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  1. I do that kind of work in Skype all the time.

  2. Re: How many even want this? on The Audi A8: First Production Car To Achieve Level 3 Autonomy (ieee.org) · · Score: 1

    There is a big difference between trusting the physics of technology and trusting it to think for you.

  3. Like that kid on Deliverance?? You're freaky!

  4. Re:Better idea: punish Facebook and Google. on Newspapers To Bid For Antitrust Exemption To Tackle Google and Facebook (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    To sum it up, some news organizations still care about journalistic integrity and Facebook doesn't. People are too stupid to know the difference, so that is what the fight is over.

  5. Aren't most of them fake artists, really?

  6. Obviously they didn't provide enough ways to ignore preexisting laws and regulations as required by a startup to be successful these days. It's the economy of cost savings through flouting the rules.

  7. This makes me wonder how many of hundreds of false calls to 911 there must be out there due to these things, if one of them actually happened at the right time.

  8. Re: What could go wrong on Silicon Valley's Latest Desperate Housing Idea: On A Landfill (siliconvalley.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm pretty sure concert security would be looking for things that could lead to violence or harm to other people. Weed doesn't generally apply.

  9. Re:What the fuck are you talking about?!?!?! on The EFF's 'Let's Encrypt' Plans Wildcard Certificates For Subdomains (letsencrypt.org) · · Score: 1

    I was ready to spend $50 CDN on a cert. Couldn't find anything multiple-hostname for that.

  10. I still don't understand why these corps are so resistant to simply letting people live in places where there is room left for people to live. There must be so much untapped talent in this country. I'm in the process of moving my family for my own reasons, and it isn't a pleasant experience. Long time friends are angry at us and say they won't visit us in the new place. I have the distinction of being the one to split up my extended family after 40 years of being together in the same place. Even though my immediate family will have a vastly better deal where we are moving, it still doesn't feel like moving is the correct decision to make. Splitting families up only weakens society, and now Silicon Valley is moving people on top of a garbage dump? The inability of modern corporate America to be flexible in accommodating people to live their lives out of work is sickening.

  11. Re: Linux on the Laptop on Survey Finds Most Popular Linux Laptop Distros: Ubuntu and Arch (phoronix.com) · · Score: 1

    Also, there is nothing candy-coated about it. I find I have to configure macos far more than I have to configure linux to get it to do what I need to do.

  12. Re:What kind of Software Development Work on Lapto on Survey Finds Most Popular Linux Laptop Distros: Ubuntu and Arch (phoronix.com) · · Score: 2

    I hate being tied to an office, and because my development 'gig' is a sideline for me often I find myself at my kids' extra curricular activities with spare time, so I develop from swimming pool lobbies, sometimes parking lots. I develop all the time, mostly web server and mobile app development. It works fine on a laptop for me.

  13. I would hope that any government wouldn't actively create higher barriers for the poorer people than for the wealthy. If Japan does, I'm just happy I don't live there. Solutions that require a technology to be enforced on a person with the intention of making society safer as a whole should be funded by that society as a whole, not by the individual.

  14. Re:90 day certificates on The EFF's 'Let's Encrypt' Plans Wildcard Certificates For Subdomains (letsencrypt.org) · · Score: 1

    Obviously you don't work in a corporate environment that is totally isolated from the internet. Both outgoing and incoming traffic not allowed unless absolutely necessary. Certainly no cron jobs allowed to pull things down when they like.

  15. Re:What the fuck are you talking about?!?!?! on The EFF's 'Let's Encrypt' Plans Wildcard Certificates For Subdomains (letsencrypt.org) · · Score: 1

    Feel free to go through my comments over the past years and feel free to point out anywhere I claimed I was an expert in anything, so I'm not going to apologize nor do your criticisms really register with me.

    Anyhow, the idiotic comments aside; that's interesting I will have to look into it. Perhaps this will help me with the $50 cert I currently have registered. I was under the mistaken assumption that wildcards were the only way to make it accept various hostnames. I assumed that it was limited in this way because it was the cheapest cert I could find.

  16. Re:90 day certificates on The EFF's 'Let's Encrypt' Plans Wildcard Certificates For Subdomains (letsencrypt.org) · · Score: 1

    Obviously these certs aren't as secure as other certs, and the purpose of the short expiry is to put a hard limit on any exposure to 90 days. I agree it's annoying and this is why I haven't made an attempt to use these certs yet. Although being able to create a wildcard cert is interesting indeed. At least I will only need to have one cert reissued every 90 days instead of five.

  17. The only way this is fair is if vehicles with such capabilities cost the same as other vehicles, even taking into account the used car market.

  18. Unless Apple's privacy rules state that your data is encrypted at the device, I'm not sure how they can guarantee there will not be prying eyes.

  19. Re:Who wanted this to begin with? on Samsung Reportedly Developing a Voice-Controlled Speaker To Compete With Amazon Echo (geekwire.com) · · Score: 2

    So I can either:
    1) Talk to my phone
    2) Phone translates my speech to text
    3) Confirm speech is correct
    4) It's not, correct speech
    5) Send text
    6) Await response, rinse, repeat

    Or,
    1) Call them

    I take the latter.

  20. Re:Most people need something better on Tesla Says Its Model 3 Car Will Go On Sale On Friday (apnews.com) · · Score: 1

    We have a large family, so we tend to buy vehicles that are larger.

  21. Re:yet it still makes sense on Seattle Minimum Wage Study Has Serious Flaws (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    You said pretty much what I did but with a lot more words.

  22. Re:Good security is expensive b/c customers are du on 65 Percent of Major US Banks Have Failed Web Security Testing, Says Report (ibsintelligence.com) · · Score: 1

    The difference is that the US was generally the greediest.

    FIFY

  23. In this case we don't have any mutual acquaintances, and no that wasn't the situation. At any rate, they later expressed to me that there was another couple that was missed as well due to not being on Facebook. Perhaps they were just being polite, don't know, don't really care. At any rate, this is something that happens.

  24. Re:So many standards on Tesla Says Its Model 3 Car Will Go On Sale On Friday (apnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Sounds like a serious impediment to ever having enough charging stations, if every charging station must be duplicated 10 times over because of a different connector.

  25. Apparently you haven't missed a friend's WEDDING before because they only saw it fit to send invites on Facebook. It's happened to me. Now we can debate all day about how correct it was for them to do that, but event missed just the same. Facebook has become pervasive enough that people assume you are on it and forget to communicate in other ways.