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  1. Re:Robot this, Drone that.. Seriously.. on Self-Driving Delivery Robots To Hit Sidewalks of London In 2016 (thestack.com) · · Score: 1

    Dont worry grandpa, these robots will stay off your lawn.

  2. Re: Using your advertised space != Abuse on Microsoft Cuts OneDrive Storage Limits, Citing Abuse (onedrive.com) · · Score: 1

    Office 365 subscription is yearly. The next time you renew your subscription you will clearly told of this change. Are they not allowed to stop offering plans? I think microsoft is being more than fair here.

    And no they have not taken out the competition. No one really uses Office 365 subscriptions. They have a tiny portion of the backup market. Backblaze and people are much much bigger. This is not them being anticompetitive.

  3. Re:What about a Faraday cage on FCC Fines Another Large Firm For Blocking WiFi · · Score: 1

    Not by the FCC. You can still be held accountable for, intentionally preventing 911 calls from inside, if something undue were to happen (assuming this is a public venue).

  4. No, you dont understand encryption. If nazis used one time pads, and ended every message with "Hail Hitler", you would still be 0% closer to solving the code. It does not simplify the code breaking. Each and every letter is independent of each other. The encryption key is random.

    You dont get a small subset at all. You can literally get anything you want out the code. You want the hamlet, sure you can get it.

  5. Everything else goes, right?

  6. Re: He's an Idiot. on GE CTO On Moving 9,000 Apps To the Public Cloud · · Score: 1

    So, who cares? You have always used other people's racks (or DC space). You have always used other people's cable/fiber. As long as they provide SLA guarantees, who cares. So far they have been better at running their server than most company's local IT has.

    You can stop relying on other people's servers when you have stopped relying on other people's cables, DC space.

  7. Re:How much did it cost? on How GoDaddy's Quest For Respect Led To an Improbable Partnership With MIT (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1

    On a slow news day, it is free.

  8. Re:In other news.... on $70k Salaries Didn't 'Backfire'; Gravity Payments' Profits Have Doubled (inc.com) · · Score: 1

    Cheap janitorial staff are in high demand. Overall, there is much less demand than a software professional. Untrained workers can be easily trained as janitorial staff. It is the bad pay and contractor (not full time) status, that deters people.

  9. This is not a DMCA request. This is sony requesting youtube to takedown content. Youtube plays nice with copyright holders, especially the big labels, and takes down on request. No one is swearing under oath for this to be considered perjury (in DMCA you are).

  10. Re:You know how much you will pay before you on Getting Over Getting Over Uber: Tim O'Reilly Does the Math · · Score: 1

    It already is the case, if you havent noticed. Surge pricing kicks in at a time when taxis are impossible to find. I was leaving a conference, without uber (which was surge pricing), I would have had to take 2 buses to reach the airport, or walked which would have actually been faster than taking the bus. There were no taxis around, they were all taken by the ones that stepped out early.

  11. Re:Your mortgage got you stressed? on Dell To Buy EMC For $67 Billion (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Pretty much all of list is airlines that were acquired. EMC would soon be a defunct tech software company.

    Look at the bankruptcies in last 20 years and point me to one airline that failed. Every single airline that is on air right now has gone through bankruptcy.

    Also this was not standard operating procedure in the 50s or 60s.

  12. Re:Coronation my ass - Hillary!'s public execution on Electoral System That Lessig Hopes To Reform Is Keeping Him Out of the Debate (usatoday.com) · · Score: 2

    Second, mishandling classified material is a FELONY

    Stop using bold and CAPS. It is annoying. I am all for a witchhunt and I do think Hillary is a witch, but she did not mishandle classified material. The emails were classified after the fact. When she received it, it was ordinary correspondence.

  13. Re:Easily? on Cloud DDoS Mitigation Services Can Be Easily Bypassed (softpedia.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I think all this paper really says is that CloudFlare have a lot of small non-paying customers who aren't really playing in the big leagues and aren't being attacked by sophisticated attackers ... or possibly aren't being attacked at all .... and as a result are more likely to have made simple errors.

    Or they are using it as a free caching CDN like me, and dont care about IP being exposed.

