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  1. Re:This is actually good for broadcasters on Locast, a Free App Streaming Network TV, Would Love to Get Sued (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Slight alteration. You must APPEAR to be in the appropriate BTA or you can not use the Locast from that area. Which will put the service at additional risk since it's trivial to change your apparent location on the Internet.

  2. Re: Unionize or Shut Up on Google Memo On Cost Cuts Sparks Heated Debate Inside Company (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    That depends on where you are located. In California I don't think that "employment at will" applies and since the majority of Google's employees are in California they have the option. Though I can't see them ganging up to form a union.

  3. Re:Paper cash handling on NYC Politician Wants To Ban Cashless Restaurants (eater.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Which is why you will typically find a person that runs the register while other people handle the food. It's a good answer to your observation.

  4. Re:Any particular reason this is significant ? on Microsoft Launches Free AV1 Video Codec For Windows 10 (softpedia.com) · · Score: 1

    Where money is concerned there is no such thing as good enough. Though anything new must be significantly better such as cheaper or faster. In the case of video codecs companies like Netflix are looking at the speed to encode and the size of the encoded files (for equivalent video quality.) If something new comes along that reduces file size at equivalent quality by half at the same or close to the same cost (both in $$ and speed) you can bet that Netflix would be moving to the new codec.

  5. Re: Good for him on Zuckerberg Rebuffs Request To Appear Before UK Parliament (apnews.com) · · Score: 1

    I don't think you have considered just what the US has. The US government can't come in and shut someone down just because they are engaging in what some call hate speech. That doesn't mean that person is free from all consequences. People have lost jobs over things that they've said. So while there is a tolerance for all forms of speech (except speech about violent overthrow of the government) that doesn't mean that the citizens/businesses are tolerant of all forms of speech.

  6. They will just move the termination points on Study Suggests Buried Internet Infrastructure at Risk as Sea Levels Rise (eurekalert.org) · · Score: 1

    Unless we are going to see sea levels rise by a multiple feet in a year I don't see the problem. The sea is rising slowly so there will be plenty of warning before any termination point goes underwater so there is plenty of time to move the termination point to further inland so it's safe(ish) from hurricanes and other issues associated with rising sea levels. Moving the people is going to be a much bigger issue.

  7. how does this compare to pumice? on Graphene Makes Concrete Twice As Strong While Reducing Carbon Emissions (inhabitat.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I remember hearing long ago how adding pumice to concrete made it better able to resist water damage. Supposedly that was the reason that aqueducts and other Roman structures exposed to water survived for centuries. I don't suppose pumice has the CO2 benefits but it's also something just needs to be mined and not made.

    Though I doubt either one is available in the quantities needed to be really useful. Also wasn't there some report on us running out of the sand needed for concrete at our current rate of use?

  8. Re:Locks in general, are not very secure. on Hackers Built a 'Master Key' For Millions of Hotel Rooms (zdnet.com) · · Score: 2

    I would hope that there's a way to upgrade the locks so that they can prevent this attack. Though then the question is how difficult would that be (do you have to upgrade each lock one at a time?) and how many hotels would go through the process.

  9. Re:Didn't we learn not to yell at hard drives? on Loud Sound From Fire Alarm System Shuts Down Nasdaq's Scandinavian Data Center (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    Ah, yes. I remember that video. I was quite surprised that drives could be impacted that easily just by the human voice.

  10. Re: Oh, he's got a "terrible bad tooth"? on WikiLeaks' Julian Assange Asks UK Judge to Drop His Arrest Warrant (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    he would be even more depressed if he was in prison. He also might be a free man if he only left the embassy so it's hard to see how him having depression (if he really does) is an issue

  11. Re:Did not read the book on 'How We Made Starship Troopers' (theguardian.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I didn't hate the movie. Just had to treat it as something that took a few ideas from the book and ran off in a totally different direction. If you went into the movie expecting to see something that tied into the book you were going to be sorely disappointed.

  12. Supply can be an issue, but there are other factors that come into play that I've heard about. Apparently DRAM had a rather large increase in price recently which is creating an issue for board manufacturers.

    Then there is the issue that AMD/Nvidia remember what happened last time there was a big increase in the price of crypto currencies and then a huge drop off. So they are rightly fearful of such a thing happening this time because they have to place orders for more GPU chips months in advance. So they would have to feel confident that the current high demand for cards will still be there six months from now in order to place a larger order for chips from TSMC/Global Foundries. I can't see any reason for them to be that confident.

  13. Re:Core issue is trust on OpenBSD's De Raadt Pans 'Incredibly Bad' Disclsoure of Intel CPU Bug (itwire.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    It was also a short and long term benefit of their customers. Are you willing to pay Intel back for the extra performance they provided by their same decision that you are deriding today?

