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  1. Re:Palmer Luckey is a proven thief. on The Real Reason Palmer Luckey Was Fired From Facebook (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    The civil court found him liable for hiring John Carmack, who in turn brought IP with him. Which is probably true, as ZeniMax paid a bundle to buy id software a few years prior and as John Carmack's inventions no doubt were hugely valuable.

  2. That removes the ability of the police officer to return the phone at the time. For instance, if they realize that there is no need to arrest the person.

  3. Re:Not supporting shootings, but... on Drive-By Shooting Suspect Remotely Wipes iPhone X, Catches Extra Charges (appleinsider.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    You don't have to provide an encryption key - you don't have to help them. But you cannot hinder them.

    Similarly, lawyers and big corporations shred documents regularly, because that's legal. But once they are subpoenaed, it's illegal

  4. Makes sense on Israel Aims To Ban Gasoline, Diesel Vehicles By 2030 (cleantechnica.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Israel is small enough that current EVs should be able to go border-to-border on a single charge. Given that range anxiety is one of the major reasons why people don't want EVs, it seems a small country can convert much more easily.

  5. Re:Thing is... on Why Bigger Planes Mean Cramped Quarters (popsci.com) · · Score: 1

    That makes a lot of sense. Thanks for taking the time to explain it.

    I've definitely heard horror stories on discount airlines, not just about the (slightly) higher cancellation rate, but about how many days it takes to recover if your flight is cancelled.

  6. Re:If you're not believable on Attacks on the Media Are a Threat To Democracy, Justin Trudeau Says (www.cbc.ca) · · Score: 1

    ow many times has some politically charged story only for it to later turn out the original story was misleading, deceptive, or only half true?

    It's seems pretty rare. Why, do you have good examples? I ask, because when Donald Trump announced a top-ten list of examples, they tended to be either (a) innoculous or (b) had people responsible fired. And universally retracted and corrected.

    Now, if you mean "politically charged tripe on right-wing propoganda networks", then it's pretty misleading, deceptive or half-true. But there's no retractions, ever.

  7. Re:Thing is... on Why Bigger Planes Mean Cramped Quarters (popsci.com) · · Score: 1

    That link doesn't say why they cannot overbook more. It says they won't buy more planes because they don't have to (overbooking is legal). And 85% of all seats being filled isn't a useful stat. If 80% of flights were full, that would be useful. That's because there's a giant difference between two situations that the stat from the article gives. Is it 85% of the flights are full and 15% are empty? Or is it all flights are 85% full?

  8. Re:Next quarter on What Your Phone is Telling Wall Street (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    That's illegal stock manipulation.

  9. Re:Capitalism on Why Bigger Planes Mean Cramped Quarters (popsci.com) · · Score: 1

    t's not clear to me that most travelers actually care that much, based on the fact that although legroom information is available from the airlines, only one of the major flight search tools provides it.

    That doesn't mean customers don't care. It means that customers cannot easily get information to make informed decisions. That is, if Kayak offered it, they could use stats to show most people don't care. But it doesn't.

  10. Re:Solution is simple... on Why Bigger Planes Mean Cramped Quarters (popsci.com) · · Score: 1

    There's no reason to think that denser packing leads to lower fares. Since airlines are posting record profits, it in fact makes it look like it leads to higher profits.

  11. Re: Disinformation... on What Your Phone is Telling Wall Street (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    ) There just aren't enough towers to triangulate a phone's location using mobile network signals

    You don't even need multiple towers. There are many antennas on each tower, each of which has different sensitivities in different arcs. Towers now pass off from directional antenna to directional antenna.

  12. Re:Putting a stop on the promotion path. on When No One Retires (hbr.org) · · Score: 2

    o very often a person who does retire now will be called back into work as an emergency hire. I know I was. And in a further preview of the future, after returning, there was still no transition planned, they apparently just figured I'd keep going until I dropped.

    Screw that.

    I'm not sure why you sound pissed. You're already ready to retire, so you don't need the job. You can just keep upping the salary to whatever you want. You have a captive customer, and don't care if they find their way out of the trap.

  13. Re:Putting a stop on the promotion path. on When No One Retires (hbr.org) · · Score: 1

    He's not saying "be productive". He's saying "climb the corporate ladder".

  14. Re: Disinformation... on What Your Phone is Telling Wall Street (wsj.com) · · Score: 2

    . Tower location data has much poorer accuracy

    That used to be true. Towers are far more precise now than they used to be. Still might be worse than GPS (it depends), but good enough for this purpose.

  15. Re:That's what you get for being lazy. on Deserialization Issues Also Affect Ruby -- Not Just Java, PHP, and .NET (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Using serialization operations (properly to a non-binary format) makes things more resilient to changes. You can roll your own, but then again, that seems more likely to be prone to errors. NIH-syndrome is a bitch.

  16. Re:Concrete Also Fixes Oxygen on The World is Running Out of Sand, and People Are Dying as a Result (medium.com) · · Score: 1

    /. recently has a story about a concrete like formula that fixes CO2. It's not very fast, it's very expensive, but it's pretty strong. Of course, it's still under development

  17. Re:Thing is... on Why Bigger Planes Mean Cramped Quarters (popsci.com) · · Score: 1

    Somebody's going to be paying for that, so it comes at the cost of legroom.

    And yet it's rare to be on a full flight. How much extra are they really making?

  18. Re:Mixed Reality support? on Xbox One To Gain Mouse and Keyboard Support Next Week (polygon.com) · · Score: 1

    VR is on the cusp, but can't break out of the "gimmick" impression many people still have.

    Driven there by the Google Cardboard/Samsung VR helmet level experiences. Curiously, MS, Apple, FB, HTC and Valve all invested heavily in VR. Was Google trying to reduce it to a gimmick to dry up the market?

  19. If it's a warning shot, sure.

  20. And since Russia is starting to play shadow war assassination games,

    Perhaps, if the target were within the jurisdiction of US authorities

    Russia took out some people who thought they were safe in the UK. I'm not so sure the US would take them out, but I'm not sure I would bet my life against it.

  21. Clearly, Russian trolls' and military hackers' personal kryptonite is US government pop-ups and direct warning messages

    I imagine a text to a burner phone you think is secure would scare most of people. And since Russia is starting to play shadow war assassination games, they might worry about being targeted.

  22. Oh yeah, that's not an example of a sentence where it was proper. (Although the omitted verb is clearly "taught", "taken" or "attended", which are synonymous with this usage.)

  23. I'm kinda amazed... on Only 22% of Americans Now Trust Facebook's Handling of Personal Info (fortune.com) · · Score: 2

    That FB is at the bottom doesn't shock me. That Apple is 2nd to last does. So does Google being so high in the rankings. And that Amazon is #1 is also pretty shocking.

    My personal trust ratings are: Apple, Microsoft, Amazon, Google, FB.

  24. Re: Shortwave Trading on The First Detailed Look at How Elon Musk's Space Internet Could Work (newscientist.com) · · Score: 1

    I did. NYC alone has like 20 public stock exchanges (and numerous private ones). HFT between them is pretty profitable, and based on meter differences. HFT between NY and Chicago or NY and London fades in comparison.

  25. The king knock over as a first move was intentional as a joke. But, for an attempted joke, the knock over of the king was just badly done. Rushed, no build up n his motion. Not what I would expect from a famous comedic actor.

    The second wrong move was a mistake.