerous. I can't say with 100% certainty that Bluestacks...

It might be just as well said that he walked back some of the wingnut crap he had to say to win the GOP Primary Beauty Pageant, but of course he inflicted Sarah Palin on a national audience, so I suppose some things just can't be forgiven. But hey, if you're willing to give up a Senate seat over...

I can't decide if this is exciting or not. I feel like I barely touch what my GTX 970 can do, but then I've also plugged it in to my TV and seen 4k games slide down to barely double-digit frame rates. Shipping consoles aren't able to handle 4k, so I suspect the amount of work put in to pushing...

I have a hard time believing you'd rather have an extra Democrat in the Senate compared to a hawkish Republican with the gravitas of a former Presidential run behind him.

We've had an obstructionist congress since at least the (first) Clinton administration. Even when one party has had full control of both congress and the Presidency, intra-faction fighting has done wonders to prevent any sort of lawmaking. It's worth pointing out that the Dems have around a 70...

It's not any sort of surprise at this point since we've widely discussed it, but sed's official, I-just-paid-for-it graduation present is a new Thinkpad T450. i5 / 250GB SSD / 8GB RAM / Windows 7. I'm going to see if I can upgrade the RAM and/or SSD before I pass it along, but I also purchased...

Sounds like that's the IP Helper Service doing its job.

Not that this will make you feel any better, but an overclocked Rpi can also manage some Gamecube stuff at the intended 480p resolution. Something with a Broadwell Atom, however, can step up to Wii levels. And the Wii controller is just a Bluetooth device, which is hardware anything that a...

I'm a big fan of Andy, a preconfigured Virtualbox machine that runs Android/x86. It's not a phone but rather a tablet session, but it runs well for anything that doesn't need specific GPU code (i.e. some Unreal Engine games). Edit: Also, stay right the fuck away from Bluestacks. Every...

One thing they could be doing is Hijacking an HTTP request. That's within the realm of possibility. They could also be using the Windows IP Helper Service and/or a Service of their own devising (do you have the ISP's Support software installed?) to bring up the login page. Since they have...

My friends like to do this thing where no one can go at the same time but they all like seeing super-hero movies with me. So I'm at three viewings now because of COURSE I want to go again. I'll be happy to break down what's going on in as much or little detail as anyone would like. Also...

For all two of the other Windows 10 users, if you're on the fast update release cadence, you can get Adblock Plus for Edge now.

SF members have been amazingly generous this week. Seriously.

You probably could do the work you need with something like Partition Magic, but you're also risking the possibility of killing something the laptop want in order to boot. Starting over is going to be easier if you can take the time to do it.

Navy Pier!

Well, or new builds for folks who don't want 10. Personally I view Windows 7 keys as precious but I still have dozens of Windows 8 license keys that are just going to be wasted.

Oh and also, there are two stingers. The first is after the graphical portion of the credits, the second after the complete credits roll. My second viewing was at a $5 matinee filled with older couples. They didn't find the movie as funny as the opening night crowd, but there was also a lot more...

There was a new Marvel movie. That means, as usual, that I went to the first public showing. This is the thirteenth Marvel movie. And we all have favorites, but there's at least some consensus on top-tier outings. The Avengers and Captain America: The Winter Soldier are usually right at the top...

As a mild clarification: “The Republican establishment is prepared to vote for Hillary Clinton if it means holding onto their fiefdoms.” -- Rush Limbaugh, April 18, 2016. Rush is of course the very definition of "the Republican Establishment"; in this case he might as well be using the royal...

Several SF members have agreed to throw some cash toward a High School graduation gift for sed. If you want to kick in a little, PM me by Saturday. Depending on where we land on a final amount, I'm hoping we can hook sed up with some kind of decent portable computer-thing.

I suspect that the ongoing argument that you're not voting for President, but rather which side gets to choose judicial nominees, will continue to carry a lot of weight in spite of general antipathy toward the presumptive nominees. It's also fairly amusing that at least one of the Koch...

I find Howell's comments very interesting because the Democratic party has always been built on a coalition of interests (labor/urban/progressive/minority/non-Christian) that works together about as well as herding cats, while Republicans for the last ~25 years have largely worked in lock-step...

Hillary went from a 98% chance of winning to a 97% chance. At least there's a message to her campaign that she might be too far to the right of her presumptive supporters.

That definitely sounds like too damned much work. I was hoping you had hit on something that might work universally for new recordings and formats but it doesn't sound like that's the case.

Hey did you ever make any progress with this?

I think we'll probably set up something communal. I've run these things before for SF members. I ran it by a couple folks and I'm sure we're going to be OK for... something, at least. Anyone else who wants to kick in a bit, PM me and I'll put it in the bucket. What's your laptop situation right...

I am mildly surprised that his campaign is still technically viable at this point in the season, but I'll get to vote for Bernie in Indiana's primary tomorrow. It's very rare for a primary vote to matter in my state, but I'll be happy to cast my ballot in this case.

Not ALL Atoms, just the ones meant for mobile devices. I'm somewhat shocked by that, since it's seemed to me for some time that the primary thrust of its consumer CPU development has been to become competitive in that space.

Hey, so where do we send graduation presents?

I suspect that ever-increasing video processing standards will also drive growth for both processing and storage on the consumer side. Samsung isn't going to get to 8k displays and call it a day when there's a solid market for convincing people they need a new $2500 TV every five years.

I think a big question is who can manage the next couple semiconductor die shrinks and who can afford to build the fabs for turning out chips on that new technology. Samsung is one of the tiny number of companies competing in that space at the moment, but who is doing what in terms of R&D to...

I had an opportunity to shake hands with Hillary Clinton back in 2008. She had a campaign stop at the USWA Union hall that's across the street from my place, a place where I occasionally work. She seemed like a human being made of plastic, someone devoid of sincerity. I've met other celebrities...

C2E2 was like that as well. The first two years were 1/3 the size of the current con I think. I suppose I shouldn't complain, since we have Gen Con, but as I understand things, it has outgrown its space and is kind of a hassle to attend now too.

I can't believe there isn't a PAX show in the midwest.

I played both it and Last Night on Earth on the same weekend. I liked Zombicide better, but they're both fun games.

I don't know if anyone else cares, but there's approximately a zillion tabletop strategy games in today's Amazon Gold Box deals, including Sentinels of the Multiverse, Zombicide and Dixit, all games I really love.