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  1. Re:A legit use? on A Hacker Has Wiped a Spyware Company's Servers -- Again (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    He could get a job somewhere else for less pay and no one told him about it until after the police showed up to question him and three other co-workers.

    It a non-issue now the police are well aware that the company has filed a lawsuit against them and they will be on their best behavior when dealing with them.

  2. Re:A legit use? on A Hacker Has Wiped a Spyware Company's Servers -- Again (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    It's true that the police have the burden of proof but if I have indisputable evidence that will make them stop wasting my time then I'm not going to allow them to arrest him make me pay for a lawyer and take it to trial before I present it. I'm just going to say here security camera footage from the time of the robbery showing that he was home and not on the other side of town.

    Someone has something against a manager or the owner where he works and the place has been swatted a couple times and they have given anonymous tips that the workers were involved in various crimes.

  3. Re:A legit use? on A Hacker Has Wiped a Spyware Company's Servers -- Again (vice.com) · · Score: 1, Informative

    I told my kids I could track the gps on their phones to make sure they were where they said they would be. I had to ask the older kids to take a picture that proved where they where and send it but my oldest son was before smart phones so I actually I had to drive by and make sure he was there. My parents relied on the fact that we lived in a small town and I couldn't do anything without someone telling my mom before I got home.

    I have exterior security cameras because although it's a nice neighborhood we get break ins around the holidays when people are on vacation.

    My youngest son was questioned by the police recently about a robbery and I was able to prove on my security cameras he was home during the time.

  4. Re:Look at YouTube DCMA takedowns on EFF Urges US Copyright Office To Reject Proactive 'Piracy' Filters (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 1

    A few of them have had RIAA representatives showing up at their concerts to make sure they're not covering any copyright material, but it wasn't just random that was because of competing venues.

    I consult for a few indie bands when they are writing and some have asked if I would join when they were short a guitar. Music has somehow become a cutthroat business as apposed to an art and I no longer have any interest in performing.

  5. Re:Look at YouTube DCMA takedowns on EFF Urges US Copyright Office To Reject Proactive 'Piracy' Filters (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    I've seen indie bands get DMCA notices on their own original copyright materials. Whatever they are using for take down notices is already broken turning that into an auto filter would be a disaster.

  6. I've saw a single prop crash up close and was amazed to find that it was a metal frame with a cabin built from plywood and skinned with some kind of doped fabric. It had a basic frame made from what looked like rolled aluminum for the main supports and the rest of the body was metal rods. Overall it looked very flimsy but also very light.

    Weren't most of the planes of WWI and WWI skinned with some kind of doped cotton fabric.

           

  7. Re:Our corporations deserve Chinese labor! on Anti-China Bill Being Softened After US Companies Complain (reuters.com) · · Score: 2

    Working in the metal shop with my Dad taught me one very important thing. I wanted to work smarter not harder. My father was constantly finding new ways and even making new kinds of tools to do the job faster and easier. His best hope for me was that I wouldn't be part of the family business and he told me frequently.

    Which is why I got an education and and don't work in the family business. That business is closed now and all of my siblings went to college and do something else.

  8. Re:Our corporations deserve Chinese labor! on Anti-China Bill Being Softened After US Companies Complain (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    I starting working when I was 12 which is completely legal in the US if it's a family owned business.

    There is nothing wrong with learning responsibility and doing a little hard work when you are young so long as it doesn't interfere with education.

    My kids didn't work that young but you better believe I had chores for them to do.

  9. Re:I have some past in this strange SCADA world on Attackers Drain CPU Power From Water Utility Plant In Cryptojacking Attack (eweek.com) · · Score: 1

    One of my brothers manages the local water facility, he bitched and complained about a system with win xp which was already eol until they finally replaced it with of course windows 7 a little over a year ago. They now have a little less than two years before win 7 extended support ends.

  10. Re:You know, if people want to.... on FDA Declares Popular Alt-Medicine Kratom an Opioid (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    If you go to a doctor because you have scurvy he will prescribe vitamin c to get you better fast and recommend you change your diet so you don't have a problem with it again.

    if you go to a doctor and he just happens to find a vitamin deficiency that's not causing an illness he will recommend changing your diet because that promotes long term health and only prescribe a supplement if that fails

    If your doctor is having you follow up constantly prescribing medications that you would need to be on for the rest of your life instead of trying to find a way for you live without medication then you are very sick (maybe diabetes) or you need a second opinion.

