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And yet there are people stupid enough to try it.

http://www.cnet.com/forums/dis...

http://9to5mac.com/2014/12/03/...

http://money.cnn.com/2014/12/0...

It appears they have in several iterations over the years. The GP is likely conflating several instances but i cannot find fault with it. I am somewhat concerned about your strict denial without even a simple Google search that brought up the links i posted and more.

Exactly, and the example below shows there's no shortage of overbearing assholes wanting to tell us how to do everything.

http://www.cnn.com/2015/01/20/...

Disclaimer: I'm in favor of vaccinating our kids.

If the minimum wage had been indexed to inflation, since its introduction, it would be $4.13 per hour today.

Here's an interactive chart of the minimum wage: Minimum wage since 1938.

From 3 years ago. It wants its System-Wide App Nap and Safari Power Saver features back...

...a guest SSID on every AP coming to everything near you!

Just be careful with the name Wi-Fi hot spot called 'Mobile Detonation Device' delays flight

It's not as silly as all those parents who knowingly send their daughters off to college knowing that they have a 20% chance of being raped. The President says so.

Oh, you're one of those MRA rape apologists. Good to know.

And it's not 20%, it's 23%. And it's not just the President that says so.

http://www.cnn.com/2015/09/22/...

Number 1 is already happening:

http://money.cnn.com/2016/02/1...

Saudi Arabia just made major replacements in it's government to deal with the collapsing income crisis.

Most oil countries based their economy on $100 or higher oil prices and their citizens do not want to give up the perks now that it is in the $40s.

First link that came up when I did a search.

http://www.cnn.com/2016/02/10/...

yawn.

if we assume that national governments are neutral in this, then they can place a proper value on that environmental cost

Wow, talk about begging the question. Are they neutral? Or will they happily (ab)use this power you propose we give them to reward supporters and punish opponents?

And even if they are free of any agenda — just how can they (or anyone) calculate these costs? The people, who can't keep almost any project within budget and on-time and are notorious for mishandling even the high-profile ones — you are going to trust them to calculate the incalculable?

BP's oil-spill was projected to cost almost $70 bln, for example — but ended up costing $20 bln. Which side would the government have erred on computing the costs of an oil-well ahead of time? And what would it do with the surplus, if the estimates turned out to be exaggerated?

If they can hand bucks to folks to generate power

Itself a shameful practice to be abolished...

How are you planning on replacing the power loss?

The same way they replaced the power loss when the either or both of the plant's reactors are unexpectedly taken offline due to equipment failure, fires, accidents etc. There have been dozens of incidents that have knocked the plant offline without little or no warning and I doubt anyone not paying close attention has ever noticed. The plant is plagued with incidents from control rod failures to transformer explosions to errant bird shit. Somehow NYC has been spared from crippling brownouts.

As it turns out, the grid is remarkably resilient! So even if you were to replace the now 40-year-old reactors with something "less reliable" like wind and/or hydro (if only there was a large body of flowing water nearby...) there would demonstrably be no deficiency in power.

All that is on top of the numerous close-calls and safety violations the plant has been written up for over the past two decades. The place is almost literally held together with duct tape and bailing wire, because maintaining it is expensive and that's bad for the shareholders. The latest tritiated water leak (which is by no means the first, or worst) is just possibly the straw that breaks the regulator's back.
=Smidge=

who has more to take? The kid/parents or the bullshit web 2.0 company with the hyper inflated valuation?

Jesus Christ this whole scandal makes no sense. Every public figure and business should have a secure server. Really. But nobody does. If having an unsecure server is a felony, then just about everybody would be in jail, including the NSA, the director of the CIA, and the largest corporation in the world.

That sounds GREAT!!!! Where do we start?

Charity Watch, anyway, gives The Clinton Foundation an A, saying that 88% of donations goes to charity (the other 12% going to salaries, fund-raising, etc.).

Jesus Christ this whole scandal makes no sense. Every public figure and business should have a secure server. Really. But nobody does. If having an unsecure server is a felony, then just about everybody would be in jail, including the NSA, the director of the CIA, and the largest corporation in the world.

