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  1. Re:My perspective as a stock holder. on Tesla To Close a Dozen Solar Facilities In 9 States (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Be nice to shop at Home Depot without being hassled by Solar City salesmen every time you walk down the main aisle. Like a used car lot..If such a good idea, why all the high-pressure selling by all the solar outfits?

  2. What's a "police sheriff"? on Cell Phone Tracking Firm Exposed Millions of Americans' Real-time Locations (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    There's no such thing as a "police sheriff." Any editor should know that there are police and there are sheriffs. Someone mangled the NYTimes article which says "...the former sheriff of Mississippi County, Mo., used a lesser-known Securus service to track people’s cellphones, including those of other officers, without court orders, according to charges filed against him in state and federal court."

  3. How much does Lyft know? on Stolen Car Recovered With 11,000 More Miles -- and Lyft Stickers (sfgate.com) · · Score: 1

    How much does Lyft know about the drivers' actual vehicle as opposed to what the driver tells Lyft?

  4. Re:1/3 or 54%??? on A Third of Americans Still Buy and Rent Videos (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    Well put. I missed the 26% problem. Many journalists seem to pride themselves on not being numerate, not knowing how to use a hammer, etc. The career path from high school paper to journalism-school-with-summer-internships to job means that they have never experienced the real world inhabited by their readers.

  5. 1/3 or 54%??? on A Third of Americans Still Buy and Rent Videos (qz.com) · · Score: 0

    Title should be either "One-third of Americans still buy or rent videos, in addition to streaming" or "54% of Americans still buy or rent videos."

  6. Always puzzled me on TechShop Announces Chapter 7 Bankruptcy; Closes All Locations · · Score: 1

    1. First San Jose location downtown made no sense. It was in a location ripe for development, which of course happened. So they had to start over . Were locations in other cities as poorly selected? 2. With amateurs using tools, the liability insurance must have been huge. 3. Just having one person around from 9am to midnight would be expensive, much less instructors, etc.. 4. How do you control such an operation to prevent damage and theft?

  7. Re:Those are cooked (non-GAAP) numbers on Equifax Tells Investors They Could Be Breached Again - And That They're Still Profitable (nypost.com) · · Score: 1

    The companies that lay off people deduct severence and other "restructuring" costs from their non-GAAP results as a supposed short-term glitch in their business, even though they are laying off people year after year after year.

  8. Those are cooked (non-GAAP) numbers on Equifax Tells Investors They Could Be Breached Again - And That They're Still Profitable (nypost.com) · · Score: 5, Interesting

    "Equifax admitted that profit declined 28% from a year ago. However, after wiping away the $87.5 million in costs of the data breach for its adjusted earnings metric, Equifax was able to claim a 6% gain in profit and beat average analyst estimates. Equifax’s adjusted earnings are nothing new for it or thousands of other companies. MarketWatch has shown repeatedly how companies use adjusted earnings to make their results appear better than they actually are... the company stripped the charges from a non-GAAP earnings figure that it provided, which allows Equifax to claim that profits are growing even as it takes a hit from the data breach. https://www.marketwatch.com/st...

  9. This not news -- going on for years on This Time, Facebook Is Sharing Its Employees' Data (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1

    This not news -- there are at least two companies that run employment verficiation databses.

  10. True in many university departments on Many Junior Scientists Need To Take a Hard Look at Their Job Prospects (nature.com) · · Score: 1

    Whatever the department - physics, journalism, drama, or "human performance" (athletes) - professors and department chairs need lots of students in order to keep their own jobs, regardeless of whether there are enough job opportunities in the field for the students upon graduation.

  11. Old-time milkman - but you knew him personally on Amazon Key Puts Deliveries -- And Delivery People -- In Your Home (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    Many decades ago, some people would give their milkman a key so that he could put the milk etc. in the icebox. However, you knew who the milkman was and probably where he lived.

  12. Statistics not valid on 42% of Americans Under 8 Have Their Own Tablet (axios.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    Only covers kids whose parents have email and are on some unspecified email list. "Methodology. This report presents the results of a nationally representative, probability-based online survey of 1,454 parents of children age 8 or under, conducted from Jan. 20, 2017, to Feb. 10, 2017. The survey was designed by Common Sense and VJR Consulting and fielded by the research firm GfK, using its KnowledgePanel©, a probability-based web panel designed to be representative of the U.S. population." https://www.commonsensemedia.o... Aren't surveys fun?

  13. A first-world problem if there ever was one on Google Photos Now Recognizes Your Pets (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    With all the serious problems that need to be solved in the world, Google is putting bright minds to work on this?

  14. Re:I don't see any chance for disruption here on Amazon Is Headed For the Prescription-Drug Market, Analysts Say (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 2

    The pharma distributors like McKesson take a big cut. Getting them out of the picture would be a discruption.

