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  1. Re:As usual on France Bans Smartphones in School (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    Dear Mr. Trump, before you criticize, maybe you should compare the education of a US HS graduate to their foreign counterparts.

  2. Re:Good... on France Bans Smartphones in School (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    FTFY: If you can't detach for a few hours, you're a good loyal source of ad revenue and personal information.

  3. Re:Think of the children! on France Bans Smartphones in School (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Are they really thinking of the children? How will kids call their parents when a shooter with automatic weapons bursts into the school? For something that happens maybe several times per year, this seems rather short sighted.

    Oh, wait. It's France.

  4. Policework on Police Are Seeking More Digital Evidence From Tech Companies (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    How did police work ever get done before the digital age?


    Police work is easy in a police state.

  5. Consider the TRAINING DATA on Amazon's Facial Recognition Wrongly Identifies 28 Lawmakers, ACLU Says (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    If you train a system on mugshots, what are you training it to recognize? Criminal types? Maybe it really did properly identify criminal types. Eg, politicians.

  6. Petition to keep the feature to submit public urls on Google To Stop Supporting Public URL Submissions To Its Search Index (searchengineland.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Dear Google, you could continue to offer the public URL submission page. Just because it is there doesn't mean it has to work or actually do anything. It just needs to appear as if it accepted the submission. Statistical analysis could identify patterns that identify spammers.

  7. Re: Work of fiction about sovereign immunity on Native American Tribe Can't Be a 'Sovereign' Shield During Patent Review, Says Court (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 0

    > Witness the American mindset.

    Did you misspell Whiteness?

  8. Re:What needs support instead on Mozilla to Remove Support for Built-In Feed Reader From Firefox (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    Maybe you should not be expecting that kind of support from a web browser.

  9. Re:Just hire their own swat team on MPAA Seeks Stronger Actions To Fight Streaming Video Piracy (streamingmedia.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Why should the MPAA do this when they can get one of their wholly owned subsidiaries (eg, the US Government) to do it for them?

  10. Re:Are you human? on Google is Building 'Virtual Agents' To Handle Call Centers' Grunt Work (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    If the AI call center calls you, then would that still qualify as a "robo call"?

    Despite the significant technological difference?

    Can't wait for spammers to start using this technology.

  11. Frnds Don't Let Frnds Txt N Drv on Uber Self-Driving Cars Back On Public Roads, But In Manual Mode (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    Friends don't let friends text and drive.

    A good friend will hold the wheel so the driver can focus on what is important -- their phone. But your honor, I wasn't texting and driving, I was playing with my tweeter.

    I suppose the same holds true for UBER Mission Specialists. Mission Specialists don't let mission specialists watch movies and drive. A good mission specialist, especially employed by UBER, would hold the wheel for the driver so they can also eat their popcorn while watching the movie on their phone.

  12. Re:Another amazon leak on Robocall Firm Exposes Hundreds of Thousands of US Voters' Records (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    I think all 3 "best" practices I mentioned are actually bad ideas.

  13. Re:Windows Server 2019 Features on Windows 10 and Windows Server 2019 To Support True UTC-Compliant Leap Second (thurrott.com) · · Score: 1

    If other network users on the LAN can see my workstation as all emoji characters, then what else needs to actually work?

    It doesn't HAVE to work. There are millions of people who run Windows every day and aren't aware enough to be ashamed or embarrassed.

  14. Re:Another amazon leak on Robocall Firm Exposes Hundreds of Thousands of US Voters' Records (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    > Amazon should be making it a lot harder to accidentally leak this stuff.

    Yeah, and:
    * IoT devices should make their hardcoded backdoor passwords harder to find
    * They should run telnet on a non-standard port for extreme security
    * They should make their root passwords more than six characters

  15. Re:Voting records are public on Robocall Firm Exposes Hundreds of Thousands of US Voters' Records (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    At least they should have to go to the tribble to ask.

  16. Windows Server 2019 Features on Windows 10 and Windows Server 2019 To Support True UTC-Compliant Leap Second (thurrott.com) · · Score: 2

    The only feature I need in Windows Server 2019 is to be able to set my hostname to all emoji characters. Thank you.

  17. Wait . . . So Android is Free? on Google Warns Android Might Not Remain Free Because of EU Decision (theverge.com) · · Score: 5, Interesting

    So is Google suggesting that Android is "Free" or "free"?

    I think it is neither one. Google moved all the good stuff into the Google play services and out of plain jane open source Android.

    Plus the arm twisting agreements where an OEM cannot make a Google Services Android phone and also make an open source or alternate firmware Android phone. Geee, that reminds me of Microsoft not allowing OEMs to sell their PCs with any other OS on them in the 1980's even if there was market demand at that time.

  18. Just like some courts say that video evidence is less credible than the officer's report and sworn testiphony.

  19. Re:Here's a thought: on The US is Facing a Serious Shortage of Airline Pilots (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Not for those big enough to have their own server rooms and connectivity.

    As an extreme example, if you're a Facebook or Twitter you might not be using Azure / Google / Amazon hosting.

  20. I'm not sure either. But if I read it correctfully, then it would be copyright infringement for your news site to display Tom Brady's photo, even if your page linked or displayed the photo from a different website which hosts it.

  21. Re:As usual, they are decades late on Microsoft Is Making the Windows Command Line a Lot Better (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Wait. So you mean, when I get around to upgrading to XP that there won't be EDLIN?

  22. > Anyone using emojis on the command line should be summarily shot in the head and their corpse fed to dogs.

    I have a worse punishment. I think anyone using emojis on Windows Console should be forced to use the Windows OS.

  23. Re:Here's a thought: on The US is Facing a Serious Shortage of Airline Pilots (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    It's like being packed in a can of sardines. There is not one cubic centimeter of space not filled with something. In order to move anything, you must first move something else out of its way -- recurse.

  24. Re:Here's a thought: on The US is Facing a Serious Shortage of Airline Pilots (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    > DevOps get a new box
    [Citation Needed]

    > performance is increased
    [Citation Needed]

    They might just keep the burned out box. If management, after six months of meetings, decides to get a new box, it is not a four gone conclusion that it will be a better box than you had before.

  25. Re:Here's a thought: on The US is Facing a Serious Shortage of Airline Pilots (cnn.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    If the power supply in a production server catches fire, best practice is to schedule a meeting to determine whether DevOps should fix it, or whether the software team can issue a software patch to correct the issue.