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  1. Re:What abt people who don't want kids? on Twitter To Give All New Parents 20 Weeks of Paid Leave (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    Your compensation is a better work environment. The same reason I don't try to kill off all of the bacteria in my body, I understand supporting and helping parents.

  2. Re:Property rights are history on Nest Reminds Customers That Ownership Isn't What It Used To Be (eff.org) · · Score: 1

    You own the house, but not the property. They'll liquidate the value of your home, pay off what you owe, then give you the difference.

  3. Re:Discrimination against who exactly? on PayPal Pulls North Carolina Plan After Transgender Bathroom Law (reuters.com) · · Score: 2

    All good then. Gender != Sex. Sex is what is between your legs. Gender is not known until the child has identified with one. It can't be known at birth.

  4. Most doctors are required by law for you to take a long bunch of psych evaluations over many months by several different physiologists before they even start you on your hormone therapy. That would have to be one dedicated perv.

  5. Re:It is also known.. on Electric Fork Simulates a Salty Flavor By Shocking Your Tongue (med.news.am) · · Score: 0

    Getting livestock or produce into a consumers hands without preservatives isn't profitable;

    I can to go the butcher at the grocery store and watch them cut the meat, wrap it up, and hand it to me. No preservatives. And it's nearly the same price as the competition, with a much better cut.

  6. My wifi might have a 200' range, but being able to say only authenticate if within 20' is still useful. Before you "whoosh", I did understand the joke :-)

  7. Re:News for Nerds on More People On Earth Now Obese Than Underweight, Says Study (statnews.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm not sure what the Universal definition is, but at one point I looked up a medical definition as defined by the USA government, and I was obese because I was 20lb over wight and 6' tall. According to my wellness teacher at State Uni, who has been involved with a lot of ground breaking weight and health research, 10lb over is the same as 1lb under. I would rather error on the side of caution and be a bit over weight.

  8. Re:Studies That Point Out What We All Know. on Study Says People Who Continually Point Out Typos Are 'Jerks' · · Score: 2

    the irony of her reply, “How nice!” when I said I had to work all weekend.

    Sounds more like sarcasm to me. I need some Venn diagrams explaining how they're different.

  9. Re:"Conceptual Map of the FLOSS"? What the fuck?! on MIT Media Lab Defaults To Free and Open Source Software (networkworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Technically, you can compile CDDL code, then re-license the binary as GPL. This will make a lawyer's head explode. GPL on a binary states you need to license the code as GPL, but at the same time, you can't license the code as GPL, but you can make the binary GPL. Talks about a paradox.

    It's tempting to grab a CDDL ZFS kernel module, compile it, then license the binary as GPL and see what happens. Include the binary with a Linux distro. Why can't you? It's GPL.

  10. Re:"Conceptual Map of the FLOSS"? What the fuck?! on MIT Media Lab Defaults To Free and Open Source Software (networkworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Just because something is popular doesn't mean it's better. Take Windows or PHP.

  11. Re:Benevolent restrictions != free on MIT Media Lab Defaults To Free and Open Source Software (networkworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Why would I feel entitled to someone else's modifications to my code? Some anti-social thinking there. Jealousy is unbecoming.

  12. Re:"Conceptual Map of the FLOSS"? What the fuck?! on MIT Media Lab Defaults To Free and Open Source Software (networkworld.com) · · Score: 1

    It takes away freedom from the developer and gives freedom to the user. Kind of like saying, screw the farmers, the consumer is all that matters. In many cases the developer and the user are the same, but this is rare. Many developers don't consider this an issue, but the probably with GPL is it's viral and means developers that want to only share certain code are left out of forced to do something they don't want to. Of course they could fragment the market even more and start their own code with some other license, but this is harmful to society in most cases.

    In the end, GPL vs BSD is nit picking. GPL is still great, but I hate how they say it promotes "freedom". It promotes sharing, but not freedom.

  13. Re:What the fuck?! Freedom isn't "granted"! on MIT Media Lab Defaults To Free and Open Source Software (networkworld.com) · · Score: 1

    If you don't like your government, don't pay it. "Don't use it" is only a valid argument when there are choices or when choices don't harm each other, like fragmentation. Lots of competition for shoes is a good thing. Not all shoe companies make shoes that work for me. Lots of competition for roads just means I get to pay more tolls.

  14. You reboot your computers more often than once a month? What's wrong with you? The only good solution is everything works transparently. No configuration, no rebooting. Just works.

