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  1. Re:Sounds like a smart move.. on Aetna To Provide Apple Watch To 50,000 Employees, Subsidize Cost For Customers (macrumors.com) · · Score: 1

    and when people get hooked on apple stuff and find out how easy it is to hit felony theft levels to get in to the joint get an doctor that does more then the ER and does not say that per-ex is not covered.

    Wut.

    And what happens when people get hooked on Apple's stuff only to find out how easy it is to be hit with a bill so high that it should constitute felony theft when trying to see a doctor who will do something more than an ER and will not result in their pre-existing condition not being covered.

  2. No, I don't think the CELL system would have handled the increased load unless the venue was used often at this capacity...

    Well, you're wrong.

    Plus, doing WiFi for 3,000 in a small building is a lit more complex than it seems to the casual user...

    But that's not what we are really talking about in this article. I get the feeling they are mixing up a couple of things that don't really go together.

    WiFi wasn't needed from the venue. People needed to be able to use their own connections. The venue wanted to profit. And yes, they're profiting. $200 per head for access, equipment and install and config done as a line item on someone else's dime, and they keep everything in the end.

  3. As someone who has gone through several rounds of hiring and reviewing applications and interviews, I can confirm. The vast majority of applications are trash. Certain groups tend to have trash or bogus degrees / credentials. Additionally, when the grammar and spelling in your resume is only a half step above a tweet you don't stand a chance. Language skills are also a huge issue if you do make it to an interview.

  4. Re:Didn't even hesitate on VR Devs Pull Support For Oculus Rift Until Palmer Luckey Steps Down (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm talking about the highest fucking law in the land. It's clowns like you that are living in a fantasy land where people can ignore the fucking law and "interpret" things to their whimsical desires. The sad part is that morons like you allow those in power to act like tyrants.

  5. Re:Good for backhauls and maybe some DC uses on Nokia Says It Can Deliver Internet 1,000x Faster Than Google Fiber (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm talking about linksys, tp-link, d-link (ugh), etc. commodity shit.

    Those guys paved the way (however shittily) with wireless standards, especially in the early days of 802.11n ("Pre-N" routers were everywhere), 5 GHz, and 802.11ac. The business grade support for those new shits didn't really happen at any sane prices or across all products until well after the consumer shit blazed the trail.

    For 10 gig Ethernet, the reverse is happening. It's been readily available at the business end for ages but there's been virtually no movement on the consumer end. This is a large part of the reason why it's still so expensive at the business end - there's no consumer level shit at the $100 level to force the prices down. A few years ago I would have expected that in late 2016 I'd have 10g at home and be looking at 40g by default at work.

  6. Re:-Still- looking at you, BBC... on Moving Beyond Flash: the Yahoo HTML5 Video Player (streamingmedia.com) · · Score: 1

    Yet I still need the desktop client to use VMWare Update Manager.

  7. Re:lolwut? on Moving Beyond Flash: the Yahoo HTML5 Video Player (streamingmedia.com) · · Score: 1

    Was the embed tag really that hard? I'd really prefer the browser defer to plugins that I could choose to NOT INSTALL at all, or defer to the OS.
    Bloating up the browser is dumb. It's all the bad of plugins, loaded all the time, without the option to rip them out. How many security updates does Chrome or Firefox or IE have every year?

  8. Re:Didn't even hesitate on VR Devs Pull Support For Oculus Rift Until Palmer Luckey Steps Down (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    There is no such thing as criminal speech. Speech is never illegal. You and a lot of lawyers, congressmen, and judges need to go and fucking read.

    Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

    There can be no law that abridges the freedom of speech. Plain as fucking day. Anyone trying to "interpret" it any other way is trying to illegally strip citizens of their rights.

  9. Re:Peer Review on Poor Scientific Research Is Disproportionately Rewarded (economist.com) · · Score: 1

    Ill informed? I work in academia, thank you very much. You don't have take my word on it. Slashdot has had many stories on the horrendous failings of peer review in the past couple of years.

  10. Re:Can we get something like windows 10.01 10.02 on Tuesday Was Microsoft's Last Non-Cumulative Patch (helpnetsecurity.com) · · Score: 1

    Regular patches require testing too. The fact that they don't test anymore isn't part of it.

  11. Re:Can we get something like windows 10.01 10.02 on Tuesday Was Microsoft's Last Non-Cumulative Patch (helpnetsecurity.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    MS won't release SPs anymore because all of their shit in place says SPs add to the support length of the OS.
    That's why Windows 8.1 happened instead of Windows 8 SP 1.
    That's why 7 had only 1 SP despite desperately needing another. It's so bad Windows Update doesn't work on a fresh Windows 7 install until it crashes twice over 36 hours. The third time usually works after another 8-12 hours.

  12. Re: Van Allen radiation belts on Cisco Blamed A Router Bug On 'Cosmic Radiation' (networkworld.com) · · Score: 0

    You presented no argument because you have none. That's why you're being attacked as the fool you are. Hint: It is better to remain silent.

  13. Peer Review on Poor Scientific Research Is Disproportionately Rewarded (economist.com) · · Score: 1

    Clearly, peer review is working as intended in academia.

    I'd rather the government fund its own labs more and fund academic less.