It is when you're violating the law to set it up to avoid FOIA requests.

And then direct your underlings to strip classification markings from secure data and "send it insecure".

Oh yeah, there are emails from Hillary!'s server where she tells an aide to to just that.

Grow some balls and Google "Hillary email remove classification".

Better yet, since you've obviously drank deep of the Klinton Kool-Aid:

In email, Hillary Clinton tells aide to send talking points "nonsecure"

Part of the exchange is redacted, so the context of the emails is unknown, but at one point, Sullivan tells Clinton that aides "say they've had issues sending secure fax. They're working on it."

Clinton responds, "If they can't, turn into nonpaper w no identifying heading and send nonsecure."

Well, no fucking wonder the classified emails that Hillary! saw on her illegal server weren't marked!

Hillary! told her aides to remove the markings!

Charity Watch, anyway, gives The Clinton Foundation an A, saying that 88% of donations goes to charity (the other 12% going to salaries, fund-raising, etc.).

Jesus Christ this whole scandal makes no sense. Every public figure and business should have a secure server. Really. But nobody does. If having an unsecure server is a felony, then just about everybody would be in jail, including the NSA, the director of the CIA, and the largest corporation in the world.

The polls say these two jokers are just about equally loathed.
http://www.cnn.com/2016/03/22/...

Thing is, here in San Francisco, Taxis are doing rather well, despite all the publicity to the contrary.

Yellow Cab might beg to differ.

How would you like it if someone just set up a fruit stand right in front of your house?

I'd feel confused, as it would be a terrible place for a fruit stand. As they'd be on my property, I'd ask them to move. If they refused that perfectly reasonable request, I'd call the police and have them handle the situation from that point forward.

If they were on my neighbors property, I'd still feel confused as it's also a terrible place for a fruit stand. As it would be very close, I'd probably buy some fruit if their prices were reasonable and I wanted some fruit.

In neither case would I threaten violence, internet tough-guy style, against them.

I've heard of this thing called the Golden Rule...

The Golden Rule is treat others as you would like to be treated. It's a tool by which you can make moral decisions regarding your behavior toward others. It's not a bludgeon to use against someone who behaves in a way which you personally disapprove. You can't invoke the golden rule here any more that you could, say, against someone who wears tee shirts instead of polo shirts while shopping. By your reasoning, you could say something ridiculous like "How would you like it if someone was just walking around dressed like a bum while you were trying to shop? Haven't they heard of the golden rule?" It doesn't make any sense.

And then if you complain about it at all you'll be demonized and your life threatened; would you like that?

The only person threatening violence here is the CEO. He's being demonized because he behaved in a way that we, collectively, find detestable. Had his threatening rant been socially acceptable, he'd be lauded as a hero, not afraid to speak out against the tyranny of the small-time fruit sellers.

Meanwhile the fruit stand proprietor isn't even supposed to be doing what he's doing in the first place

This is still unknown. If the fruit vendor was actually violating any local laws then the CEO could have simply called the police and had the scofflaws removed. That he did not seems to indicate to me that the fruit sellers were operating well-within the law. (It's possible that he did call the police, and they were found to be operating their fruit stand legally. Having no other recourse, as the vendors were doing nothing wrong, he ranted about those dirty poor people on the internet.)

How would you like it if you worked hard, started your own company, and became successful... and then were demonized as though you had done something heinous to all of humanity simply by having earned more money than most?

He did do something heinous. He's not being demonized because he has money, he's being demonized because he's being an asshole. We don't think it's okay to threaten violence against a harmless fruit vendor (who is likely operating perfectly legally) for any reason. We particularly dislike people threatening violence against the less powerful. Heaven help you if you dehumanize someone lower on the socioeconomic ladder than you.

Remember those two guys who beat and urinated on a homeless guy last year? Would you say that it was the homeless guy's fault that he was abused and humiliated? It's worse that our fruit vendor, as vagrancy is illegal! How would you like to see some dirty homeless guy when you're on your way back from a baseball game?

