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  1. Re:The big 4 will smack em down on Why CurrentC Will Beat Out Apple Pay · · Score: 1

    This is really simple Apple and Google have a stranglehold on installing apps, is walmart going to try and explain side loading?

  2. Re:Wired has a directly opposite take... on Why CurrentC Will Beat Out Apple Pay · · Score: 1

    It's more dangerous at grocery stores and the like where they may only get savings if you use it.

    When does this turn into abuse of monopoly powers since walmart,kmart and target effectively have killed off any competitors.

  3. Re:routers in the rain on Ask Slashdot: How Do I Make a High-Spec PC Waterproof? · · Score: 1

    it's a dd-wrt it does not need any. Nothing like something a a several hundred watt GPU.

  4. Re:Automation and jobs on Automation Coming To Restaurants, But Not Because of Minimum Wage Hikes · · Score: 1

    Social security comes out of your paycheck. The Feds borrow that money (something they were never supposed to do) and then claim it's an entitlement since the IOU's are coming due. It's supposed to be like any other retirement fund making wise long term investments. Granted day traders/hedge funds have turned that from 5% return to nothing in the last 40 ish years. Yes SS Disability is the exception to this but it was supposed to be a shared risk insurance.

    Medicare etc is an entitlement taking tax dollars and spreading them around.

  5. Re:Security + Telnet on Cisco Fixes Three-Year-Old Telnet Flaw In Security Appliances · · Score: 1

    Not really less secure??? How many vulnerability's have there been to inject frames into vlans, Turn access ports into trunks often with the default trunk everything.

  6. Re:Security + Telnet on Cisco Fixes Three-Year-Old Telnet Flaw In Security Appliances · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I use telnet plenty great for connecting to a tcp port and debugging. It's a horrid thing to run as a service and allow people to login etc.

  7. Re:your assuming a lot on An Algorithm to End the Lines for Ice at Burning Man · · Score: 1

    Moving the truck closer etc etc. Would seem most expedient to hand the ice off at the truck.

    The state health dept will not but the local inspector might. That inspector who has the power to close it down at his whim is not a good one to argue with unnecessarily.

    So you have an artificial scarcity as the event only allows specific vendors. Do they have any motivation to improve? Lack of competition tends to stagnate things.

  8. your assuming a lot on An Algorithm to End the Lines for Ice at Burning Man · · Score: 1

    Your assuming that the Nevada health and safety are the local health inspector(s). A group of people who may well hate burning man and have no downside to misinterpreting the regs.

    Your assuming the volunteers scale in a linear fashion while accessing the same truck.

    Perhaps the altruistic vendor wants to inflate their ego by having people wait for hours for their product?

    This is a scenario where if you think you can do it better rent a freezer truck and buy some ice see how well you do.

  9. Re:Much as I despise trolls on In UK, Internet Trolls Could Face Two Years In Jail · · Score: 2

    You do realize that all laws are ultimately enforced via force? Anyways it's perceived possibility that keeps things civil not the employment of them. Lets remember that trolls tend to be social inept misanthropes, a simple glower IRL often sends them looking for an easier target.

  10. Re:Much as I despise trolls on In UK, Internet Trolls Could Face Two Years In Jail · · Score: 1

    It's not but the possibility tends to mitigate trolls IRL. They thrive where they feel safe from any repercussion often via the anonymous nature of the internet and the ease of which it can be done. So it's more the possibility of getting punched in the face than then actually getting punched that mitigated the behavior.

    Polite society took this to extreams via various honor dueling and similar. So yes you lost honor reputation and face or risked your life for being a troll of the time.

  11. Re:Much as I despise trolls on In UK, Internet Trolls Could Face Two Years In Jail · · Score: 0

    In real life you get punched in the face. While it's not legal it's part of what keeps polite society polite.

  12. Re:Yeah yeah on Florida Supreme Court: Police Can't Grab Cell Tower Data Without a Warrant · · Score: 2

    Not obviously a crime?? Do the FL police not have a copy of the constitution handy? You know that thing they promise to uphold. Frankly the judges that were lied to should be charging these people with criminal contempt of court since it's something within their power. Yes that means less bad cops and lawyers.

    We need the cops to be told parallel construction etc etc is never OK. If they can not reveal the means then they can not use the means is pretty simple. If they fear people finding about what/how they are doing something then they should not be doing it. It is not war the means police use need to be fully transparent to the people they claim to protect and serve.

