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  1. Chip and PIN is standard in UK and Ireland and has been for a few years now.

  2. Re:Everyone mocked Sarah Palin's "Death Panels" on Doctors To Breathalyse Smokers Before Allowing Them NHS Surgery (bbc.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    We already have death panels in US healthcare.

    They are called medical insurance claims processors, or adjusters.

  3. RFCs from 1973 on Judge Dismisses 'Inventor of Email' Lawsuit Against Techdirt (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    https://tools.ietf.org/html/rf...

    Network Working Group J. White
    Request for Comments: 524 SRI-ARC
    NIC: 17140 13 June 1973

      A Proposed Mail Protocol
    AUTHOR'S INTENT
      This is the document I offered in (15146,) to write. It's a proposed
      specification for handling mail in the Network -- a Mail Protocol....

    https://tools.ietf.org/html/rf...

      RFC # 561 Abhay Bhushan (AKB) MIT-DMCG
      NIC # 18516 Ken Pogran (KP) MIT-MULTICS
      Ray Tomlinson (RST) BBN-TENEX
      Jim White (JEW) SRI-ARC
      5 September 73
      Standardizing Network Mail Headers
      One of the deficiences of the current FTP mail protocol is that
      it makes no provision for the explicit specification of such
      header information as author, title, and date. Many systems
      send that information, but each in a different format. One
      fairly serious result of this lack of standardization is that
      it's next to impossible for a system or user program to
      intelligently process incoming mail.

  4. Trump businesses on US Increases Number of H-2B Visas By 15,000 (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    So this would let in the sort of people that work at hotels, casinos and resorts.

  5. "Free shipping!!!"

  6. Dinner Dinner Dinner Dinner on Bat-Signal Shines In LA In Honour of Batman Star Adam West (bbc.com) · · Score: 3, Funny

    Batman!!!

  7. Representative sample? on DNA From Ancient Egyptian Mummies Reveals Their Ancestry (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 2

    I suspect that those Egyptians who were mummified and placed in pyramids or other expensive tombs would come from a very narrow sliver of Egyptian society.

  8. Is secure hotel wifi possible? on Any Half-Decent Hacker Could Break Into Mar-a-Lago (alternet.org) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Most hotels in the US now seem to provide wifi. In my experience it is secured by either an easily available password or a login page. Many guests expect easy to use wifi.

    In such circumstances is it possible to have secure wifi?

  9. Re:Well-Kept Gardens Die By Pacifism on Google's Featured Snippets Are Damaging To Small Businesses that Depend On Search Traffic (theoutline.com) · · Score: 4, Informative
  10. Accenture is a big SAP implementer, and other rival software (Microsoft, salesforce.com).

  11. Orders on A Rogue Robot Is Blamed For a Human Colleague's Gruesome Death (qz.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    The robot was just following orders.

  12. Re:ATM could sell you an adjustable rate mortgage on 'Robots Won't Just Take Our Jobs -- They'll Make the Rich Even Richer' (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Adjustable rate mortgages are usually cheaper than fixed rate mortgages.

  13. Clickbait nonsense on How Tech Ate the Media and Our Minds (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    "As a result, the human attention span has fallen from 12 seconds to eight seconds since 2000, while the goldfish attention span is nine seconds."

    I'll bet that the evidence for this is rock solid.

  14. Not available for streaming at the moment on Amazon's Best Picture Oscar Nod Makes History For Streaming Media (fortune.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    This movie is currently only available to see in movie theaters and in fact would not be eligible for the Oscars if it was just a streaming movie.

  15. MOZ colon slash slash AH on Mozilla's New Logo Reminds Us that It Is, In Fact, a Web Firm (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    MOZ colon slash slash AH

  16. I for one welcome our new robot overlords

  17. For a fee on More Gig Economy Workers Can Now Get Paid On Demand (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    "option of getting paid just as quickly, "
    "will introduce the feature to all customers for a fee"

    Translation: option of getting paid less

  18. "offering unlimited free voice calls forever to anyone who signs up for its services"

    A promise that cannot be kept.

  19. I am not in any way a Trump supporter but is it not more likely that he was making a joke trying to tie the DNC email issue with the Clinton personal email server issue?

  20. Pay more money to avoid having to pay more money. on Verizon To Hike Prices On Plans But Offer More Data (cnet.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    "Safety mode" eliminates the prospect of an overage fee, and reduces the speed of the service until the end of the month....Customers with smaller plans can pay $5 extra to access "safety mode."

    "a new way to avoid overage fees" by paying a fee

  21. Nebula/Hugo on 2015 Nebula Award Winners Announced (sfwa.org) · · Score: 1

    It would seem there is no Nebula equivalent of the Hugo's "Sad Puppies" campaign.

  22. Compilers and "High level" languages on Jason Bradbury Believes Coding Lessons In Schools Are a Waste of Time (trustedreviews.com) · · Score: 5, Funny

    "My kids won't need to code because soon computers will just code for them"

    Computers already do this. You used to have to code by manually entering the 1s and 0s but now there are things called compilers which actually do the coding for you. All you have to do is write some simple instructions saying what you want the computer to do and the compiler does the coding for you.

  23. Dating website for geeks on Amazon Employees Launch Matchmaking Startup For Coworkers (geekwire.com) · · Score: 1

    Maybe someone should start slashdate.org

  24. Re:American people should have a voice on Obama Nominates Merrick Garland For Supreme Court (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    "Shouldn't the American people get to decide and have a voice on important matters?"

    Yes they should.

    And they did.

    In 2012 they re-elected Barack Obama to a second four year term as President.

  25. magnetic links ? on New P2P Torrent Site 'Play' Has No Single Point of Failure (thestack.com) · · Score: 1

    "The site serves magnetic links sourced from RARBG"

    What does that mean?