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  1. Re:In the long run i'm not too worried on Federal Shutdown May Send Millennial Workers To Exits (techtarget.com) · · Score: 1

    and many furloughed employees will be entitled to automatic back pay

    Um, no. Those "essential" employees who've been forced to work without a paycheck are entitled automatically. Everyone furloughed is at risk of never seeing a dime for the time that they expected to be working but weren't. No government shutdown has ever led to employees missing out on their paychecks but it wouldn't surprise me if this wasn't another trumpian first.

  2. Re:please, do not break a language on Are Two Spaces After a Period Better Than One? (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 2

    If you aren't normalizing your text data and your searches then your database is worthless anyway.

  3. Re: The Law Should Not Allow Equifax To Exist. Pe on Equifax Will Offer Free Credit Locks for Life, New CEO Says (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    You travel in odd circles then. Or perhaps just young circles. Responsible use of credit cards provides more safety to your financial health. It's like a financial condom for your money.

  4. Re:Please stop this madness on Firefox 57 Will Hide Search Bar and Use a Uni-Bar Approach, Like Chrome (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    Hey today I see all this crap online about this website called "www.equifaxsecurity2017.com", it supposedly has something to do with the company / website equifax.com but it sure doesn't look like it to me. Looks like it might be a phishing site so I think I should run a search and see what people are saying about it...

    URL detection is "pretty reliable" ?
    Great. Maybe.

    Reading my mind?
    Definitely not.

  5. Re:Do you need all of those channels? on Cord-Cutting Still Doesn't Beat the Cable Bundle (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    and don't forget the small print "plus taxes, fees, and equipment charges"

    All FIOS junk goes straight to the recycling bin because their advertised numbers are just meaningless noise.

  6. There was one website that I only needed to visit once a year to download my annual tax form, their passwords expired in some time less than one year, so every time I visited my password was expired and needed to be reset.

    So... you need to choose a hard password, that you will use exactly once, a year from when you choose it. ha!

  7. Howard Goodall's 20th Century Greats: The Beatles on What Are Some Documentaries and TV Shows That You Recommend To Others? · · Score: 3, Interesting

    A documentary that explains in solid musical terms why The Beatles were game changing.

    Available on youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

  8. Re:How much is a unit? on Moderate Drinking Can Damage the Brain, Claim Researchers (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    "According to the Dietary Guidelines for Americans,1 moderate alcohol consumption is defined as having up to 1 drink per day for women and up to 2 drinks per day for men."
    http://www.cdc.gov/alcohol/faq...

  9. So I still don't have a facebook account.... can I stop wondering do I or don't I?

  10. Re:We've seen this coming... on ESPN Has Seen the Future of TV and They're Not Really Into It (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    And why does sports programming cost so much? Because they bid up the price to unrealistic levels because cable subscribers have no choice but to pay the sports fee. (* this is one of those "plus additional fees x, y and z" that is part of all cable promotional ads.)

    ESPN's cost is one of the big reasons why I cut the cord. Don't watch sports, don't want to pay for sports. Don't want to subsidize the whole sports and sports media industrial complex.

  11. Re:Patterns are the problem on Slashdot Asks: Are Password Rules Bullshit? (codinghorror.com) · · Score: 1

    If you're like somebody I know you'll take all those leaked passwords and put them in a forbidden password dictionary too! After all, those leaked passwords are all known good working passwords.

  12. That's not how most H1B visa owners work.
    Truly the simplest solution is just to transfer the ownership of the visa from the employer to the employee. Because it's not the H1B worker who's the problem, it's the companies who own them.

    If there aren't enough workers with skill Y, then sure let's get them over here, then you compete to employ them just like any other worker. Stop paying sub standard wages to your effectively indentured servants.

  13. Re:No programmers' typeface on Google Releases An Open Source Font That Supports 800 Languages (googleblog.com) · · Score: 1

    I once transcribed a program from a magazine into my first computer... as a hex dump.
    The magazine chose a font where 0, 8, and B were practically identical. That's ~20% of the hexadecimal digit space that's confusing.

    I guess I was a glutton for punishment, because I did get the program to run.

  14. Re:Thick client JS frameworks are the new Flash on Google's New Angular 2.0 Isn't Compatible With Angular 1 (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Where can I download this "progressive enhancement" framework that you speak of?

  15. innumeracy overload on 26% of Netflix Users May Cancel Cable TV This Year, Says Survey (huffingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    67% of netflix subscribers still have cable!
    74% of netflix subscribers aren't going to cancel cable!
    15% of netflix subscribers are uncertain about canceling
    11% of netflix subscribers are going to cancel ... or is that 74% of the 64% of subscribers who have cable?? ...carry the 1..
    anyone understand reverse polish notation?

  16. Realize also that if a company keeps another dollar, then at least today, they tend to give most of that dollar to the company executives and the shareholders. No one else. (* I would add additionally that it seems many companies would rather just pay the executives and screw the shareholders *)

    For Apple, both groups of people tend to reside in the US.

  17. companies are multinational.
    people are not.

    Imagine that Apple didn't pay taxes, but only their shareholders did... which country would get that tax money?

  18. Re:The room is dark ... for everyone on FBI Director Says Prolific Default Encryption Hurting Government Spying Efforts (go.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Yes, stop letting them frame the debate as personal "privacy" versus national "security"

    This is about personal SECURITY versus national security.

    Every day people get hacked, corporations get hacked, the government gets hacked. We need more personal security not less.

  19. Well of course Google News makes money for Google.
    They wouldn't run that service if it didn't.

    The content providers get their share when they provide news that people want to read (i.e. click through to).

  20. Re:Hmmm how bad could it be? on Systemd Rolls Out Its Own Mount Tool (phoronix.com) · · Score: 1

    Typically delays around successful ssh connections have something to do with name resolution problems (on the sshd host trying to figure out which host is making the inbound connection). The delay is due to waiting for a timeout.

  21. "he should have remembered his password"

    Why? I've got 140 username / passwords in one password vault, and I've got more in another one. Over 7 different PINs or passwords that are work related.

    There is a limit to the number of PINs and passwords that you can remember, especially when the restrictions prevent you from coming up with a password that you might possibly be able to remember. And that's before you have password expiration policies kick in.

    BTW who's the moron who let's the policy expire passwords on Saturdays, when you need to change the password while you are sitting in front of a computer? It's always fun when mobile email access goes away during a crisis because of the no notice password expired event.

  22. Re:What's the big problem? on The Chip Card Transition In the US Has Been a Disaster (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    It's all just weird.
    I went out of my way to get a chipped credit card early for use on a trip to the UK. I was able to use it as Chip & Pin at exactly one PoS terminal in the UK. Everywhere else wanted Chip & Signature which was a royal pain because I couldn't use a card at any Pay & Display parking areas. I had to always have a pocketful of coins in order to be able to park.

  23. Re:It's A Bargain on Netflix Stock Price Tanks As Customers Quit Over Higher Prices (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    I can't stand those reality TV shows. good riddance.

  24. I get mod points all the time. I have 15 points to use right now.