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  1. Re: There is a fine line here on Dozens of Companies Are Using Facebook To Exclude Older Workers From Job Ads (propublica.org) · · Score: 1

    Which is pretty common language nowadays.

    It's a good way of spotting companies with no legal advisers and no legal department of relevance.

    The common language I've seen is "Must be eligible to work in the US to apply"

  2. Re:They almost have them already on Walmart Is Planning a Store Without Cashiers (recode.net) · · Score: 1

    The easy solution there is make sure the people don't do the complicated stuff at the checkout. At my local store I take the scanner with me as I walk around. I can waste space in my stupor all I wont without holding up anyone.
    The checkout process is literally:
    1. Put handscanner in the dock.
    2. Scan the barcode on my client card.
    3. Hold my debit card next to the pin terminal (bonus points if it's above a certain limit I may need to enter a pin code).

    Even www.peopleofwalmart.com legends could figure this out.

  3. Re:Domain-validated vs. Extended Validation on Firefox Prepares To Mark All HTTP Sites 'Not Secure' After HTTPS Adoption Rises (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    No most of what we're complaining about is stuff that isn't associated with a domain name, that's nothing to do with Lets Encrypt.

  4. Re:Isn't wonderful on Ubuntu 17.10 Temporarily Pulled Due To A BIOS Corrupting Problem (phoronix.com) · · Score: 1

    That we have moved from simple reliable BIOS systems

    WTF? We never had that. The BIOS has for the past 30 years been a hacked together crapshoot for other systems to work around.

  5. Re:Eddard Stark: 4k is coming on The UK Decides 10 Mbps Broadband Should Be a Legal Right (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    There will always be a higher resolution

    This is something called technological progression. Frankly I hope it continues.

  6. Re:yeah, thanks a lot for nothing on Apple Confirms iPhone With Older Batteries Will Take Hits On Performance (theverge.com) · · Score: 1, Troll

    The iPhone 7 has a 1960mAh battery. The Galaxy S5 has a 2800mAh battery which is removable. Tell me again what this maximize battery space thing was about?

    But before you complain about comparing Apples we can look further:
    The successor: Galaxy S6 2550mAh non-removable. WHAT A BENEFIT!
    The 2014 contender: iPhone 6 1810mAh battery.

    The benefits are asstounding [sic]

  7. Re:How to use a private CA with BYOD? on Firefox Prepares To Mark All HTTP Sites 'Not Secure' After HTTPS Adoption Rises (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    Depends on how you define ownership. BYOD allows devices that are not part of the company purchasing agreement to be used, allows co-sharing of data with personal and private. BYOD has always been about using your own money to pay for a device under company control. Any company who doesn't do this will learn the hard way when their first idiot user loses a device with no pincode and critical information stored on it.

  8. Re:How to use a private CA with BYOD? on Firefox Prepares To Mark All HTTP Sites 'Not Secure' After HTTPS Adoption Rises (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    Sounds more like "compromise your own device". I do not trust any entity to be both benevolent (do not spy on people) and competent (keep the means to spy the people secure), at least for extended periods of time.

    Trust goes both ways. You want to bring your own because you're not happy with what you have fine. Do so. But do so under my our rules. Personal devices are a huge digital security risk to a company.

  9. Re:I don't see how it stopped an outage on Tesla Big Battery Outsmarts Lumbering Coal Units After Loy Yang Trips (reneweconomy.com.au) · · Score: 1

    More Gas. That was an easy answer. You seem to be implying that this is a new problem. It's not. SA always had a problem with rolling reserve. The difference is that rolling reserve is now more critical than ever due to grid instabilities from transient energy sources.

    By the way thanks for providing a site to my earlier comment. SA is heavily reliant on importing power from neighbours. Despite your assertion that you'd seen it exporting "many times" the figures from your own link says:

    Combined interconnector flows Flow in GWh
    Imports to South Australia 2,889
    Exports from South Australia 164

  10. Re:They almost have them already on Walmart Is Planning a Store Without Cashiers (recode.net) · · Score: 1

    The idea of customers checking out their own items is great in theory, but it just doesn't work that well most of the time.

    Why? You made an observation about one shop but stopped there. I counter that with experiences from Australia and Europe where the self checkout lines are far faster and more actively used. So why doesn't it work well in your scenario?

  11. Re:Well... on Walmart Is Planning a Store Without Cashiers (recode.net) · · Score: 2

    Studies on this across the world have shown that retail theft works out to a little over double the baseline when self-checkout stores are used, and drops back down to close to the baseline when random inspection is included. No doubt that cashier free will be higher but that depends on what kind of oversight they use.

    The Amazon method seems to use sensors to identify what the person has taken reducing the amount of control a person has on the payment process.
    My local self-checkout service will flag up a random purchase I make for someone to come over and scan a few "random" items in my bag to see if I scanned them correctly. I say "random" because they go for the common targets for thiefs, i.e. running Royal Gala Apples up as Jazz Apples.

  12. $100? Shit mine was free. You overpaid.

  13. Re:why does my site need to be secure on Firefox Prepares To Mark All HTTP Sites 'Not Secure' After HTTPS Adoption Rises (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    Whether your site needs to be secure or not is not for you to decide. It's up to the person potentially being persecuted for viewing it.

