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  1. Re: By whose budget? on Earth's Resources Used Up at Quickest Rate Ever in 2016 (france24.com) · · Score: 1

    However, you don't get to decide who lives and who dies. No person has that right.

    Except for the 1% who run our health care system, government, armies, housing market, agriculture corporations, pharmaceutical research divisions...

  2. Re:From TFA on Earth's Resources Used Up at Quickest Rate Ever in 2016 (france24.com) · · Score: 1

    You clearly don't understand it.
    The chart you provided is "children per woman". That's positive, and if it levels out at "2" as predicted, then the number of children per woman will be 2, but there will be more women. Thus raw growth is accelerating, even if percentage growth is flat. Nothing is decelerating until you take another derivative.

  3. Re:Tor, DoD & You! on Iran Bans Pokemon Go Over 'Security Concerns' (usatoday.com) · · Score: 2

    You're rambling a lot.

  4. Re:Hypocrisy on Google: Unwanted Software Is Worse Than Malware (thestack.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    If Google truly believed it, they wouldn't pay people to bundle Chrome (or their toolbar, or their search engine preference, etc.) into installers for shit.

  5. Re:Locks are for honest people :) on 75 Percent of Bluetooth Smart Locks Can Be Hacked (tomsguide.com) · · Score: 1

    Do you even know what "cliche" means? What cliche did I use?

  6. Re:Mainframes in the airlines on Delta Air Lines Grounded Around the World After Computer Outage (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    But at the end of the day no business has the legal responsibility to serve you. With the exception of health care and health insurance in the US.

    And cake shops, and restaurants, and landlords / property managers, and the Post Office, and the marriage license window at city hall, and gas station air pumps, and...

  7. Doesn't
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  8. The best front end interface is an SQL editor.

    SELECT Title, Description, Brand, Price, AggregateRating, InitialSaleDate
    FROM Basic_Product_View_USD
    WHERE
    (Title like '%Thing I Want%'
    OR Description like '%Thing I Want%')
    AND InStock = 1
    AND Price = 4.0
    AND InitialSaleDate >= '01/01/2015'
    AND NOT Seller = '3rd Party Shitfest'
    ORDER BY AggregateRating DESC, Price ASC, InitialSaleDate DESC, Title, Product_ID

    Add in natural language indexes for your search term (which all serious SQL servers give you) and baby you've got a stew goin'.

    Every major site gets search terribly wrong. Either you don't get any results or you get results that completely ignore your criteria. Hell, you can't even reliably sort Amazon's results by price. And no, it's not because third parties offer the item for cheaper (but more when including shipping).

  9. Re:Think that's bad? Try Sears on Walmart Buys Jet For $3 Billion, Hopes To Turbo Charge Ecommerce (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 2

    If a product has a "frustration free" packaging option, you can generally avoid this issue.
    Those items are inventoried separately. Some brands even create Amazon-specific packaging for this program. I recently bought an SD card from a major brand that came in packaging made exclusively for Amazon (complete with Amazon's name on it). Some rando shitstain seller dumping clones and fakes from China isn't going to get his shit in that same inventory pile.

  10. Re:Locks are for honest people :) on 75 Percent of Bluetooth Smart Locks Can Be Hacked (tomsguide.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Such a bullshit cliche. Honest people don't need locks to stop them from opening things they shouldn't be opening.

  11. Re:He didn't "build" anything on Online Fame Distracts 9th-Grader Who Built That Clock Mistaken For A Bomb (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    Or he's just a kid who used a word wrongly. Why don't we dredge up every piece of shit thing you said when you were in school and hold you to it?

    As for using words incorrectly...

  12. Re:"Dark Side"? More like admin stupidity! on The Dark Side of Certificate Transparency (sans.edu) · · Score: 1

    Hostnames are supposed to be descriptive. Host names are descriptive, natural language mappings to IP addresses. That's their primary purpose. Those host names are fine as long as they're kept secret. There is no benefit to "transparency" nor is that the goal of the DNS system.

