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  1. Re:Run for the Penguin on Windows Telemetry Rolls Out · · Score: 1

    It's an AC it's FUD.

  2. Re:Men and women are the same on Researchers: The Thermostat In Your Office May Be Sexist · · Score: 1

    Actually this is it, 13c - 30c (~55f - 86f) is tolerable without caring, preferred right around 23c (73f). And I'm not terribly thin, bmi based I'm obese (okay I have ~24% body fat but that's still a bigger guy) 95kg @ 179cm (~210lbs @ 5'10).

    Then again I live in Seattle which is apparently the land of no air conditioners even though this year it's routinely hit ~36c.

  3. Re:Oh boy, here we go... on Obama Unveils Major Climate Change Proposal · · Score: 1

    That is a flaw, agreed, but you could always use one of many options during times of overage: Energy storage options. I actually never thought of the flywheel (when originally considering responding to this I was going to bring up massive capacitors but actually that flywheel idea seems very impressive).

  4. Re:I have no fear of AI, but fear AI weapons on Musk, Woz, Hawking, and Robotics/AI Experts Urge Ban On Autonomous Weapons · · Score: 1

    Well there is robotic discrimination and not allowing robots unattended by a human. But let's say we get far enough with the skins we create to make robots indistinguishable from humans, there is always asimovs 3 laws preprogrammed into the robot requiring the technological knowledge to be higher.

    But let's assume these are as easy to hack as a console, sure the technical limitation still brings the potential down but there would be a decent number of people who could pull that off. Definitely an organized crime syndicate of some sort, so we have these robots who look like humans, talk like humans, act like humans and imprisoning them doesn't scare them.

    Question: How is this different than today? I guess more energetic and go getter mentality? Also we could wire in rfid broadcast chips to every robot and make them more trackable through different techs. But in the end someone who is highly technically skilled could get around this, just like today someone who is highly technically skilled could likely create there own version of this or, you know, an explosive device.

  5. I for one welcome our new sexy robot overlords!

  6. Re: Sounds like a good deal! on Rich and American? Australia Wants You · · Score: 1

    So consider yourself lucky.... for a 2bedroom in the suburbs of seattle (redmond area) I pay $2500/mo. In SF area I paid $3200, heck in Kansas City suburbs (olathe area) I paid $1400/mo.

  7. Re:Detroitland on Rich and American? Australia Wants You · · Score: 1

    Yes, illegal might become a citizen, nay a patriot. While you are abandoning your flag when you become an exPATRIATE. Why does this surprise you?

  8. Re:Detroitland on Rich and American? Australia Wants You · · Score: 1

    You also forgot: Seattle, NYC(ish), San Francisco, etc etc etc. Heck even Kansas City has been democrat controlled for awhile.

  9. Re:or... on NYC Asks Google Maps For Fewer Left Turns · · Score: 2

    Seriously, when was the last time you used Google maps? Not only the one on my mobile phone but the one on my desktop tries to give me first the quickest route (which usually involves hiways for long periods of time), second an optional route with no tolls, third several other route choices of different combinations. No seriously, they have had an "avoid tolls" check box on there site for the longest time.

    Lastly, it tends to be faster than my garmin at recalculating (and more precise) but my garmin is like 6ish years old so that probably has little to do with them and far more to do with me failing to update my tech.

  10. Re:Cell phone WAP on Ask Slashdot: Giving Users Extra-Firewall Access For Sites Normally Blocked? · · Score: 1

    It could, yes, it could also just get me disciplined, but that's up to HR and my direct manager... if I'm even detected. None the less, network administrators really do have a god complex if they think they can fire other people. All they can do is let the manager know and handle it (which is usually "dude, knock it off" and you knock it off).

    But I'm also not doing anything heavier than standard web traffic and not going to really any sites that are truly offensive (but for some reason work finds facebook okay and cracked an evil bastard child). Mostly server maintenance or personal notes on my server. I am kinda a boring person in retrospect.

  11. Re: Like the nazi used to say on Bomb Squad Searches House Over Teenager's Chemistry Experiments · · Score: 1

    A couple of kids have, here is one

    Admittedly not a nuclear bomb, just a reactor but none the less. I will agree to a certain extent acquiring knowledge does not in itself justify breaking the law. However, sometimes the pursuit of knowledge requires it. Ask Galileo. (Admittedly that is a false equivalency, but so was petty larceny to building a nuclear bomb).

  12. Re:Cell phone WAP on Ask Slashdot: Giving Users Extra-Firewall Access For Sites Normally Blocked? · · Score: 2

    pshhhhh, ssh (or other protocol) tunneling on an unblocked port always worked for me...

