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  1. What's google's side? on Department of Labor Sues Google Over Compensation Data (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    This article is incredibly one-sided and the quote from google isn't very detailed. What is the DoL looking for that google considers so overly broad? What about the contracts are they asserting should be kept private? Maybe google's argument is perfectly reasonable and the DoL's request isn't. Hard to tell with only one side of the argument.

  2. Re:So ironic isn't it on Department of Labor Sues Google Over Compensation Data (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Or for the DoL to just buy the information...

  3. Re:Google's response on Department of Labor Sues Google Over Compensation Data (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Of course we do. But it's only updated every 10 years and only contains very general employment information,

  4. Re:It's a really hard problem on Department of Labor Sues Google Over Compensation Data (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    The collection and submission code is stuck in alpha until the DoL publishes an API for receiving it. As soon as they get the contract for writing the API, the DoL can have it's data.

  5. Hey author/editor: No, not the "Wal-Mart Effect", on Solar Could Beat Coal to Become the Cheapest Power on Earth In Less Than a Decade (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    "Efficiencies of Scale". The Wal-Mart effect is the impact of their efficiencies of scale (and vertically-integrated logistics) on smaller. pre-existing retailers. Squeezing them out of the market by greatly out-competing them on price.

  6. Re:The real face of government on Republicans Propose Bill To Impose Fines For Live-Streaming From House Floor (digitaltrends.com) · · Score: 1
    Well according to Assange, the emails he released did not come from Russia nor would Wikileaks post anything that came from a government. He strongly implied the emails came from one or more DNC and/or campaign staffers, less strongly implying (the?) one was the staffer murdered shortly after one of the big dumps.

    I don't doubt that Russia hacked the DNC, RNC, and any other political systems they could get into, that's just standard espionage. I do doubt that the hacking and the leaks were anything other than contemporaneous, and find it likely that the implied connection is nothing more than a distraction. If you'll notice, the administration isn't saying that Russia stole the emails and released them to Wikileaks. They're saying Russians hacked in, and separately stating that it would be a serious issue if a foreign government interfered with the election process - leading people to infer a connection in order to discredit the outcome of the election, distract from the incredibly damaging and embarrassing content of the leaks and question their validity.

  7. Rather obvious now that it's almost certainly on Satellite Spots Massive Object Hidden Under the Frozen Wastes of Antarctica (thesun.co.uk) · · Score: 2

    a crashed spaceship, with an outside chance of being the lost city of R'lyeh. Either way the course is clear - we have to dig it up and find out for sure. If we unleash a horde of alien conquerors or awaken mighty Cthulhu from his slumber in the process... well, we can figure out how to cross that bridge when we get to it.

  8. I've always split my *PUs. on The Loyalty To AMD's GPU Product Among AMD CPU Buyers Is Decreasing (parsec.tv) · · Score: 1

    I buy AMD CPUs, because they're cheaper and usually a better value (power/$), and nVidia GPUs because they're awesome, and really the only game in town for a while after buying out 3Dfx (and I never really liked ATI's stuff). So, I guess I kinda locked in to my hardware choices when AMD was kicking ass with the Athlon and nVidia was tearing things up with the Rivas.

  9. Re:Baryogenesis has been solved, watch Supernatura on Scientists Blast Antimatter Atoms With a Laser For The First Time (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    Okay, good response but the show has really run its course. They've painted themselves into a corner where there's really nowhere else to go. Don't get me wrong - I love the show and never miss an episode. It's loss would make me sad, but it lived a long and full life that must come to an end.

  10. Too broad, won't stand. on South Carolina Bill Wants To Put Porn Blocks On New Computers (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1
    Blocking an entire class of speech to possibly reduce a tangentially related activity? It's not like human trafficking is a subset of pornography, and I have yet to see any porographic sites that also promoted trafficking (not that I ever look at porn). Since there is no such thing as a commercial website that wants to be shut down, I would be astonished if there were any that permitted such content to stay up.

    Long story short - if it were to pass, the courts would block it for being overbroad. If not for just being a dumb idea.

  11. Baryogenesis has been solved, watch Supernatural. on Scientists Blast Antimatter Atoms With a Laser For The First Time (npr.org) · · Score: 1
    Why more matter than antimatter? There were innumerable cycles where there were equal amounts, but then the Darkness was cast out for constantly annihilating everything the Light (God) tried to create and the universe finally stuck.

    Granted, the show has gone downhill over the years and totally jumped the shark, but if you are in need of a metaphor to illustrate the baryogenesis question, there it is.

  12. "Just $350" Mr. Moneybags? on U.S. Proposes Car-To-Car Data Sharing Standards (networkworld.com) · · Score: 1
    For some people that is a meaningful chunk of change. A couple extra months worth of car payments at the least.

