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Thanks! Yeah it looks like it will be a tough race, from ESET getting hot off the mark.

True - I just hope we can rally them all in the next 5 hours!

Just get a free copy of your credit report, look for any incorrect info and challenge it. It doesn't cost anything to challenge, so you can even challenge any old debt just to force the debt collector to make sure they have the proper paperwork.

You can now sign up for an Oculus Rift demo at Best Buy:
https://www.reddit.com/r/oculus/comments/4hicdg/osa_oculus_rift_retail_availability_demos_and/

Been playing a lot of Clash Royale on mobile. It's a free to play game, but it has some deep strategy enough to be fun.

I finished Doom, which was just the right length, and started on Just Cause 3. JC3 has really done a better job with the tutorial and pacing than JC2 and I'm digging it so far.

Congrats!

The only downside to the event is that it's crowded heck.

@DustinB3403 said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:

@Nic which model of that GPU do you have?

Just got the new GTX 1080, the nvidia edition. I couldn't wait until they came out with the other editions

@wirestyle22 yeah I've been on a 680 for 4 years, and I held my breath through the 900 series to see what would come next.

Looks like the clearance sales on 980s have begun:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814127912&ignorebbr=1

Green Man Gaming has a mystery game sale:
https://www.greenmangaming.com/games/mystery-bundle-1-pack/
for 20 cents a game.

I bought one and got Plants vs Zombies 2: Garden Warfare, which I miraculously didn't own yet. Score!

Here's the RSS feed for our security news forum if you want to embed it anywhere:

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@wirestyle22 said in Powerline Adapter Security:

@travisdh1 @aaronstuder What about speed though? I always thought it was super gimped and should only be used in situations where wireless can't be used but you can't run cabling at all.

speed is awesome these days. better than wifi by a mile

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Stepping back to some fundamental items:

• Generating Power using combustion
  ** Makes noise and would draws attention.
  ** Requires Fuel of some kind. Petrol products 'expire' and are limited in supply.
  ** Requires Fuel storage - which can be a hazard and liability, and difficult to relocate.

• Generating Power using Solar
  ** Requires space for panels.
  ** Has to be 'banked' for poor solar exposure days (clouds, darkness)
  ** Has to be converted to run AC devices

You can generate fuel to run a generator, but it is a process - needs time, resources, and space.

There are other ways of generating electricity, using steam power; either solar based or fuel based - fuel being petrol or biomass... again - needs space and generates some noise.

Keep in mind that solar panels (photovoltaic cells) will degrade over time, same is true for the batteries. They will degrade even faster. While solar panels are OK for like 20 or 30 years, you will need to replace the batteries every 5 to 10 years. Think about your UPS for example. There are technologies that let you store power in a mechanical way, like a flywheel generator, but this may be hard to find.

So something nuclear would be better, IMHO.

Nuclear is better until.... it goes nuclear...

Rather being the dark... They did it in the olden days..

But hey, if things go south you can read in the dark - without any light The nice green glow will be enough.

I went to school for nuclear science, specifically for making nuclear weapons, and I can assure you that you can indeed read by the light of Uranium, if you have enough.

Not for long maybe, but yes, that works.

Well, radiation exposure works differently than commonly believed, in fact if you're conceived and born in a highly radioactive environment, you're actually extremely resistant to it (by that I mean a place radioactive as a result of human activity, not the surface of Mars, for example). It's why claims that Chernobyl would basically be sterile and kill everything for the next quadrillion years turned out to be total nonsense, and in fact people are already moving back there, animals are fine, plants are fine, but yes they do contain more radioactivity.

Radiation also doesn't cause deformity in the same way commonly claimed, it usually just causes sterility (not to say it can't, it certainly can deform). Additionally, the concept of nuclear winter is also unlikely, considering it was made up by Carl Sagan who was a good astronomer, but in every other field was always highly alarmist as well as pretty ignorant. It likely would be a nuclear autumn.

Not to down play this at all, literally billions would die, but long term humanity would absolutely survive, and life would go on.

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@scottalanmiller said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:

Pokemon Go just pushed the Google account "scope" issue patch.

good for them for responding so quickly

@Jstear said in Which comes first Laws or Lawyers:

@Nic What if the egg was laid by another species?

The proto-chicken laid the first chicken egg due to a mutation, which then became the first chicken.

@Kelly said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:

@Nic said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:

Solidly into Fallout 4. Had to increase the FOV so I wouldn't barf, but otherwise I'm enjoying the game a lot. It's more in the style of FO3, which I preferred over FNV.

A significant percentage of the Steam reviews bash it for losing the character building aspects and say that it feels more like an adventure shooter than an ARPG. What is your experience?

My experience is that it's just like FO3, but with the basebuilding for settlements. Plus more crafting for weapons and armor. I enjoyed the additions.

Get your very late $30 rebate for a 970:
https://www.reddit.com/r/pcmasterrace/comments/4v1m5j/nvidia_settles_on_gtx_970_vram_lawsuit_30_per_card/

Can I just have the shirt? I promise to wear it all the time and get you guys lots of publicity