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  1. Re:41 states have it. 43 line-item. Rs gave Clinto on CISA Surveillance Bill Hidden Inside Last Night's Budget Bill (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    Another difference was the inability for states to say no to slavery. They *had* to allow slavery. So the states had less States Rights in the CSA.

  2. I came here to post this.

    I also want to change that 70's song to "Whom do you love". Just sayin.

  3. Re: You'd be raided too on Alleged Bitcoin Creator Raided By Australian Authorities (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    If the government actually possessed that kind of efficiency we would have solved all the world's problems by now.

    Err, not likely. The US government at least was made to be inefficient. Because they had a taste of how efficiently the king could levy taxes against them. Slowness in a 3 branch government is a designed in feature, not a bug.

  4. Re:Killled by wet roads? on Deep Learning Identifies Wet Road Hazards From Sound Input (thestack.com) · · Score: 1

    Race car drivers are paid to take their vehicles to the limit of control.

    there was a CART race at Texas Motor Speedway where they got so fast, over 235MPH, the G forces were so strong, a couple of the drivers blacked out. Not passed out, but they didn't remember driving. Scary stuff. CART eventually thought best of it and cancel the race.

    Sadly, a lot of people were pissed at the drivers, and that anger, anger at erring for drivers' safety, ended up killing CART to where they merged back with the Indy Racing Leage (IRL).

  5. The crab has three watches... on Eric Schmidt Proposes 'Hate Spell-Checker' For Radical and Terrorist Content (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Any censorship has to be effective against every person, ever. But people are pretty clever

  6. Do no evil... on Google Accused of Tracking School Kids After Promising Not To (cio.com) · · Score: 1

    ... to our yearly revenues.

  7. Re:IMHO that's good on It's Getting Harder To Reside Anonymously In a Modern City (citiesofthefuture.eu) · · Score: 1

    There is a side effect to this. Large cities are actually easier on the environment to people scattered all over the place. Whether you think the big city is good or not from an asshole standpoint, it's good from a resource standpoint, so we need to solve the asshole standpoint or we all drown in rising sea levels.

  8. We used to call people in the woods kooks on It's Getting Harder To Reside Anonymously In a Modern City (citiesofthefuture.eu) · · Score: 1

    Now they're the vanguard.

  9. Pirelli? on 900 Embedded Devices Share Hard-Coded Certs, SSH Host Keys · · Score: 1

    I think of them as tires only (well, and the calendar). What since when do they make/sell/rebadge routers?

  10. Don't blame the software... on KGB Software Almost Triggered War In 1983 (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    ...Blame the model.

    I read this article, the model was flawed, based on a "we'll attack when we pass some threshhold". Everything else was just to feed the model. They added a lot of things, so the model could only be calculated on a computer. But its a modeling error, the tool was a computer.

  11. Re:Is C so rare in Malware... on High Level Coding Language Used To Create New POS Malware (isightpartners.com) · · Score: 1

    Have you SEEN Kernighan and Ritchie? BEARDS i say

    Terrorists.

  12. Is C so rare in Malware... on High Level Coding Language Used To Create New POS Malware (isightpartners.com) · · Score: 1

    that you need to call it out?

    With everything going modular these days, I'm sure there's a lot of hand written assembly exploit code that then pulls down modules likely written in C. Not that it's good or bad, just odd to call it out.

  13. Re:In French argot, "bit" is slang for... on Google's Chromebit Micro-Computer Launches (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    I've seen it spelled bite, or bitte... though it's slang so that may have actually changed.

  14. Re:Household namej on How Hollywood's Hedy Helped Heighten Handhelds (hackaday.com) · · Score: 1

    Also, it was classified for a few years during and after the war.

    So... she's known for being an actress, a very public field, more than she's known for something that she was sworn to secrecy for,. This is a problem, or even a surprise, why?

  15. Now for the Reddit deluge on How Hollywood's Hedy Helped Heighten Handhelds (hackaday.com) · · Score: 1

    Now we'll see two or three times the volume of this tidbit on Reddit /r/todayILearned.

  16. Re:Programs using BitTorrent on ISP To Court: BitTorrent Usage Doesn't Equal Piracy (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 1

    There's Bittorrent Sync, which is file transfer, but it's designed to share your files to you.