  14. Re:AMD64: 2 separate things on Google's Project Zero Team Discovered Critical CPU Flaw Last Year (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    The testing that has been done show that there isn't a massive performance hit for fixing the Meltdown issue except in very specific cases. So far those cases occur in some synthetic benchmarks. In testing on Linux and Windows the patch doesn't seem to impact any standard application (web browsing/games/office work) to any noticeable extent. So while it's not a good thing for Intel it isn't the massive issue that the first reports made it out to be (no 30% performance hit)

  15. Re:Possibly MUCH more serious problem... on Apple's MacBook Air-like Store Roof Wasn't Designed To Handle Snow... in Chicago (9to5mac.com) · · Score: 1

    Gutters don't help with the weight of the snow but they would help keep the snow from sliding down the roof and on to the unwary below. They would also help move any water off the roof and help prevent the icicles that might otherwise form as the snow begins to melt.

  16. No update till my ad-ons work on Slashdot Asks: Have You Switched To Firefox 57? · · Score: 1

    I haven't updated and won't for at least a month. That's when all of my ad ons should be updated. I had two ad ons that were 'upgraded' to the latest version even though I'm on FF 56. Those upgrades ended up taking aware features. Adblock Plus lost the ability to block many ads with their Web Extension version so I've ended up moving to Ublock Origin which seems to be working well. LastPass also lost a lot of functionality with their Web Extension version so I've downgraded to the last beta that works well with FF56.

    That's another issue with both LastPass and AdBlock Plus. Neither company has given any guidance on when or if they will be feature complete in comparison to their previous version. At least with DownThemAll and NoScript I know where the devs are in their efforts to get a fully working version for FF57. I wish more devs would be forthcoming with how their efforts are going especially since FF57 is out and many people will be upgrading to it.

  17. Re:What's special about Starcraft? on Humans Are Still Better Than AI at StarCraft (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 1

    But the rules have changed. Not as in a complete overhaul but Blizzard regularly does rebalancing which involves changing the dmg and health of various units and even changing the rules governing the building of some units. That said Blizzard does document much of their changes so it's easy enough to add in that information into the AI's database.

  18. Re:Protected speech on Newspaper Obtains James Damore's Complaint Against Google (siliconbeat.com) · · Score: 1

    I don't think Google let him go because he sent out the memo. They probably let him go because the memo was becoming a point of embarrassment for the company. Too many people on all sides of the issues raised in the memo were complaining about the company which needed to be stopped as quickly as possible. Easiest way to do that is to release the employee behind the memo. So it's not the impact of the memo inside the company that led to his removal but the memo going public outside the company

  19. Re:Not really true on Can An Individual Still Resist The Spread of Technology? (chicagotribune.com) · · Score: 2

    So I need to have a cell phone on the off chance that I come upon an accident and no one there has a cell phone so I am the only that can save them. I am a super hero!! Thank you for pointing this out.

    My only kryptonite is my tendency to misplace things so I might not be able to find my cell phone before it's time to leave. Oh, and my tendency to forget small things like remembering to recharge the cell phone so it will work when I come upon an accident and have my chance to be a hero.

  20. If that was where this collision happened then the people on watch should have been hyper active because there would be a regular stream of ships to keep an eye on. It can't be boredom because there are no ships around if there are lots of ships around.

    I find it hard to believe that the Navy is finding it that difficult to know what caused the previous collisions. It's more likely that they do know and don't want to make it public. Knowing that their own people screwed up would be just the sort of thing they wouldn't want to make public.

  21. I'm sure the original poster was trying to distinguish between privately owned data that may be publicly available versus publicly owned data that is publicly available. Linked-in is running a private server so is privately owned even if the data is available to the public. It does seem odd that the judge didn't seem to put any limits in place so that if the servers allow it each of us could scrape all of their data as fast as our links can support.

  22. Drive in theaters were the make out places, but they are also great for parents with kids. Pack up the family and take everyone out to see a movie for less than you would pay in a theater without having to worry about finding seating for everyone that's together and without worrying about anyone else annoying you or you annoying them.

  23. The evidence? on FBI Says Islamic State Used eBay, PayPal To Channel Money To the US (theverge.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I hope the FBI has more evidence than the summary or the article has. All that they state is that he sold a cellphone, laptop and a VPN service to a company. That company happened to be owned by a guy associate with ISIS.

    Then they make the leap that the money paid was going to be used to plan an attack in the US. All of which may be true but unless they have the guy on record as planning an attack or captured his plans it's going to be hard to prove that case. So either the FBI has a weak case or this is a really weak article.

  24. Re:No, he lied about having a PhD. on Google May Be In Trouble For Firing James Damore (inc.com) · · Score: 1

    If that is accurate then it's clear he was claiming to have actually gotten a PhD. So where is the claim that he only said he had PhD Studies coming from? Has that just been made up or did he put that down somewhere else?

  25. Re:Uh.... on The No-GPS Road Trip (popularmechanics.com) · · Score: 1

    That's good and we certainly have that in Atlanta but my favorite is when the road just ends. Then it picks up a few blocks away with no notice that it does so. Got very confused a few times when I knew the road continued and yet I was looking at a dead end.