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  1. Only if you flunked statistics.

  2. You think it was bad when Suki took over the paint bots, just wait until some kid gets control of the satellite and realizes it's the ultimate magnifying glass and anthill situation.

  3. Re:at $1.3 Million they have the funds to sue in c on Banksy Artwork Self-Destructs At Auction Right After Being Sold For $1.3 Million (cbsnews.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm not so sure why you are convinced it changed into a new item. That's not even a physically rational belief. It certainly changed state, and everyone learned something about it's nature, but it was the same item.

  4. Re:Doesn't affect OpenSSH on Trivial Authentication Bypass In Libssh Leaves Servers Wide Open (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    You're just jealous that his refrigerator is smarter than you.

  5. Re:OpenBSD OpenSSH not vulnerable on Trivial Authentication Bypass In Libssh Leaves Servers Wide Open (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    You're thinking of SSL, this is SSH.

  6. Re:OpenBSD OpenSSH not vulnerable on Trivial Authentication Bypass In Libssh Leaves Servers Wide Open (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Actually, OpenSSH in general is safe.

  7. Re:at $1.3 Million they have the funds to sue in c on Banksy Artwork Self-Destructs At Auction Right After Being Sold For $1.3 Million (cbsnews.com) · · Score: 1

    The buyer CHOSE to go through with the purchase, even though it was not what they originally bid on. Meaning they were not obliged to.

    No, we have no idea if the buyer was obliged since it was never adjudicated. The buyer chose not to contest it given that the work doubled in value according to experts.

  8. Re:Executive Branch powers on New York Attorney General Expands Inquiry Into Net Neutrality Comments (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    The FCC public comment process is for information gathering purposes only

    Then why did it bend over backwards to make sure the counts were distorted and the data unexamined?

    Simple answer, it wishes to create an illusion that it has acted in accordance with the will of the people. This is something the FCC values even if it is a lie. If you don't like when the government lies to you, it is best to expose the lies for what they are.

  9. Re:Yup, it's been a stormy afternoon here... on Fire At AT&T Facility Causes Outage For Over a Million U-Verse Fiber Customers In Texas (wfaa.com) · · Score: 2

    Not to worry, with their extensive redundancy in the critical departments, the bills will go out on time and the legal staff is at full power.

  10. Re:It is not... what? on The Magic Leap Con (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 2

    That's a quote from TFA and it makes perfect sense. It is not worth more than the GDP of Fiji.

  11. Correction, these weapons are intended to keep the death toll one sided. Essentially, this is a delayed response to an important lesson learned in Vietnam: When middle aged generally conservative leaning Americans see their sons (and now daughters) coming home in a box, they start asking hard questions about what the supposed benefit is and to whom does it accrue.

    That's the danger of weapons like these, they allow the hawks to project force everywhere and cause a great deal of carnage without worrying about a Vietnam style backlash here.

    That is, the negative feedback is turned way down. It's not that surprising that engineers see the danger in that.

  12. Re:Memories on Internet Archive Launches a Commodore 64 Emulator (hardocp.com) · · Score: 1

    I'll second that. Hacking on the Arduino is a lot like hacking on a C64 only it's cheap enough that you can keep a few spares around in case you let the smoke out.

  13. Re:Desperation on Are Universal Basic Incomes 'A Tool For Our Further Enslavement'? (medium.com) · · Score: 1

    What makes you think I want to prevent that? One of the great things about UBI is the way it would encourage small business ventures.

  14. Re:Of course it is on Are Universal Basic Incomes 'A Tool For Our Further Enslavement'? (medium.com) · · Score: 1

    So what you're saying is that other than the solutions offered that made you jam your fingers in your ears and scream la la la, they offer nothing? What do you have other than LA LA LA?

  15. Re:Of course it is on Are Universal Basic Incomes 'A Tool For Our Further Enslavement'? (medium.com) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    As opposed to Capitalism, which in it's modern form mostly consists of idle rich skimming all the profit off of the labor of the masses,

  16. Desperation on Are Universal Basic Incomes 'A Tool For Our Further Enslavement'? (medium.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    That sounds like a desperate last-ditch effort to discredit UBI. According to his logic, employment is just another tool to funnel money to Uber and Walmart as well, so we should all quit our jobs right now to stop them.

    OTOH, is we actually issue UBI, people won't need to work for Uber until they're too poor to work anymore. They can hold out for a real job that pays what their time and resources are worth.

  17. Re: Does this really need evidence? on Apple Rebukes Australia's 'Dangerously Ambiguous' Anti-Encryption Bill (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    Everyone will have encrypted traffic. You'd have to search everyonme for encrypted traffic that doesn't decrypt with the escrowed keys. But then you'd have to break the law since there's no way they would be able to get a warrant for everyone all the time.

    Add to that, If I understand correctly, the law doesn't cover additional crypto the end user adds, so it wouldn't be illegal.

  18. Re:Does this really need evidence? on Apple Rebukes Australia's 'Dangerously Ambiguous' Anti-Encryption Bill (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    And even more ignorant to assume they won't just layer another actually secure crypto system over the tissue paper provided by a compliant phone.

  19. So instead of having to break into 1 million devices most of which contain nothing of value to get a million keys, just break one extremely high value target (Apple's keystore) and get millions of keys.

  20. Re: Politicians need to be reined in on Apple Rebukes Australia's 'Dangerously Ambiguous' Anti-Encryption Bill (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    They are betting that their customers in the rest of the world won't figure out that if Apple can subvert iPhone security to satisfy one country, they will probably subvert it everywhere to make things easy.

  21. Re:Why not use free repair under warranty? on 45 Out of 50 Electronics Companies Illegally Void Warranties After Independent Repair, Sting Operation Finds (vice.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    Because otherwise, too many manufacturers wanted to overcharge by crazy amounts for routine maintenance under threat of voiding warranties. So, for example if you decided to change your own oil for a few bucks rather than pay the stealership $100 to do it, they would try to not honor the warranty on your transmission even though you didn't touch it.

    So now they have to prove you damaged it if they want to void the warranty.

    This does not mean they have to fix it for free if you screwed it up yourself.

  22. Re:loyalty on The Long, Long History of Long, Long CVS Receipts (vox.com) · · Score: 2

    Not saying your complaint isn't valid, just suggesting that pestering the underpaid cashier with no decision authority whatsoever about it isn't particularly effective. It's almost like shouting into a mailbox and expecting the Postmaster General to take note of your complaint.

  23. I find it amusing how many years AT&T and Bell promised us video phones and other vaporware, and extolled the virtues of caller ID etc. and never really delivered (since caller ID is now mostly spoofed junk calls) but WhatsApp and similar delivered. Obviously, the technology has caught up with the vision (necessarily since WhatsApp, Duo, and others actually work), so what about it AT&T, I might even ask them so WhatsApp with that?

  24. Re:loyalty on The Long, Long History of Long, Long CVS Receipts (vox.com) · · Score: 1

    Given the lavish salary cashiers pull down, I'm sure they'll mention it during the next shareholder's meeting.

  25. Re:Add drivers licenses, license plates, to that l on German Art Activists Get Passport Using Digitally Altered Photo of Two Women Merged Together (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    The test is not without merit, but it doesn't really tell us much other than that the person is able to handle a car going 15 MPH with no traffic when they know they're being watched.

    But yes, many states will suspend a license for reasons unrelated to driving, such as failure to appear in court, late child support, non DUI/DWI drug offenses, etc. Further, why does it expire? You can renew without taking a test again. Most of the time they don't even bother with the token vision test in Ga anymore.