  15. Re:Willing to be wrong, maybe... on Torvalds' Secret Sauce For Linux: Willing To Be Wrong (ieee.org) · · Score: 1

    Your logic is broken. All release BSD code is released. Any code that is not released is not BSD code, so no worries. BSD license only says that free code remains free.

  16. Re:Now how do I get my refund? on Valve Loses Australian Court Battle Over Steam (computerworld.com.au) · · Score: 1

    Charged back = banned account. Lose all of your games.

  17. Re: EULAs are bullshit ... on Valve Loses Australian Court Battle Over Steam (computerworld.com.au) · · Score: 1

    You can't sign away rights in the USA either, but there are only a few "rights" and you can be sued for civil matters if you can show damages. An example is an NDA. You have a right to speech, but you signed an NDA, and if your speech that you agreed to no do causes damages to the other party, then that party can sue you for said damages.

    Being able to sue for damages is a blessing and a curse. It's great for situations where someone didn't technically break the law, but they did hurt you. At the same time, corps can claim almost anything causes them damages because of public relations and competition.

  18. Re: After I got banned from even playing single-pl on Valve Loses Australian Court Battle Over Steam (computerworld.com.au) · · Score: 1

    If you were playing a Blizzard game, they could ban your entire account for letting someone other than only one of your legal children from playing a game that is on your account. It's called account sharing and violates the EULA.

  19. Re:How is this more convenient? on Volvo Wants You To Ditch Car Keys For Its New Smartphone App (dailydot.com) · · Score: 1

    Maybe $400 with insurance. S7 Edge is about $750.

  20. Re:Consistency on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS Final Beta Released · · Score: 3
    http://kernelnewbies.org/Linux...

    TCP implementation has been refactored to make the TCP listener fast path completely lockless. During tests, a server was able to process 3,500,000 SYN packets per second on one listener and still have available CPU cycles

    Thanks for the heads up!

  21. Re:everyone needs bandwidth controls, not just mob on Netflix Admits To Capping Video Streams On Wireless Networks (variety.com) · · Score: 1

    http://www.bufferbloat.net/pro...
    Cake is kind of a pseudo-stateless traffic shaper that doesn't need anything configured except the bandwidth. It can evenly distribute bandwidth while keeping latency isolated among flows. It is still being polished, but it is looking really good and promising to be a turn-key simple never worry about bandwidth hogs or latency again. At least on your own bottleneck of an Internet connection. Of course you can't do anything about upstream bottlenecks, but they're hoping to get Cake or similar buffer managers integrated into commercial routers and firewalls. DOCSIS3.1 should support RED, which is similar to CoDel. A big win over a dumb FIFO buffer.

  22. Re:everyone needs bandwidth controls, not just mob on Netflix Admits To Capping Video Streams On Wireless Networks (variety.com) · · Score: 1

    Manage your own network's bandwidth usage. I use HFSC+CoDel in PFSense and I can keep my bufferbloat about 1-2ms for both up and down in most situations. If you use one of the WRTs on a router, you can use fq_Codel or possibly Cake soon. Or blame your ISP. Even if I disable all traffic shaping and buffer management on my firewall, my ISP will not let my ping go over 30ms-40ms. I can play my favorite FPS game while letting torrent saturate my connection and my wife watching Netflix with no buffering issues.

  23. Re:Yes Please! on Netflix Admits To Capping Video Streams On Wireless Networks (variety.com) · · Score: 1

    Hundreds of gigs is nothing. That's like 2-3 days of normal usage for me. I'm already at 28GiB in the past hour and my network is 75% idle.

  24. Re:Or is it the other way around? on Research Suggests 'CS For All' May Mean Lower Pay For All · · Score: 1

    Women's pay is lower even if you control for those factors

    But the difference is less than the margin of error. Something like once you adjust for the other factors, women get paid 97 cents on the dollar compared to men. It's ridiculously close. May as well be the same.

  25. Re:Unavoidable if you're LAZY on How One Dev Broke Node and Thousands of Projects In 11 Lines of JavaScript (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Depends on your definition of "mastery". A good programmer with 6 months of experience is on average just as good as someone with 10+ years of experience. The reason for this is the average programmer will never reach mastery no matter how much time they spend. Most people don't get 10 years of experience, they repeat the first year of experience 10 times.

    Stuff you don't want to reinvent is security, datetime, or fundamental libraries. And never use any code that you don't understand how it works. Not at the operation level, but characteristics and edge cases. I can't tell you how many times I've seen people unable to debug their issues because of some complex interaction between some "free library" that is popular. Rule of thumb. If someone contrives a hypothetical case, you should be able to tell them how your code will work. If you can't answer the question, then you didn't program, you threw code at a wall and it passed some crappy unit tests.