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  1. Re:If it's a gift on New Parents Complain Amazon Baby-Registry Ads Are Deceptive (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    Not indicating paid advertisements as such is unacceptable.

    Apparently, they were indicated, but not very noticeably and the ads were placed in a spot the viewers weren't expecting to see paid advertisements, so they don't really get off the hook.

  2. Re:Apologies from NH on The FTC Says It Will Investigate Loot Boxes (kotaku.com) · · Score: 1

    Remember that the people also kicked her out too.

    And then turned right around and voted her into another equally presitgious office which she still holds.

  3. Re:Apologies from NH on The FTC Says It Will Investigate Loot Boxes (kotaku.com) · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    nope, not here, she's an embarrassment.

    "I don't like her and my friends don't like her, so nobody in the state likes her. Never mind that they voted her into office."

  4. Re:how in the hell that pass the constitution? on The Police in UK Want AI To Stop Violent Crime Before it Happens (newscientist.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    The Magna Carta was the first major step forward in limiting the power of the monarchy, which is why it's so celebrated, but it is no longer a functioning part of the UK's legal code, let alone a Bill of Rights. The bedrock principle of the UK legislative system is the "sovereignty of Parliament"--whatever Parliament sees fit to pass can become law. Branches of the government that have checks and balances are a US invention by the founding fathers who wanted to avoid what they saw as the abuses of the British model (they also wanted a system without political parties, which a parliamentary system requires but our Constitution does not, but that didn't work out so well.)

  5. if you get Microsoft products, you know what to expect.

    We have a massive service unavailability, but hey, we expected it!

  6. Re: You don't own your software on Microsoft's Multi-Factor Authentication Service Goes Down For Second Week in a Row (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Auto shops are just car repair done by someone else.

    Exactly. Which is why companies that own fleets of vehicles as part of their business tend to have in-house maintenance for those vehicles.

  7. Re: You don't own your software on Microsoft's Multi-Factor Authentication Service Goes Down For Second Week in a Row (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Why donÃ(TM)t they just do a pass through to the native multi factor authentication? There are a lot of tutorials on this.

    What native multi-factor authentication? MSA provides your one time code in their setup. No MSA, no one-time code, no two factor authentication. To continue on, you'd have to be distributing something else and be set up to use it as fall-back (or else be prepared to turn off 2FA entirely), in which case you have to ask why you're bothering with MSA at all.

  8. Getting a little tired of this on Microsoft's Multi-Factor Authentication Service Goes Down For Second Week in a Row (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    My workplace uses MSA for our VPN (which you have to be on for admin access to the servers). I'm starting to miss the RSA SecurID fobs we used to have.

  9. Re:Looks like they tried it on Microsoft's Multi-Factor Authentication Service Goes Down For Second Week in a Row (zdnet.com) · · Score: 2

    "In some cases, service restarts appear provide only temporary relief, so we're continuing to explore alternate remediation options."

    So, they're going to re-install it?

  10. Re:how in the hell that pass the constitution? on The Police in UK Want AI To Stop Violent Crime Before it Happens (newscientist.com) · · Score: 2

    Uh, it's the UK. They don't *have* a written constitution, nor a Bill of Rights.

  11. Re:Release her pop's tax returns first on Democrats Intend To Probe Ivanka Trump's Use of Personal Email In Next Congress (go.com) · · Score: 1

    Holding property or business interests in a foreign state do NOT qualify as emoluments.

    If the foreign interests pay him, yes, they do. Miriam-Webster gives one definition of "emolument" as a synonym for "advantage". This is an archaic definition, but we are debating text that was written in the 18th century.

  12. Re:Release her pop's tax returns first on Democrats Intend To Probe Ivanka Trump's Use of Personal Email In Next Congress (go.com) · · Score: 1

    Having foreign-based income doesn't count, by the way.

    Yes, it does.

    "Arguably, as the legal scholar Laurence Tribe and others have suggested, the clause would forbid even competitively fair transactions with foreign states, because the profit accruing to the officeholder would fall within the ordinary meaning of âoeemolument,â and because such arrangements would threaten exactly the kind of improper influence that the clause was intended to prevent."

  13. Was Facebook ever not a sleazy company?

  14. Re:$45K with 45 laptops? on Man Spoofs GPS To Fake Shop Visits For Profit, Gets Caught (nikkei.com) · · Score: 1

    And yet if you're using junk like that you could get a dozen or more VMs per physical machine with something a little more powerful. Huge waste of money even if they weren't $1K each.

    Given that he was spoofing GPS, it's possible he might have needed them to be in 45 different locations while he was pulling this off. Bit difficult to do that with VMs.

  15. Re:This is intels problem on Linux 4.20 is Running Slower Than 4.19 On Intel CPUs (phoronix.com) · · Score: 1

    MenuetOS.

    Uhhhh....

    Non-POSIX, apparently not compatible with anything else, almost no documentation I could find, no evidence of usable apps (if there is an office suite, web browser or email client for it there was no mention of them that I could find), development environment centered around assembly language...

    Pass.

  16. Re:Donate... but carefully! on Bill Godbout, Early S-100 Bus Pioneer, Perished In the Camp Wildfire (vcfed.org) · · Score: 1

    There has been shitty forest management and it is in part responsible for California's wildfire problem. However, Trump blaming the California state government is disingenuous at best. The biggest practicer of bad forest management in California is the federal government. They supervise most of the forests in California.

  17. Re:$45K with 45 laptops? on Man Spoofs GPS To Fake Shop Visits For Profit, Gets Caught (nikkei.com) · · Score: 1

    He better be using them cheap laptops for less than $1000 a piece.

    Well, that's not hard. A few minutes on Amazon and I could find laptops for a little over $100. Not very powerful laptops, granted, but he probably didn't need a lot of computing or graphics power to do this.

  18. Re:pffft on Some Birds Are Excellent Tool-Makers (abc.net.au) · · Score: 1

    Sure, crows are smart with tools, but they have shitty social skills.

    First time I read that, I thought you said cows.

  19. I'm an excellent tool-maker. on Some Birds Are Excellent Tool-Makers (abc.net.au) · · Score: 1

    Definitely an excellent tool-maker.

  20. Re:Third-party Facebook censorship on 86 Organizations Demand Zuckerberg To Improve Takedown Appeals (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    The demographic of older people who live overseas is more easily reachable for free on Facebook.

    Facebook is decidedly not free. It just doesn't cost money, and more insidiously, you never get any accounting of what it is costing you.

  21. Ah yes. The problem with rights is that all those awful people get them too. So we need to take them away so the awful people won't have them any more. That seems like a good start...

  22. Re:Third-party Facebook censorship on 86 Organizations Demand Zuckerberg To Improve Takedown Appeals (vice.com) · · Score: 2

    I only stick with Facebook to keep in touch with friends worldwide, and family who don't know better.

    This has always puzzled me. There's email, phones, texting, physical mail (which, granted, is much slower). There's loads of way to keep in touch with people in remote locations. Why does it have to be Facebook?

  23. HATE SPEECH is illegal.

    No, it's not. Incitements to violence are illegal, slander is illegal, and hate speech may be admitted as evidence that an associated crime is a hate crime, but "hate speech" itself is not a crime. 1st Amendment, y'know.

  24. Re: Makes me laugh on 86 Organizations Demand Zuckerberg To Improve Takedown Appeals (vice.com) · · Score: 1
  25. Re:This is intels problem on Linux 4.20 is Running Slower Than 4.19 On Intel CPUs (phoronix.com) · · Score: 1

    No, it's just that linux sucks.

    To an extent, I'm willing to grant that. So, what sucks less than Linux?