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  1. Re:Why go for fluff instead of meat? on Clinton Campaign Considered Bill Gates, Tim Cook For Vice President (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Emails given out of order and context in order to show how corrupt Clinton is.
    So we get some of the vetting process of picking a VP.
    Going against trump it may had been a good idea to consider a democrat successful business person, just to put a stop to the business person knows more than a politician debate. However with trump just being insane it isn't much of an issue so they went with the borrinh not to upstage VP pick.

  2. For many people (I guess more than 1 out of 2) the ecosystem doesn't matter. What they have on their phone is a bunch of free apps. Also I expect many of these Note users were Previous Apple users who was looking for something new.

    However for most of the people who really don't care there isn't that much difference.

  3. Re:Get it MFers? on Journalists Face Jail Time After Reporting on North Dakota Pipeline Protest (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Well the real question is what are the details that may not be in the story?

    Journalists tend to protect themselves so to expect full reporting on what the journalist may had done in excess of just covering it, may be left out.

    I know this is circular reasoning but I would like to figure out the other side before I go all crazy.

  4. Re: You gotta fight for your right to on More Unblocking Companies Give Up Their Fight Against Netflix (techspot.com) · · Score: 1

    You could focus your blame on the studios who publish the shows and not on netflix that is trying to broadcast them following the rules.

    Because when the company follows the rules Netflix doesn't become Napster which took little to no concerns of the other companies IP rights. We may not like the current IP law. However if you are going to work with them you are going to be better off in the long run than if you don't.

  5. Re:Uber is a scam for drivers on London Insists on English Requirement For Private Hire Drivers (reuters.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    The problem Uber was changed from its original intent. Initially it really was for computers who were all going to the same place, and the driver could make a few bucks while bringing a bunch of of other people to the same area they were going. It wasn't really a Taxi service, just a way to share your ride. Then due to the great recession people used it as a source of full time income because that is what they could do.

  6. Wikileaks is useless.
    Hillary has made her reputation with bipartisanship reach out. With that type of work you can't just go and blast your opponent all the time. You need to find common ground and work with them. We are all stuck on wall street is evil or the government is evil. While the truth is everyone is working for their own self interests if they have the money or power they will push it. A good politician knows that and will work with everyone to show that their self interests is considered and perhaps her plan isn't that drastic.
    We want to see our political opponents loose and learn that it was their stupidity and they were wrong and you were right. That isn't prodtive because people don't like to loose and will fight back harder next time. To really get the important parts of your agenda you need to compromise on some of the smaller details that may be a big deal for your opponents.

  7. I would love it if the media wouldn't clump IT in one big block.
    IT covers Help Desk, Systems Admins, Repare and service, Programming, Data base administrator...
    The cloud would normally hurt System Administrators job. Cheap disposable device may affect repair and service jobs. Outside contractors may affect development staff...

    However if 2003 had taught us anything shortly after massive IT staff reduction there seems to be a lot of security problems going on.
    Is it because these people who lost their jobs gone rogue? Or because the company fired the guys who keeps them safe?

  8. Re:That would be fine on Non-Cable Internet Providers Offer Faster Speeds To the Wealthy (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Low wage jobs are not unimportant actually they are often extremely important but good old economics 101 supply and demand comes into play.
    These low wage jobs are jobs that nearly anyone can do so there there is a large labor supply so their wages are low. Now just because nearly anyone can do the job it doesn't mean it is unimportant or waste of human life. We need these jobs.
    The problem isn't making sure that everyone is pulling their own weight. But to make sure these people doing important jobs are able to survive and feel welcomed in our society.

    Yes there are a few free loaders. But they are also those who won the lottery or got the inheritance from their parents who used the money to be a social pariah.

