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  1. Re:Carly Fiorina is... on With Carly Fiorina As Running Mate, Cruz's H-1B Stance Now In Question (computerworld.com) · · Score: 2

    Carly is just a ploy to get the Trump voters. Cruz notices that the republican base wants a bad business person with a long record of destruction, so he has to put one on his ticket to match Trump.

  2. Re:So fork it on Wikipedia Is Basically a Corporate Bureaucracy, Says Study (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    A few successful forks come to mind, besides Libre Office: Firefox (from mozilla), webkit (from khtml). ubuntu (from debian), joomla (from mambo), xorg (from xfree86).

  3. Re:Well yes duh on YouTube To Roll Out 6-Second Ads That You Can't Skip (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    I watch youtube exclusively in 360p. Can I skip the ads?

  4. Re:extortion hypothetical on Businesses Pay $100,000 To DDoS Extortionists Who Never DDoS Anyone (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    While people like to imagine they can get away with things on a technicality of careful wording, I expect this would be up to the judgement of the judge/jury of the intent. In this case, if you can't show exactly how you received your intelligence and exactly how you'd stop the hackers, you'll be judged to have criminal intent.

  5. In this case, since they never actually run a DDoS script, they're scriptless kiddies.

  6. Re:Environmentalism on Rise In CO2 Has 'Greened Planet Earth' (bbc.com) · · Score: 2

    Geo-engineering also has substantially more unknowns -- a risk of unintended consequences which could be worse than global warming.

  7. Re:Email client software? Is this still a thing? on Mozilla Seeks New Home For Email Client Thunderbird · · Score: 1

    Compared to launching a browser, clicking on your webmail bookmark, signing in, waiting for your mail to load?

    When was the last time you didn't have a browser window open? For me, maybe 2002. No need to use a bookmark either, just type the first couple letters of the domain in the address bar and let it autocomplete.

    Personally I use both webmail and kmail though -- the former for personal use and the latter for work.

  8. Re:Don't take advice from the successful. Just don on Interview With Python Creator Guido Van Rossum (techrocket.com) · · Score: 2

    The best advice is to find work you enjoy doing that others don't enjoy doing, which is also desired by clients. At any rate, I pursued an enjoyable thing and made a success of it so your sample size is up to 2 now.

  9. Re:going from illegal to mandatory overnight on San Francisco Adopts Law Requiring Solar Panels On All New Buildings (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Depends how you capture that rain. Rain barrels are unlikely to affect anything, but if you capture rain water by building a dam to create a lake on your property, you could completely change the downstream ecology and do millions of dollars in damage to farmers relying on the river whose runoff water you've diverted.

  10. You don't need a hill to be in perpetual shadow in SF, you just need a smaller building among the skyscrapers. Also, it's foggy most of the year. There are certainly a ton of places where solar is more useful than SF.

  11. Re:I'll be adding to that number soon on US Suicide Rate Surges To Highest Level In Almost Three Decades, Says Report (bbc.com) · · Score: 2

    If you last through this year, you can certainly get medicaid and food stamps next year. I'd think you'd be able to get them this year too unless you had high self-employment income last year, though for food stamps you have to wait until you're below $2000 savings (401K is probably exempt from counting as savings). Check out your county's resource center to to someone about these things. Your county may also pay for your job training (here in El Dorado county California they have a few thousand dollars per person that they'll spend on re-training you, I believe that's true everywhere in California at least).

  12. In addition, we have Blue Origin which will have cheap orbital rockets by 2020.

    Blue Origin will be lucky to get their sub-orbital operations going commercially by 2020, let alone orbital. There's no saying whether their orbital flights will end up cheap at this point either, since they haven't even finalized the design let alone built one let alone tested it.

  13. Re:Dear Elon..... on Elon Musk Plans To Solve Traffic Congestion With Self-Driving Buses (theverge.com) · · Score: 2

    Imagine 30 truck trains on I-80 across the country.

    Now imagine being the human driver who needs to merge into that lane.

  14. Re:Looks good! My Tiny review. on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS Available To Download; Mozilla To Offer 0-Day Firefox Releases Via Snaps · · Score: 1

    Ubuntu is the distro. Mate is the spin -- it has all the same ubuntu packages, but a different default-installed selection. It's a useful distinction since there are so many different spins of ubuntu for each different desktop environment and it would be wrong to imply that any of them have anything unavailable to the others.

  15. I believe snappy packages are self-updating.

  16. Perhaps, in considering a basic income, we could learn something from Alaska's permanent fund dividend. Every citizen gets ~$2K a year... except, apparently anyone convicted of a felony during the past year. A basic income would need to be about 4 or 5 times that amount but the mechanisms and economic impacts can be instructive -- for example, the way increased spending by low-income residents in a year with a large dividend boosts (or fails to boost) the local economy.

  17. Re: Let's just get the makers vs takers out of the on VC, Entrepreneur Says Basic Income Would Work Even If 90% People 'Smoked Pot' and Didn't Work (techinsider.io) · · Score: 1

    I'd give it thirty years before the system looked pretty much like it does today -- except "just not bothering to work" would actually be a viable option for many.

    If it results in leaving people ambivalent about whether they should work, that's an improvement. The current state of affairs highly disincentivizes work for anyone on most of the many social welfare programs, by revoking benefits by the amount they work, thus ensuring they see no benefits from work and feel like a slave and give it up.

  18. Quoting a sci-fi novelist as an authority in a scientific debate doesn't exactly hold any weight, it simply confirms for your opponent that you're engaging in the wishful thinking he's accusing you of. At any rate, the young scientists are as skeptical of the em drive as the old scientists.

  19. Re:not just photons mass, in cavity space is warpi on The 'Impossible' EM Drive Being Tested By NASA May Finally Be Explained (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 1

    The supposed thrust is many orders of magnitude too small to be of any use to keeping the ISS in orbit. If it were that strong of a thrust, everyone would believe it's real.

  20. But, experience from working a lane is that an awful lot of people will revert to credit instead of PIN debit... and some explain it as they don't know their PIN.

    Some may explain it that way, but the most common reason to want to use credit instead of debit is that they get rewards or cash back for using credit and nobody gets anything for using debit.

  21. Re:Great on Utah Governor: 'Porn Is a Public Health Crisis' (cnet.com) · · Score: 2

    Actually, quite a lot of religious conservatives do protest against the staged violence in TV and movies and say that it should be censored to protect children.

  22. Re:No control group on Utah Governor: 'Porn Is a Public Health Crisis' (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    I would say that it's impossible to rape someone while feeding a porn addiction, but I guess these days there's mobile porn for the multitasking rapist.

  23. Re:Natural gas is cheaper than coal on Solar Is Now Cheaper Than Coal, Says India Energy Minister (climatechangenews.com) · · Score: 1

    The price of solar is much more predictable than the future price of natural gas, and there's a lot of value in that as well. When you're making long term plans, the option with a steady downward trend looks a lot better than the option that fluctuates wildly.

  24. Re:Solar is not cheaper, on Solar Is Now Cheaper Than Coal, Says India Energy Minister (climatechangenews.com) · · Score: 1

    In other words, some of the external costs of coal (billions in medical care before you even consider the trillions in future sea level rise costs) are being added to the price in order to make the decisions that are more expensive to society become more expensive to the person making the decision. Let's see more of that.

  25. Re:Isn't that -more- expensive? on Americans Abandoning Wired Home Internet, Shows Study (seattletimes.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm poor, and my phone plan is $3 a month. What's up with your irresponsible $84?

    Really the only poor people with $600/yr phones are the ones with wealthy families.