  13. Re:"Roadable aircraft" on A Production-Ready Flying Car Is Coming This Month · · Score: 1

    Friend did about the same with a Cessna put a couple ultra portable mopeds in the cargo, drove there few and drove the last bit. Not like you need much more when you can get within 10-15 miles of where you going in the northeast and have a small airport.

  14. Re:Communism Inspired Tyranny on Living On a Carbon Budget: The End of Recreation As We Know It? · · Score: 1

    Highways are paid for and planned by the states and feds working together that's pretty central to my mind. It's go nothing to do with zoning.

  15. Re:5 things to consider on Living On a Carbon Budget: The End of Recreation As We Know It? · · Score: 1

    1 Sounds good.
    2 I'll live where I want to thank you.
    3 Nuke deed restrictions from orbit it's the only way to be sure. Screw you on peek rate pricing for solar your just screwing over anybody that has not put it in place/does not have that option. Pretty much apartment dwellers and people that live to far north. I'm ok with buyback but only at the average baseload rate.
    4 Good plan for many things there is no other option.
    5 The problem is that consumer mandates jack up prices. Mandates at producers get fought tooth and nail as it increases their cost of goods but their sale prices are not fungible.

  16. Re:Communism Inspired Tyranny on Living On a Carbon Budget: The End of Recreation As We Know It? · · Score: 1

    Look at amtrack, we have high speed rail through RI because it gets them 3 people on the hill. Making it faster to fly than take high speed rail for the NYC to Boston leg and skipping 2 large city's on the route. That is US central planning. We have cities without beltways because mayors though it would kill the city. Instead the gridlock did just that. Central planning got us the TSA.

    We do not have central planning we have central pork.

  17. Re:Haves and Have-Nots on Living On a Carbon Budget: The End of Recreation As We Know It? · · Score: 1

    Resources are finite so yes we will have haves and have nots it's a fact of life. Environmental justice? The third world has been burning it's way up the ladder it's easiest short term.

  18. Re:Bill Gates: Bitcoin Is 'Better Than Currency on Bill Gates: Bitcoin Is 'Better Than Currency' · · Score: 0

    They put there cash under somebody else's mattress and are complaining they were robbed?

  19. Your assuming their is only one mitigation method on Xen Cloud Fix Shows the Right Way To Patch Open-Source Flaws · · Score: 1

    Defense is depth matters, many network exploitable vulnerabilities can be mitigated before they ever get to the server gear. In case of bash only some cases/methods can be blocked. This does mean in many cases it's more than just the authors that need to know.

  20. Re:Will religion suvive tens of generations in spa on Are the World's Religions Ready For ET? · · Score: 1

    Hopefully religion will die off and/or they will all stay earthbound. Father figures that are figments of your imagination demand you say on earth thats it.

  21. Re:If I own the car on 2015 Corvette Valet Mode Recorder Illegal In Some States · · Score: 1

    It's your room while your renting it. Just like the hotel can not allow the police access to your hotel room until you have checked out without court order or probable cause.

  22. Re:Works particularly well in SA/Victoria on South Australia Hits 33% Renewal Energy Target 6 Years Early · · Score: 1

    Nothing but people get in the way of more fission power plants. Hell would love small scale fission a simple RTG buried under my house would be lovely.

  23. Waste of time go single stream on Seattle Passes Laws To Keep Residents From Wasting Food · · Score: 1

    Single stream is more efficient. Dump most stuff and split it up at the far end.

  24. Re:Before you hate systemd on Outlining Thin Linux · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The linked article alone is reason to hate systemd a GUI admin tool. It goes on about .desktop file format again GUI garbage. I've never seen a server do anything with automount, it's frankly a security issue all mounts should be explicit and done by a sysadmin with root privs. Maybe some cheesy backup script? Servers do not need nor should they have a GUI, a VGA port is overkill but windows needs it. VM's again never need a VGA port it's just a waste of ram a serial port works fine for either. The base logic is all things need to be done via CLI first and done well (far to many CLI's were an afterthought to a GUI and it shows). D-Bus again it's mostly a GUI thing, it need not be on a server. DHCP on a server?

    I really do not care much about systemd their is nothing not using it in a professional linux right now (something with all the big third party app support) and frankly it's not bothered me enough but I do see anything useful in it either.

  25. Forget the NDA how about a warrent on Before Using StingRays, Police Must Sign NDA With FBI · · Score: 1

    Oh yea forget they would not need them most of the time if they got one.