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  1. Re:ugh on Local Police Increasingly Rely On Secret Surveillance · · Score: 1

    Tribunal is the way.

  2. Re:Swift Programmers Wanted on Apple Announces New Programming Language Called Swift · · Score: 2

    The parallel scripting language described at swift-lang.org is NOT the swift language referred to by this article.

    So no, you cannot have 5 years experience in this.

  3. Swift Programmers Wanted on Apple Announces New Programming Language Called Swift · · Score: 4, Funny

    Must have 5 years experience.

  4. Whoa 1.3x on Apple Announces New Programming Language Called Swift · · Score: 4, Funny

    That's what about 1/10,000th of what hiring a good programmer would get you, at the price of not being to find any programmers.

  5. Re:Mortgages are public records on New Federal Database Will Track Americans' Credit Ratings, Other Financial Info · · Score: 1

    It really isn't that inconvenient to go to your local hall of records. Online or not it's still public information.

    Face it there is really nothing stopping a smart person from wreaking havoc.

  6. Direct application to IT skills outside IT is going to be tough.

    However if you have studied math in depth as part of your education you have a tool that with some additional schooling you can open a lot of doors.

  7. Re:It's more than mortgages. on New Federal Database Will Track Americans' Credit Ratings, Other Financial Info · · Score: 2

    The corps already have this and more. Why are you worried about government having it when corporations have vastly more power over your life anyway.

  8. Re:Mortgages are public records on New Federal Database Will Track Americans' Credit Ratings, Other Financial Info · · Score: 2

    Any real estate that has a mortgage will have a lien on the title. That lien will be recorded along with the title at a public records office so the owner cannot sell the property without clearing the lien.

    The details of what gets recorded in the lien are a matter of state law, but certainly there will be some description that the lien is in fact a mortgage.

  9. Re:Mortgages are public records on New Federal Database Will Track Americans' Credit Ratings, Other Financial Info · · Score: 2

    Lots of land doesn't have a mortgage on it. In fact my home doesn't have a mortgage. I think I saw a statistic that some 30% of US homes are free of mortgages.

    However that has nothing to do with a title history for a piece of land. That title is on file at a government office somewhere, assuring that the history of ownership is recorded, and there is a record of the taxes on the land. If the taxes don't get paid the government will take title and generally sell it to recover taxes owed.

  10. Re:Now the real question is on Huawei Successfully Tests New 802.11ax WiFi Standard At 10.53Gbps · · Score: 1

    You should put up a YouTube how-to on that.

  11. Cap on Huawei Successfully Tests New 802.11ax WiFi Standard At 10.53Gbps · · Score: 4, Insightful

    So I'll be able to hit my monthly Comcast cap in 60 secs?

    SUPER!!

  12. I have an application for one... on 4K Displays Ready For Prime Time · · Score: 1

    I want a 4K 40" OLED display for photo work. This would be something that would come a lot closer to the capability of the sensor in my camera than anything than I can buy now.

    In addition the high resolution would be great for displaying large amounts of text, that is for programming.

    28" with crappy color gamat and a ridiculous dot pitch isn't close to what I want.

  13. Re:Bollocks on The Energy Saved By Ditching DVDs Could Power 200,000 Homes · · Score: 1

    Since I use the same equipment for streaming as I do playing a DVD, the ONLY difference in my household is that of the DVD player motor and optical pickup vs what it costs to run the stream across from my wifi router to the receiver. For argument's sake I'd say that difference is negligible.

    In terms of delivery of the DVD, that's a matter of how much it cost in energy to make the DVD, package it and deliver it via UPS from Amazon, amortized over the number of times I play the DVD. I don't think that is really any more than the energy cost of the streaming infrastructure - servers, bandwidth etc. which is in total pretty large, some 30% of the entire internet is consumed by streaming I hear.

    Really I think this story is a complete crock.

