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  1. Re:Or fiber lines on In a Cashless World, You'd Better Pray the Power Never Goes Out (mises.org) · · Score: 1

    Get a satellite internet link, or have them write a check. And accept IOUs from customers you know and trust. In a town of 6000 odds are at least someone in the grocery store knows the customer.

  2. Re: Another reason why cash is garbage on In a Cashless World, You'd Better Pray the Power Never Goes Out (mises.org) · · Score: 1

    Yeah, but guns best suited for shooting people are the best sellers. People talk the talk about shooting a buck or scaring off a home invasion but then buy an AR15 or a compact pistol. Overall the general ownership of handguns in particular has profoundly damaged public safety in the USA for everyone, gun owners and non-gun-owners. Sensible gun laws could do a lot to make us all safer without destroying hunting or the safety of people in their homes and make it easier for police to keep public spaces safe and be held to account for their own kills.

  3. Give anecdotes on Ask Slashdot: How Can You Apply For A Job When Your Code Samples Suck? · · Score: 1

    You don't have code samples, but what you do have are a very particular set of skills. Skills you have acquired over a very long career. Skills that make you a nightmare for bugs in other peoples convoluted code...

    Few people get a clean environment in which to create pristine code from scratch, be proud of how you have shone a light into some dark places, made things work where others couldn't find the problem and made the world a better place one line of code at a time

    Oh, and for sure write some of your own stuff from scratch to show you actually enjoy it and are good at it, that was good advice.

  4. Re:CO2 is not bad.... on World's First 'Negative Emissions' Plant Has Begun Operation (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    Holy shit - the line of the tropics will edge northward. Woah ! - so not only will the earth's axis of rotation change it will wobble throughout the year to prevent there being any corresponding southward expansion.

    We'll all be shaken off the planet by climate change, we'd better reduce emissions right away and hold on tight

  5. I wonder what the jobs:deaths ratio will turn out to be for that decision by the end of this presidential term.

  6. Re:RPi form factor? on Linux Now Has its First Open Source RISC-V Processor (designnews.com) · · Score: 2

    like this one ?

  7. Re: Can this CPU be implemented on FPGA? on Linux Now Has its First Open Source RISC-V Processor (designnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Try icestorm

  8. you have to wonder what could have happened to make such fraud prevention measures necessary.

  9. I thought google gadgets died on Why Google Needs Gadgets (wired.com) · · Score: 1
  10. Re:$225 million isn't much on Former Equifax CEO Blames Breach On One Individual Who Failed To Deploy Patch (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    It doesn't seem like great value for money considering the results it obtained. If they had "put it all on red" they apparently would have had the same level of security and a fair chance of having a $450MM fund to compensate the poor bastards who's information they held hostage.

  11. I thought Morley and Michelson invented it

  12. Re:Consider if you will on When You Split the Brain, Do You Split the Person? (aeon.co) · · Score: 1

    more prions

  13. assuming they don't move on to making other things, companies that make...

    + Keyboards

    + mice

    + laptops

    + graphing calculators

  14. Re: Not an off the shelf weapon on Las Vegas Shooting Leaves at Least 50 Dead, More Than 200 Wounded (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    Authorities had been alerted to his location thanks to a smoke alarm that went off in the room, presumably triggered as a result of the shots fired.

  15. Re: Not an off the shelf weapon on Las Vegas Shooting Leaves at Least 50 Dead, More Than 200 Wounded (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    They found 10 rifles in the room. How did they find the guy anyway, was it by sound or because they saw the muzzle flash.

  16. Re:I don't the answer to this... I really don't on Las Vegas Shooting Leaves at Least 50 Dead, More Than 200 Wounded (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    Careful there buddy, you're getting mighty close to analyzing gun related behavior.

  17. I'd say that the Lattice ICE HX FPGA is worth using to learn about verilog. And after that maybe some fpga based ham radio projects like maybe Lime

  18. when I read this I thought they meant they had dumbed it down to make it easier to use than typing in a password or rubbing your finger over a fingerprint scanner because these has all proven to be overly difficult for CEOs and polititicians.

  19. we roll over keys, certificates and passwords at work too, it's a chore every time. There must be a better way to do this, ideally there could be a grace period where old and new keys are in force and users get progressively worse nag messages about the impending demise of the old key/whatever.

    If the protocol doesn't support messaging then maybe it should degrade, start off with a 1ms delay and then ramp up exponentially as the deadline nears

  20. Re:All 'dumb' Companies Get Breached on Equifax CEO: All Companies Get Breached (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    So let's accept that at some point or another no level of security is unbreachable (which I think is a stretch in practice but you can't prove a negative). That still doesn't make all breaches equivalent or mean that the breaches can't be detected or mitigated. Equifax fucked up on practically every level despite the importance of being especially vigilent being patently obvious because of the nature of what they held on everyone.

    The negligence started well before the breach, The incompetence really shone through afterwards

  21. or maybe there's a bug in the AIS software

  22. Actually.. on Equifax CEO Steps Down Amid Hacking Scandal (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    He didn't step down. Building security were inattentive and he was stolen.

  23. Re:Nope on 'Star Trek: Discovery' Premieres Tonight (ew.com) · · Score: 1

    nonsense

    PIP CRT:=NET[https://cbs.streaming.com/startrek/episode2]

    Just be sure it's more than 9600 baud for high def

  24. Re:80s all over again? on Do Strongly Typed Languages Reduce Bugs? (acolyer.org) · · Score: 1

    same number of bugs, just caught in a different way. In defense of the dynamically typed languages they do allow some quick progress to be made finding flaws in algorithms while the syntax nazi languages are still griping about non static thingamajigs being called from static whatchamacallits.

    I'd be interested to see if languages like clojure tend to reduced bugs in the compiled code, the only reason I think that it might is because it took me so much effort to get event the most trivial program to even approximate working that by the time I was done the program was concise and beautiful, shame it took me hours to get there (it would have taken me minutes in my sloppy python).

  25. they pay back 9% of everything they earn over 21k. all remaining debt is cancelled after 30 years. So ignoring wage inflation and government rule changes, they'll only pay back 45,900 and inflation will take a bite out of the real value of that.

    In other words, they'll earn 3k extra and their degree financing will cost them 1530 so they are 1470 up on the deal every year.

    Now if you assume they could have been earning 35000 per year instead of attending university then that opportunity cost starts them $105k in the hole - they'll not see that back

    But there are a lot of assumptions there, and actualy getting a degree is life changing and fun in its own way

    All in all I'm glad I did it