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  1. keep HALF. Taxes X 3 on 8 US States Pushing For 3.3 Million Electric Cars · · Score: 1

    Assuming you mean the owners of the business could keep it, they could keep half after assorted business and personal taxes.

  2. yeah it IS California. You need a permit to piss on Is Google Building a Floating Data Center In San Francisco Bay? · · Score: 1

    Although the the heat from some servers would make zero difference given that the ocean currents mix with the entire Pacific Ocean, this is California. Specifically, San Francisco. Last I heard, you need a permit to urinate in SF because the odor could effect air quality and if you can get a piss permit it takes a few years.

  3. nope, in Tx YOU decide if you spend $2,000 on some on 8 US States Pushing For 3.3 Million Electric Cars · · Score: 0

    That's right. In those states, you won't be allowed to hire people unless you spend $2,000 putting in an electric charging station that none of your employees have any interest in using. Here in Texas, you're allowed to make your own decisions. You can hire people and psy them that $2,000, or have paid maternity leave, or spend it on a gym that your employees actually want. We call it "freedom". (Those examples are some of the ways my employer spends their money, rather than spending it on government mandated nonsense.) Freedom not your thing? That's cool, you can stay in California where the bureaucrats tell you what to do.

  4. d) put chargers at unfavorable spots far from the on 8 US States Pushing For 3.3 Million Electric Cars · · Score: 1

    Most drivers will use one of the closest available spots. If the charger spots are far from the door, gas drivers won't use them unless the lot is full. That will keep them available for EV use without needing yet another law.

    If that also messes with some selfish prick's sense of entitlement because he thinks he should get the best spot due to his $80,000 car that the rest of us had to pay half the cost on, so much the better.

  5. probabilities. FaceTuring does none for returning on Google Updates ReCAPTCHA With Easier CAPTCHAs For Humans · · Score: 2

    If the earlier checks suggest it's likely to be a bot, use a harder captcha to double check. If it's likely to be a human, use an easier captcha as confirmation.

    If the system is pretty sure it's a returning user, FaceTuring doesn't require a captcha at all. I don't know if recaptcha ever goes as far as not requiring the captcha at all.

  6. FaceTuring aka ChickCaptcha does that, read @ 5m on Google Updates ReCAPTCHA With Easier CAPTCHAs For Humans · · Score: 1

    I would expect Google to be looking at this those things. FaceTuring from bettercgi does. Then aagain, faceturing is readable from five meters away, so maybe recaptcha hasn't quite caught up to the little guys.

  7. True, a fishing weight is a lead ball, or bearing on UK Police Seize 3D-Printed 'Gun Parts,' Which Are Actually Spare Printer Parts · · Score: 1

    True. For muzzle loaders, they just use a metal (lead?) ball. A fishing weight is lead, or a steel ball bearing would work fine.
    In that case, "making" the ammo is simpler than a one-step process - it's a zero step process.

  8. typo s/authorized/unauthorized/ on Online Retailers Cruising Tor To Hunt For Fraudsters · · Score: 1

    That should read:

    For most people, the only time you'll ever notice is when you either get an UNauthorized charge from someone who didn't do anything to confirm
    who is using your card, or get a call letting you know that likely fraud was detected.

  9. Not inconvenient 99.99% of the time, your info on Online Retailers Cruising Tor To Hunt For Fraudsters · · Score: 1

    > Making doing business with you inconvenient for me: -10.

    9,999 out of 10,000 people will never see anything from the scrubbing. When / if you've purchased things online, have you noticed we're geoip matching against the CC address? Probably not.

    For most people, the only time you'll ever notice is when you either get an authorized charge from someone who didn't do anything to confirm
    who is using your card, or get a call letting you know that likely fraud was detected.

    > I'll buy from the other guy.

    I understand that TRENDnet makes zero effort at security, leaving their IP cameras wide open for anyone to watch your home.
    I bet they also make no effort to protect your credit card from fraudulent charges, so you may want to shop with them.
    For myself, I'm glad that for credit cards, "the other guy" is most likely using the exact same fraud scrubbing system.
    As an example, 80% of paid subscription sites use the same scrubbing on the backend, and 40% of paid subscription sites use
    the same front end security to make sure it's actually you logging into your account (specifically, they use our system on the front end).