  15. Why they bought Whole Foods on Amazon Is Headed For the Prescription-Drug Market, Analysts Say (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    That's why the bought Whole Foods. Whole Foods does an enormous business in herbs and other pseudo-medications that are supposed to help with everything from angst to virility. They even have a huge book about this stuff mounted on a lectern in every store. Many medications can't be shipped in the mail because they can be stolen or require temperature control. The crooked, multi-level, high-markup drug industry deserves disruption.

  16. What about earlier iPhones? on FCC Chief Tells Apple To Turn on iPhone's FM Radio Chip (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    The Apple answer is not complete. What about earlier models?

  17. Re:Read the actual complaint on Google Hit With Gender Pay Discrimination Lawsuit (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    Skip down to pages 8-12 in the actual complaint. http://altshulerberzon.com/wp-...

  18. Read the actual complaint on Google Hit With Gender Pay Discrimination Lawsuit (axios.com) · · Score: 3
  19. Another possible hole - "Equifax Ignite" on Equifax's App Has Disappeared From Apple's App Store and Google Play (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 2

    In March 2017, Equifax announced "Equifax Ignite" "Equifax Ignite Marketplace - Solutions are delivered in the form of downloadable apps that can be leveraged for visualizing and digesting applicable data, benchmarks, and trends across multiple industries." "Equifax Ignite Direct - This high-speed solution allows users to conduct their own analytics using direct access to our data warehouse, our attributes, and analytical tools. Seamless integration enables teams to self-serve as they build, test and deploy models that suit their unique needs. This will appeal to clients who have sophisticated analytics shops in house where access to data and Equifax tools can significantly enhance their own capabilities." https://finance.yahoo.com/news...

  20. Re:Bet that the code that works with the apps was on Equifax's App Has Disappeared From Apple's App Store and Google Play (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1

    It appears that the Equifax Mobile app was launched in various countries starting in March 2017... https://www.youtube.com/watch?... Mar 27 http://www.iphoneincanada.ca/n... June 2 http://www.cardtrak.com/data/9... June 13 https://blog.intelliquote.com/... Jul 11

  21. Bet that the code that works with the apps was on Equifax's App Has Disappeared From Apple's App Store and Google Play (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Those apps were very powerful. Wanna bet that the code that works with the apps was the source of the breach? Equifax Places utilizes your GPS location to show you: * Equifax Credit Score : Average credit scores in your area * Fraud Index: The frequency of identity fraud in your area * Credit Rankings: How your credit measures up to others in your area Want more? With an eligible Equifax product, you can also: * Lock and unlock your Equifax credit file* * View alerts to key credit file changes * Check your Credit Score — anywhere, anytime * Get one stop protection if you ever lose your wallet http://www.equifax.com/mobile/

  22. Who will write the videos? on Publishers Are Making More Video -- Whether You Want It or Not (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    If they fire all the writers, who will write the scripts for the videos?

  23. Re:Start them young, and give them their own tools on A Home Lab/Shop For Kids? · · Score: 1
    Yes! Real tools, not silly plastic play tools. I still use them.

    Model railroading combines electricity, electronics (digital control), mechanical engineering, computers (for research and design), art (scenery and kits), scheduling (to operate in a prototypical manner), history, and just plain play. http://www.modelrailroader.com/

  24. Those backups weren't worth a damn? on Bank of NY Loses Tapes With 4.5 Million Clients' Data · · Score: 2, Insightful
    "They can't determine what was on the missing tapes"

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    If that is truly the case, then those tapes wouldn't have been worth a damn for restoration if there had been a disaster.

  25. Held off cops for 27 minutes on FBI Posts Fake Hyperlinks To Trap Downloaders of Illegal Porn · · Score: 2, Interesting
    From Philadelphia newspaper

    In February, when FBI agents and local police arrived at his door with a search warrant, they acted cautiously, they testified, because they believed he legally owned a dozen or more weapons.

    Vosburgh didn't answer their knock. For the next 27 minutes, authorities tried to talk him into opening the door.

    When authorities finally entered the apartment, they said they found a computer pried open, its hard drive smashed into several parts, strewn elsewhere. They also found smashed thumb drives, one of which lay in the toilet, they said.

    http://www.philly.com/philly/news/local/11075356.html

    When authorities entered Vosburgh's apartment, they found broken and bent parts of the computer in the kitchen trash and in a bathroom toilet. A hammer was found on the floor outside the bathroom, and scissors nearby.

    Vosburgh told authorities that the computer had been destroyed earlier to get rid of a virus. Still, agents were able to recover an external hard drive from his desk.

    During the 2 1/2-day trial, prosecutors showed jurors images of five nude prepubescent girls found on the external hard drive that showed the girls with their legs spread apart exposing their genitals.

    The hard drive also contained more than 2,000 images of a 13-year-old girl

    Authorities alleged that Vosburgh also tried three times to download images from a hardcore kiddie-porn message board known as "Ranchi" in October 2006.

    "Being convicted of charges like this is sort of career-ending,"

    http://www.philly.com/philly/hp/news_update/11074616.html