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  1. Re:Let them burn on Australian Teen Reports SQL Injection Vulnerability, Company Calls Police · · Score: 1

    Just anonymously mail them and CC it to your countries data protection agency and some newspapers, you can let the newspapers worry about what constitutes responsible disclosure, the company can't deny liability so it will get fixed and you can forget about it.

  2. "Government controls on compensation aren't going to help anything. No one is going to agree to take on the responsibility of a megacorp like BP or Exxon/Mobil if they can't make more than an exec at a company 1/50th that size."

    So it will limit company size? You said it wasn't going to help anything.

  3. Re:The solution will never happen. on Ford Exec: 'We Know Everyone Who Breaks the Law' Thanks To Our GPS In Your Car · · Score: 0

    Your libertarian blinders are showing, not everything can be blamed on the government. The few companies who are too important to politicians to be allowed to collapse are very much the exception ... and hell look at Europe, standard practice in bailouts is now to fuck the stockholders regardless.

    Has that magically made the majority of shareholders be diligent? Of course not, the whole concept is antique ... the stock market is a casino, only a few billionaire activist shareholders pay any real attention to the board.

  4. The same is true for an anonymously bought card with remotely stored value.

  5. Re:Get Off My Lawn on Researchers Claim Facebook Is 'Dead and Buried' To Many Young Users · · Score: 2

    Uhuh, so when the pension fund of some naive person is left holding the bag that's his own damn fault? The stockmarket and society as a whole should not be one huge clusterfuck of perverse incentives.

  6. Re:What is the best way to buy some in bulk? on 60% of Americans Unaware of Looming Incandescent Bulb Phase Out · · Score: 1

    Tantalum isn't exactly the gold standard for reliability either ... and they have nasty failure modes.

  7. Re:Root? on Oppo's CyanogenMod Phone Gets Blessed To Run Google Apps · · Score: 1

    Nevermind, the Oppo N1 does have an unlocked bootloader out of the box.

  8. Re:Root? on Oppo's CyanogenMod Phone Gets Blessed To Run Google Apps · · Score: 1

    I wonder if the N1 can install unsigned ROMs ... if only signed ROMs can be installed on the N1 (ignoring exploits) then the leaders of Cyanogenmod are pretty much tiviozing the project (at some point a phone would come around with no available exploit).

  9. Re:Only nVidia? on Under the Hood of SteamOS · · Score: 4, Informative

    No, you haven't been paying attention ... the beta boxes are NVIDIA and eventually they want reference designs with all the major graphics architectures.

    http://www.forbes.com/sites/jasonevangelho/2013/10/09/valve-confirms-official-amd-powered-steam-machines-for-2014/

  10. Always AUFS ... on Under the Hood of SteamOS · · Score: 4, Interesting

    How many downstream projects get screwed when one of the kernel devs decides to ignore AUFS and "accidentally" breaking it? There are no more excuses. Union mount/overlay is fucking vapourware ... the farce has gone on long enough, mainline AUFS already.

  11. Re:Dream work conditions! on Amazon Uses Robots To Speed Up Human 'Pickers' In Fulfillment Centers · · Score: 2

    Amazon must have some pretty good psych screening, you'd think someone would go postal ...

  12. Re:Self driving cars are going to be huge logistic on Amazon Uses Robots To Speed Up Human 'Pickers' In Fulfillment Centers · · Score: 0

    Also a popular time for road maintenance, sometimes with pretty narrow detours across shoulders.

    I just don't see how AI is going to deal with real traffic. Lets say traffic is diverted by ad-hoc traffic directors across the pedestrian pavement because workmen are blocking the road with heavy equipment. Is the AI going to be able to deal with that? I think until we have human level AI it will just throw it's hands up in the air and park the car far too often in real traffic, potentially in a spot where it blocks everything.

  13. Re:The money is not coming back on Nobody Builds Reactors For Fun Anymore · · Score: 1

    You are talking like new reactor technologies are a sure bet, they are not ... at best you're spreading your bets with new technologies.

    Nuclear works, the nuclear we have which can be deployed on a commercial scale now ... the nuclear we don't have which can do that? A future magic solution.

  14. The money is not coming back on Nobody Builds Reactors For Fun Anymore · · Score: 0, Troll

    Even with reduced regulation industry isn't going to put up the money for researchers to have fun and experiment with nuclear energy. The momentum in the prices for PV are just too scary, if that carries on nuclear is just one major breakthrough in energy storage away from obsolescence ... in a field where billions are spare change and commercialization takes decades.

    Nuclear is a gamble only governments would take and most governments are strapped for cash.

  15. Re:But what system does he suggest instead? on Physicist Peter Higgs: No University Would Employ Me Today · · Score: 1

    Administration just respond to incentives and try to corrupt the people providing those incentives. If they profited from by optimizing some weighted function of patient outcome and patient hospital time they would try to optimize that, but they don't so they don't.

  16. Re:But what system does he suggest instead? on Physicist Peter Higgs: No University Would Employ Me Today · · Score: 1

    Well by age 51 his work would have been mostly getting grants and managing PhDs ... if he got fired in 1980 it wouldn't really have impacted is scientific work.

  17. Re:No, they don't work on Diet Drugs Work: Why Won't Doctors Prescribe Them? · · Score: 1

    It just conflicts with their other desires. When they say they are willing to do what it takes, they're almost always lying. I'm willing to make an exception for people who eat in their sleep, but everyone else prioritizes eating over weight loss.

    I'd love to lose my beer gut and have muscle tone, I love more not putting in any effort.

  18. Re:No, they don't work on Diet Drugs Work: Why Won't Doctors Prescribe Them? · · Score: 1

    Withdrawal suppression does help some people in kicking habits and stick to that habit better than going cold turkey.

  19. Re: wait on Elsevier Going After Authors Sharing Their Own Papers · · Score: 1

    Eh, we spoon feed you tax dollars ... and you act hurt when that gravy train stops too.

  20. Re:Why do they call it a currency? on Bitcoin Tops $1,000 For the First Time · · Score: 1

    Lots of broke gold miners with equipment rusting away too ... how does that back anything up?

  21. Re:Sell now. on Bitcoin Tops $1,000 For the First Time · · Score: 1

    When the knife falls there won't necessarily be enough bids ... a limit order is not a dependable hedge.

  22. Re:11 Miles a shift? on BBC: Amazon Workers Face "Increased Risk of Mental Illness" · · Score: 1

    No, if we as a people want to fix this we have to force it on each other through government ... tragedy of the commons and all.

  23. Re:Amazon brutal, but not a convenient liberal cau on BBC: Amazon Workers Face "Increased Risk of Mental Illness" · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Problem is that robots are already waiting in the wings ... Amazon pickers have only a couple years of job left as it is (unless minimum wage craters faster than robots get cheaper, at third world wages they can outcompete robots for a few years longer ... hard to see who will be left to consume though). If they unionise robots will take over faster.

  24. Re:2008 says hello on Apple Officializes Purchase of Motion-Sensor Firm PrimeSense · · Score: 2

    That's the point though, they both fuck up pretty often when introducing new technology. Apple suffered from NVIDIA chips solder joint problems as well. Magsafe, great idea for connecting power cords to deep friers, shame that when Apple used it on laptops they forgot about strain relief. etc.

    They both have no shortage of disasters.

  25. Why did the other companies settle? on Image Lifted From Twitter Leads to $1.2M Payout For Haitian Photog · · Score: 1

    I don't understand why Getty's client settled ... Getty might be aware of the lack of due diligence on AFP's part, but I assume their clients were not. How can they be held responsible?