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  1. At the end of the day you do need to know what other sovereign nations are doing.

    Fixing the overreach etc etc etc pretty much needs amendments to do so. You have to turn violations into must prosecute by a special prosecutor that can not be pardoned. Not realy any different than local police, the DA is far too close to them to oversee them. You have to clearly say no to parallel construction and pretty much anything other than operation secrecy for police.

  2. MI is not supposed to operate on US soil against it's citizens etc thats a police matter not a national intelligence matter.

  3. Re:Pop some corn, this will be fun to watch on All-Female Ridesharing To Debut In Boston (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    Yes that is how the free market works, but if your going to allow one you have to allow the other. The all men golf clubs etc etc etc it's a binary. Modern femisim has turned into equal + sore more "rights".

  4. Intelligence is a military function always has been.

  5. Re:We should ban this armor on New Metal Foam Armor Obliterates Bullets To Dust On Impact (discovery.com) · · Score: 1

    Since they seem to think arms only refers to firearms there is no protection for legally being able to do so in many states.

  6. Greatest app ever on Chat App Kik Beats Facebook To Launching a Bot Store (thenextweb.com) · · Score: 1

    One that lets Kik be connected to from a standards compliant chat application? The whole here is our closed ecosystem is so 80's.

  7. Re:Not clear on the technology on Alphabet's Nest To Deliberately Brick Revolv Hubs · · Score: 1

    You can cram an awful lot of processing power into something pretty cheaply. The reason they are cloudifying stuff is for rent seeking plain and simple. You can do everything but speech recognition on a rpi.

    I have a garage door controler, I can use it locally via an API to get it into my HA controler or I can pay something a month to use there phone app. Same thing for my alarm panel. I've got a lot of devices in my HA and yet only openhab needs to talk to the internet (phone integration mostly).

  8. Re:This is why / I like DIY on Alphabet's Nest To Deliberately Brick Revolv Hubs · · Score: 1

    Off the shelf is fine just insure that it works with no internet access at all. My Vera does just fine the rest no so much.

  9. Re:Let's review... on Tech Firms Have An Obsession With 'Female' Digital Servants (zdnet.com) · · Score: 2

    The ones that were unwilling to embrace change got left behind regardless of gender. This is a good thing. SJW think everybody should get promoted just to be "fair". Life is not nor should it be that sort of fair.

  10. Re:Shitty standard on Amazon.com Now Bans USB Type-C Cables That Aren't Up To Spec (google.com) · · Score: 1

    You're entirely missing the devices classes that are part of the USB spec. I'm saying it's failure to enforce those standards is a reason it's a crappy interface.

    It's an extendable interface not like everything needed to be defined day one merely enforcing that companies wanting to use it's standard went through the trouble to define one and use it. Extending standard interfaces is also easy compatible with camera class 1 class 1.1 class 2.4 etc. Adding new features is also pretty easy.

    The resister bits got added later one because of a failure to standardize what's turned into a universal way to deliver low voltage power. That failure is a lot of what's leading to the original article issues with defective cables.

  11. Re:You can't legislate prosperity on California's $15-an-Hour Minimum Wage May Spur Automation (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    But the SJW's said it it must be true.

  12. Re:Restaurants on California's $15-an-Hour Minimum Wage May Spur Automation (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    The median reported is $15 an hour so thats pretty much CC tips + a little to make it look ok. Plenty of unreported cash.

  13. Re:yeah! cooties! on California's $15-an-Hour Minimum Wage May Spur Automation (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Go with the Japanese style order kiosk is outside or a phone app.

  14. Re:Sounds good. on California's $15-an-Hour Minimum Wage May Spur Automation (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Simple they do not know how to use them themselves.

  15. Re:Shitty standard on Amazon.com Now Bans USB Type-C Cables That Aren't Up To Spec (google.com) · · Score: 1

    There is a huge difference between having standardized drivers that fit 99% of the use cases and the ability to extend etc for the rest. For example a generic camera driver might expose resolutions and formats for the computer to pick from. USB failed at that it let everybody roll there own hell half the camera drivers purpose seems to be to hide that it's not realy a 300mp sensor but vga with a lot of software "magic".

    The power side it was supposed to be enumerated then companies start throwing sense resistors at it to be cheaper. As a standards body they should have gone nope can not call that usb. At the end of the day if the standards body can not enforce them it quickly turns into embrace/extend nastyness.