The elder Leader brother, Scott, later told police they attacked him because he was "homeless," "Hispanic," and an "illegal immigrant."

Of course, the homeless guy in that story wasn't an "illegal immigrant", but he did look a bit Hispanic, so I guess he had it coming right? Did we demonizing these two hard-working, baseball-loving, white guys? (Yes, we did.) Were they demonized because th

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

http://www.cnn.com/2015/11/26/...
http://www.independent.co.uk/n...

Yeah, show how it is done Australia and Venezuela!

Maybe you want to start from the #10 instead of the #3, or you can go backwards in the slides.

It took me exactly 30 seconds;

http://money.cnn.com/gallery/n...

Ironically enough, even the Koch boys seem to agree that Hillary is probably better than any of the current GOP candidates. That says quite a bit about the GOP IMHO.

Otherwise, we could all exist on a nice diet of canola oil. 2000 calories a day, and we're set.

Hmm, no. I used simple calorie restriction to drop 70 lbs (I'm not saying that it will work for everybody, mind you) but even I know better than to assume that all of your macronutrient needs can be found from just one thing.

But at the same time, there is no escaping the fact that, indeed, eating less by using calories as a yard stick does work most of the time, even if the content of your food is mostly macronutrient with little micronutrient. Is that healthy long term? Probably not, but just in the context of weight loss alone, it works.

http://www.cnn.com/2010/HEALTH...

They've been able to sever and reconnect spinal cords for a while now. The reason it's not all that easy with accident victims is the damage caused by the initial trauma. Look at that guy with the penis transplant - worked just fine, bhis girlfriend is pregnant

And then we have stupidity like this bogus story

Apropos of how complicated this is, there is a story currently circulating about a San Fransisco police officer who had his phone searched due to a sexual assault accusation. He was not charged with sexual assault, just investigated. However in the process of the investigation, numerous racist sounding texts were noticed on his phone. These texts were then released to the public. Yep. That's right. Information from his private text messages, completely unrelated to the investigation, was released to the public.

Check out the article here: http://www.cnn.com/2016/04/26/...

So, what if there are things on that drive that are not CP, but that would be damaging to him if known? All the prosecutor needs to do is say its CP. The judge then incarcerates him until he gives in or is beaten to death by any of the double-Y chromosome inmates that learn what he is charged with. If he gives in and there's no CP, but possibly something else, he's still screwed.

That is too simple a solution for our criminal justice system to not abuse it.

Yeah, and Venezuela is doing so good without the trade embargo. No wait, they're in economic freefall because they nationalized the oil industry and based their entire economy on it (95% of exports), and then oil crashed. Their currency is in the shitter because the government has three confusing exchange rates based on types of imports and nobody wants to import goods into the country anyway because they have no guarantee that the government won't just seize the goods in the warehouse and sell them at a price that it feels is fair. The country is teetering on the brink of default on loans, which I'm sure will really help out.

Venezuela has systematically chased away anyone willing to do any investment in their country by way of stealing the infrastructure and investments they made, and then they wonder why they are going the route of Zimbabwe. And it's the people that will suffer - you can bet that the Maduro government still has a full pantry, and plenty of nice big TVs to watch, and Land Rovers in the driveway.

Hastily built apps having poor security is probably the norm for all these candidate apps. I don't see that Symantec being wrong about their security (notwithstanding their poor reputation). After all, the quality of these apps are a fine example to "Amercia".

I hate to burst your bubble but the median household income in 2014 was $53,657. That's regardless of single or dual income. I would be willing to bet that most people on here are lucky enough to have never made below median income, and that most of our friends are above this threshold as well, so we never see it. source: http://money.cnn.com/2015/09/1...

http://money.cnn.com/2015/07/2...

He threatened to give all refugees Schengen visa

Can you find an actual quote of him saying exactly this? Not some journalistic trash from "Die Bild", something more reputable. Not to mention that the immigration crisis started when he had already left.

He threatened to demand wartime reparation from Germany even though Greece had received their reparations

A lawsuit is not a "threat". And I don't see why Germany should be afraid of that, unless it has some reason to think it could lose (does it...?). And once again, this would be a german problem only. You keep confusing your own country with "europe".

