For comparison, here’s the same crop from a (heavily compressed) 1080p video file:

Well, Judge for yourself. Here’s a screen cap running at full screen, 1080p:

I watched GOT last night on my HTPC (Mac Mini) via the browser player. Unfortunately, while I didn’t have any lag or other streaming hiccups, the picture quality simply wasn’t up to snuff. It looked to be 480P at best (certainly not HD), and with plenty of compression artifacts to boot. Moreover, the web player did a…

Website operators outside China who insist on embedding content and trackers linking to China-hosted servers should insist on HTTPS-only connections to those servers, hopefully using a certificate authority that is not under direct Chinese government control, as only strong end-to-end encryption can really prevent…

Sadly, though, the GOP seems able to dig up plenty of troglodytes who are willing to spam “librul” media sites for free. Paying people to do it as part of a government sponsored propaganda campaign takes things to an entirely different level.

I'd like to suggest that the answer to not enough women in Formula One probably has something to do with reducing the number of misogynist assholes running Formula One.

Because it’s designed to appeal almost exclusively to Chinese tastes.

As someone who works in software, this makes me a bit sad. Decimal arithmetic may be more intuitive for your average user. However, it makes little sense when you're dealing with systems that are fundamentally binary, and only serves to create inefficiencies. Our future robot overlords will not be amused.

Ironically, the people who tend to rave about how unsafe nuclear power is are the same people who tend to rave about how much safer organic products are.

You know who else qualifies as as "eccentric billionaire?" Red McCombs, the Texas car dealer magnate who (among other obscenely rich car dealers) is bankrolling this anti-Tesla effort.

This is one of the reasons why, particularly if you have a newer iPhone with TouchID, you should use a full alphanumeric password rather than a 4 digit passcode.

I once experienced a similar phenomenon when I had a right rear wheel bearing failure in the middle of a left hand corner while racing a 944 in Chump. It's as if the car suddenly acquires rear wheel steering, and not in a helpful way. Thankfully, I wasn't going anywhere near that fast and I was able to catch it, but I…

Pastor Maldonado?

I bet it's not even extra chunky...

That's a fine stance in principal, but it tends to ignore the possibility that the highly-capital-intensive business of providing internet access is essentially a natural monopoly that can only be effectively controlled through regulation. Perhaps open access rules would serve better to regulate that monopoly than…

84 lbs is approximately the weight of you average, healthy elementary schooler. School trip!

I have a Mercedes with this shifter design and admittedly it creates occasional cognitive issues when transitioning back and forth to other cars (as auto-journos often do). That said, a month is more than enough time to become accustomed to it.

Whenever I hear the term " bank grade encryption," I think 3DES (Triple DES), which is traditionally used by the banking industry but, frankly, kinda sucks. I know it's probably just meaningless marketing babble anyway, but I hope Venmo is at least using AES 256.

That NAS test you're referring to was not in any way scientific (e.g. double-blind), and was almost certainly yet another example of the subjective, confirmation-bias-driven "testing" bullshit that permeates the self-proclaimed audiophile sphere. There is no plausible explanation, grounded in actual physics and math,…

I feel like this is the new way to show you are uber rich... people who are only mildly extremely rich drive street versions of hypercars, people who are uber obscenely rich buy track only specials of street cars and smugly laugh about those who have to use their street car at the track, I mean goodness old fellow…