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  1. Re:Numbers on Why Do Airlines Overbook? (bbc.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Then maybe the captain should be charged with the assault if you want him to be responsible. Removing someone is not the same as giving them a concussion and a number of other injuries.

  2. Re:Numbers on Why Do Airlines Overbook? (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Because the alternative is being able to afford chartering a private plane.

  3. Re:Because it is profitable to do so on Why Do Airlines Overbook? (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    In trying to compete on price, they do split some of that greed with the customer. They can offer lower fares knowing that they'll make it up by non-refunded overbooking.

  4. Re:Slow day in tech, then? on Why Do Airlines Overbook? (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    The guy was still in the right to refuse to give up his seat at any price lower than that

    The whole flight declined the lower offers. When he was forced off, he was presumably going to get the amount required by law. But staying on that flight was worth more than the money - and even being dragged off the plane shouldn't result in a concussion.

  5. Re:Common Sense calling - Women have babies on Google Schools US Government About Gender Pay Gap (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Most of those things can involve a second parent.

  6. Re:Pay gap is real, but exaggerated on Google Schools US Government About Gender Pay Gap (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    The solution is making the jobs attractive. Men are dumb enough to fall into the trap of the 60-hour work week with no life balance and women seem to not be. It's probably due to an inflated ego that thinks of possible advancement that won't happen.

  7. Re:Common Sense calling - Women have babies on Google Schools US Government About Gender Pay Gap (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Children get sick and need shots both require time off from a parent
    Kids have schools need like field trips, supplies, presentations, dances, picked up and dropping off
    Kids generally need things like food and attention

    A parent - any parent. There are often two. This is not a job only for women.

  8. Re:Common Sense calling - Women have babies on Google Schools US Government About Gender Pay Gap (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    The leave period is relatively short even on a two year scale as far as what your actual career accomplishments are. And if you are valued and appreciated, it's only a small bump in your career unless you are multiplying like rabbits.

    The two parent thing is twofold - someone is going to mention leave related to a sick child. And also, fathers are eligible for job protection for leave after a new child too. It's not like those first few months are all about medical recovery from childbirth. It's an insane workload, too.

  9. Once a site DOES take responsibility for the posts - filtering, banning, controlling - then they logically would become responsible for the content therein: if the leave it without deleting/moderating it, one could argue that's tacit approval.

    So Youtube's Content ID program makes them lose their Safe Harbor?

  10. While that's true, LJ isn't the editor or the moderator yet they're the ones being sued.

    The hosts/editors of that specific blog are the party with the potential legal liability and lost their safe harbor. Re-posting user-submitted content is easily just a thin veil over the editor potentially being the submitter too.

  11. Re:A couple things weird here on DMCA 'Safe Harbor' Up In the Air For Online Sites That Use Moderators (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Yeah, that's a little weird. LJ is little more than the web host here, and moderators are not employed by LJ. This means that ONTD might have some legal liability as a group, but not LJ - even if they provide the moderation capability.

  12. Re:Discrimination? on McDonald's Is Now Accepting Snapchats As Job Applications (thenextweb.com) · · Score: 1

    Age discrimination = "What's Snapchat?"

  13. Re:Common Sense calling - Women have babies on Google Schools US Government About Gender Pay Gap (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Average career is ~50 years or so. Max time allowed by FMLA for birth/bonding is 12 weeks. How many kids are they having?

    P.S. Lots of families with children also have two parents.

  14. Pay gap is real, but exaggerated on Google Schools US Government About Gender Pay Gap (cnet.com) · · Score: 5, Informative

    Most of the time pay gap statistics are brought out, they don't seem to compare apples to apples. The average female employee at company A makes less than the average male employee at Company A. And yet lower-paying office roles are predominantly sought out by female employees, which is what brings down that average if you're not comparing equivalent job titles and experience levels.

  15. Re:Secure by design on The iPhone 7 Has Arbitrary Software Locks That Prevent Repair (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    So the question becomes, how do you ensure right-to-repair, while still maintaining security?

