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    Prophet of Entropy got a reaction from NinjaJc01 in Caterpillar Releases Its Own Smartphone   
    this looks like a nice phone, I know a lot of guys who would like a flir camera on their phone, tons of uses for doing equipment maintenance and wear monitoring. 
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    Prophet of Entropy got a reaction from Sky Daddy in TSMC Beats Samsung For NVIDIA's Pascal GPU - Confirmed to Feature 16GB of HBM2   
    16GB of vram, 10Xs the bandwidth, those are gonna be some tasty textures that take advantage of that.
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    Prophet of Entropy got a reaction from mikat in TSMC Beats Samsung For NVIDIA's Pascal GPU - Confirmed to Feature 16GB of HBM2   
    16GB of vram, 10Xs the bandwidth, those are gonna be some tasty textures that take advantage of that.
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    Prophet of Entropy reacted to dalekphalm in Teen Sentenced to 11 years+lifetime internet monitoring for supporting ISIS via Social Media.   
    As others have stated numerous times in this thread:
     
    Under American Law, it is illegal for Americans to knowingly and intentionally provide support to a Terrorist Organization.
    https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/2339B
     
    Straight up, what he did was illegal. Whether his record is "wiped" (More like sealed, not erased) when he turns 18 entirely depends on whether he was tried as an adult or not. Not to mention that this would only kick into effect after he's released from his sentence.
     
    He didn't just "provide knowledge freely available" to random dudes online. He specifically and intentionally showed ISIS members how to use Bitcoins to hide their transactions. That's wilfully helping the funding of terrorism - even if he does not contribute (Same reason an accountant for a terrorist would be guilty, just to a higher degree in that case).
     
    Furthermore, he attempted to provide transportation for radicalized individuals to travel to Syria to fight against the US and her allies. That is also quite exceptionally illegal.
     
    I agree - although I would personally support a shorter sentence - maybe 5 years - and then heavy mandatory counselling and therapy to try and de-radicalize him.
     
    Indeed. That's not just posting a random "How-to" guide online. It's the difference between posting the basics behind explosive chemistry, to specifically teaching a terrorist how to make a bomb, knowing he's a terrorist and is going to blow up innocent people. There's a line - a difference - that has been crossed in the latter example.
     
    Yes, see above - his actions were straight up illegal under US law.
     
    Erm you got that wrong. He's 17 years old. At 17 years old, I knew the difference between making stupid teenage choices, and wilfully supporting terrorists.
     
    At that age, his parents could be 100% innocent of any wrong-doing - or their could have supported and nurtured his radicalization. There's not enough information to say. In this day and age, a 17 year old teenager could easily be radicalized online without his parents ever knowing.
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    Prophet of Entropy got a reaction from WolfDeville in Teen Sentenced to 11 years+lifetime internet monitoring for supporting ISIS via Social Media.   
    no he got off easy.
     
    11 years of simple internet monitoring for helping, and helping someone join, group who practices rape and murder as much as the US army practices driving.  remember according to ISIS its ok to take a 9 year old as a slave force her to marry you so you can rape her.  plus they pretty much shoot any fighter who surrenders to them. they have murdered thousands of surrenders soldiers.  plus murdering people who try to tell them not to do those things. or how bout beating women who they deem not "modest" enough.
     
    he's a piece of shit who deserves to be killed like every member of isis or supporter.
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    Prophet of Entropy got a reaction from TheConverter in British born ISIS hacker targeted & killed in drone strike   
    every member of ISIS needs to get blown the fuck up.
     
    if you don't agree with me, try reading up on what ISIS does in the regions it controls to people who wont subscribe to their version of islam.
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    Prophet of Entropy got a reaction from dalekphalm in Japan is turning back on their nuclear reactors   
    the current level of stockpiled thorium in LFTR reactors could power all of the current earths needs for 400 years.
     
    we don't look for thorium atm, its a mining by product.
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    Prophet of Entropy got a reaction from Rheinwasser in BackBlaze - HDD reliability stats for Q2 2015   
    something to do with HGST drives costing 2-3 times as much as the WD drives.
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    Prophet of Entropy reacted to Unhelpful in According To 8chan's /tech/, Windows 10 Could Be Fairly Malicious   
    While Windows 10 will probably be very slightly malicious, let's not forget that 8chan and 4chan are mentally handicapped children waddling around and eating their own fecal matter.
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    Prophet of Entropy got a reaction from EChondo in Steve Wozniak: Edward Snowden is 'a hero to me'   
    snowden  may not be a "hero" but I think "heroes" as a concept are ridiculous.  but I think what he did was very admirable, considering he knew it would make him incredibly powerful enemies.
     
    as other people in this thread have said anyone who thinks he's a traitor is either delusional, ignorant or so authoritarian in their world view as to be un-American themselves.
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    Prophet of Entropy got a reaction from MrDynamicMan in Steve Wozniak: Edward Snowden is 'a hero to me'   
    snowden  may not be a "hero" but I think "heroes" as a concept are ridiculous.  but I think what he did was very admirable, considering he knew it would make him incredibly powerful enemies.
     
