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  1. Re:Downloading MP3s FTW! on The Music Industry's Latest Shortsighted Plan: Killing Freemium Services · · Score: 1

    Bandcamp is the service I used. The artist I recently found and downloaded was Lily & Madeleine, following comments on First Aid Kit videos on YouTube.

    So without being able to explore music online I wouldn't be able to find it.

  2. Downloading MP3s FTW! on The Music Industry's Latest Shortsighted Plan: Killing Freemium Services · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The last two records I purchased I paid for and downloaded from the artist pretty directly. I assume they were paying the hosting service a fee.

    This is the way of the future. I'm sure the artist in question got > 50% of the revenue direct into their pockets, compared to the tiny slice a record company would pay them, this is huge.

  3. Re:I sent one. on MuckRock FOIA Request Releases Christopher Hitchens' FBI Files · · Score: 2

    In all fairness, can you imagine the cost to them if they had to turn over the recordings of every one of your phones calls and emails for the last 10+ years? That shit would add up fast, man.

    I presume they would just type in the appropriate search term into their huge database yielding a couple of gigs of text that can be put on 10,000 floppy disks and mailed.

  4. Re:Easy solution on Worker Fired For Disabling GPS App That Tracked Her 24 Hours a Day · · Score: 3, Informative

    Read the first sentence of the article

    A Central California woman claims she was fired after uninstalling an app that her employer required her to run constantly on her company issued iPhone—an app that tracked her every move 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

    Yes. I read that afterwords. It seems to contradict the text of the legal complaint. My experience of journalists biases me to the legal complaint as probably being closer to the truth. But it's a clear contradiction between the two texts.

  5. Re:Work stays at work! on Worker Fired For Disabling GPS App That Tracked Her 24 Hours a Day · · Score: 1

    Citation required. Not from one of those studies that measures the meat, but not the bun it's delivered in.

  6. Re:Next on The Milky Way's Most Recent Supernova That Nobody Saw · · Score: 1

    see the light from this explosion centuries later, and learn exactly how it happened.

    It went BOOM!

    No. It went BOOMETY BOOM.

  7. Re:Hazardous on Critics Say It's Time To Close La Guardia Airport · · Score: 1

    I said immigration, not customs.

    The on-off topic-ness is entirely related to the business of getting through the airport and out to wherever you are going. These things are not unconnected.

  8. Re:Dot dot dot... on Worker Fired For Disabling GPS App That Tracked Her 24 Hours a Day · · Score: 1

    Stubits replied that she should tolerate the illegal intrusion....

    .... And?! I need closure on that anecdote!

    She sued.

  9. Re:Easy solution on Worker Fired For Disabling GPS App That Tracked Her 24 Hours a Day · · Score: 2

    >It's a company issued phone

    No. It was her phone. Read the complaint.

  10. Re:Work stays at work! on Worker Fired For Disabling GPS App That Tracked Her 24 Hours a Day · · Score: 1

    I did this for several years. I worked across time zones and traveled a lot. The work phone (a Blackberry) was paid for and hooked into my work email.
    I used the phone for personal calls as well a business and the money was sorted out accordingly.
    If someone called me in the evening or weekend it was just part of the job, and not a big thing. Working hours were not well defined. Getting the job done was.

    The world changed. People wanted smart phones and the ability to configure them and run their applications on them. So the tension between work phone vs. personal phone or work software running on personal phones began.

    There's no way in hell I would let my employer install their BYOD software on my personal phone. There's not way in hell my employer would let my personal phone connect to their network without their bloatware installed. So we're back to two devices or no work phone. When I travel abroad I buy PAYG sims and expense them.

  11. Re: nature will breed it out on Psychologist: Porn and Video Game Addiction Are Leading To 'Masculinity Crisis' · · Score: 1

    No, not entirely if you read some more modern research on behavioral science. Behaviors are patterned by multiple input sources and feedback mechanisms, including: genetics (inherited traits), religion, societal norms of their country of residence or their heritage, direct training (e.g., etiquette classes), trauma (e.g., car accident, sexual assault, physical abuse) and social interactions with people from different cultural and experiential backgrounds, among others.

