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  1. Re:As long as it is voluntary on Apple's New iPhone Built With Illegal Overtime Teen Labor (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Did the schools require overtime to graduate, or just normal working hours?

    The schools require the kids to be sent to the factory so the administrators can get a sweet payoff. Once the kids are at the factory it's comically naive to think the school administrators care.

  2. Re:As long as it is voluntary on Apple's New iPhone Built With Illegal Overtime Teen Labor (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 2

    However, if it was voluntary, then I see no reason why they should have the government tell them that they can't make more money if they don't wanted to. Their body, their choice.

    Did you miss the part about how working there in the first place was a requirement to graduate their high school? That throws a bucket of cold water on any theories about how overtime was voluntary. And as for getting paid, they almost certainly are billed for housing and food until there is no actual take away pay.

  3. To qualify as a Ponzi scheme they would need to pay off at least one round of investors with capital from a second round.

  4. Re:DIY Cryptocurrency Mining... on An Ethereum Startup Just Vanished After People Invested $374K (vice.com) · · Score: 2

    To heck with bitcoins; that rig will get me some serious SETI@Home points!

  5. Re:True, but. on Security Problems Are Primarily Just Bugs, Linus Torvalds Says (iu.edu) · · Score: 1

    I still think not granting ddl to the account in use solves the 'drop table' problem nicely which is what I was responding to in the first place. You seem to be side tracked into other problems.

  6. Re:True, but. on Security Problems Are Primarily Just Bugs, Linus Torvalds Says (iu.edu) · · Score: 1

    OK, but notice I was replying to someone whose specific concern was dropping tables. I still think not granting ddl to the account in question solves that problem.

  7. Re:True, but. on Security Problems Are Primarily Just Bugs, Linus Torvalds Says (iu.edu) · · Score: 1

    I don't read that comic so your post makes little sense. I suppose in general I agree no one design any software around something they read in a web comic but I'm not clear on why it's painful to suggest an account that needs to only do dml not have ddl grants. Are you saying it should?
    Also, it's a little odd that you rant about how wrong the comic is yet have episode numbers memorized.

  8. "Scam Likely" calling.... on Spam Is Back (theoutline.com) · · Score: 2

    Does anyone else get these a lot on their cell? It seems as if Mr. Likely calls me daily. I wish I could just block him but he changes number frequently.

  9. Re:True, but. on Security Problems Are Primarily Just Bugs, Linus Torvalds Says (iu.edu) · · Score: 2

    Aren't SQL injection attacks usually queued commands? Isn't the ability to queue multiple SQL commands in one string a flaw in itself? Ex: what possible harm would it do to require a "drop table" command to be called on its own,etc ?

    The real flaw is giving out ddl grants to a service account that's supposed to be doing dml.

  10. Re:Actually the flaw is pretty bad on Amazon Key Flaw Could Let Rogue Deliverymen Disable Your Camera (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    if the camera, upon losing connectivity, also spontaneously caught fire and burned your house down.

    Is that before or after the thief who disabled it is able to get out?

  11. Because sometimes doctors give you medications that are for a condition that they suspect you might or might not have. Then when you get that little cardboard box with the pills and safety manual listing possible side effects, you might have second thoughts

    Then your doc is doing a lousy job not to have mentioned that when discussing possible prescriptions.

  12. why people don't take it all on schedule. I get not liking pills, then don't go get them. But why not take them if you went to the trouble of going to the pharmacy?

  13. Re:Tests carried out by Which? on Investigation Finds Security Flaws In 'Connected' Toys (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    That Which? carried out the tests are those Who were ill advised on a search friendly name.

  14. Re:But they signed a meaningless piece of paper! on Germany Is Burning Too Much Coal (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Not sure why you're being modded down

    Because by misspelling a word using ALL CAPS in that way it becomes an ad hominem attack, which is a logical fallacy.

  15. Re: The market corrects on Solar Companies Are Scrambling to Find a Critical Raw Material (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Whole house is led and compact fluorescent..

    Incandescent bulbs would help heat.

  16. Re: Drug dealers like 'em on Payphones Still Make Millions of Dollars (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    It's VERY easy to fake GPS. Just download an app that overrides the GPS and put yourself wherever you want to be. Just for fun, I made it look like I was in London.

    That only works for apps that honor the mock location api. not all do.

  17. Re:Do you even need to ask? on Ask Slashdot: Which Laptop Has The Best Keyboard? · · Score: 1

    The Thinkpad 25 (25th Anniversary) uses the old style keyboard

    That one looks good but to really be Thinkpad retro it would have the unfolding butterfly keyboard.

  18. Re:Easy problem to solve on Paradise Papers Expose Canadian Scalper's Multimillion-Dollar StubHub Scheme (www.cbc.ca) · · Score: 1

    Every time the issue of scalpers comes up and someone points out the obvious, that tickets ought to be sold in an auction format to find their actual market price, someone cries that high ticket prices is just another way to discriminate against the poor.

  19. Tzu is a title that translates roughly to "Master". His family name was Sun. So, yes, "Master Sun" is correct.

  20. Surely there must be something in The Art of War about using your opponents own weapons against them....

    Master Sun did indeed say one of the most important strategic possessions is information, and you should strive both to have accurate information for yourself and provide inaccurate information to your opponent.

  21. ....and how do you test that the feature actually works?

    I hope their QA team doesn't look like the one where I work.

  22. Re:Sigh. on Paradise Papers Leak Reveals Apple's Secret Tax Bolthole (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    The final base for all taxes is wealth and all wealth (that is not under public ownership) is owned by individuals. Income from economic activity is generated by businesses. So while you appear to prefer to tax economic activity, I would prefer tax on final consumption by individuals.

  23. Thanks, cell provider, for baking it in on How Facebook Figures Out Everyone You've Ever Met (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I disable the FB app that the cell provider baked into the Android rom so even though it spouts dire warnings about the system not working properly if that's done. I assume that's enough to prevent it from sucking out my info but who knows for certain anymore and what about people who don't disable it?

  24. Re:Sigh. on Paradise Papers Leak Reveals Apple's Secret Tax Bolthole (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Paying taxes is not a moral choice, it is a part of doing business.

    Paying taxes is the price that we have to pay for the right of living in a civilized society. Oliver Wendell Holmes.

    Paying for taxes how, Mr. Holmes? All taxes are finally paid by individuals, and corporations in the legal sense of persons does not count. It is much more honest for individuals to pay their taxes themselves rather than have multiple layers of corporate taxes baked into the costs of everything they have to buy.

  25. What part of "1000 pages per month" did you not get? Emergency information cannot be changing that fast.

    1,000 pages is not all emergency procedures but notice I was responding to someone who thinks absolutely no printing should happen.