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  1. Re:Domain names are a protection racket on Google's New .dev Domain Opens To All (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    That's a nice phone number you have there. Be a pity if you didn't pay your bill and lost your number. Right, that's literally what the bill is for.

  2. They were trying to convince the ignorant that it was basis t on standards?

  3. Re:jail / prison maybe the wrong way. an governmen on Police Department Accused of Updating Their Radios With Pirated Software (www.cbc.ca) · · Score: 1

    it's not [yet] illegal to write software to mod devices.

    If the programmer is in the US, then it most certainly is illegal, for better or worse. If the DMCA can be used by John Deere, it can be used by Motorola. They are circumventing a digital restriction.

  4. Re:Why did google get a top level domain? on Google's New .dev Domain Opens To All (engadget.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    You're missing a lot. Since 2011, in fact.

  5. Re:And what will happen? on How A Lobbying Firm May Have Submitted Fake FCC Comments (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    Identity theft and possibly slander (admittedly a tort and not a crime). Slander because someone's reputation is at stake if they were perceived to be stopping something that they wouldn't be caught dead supporting. Nobody is going to pay for this or even face a minor wrist slap. But at least the truth could finally be out and maybe prevent further disinformation.

  6. They, a longtime Unix vendor, didn't know. But of course you're here to tell them.

  7. You're obfuscating your reply with trivia. Why did they add the word Open to Solaris if it was already standards-based? Care to guess?

  8. OpenSolaris wasn't any closer to standards than Solaris.

  9. MariaDB is better at modeling joins. It's important, though not a primary key. Even if you're starting with a 3D model, MariaDB can still do a table scan if your table isn't optimized.

  10. Re:And it gets worse on Shared Scooters Don't Last Long (substack.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The city of Corpus Christi wanted at last check, a dollar of day PER UNIT. That's murder on any operation, large or small.

    People oppose an outright ban, so an onerous tax is as close as they got. Nobody (majority anyway) wants these things around. They clutter up the neighborhood, ruin accessibility, and have plenty of bad riders. The sooner they run out of VC money the better. Their business model is probably not that much more viable than MoviePass anyway.

  11. Re:Author assumes the scooters are recycled after? on Shared Scooters Don't Last Long (substack.com) · · Score: 1

    Plenty of good reasons for that. One, it's effectively a different scooter or a chimera at that point. Anything you'd want to track by ID would be useless after it goes through repair anyway.

  12. Re:Closing their stores? on Tesla Launches Base Model 3 For $35,000 With Shorter Range, New Interior (electrek.co) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    You can be successful at it and still hate every minute of it.

  13. Re:Closing their stores? on Tesla Launches Base Model 3 For $35,000 With Shorter Range, New Interior (electrek.co) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    cars are something people want a shopping experience with

    No. That is literally the worst part of car ownership.

  14. Re: Raise the price, please on Samsung is Loading McAfee Antivirus Software On Smart TVs (techspot.com) · · Score: 1

    I share your prediction. Good thing I'm handy with a soldering iron.

    Just wait until you get sued under the DMCA for "circumvention"

  15. Re:Just don't buy Smart TV's on Samsung is Loading McAfee Antivirus Software On Smart TVs (techspot.com) · · Score: 1

    Economies of scale means that manufacturers don't want to make dumb TVs as a distinct product line. They were probably already being kickbacks from Netflix et. al. long before McAfee, so smart TVs are probably cheaper all around.

  16. Re: Politicians love to call themselves "smart" on Samsung is Loading McAfee Antivirus Software On Smart TVs (techspot.com) · · Score: 1

    Beats using stacks of AOL CDs

  17. But if any address you are to ship to matches a database Russia or China has provided you, the "special" model is shipped...

    So now Amazon is a Russian operative?

  18. They said cheap. Currently, I don't think you'd find a cheap Thunderbolt anything.

  19. Re:Comfortable with that tradeoff on Thunderbolt Vulnerabilities Leave Computers Wide-Open, Researchers Find (itnews.com.au) · · Score: 1

    USB-C hubs don't pass Thunderbolt signalling. So a cheap USB-C hub would actually protect you from a Thunderbolt device disguised as USB-C.

  20. Good replacement for Firewire then on Thunderbolt Vulnerabilities Leave Computers Wide-Open, Researchers Find (itnews.com.au) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Considering this is Apple's choice of replacement for Firewire, this is not any worse of a tradeoff. Firewire already had DMA. Between this and Spectre/Meltdown, Trusted Computing (as anything other than DRM) is becoming more and more impossible.

  21. Re:I have them disabled on New Study Shows Windows 10 Home Edition Users Are Baffled By Updates (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    The problem with that is some of the updates dismantle some essential services (like the network), to prepare them to be updated upon reboot.

    Why on earth would that happen before the reboot? There has to be a staging area for new files that will be written. I've seen this and so many other quirky things when a computer has not been rebooted.

  22. Maybe recently? It was a textbook term in history class for me growing up - and I'm an older Millennial.

  23. Re:I didn't know about Mulatto on IBM Apologizes For Racial Slurs On Its Recruitment Webpages (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 2

    This is also why I find it odd people call blacks coloreds. Folks are in general pretty colorful.

    Probably as a way to make sure that anyone who is half-black or quarter-black can all be lumped into one group as "other."

  24. Re:I didn't know about Mulatto on IBM Apologizes For Racial Slurs On Its Recruitment Webpages (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Your friend does not know Italian. That word is *misto*, though it might be used in Italian the same way as mulatto is in Spanish.

  25. Well....n****r is just a color descriptor - and even has a country named from the same root. Original meanings mean nothing.