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  1. Re:Arms market on Project Aims To Build a Fully Open SoC and Dev Board · · Score: 1

    For a clean sheet CPU design, ARM's instruction set is a horrible choice. It's carrying the bloat of 4 different architecture widths (24, 32, 16 and 64 in that order).

    I'm all in favour of people designing their own CPUs. It's not that hard and good ideas come from it.

  2. Re:Pinch of salt needed on Posting Soccer Goals On Vine Is Illegal, Say England's Premier League · · Score: 1

    Fair enough. I was talking about European law because TFA was about the English Premier League.

  3. Re:In other news on Supervalu Becomes Another Hacking Victim · · Score: 1

    Oh noes

  4. In other news on Supervalu Becomes Another Hacking Victim · · Score: 4, Funny

    SuperValu are the the only ones. Targe, WallMar and Whole Food were also hacked.

  5. No Surpris on Supervalu Becomes Another Hacking Victim · · Score: 2

    They can't even spell their own name.

  6. Re:Technical People on The Billion-Dollar Website · · Score: 1

    You are continuing to conflate Medicaid with the ACA. Is your problem with Medicaid or the ACA?

    > just look at the VA and the recent news stories concerning it.

    Unlike you, I've recently had cause to spend a lot of time at a VA hospital. Unlike other hospitals, it doesn't fund itself by employing people to spend all day on the phone with insurance companies. The issues you pretend to understand around Medicaid do not have any relevance to how the VA hospitals are run. Trying to suggest that the VA hospitals are a model for how the ACA will work suggests you are not honest.

  7. Re:Reduced rights on Watch a Cat Video, Get Hacked: the Death of Clear-Text · · Score: 1

    What makes you think that they aren't?

  8. Re:https is useless on Watch a Cat Video, Get Hacked: the Death of Clear-Text · · Score: 4, Informative

    If the state can forge certs, the state can redirect your traffic to their youtube proxy and insert the malware just behind the fake thing you authenticated with. Your own private keys will not protect you.

    This is one of the many reasons why the public PKI is broken.

  9. Re:Pinch of salt needed on Posting Soccer Goals On Vine Is Illegal, Say England's Premier League · · Score: 1

    #1 Delete something that's all over the internet? That'll work.
    #2 is wrong. Football matches are not copyright works in Europe. The courts have already determined that.

  10. Re:Rocksmith on Swedish Dad Takes Gamer Kids To Warzone · · Score: 1

    I may also be a little unhappy that her score on American Idiot is higher than mine right now.

  11. Re:You gotta see the girls of Gaza Strip! on Swedish Dad Takes Gamer Kids To Warzone · · Score: 1

    Top tip if you have a rental car in Israel. You can pick up a hitch hiking soldier and get your personal armed escort, who in addition to having a mean looking gun, knows the way and can give directions.

  12. Rocksmith on Swedish Dad Takes Gamer Kids To Warzone · · Score: 2

    My kid is playing Rocksmith an hour a night, and using *my* guitar to do it.

    I'm going to threaten to take her to a rock concert. That'll teach her the difference between playing the guitar and people playing a guitar on stage.

  13. Re:Whatever games they chose?? on Swedish Dad Takes Gamer Kids To Warzone · · Score: 1

    That's why it's better to be 45 with steam on a gaming machine with a video card that takes 3 pre-tsumani Fukishimas to power it.

  14. Re:Ticket Copyright Ownership on Posting Soccer Goals On Vine Is Illegal, Say England's Premier League · · Score: 1

    I think SCO taught us all that copyrights don't magically transfer because some bit of paper said it should. There has to be an actual transfer of copyright and the back of a ticket ain't that.

  15. Re:Pinch of salt needed on Posting Soccer Goals On Vine Is Illegal, Say England's Premier League · · Score: 1

    Same response as above. That agreement would enable them to kick someone out of the venue. It wouldn't cause a transfer of copyright.

  16. Re:Pinch of salt needed on Posting Soccer Goals On Vine Is Illegal, Say England's Premier League · · Score: 1

    I see no way in which a ticket limiting recording automatically transfers copyright of the recording from the creator to the venue.
    It might allow the venue to kick out the person doing the recording, but it certainly doesn't hand them copyright to the work.
     

  17. Re: Technical People on The Billion-Dollar Website · · Score: 1

    >They mean government meddling in healthcare.
    How does that work? How does a doctor reject an insured patient because 'government meddling'? Do people have special 'government meddling' marks on their insurance cards so they can be singled out? I think not.

    In programming this would be called a type mismatch. In the normal world it's called something much more offensive.

  18. Re:Technical People on The Billion-Dollar Website · · Score: 1

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  19. Re:Technical People on The Billion-Dollar Website · · Score: 0

    > since no doctors take medicaid now (Many are no longer accepting obamacare at all),

    That makes no sense whatsoever. Medicare is not Obamacare (or the Affordable Care Act to name it properly). Medicare predates the ACA by many years. No one goes to the doctor with an obamacare. They go to the doctor with an insurance plan. The doctor has no way to differentiate that plan obtained through an ACA exchange from any other plan obtained through an employer sponsored plan. They look the same to the doctor. You don't get a card that says Obamacare on it. Mine says Bluecross/Blueshield.

  20. Re:Technical People on The Billion-Dollar Website · · Score: 2

    > The cost for architecting software is far higher than simply building it

    Say what? This makes no sense. How is nobody else commenting on how backwards this is? Using colorful language "simply building it" to characterize a falsehood, doesn't make it true. Building out a complex system is the only way to find undocumented or unknown conditions and redesign interfaces to deal with that. You don't usually "rearchitect" the whole project because 1 resource has a snag, but investigation and rework NEVER overruns the cost of implementation. It IS the cost of implementation.

    Yet it is true.
    My single data point is and average of ~3 years of thinking about how to build a system to ~6 months of building. It has never been a mistake to think through the whole thing from as many angles as you can and not commit to build until you know everything fits. I could spend 6 months thinking, 6 months building and 3 years fixing and patching, but no one is happy with that.

  21. Technical People on The Billion-Dollar Website · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Non technical people are not competent to commission technical work from technical people.

    If you (as a government or large company) don't have your own technical people on staff to oversee the process and comprehend or write the specs, you're doomed. The contractors know well how to milk a cash cow, simply by adhering to the specs written by people who don't understand how to write specs.

  22. Re:Shaks have violated the most important rule... on Kevlar Protects Cables From Sharks, Experts Look For Protection From Shark Week · · Score: 1

    >Here's a hint: stay away from the Mako's, they're the assholes of the shark world. Otherwise, just appreciate that sharks were here millions of hears before us, and let them be.

    Not if they screw up my internetz

  23. Re:Open WiFi on Connected Collar Lets Your Cat Do the War-Driving · · Score: 1

    I'm gifting my bandwidth to those who happen to be nearby. That's no vulnerability.
    My internal LAN is secured.

  24. Open WiFi on Connected Collar Lets Your Cat Do the War-Driving · · Score: 4, Insightful

    If people just left their WiFi open, it wouldn't be called a vulnerability, it would be called ubiquitous connectivity.

  25. Re:This naming trend has to stop on The XBMC Project Will Now Be Called Kodi · · Score: 1

    I went looking but I found nothing to suggest Visio smartsheet type behavior. Do they have that?