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  1. ...they assessed the state and progress of Wayland and decided that if they wanted something done they had to do so themselves.

    And that's what they could have done: accelerating the development of Wayland by throwing in their developers.

  2. Re:Lack of vacation is the big problem on Employee Burnout Is a Problem with the Company, Not the Person (hbr.org) · · Score: 1

    If you're so 'hard to find', then there must be other companies that actually do value your contribution and give you some more holiday.
    No full week since 1993 sounds ridiculous and in fact it is.
    Reminds me of the stories of employees abused by the capitalists during the industrial revolution. Child labor 14 hours a day in deplorable circumstances and such...

  3. Ok, everywhere. :)

  4. Re:There's nothing you can do with your own ISP on How To Protect Your Privacy Online (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Ok, ic u. But now your ISP buys that VPN-SP and suddenly the dots are connected, and sold.
    Or both sell their data to a commercial third party which connects the dots...

  5. Re:There's nothing you can do with your own ISP on How To Protect Your Privacy Online (theverge.com) · · Score: 1
    As for the NSA, bah. What interest would they have in me?

    As of now, nothing, but with the right monkey at the helm that might change in a moment.
    I remember (the story) that one year before WW II broke out, the Dutch government suddenly became interested in registering religion of its people.
    A few years later it was found out that this whole anti-jew thing of the Nazi's was planned, and the (people in) Dutch government agreed with it on beforehand.
    At that time people probably also will have said the same as you, only to find out a few years later they were wrong.

  6. It's a corporation successfully trying to kill off the Linux component in phones.

  7. Re:Sounds like a great product! on IoT Garage Door Opener Maker Bricks Customer's Product After Bad Review (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Just wait those few months, they'll be available soon, practically for free. :)

  8. Calm down, nobody cares, we're all going down the drain due to this indifference of the greater majority.

  9. Re:Destruction of property on IoT Garage Door Opener Maker Bricks Customer's Product After Bad Review (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Client is not a technician.
    Company has disabled functioning of the device even before attempting any diagnosis of the problem.
    It might even have been a temporary problem (or a loose wire/contact).
    Company is sooo at fault...

  10. Re: What's the TOS say? on IoT Garage Door Opener Maker Bricks Customer's Product After Bad Review (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Then you have accepted, but everybody else not. So, no pizza for you.

  11. Re:VPNs aren't all that great on How To Protect Your Privacy Online (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    I can, on an air gapped computer, encrypt a message sufficiently strongly to not be decrypted by brute force during the coming 100 years, send that over to my friend, who decrypts it on his air gapped computer. After reading, both computers are utterly destroyed.
    This message will never (in the coming 100 years at least) become public.
    Hence your statement ("...all the information on it being public.") is false.
    QED

  12. Re:yes but.... on Graphene-Based Sieve Turns Seawater Into Drinking Water (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    How do you contain salt at 3000 C?

  13. Re:yes but.... on Graphene-Based Sieve Turns Seawater Into Drinking Water (bbc.com) · · Score: 2

    No need to be sarcastic. It's relatively cheap to transport salt to a location where fresh water is abundant, compared to moving that fresh water to where the salt is obtained as a result of desalination.

  14. Re: like most dictators on Norway's Doomsday Vault Will Now Store and Protect the World's Data (wired.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    The reason for the existence of the seed vault is that once the natural habitat has been destroyed, nobody but Bill Gates (read: Monsanto and the likes) will have access to them. They will claim all the DNA as their own findings, patent it, and sell the seeds at a very high price. Because competition is for losers, monopoly is for the winners.

  15. Re:Yup, for all you paranoid nutjobs on Norway's Doomsday Vault Will Now Store and Protect the World's Data (wired.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Run by a small Norwegian archiving company called Piql...

    Yeah right, and no ties at all with CIA, Soros? Oh wait, Gates 'Foundation'?
    Where does all that money come from?

  16. Re:It can not be protected on How To Protect Your Privacy Online (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    If the government had been interested in preventing crime, 9/11 and Boston wouldn't have happened.

  17. Re:Use LOTS AND LOTS Of Microsoft Cloud Products = on How To Protect Your Privacy Online (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    This interference isn't arbitrary, its comprehensive.

  18. Re:Another suggestion. on How To Protect Your Privacy Online (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Why, since when is it a crime?

  19. Re:There's nothing you can do with your own ISP on How To Protect Your Privacy Online (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    You're thinking too local. The ISP maybe can not see what sites you visit, but your VPN-SP can. And the NSA totally can see both, and connect the dots.

  20. Re:VPNs aren't all that great on How To Protect Your Privacy Online (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    If you grew up you'd have understood that some people don't like it and that it shouldn't be a 'take it or leave it' proposal.

  21. Re: Sounds great! on House Approves Bill To Force Public Release of EPA Science (ap.org) · · Score: 1

    Don't move the goal posts.
    I mentioned funding, not salary, so your post is worthlessly based on your erroneously (but probably purposefully--see below) twisting of thoughts.

    And don't try to sneak in a sneer to a supposedly anti-vaxxer, as he isn't.
    The only thing Wakefield advised was to postpone the measles component in the MMR with 6 months to (best) 1 year. Not to stop vaccinating altogether.
    And that stupid link to non-journalistic hit man Brian Deer is ridiculous. Deer isn't even remotely a scientist yet his 'article' got published in the BMJ.
    The same setup as with the reproduction of the Monsanto lab-rat test results by Seralini, clearly showing cancer caused by the application of RoundUp, whose article was retracted by Elsevier--against there own rules for retraction--after a phone call (and probably money) by Monsanto: The science has to be pushed aside in favor of money interests.
    Chemical, Oil, Pharmaceutical and Tobacco industries (to mention a few) are psychopathic monsters without regard for anything that has to do with life, and it shows.
    And apparently you're their shill.

  22. Re: Sounds great! on House Approves Bill To Force Public Release of EPA Science (ap.org) · · Score: 1

    I thought it worked the inverse way: If an industry wants to apply a chemical, they have to prove scientifically that it's safe. Don't they want to publish that science, too bad, the substance will be forbidden until they will. Or is that too naive?

  23. Re: Sounds great! on House Approves Bill To Force Public Release of EPA Science (ap.org) · · Score: 1

    And if we can bust even just the Elsevier monopoly...

    Support science-hub.

  24. Re: Sounds great! on House Approves Bill To Force Public Release of EPA Science (ap.org) · · Score: 1

    ...it's Lamar Smith sucking off the Koch brothers...

    That was Hedy Lamar.
    No, jokes aside, how are the Koch brothers interested in publishing secret corporate data?

  25. Re: Sounds great! on House Approves Bill To Force Public Release of EPA Science (ap.org) · · Score: 1

    If Prof. Beaker publishes an unexpected result with large implications, a lot of other scientist will try to refute, refine, or reaffirm that result, without the EPA ever stepping in.

    And where do these scientists get their funding? Prof. Beaker might have been funded by, let's say, very big pharmaceutical industries with a direct interest in the outcome, and Prof. Beaker might be depending for 90% on that kind of funds.
    Now, who is going to pay the independent scientists to reproduce the research?

    In other words: dream on, 'science' doesn't work the way you describe it. Maybe it should, I agree, but it doesn't.