  9. Re: Expect conservative meltdown. on Google News Introduces Fact Check Feature -- Just In Time For the US Election (thenextweb.com) · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    So what paper actually shows that she is lying?
    Most of the stuff that is shown is just being a politician. The general public doesn't want to know the details they just want it done. So Wikileaks shows the details and we are furious because she needs to be civil to group who she needs to change.
    She knows you can't just kill off wall street or close all the banks or coal mines. But you need to work with them over a long time to see where they are willing to compromise and you can work off of that.
    It isn't a superhero coming down to save the day nor a tyrant dictating a single vision. It is the trade off of living in a free country we can't get everything we want so everyone has a chance on getting something they want.

  10. Re:systemd on Ubuntu 16.10 Released, Ready to Download (omgubuntu.co.uk) · · Score: 0

    and for all those people who have such hate for systemd.... How many actually had used init.d?

  11. Re:Every programmer = no doctors and teachers on Doctors Perform Better Than Internet Or App-Based Symptoms Checkers, Says Study (sciencedaily.com) · · Score: 1

    You miss my point. It isn't to replace doctors. But as a solution to lower costs for the bulk of the humdrum stuff that goes on.

    In schools you use to have the school nurse, who would deal with the kids health care, Check their temperature, perform first aid, diagnose if they are sick and needs to go home. Once you become an adult, and our offices doesn't have a RN. We normally will need to go to a Doctor and pay 3 times as much for the same level of care.

  12. Re:What part of this is hard to understand? on Dutch Net Neutrality Law Goes Too Far Say Critics (telegeography.com) · · Score: 0

    My internal intranet is gigabit. My outside connection to the internet is 100mbs.

    So when did I cross the line?

    The webserver on my internal intranet is much faster than the on outside my internal network. Is that breaking Net Neutrality? I am taking my stuff and it has a preference over the outside stuff.

    Let's say there is a service that is normally hosted outside, however I need better performance. So I make a deal that they put a copy of their servers on my network, and they will just sync the data overnight. But I can access that data at full speed.

    Ok lets say this outside service, will bring in a dependant 500mbs line to my internal network to access their servers. So now I am accessing that service at 500mbs with the others at 100mbs.

    The cost of my outside network connection went up, so other users on my network are throttled so everyone using it has equal share, and those few guys who hammer it will get inconvenienced. So for those people who hammer it, if they really need it I will need to change the throttle speed but only if they take the cost difference out of their budget.

    The problem with Net Neutrality is it suppose to make sure vendors don't get disadvantaged, just because the ISP doesn't like them... However if the rules go to far, it prevents them from offering better services for those they do like.

  13. Re:I think there was a comic villain who did this on ISIS Is Using Exploding Consumer Drones To Kill Enemy Fighters (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    But that is a remote controlled plane, not a drone. There is a difference... I am not sure what it is, but there seems to be one. Because Remote Controlled Airplanes were a fun hobby for aircraft enthusiasts. While drones is an obsession for people with malicious purposes, which needs a lot of registration and regulations.

  14. html5 test still short 55 points. on Chrome 54 Arrives With YouTube Flash Embed Rewriting To HTML5 (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 2

    "YOUR BROWSER SCORES 500 OUT OF 555 POINTS"
    In terms of HTML 5 compatibility I found that chrome tends to be in the lead. But with HTML5 and chrome out for years now... We really should be able to at 100% HTML5 compatibility.

  15. I am not surprised that that AI isn't as accurate as a Doctor.
    However I would like to see a combination of a NP or RN with the AI and compare it with a Doctor.

    If we could get the Mid-Level providers more involved we can have a more affordable health care system.

  16. Re:Nice, but on Apple MacBook Refresh Could Bring E-Ink Enabled Keyboard (hothardware.com) · · Score: 1

    It is time for a new Apple desktop design. More than just keyboards. But touch screen as well.
    Nearly all the other manufacturers have a touch display.

  17. Why not styrofoam? on Star Wars Production Company Fined Almost $2 Million For Harrison Ford's Injury (bbc.co.uk) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I am a bit curious on why they didn't use styrofoam for the automatic doors. When they are molded and painted it is tough to tell the difference. However if they close on someone. The injures would be much less.
    The cost of fixing a styrofoam door would be less than the cost of breaking a stars leg.

