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

    It only took about 2 days of this shut-down before people were on all the news stations, talking about their struggle. (None of them were even close to missing 1 paycheck yet!)

    If they actually wait until they miss that paycheck to scramble and make arrangements, they're doing it wrong.

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

    That is indeed easily said.

  3. Re:It is the weakness of medicine on $1.4 Million Raised on GoFundMe For 'Garbage' Homeopathy Cancer Treatment Scams (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    Yet when Texas capped liability, the cost of healthcare didn't budge.

  4. Chuck and Nancy are implementing the will of the people by insisting on spending taxpayer money on things that might actually work. Stroking Trump's ego is an incredibly ineffective strategy for securing the border.

  5. Re:Shock! Surprise! Dismay! WTF did you expect? on Linux systemd Affected by Memory Corruption Vulnerabilities, No Patches Yet (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    And even if you do what you suggested, you still get stuck with the vulnerabilities outlined in TFA.

  6. Re:Systemd: Conflict of interest? on Linux systemd Affected by Memory Corruption Vulnerabilities, No Patches Yet (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    Have you ever looked at some bash startup scripts?

    And written them. Not exactly rocket surgery. The ones that are more complex are doing things you cannot even specify in a unit file (and so, would require that the script be called from systemd anyway). The others are dead simple and tend to have a very much standardized form.

    It's a shame systemd was made as a monolithic charlie foxtrot rather than as an extensible bag of useful tools.

  7. Re:Thats what you get for running systemd on Linux systemd Affected by Memory Corruption Vulnerabilities, No Patches Yet (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    The init scripts are largely irrelevant since they do their job and then go away.

    As for the daemons, they are their own scope under a sane init system.

  8. Re:Thats what you get for running systemd on Linux systemd Affected by Memory Corruption Vulnerabilities, No Patches Yet (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    Isn't that a bit like a serial killer trying to excuse himself by claiming all of his victims were jaywalkers?

  9. Anyhow, WiFi geolocation (more accurate than GPS, actually) doesn't care about SSID.

    There was an incident where people in NYC were getting a location in the Netherlands (IIRC). It turned out there was a cruise ship with WiFi in the harbor.

  10. This. The entire '70s was filled with CSRs saying "Well, the COMPUTER says...".

    Hilarity ensued in the early '80s as increasing numbers of people replied "Well, MY computer says...".

  11. Re:Give away the razor; sell the blades on Taking the Smarts Out of Smart TVs Would Make Them More Expensive (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Funny thing about that. When I need/want the closest shave, the best option is an ancient safety razor. The more blades they try to stack, the more the razor gets gunked up.

  12. Agreed. Although they're harder to find, dumb TVs are always cheaper than the comparable smart TV.

  13. Well, since the Mexico paying for it part didn't pan out, we're half way there. The Wall part won't pan out either and we can get on with spending the money for something that might actually work.

  14. No, the FCC is shut down due to a temper tantrum. President man baby needs his ego stroked to the tune of 5 billion dollars and he's willing to hold the federal government hostage to get it.

  15. Re: Zero Risk assessment about a 500g drone on London's Heathrow Airport Halts Departures Over Drone Sighting (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    A 500g drone with a steel pipe and steel cable attached? Good luck getting it to fly at all.

    Presuming you step up to a big enough drone to get your chosen payload off of the ground, the force will definitely have to be with you to fly it into a jetliner's engine.

    Assuming you really are a Jedi, the result will be an expensive ruined engine and the plane making an emergency landing on it's remaining engine.

  16. Re:This is the well to do telling us not to worry on Robots Are Taking Some Jobs, But Not All: World Bank (mercurynews.com) · · Score: 1

    If you're not supporting people, you still get the same downward spiral effect since the jobless still can't support themselves without crime which drives out business which makes more jobless, etc.

    You also lose the boost in entrepreneurship and the ability to shut down welfare and food stamps as well as eliminate minimum wage.

  17. Re:This is the well to do telling us not to worry on Robots Are Taking Some Jobs, But Not All: World Bank (mercurynews.com) · · Score: 1

    In other words, a particular implementation of the Universal Basic Income. I agree that UBI is a proper solution to the problem.

  18. Looks like I called it. on AT&T Misleads Customers by Updating Phones With Fake 5G Icon (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Like I said before, "how expensive can it be having the marketing department put "5" stickers over the 4 in their advertising?"

  19. Re:Turbo button on my PC on AT&T Misleads Customers by Updating Phones With Fake 5G Icon (theverge.com) · · Score: 2

    You must have a really ancient PC. I haven't seen a turbo button in a long time.

    However, at one time the turbo button actually DID do something. When it stopped doing something it was always-on, not never on.

  20. Re:This is the well to do telling us not to worry on Robots Are Taking Some Jobs, But Not All: World Bank (mercurynews.com) · · Score: 1

    It is easy to fix, but hard to sell the fix until those 12,000 in A who are in no way qualified for one of the jobs in B decide that survival means they need to use their guns and knives.

    I would argue that the latter has already happened. Violent drug selling gangs, for example. They don't do it because it's easy money, they do it because there's a job opening.

  21. Re:Border fencing is infrastructure on National Parks Face Years of Damage From Government Shutdown (nationalgeographic.com) · · Score: 1

    I think you said more than you meant to there.

    First, you're saying that Trump's claim that Democrats are soft on border security is a damned lie.

    Second, if $46B wasn't enough for a wire fence, then a steel wall would be over a trillion.

    Here's an idea. I say we allocate $200 to buy Trump a nice hat he can have in hand when he talks to the President of Mexico about the first installment for construction of the wall.

  22. Re:This is the well to do telling us not to worry on Robots Are Taking Some Jobs, But Not All: World Bank (mercurynews.com) · · Score: 1

    It works out OK for the producers, but not so well for the people who used to make the hot dogs. Especially since the same technology likely makes other fast foods as well.

    It doesn't work out so well for the producers if similar tech puts others out of work as well.

  23. Re:I really don’t get it on Anti-Tesla Pickup Truck Drivers Take Over a Supercharger Station -- Again (electrek.co) · · Score: 2

    Not so sure. These are the same people who spend hundreds adding a switch to detune their engine so it will blow clouds of soot. They tend to use it to blow soot at economy cars as well as electric and hybrid.

  24. Re:This should be illegal on NVIDIA Slapped With Class Action Lawsuit Tied To Cryptocurrency Implosion (hothardware.com) · · Score: 1

    There is a material difference between terms like "secured" and "expect". The former is a term based on something that has already happened or not happened. Either the handshake and signing has happened or it has not. The latter conveys a belied, hopefully backed by some facts, about the future. But it is only a belief.

    Expectations can be thwarted by things like the market crashing harder or sooner than expected.

    Look at the fine print on press releases. They generally have a disclaimer abut forward looking statements.

  25. Re:This is the well to do telling us not to worry on Robots Are Taking Some Jobs, But Not All: World Bank (mercurynews.com) · · Score: 1

    The problem is, we also automate making buns. True, that makes hotdogs cheaper, but unless it makes them cost zero, the out of work hotdog and bun makers can't afford them.