    Also sounds like a bit much for a software package. Modern cars usually have the communications hardware and all the necessary processing power to handle this available if not standard, right?

  13. I was surprised. on RIP Dr. Henry Heimlich, Inventor of the Heimlich Maneuver (bbc.com) · · Score: 1
    The Heimlich Maneuver is so ubiquitous, so famous, that I had just assumed that it had been around for a long time. So long, that I wasn't surprised the inventor had died, I was surprised he just died. If someone had told me that the maneuver was 96 years old, I'd have believed it. Still trying to wrap my head around the idea that it's only a few years older than I - that my parents wouldn't have been able to use it had someone started to choke at their wedding.

    I guess that is a testament to Heimlich's brilliance.

  14. Re:A .000002% incrase in something we didn't track on Rapid Rise In Methane Emissions In 10 Years Surprises Scientists (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm looking at total atmospheric concentration. A very small number (1830 ppb is very small) can increase by a very large percentage and remain very small.

  15. Re:A .000002% incrase in something we didn't track on Rapid Rise In Methane Emissions In 10 Years Surprises Scientists (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1
    That's a link to CO2 emissions, not methane which according to the article has not been tracked like CO2 (which has only been tracked since the 50's).

    Also, a very small number can be increased by a large percentage and remain incredibly small. Like when people freak out when research shows something increases cancer risk by 20%, even when it only means risk went from .1% to .12%. Methane may have increased by .5% (still not a big change), but the total atmospheric concentration still only increased by .000002%. That's a hard number to get upset about.

    To my knowledge, ice cores rapidly lose resolution the deeper you go, with margins marked in centuries if looking back 100+ years. Atmospheric methane could have been all over the place, with wide swings obscured by the fuzzy picture from the cores.

    That said, I'm not saying that there isn't a larger problem or that atmospheric methane is irrelevant. Just that 20 parts per billion is a very small change. One for which we do not have a particularly detailed or accurate historical context.

  16. Re:Article disagreement on A Typo Led To Podesta's Email Hack, Says Report (thehill.com) · · Score: 1
    I would have (as I often have) said, "No, it's a scam. Maybe change your password just in case."

    But I don't believe it went down like this. Delavan is taking the fall for Podesta's stupidity. Because that's what happens if you do IT for Hillary (3rd strike).

  17. Lesson: Never work for Hillary. on A Typo Led To Podesta's Email Hack, Says Report (thehill.com) · · Score: 1
    Why? Because you're going to take the fall for her or her people's fuckups. IT department at State - fucked over by Hillary when she wouldn't file paperwork to get her personal email whitelisted. End result - State's email got hacked. Her people managing her personal email server? Facing Congress and the FBI for following her orders and destroying the server. Now this.

    Hillary: Screwing over IT departments since 2008.

  18. A .000002% incrase in something we didn't track? on Rapid Rise In Methane Emissions In 10 Years Surprises Scientists (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1, Insightful
    It's early, so my math may be off, but 20 parts per billion is a very, very small increase in a very, very small number. And since we haven't been tracking it until recently, we don't have a meaningful historical context in which to analyze it.

    I'm not going to worry about it until the numbers have meaning.

  19. Re:Tyler Droll and Brooks Buffington? on Yik Yak Lays Off 60 Percent of Employees As Growth Collapses (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    I hear names like that and my first thought is, "stupid f'ing rich white people and their idiot names..." My disgusts slowly fades, leaving an impression that we're dealing with something like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

  20. Re:Not as bad as it sounds on US Life Expectancy Declines For the First Time Since 1993 (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    It's also such a small change that I have to wonder if it's relevant and not washed out by margins of error.

  21. Re:That's why I keep my phone in a vacuum. on Apple Says Air Exposure Is Causing iPhone 6s Battery Problems (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Ah, I see where the confusion is coming from. I meant that they don't come and find me to provide punches in response to something I said. Not that they can get that close anymore. Unless they wear one of these dang pressure suits.

  22. That's why I keep my phone in a vacuum. on Apple Says Air Exposure Is Causing iPhone 6s Battery Problems (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    With the added benefit that I can't hear what anyone says and they can't hear me, so I'm getting into far fewer fist fights than usual.

  23. End result is a very spotty coverage map, availability for maybe a quarter of the population.

  24. but apparently also to the smaller providers. No Comcast, Charter, or Time Warner. So the service is useless for the vast majority of Americans. Heck, there's only one or two cable providers listed.

    Though it is interesting that this seems to be more available to middle America than the coasts.

  25. Half a millimeter? on Engineers Explain Why the Galaxy Note 7 Caught Fire (digitaltrends.com) · · Score: 2

    Sounds disgustingly bulky to me. I'd rather burst into flames then have that gross nonsense packing my pocket. Ick!