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  1. âoeYouâ(TM)re pushing it wrong.â

  2. Re:Some justice served on Roadside Cameras Infected with WannaCry Virus Invalidate 8,000 Traffic Tickets (yahoo.com) · · Score: 1

    That does not mean they...won't not be re-issued

    Actually, I get the feeling it says they won't be re-issued.

  3. Re:So What? on More Than 80% of US Adults Get News On Their Phones (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    More than 80% of U.S. adults get news on their phones, the rest are reading this article.

  4. Obligatory Chief Wiggum Quote on Technology Is Making the World More Unequal; Only Technology Can Fix This (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    No, no, dig up stupid!

  5. Re:Plot twist: on NASA To Make Announcement About First Mission To Touch Sun (nasa.gov) · · Score: 1

    NASA will make an announcement about the agency's first mission to fly directly into our sun's atmosphere during an event at 11 a.m EDT Wednesday, May 31, from the University of Chicago's William Eckhardt Research Center Auditorium

    I didn't realize NASA had a launch platform at Chicago's William Eckhardt Research Center Auditorium either, thanks for clearing that up!

  6. Plot twist: on NASA To Make Announcement About First Mission To Touch Sun (nasa.gov) · · Score: 5, Funny

    They're going at night?

  7. Re:I'm a downwinder on Possible Radioactive Leak Investigated At Washington Nuclear Site (upi.com) · · Score: 1
    There's a solution that goes one step beyond paying a contractor, as per the summary: pay a

    government contractor contractor

    The only issue is that contractor contractors have been known on the odd occasion to accidentally the whole thing.

  8. Re:Stressful.. on A Quarter of IT Pros Find Their Job Very Stressful (itproportal.com) · · Score: 1

    You must the third worldest of the third world then. Cry your own river bitch

    Hey, I know America isn't as great as it's always been but calling it 3rd world is a little harsh.

  9. Re:Stressful.. on A Quarter of IT Pros Find Their Job Very Stressful (itproportal.com) · · Score: 1

    Sounds almost like he has data entry or reception work confused with IT.
    Working with a computer = IT whiz? Sure, I bet he can write a vba script to catch the killer's IP address.

  10. Re:Stressful.. on A Quarter of IT Pros Find Their Job Very Stressful (itproportal.com) · · Score: 1

    Entry level, apprentice trade salary is literally 2.5*entry level IT salary where I am.
    Cry me a river.

  11. WTF!

    I'm more used to 60hrs as the usual, more in a crit-sit.

    Somehow though I've seen a lot of people who sit around not generally doing much work. True, they're often (but not always) the highly experienced ones. Maybe they're the 3/4 who aren't stressed.

  12. We've seen the future, and the future is touch-boards!

    Apple saw how popular its touchbar equipped models were with people who have too much money and no technical experience.
    Studies with a focus group of this demographic have revealed that people are sick and tired of keyboards that aren't a flat piece of glass over a backlit LCD panel.

  13. Re:$36 billion doesn't sound like enough... on How Australia Bungled Its $36 Billion High-Speed Internet Rollout (nytimes.com) · · Score: 2

    They didn't even save money if you look at even the relatively short term picture though. 76 months, which is a little under 6.5 years is the figure I read where the FTTH network would have recouped the cost of the additional investment, after that it would have been more profitable than FTTN.

    I keep hearing how the coalition are supposed to have good business know-how, but they went with the plan that after 6.5 years will cost more to run and runs at a fraction of the speed: 40% faster on average than DSL based on New Zealand's experience with the same technology, making Australian business that rely on high speed information services less competitive. I just don't see the logic or how this benefits Australia given the alternative that they adamantly rejected.

  14. Re:Sabotaged by Telstra on How Australia Bungled Its $36 Billion High-Speed Internet Rollout (nytimes.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    Speaking of monopolies!

    Non paywalled link is a Murdoch paper. Coincidence that just as they look like they're about to be sold off, they speak out about the economically short-sighted move a lot of people think he lobbied for in the hope that internet broadcasters wouldn't run him and his overpriced cable out of town on the horse he rode in on? I think not xD

  15. Re: Huge "benefit" on Microsoft Thinks USB-C Isn't Ready For the Mainstream (digitaltrends.com) · · Score: 1

    I think you're thinking of mini vs micro USB http://visual.ly/micro-usb-vs-... . The third type is micro USB upside down http://www.smbc-comics.com/?id... .