    as other people in this thread have said anyone who thinks he's a traitor is either delusional, ignorant or so authoritarian in their world view as to be un-American themselves.
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    Prophet of Entropy reacted to GETxHIPFIREDx in kinking hose....   
    well i feel stupid.  i wasnt thinking.   
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    Prophet of Entropy reacted to DeViLzzz in Facebook To Buy Oculus Rift For $2 Billion   
    What would be a smart thing for people to do is cancel their DK2 orders and tell Facebook to pay for the research and development. Tell them if they want their new toy to go play with it but not on the consumer's dime. Seriously people cancel your Dk2 orders!
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    Prophet of Entropy reacted to Boon in Facebook To Buy Oculus Rift For $2 Billion   
    Save us Lord Gaben!
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    Prophet of Entropy reacted to FloRolf in Abnormal high temps?   
    dont use prime for haswell and dont use Furmark at all.
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    Prophet of Entropy reacted to lhikary in AMD Demonstrates Full Support for DirectX 12   
    Today, AMD announced support for Microsoft and its revamped graphics application programming interface, DirectX 12, a new "console-like" version of the graphics API that has inspired PC gaming for nearly two decades. During the Microsoft-sponsored panel, DirectX: Evolving Microsoft's Graphics Platform, AMD revealed that it will support DirectX 12 on all AMD Radeon GPUs that feature the Graphics Core Next (GCN) architecture.
    AMD will support and collaborate with Microsoft on the development of the generational advancement of the API, to continue to improve the experience for both developers and end users."AMD strongly believes in the benefits gamers and game developers can realize from lower-overhead API development," said Matt Skynner, corporate vice president and general manager, Graphics Business Unit, AMD. "With the Mantle API, AMD has shown the world our commitment to incredible performance, and we look forward to enabling the same performance gains by supporting the industry-standard DirectX 12."
    Sourcehttp://www.techpowerup.com/mobile/199086/amd-demonstrates-full-support-for-directx-12-at-game-developer-conference.html
    Reaction: Meh
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    Prophet of Entropy reacted to maazster in Intel 5th gen desktop CPUs is leaked to support new IRIS grapichs   
    Not interested in broadwell, i am waiting for Skylake hopefully its another sandybridge competing with the enthusiast platforms like the 2600k did to the 980x
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    Prophet of Entropy got a reaction from Eroda in FYI Direct X12 ANNOUNCMENT   
    DX12 support for GTX 400+ cards, this explains why NVidia announced that they are stopping support of GTX 300 and earlier cards.
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    Prophet of Entropy reacted to Fullmetal1212 in It's Now Illegal to Backup Media You Have Purchased (implied as the gov is restricting access to software used in making backups of movies)   
    we have laws that are the same. Heres a odd one for contemplation. Did you know you will always go to jail or a holding area rather than being kicked out of calgary.
    If you are kicked out of calgary you still have the legal right to ask for a horse and a gun.
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    Prophet of Entropy got a reaction from greenroost1445 in Auto Dealers fire back at Tesla CEO: "This Musk guy, he wants all the profits for himself"   
    screw dealers, drug or auto. 
     
    All they do is add an extra layer of cost for the convenience of a show room, or test drives.   If you don't want either of those a dealership is just an extra huge cost for no value. Why do you think a vehicle loses so much value as soon as its driven off the lot?
     
     
    car dealers are realizing they are pretty much just like any other brick an mortar store.  aka not as good or convenient as an online store if you know exactly what you want.
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    Prophet of Entropy got a reaction from flibberdipper in We're getting closer to the Jetson's house...   
    its an interesting technology, implemented into homes for seniors and into security systems it could be a useful addition to other technologies that preform similar tasks.
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    Prophet of Entropy got a reaction from Fred Castellum in Auto Dealers fire back at Tesla CEO: "This Musk guy, he wants all the profits for himself"   
    its not all about luxury dealers, they aren't that stupid, they know tesla wants to produce mid-range cost electric vehicles.  its not like tesla hid this fact the plan was always, 100k$ car,  60k$ car, then 30k$ car, world changed.  Musk didn't found tesla to make money he did it for the same reason he started Space-X, to make the future he wanted to see, happen.
     
     
      they just want their cut of your money for allowing you the privilege of buying from them.
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    Prophet of Entropy reacted to Bluuz in Seven people own the keys to switch off the internet.   
    7 were given to the men, wisest and fairest, trusted to guard the secret.
    and 7 more, to those who didn't quite make the first cut.
     
    This whole thing sounds like a video game plot.
    A mysterious man hires you to find the seven keys through any means necessary, after you do he shuts down the DNS.
    You must then find the back up seven to restore balance to the world.
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    Prophet of Entropy got a reaction from darkspeedy26 in AIO Liquid Cooling solution for Graphic cards   
    also remember most of the AIOs on the market are just asetek rebrands, and asetek only does commercial sales. 
     
     
     
    the factory that makes g10s makes plenty, its just demand is higher then supply atm, why would they setup a huge production line for a product their customer will use and reuse for the next decade, or until NVidia or AMD change their mounting standard.
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    Prophet of Entropy got a reaction from Warbeast in Using x6 cable splitter for lesser number of fans?   
    current leak???  a wiring harness isn't a semiconductor or capacitor, unless the insulation is damaged and its  shorting out, current leakage isn't a concern.
     
    its wont make any difference unless the device you plug the splitter into cannot handle the combined amperage of the fans plugged into the harness.
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