He threatened to start a lot of lawsuits if the rest of the Eurozone kicks Greece out of the currency union

It's actually the opposite. He said that, without a deal, Greece would get out of the eurozone by its own will, and declare default. He had started preparations for that before resigning:
http://www.theguardian.com/bus...

And it wouldn't be be bad for Greece, because its exports would immediately skyrocket due to a devalued currency. It's hard for a recession to go on after it has already shed 25% of a country's GDP. Instead, it would be a disaster for Germany and its banks:
http://money.cnn.com/2015/06/2...

And, most importantly, it would be very bad for the IMF, the ECB, the EU, international banks, and all the other "bilderberg guys" who advocate a globalized world without protectionism, national sovereignties, and democracy. If one country exits a currency and trade agreement and suddenly starts thriving, then many others would follow the example. I guess that's probably why he "was" resigned.

Make the 81M come of the VP's bonus.

That $10 switch seems alot of like some cost reduction yahoo is calling the shots and does not want to pay for the needed costs to due it right.

I dunno... reading through the hacking team break-in (by which I mean, reading the hacker's first-person description, it's unclear to me how *anyone* could be considered responsible for these sorts of things.

The hacked system should encrypt passwords, use a salt, have offsite backups that are regularly tested... all that "of course" stuff applies.

But I'm not at all sure how having a modem or router hacked could be the responsibility of the system.

How can you tell? Is there an exploit for your high-end Juniper firewall?

The hacking-team narrative suggests that the person who did it replaced the [router?] firmware with a custom one with his own backdoor. A single 0day exploit on an internet-facing appliance.

Did someone intentionally weaken the PRNG in your Intel CPU at the mask level? Did someone replace the firmware on your hard drive? Is your BIOS compromised?

I read where someone put malware into the firmware of an intelligent *battery*.

Welcome to the future: everything has firmware, and all firmware can be reflashed by the factory.

(The update service installed when you install our product will automatically upgrade the system as needed. Just download and execute! This fixes the rendering issue in the Tagalog language pack, it's a *must have* upgrade!)

I'm not sure how anyone can guarantee their systems are secure any more.

If the State department can't secure their computers, what hope is there for regular mortals?

Keeping scores of people on payroll to advance your propaganda worked — and continues to work — for Putin (with whom Secretary Clinton has "an interesting" relationship).

No surprise, she is among the first to adopt his methods, and even the more prudent politicians will soon have to do it just to remain competitive. It already happened to TV make-up, robo-callers, and teleprompters...

Maybe, there will be a silver-lining in this for the perpetually-struggling "established" journalists — their having been bought may be harder to conceal/easier to prove than the same for tens and hundreds of anonymous nobodies.

Here's a link:

http://money.cnn.com/2016/04/0...

I'm sure it's not a small, in ear device, as it uses external ear buds, more like those old fashioned devices that hung from a shirt or coat. Not sure about its frequency range, frequency distribution or amplification. Someone might like to help the kid miniaturize his device. Kick Starter, anyone?

Here's a link:

http://money.cnn.com/2016/04/0...

I'm not sure about the frequency distribution, range or amplification. It not likely a miniature device, perhaps like those old fashioned devices that people hung on their shirt or coat, but, who knows, some good guys could help him out to miniaturize it. Kick starter any one?

When I was in the Navy, in our secret and above areas we weren't allowed to have cell phones or even pagers, and there sure as hell wasn't internet access in there.

To expand on this point, here's an object lesson for why you don't allow cell phones near secure locations.

Funny, but it's even worse...they confirmed that they did not contact other people during the 18 minute window that they were trying to close, and they called it useful information.

They knew that the shooters went out of their way to destroy every single electric device they owned, yet they demanded to know that the phone was not used for unlawful purposes. And they paid someone a fortune who probably looked up how to do it on /.

That's not a good use of taxpayer money to make a point.

Actually, it would be more accurate to say they "Pulled a Hyunadia," i.e., overstated mileage.