    The answer is that you have the right to choose a dodgy replacement. It's your device. If you want to cheap out and go with an untrustworthy provider, that is completely your choice. Most service providers will seek out a good part, because it's financially in their best interest to provide an adequate repair and they ultimately assume the liability if the replacement part has compromised security.

    Either way, the false threat here is stolen phones getting unlocked by having the fingerprint reader replaced. No matter what way you go, that has nothing to do with the reality. The fingerprint is a shortcut for the password/PIN and not a replacement for it.

  16. Re:Secure by design on The iPhone 7 Has Arbitrary Software Locks That Prevent Repair (vice.com) · · Score: 2

    Fingerprints are not the primary security on the device. "Recalibration" (pairing) should require no more than entering the PIN and/or logging into the associated iCloud account.

  17. Re:They are working as designed on Apple Taken To Court For Refusing To Fix Devices (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Great argument.

  18. Re:Dodgy logic on Apple Taken To Court For Refusing To Fix Devices (bbc.com) · · Score: 2

    The PIN is more secure than fingerprints - fingerprints are everywhere. All it takes is requiring the PIN to pair a new fingerprint sensor.

    In fact, the FBI has no trouble getting fingerprints - what they have trouble with is bypassing the PIN.

    There's no such thing as an "unauthorized repair shop." They're just repair shops. Apple calling theirs "Authorized" does nothing to de-legitimize repair shops. Do you think the only place to get your car repaired is the dealer? Or do you take your car to an "unauthorized" repair shop?

  19. Re:They are working as designed on Apple Taken To Court For Refusing To Fix Devices (bbc.com) · · Score: 2

    And if an end user breaks the home button and knows their PIN (which is more secure than a fingerprint), then they should be able to replace that. Apple put that roadblock end only for their own bottom line.

  20. Re:Dodgy logic on Apple Taken To Court For Refusing To Fix Devices (bbc.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    they voided the warranty by taking it to an iFixit shop

    No matter what their TOS says, that's illegal. See Magnuson-Moss Warranty Act in the US.

    turned out to be incompatible with an OS upgrade they knew was bound to happen

    Incompatible = Apple deciding to block fingerprint readers with a different ID than originally came with the phone. A security move that only makes sense during the initial design - not when done after the phone is out there. It was a valid repair and the iPhone offers no way to pair with a new fingerprint reader except by Apple (which is just as bad as putting a chip on a printer cartridge and should be illegal).

  21. Re:Not too surprising on Nintendo Switch Consoles Are Reportedly Warping When Docked (independent.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    I think it's still done by oversampling, but limited to object edges to save computation. Which I'm not sure how that helps with texture aliasing, but this is not my area of expertise.

    I do know that the original Wii (at least Super Mario Wii) had no anti-aliasing active at all, which is pretty sad for being a 480p console. The Wii U didn't seem to use it either.

    Given that Nintendo doesn't use expensive graphics chips, it wouldn't surprise me if they would save computation by disabling it on the switch in handheld mode.

  22. Re:not surprised on The Mac Pro Is Getting a Major Do-Over (mashable.com) · · Score: 1

    On the later ones, if your replacement drive didn't have an Apple-specified temperature sensor built-in the fans would run at full blast. If you add your own SSD, it doesn't support TRIM if it wasn't the Apple SSD.

  23. Re:Not too surprising on Nintendo Switch Consoles Are Reportedly Warping When Docked (independent.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    The number of pixels differs only by a factor of 2.25

    This may not be true. If the docked mode uses Antialiasing (render larger, then scale down) and the handheld doesn't it could be a factor of 4 or more.

  24. Re:low birth rate better than cancer? on An Unexpected Relationship Between Nuclear Power and Low Birth Weight (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    The likelihood of failure goes down with each subsequent generation as the known failure modes are all gradually accounted for.

  25. Re:low birth rate better than cancer? on An Unexpected Relationship Between Nuclear Power and Low Birth Weight (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    They aren't native to the dry land that preceded the reservoir. Work on your reading comprehension.