Microsoft is the company who will do something that sounds good (bitlocker on your surface, which encrypts the hard drive) and then follow it up with something incredibly stupid (bitlocker key is automatically backed up to your Microsoft account, meaning it’s stored on their server and... not actually all that safe),…

Agreed; I’m hoping that the USB-C connector gets popular and kills it, but even then, the lightning connector has the presence of mind to *not* have a tiny, fragile tab in the middle of the thing just begging to chip, or get loose, or get stuck in a cable. Because it’s far cheaper to replace a charger than it is to…

Wow, nice find! Just downloaded, will be playing with this all week.

What’s sad is, if those kids were males wearing nothing but their underwear, there would be nothing offensive about their attire. It would be “funny.”

Welcome to the wonderful world of computer security! We try to avoid this as much as possible through sandboxing and rings of permission (application land, userland, kernel space, bare metal) and through a separation of responsibilities to minimize damage. Any exploit that makes the news like this has found a way…

That is not how DNS servers work. Google’s DNS servers cache the *name lookup only,* and do absolutely nothing for the page content. Their only job is to translate something like “www.google.com” into an IP address. Once your computer has that IP address, it stops talking to Google’s DNS and starts communicating with…

Yes, but it’s important to note that the server compression is *rarely* the bottleneck for most pages. A typical request to a static webpage spends far more time waiting on network transfers. A dynamic webpage will typically spend the bulk of its time talking to the backend, perhaps a database, then generating the…

I sincerely hope the cracked shell was an accident, and the photographer is simply making the best of it. I doubt the chick will survive, and I feel like the missing shell alone guarantees that; the ink is not helping, but it was doomed anyway.

Because the drone needed to arrive at empty space anyway. Now it is much easier for it to discard information that is irrelevant to it’s goal; by identifying empty space directly, the drone doesn’t need to know that there are 57 trees in the forest. It simply needs to know that there are no trees between it and where…

I’m certain that was one of the requirements set forth by Mojang during the interactions: that Microsoft allow Minecraft to continue to be cross platform, and never a console / PC exclusive.

I remember the computer games! I was most fond of the one where the kids got to visit all the planets, and play around in variable gravity. I’m sure it’s not *nearly* as amazing as my 6 year old brain remembers, so I refuse to go look at it again, but man. Nostalgia!

They did for Skyrim (see: Schlongs of Skyrim, and I have no shame posting that because SERIOUSLY, if you’re going to make a dick mod, that name alone wins the internet) so I can only imagine Fallout 4 will follow, once they figure out the changes to the physics system and skeleton definitions.

You’ve got this backwards; we’ve already started. This article is *extremely* respectful and well written. Before her transition, you would have known her as Cosmo.

I mean, it’s not like you couldn’t pay for financial counseling at that point anyway.

Can I just be excited about Deadpool’s body? I’m finding it hard to be ashamed about this.

I’m really excited for this. I’ve tried other x86 builds in the past, and getting Google apps working on them (which I use all the time) was a chore at best, and performance was really wonky.

Let’s not forget that shaders are most definitely code; they are compiled by the graphics card drivers into machine language (for the shader cores in the GPU) and then executed in parallel to calculate the color of each pixel / position of each vertex.

Hey, there’s an idea! ;)

My God, Cigarettes are the worst. This apartment I’m in was previously owned by a smoker, and it was obvious when I walked in the door. It took me probably 3-4 months of regular vacuuming to get to where I don’t notice the smell anymore.

I’m not. I like to pay for my games and then ideally MOD them.