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  1. Re:People need to die on Scientists Are Working To Eliminate Senescent Cells (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Accidental death, suicide, and homicide kill 36,726 annually. In that age group, roughly 43M are alive. That 1:1171 or so chance of dying from those causes by my calculation.

  2. I'm confused by the article, because I'm pretty sure that it's been known for more than a decade that 90%+ of all supercentarians have elevated (above normal) HDL. That's not merely "healthy," that's a specific blood profile variant.

  3. Re:Share the backend code? on Ask Slashdot: How Can You Apply For A Job When Your Code Samples Suck? · · Score: 1

    It's not a matter of law, it's a matter of industry-strandard boilerplate contract terms. You might find some small company being stupid, but any of the large ones will have a work for hire clause which does not allow you ownership rights to your code. Period. And a good chunk of them will tell you to pound sand if you try to negotiate that.

  4. Re:Share the backend code? on Ask Slashdot: How Can You Apply For A Job When Your Code Samples Suck? · · Score: 1

    > If you are a contractor then they don't own your code.

    Jesus, what? Contractors don't own their own code, you're really badly misinformed.

  5. Re:Why even 3? on 'Anonymized' Credit Card Data Not So Anonymous, MIT Study Shows · · Score: 3, Insightful

    This article isn't scary. What should be scary is that cell companies cell anonymitized _geolocation_ data. That data can be used to deterimine: A) who you are, B) where you live, C) where you work, and D) who your friends are. Step #1. Look where the phone is, regularly at midnight. Step #2, cross reference with public records databases on property ownership. That get's 65% of Americans right there. Now check where it parks every day at noon. Place of work found. And so forth.

  6. Re:There's a reason people argue about vim and ema on Neovim: Rebuilding Vim For the 21st Century · · Score: 1

    A long while back, after getting into Python development, I learned to always use the expand tab option (which always puts in the correct number of spaces to reach the tab stop when you hit tab) and never looked back.

  7. Re:what if... on Ask Slashdot: Should Developers Fix Bugs They Cause On Their Own Time? · · Score: 2

    Yeah. This guy's boss is an ass hat. The analogy involves a contractor. If that contractor wall-builder has employees, no, they don't actually work for free. Meanwhile, in addition to the labor rates the contractor charges, they'll have overhead for business operation, risk, and profit margin. So if this guy's ass hat boss is expecting that, then he should expect to pay a lot more for the work. Idiot.

  8. Re:lizard-brain visual heroine on Ask Slashdot: What Online News Is Worth Paying For? · · Score: 1

    There's a fifth level for ads. They create a background awareness such that when the demand does materialize, and you are presented an array of choices to satisfy the demand, you pick the advertised thing, simply because it seems most familiar. This is, in fact, one of the more powerful impacts of advertising.

  9. Re:Online Propaganda on Ask Slashdot: What Online News Is Worth Paying For? · · Score: 2

    The Free Software movement is not about money.

  10. Re:someone got paid on Hard Drive Reliability Study Flawed? · · Score: 2

    I know Henry. He's an enterprise storage guy. My guess is that he was coming from the perspective of enterprise storage builders. Which is to say, the Backblaze data may be a fine review of the experience consumers are likely to have with hard drives, it's a terrible review of what enterprise storage platform makers would do and what their buyers would expect. Whether or not that's an appropriate response to Backblaze, who intentionally and haphazardly uses consumer drives in their systems, is its own question. But what is certainly true is that you won't experience these kinds of failures from Tier 1 storage manufacturers (e.g., IBM, NetApp, EMC, Hitatchi Data Systems, et al). So in that particularly biased way, the study is indeed "deeply flawed".

  11. Re:"Here's your gift from Amazon!" on Amazon: We Can Ship Items Before Customers Order · · Score: 2

    No, the law hasn't changed at all. But that's not what they're referring to here. Amazon ships the item to a local dispatch point, and holds the final leg of the shipment until the last possible minute. If that final order doesn't materialize, Amazon is being charged for the charge to the local distribution point (and back).

  12. Re:Well, for your second problem... on Ask Slashdot: What To Do With Misdirected Email? · · Score: 1

    Huh? "myfirstname.mylastname@myemailprovider.com" is my account on every computer in the world as far as I am concerned. If someone else fraudently registered it, they can take me to court and see how well the court receives their fraud. Not well, in any non-barbaric country, I am sure.

  13. Re:Missed the point on How Asimov's Three Laws Ran Out of Steam · · Score: 1

    Not to mention, in Asimov's world, robots were self-aware.