  10. good point. Several other checks. on Online Retailers Cruising Tor To Hunt For Fraudsters · · Score: 1

    That's a good point. Re "you missed one", I left out quite a few. There are checks we do as soon as you land on the page, before you even fill in form.

  11. gun and ammo easily built at hardware store on UK Police Seize 3D-Printed 'Gun Parts,' Which Are Actually Spare Printer Parts · · Score: 1

    It's easy to make the ammo (and the gun) from readily available materials found at your local hardware store.

    The garden department has the three ingredients for black powder and the plumbing department has most of the rest . A few items like springs come from the hardware section.

    Ammo is short piece of copper tube from plumbing, filled with black powder mixed in gardening, topped with whatever little chunk of metal - a short hex bolt would do fine.

  12. not new, and a little more complex. CVV2, etc. on Online Retailers Cruising Tor To Hunt For Fraudsters · · Score: 2

    If you're asking that something be shipped to Toronto and you want to charge someone living in Florida, that's -3 points. If you enter the CVV2 from the back of the card, that's +3 points and they balance out.

    If you've had prior transactions at least 90 days ago that weren't disputed, that's +2 points. Using an OPEN proxy -4. Business CC +1.

    Depending on the value of the transaction, it could be immediately approved, you could be asked for more information, or the merchant could manually check and approve or decline. For example, the merchant can ask for the bank phone number that's also printed on the back off the card.

  13. submitter told you how to check it yourself on How I Compiled TrueCrypt For Windows and Matched the Official Binaries · · Score: 4, Insightful

    TFA painstakingly explained how you can check it yourself. I'm sure several people will, including enough people that I trust enough. Especially given that there is zero evidence of a backdoor. Nobody is claiming there is a backdoor, so it's a question if yyou trust the testers more than you trust - nobody.

  14. or, it's hard to read and understand every patent on Finally, a Bill To End Patent Trolling · · Score: 1

    > The fact that multiple conflicting patents exist for the same invention means either:
    >
    > 1: The patent lawyers who "honestly" did the patent search are incompetent, or,
    >
    > 2: The patent lawyers who did the patent search did not do it honestly

    or
    3: They missed one. It's kind of hard to read and fully understand every patent ever issued and how it might relate to your client's invention.

  15. and higher income idiots. rental place screws peop on Rental Business Aaron's Admits Role In Spying On Customers · · Score: 1

    I've seen some higher income people do this same idiocy, renting furniture and electronics
    I have to laugh at this story. "Furniture rental store screws customers" - no shit.

  16. no, we're talking about billing models on Top US Lobbyist Wants Broadband Data Caps · · Score: 1

    This is a discussion about billing models.
    If my 6GB of usage is billed at $50 flat or $10 + $10 / GB. It really has nothing to do with the physical medium used to connect. It applies to cable internet, phone line DSL, satellite, and fiber.

    No matter which kind of wire is used, they can offer 10 GB for $X and 100GB for $Y, or unmetered for $Z.
       

  17. yes, 3. Dems controlled house, senate, presidency on ACA Health Exchange Contractors Have History of Security Failures · · Score: 1

    Yes, people see that since the republicans took the house in 2011 after the 2010 election they haven't been real cooperative.

    Some people also realize nothing got done for the years that Obama had his own democrats in charge of the house and senate.

    A few people remember that Reagan got things done while the opposing party controlled both house and senate.

  18. in case you believe that on ACA Health Exchange Contractors Have History of Security Failures · · Score: 1

    You're probably just propagandizing, but in case you believe that:

    http://data.bls.gov/timeseries/LNS11300000

    What that's showing you is that 3% if the population have used up their benefit. They are still unemployed, they just aren't getting benefits anymore. In 2008, 66% of the population was either working or eligible for umployment. 2013, 63% are - 3% have either used up their two years of unemployment benefits or simply given up.

    7.2% are getting unemployment benefits, 3% are no longer eligible = 10.2% real unemployment.