    The point is, you can't really stop an informed employee/network user from getting around your firewalls. Worst case scenario they just chain off the phone. The downside to this is you still need a firewall to block malware sites. Informed users can still end up on those so that is a potential vulnerability but non informed users have a much higher chance without some type of web blocker. So I'd say just keep a blacklist of known malware and open everything else up (or yeah sign in/log/tag time). But I'd definitely keep the malware sites blocked.

  13. Re:For 100 points... on Google Applies For Patents That Touch On Fundamental AI Concepts · · Score: 1

    Google sued bt and apple at one time. Both settled and they've never really been aggressive, but still... Change of management, change of CEO, change of corporate policies, downturn in their economics. No one should have nukes or everyone should have nukes, that is really the only way to sustain. (In case it's not clear nukes are a metaphor here).

  14. Re: "...keep everyone who uses the Internet safe." on The Rise of the New Crypto War · · Score: 2

    My opinions of the ACA not-withstanding, what do you call 17 U.S. 518 (1819) and 118 U.S. 394 (1886).

    I used wikipedia for easy access, but I provide the reference numbers if you like to look them up. And these aren't the only cases, (note one is 1819 so don't even begin to say this wasn't established in the early years of the US). The SCOTUS job _IS_ to interpret the law, actually it's not just limited to the SCOTUS but the judical branch interprets, lower courts are forced to take a higher courts interpretation though.

  15. Re:"...keep everyone who uses the Internet safe." on The Rise of the New Crypto War · · Score: 2

    Did the fourth amendment rights ever get worked out in relation to them hacking into computer systems (or wouldn't this law be in direct violation?)?

    I ask in earnest to see if these things were ever challenged in the past.

  16. Not really a new war on The Rise of the New Crypto War · · Score: 1

    Just a continuation of the war, maybe a new battle?

  17. Re:It might help if courts took hacking seriously on Hacker Group That Hit Twitter, Facebook, Apple and Microsoft Intensifies Attacks · · Score: 1

    Because that has worked so well in the United States. Last I checked we criminalize everything over here including hacking and it's not taken exactly lightly. But people still do it, and people still sell drugs! We need a better solution, but using the legal system doesn't work. It really doesn't. I'm not going to whine about people losing their future livelyhood or how bad prisons are. I just want to point out kids still do it as a hobby and so do adults.

  18. Re: Like the nazi used to say on Bomb Squad Searches House Over Teenager's Chemistry Experiments · · Score: 5, Insightful

    You are right, it doesn't, but good chance we all have done similar. If not, I weep for your young adulthood. It was abandoned and a calculated risk of a kid who couldn't afford to buy his own. This is what we call a gray area, the intention was fine by most but by the law, his life will be ruined in the pursuit of further knowledge.

    Yay America.... Where gaining and pursuing knowledge is socially unacceptable.

  19. Re:rip-off on Are Certifications Worth the Time and Money? · · Score: 4, Interesting

    However to filter out on the fact they don't have a certificate (or degree) means to lose out on some of the better programmers.

    I've had a pretty bad experience using certificates as a filter. Instead I take the time to read through and see what technologies they may have worked with. There is no easy answer to "how to filter", with certs I've seen _a lot_ of bait and switch. So yeah, when going through a large stack of resumes, I first filter out who doesn't seem to have the majority of skills I'm looking for (and they are local), then that takes it down to 20-30. That is a much more manageable list. But I'm also more often looking at people with experience so my starting set tends to be smaller.

  20. Re:Five is plenty on Short Sleepers Might Be Benefiting From a DNA Mutation · · Score: 2

    4 - 5 hours, but sometimes I'll sleep 6-7. I kinda let my body dictate it's own rhythm and wake up when it tells me to (which kinda sucks because it typically alternates between 4:30am and 5:30am even though I don't need to be at work until 9am). So I wake up, catch up on my news in bed while I shake off the last bit of sleep then roll out of bed and do calisthenics. Shower, then walk into work. Because I have the time, so why not?

  21. Re:This triggers my WW3 theories. on Glitches: United Airlines Grounds All Flights, NYSE Suspends Trading · · Score: 1

    Really, you know why we don't freak out about this? It's really not that far fetched, it's because there is nothing the average person can do about it, except carry on and carry forward. Us in the software and infosec realms have been screaming about security for decades, some changes have come out of it but not many and definitely not at the rate that exploits are found. And sometimes, bad people get lucky and find the master key to hack all. Simply put though, we come back to the problem of "nothing we can do about it".