Volkswagon's mileage data was correct; they were just spewing pollutants.

Tell that to Trump. He says there are 11 million of them among us :-)

Actually, Trump says there are 34 million of them, and that's why he can't avoid hiring them. http://www.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS...

CNN story.
They are at least making noises about it helping.

No I just made that up. But San Francisco voters did try to name a sewage treatment plant after GWB.

What gene would you name after trump?

The "upsets delicate flowers in their safe spaces" gene?

And we have located the Hillary! gene.

Or maybe they want to buy beer for Isis

UAS pilots are not idiots, if I hear a low flying manned aircraft I immediately dive to the ground. It is not like a stupid bird.

You may very well not be an idiot, you might operate your drone with intelligence and common sense and are aware of how to fly your UAS safely. If so good for you, way to set the example!

But the problem is not you, it is those idiots that do not think about the consequences of their actions that is making your hobby look like shit. Like the moron that flew his drone into a fire zone causing the fire fighters to ground their flights. Or another idiot that dropped his drone onto a kid at a movie theater. Or that one genius that crashed his drone on the white house lawn. These guys are the problem and who are getting everyone so riled up about drones.

So I want you to do yourself and every other responsible drone operator a favor: If you are out flying with your buddies and you see or hear about them about to do something stupid, go over there, grab them by the shirt, and slap the fucking taste out of their mouth. Because they are doing more harm to your hobby than a thousand regulatory busybodies ever could.

As powerful as the computers were, they ultimately were just taking cues from the human innovators..."there's no real computer that replaces the skill of the...person who is pushing the buttons."

Yeah, that's what H-1B's are for.

Well both of those actually are perfect examples of racism.

Islam isn't a race. Imbecile.

Theyâ(TM)re bringing crime. Theyâ(TM)re rapists."

Imbecile.

*He refused to denounce the KKK. I can't blame a man for who decides to endorse him, but when directly asked he refused to denounce them.

So you're either too stupid to use google, or you're just flat out dishonest.

As for the rest of your comment: [citation needed]

For the record, I despise Trump.

The last time I heard about texting in a theater, someone got shot. Imagine the guy at AMC doing a late Google search on theater texting and finding this. Uh, Boss, maybe this really isn't such a great idea.

" if the Chinese government sends agents to steal information about more efficient aircraft engines from Boeing to pass on to COMAC"

That too would be theft of company IP.

But it's in a sate's best interest to protect it's own domestic companies and industries from anti-competitive actions which would harm that company. You don't want to invest millions of dollars into research and development for a new process/technology/whatever, only to have it stolen and offered by a foreign company that can undercut your company because they don't need to recoup those initial research costs. Here's a perfect example

Don't they know that - like many things, - it's only ok when the Clintons do it?
http://www.cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS...

All good things can be taken too far. The example of Hostess Brands is instructive. When a Union pushes far beyond the optimum point, it provides powerful incentives to increase automation.

Similar effects are starting to be seen in restaurants in response to pushes for a $15.00 minimum wage. Ordering via tablet or kiosk is on the rise, and there are indicators that automated cook-stations are in development. The Momentum Machines automated burger line and similar other machines have been out there for years. Between development and production costs dropping over time, due to previously sunk costs, and rising labor costs, conversion to automation will eventually occur there, and likely sooner than later. . .

Here's the article. I typed my summary too fast - it's the increase in claims between 2003 to 2013:

http://money.cnn.com/2013/04/1...

Breaking that down:

The parts where you say "Translate" are, at least, positions. Some of your rebuttals evidence a fundamental misapprehension of economics, business, and geopolitics, but they are nonetheless positions on which we can differ.

The parts you call "Counter" are... not even? For example, Trump talking shit about $minorityGroup is not countered nor even distracted from by alluding to Guantanamo Bay, torture, or CIA meddling in foreign governments.

Even ignoring that what you're arguing there bears no resemblance to what I said, Trump is cool with torture, and wants to fill Gitmo back up.
Translate: Hell yeah, man! Let's peel the skin off those jihadi bastards!
(I kid!!)