    In essence it's our experiences along with inheritance that model our behavior, whether that be at home or not.

    He said 'ignoring epigenetics', then you went on to tell him all about epigenetics.

  12. Re:Forget about being dead... on The Challenge of Web Hosting Once You're Dead · · Score: 3, Funny

    I turned comments off, myself. Wordpress will update itself nowadays, at least for minor updates.

    Are you dead? If so I'm impressed.

  13. Re:Hazardous on Critics Say It's Time To Close La Guardia Airport · · Score: 1

    It was an overnight stay. I'm back home now after a very long flight and a short flight.

    $13 USD to get to the city by the airport express train was easy. The security lines were short. The crispy pork was excellent. I have no problems with Hong Kong/Chek Lap Kok airport.

  14. Re:Hazardous on Critics Say It's Time To Close La Guardia Airport · · Score: 1

    one landing does not a trend make

    I've landed many times in many places. The US immigration are always the most dickish. I think statistical significance has been met and far exceeded.

  15. Re:Hazardous on Critics Say It's Time To Close La Guardia Airport · · Score: 1

    >Hong Kong is slightly different though.

    I landed in Hong Kong last night. It felt the same as any other landing. Immigration weren't dicks like the US immigration though.

  16. Re: Homegrown on Poor, Homegrown Encryption Threatens Open Smart Grid Protocol · · Score: 2

    In fact, we've often seen these "experts" exhibit hostility toward anyone who dares to question them and their systems, even when the questioner has found massive and easily exploitable security flaws.

    [Citation needed]

    If you know what you are doing and are competent to design crypto primitives, you've probably had a lot of practice and so want to meet others with similar interests and so you probably have been to the odd IACR conference (CRYPTO, EUROCRYPT, ASIACRYPT etc.) to meet these people. You would know where to publish your algorithms to receive serious cryptographic review by your peers.

    Anyone can be a dick, but being a competent crypto primitive designer entitles you to behaviour that from the outside looks dickish, but it really just a case of telling to truth to people who don't know what they don't know.
     

  17. Re:At the same time on Single Verizon IP Address Used For Hundreds of Windows 7 Activations · · Score: 1, Informative

    They were paid to by IBM. If MS didn't do it, IBM would have found someone else.

  18. Re:Plausible versus implausible threats on VA Tech Student Arrested For Posting Perceived Threat Via Yik Yak · · Score: 1

    Is there a day of the year when something bad never happened in the past? I'd like a list of safe dates to refer to.

  19. Re:What is It? on VA Tech Student Arrested For Posting Perceived Threat Via Yik Yak · · Score: 2

    The VA Tech shooting happened on 4/16/07. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V...

    1907 is a long time ago.

  20. Re:People rejected decimal time on Tesla To Announce Battery-Based Energy Storage For Homes · · Score: 1

    WTF does decimal time have to do with the discussion Mr Strawman?

  21. Re:Obituary or feminist propganda? on SurveyMonkey's CEO Dies While Vacationing With Wife Sheryl Sandberg · · Score: 1

    I think he leaned in a bit to far and fell.

  22. Re:Thinking in kiloseconds is still hard on Tesla To Announce Battery-Based Energy Storage For Homes · · Score: 1

    >But how would that fix the units in customers' heads?

    By not giving the uneducated a choice.

  23. Discrimination! on High School Students Discover Pulsar With Widest-Known Orbit · · Score: 1

    > data collected by the GBT

    So they didn't let the L and Q join in?

  24. Re:Who pays for SI transition? on Tesla To Announce Battery-Based Energy Storage For Homes · · Score: 1

    It would only take a few lines of code to fix the units in electricity bills.

  25. Re:Joule vs. kWh sperglording on Tesla To Announce Battery-Based Energy Storage For Homes · · Score: 1

    So are you willing to pay for all electric utility companies to replace meters that read out in kWh with meters that read out in joules, at the same time for all customers in order to satisfy franchise regulations that require a city-wide (or larger) uniform rate?

    Engineers use SI units to avoid stupid errors that have bad effects, like certain satellites falling out of the sky.

    If we stick to the internationally standardized units, it will be easier to compare energy and power with other instances of measurements of energy and power.