    (though yes, anyone with the key can get a copy of the share, so therefore you can argue it can be used for piracy, but I just use it for my "personal cloud")

  17. Re:in other words, no fix on Chrome V8 JavaScript Exploit Leaves All Android Devices Ripe For Attack (hothardware.com) · · Score: 2

    OS updates never get pushed. They require effort from both phone manufacturers and carriers, both who have motivation to not bother and encourage new phone purchases.

    Google apps get updated.
    Google Play Services get updated.

    In short, the things that Google can control (their apps, Google play services) actually gets updated. Chrome is an app

  18. PlaysForSure on Microsoft Kills Off Zune Music Service (networkworld.com) · · Score: 0

    PlaysForSuren't?

  19. Sportsmans? In Cicero? Cool! I grew up just the other side of Cicero Ave on the Chicago side. My aunt and uncle used to race harness horses, and I'd go there every once in a while. They never won, but was still fun.

    The clothes are a great story... you know about Storycorps right?

  20. Re:His presidential campaign never began. on Larry Lessig Ends Presidential Campaign, Citing Unfair Debate Rules (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    The japanese did that, similar anyway, with the Shogun. Took them hundreds of years, the threat of invasion by a vastly superior force, and a civil war to finally rid themselves of it.

  21. Re:If you don't like the job... on Amazon Prime Now Delivery Drivers Sue Over Classification As Contractors (itworld.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    so, all businesses get together and say that they'll pay you a buck a day oh and you need to breathe asbestos without a mask, because we ain't paying for that shit. Oh, and if you don't like that job? go get another. But it will have the same requirements.

    Seems fake? no, things were kind of like this in the early 1900s. Oh and if you complained there was a nonzero chance of you getting killed. Unions and work laws didn't come out of nowhere. They came out of abuses where companies used their large power as leverage. If you have thousands of people applying for a handful of jobs at amazon fulfillment centers where you do nothing but walk all day carrying heavy stuff just so maybe you can be one of the 10% that get full-time jobs, the "purchasing power" of labor is pretty weak. Saying "just go get another job" ignores this.

    When corporations do illegal stuff, we oddly don't say "go get another line of work" and make the banks that financed drug lords start selling oranges by the side of the road. But for some reason people are expected to.

  22. Re:Suburbs on The Chicago Suburb That's Trying To Kill the Car (politico.com) · · Score: 1

    Evanston specifically (and i lived there for a bit) i would not call a suburb.

    Suburbs used to be small towns around a larger city. The city itself would have industry and jobs, and you'd drive out to a place with decent housing stock.

    But with Evanston, it was established before Chicago. it's not a satellite city. But a town that happened to have a big neighbor push up on it's southern border.

  23. Re:Congratulations on The Chicago Suburb That's Trying To Kill the Car (politico.com) · · Score: 2

    Evanston actually predates chicago by a bit. It's not a suburb. Chicago grew until it pressed against Evanston's southern border.

    evanston has some advantages over Chicago. It's got a good solid core of Northwestern University. So it has a lot of young college kids roaming around the city. It's a much smaller city than chicago and the density is easier to maintain. The old joke is that there are more dead people than living (there's a big cemetery near the southern border with chicago).

    It also has a lot of infrastructure from being close to chicago. The Purple line is an extension of the CTA, and runs locally on weekends. There are CTA busses that come through, not just suburban busses. There are a couple Metra lines the go through because of proximity to chicago

    There are rough neighborhoods to the west (evanston borders the lake on the east so the rich folks are east, the poor folks west.) I haven't read the articles yet, but I'd love to see how the Western part fits in the grand plan

  24. Re:Windows retail prices on InFocus's New Kangaroo: a Screenless $99 Windows 10 Portable PC (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    The price marks this as a "low powered" device.

    For low powered devices, Winders is free. Kind of a "lets get you hooked until you want a REAL machine" kind of thing. This breaks down as now these "low powered" machines now can beat a desktop from a few years ago.

  25. Re:Bad compiler, then on Mimic, the Evil Script That Will Drive Programmers To Insanity (github.com) · · Score: 1

    I hate copy paste into Outlook, either from the paste into side, or the copy from side. Very easy to screw up working code by going through outlook.

    C/C++ isn't so bad, since you can have an attachment. Shell is worse, since we filter out "executable attachments" including shell scripts, so the first few attempts all try inline until you realize this and just call it .txt.