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  1. Other things that "may" have caused crash on Faulty Phone Battery May Have Caused Fire That Brought Down EgyptAir Flight MS80 (ibtimes.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Meteor
    Spontaneous combustion
    Explosive free radicals

  2. This issy awe so nudes on Open Source Codec Encodes Voice Into Only 700 Bits Per Second (rowetel.com) · · Score: 2

    I've been way thing for a new cold deck for joyce recordings.

  3. Re:It might be something but it isn't anti-trust? on US Appeals Court Revives Antitrust Lawsuit Against Apple (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Not sure how one can say Apple doesn't control pricing when their App Store distribution applies a 30% fixed revenue share.

  4. I'll phrase my question in his preferred, more-readable syntax:

    What.Will?.He?.Do?.At?.His?.New?.Venture?

  5. C is only dying in the buzz department on Is The C Programming Language Declining In Popularity? (dice.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    C is not the next great thing. But is still the one of the best things and will always be a workhorse.

  6. Alone vs being lonely on How Social Isolation Is Killing Us (nymag.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I can certainly see how feeling lonely can lead to ill health effects. However feeling lonely and being alone are two different animals. One is a state of mind while the other is just a state of proximity.

  7. When your software uses whack-a-mole strategy on Microsoft Exec Admits They 'Went Too Far' With Aggressive Windows 10 Updates (softpedia.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    To get itself installed then maybe the software is lacking in merit.

  8. Facebook could have caught this on Russian Hackers Stole $5 Million Per Day From Advertisers With Bots and Fake Websites (cnn.com) · · Score: 2

    If only their engineers knew basic math, the kind that would allow them to not miscalculate basic real metrics let alone the fraudulent ones.

  9. And Trump thinks America is losing the trade war? on China Chokes On Smog So Bad That Planes Can't Land (usatoday.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    We save billions of dollars importing products produced for far less than we could and we breathe clean air and drink clean water. If this is losing then I'd hate to see what winning looks like.

  10. Re:I dont know what all the hate is for on Bad Reviews For Super Mario Run Are Sending Nintendo's Stock Tumbling (fortune.com) · · Score: 0

    I don't quite follow what you mean - why is there a presumption that people gave it a bad review due to it not being their type of game?

  11. I get all my medical advice from bloggers on Are Psychiatric Medications Hurting More Patients Than They Help? (scientificamerican.com) · · Score: 1

    And my financial advice from vines.

  12. Re:Meh, it works just fine for it's purpose on Dropbox Kills Public Folders, Users Rebel (ndtv.com) · · Score: 1

    Scale = revenue and the main cost of dropbox's business is servers, storage, and backbone bandwidth.

  13. Promise everything, take back piecemeal strategy on Dropbox Kills Public Folders, Users Rebel (ndtv.com) · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Online companies are using the same BS strategy from the first internet boom and this one will end just as badly. Promise users the world for free (to build scale rapidly), become the dominant player in your niche, and then come up with a business plan that entails taking back the expensive but high-utility services that customers came to you in the first place for. The process is entirely backwards because it eliminates the price-discovery feedback loop that businesses need in order to establish whether their business model/pricing is even workable.

  14. Re:I call BS on the IT guy on A Typo Led To Podesta's Email Hack, Says Report (thehill.com) · · Score: 1

    Because it's an uncommon turn of phrase in that context.

  15. Re:I call BS on the IT guy on A Typo Led To Podesta's Email Hack, Says Report (thehill.com) · · Score: 1

    I wouldn't have used the word phishing either. But it's not a question of tech vs non-tech but of conversational English. Saying the email was fake would have done the trick, since the question posed to him was "Is the notice real?"

  16. Re:I call BS on the IT guy on A Typo Led To Podesta's Email Hack, Says Report (thehill.com) · · Score: 2

    And furthermore, if the IT guy believed the email saying Posesta's account was hacked is illegitimate then why would he instruct Podesta to change his email password?

  17. I call BS on the IT guy on A Typo Led To Podesta's Email Hack, Says Report (thehill.com) · · Score: 1

    Who uses the word "illegitimate" to describe a phishing email? It's more likely the IT guy thought the email was authentic and is now trying to cover for his incompetence.

  18. I'll only agree to it if it supports OOB data on Feds Unveil Rule Requiring Cars To 'Talk' To Each Other (thehill.com) · · Score: 1

    Such as tinder requests.

  19. Re:Has anyone bothered to ask why they want the li on Energy Department Refuses To Give Trump Team Names of People Who Worked On Climate Change (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    Sure, just like the scene from Mars Attacks where the Martians kept repeating "don't run, we are your friends" as they walked through the streets evaporating humans with their phasers.

  20. Re:Depends on how the law's written on Disney IT Workers, In Lawsuit, Claim Discrimination Against Americans (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    I think it could be argued that profit is a business necessity, since without it a business wouldn't exist. If one class/nationality of worker is willing to do the work for 1/2 the cost of another and the competency/productivity level can be demonstrated to be the same then I think there's an argument for those hires out of competitive necessity.

  21. Re:What do you do with the millions on Panasonic's New Shopping System Automatically Bags, Tallies Your Bill (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    Do you have a reference that documents this? Not doubting you - just interested in reading the historical account of this.

  22. Re:Depends on how the law's written on Disney IT Workers, In Lawsuit, Claim Discrimination Against Americans (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Thanks for the link. Here's a clause which I found relevant for this discussion:

    This form of discrimination occurs where an employer does not intend to discriminate; to the contrary, it occurs when identical standards or procedures are applied to everyone, despite the fact that they lead to a substantial difference in employment outcomes for the members of a particular group and they are unrelated to successful job performance. An important thing to note is that disparate impact is not, in and of itself, illegal.[13] This is because disparate impact only becomes illegal if the employer cannot justify the employment practice causing the adverse impact as a "job related for the position in question and consistent with business necessity" (called the "business necessity defense").[14]

  23. Re:Lawyers more creative than engineers on Disney IT Workers, In Lawsuit, Claim Discrimination Against Americans (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    err, typo: "affected Walmart's business..."

  24. Re:Lawyers more creative than engineers on Disney IT Workers, In Lawsuit, Claim Discrimination Against Americans (computerworld.com) · · Score: 2

    It hasn't seemed to effect Walmart's business too negatively even though shoppers know that nearly everything sold in the store is made in China.

  25. Re:Depends on how the law's written on Disney IT Workers, In Lawsuit, Claim Discrimination Against Americans (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    I think they can argue it's not discrimination by listing legitimate, non-discriminatory reasons why they picked the Indians over Americans. The prime reason could be cost, and they could potentially prove their case by listing rejected salary offers they made to prospective American hires.