  14. Re:would you buy a pet from China on Chinese Company To Sell Genetically Modified Micro Pigs as Pets (abc.net.au) · · Score: 1

    Or, you know, Ebola. /s

  15. Re:If the black cabs have a legal monopoly... on London Mayor Boris Johnson Condemns Random Uber Pick-Ups · · Score: 1

    Well, you better tell that to the minicabs that as ubiquitous as blackcabs in london, and are breaking the legally granted monopoly to blackcabs.

  16. Re:If the black cabs have a legal monopoly... on London Mayor Boris Johnson Condemns Random Uber Pick-Ups · · Score: 1

    Depends on how the law is written. You can legal circumvent most laws based on the fine print. Legally circumventing a legal monopoly, is legal and possible. Illegally circumventing a legal monopoly is also possible and is much easier. They should just call it illegal (if they believe it is), instead of weaseling with word like "effectively circumventing a legal monopoly"

  17. Re:If the black cabs have a legal monopoly... on London Mayor Boris Johnson Condemns Random Uber Pick-Ups · · Score: 1

    ...then what uber drivers are doing, by not being licensed black-cab operators, is against the law.

    It is not. London has two types of taxis, black cabs (the only ones you can hail of the street), and minicabs (the ones you call a number, the dispatcher sends a cab to you). The former is more regulated, requires passing "the knowledge" test. Dont get me wrong, the blackcabs I have taken have always been excellent, but they are bit of a premium service. The later, doesnt have to pass tests, but are good enough and are as ubiquitous as blackcabs.

    Now, uber is a minicab service, instead of using the phone system, uses internet and an app. Notice the word "effectively" in the summary, they just dont like how this system is better than the phone system. Effectively and legally, circumventing a legal monopoly is not illegal. They are framing the sentence in a way that makes it sound illegal.

  18. Re:Before anyone bangs on about bedallions and so on 'Legacy' London Car Hire Companies Lawyer Up Against Uber · · Score: 1

    That is the complain from the black cabs, no one else in any news article (before today) has claimed this. I prefer to take this with a pinch of salt, no thanks.

  19. Re:Before anyone bangs on about bedallions and so on 'Legacy' London Car Hire Companies Lawyer Up Against Uber · · Score: 1

    Before anyone starts with the whole "medallion" thing, that's not a thing in London. If you want to publicly tout for business (i.e a black caps), you have to do "the knowledge" which is a very extensive and tough test for knowing your way around without a stanav. And no: having a sat nav is not remotely equivalent to actually knowing your way around

    I was going to make a before someone brings up the black cab's "The Knowledge" thing, but you bet me to it. London has always allowed these things called minicabs. You call a number, a minicab arrives and picks you up. These cab are completely different from Black Cabs, which are the only ones that can be hailed on the road. The minicabs drivers have not passed "the knowledge" and do pretty well. They are ubiquitous in london, as much as the black cabs.

    Uber is a minicab that uses an app instead of a phone and is completely legal in london.

  20. Re:Government sets absurd limits then companies ch on EU Probes TVs Over Energy Test Scores · · Score: 1

    Americans dont read those. We are not conscious about energy usage or fuel usage. Everyone else does.

  21. Re:I sure hope one of the other ten candidates on How Steve Jobs Outsmarted Carly Fiorina · · Score: 1

    I hate to say this, but I like Trumps foreign policy and more important for me, his H1B policy is spot on. This may be the first time, I might consider voting for a republican candidate. I hope sanders comes up with something better.

  22. Re:Government sets absurd limits then companies ch on EU Probes TVs Over Energy Test Scores · · Score: 1

    Not limits, it is rating. You will simply be rated lower for consuming more energy. You have no reason to cheat... Film at 11.

  23. Re:News at 11 on EU Probes TVs Over Energy Test Scores · · Score: 1

    That is not the news here. The news here is Samsung is faking its test scores. You can pretty summaries any news article as "When there are money, power or sex involved people are willing to lie and cheat." Or if you were summarizing to a 5 year old, just "people bad".

  24. Re:How test mode was triggered on How Did Volkswagen Cheat Emissions Tests, and Who Authorized It? · · Score: 2

    It is a MotorTrends article rehosted by MSN if that makes you feel any better. MSN rehosts a lot of news articles, and they pay the source per view.

  25. Re:Square? on IT Departments Try To Avoid Getting "Ubered" · · Score: 1

    Square, Inc was not around in the 80s/90s (started in 2009) and is doing quite well.