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  1. Re:More specifically on Oracle And Cisco Both Support The FCC's Rollback Of Net Neutrality (thehill.com) · · Score: 1

    The intent of the law is so Big Company A doesn't pay Big Monopolistic ISP a bunch of money to prioritise their traffic over Little Company B, C and D.

    It is the ISP customer who is supposed to be able to make that choice by paying for the level or type of service they want.

    Without net neutrality, the cloud provider with the biggest pockets can stamp out their competition simply by paying to have their traffic made faster.
    A big cloud provider who doesn't have anything better to offer than their competition, like Oracle.

  2. duh on Oracle And Cisco Both Support The FCC's Rollback Of Net Neutrality (thehill.com) · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Oracle and Cisco want to sell hardware and services to the ISP's to manage their traffic prioritization

  3. Just because it wasn't a weapon, doesn't mean they weren't testing technology to develop weapons.

  4. Except this article is about https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/deta... which is a local unprivileged user gaining access to AMT via LMS

    Turning off LMS mitigates this vulnerability.

    The source you quote also says this:

    How certain are you about any of this?
    Not hugely

  5. Re:Good Grief... on Massive Tinder Photo Scrape Has Users Upset (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    Depends on the agreements the user agreed to when they gave Tinder their photo.

  6. Apparently you just have to make sure the LMS service in Windows is not installed or is disabled. Or not run Windows? That's the software that passes the requests to the firmware.

  7. Re:Good Grief... on Massive Tinder Photo Scrape Has Users Upset (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 2

    I'd imaging they gave Tinder unlimited rights to their photo when they uploaded it, including allowing them to grant access to 3rd parties.
    A 3rd party being anyone who access the API...

  8. Not too much of a big deal of trump axes it on Energy Star Program For Homes And Appliances Is On Trump's Chopping Block (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    Europe, Aus, NZ, Canada, Japan and Taiwan all support the programme.

  9. Re:What could possibly go wrong? on Scientists Consider 'Cloud Brightening' To Preserve Australia's Great Barrier Reef (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 1

    This article and my comment both describe two types of ecoengineering. Quite different from mass production of cars.

  10. Re:Tried to compress explorer.exe on Windows is Bloated, Thanks to Adobe's Extensible Metadata Platform (bit.ly) · · Score: 1

    A binary that was compiled with a lot of code in-lining will be very compressible, but will be faster executing that one with less duplication and more branches. It can also use less memory at runtime. While it will consume more as code space, it can run with fewer stack frames.

  11. Re:What could possibly go wrong? on Scientists Consider 'Cloud Brightening' To Preserve Australia's Great Barrier Reef (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 1

    yeah, that's cool.
    But the coal is at the surface of the water, what happens when there is a sudden increase in salt, as it dissolves and disperses?
    I'm not saying it will be a problem, I'm saying someone might not have have figured out if it is or isn't.

  12. Re:What could possibly go wrong? on Scientists Consider 'Cloud Brightening' To Preserve Australia's Great Barrier Reef (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 1

    It worked out great when someone thought it was a good idea to bring cane toads to Australia to reduce the native cane beetle population.

  13. What could possibly go wrong? on Scientists Consider 'Cloud Brightening' To Preserve Australia's Great Barrier Reef (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Perhaps: Well the ocean temperature dropped enough, but turns out the local increase in salinity due to the cloud whitening machine spraying salt in to the air has killed off the entire Great Barrier Reef. Oops.

  14. Re:Buy an Android TV box on Linux PC Maker System76 Plans To Design And Manufacture Its Own Hardware (liliputing.com) · · Score: 1

    8 core A53 at 2GHz.... so like Pentium 4 performance?

    It will probably be running a custom 3.x kernel with poor mainline support.

  15. So they're teaching their cars how to find prostitutes and avoid the cops?

  16. Re:Irrelevant Studies on Subway Sues Canada Network Over Claim Its Chicken Is 50 Percent Soy (yahoo.com) · · Score: 1

    If the studies are correct, you can't sue a news reporter for reporting factually correct news.

  17. Re:Well there's your problem on Tesla Recalls 53,000 Model S, Model X Cars For Stuck Parking Brakes (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    One of the features is parking itself.
    How do you do that with a traditional parking brake?

    I've had problems with mechanical parking brakes. The cables stretch, so need readjusting. Drum brakes get sticky, so they don't come off smoothly.

  18. yeah, but that's because you invited them there to do it.

  19. Makes perfect sense. on CC'ing the Boss on Email Makes Employees Feel Less Trusted, Study Finds (hbr.org) · · Score: 1

    One of the reasons you CC someone up the food chain is because you don't trust the person you're sending the email to to do their job.

  20. They do in countries with modern payment systems.

    It's called "EMV" or "Chip+Pin".
    There's also "paypass" and "paywave" - aka NFC.

    I can't swipe my card in a local terminal even if I wanted to. There is data in the magstrip that says the terminal must use the chip if it can. There are no terminals that can't in NZ anymore.

  21. Re:Kiva Robotics knockoff? on Chinese Warehouse Cut Labor Costs In Half With a Fleet of Tiny Robots (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    how do they keep the package from falling off?

    They don't. If you look at the video in one of the links, it shows a robot tipping it's empty top down a chute... Its package must have fallen off some time after it was scanned and before it reached the drop off chute.

  22. Re:Goodbye Amazon Employees on Chinese Warehouse Cut Labor Costs In Half With a Fleet of Tiny Robots (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    Amazon already have robots that bring a shelf to a human to take an item and pack it in a box?
    They're now trying to get the robots to pick the correct item from a shelf.

    I assume they already have robots that scan the freight label and take it to the right place to be collected for shipping

  23. Uber is, that's why they're losing so much money.

  24. Re:When will they learn? on Uber Contract 'Gibberish', Says MP Investigating Gig Economy (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Employment law is supposed to be heavily in favour of the employee.

  25. When will they learn? on Uber Contract 'Gibberish', Says MP Investigating Gig Economy (theguardian.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Law overrides contracts, less the law specifically states it can be contracted out of.

    Perhaps there should be penalties for putting in clauses that contradict law. The companies put them in to scare people in to not exercising their legal rights, knowing they're not enforceable.

    I wonder if it would be covered under existing "obtaining by deception" or "loss by deception" laws...