  16. Re:Shitty standard on Amazon.com Now Bans USB Type-C Cables That Aren't Up To Spec (google.com) · · Score: 1

    USB has many device class specs but they are often ignored or special sauce added in a proprietary manner. Thats one of the issues weak controls of the spec. A driver for the local interface is no different than needing one for the USB root hub. It was pretty rare to need a driver for basic serial or parallel ports. PS2 was a couple of serial ports in a different connector with a well defined data structure.

    USB won out because the alternatives cost more, firewire was a far better standard for high speed interconnect that also got you far better power.

    Friction fit is generally an issue, displayport got it about right, friction with a pretty simple to implement retention clip. Frankly DB9 and DB25 fiction fit just fine, for SCSI those 50 pin centronics never did but the 68 pin(was it 68?) for wide scsi did fine but all had positive locking. I've seen far more USB A female ports loose their plastic tongue than any failed legacy ports. Mind you have many more issues with the legacy cables themselves many a bent HDB15 pin on a VGA cable. Spec wise having the receiving half of a positive locking connector be spec is about right, quality cables can use it for proper latching but the cheap consumer stuff can ignore it. Now cable wise the only thing I've put more in the VGA/PS2 is cat5 etc, now thats mostly gone as IPMI has replace the needed for KVM gear for servers, I will say that USB + VGA cables were awful at pulling out when servers got worked on.

    USB-C seems so much like a connector looking for a purpose, for phones Qi and similar wireless charging made more sense. In the server end it was problematic as PCI-E cards need aux power to run them making adding them to legacy servers often impossible.

  17. Re:Shitty standard on Amazon.com Now Bans USB Type-C Cables That Aren't Up To Spec (google.com) · · Score: 1

    It's still a question of making a million one off drivers vs coming together for a standard.

  18. Re:Shitty standard on Amazon.com Now Bans USB Type-C Cables That Aren't Up To Spec (google.com) · · Score: 1

    Serial ports under windows, the drivers were spelled out but then allowed to diverge. Devices that look identical same identifying bits but need to be handled differently depending on the version of the chip (a lot of USB 3 to sata lately). Every ethernet adapter needs it's own driver etc etc etc.

    Apart from usb PD you realy can not have a cable unable of passing several amps and have it be made practically.

  19. Re:Shitty standard on Amazon.com Now Bans USB Type-C Cables That Aren't Up To Spec (google.com) · · Score: 0

    It's USB it's always been a shitty standard to make it cheap. Friction fit, a device model that everything seems to need a driver for, a slew of put a resistor between these lines to say you're this or that BS. It's realy not that hard to require you draw no more than x to enumerate and get the ok to draw more. But that means you need some intelligence at both ends.

  20. Re:War Story on Medical System Security on Over 1,400 Vulnerabilities Found In Automated Medical Supply System · · Score: 1

    EPIC is like any other big system the base design sucks, no different than any big Oracle or SAS application.

  21. Re:Great Planning Disaster on Why BART Is Falling Apart · · Score: 0

    But the eco freaks, the ones the ditch lanes for bikes want 10 mph speed limits for ped safety will scream bloody murder. They dont care how much others pay for it as long as they can smugly use it once.

  22. Re:Don't deviate from standards on Why BART Is Falling Apart · · Score: 1

    Stop making crappy standard. I deal with IEC-c13/c14 connectors all the time, that standard friction fit power connection on every PC etc etc etc. Because the standard sucks we get to deal with all sorts of workarounds, proprietary improvements etc. At the end of the day the issue is making bad standards makes people create something new it's no different than API work. Any standard should include all reasonably expected requirements, so for a connector some form of positive locking should always exist much like api's should include a options for authentication.

  23. Re:reality time on Court Stops FCC's Latest Attempt To Lower Prison Phone Rates (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Those same companies use the excuse that they record all those calls and allow prison guards to listen in in real time or recorded. They probably also have some system to block calls and/or very specific lists of what numbers a given prisoner can call.

  24. Re:nuclear energy is the worst on Slashdot Asks: Do You Support Nuclear Energy? (gallup.com) · · Score: 1

    Yup no viable commercial reactor exists to use current "waste" as a fuel source. Please actualy do 10 seconds of google foo before repeating the anti nuke mantra/boogy man. We have reactor designs that can use everything from mildly refined uranium ore to high level waste as feedstock.

    If it's emitting serious amounts of radiation it's a viable fuel source.

  25. Re:Nuclear on Slashdot Asks: Do You Support Nuclear Energy? (gallup.com) · · Score: 2

    That's why you have candu reactors that use "waste" as it's fuel stock.