    Hostnames that map to IPs not publicly routable should not be disseminated publicly, regardless of what they are.

  13. Re:"Dark Side"? More like admin stupidity! on The Dark Side of Certificate Transparency (sans.edu) · · Score: 1

    What if the hostname is "workmail.hillaryspersonalsite.com" ?
    Or "black.sites.cia.gov" ?

  14. People used to test their shit in multiple browsers. Now people just assume that if it works in Chrome it's done.

    FF does nothing.
    IE works mostly but the game will get stuck at certain points and you won't be able to use the interface or the shortcut keys to restart it.
    I assume Chome works.

  15. Yup. I'd wager it's about 50/50 between knowingly leaving the kid in there but intending to be back soon and leaving the kid there intending to kill it. The people who actually forget the kid is in the car when they themselves leave the car represent a rounding error.

  16. Apple Car on Apple Acquires Machine Learning and AI Startup Turi (geekwire.com) · · Score: 1

    This is for the Apple car. Apple car confirmed. Let's get a story up here about the Apple Car and how it's the best car.

  17. Fuck Security on 1,000+ US Spies Are Protecting Rio Olympics, Says Report (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    How about you hire 36,000 people to clean up the city and the water?

  18. In terms of what the future will be like, the Jetsons is far more realistic than Star Trek.

  19. Re:Plug-in for which browser and OS? on Firefox 48 Released With Multi-Process Support, Mandatory Add-On Signing (softpedia.com) · · Score: 1

    Good mobile browsers do support plugins. And if you're on a damned cell phone you have a damned "app" for everything anyway, and your mobile browser will open specific links with that app.

    Firefox is unfortunately killing of NPAPI and moving to PPAPI. Porting plugins isn't exactly hard anyway.

    This sort of thinking led to being able to NOT INSTALL the security hole we call Flash Player. When something is BAKED IN to the browser, you're increasing your attack surface, memory and storage footprint, and development time while reducing performance and responsiveness (to issues, user requests, etc.).

    Browsers, like most programs, should do one thing right.

  20. It's not just "not very cheap", it's "very expensive", and they'll charge you for storing data, moving data, having DNS pointing to shit, CPU usage, per host, per each region touched by any host, etc., and then layer on shit like a support fee with no explanation of what it is, if it's optional for your usage, etc.

  21. LOL!
    I've seen it.
    26 poorly named and poorly defined services on the left, and a myriad of options to choose from for any one, with no indication of what is what or what you need.

  22. AWS Sucks on Amazon and Microsoft Are Running One and Two in Two-Cloud Race (fortune.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    AWS sucks because it's impossible to know what you need to buy and how much you're going to get billed.
    They keep splitting their services up into different categories and changing the names to boot.

    Yeah, you can get shit up and running on AWS. No, you won't have a damned clue how much it'll cost until you get the bill.

  23. Re:Wait..what? on Apple Should Stop Selling Four-Year-Old Computers (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Samsung just announced the Note 7 (which is the 6th Note), running the Snapdragon 820 SoC, for $880.
    It's not as fast as the latest iPhone in single core performance, and I believe it loses out in multi core performance.

    However, this is largely due to the fact that the Note 7, like most Android devices, will throttle performance at an OS level and at a hardware level to preserve battery life and prevent overheating. Another significant factor is that Android is absolute ass.

  24. Re:Only LUDDITES buy laptops. on Apple Should Stop Selling Four-Year-Old Computers (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    So, Chromebooks?

  25. Re:Don't buy a Mac for Specs. on Apple Should Stop Selling Four-Year-Old Computers (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Over the past 4 years, Intel's CPUs have had minor, iterative performance improvements and iterative, moderate efficiency improvements.
    These add up to a moderate performance improvement and a significant efficiency improvement.
    Taken together, those two things add up to a huge battery life increase. Since we're talking about laptops, that may be important to some people.