    Tell me, WW3 breaks out, or just whatever events that you have listed happens. I should drop everything and do what?

    If the worst happens, let me tell you what I will do, I will work with my neighbors to restore life back to the level we previously had because working as a group is the way to success. While I do this, I will hope like fuck someone doesn't take the opportunity to murder my face with some ICBM. Beyond that, I have water filters to clean water that I use for backpacking, I have hunting and foraging equipment for food (if god forbid we run out of food and the crisis lasts more than 21 days), and I'm pretty sure the thousands of cops will be out basically holding marshall law while requiring people to ration (as we would be doing).

    What get's me is the idea that people believe the entire community will dissolve into an anarchist, murdering mass as soon as the simplest thing fails.

  22. Re:what? on The IT Containers That Went To War · · Score: 1

    I'm armchairing here, so please forgive me for spitting out what seems like a simpler solution. But doesn't the data center deployed on the front lines (as the summary doesn't make it sound mobile) still use some type of wireless communication? Couldn't this be done with a repeater system and with encryption? Maybe the same exact wireless protocol/encryption the deployed datacenter is using?

    This just seems like over engineering at work to me. However, you are right the military probably (read: very very likely, or god I hope so) has far smarter people than me. I just can't see the benefits of the heavy/expensive/far more dangerous/less redundant solution.

  23. Re:Who watches this crap? on Watching People Code Is Becoming an (Even Bigger) Thing · · Score: 3, Interesting

    This is exactly what I was thinking, the best way I've found to help jr programmers is a kinda pair programming where I explain things while they watch. When I run into a fork, I talk out loud about which route (and obviously take any input if offered, which rarely is, sometimes I push them to think about a complex question too but the idea is to keep mobility). And then assign them the other half of the day with there own tasks.

    With modern languages there are just so many "you should use this over that" and pitfalls that you can run into sometimes having the fish can be more helpful. (I really want to explain why this metaphor works so please bear (pun caught, now intended) with me) You need energy to fish, also you have to learn how to clean and cook the fish which is best done by the experienced individual the first couple of times so you don't die or have the shits from a simple mistake.

    Anyways, food for though. :D

  24. Re: Why force her to do something she doesn't wan on Ask Slashdot: Getting My Wife Back Into Programming After Long Maternity Leave? · · Score: 1

    He might be an idiot if we take the meaning of life to spread our genetic code. However, I have always personally felt to each there own, I was surprised by my first kid but I _we_ had been ready for a couple of years preparing for it. I've always wanted to be a father and to teach my skills to the next generation. I am hoping to raise my kids to be the next major breakthrough in the world.

    But keep in mind, I have the ability to give my children quite a few opportunities that most often don't get. I was born living out of a truck and on a native american land reserve. I worked my ass up to programmer purely through passion as a kid (I didn't have a computer but the library did). I was obsessed with math and the principals of physics, computers were my practical outlet.

    Which leads me to my last retort, choosing to not reproduce means potentially cheating the world out of it's next superstar. But again, those are odds not worth playing if you can't feed and cloth the child. So I go back to "to each there own".

  25. Re: Why force her to do something she doesn't want on Ask Slashdot: Getting My Wife Back Into Programming After Long Maternity Leave? · · Score: 1

    So mine are 3 and 5 and nap time got renamed to "30m quiet time" after lunch, in their beds, which 70% of the time turns into 2 hour nap time. Luckily my wife and I switched our roles again so after work I cook/clean. Seeing both sides of the fields I no longer pull the "I'm too tired" shenanigans. If I do, I do "dad cooking" by ordering pizza and breaking out paper plates. Either way, my wife needs her evenings off. It really did take me being at home with my kids to see my wife as not lazy and just over burdened.

    People, when you are late-20-something mid-30-something, you still need "me" time no matter who you are (I believe this applies no matter age, but there seems to be a perception to the contrary). As I said, I take the evenings after work with the child care so my wife can get her 'me' time, then Saturdays I go hike a mountain for some relaxing times, Sundays we do family events. Sometimes it's precleaning for the week, sometimes hiking a trail as a family and teaching the boys about plants and edible berries, sometimes it's city walking and shopping, sometimes it's doing nothing but catching a movie and detoxing. Either way, we are constantly trying to balance family, work, and ourselves time. And schedules are never locked, they are fluid. Sometimes I need to work late, sometimes I need to go have drinks with co-workers, sometimes she has Saturday plans. We work around it together.

    Oh shit I've gone preachy, carry on... (my wayward son)