  14. Re:Cancer cured! on Killing Cancer By Retraining the Patient's Immune System · · Score: 3, Insightful

    You're letting your imagination get away from you. If you are an insurance company, and a patient presents to you with a potential in $500K+ in medical expenses, you'd want to unbook that risk as quickly and as affordably as possible.

  15. Re:Waiver of rights on Woman Fined For Bad Review Striking Back In Court · · Score: 1

    Whatever naked force the people bring to bear through their government, representative or badly so, overrules just about everything. This belief in "natural rights" is a fantasy, unfortunately. You have no more rights than your and your neighbors can enforce with locally applied military power, and have none at all to the degree you fail to do so. Believing in these "natural right" is about as fantastic as believing in unicorns. A pleasant fantasy, perhaps, but only that. "God is on my side" would have no more appeal than this fiction.

  16. Re:Waiver of rights on Woman Fined For Bad Review Striking Back In Court · · Score: 1

    > Again, the government didn't GRANT you the rights listed in the first amendment

    Irrelevant. The Constitution is a document which restrains the power of the Federal Government. Your "rights" as you otherwise call them out are not otherwise meaningful.

  17. Re:Comic Sans, on the other hand on Sex Offender Gets New Hearing After Hearing Officer Rants Against Arial Font · · Score: 1

    I have to say, you rather got him there.

  18. Re:Passwords are property of the employer on Withhold Passwords From Your Employer, Go To Jail? · · Score: 1

    > The part where you throw him in jail afterwards until he hand them over seems a little much.

    As a bit of an aside, if you get to the end of a legal proceeding in the united states, and a judge thence ORDERS you to a specific course of action, if you directly defy this judge and say that you will not comply, they have the legal right--and have been known to exercise their legal right--to throw you in jail indefinitely until you comply. While this may seem outrageous at first blush, I don't really think we can have any kind of effective society at all in a world where the law has no power.

  19. Re:A century ago, Progressives on Where Does America's Fear Come From? · · Score: 1

    The "technical details" that I was ignoring were not in your favor. Which is to say, and to wit: the Federal Reserve has not been "injecting money," they have been replacing a certain type of reserve holding with another. While it's true that this sort of holding carries a potential inflationary risk, two observations apply: 1) There affirmatively has been no noteworthy inflation, and 2) should the risk begin to realize itself, the Fed is not without instruments to reign said inflation in. It's a long conversation. As for saying that I should "look up how things actually work," you could stand to benefit considerably from this yourself.

  20. Re:A century ago, Progressives on Where Does America's Fear Come From? · · Score: 2

    > You should look up "Quantitative Easing" as well. The Federal Reserve has been injecting money into...

    That's not _exactly_ what has been happening. Forgetting the technical details on this for the moment, what's undeniably true is that there actually has not been any "demolishing of value" (inflation of any noteworthy significance at all) yet. If you believe that there will be, that's your prerogative, however I will note with some irony that this places you affirmatively into the bucket the OP is wondering about, and that is the climate of fear. Fear, this case, which is obviously yours.

  21. Re:History rewritten on Withhold Passwords From Your Employer, Go To Jail? · · Score: 1

    The closest thing you have to a structured reality check on this situation is a court of law. The judgment reflects the opinion of the jury, and typically the judge, on the truth of the matter. These people have been engaged to determine that using the best and most fair methods available. None of the press have been so engaged. Since this has now survived a court of appeals, we can safely say, to the degree it is possible to say, that Terry Childs is GUILTY.

  22. Re:Passwords are property of the employer on Withhold Passwords From Your Employer, Go To Jail? · · Score: 2

    Yeah. If an employee of mine "refused to hand over the password" to a system for which I had fiscal responsibility, I suspect he'd be terminated so fast not even security would let him empty out his cube.

  23. Re:Passwords are property of the employer on Withhold Passwords From Your Employer, Go To Jail? · · Score: 1

    Your root the devices, which takes a competent networking person (these devices were networking devices), albeit it's disruptive if the network isn't designed just right.

  24. Re:I'm not that surprised. on Microsoft Will Squeeze Datacenters On Price of Windows Server · · Score: 1

    If you need to run Windows Server VM's, and a lot of them, you actually have to buy the Windows Server Data Center edition, no matter your choice of hypervisors. So you may as well use Data Center edition and Hyper-V, is what Microsoft is saying.

  25. Re:At The Limit on Forget Flash: Resistive RAM Crams 1TB Onto Tiny Chip · · Score: 1

    6gbit = 6,000,000,000 / 4,000 = 1.5M 4K IOPS.

    Do you presently have a 1.5M IOPS SSD? I think you do not.

    Bandwidth isn't everything, friend.