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  1. It would probably involve the US withdrawing from the Korean peninsula, at least substantially. No more war games off the NK coast.

    It could be hard to resist calls for this to happen if SK decides that it's going to trust Kim. I think there is a good chance they will - there is a general feeling that Kim knows dictatorships don't last forever and is looking for a way to survive into old age without being tried for crimes against humanity.

  2. Another way of looking at it is that Kim built up his political capital bother at home and abroad with the nuclear weapons and missile programmes. The war of words with Trump and the fact that his threats ultimately proved hollow, combined with the election of a liberal, progressive president in South Korea gave Kim the opportunity to sue to peace.

    Now Kim is putting all the responsibility for this failing on America. He has made huge concessions, and all it needs is for the US to do the same. If Trump refuses then he looks like the one who scuppered the deal.

  3. Re: older generations already had a term for this on New Book Describes 'Bluffing' Programmers in Silicon Valley (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    I didn't say it's the correct way to go, just the way that most companies go. I get frustrated with premature product release too.

  4. It doesn't really matter how good Autopilot is, what matters is how long it takes the law to catch up and allow its use hands-free.

    I feel for people who already bought full self diving capability for their Teslas. Musk is saying 2020, let's be extremely optimistic and say he is right, then how many years after that before the law catches up? Keep in mind that the current rules in the UK for testing self driving cars is that you have to pretend to be driving so as not to "alarm" other road users.

  5. Re:older generations already had a term for this on New Book Describes 'Bluffing' Programmers in Silicon Valley (theguardian.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    Unfortunately, the careful and cautious way is a dying in favor of the throw 3rd party code at it until it does something.

    Of course. What is the business case for making it efficient? Those massive frameworks are cached by the browser and run on the client's system, so cost you nothing and save you time to market. Efficient costs money with no real benefit to the business.

    If we want to fix this, we need to make bloat have an associated cost somehow.

  6. Re:and GDPR is? on Will GDPR Kill WHOIS? (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 2

    GDPR doesn't affect things like company registration and ownership records. There is a clear legal, necessary requirement for them to exist and permission is required in order to set up a limited liability company.

    If ICANN tried to kick EU domains off then the EU would just fork DNS. The EU is much larger than the US (511 million to 325 million people) and any such move would hurt the US far more anyway, because the US would be the one with an incomplete set of DNS records.

    In practical terms the US would be forced to recognize domains registered in the EU, because otherwise people in the US could register the same domains and use them to spread malware. Of course a lot of services people rely on would break for US users too.

    ICANN will capitulate.

  7. Re:LOL on Will GDPR Kill WHOIS? (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    With 50k employees you must have someone who understands the GDPR who can explain why this isn't a real issue. In fact you should have been told by now anyway if it is at all relevant to your job.

  8. Re:LOL on Will GDPR Kill WHOIS? (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Explain it to me then. Give me an example of an unsolvable problem.

  9. Re:challenge w/edu is "essentially social construc on Bill Gates: U.S. Education Harder to Improve Than Infant Mortality Rates (xconomy.com) · · Score: 1

    At the top end you are right. But defining success in basic education is easy: can they so simple maths, communicate simple ideas effectively, understand simple concepts.

    There are global standards and yearly reports on this stuff.

  10. That blog post is a fascinating insight. Note how women tend to rate men unevenly, but that doesn't seem to affect the rate at which they message them.

    I also wonder how much of it is just down to bad photos.

  11. Re:LOL on Will GDPR Kill WHOIS? (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 0

    To be fair, taxes would be a lot easier if they just replaced them with an honesty jar. I mean, you don't get to be CFO of a major multi-national corporation without demonstrating impeccable honesty, right?

  12. Re:and GDPR is? on Will GDPR Kill WHOIS? (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 2

    It was finalized two years ago.

  13. Re:LOL on Will GDPR Kill WHOIS? (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    That said, GDPR is complete nonsense, nobody will be fully compliant, and EU will not be able to punish everyone who is not compliant and will either have to ignore its own rules or amend them very soon.

    The classic "respecting your privacy is too hard" argument. Sure, it will take some time for everyone to come into compliance, but that's only because things got so bad already.

  14. Re:and GDPR is? on Will GDPR Kill WHOIS? (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 5, Informative

    The General Data Protection Regulation is a new set of rules governing the use of personal data in the EU. Among other things, it doesn't allow personal data to be shared without good reason, and ICANN makes names, addresses and other contact details available in the WhoIs database.

    These rules have been on the horizon for years. It's not like they were suddenly announced yesterday. ICANN has had a long, long time to find a solution.

    In any case, the system has been broken for decades anyway, because a lot of domains are registered behind privacy shield services, where a company registers the domain on behalf of their customer without revealing that person's information.

  15. Those numbers only apply to tinder-style speed dating though. On such sites the ratio of men to women is 40:1 or worse, so naturally women can be more selective. It also ignores that women tend to value other traits as much or more than looks, traits that a photo can't convey.

    This flaw extends to all dating apps/sites. They are extremely superficial and it hurts many men's ability to find partners on them. We really need to find a better system.

  16. Damn, I should have read TFA.

  17. Re:This cuts two ways... on Russia Is Attacking US Forces With Electronic Weapons In Syria, General Says (yahoo.com) · · Score: 1

    I really doubt that the Russians are using their best tech here. They will just be testing how practical electronic warfare is for their soldiers to use. It has to be usable by low skill front line troops.

  18. This isn't really news though. I remember a guy sued one dating site for using employees posing as potential matches. He even went on first dates with a few.

    Then there was the Ashley Madison leak where it turned out that a significant proportion of their female members were bots.

  19. Thanks, I didn't see the AC.

    Seriously, thanks, I can now legitimately say I've been assumed to be everything from a communist to a liberal to an Islamist.

  20. Re:Performance? on Apple's Working on a Powerful, Wireless Headset for Both AR, VR (cnet.com) · · Score: 2

    Latency is the problem. A wireless system will have to compress the video, transmit it with extra error correction data, and decode it for display.

    It also adds more latency to the head tracking sensors.

    VR is extremely sensitive to latency. Not to mention power hungry.

  21. I think this has to be the strangest thing anyone has ever said about me here. No offense to angel'o'sphere, but it's just bizarre.

    Who ever heard of a feminist Islamist?

  22. Re: $10/month on PSA: Amazon Will Increase Price of Prime To $119 (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    The one way it does make sense is if you care more about your time than getting the best deal. Again, Amazon UK's selection isn't great, but at least for most stuff you could save yourself some time looking for a good deal and going through checkout systems etc. just by buying more from Amazon.

  23. Re: $10/month on PSA: Amazon Will Increase Price of Prime To $119 (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    I use the free 30 days now and then. They offer it to be regularly for some reason.

  24. "Ami" is short for Amiga. Back when I signed up that was my main machine.

    But really, considering how often I speak in support of gay rights, trans rights, women's right, and how often I deride religion and Islam in particular... An anagram was enough to give you the wrong idea?

  25. Re: $10/month on PSA: Amazon Will Increase Price of Prime To $119 (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    This is true, same day delivery used to be a thing in parts of the UK.

    You can get same day delivery in Tokyo now. On the other hand, Yamato Transport, the biggest delivery firm in Japan, just raised prices because they said the workload was too high for their staff and they needed to cut back.