  14. Re:Domain-validated vs. Extended Validation on Firefox Prepares To Mark All HTTP Sites 'Not Secure' After HTTPS Adoption Rises (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 2

    As I wrote on another thread, I ran Let's Encrypt's scripts and they crashed. It's a joke built with shoddy code.

    Did you file a bug report? There's millions of people who had no problem running the scripts on wide variety of hardware and software.

    The more I have dealt with the cert industry, the more I hate it.

    So you should be on board with what Lets Encrypt is trying to do, which is removing the unnecessary garbage from the CAs for what is handled by a simple automated domain ownership check.

  15. This is completely retarded. Not every site needs https.

    That's for the users to determine so telling them which sites are secure and which are not makes perfect sense.

  16. Changing the billions of http: links on billions of web pages to billions of other web pages, that's what.

    Err do you know how the internet even works? This problem is very easily solved on the server side.

  17. Re:How to use a private CA with BYOD? on Firefox Prepares To Mark All HTTP Sites 'Not Secure' After HTTPS Adoption Rises (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    You don't manage user's BYOD? At my company if I chose to BYOD then I have to abide by the rules among which is a management program installed on my PC which enforces security measures AND installs the company's root certificate.

    If you don't do this for BYOD you have bigger security issues then SSL.

  18. Re:It is both on Coinbase Adds Support For Bitcoin Cash [Update: Disabled] · · Score: 1

    errr yeah don't talk and post at the same time: by definition, not by defacto. lol

  19. Re:It is both on Coinbase Adds Support For Bitcoin Cash [Update: Disabled] · · Score: 1

    If my dollars get converted to rubles to buy your caviar my dollars still worked to buy the caviar.

    If I don't do that currency conversion for you then by defacto you're not buying anything with your currency.

  20. Re:They broke literally their only requirement on Plexamp, Plex's Spin on the Classic Winamp Player, Is the First Project From New Incubator Plex Labs (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    No, I don't agree that people are happy using iTunes.

    Cover your eyes, plug your ears and shout la la la la la. That is a really good argument.

    Since Winamp is so much better and so easily available and was a market leader of the time, it should be king. But it isn't. Look you justify how you think people act all you want, but your comments aren't backed up at all by the reality that most people aren't using Winamp and are happily using what they want.

    By the way your no-true-scottsman fallacy was noted and ignored. But there's really no need to justify my point any further given the underlying Winamp market share.

    You don't need 32GB of RAM to run even the most bloated piece of shit. iTunes runs fine on the most garbage of hardware even when multitasking.

  21. Re:I'd rather have a slower iPhone on Geekbench Results Visualize Possible Link Between iPhone Slowdowns and Degraded Batteries (geekbench.com) · · Score: 1

    Nope I just know a lot about batteries. And age related degeneration does not stop a 2800mAh Lithium battery from providing at least 1-2A of current.

    I'm not denying the problem, just that age related increase in internal resistance isn't it.

  22. Re:I don't see how it stopped an outage on Tesla Big Battery Outsmarts Lumbering Coal Units After Loy Yang Trips (reneweconomy.com.au) · · Score: 1

    That doesn't invalidate anything I said. South Australia is a small market overall with only 1.5-2GW of demand. It doesn't take much for a state with large amount of wind power to swing the interconnector the other way. That doesn't change the fact that they are a net importer. The AEMO dashboard is down for an upgrade at the moment, but when it's back up look at the 2018 forecast. Specifically the bit where they expect rolling blackouts and a shortfall even with all importing at full capacity.

    The 7 day outlook is still up and basically shows the Haywood interconnector at full capacity importing:

    SA1 Net Interchange -790 -811 -682 -725 -820 -820 -790

    There were also recently plans to spend $700m on a new interconnector up to Queensland to make up for their energy shortfall.

    As for the coal being shutdown, well yes. Coal got too expensive to run, that doesn't make it any less of a contributor to the problem. The other contributor is what they replaced coal with. In general SA has not enough baseload capacity to handle a major turbine upset.

  23. Re:What an idiot on 'Productivity Is Dangerous' (theoutline.com) · · Score: 1

    Indeed, but the point he was making was not that it wasn't productive to read, he was criticizing the person writing as being unproductive.

    Doing your day job is far more productive to your life than not doing it.

  24. Re:They broke literally their only requirement on Plexamp, Plex's Spin on the Classic Winamp Player, Is the First Project From New Incubator Plex Labs (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    Playing music and running a browser and a word processor at the same time is a very common scenario.

    And one that can easily be achieved with iTunes and Chrome having 50+ tabs open on 2GB of RAM.

  25. Re:Do one really needs all these details ? on Google Maps's Moat: How Far Ahead of Apple Maps is Google Maps? (justinobeirne.com) · · Score: 1

    When I move from point A to point B, II don't care if there are antennas on the roofs of the buildings prospecting the road you travel through, or if there is a dentist in the middle of my journey.

    You're cherry picking. You may not want all the details, but having some details definitely helps. Such as if you're currently driving along side an inhabited area, a public park, a lake, or how big the buildings are when you're looking for your destination. That kind of thing can mean the difference between not knowing if you're looking for the 70th house on a street, or if there's just one big building with 70 apartments. That stuff is kind of critical when going from A to B.