  19. I got one for a $300 job, in a couple of weeks on The Cybersecurity Industry Is Hiring, But Young People Aren't Interested · · Score: 2

    A contractor I did gigs for me got me a general security clearance before a job that paid (me) about $300.
    As I recall, it was a one page form.

  20. Software engineers licensed by the same body on Knight Capital Fined $12M For a Software Bug That Cost $460M · · Score: 1

    The National Council of Examiners for Engineering and Surveying sets the standards for licensing engineers.
    Their certification tests include:
    Architectural
    Chemical
    Civil: Structural
    Civil: Transportation
    Electrical and Computer: Computer Engineering
    Electrical and Computer: Electrical and Electronics
    Nuclear
    Petroleum
    SOFTWARE
    Structural

  21. laws? What are you talking about? on Top US Lobbyist Wants Broadband Data Caps · · Score: 1

    > And why the fuck are they pushing it into laws?

    What are you talking about? What laws? The story is that the head of the industry association said internet providers should offer plans that bill customers based on usage. I don't see anything about any change in law here.

  22. Verizon told me FIOS is shared X 64 on Top US Lobbyist Wants Broadband Data Caps · · Score: 1

    I called to order FIOS. The sales rep told me it's not just shared, it's way over sold, so during business hours I typically wouldn't get nearly the "up to" speed I was paying for. I see elsewhere that they have 64 customers per fiber, that you're sharing with 63 other people. That's less sharing than cable, but it's not dedicated.

  23. engine produces what's needed on Tesla CEO Elon Musk: Fuel Cells Are 'So Bull@%!#' · · Score: 1

    > the question is, how much does the engine produce, how much is needed to propel the vehicle.

    The engine is mechanically connected to the wheels, so whatever the engine produces propels the vehicle. There cannot be any "extra" energy.

    The system can produce more energy by pressing the gas pedal further, using more gas.

    There is exactly one energy "leak" in all systems - heat. If you could set something on top of the muffler to convert that heat to something usable ...

  24. It's called amortization. Look it up. on Top US Lobbyist Wants Broadband Data Caps · · Score: 1

    What you say is true for small purchases of consumer goods. For a multi-million dollar infrastructure, the cost is the same each month. I realize that's counter-intuitive if you've never managed a business.

    The provider sets up a deal with Netflix and they see they'll need $100 million of equipment to upgrade the city. They figure th. e equipment will be replaced in five years. They can get that equipment in any of three ways. They can lease the equipment. You may have noticed that businesses lease a lot of stuff - copiers, cars, all kinds of things. You wouldn't lease a home computer, but businesses often lease computers. The reason will soon be apparent. If they lease the equipment, they pay $X per month every month, from the first month to the last. Since the equipment will need to be replaced in five years, they do a five year lease.

    Instead of leasing, they can put $100 million on their Visa card and make monthly payments. ;). They borrow $100M from the bank and make monthly payments. They'll need to do it again in five years, so they need to pay this loan off in five years so they can afford the new one. The payment is the same every month.

    Lastly, they can use the cash they have in the bank. They know that they'll need to replace the equipment in five years, so they better start saving up so they'll have $100M to do it again in five years. Every month, they put aside some money for the next upgrade. They set aside the same amounteqcheach month.

    This isn't pocket change, they don't just get $100M from their wallet. They either borrow and pay back monthly or they save up monthly but either way it's a long term expense paid for over time.

    You can see that all of the three options end up like a lease - they pay five years to use stuff for five years. The lease just makes the exact term and cost explicit. That's one reason why businesses lease more than individuals - it clarifies, simplifies what's going to happen anyway, and that clarity is good for the accounting and taxes. (No need to argue with the IRS over the value of five year old SFP modules).

    So that's how capital expenses like upgrading a city wide network end up being paid as steady monthly expenses, no matter how the deal is structured.

  25. You SHARE the cost when you share the bandwidth on Top US Lobbyist Wants Broadband Data Caps · · Score: 1

    That "unused" router isn't unused, it's being used by your neighbor for a second or two as he loads a page, then you use it for a second or two. If you're using it 24 / 7 that's capacity not available to your neighbor. Residential prices are based on sharing the capacity and sharing the cost.

    You can get dedicated, unshared bandwidth at ten times the cost by signing up for a business plan.