  14. Re:Not sure on some of these assumptions... on The Energy Saved By Ditching DVDs Could Power 200,000 Homes · · Score: 2

    Yes, the assumptions are complete BULLSHIT.

    My DVD's arrive by mail or UPS, and NONE of my commercially pressed optical media has failed in service going back to the free CDs that came with my Sony CD player that I purchased 31 years ago.

    This is complete malarkey.

  15. Re:Talk about shaming language on Misogyny, Entitlement, and Nerds · · Score: 1

    There is no reasonable evidence that 1 in 6 six women are raped over their lifetime, even correcting for expected non-reporting rates. Furthermore the actual rates of rape are known to be declining.

    http://www.saveservices.org/20...

    Any article that cites a rape rate like this is obviously being written of-the cuff with no research behind it. As a polemic rather than an argument it should be discarded as the waste of bandwidth it is.

  16. Re:children?? how about the elderly? on Kids With Wheels: Should the Unlicensed Be Allowed To 'Drive' Autonomous Cars? · · Score: 1

    I agree with this completely. I know the impact of not being able to drive on the elderly from how it affected my parents. Now that I've turned 60 I can see how it is likely to affect my wife and myself in ten years or so. I am certainly hoping that easier to drive and ultimately autonomous vehicles are going to lead to improved quality of life in the future.

  17. Miniature ICS on the Internet on Report: Apple To Unveil "Smart Home" System · · Score: 2

    What could possibly go wrong. Like there are no issues whatsoever with the large scale systems.

  18. Wrong for several reasons on Author Charles Stross: Is Amazon a Malignant Monopoly, Or Just Plain Evil? · · Score: 1

    Amazon is not close to being a monopoly; they sell about 30% of all books.

    Another issue is that of course Amazon wants to keep authors writing new books. Without a good flow of new titles Amazon won't sell as much and their business will decline.

    What Amazon does want is a larger share of the profits in the book market. A good part of this is Kindle of course. Getting customers hooked on Kindle vs physical books is a big deal.

  19. Re:motors on Has the Ethanol Threat Manifested In the US? · · Score: 1

    Yeah, a couple of years ago I just gave up and dumped all my small engine appliances:

    Rototiller
    Weed wacker
    Hedge Trimmer
    Chainsaw
    Edger
    etc

    They were all getting impossible to deal with. With lithium batteries I found I could replace them all even the rototiller with battery or corded stuff. Much lower maintenance and the power is enough.

    I still have a tractor though. Tough to get 20+ HP from a 110 outlet. I mostly mow and blow snow with the tractor.

  20. Re:Yes! on FCC Gets Go-Ahead For Plan To Expand Rural Internet Access · · Score: 4, Informative

    Oh horseshit. Do your research. 97 percent of farms in the US are family owned and operated. 2.2 million of them. Average farm family income is about 70K

    http://www.fb.org/index.php?fu...

  21. UP TO 1 Gigibit.

  22. Two Monitors on Is LG's New Ultra Widescreen Display Better Than "Normal" 4K? · · Score: 1

    I use two monitors, however one of them is a Dell U3014 which is a 2560 x 1600 IPS display. The other is a bog cheap generic 27" 16x9.

    I used to have two 27" 16x9 side by side. The problem with that arrangement is the 1080 vertical resolution wasn't satisfactory for programming.

    Now this with a 1440 is definite improvement. Still though I think I'm sticking with the 2560 x 1600 - it's even deeper. IPS is also pretty sweet when doing graphics work.

  23. Re:Supporters of the plan accuse... on Who Helped Kill Patent Troll Reform In the Senate · · Score: 2

    Not.

    For the right price universities sometimes grant exclusive licenses.

  24. Re:Distraction on NSA Surveillance Reform Bill Passes House 303 Votes To 121 · · Score: 1

    The quantity of winnage for the general citizenry is however infinitesimal.

  25. Servers on Google Fiber: No Charge For Peering, No Fast Lanes · · Score: 1

    So do they still ban residential users from running servers?