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  1. Re:Good post, I'd mod you up if I had points on Millennials Earn 20 Percent Less Than Boomers Did At Same Stage of Life (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    The Republicans have voted to prepare to defund the ACA, which is the only way they'd be able to make any changes without being faux filibustered (as opposed to a real filibuster requiring someone to actually put in some effort to keep talking) even if they get a replacement ready.

  2. Re:Is more education, better education . . . ? on Millennials Earn 20 Percent Less Than Boomers Did At Same Stage of Life (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    The college educated millennials make slightly more than the non-college educated of the boomers, not including the cost of college debt.

  3. Re:There are Pros and Cons on Facebook No Longer Clearly Labels Edited Posts (mashable.com) · · Score: 1

    I think the last two would be sufficient, though on a site like /. you should also include undoing any positive moderation.

  4. Re:There are Pros and Cons on Facebook No Longer Clearly Labels Edited Posts (mashable.com) · · Score: 1

    Doesn't fully fix the problem as the edit could happen while someone is preparing a response to the original. I would prefer a note at the bottom saying it had been edited along with access to the edit history.

  5. Re:There are Pros and Cons on Facebook No Longer Clearly Labels Edited Posts (mashable.com) · · Score: 1

    However the quote parent button allows you to edit the quoted text, making it unreliable as evidence.

  6. Re:"Super Cheap"? on CVS Announces Super Cheap Generic Alternative To EpiPen (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    It's possible that they're getting compensation in some form for offering the coupon, allowing them to have the customer pay less than the full cost.

  7. Re:you mean capitalism works? on CVS Announces Super Cheap Generic Alternative To EpiPen (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    The problem is that in this case the product was reasonably priced, then went up instead of down.

  8. Re:Comcast customer here on Comcast Remains America's Most-Hated Company, Survey Finds (dslreports.com) · · Score: 1

    No one has to go to CNN for news, a lot of people are stuck with Comcast for decent broadband.

  9. Re: No shit Sherlock on Why You Shouldn't Trust Geek Squad (networkworld.com) · · Score: 1

    More to the point, what if you're offered the money before you break in?

  10. Re:Hmm on Why You Shouldn't Trust Geek Squad (networkworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Warrants are for any property that isn't in plain view to someone working on behalf of law enforcement. Since the FBI had already contacted this person and offered $500 if they found any child porn, they were working on behalf of law enforcement when they investigated the contents of the unallocated space on the drive. (unless the computer was brought in to recover deleted files)

  11. Re:Breadth & Accuracy 120 years ago on 2016 Was Second Hottest Year For US In More Than 120 Years of Record Keeping (climatecentral.org) · · Score: 1

    It is entirely reasonable that calibration errors tended to one direction over the other if the same methods of calibration were used.

  12. They had to lobotomize the frogs to get them to stay in the water, humans aren't as smart.

  13. I'm guessing like many others, the GP is actually on a longer contract that they've managed to keep going by getting new phones before their contract expired. If this is the case, the change in contract would allow them to keep their phone without having to buy themselves out of it.

  14. It is entirely possible for it to take something else said by the reporter as choosing a dollhouse and verifying it. Amazon should really set it up to use a PIN by default.

  15. Re:Why doesn't Alexa ask for a password? on TV News Broadcast Accidentally Activates Alexa, Initiates Orders (cw6sandiego.com) · · Score: 1

    It's available, but it isn't enabled by default.

  16. Re:How does this thing normally work? on TV News Broadcast Accidentally Activates Alexa, Initiates Orders (cw6sandiego.com) · · Score: 1

    It's their policy to offer refunds whenever you don't want what you bought, just like most other stores do, this incident is just a specific application of the policy.

  17. Re: Well that's a hell of a security hole. on TV News Broadcast Accidentally Activates Alexa, Initiates Orders (cw6sandiego.com) · · Score: 1

    There is a response and confirmation. I'm guessing the news reporter went on to describe that Alexa asked for confirmation and that the original little girl said yes, which all the Alexas listening took as confirmation of the order.

    There's also an optional PIN requirement that should really be mandatory.

  18. So the law doesn't grant them the right to vote, just the ability to vote illegally.

  19. It is more efficient. It is only being compared to other carbon capture designs, not to a coal plant without any.

  20. Re:Selling eyeballs on Once Mocked, Facebook's $1 Billion Acquisition of Instagram Was Genius (bgr.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    They are offering something of value to their customers. The complaint should be: Remember when businesses considered their users and customers to be the same people?

  21. Re:The problem with society on Eavesdropping Uber Driver Helps Rescue 16-Year-Old From Her Pimps (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    To clarify from the summary: Avila said on Facebook Live minutes after he dropped off the passengers, then called police to report the women whom he suspected of prostituting the child.

    So after he dropped them off and called the police, he started streaming on Facebook Live.

  22. It's not about the ISP providing these guys with the data, it's about them providing it to someone actually investigating copyright infringement.

  23. Re:Nice little malware trick on Creepy Site Claims To Reveal Torrenting Histories (iknowwhatyoudownload.com) · · Score: 1

    It most likely isn't malware, I would guess that it just takes note of their IP. Not willing to test it out though.

  24. Re:1 laptop, not connected to the grid on Washington Post Retracts Story About Russian Hackers Penetrating US Electricity Grid (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I don't think they're an arm of the government, they're just creating stories that will sell/get clicks. Clever government officials have figured out how to release information that will cause the story they want out to be the one written.

  25. Re:How is this a problem? on Self-Driving Cars Will Make Organ Shortages Even Worse (slate.com) · · Score: 1

    The problem is that 1 isn't necessarily true, one dead organ donor can save more than one other person. It's possible that even with the reduction from 2, there could be a larger difference in supply vs demand.

    That said, the argument has little merit unless you're the sort that'd be willing to argue in favor of searching for genetic matches and killing them to harvest their organs.