  11. Those cabbies have scanners, radios, and a dispatcher I wouldn't be surprised if they know about some accidents before emergency services. One sees the accident and radios it in and they all know to re-route accordingly, same with traffic. It's not like they are alone and have no information they just know the streets and businesses and don't need to use GPS.

  12. Psychic powers are not required you may not know about accidents and traffic issues without your gps but cabbies have a dispatch and scanners that can give them that info.

    GPS works until it doesn't having something to fall back on isn't a bad idea.

       

  13. Re:I hope the city is ready for the legal bills on Seattle Finds Facebook in Violation of City Campaign Finance Law (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    It's one of the things that companies tend to forget when it comes to the internet laws aren't the same everywhere. As an advertising company that targets local ads they should be aware of the laws in places that they target. When it comes to Seattle and the disclosure of advertising in their local elections this isn't global or national content we are talking about it's advertising that is targeting the Seattle residents of voting age in a local matter. Other businesses whether local or multinational still manage to follow local laws in the places they do business the internet shouldn't be any different.

    This makes doing business over the internet more difficult but I still see products on sites where they don't ship to certain states like california.

  14. Re:intel I don't want them to read my mind! on A Look at Vaunt, Intel's Smart Glasses That Use Retinal Projection To Put a Display in Your Eyeball (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Don't you mean advertising agency?

  15. Re:I am in that boat now and can't be happier on Working From Home: What if You Never Saw Your Colleagues in Person Again? (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    We sometimes joke that people are wearing boxers and dress shirts.... since you can only see above thier desk in the video conference.

  16. Re:I am in that boat now and can't be happier on Working From Home: What if You Never Saw Your Colleagues in Person Again? (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    I've worked from home for almost 15 years. I live in a rural area of the mid-west where the cost of living is low and it saves me a boat load of time and money on the commute. I still have to keep my office professional and wear decent clothes because instead of people walking into my office I have skype popping up constantly and I still see people with video conferencing multiple times a day.

  17. Re:Battlestar Galactica, because . . . . on Slashdot Asks: What Are Some Sci-Fi Books, Movies, and TV Shows You're Looking Forward To? · · Score: 1

    I really enjoyed BSG 2004 even though I was a fan of the original but was very disappointed with Caprica.

  18. They have cameras in the US also... some are for traffic violations some are just to monitor road conditions. The ones for road conditions are available to the public to view. They ones that monitor for traffic violation are usually marked and there are signs that state the road is monitored some even have signs that tell you how fast you are going when you drive past them.

    Using AI to find a good place to hide to catch traffic violations... sounds like a speed trap.

  19. Re:Almost Heaven, West Virginia on Drug Firms Shipped 20.8 Million Pain Pills To West Virginia Town of 2,900 (foxnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Until they investigate the prescriptions and where the people come from there really isn't anything we can say other than having the only hospital in the area makes it the center of medical care.

  20. Re:Almost Heaven, West Virginia on Drug Firms Shipped 20.8 Million Pain Pills To West Virginia Town of 2,900 (foxnews.com) · · Score: 1

    It depend on the dose. Low dose hydrocodone 5/325 used for pain management after injury is 1 to 2 pills every 4-6 hours max of 8 a day and would be the most commonly prescribed.

  21. Re:Almost Heaven, West Virginia on Drug Firms Shipped 20.8 Million Pain Pills To West Virginia Town of 2,900 (foxnews.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm not local to West Virginia but I do live in a small town that has the only hospital in the county and even for some small towns in neighboring counties it's still the closest hospital. It makes our hospital busy all the time.

  22. Re:Almost Heaven, West Virginia on Drug Firms Shipped 20.8 Million Pain Pills To West Virginia Town of 2,900 (foxnews.com) · · Score: 5, Interesting

    They were shipped to two pharmacies in the small town but is also county seat and has the only hospital in the county. They are forgetting that this town with the only hospital serves other communities inside and outside that county of 26,000+ people.

  23. Re:You Spend Nearly a Whole Day Each Week Off the on You Spend Nearly a Whole Day Each Week On the Internet (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    I would expect a whole day each week off the internet would much closer to reality for most of the /. readers and that 50 or more hours is work related.

  24. Re:So what else is available on Ask Slashdot: What Is Your View On Forced Subscription-Only Software? · · Score: 1

    I have a sister and a brother in-law that are engineers they talk about Creo all the time but it's far from free.

  25. Re:This says little about AI on AI Beats Humans at Reading Comprehension (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    If the test were 100,000 questions they are lucky they could get anyone to complete it all. If they averaged 1 minute per question and did the test for 8 hours a day it would take about 208 days to complete, throw in some week ends and holidays your looking at about a year.