  16. The summary repeats itself on Samsung May Overtake Intel As World's Largest Chip Maker In 2017 (pcmag.com) · · Score: 2

    And it repeats itself too.

  17. Re:So all Lumias will stop working? on Neowin: Microsoft's Windows Phone Business 'Is Dead' (neowin.net) · · Score: 1

    If one has a Lumia, then one can still use it in the ways that one uses a cellphone. Talk, send text messages, use Bing maps for directions, listen to music, watch videos... I don't see any of that stopping. Is there an en masse migration of services to VoLTE-only that would make a Lumia unusable? So that it couldn't be used for Legacy GSM networks?

    The heading and summary use the word "Business" several times. I don't feel that anything more than the end of the phone hardware business was implied?

  18. Re:Who paid for this study? on Popular Belief That Saturated Fat Clogs Up Arteries Is a Myth, Experts Say (independent.ie) · · Score: 3, Insightful
    FTA

    "This editorial is not founded on good evidence. There is no such thing as 'real food' - the authors don't define what it is so it's meaningless."

  19. Re:The next sentence on Oregon Fines Man For Writing a Complaint Email Stating 'I Am An Engineer' (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    "Through the use of title" is the relevant part of that clause imo. If he signed his name and wrote for example: E.E., implying he was an electrical engineer then I think he would have broken the law.
    Do you know if this is the case?

  20. Re:Correcting myself on Oregon Fines Man For Writing a Complaint Email Stating 'I Am An Engineer' (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Do you mean this?

    (1) A person is practicing or offering to practice engineering if the person:
    (a) By verbal claim, sign, advertisement, letterhead, card or in any other way implies that the person is or purports to be a registered professional engineer

    I'm seeing the qualifier "registered" toward the end of section 1a. I guess if he made that claim then he's guilty. Otherwise...

  21. Re:Yeah... but no. on Oregon Fines Man For Writing a Complaint Email Stating 'I Am An Engineer' (vice.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Afaik the question is wether he was practicing as an engineer. Offering a medical opinion is part of practicing as a medical doctor. If he claimed to be a pilot and offered an opinion on what he thought the pros and cons of a certain model of aircraft were I wouldn't expect that to be illegal as it isn't part of the role of practicing the profession of piloting an aircraft to offer opinions of the various qualities of different aircraft.

    The question I would ask is "Is writing an unsolicited letter to the state engineering board regarding the safety issues resulting from the length of a yellow traffic light considered part of the profession of engineering?"

  22. Re:Yeah... but no. on Oregon Fines Man For Writing a Complaint Email Stating 'I Am An Engineer' (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Perhaps it's not illegal to say "I'm a doctor" as long as you don't then go on to offer a medical opinion

    But he did claim to be a "doctor" offer a "medical" opinion.

    I'm not trying to say that literally you legally can't claim to be a member of one profession and offer any opinion or perform any procedure that's even loosely related to that profession. I would assume that only in the case where offering an opinion or performing a procedure would be considered to having been done in the role of performing that profession would it be illegal.

    eg. Claiming to be a pilot and saying the new Airbus is crap (probably) isn't illegal. I believe that claiming to be an engineer and going to work at a construction firm without proper qualifications, then advising the builders on the minimum diameter of steel reinforcing required for a concrete structure would be illegal.

  23. Re:Yeah... but no. on Oregon Fines Man For Writing a Complaint Email Stating 'I Am An Engineer' (vice.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    If I understand the summary, he's challenging the fine for practicing engineering without registration as he doesn't actually practice engineering.
    Perhaps it's not illegal to say "I'm a doctor" as long as you don't then go on to offer a medical opinion or perform a medical procedure?

  24. Re:They simply remember your UDID on Uber Tried To Hide Its Secret IPhone Fingerprinting From Apple (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    OK, the randomised MAC is what's presented to a wifi hotspot: a layer 2 device which definitely won't work without a MAC address to send traffic to.

    Assuming the randomised MAC is also being sent to layer 7 / the application layer of actual apps on your phone, it's not the hardware MAC address of the phone and isn't traceable is it?

  25. Re:They simply remember your UDID on Uber Tried To Hide Its Secret IPhone Fingerprinting From Apple (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Does iOS make the actual MAC address readily available to the application layer?

    Knowing Apple I would have thought the MAC address would be abstracted, with iOS providing apps access to the TCP/IP stack a lot closer to the top. I haven't programmed an iOS app though so I wouldn't know for sure.