  18. Re:Fee Subcription on Verizon, AT&T Made $600 Million in Overage Fees Alone in 2016 (dslreports.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    The telephone tax is one example on where a Progressive Tax became a regressive tax over time.
    Back when the Tax was enacted Telephone service was only for the rich, however now it has became a necessary tool for operation in society. So the poor people need telephone service too yet they are paying extra taxes on it.

  19. Our education system is currently setup for skills needed for factory working, and humdrum office jobs and research. These are the things AI can replace. Our education system will need to be revamped for more creativity, and adaptive thinking, and problem solving jobs.

  20. Re:Looks like NASA... on NASA To Allow Private Companies To Hook Up Modules To ISS (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    I sure hope they are washing their hands. I mean during a long space missions we are will be in a box full of bacteria and virus. Then we are going to land such a box in a new environment where such hardy version of life may exist or thrive on it.

  21. It took several generations to recover from the war. All the way up to early generation X
    There was more to be done than just building fallen buildings but get society back.
    Because after WWII there was the cold war which Europe was under threat. So after the Cold War then the world was able to more or less restore itself.

    But when each generation looks at the next they see people in different stages of life.
    Boomers who are retiring are looking at gen X who are taking the mantle and see them making the mistakes they did when they took over from the previous generation.
    Gen X are looking at melenals who are in the stage of their life where they are trying to find a mate and are acting rather stupid.

    There are lessons that we have to learn by ourselves and the previous generation cannot teach it to us. No matter how hard they try.

    The biggest threat I see is the inability for people to parse mass media of info. Stats says violence is down but we feel like it is worse. Because we see all the worlds problems in a one hour segment every day.

  22. Re:A year or two back. . . on Second Hacker Group Targets SWIFT Users, Symantec Warns (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Old style security.
    Back in the good old days, where you just needed to protect your outside connection and leave your intranet wide open.
    Or how about the gooder older days if you system was hooked up to a modem, high security was asking for a password to login.

  23. Re:affirmative action on Google Research Promotes Equality In Machine Learning, Doesn't Mention Age · · Score: 1

    Coding Affirmative action into a system may actually make it much more fare. As if there is a repute that you were being bias against someone you can show the calculation that that person was indeed not equally or near equally qualified as the hired person.

    If your goal Affirmative action code would may just as simple as a sort by Race
    so where you select top 1 Name from applicants
    group by Name
    having score = max(score)
    order by score, race

    Unlike in Star Trek, computers can rather easily have simple choices to figure out ties.

  24. Well they actually do. It is not because of hatred, but because the programmers put their biases into the programs, as well correlations not connection to the root causation.

    For example. For age discrimination.

    Say you are trying to find a workforce with the longest retention rate.
    So it looks at the big data. and finds that People with skills in COBOL had a strong correlation to recent job losses. While C# doesn't have any strong correlation.

    So this experienced developer who was working at a job fixing legacy systems who also has been keeping up on his skills on the newer languages. Is tossed in the same group as the guy who who is working in legacy systems and just hoping the company will not move off the mainframe.

    Many of our biases and prejudice are not without evidence. However part of the reality on being fare is realizing some of your prejudice and biases while part of the correlation isn't the causation.

    Having a job working on the mainframe coding in COBOL doesn't mean you don't have skills in newer systems, however many people who do don't

     

  25. Re: flip flops on Dilbert Creator Scott Adams Endorses Gary Johnson For President (dilbert.com) · · Score: 1

    So that grand conspiracy takes into account that the majority of republicans were stupid and/or hateful enough to elect him through the Republican primaries.

    If Trump was part of the democrats master plan, it had backfired. Because their master plan, would had Trump tarnish the name of the guys running against him. So when they run against Clinton they will have black marks on their name true or not.