  14. Yup! Apple owns the Verge harder than Google owns Android Police.

  15. Re:"Shitposting" is fraud, not speech on VR Devs Pull Support For Oculus Rift Until Palmer Luckey Steps Down (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    If fraud is such an issue to him he would be too busy spewing non stop vitriol at a certain other candidate to post on Slashdot.

  16. Re:"Shitposting" is fraud, not speech on VR Devs Pull Support For Oculus Rift Until Palmer Luckey Steps Down (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Welcome to modern "liberals". They employ toddler-level tactics - screaming, lying, refusing to believe the plain and obvious truths presented to them, sticking their fingers in their ears and pretending they don't hear you, attacking anyone that doesn't agree with them, demanding others share with them but never sharing with others, shitting their pants and crying at the first hint of confrontation or hardship, etc.

    I consider myself liberal on very many topics, but I would never label myself a "liberal" because of all the fucking shit this generation of twats is pulling.
    And yes, this generation is far fucking worse than previous generations.

  17. Re:"Shitposting" is fraud, not speech on VR Devs Pull Support For Oculus Rift Until Palmer Luckey Steps Down (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    You're a fucking retard. All speech is speech, by definition. It doesn't matter if you like it. In fact, if you don't like it it needs to be protected more, because assholes like you seek to censor and suppress anything you don't like.

  18. Re:Didn't even hesitate on VR Devs Pull Support For Oculus Rift Until Palmer Luckey Steps Down (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Free speech doesn't have limits.

    So you think that child pornography should be legal?

    WTF are you talking about? Free speech doesn't cover raping and abusing children because that's not speech. Making child porn is and should be illegal.

  19. Re:Didn't even hesitate on VR Devs Pull Support For Oculus Rift Until Palmer Luckey Steps Down (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    there is nothing specially sacrosanct about speech.

    There's a document you should read that says otherwise. Freedom to say what you want is an inalienable right.

  20. Re:Those figures should not be trade secrets on Judge Skewers Oracle Attorney For Revealing Google, Apple Trade Secrets (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Of course I do.

    Confidential or privileged information is withheld or redacted by the owner during discovery and the court is notified what was withheld or redacted and why. Unrelated information is also withheld.

    In situations where lawyers for one party have direct access to the other party's data, they're expected to be ethical and not go diving for shit unrelated to the case at hand. In instances where parties can't agree about what should be turned over, what or how much should be redacted, etc. the court steps in, often assigning a third party to make those determinations.

    Try harder, troll.

  21. Re:Superdistribution of Content on Why the Silencing of KrebsOnSecurity Opens a Troubling Chapter For the Internet (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    No, like:

    pubs.site.tld would return the contents of site.txt which is simply

    2016-09-23 15:41:23 magnet:sfgalkfgalfgalfgasf
    2016-09-21 11:34:08 magnet:sfgalkfgalfgalfgasf ...

    ----Public Key----
    dgsh;slgh;sdg

    Then you grab and seed what you want. The torrent contents would be signed. Other sites / journalists / whoever could verify the public key with the actual author if needed.

  22. Re:Wait a minute.. on Why the Silencing of KrebsOnSecurity Opens a Troubling Chapter For the Internet (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Day or two? Here's how you do it:

    Publish and have people mirror it.
    The most extreme way being to publish a magnet link to whatever you published and to let the world seed it.

    Content distribution at "web scale" was solved ages ago.

  23. Re:Didn't even hesitate on VR Devs Pull Support For Oculus Rift Until Palmer Luckey Steps Down (vice.com) · · Score: 0

    Free speech doesn't have limits.
    You can yell "fire" in a crowded theater. You can be held responsible for the direct result, but no one can ever legally restrict your right to say whatever you want.

    What has Trump been convicted of?

    What disqualifies Trump for running for the office of President of the United States of America, exactly? Claiming that he is disqualified is pretty bold. I'm sure every single news network, Congress, and Trump himself would like to know about it. You should go public with your facts now so we can just inaugurate Hillary and be done with it.

  24. Nonsense on VR Devs Pull Support For Oculus Rift Until Palmer Luckey Steps Down (vice.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    "This backlash is nonsense," said James Green, co-founder of VR developer Carbon Games. "I absolutely support him doing whatever he wants politically if it's legal. To take any other position is against American values."

    I have little to no interest in VR, and negative interest in Oculus. But I now know of Carbon Games and have a respectful view of them.

    Conversely, I also now know of Polytron and have a negative opinion of them. Insomniac was also a 2nd rate developer and now I have further reason to ignore them.

  25. Re:Those figures should not be trade secrets on Judge Skewers Oracle Attorney For Revealing Google, Apple Trade Secrets (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 0

    Trade secrets are fine, but it's on the company to keep them secret.

    From the KFC recipe (which is NOT what was recently all over the news) to the Coke recipe, the owners of the secrets have to keep the secrets. If they slip up, they don't get squat when it gets out.

    Further, these are financials, which every investor has a right to know, not trade secrets. If Google really thought there were secrets they had a right to keep from the public they wouldn't have let Oracle get the info in the first place. The discovery phase includes redaction and filtering and the assumption that lawyers for all parties are acting ethically. (Of course that assumption is a joke. See HRC.)