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  1. Re:It's really not about SPAM texts on Verizon Charges New 'Spam' Fee For Texts Sent From Teachers To Students (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    It's double dipping. Each and every Verizon customer receiving those texts is paying Verizon for the ability to do so. The sender is already paying as well. It's just that Verizon decided to provide an inverse bulk discount because they can.

  2. Re:I can't imagine... on Feds Can't Force You To Unlock Your iPhone With Finger Or Face, Judge Rules (forbes.com) · · Score: 1

    I do that too, and it's just to keep people honest. It also makes it impossible for someone to successfully claim that they had no idea they weren't supposed to access the phone.

  3. Re: How about a modicum of objectivity in the sum on Aaron Swartz's Federal Judge Gives Anonymous Hacker 10 Years In Prison For DDoS Attacks On Children's Hospitals (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    [citation needed]

  4. Re: How about a modicum of objectivity in the sum on Aaron Swartz's Federal Judge Gives Anonymous Hacker 10 Years In Prison For DDoS Attacks On Children's Hospitals (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Again, you have confused Justina and another person.

    Read more carefully.

  5. Re:Second that. on USB Type-C Headphones Were Nowhere in Sight at CES 2019 (androidauthority.com) · · Score: 1

    That's laughable. Apple keeps trying to make paper thin phones and claiming that's what people want. Then people buy them and get a chunky case to protect the phone and give them what they really want, a more rugged phone even if it has to be 3 times thicker.

  6. Re:There's no mystery here on USB Type-C Headphones Were Nowhere in Sight at CES 2019 (androidauthority.com) · · Score: 1

    No, that category was perfectly satisfied with the 1/8 inch plug. The USB-C vaporware is/was a "solution" nobody wanted. Unfortunately, in spite of not really existing, it has displaced a well tested and once ubiquitous solution.

    It took a special kind of moron to make that happen.

  7. Re: How about a modicum of objectivity in the sum on Aaron Swartz's Federal Judge Gives Anonymous Hacker 10 Years In Prison For DDoS Attacks On Children's Hospitals (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Wrong again. She was seeing the doctors at Tufts that diagnosed a physical illness FIRST. She was at BCS to consult a gastrointestinal specialist about a specific issue related to her illness. It's clear that you are looking for an excuse to believe BCH and the state and blame the parents, it's just not clear why. Perhaps you should read up on the background before you make further assumptions.

    You seem to have confused two different cases. There was another case where the same doctors at Tufts agreed that there was no physical illness, but that wasn't Justina Pelletier. Since those events, Pelletier has gone back to her parents and resumed treatment for mitochondrial disease at Tufts.

  8. Re:Attacking the systems caring for hospitalized c on Aaron Swartz's Federal Judge Gives Anonymous Hacker 10 Years In Prison For DDoS Attacks On Children's Hospitals (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Yes, he did.

  9. Re:Attacking the systems caring for hospitalized c on Aaron Swartz's Federal Judge Gives Anonymous Hacker 10 Years In Prison For DDoS Attacks On Children's Hospitals (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    My doctor doesn't do that. If a doctor actually did need google (that could happen sometimes), he has a smart phone with a browser.

    Of course the hospital's web presence may not even be hosted in the same state, mush less on the same subnet as their gateway.

  10. In this case, the government simply acted as a bludgeon in the hands of the hospital.

  11. That is what the hospital alleges. Other doctors maintain that there was a genuine physical problem that needed actual treatment. In other words, the experts didn't agree, so it'd a bit extreme to claim the parents are abusive because they believe doctor A rather than doctor B.

    Note that the child's health declined while in the psych ward. She is now back with her parents and improving.

  12. This is kind of the opposite of your first case. The parents wanted her to continue being treated at Tufts for an inherited mitochondrial disorder but BCH decided it was a psychological issue so they grabbed custody (claiming Munchhausen by proxy), took her off her meds and locked her in the psych ward. So really, BCH is playing the role of the fundamentalist parents.

  13. Re: How about a modicum of objectivity in the summ on Aaron Swartz's Federal Judge Gives Anonymous Hacker 10 Years In Prison For DDoS Attacks On Children's Hospitals (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    What makes you so sure? It's not like they wanted to whisk her off to mexico for some special fruit diet therapy. They wanted her treated by different well respected doctors.

  14. Re: How about a modicum of objectivity in the summ on Aaron Swartz's Federal Judge Gives Anonymous Hacker 10 Years In Prison For DDoS Attacks On Children's Hospitals (zdnet.com) · · Score: 2

    Knocking an external web server down doesn't affect patient care at all.

  15. Re:Attacking the systems caring for hospitalized c on Aaron Swartz's Federal Judge Gives Anonymous Hacker 10 Years In Prison For DDoS Attacks On Children's Hospitals (zdnet.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    You DO know that a hospital's web pages and business admin don't run in the same space as the patient monitors, right?

  16. Re:How about a modicum of objectivity in the summa on Aaron Swartz's Federal Judge Gives Anonymous Hacker 10 Years In Prison For DDoS Attacks On Children's Hospitals (zdnet.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    You should do a lot more background reading. The child in question was the victim of a "medical kidnapping" being held in a psych ward and denied necessary medication. It seems the doctors at that hospital disagreed with doctors at another hospital and they were willing to keep her locked up to prevent the parents from transferring her.

    This is an uncommon but growing problem.

    Eventually, with mounting publicity and legal pressure, the child was released and is now slowly improving. Some of that publicity came from the DDOS making the news.

  17. Re: Can we quit with the myth that Python is slow on You Can Now Profile Python Using Arm Forge (arm.com) · · Score: 1

    He didn't claim it got slower or that it became incompatible, he said it couldn't be maintained.

  18. Let's just say there is a such thing as fair and honest dealing and if you're making money based on the customer not knowing a simple fact, your dealing is not fair and honest.

    Of course, given the prices some of the sellers in TFA are charging, I don't necessarily think their dealing is unfair. Actually printing is worth something. Curation is worth something, and doing a high quality scan from a printed book is worth something. The prices shown in at least some of those example looked about right.

  19. So, under that theory, MS committed a crime by shutting Tay off.

  20. Re:Does a printing press have Freedom of the Press on Do Social Media Bots Have a Right To Free Speech? (thebulletin.org) · · Score: 1

    This. Use of a printing press pretty much intrinsically discloses that a printing press was used.

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

    Re-asserting the proposition does not constitute proof.

  22. Re:Ever hear of KEYFRAMES? on VLC Passes 3 Billion Downloads (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    Not really. All you have to do is construct the frame you're seeking to. If you want to step back a frame, reconstruct from the keyframe again. The number of intermediate frames you keep to minimize the re-computation will be a trade-off between available memory and minimum time to step back.

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

    Not always, no. If you feed the kids mustard sandwiches or trash can food, CPS may come knocking. A few hours in the ER can wipe out more than a year's salary quicker than you can say "what's all this going to cost?". Sometimes that happens even WITH health insurance. If your expenses exceed your income, you won't be able to save money. And not all expenses are optional.

    I'm not saying nobody in financial trouble is the architect of their own problem, but I am calling BS on the idea that everyone is able to save enough for an emergency.

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

    For some people, that works out. Others have kids or medical debt or the car drops the transmission, etc and there goes their safety margin and then some.

  25. Re:Sounds good to me, too! on Federal Shutdown May Send Millennial Workers To Exits (techtarget.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm not disagreeing with that. I'm disagreeing with the idea that the serious stress doesn't start until the first paycheck is actually missed.