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  1. Re:Just let it fold and be done with it on 4chan Is Running Out of Money and Martin Shkreli Wants To Buy It (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    As long as blacks are more likely to resist arrest and commit crimes they will get shot more.

    The way I use statistics is laughably naive.

    FTFY.

  2. Re:Trump versus Clinton on FBI Agreed To Destroy Laptops of Clinton Aides With Immunity Deal, Sources Say (foxnews.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    People call him racist for wanting to keep ILLEGAL immigrants out.

    Actually people call him racist for his very many racist remarks. His immigration policy is just a drop in the bucket.

    People call him Islamophobic for wanting to keep Islamic TERRORISTS out.

    Actually people call him Islamophobic because he intends to keep out anyone who would claim to be Muslim. That is pretty much matches the definition of Islamophobic.

  3. Re:Coming from an information security academic on Splunk CTO Urges Collaboration Against Cyberattacks - And 'Shapeshifting' Networks (itwire.com) · · Score: 1

    If you don't want to pay the licensing fee for the amount of data you're collecting, you could always trim what you're collecting to stay below the threshold?

  4. Re:He's Right on Vint Cerf Warns About the Perishability Of Human Knowledge (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Thanks to the digital age, the vast majority of people on this Earth will leave far less of a mark than the tiny feint scratches left by those before them.

    It's a good thing.

  5. And their new products will also tank. Soon the majority of people will stop buying from random vendors and only buy from reputed ones who have proven products.

    The real problem is how authorities are likely to react to someone breaking these devices. Breaking every hackable IoT device out there is likely to cause much more consumer backlash than the occasional DDOS does. I bet the authorities would expend more against the person breaking the devices than the ones using them in the botnets.

  6. And we just sold them tanks.

  7. Re:They can't even hide it. on HP To Issue 'Optional Firmware Update' Allowing 3rd-Party Ink (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    The use of "that" here, though, indicates they are talking about a specific subset of counterfeit or third party ink cartridges (or that they believe all of them fit the following criteria). This is where they shoot themselves in the foot I think.

    do not contain an original HP security chip

    They are talking about the subset of counterfeit or third party ink cartridges that do not license or purchase an "original HP security chip" from them. If HP doesn't get a cut of the sale, they don't want it on the market. The whole "protecting their IP" is the real circular argument because that IP only exists to lock out competitors. It's K-cups all over again, but without the easy consumer work-around.

  8. Someone has to have the authority to assign that access.

  9. Re:Facebook lies: shocker on Facebook Inflated Video Viewing Stats For Two Years (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    +1. The article is light on details but the fact that facebook just apologized rather than trying to explain it does suggest perhaps that the 3-second rule wasn't applied across the board. Given that facebook autoplays videos by default, as an advertiser I would definitely want to filter out people who scroll past the video, or at least categorize them separately.

  10. what Clinton did was nothing short of criminal.

    What Trump has done is by far be a businessman

    The engineers of the banking crash were also business men.

  11. Re:So long, Netflix, it was good while it lasted on Netflix Wants 50% Of Its Library To Be Original Content (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    Netflix is turning into just another cable TV channel.

    In terms of producing their own content, but in most other ways their business model is far more consumer friendly than most of the incumbent cable channels and providers. Just the fact that their original content is globally licensed puts them miles ahead of HBO, which I cannot get in Canada without a $70 cable package. Netflix's existence has been a huge disturbance to the market in a very good way for consumers - just because they don't fix all the problems doesn't make them a bad thing.

  12. Re:Peanut butter in my chocolate, but I'm allergic on China Confirms Its Space Station Is Falling Back to Earth (popularmechanics.com) · · Score: 1

    But that would send debris hurtling through space that would kill the American astronauts in the middle of a spacewalk to do repairs on the Hubble telescope. C'mon people, this is exactly how Gravity started!!

  13. Re:Unreasonable on Mobileye Says Tesla Was Dropped Because of Safety Concerns · · Score: 2

    And here I was hoping to see a Tesla conversation that didn't devolve to an argument about the definition of the word "autopilot". Every fucking thread. Get over it.

  14. Re:Coercion or incentives? on It's Not Just Wells Fargo - How Sales Targets Can Encourage Wrongdoing (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    That's a moral judgement

    Actually it was a joke. The linked video is required viewing ;)

  15. Re:Coercion or incentives? on It's Not Just Wells Fargo - How Sales Targets Can Encourage Wrongdoing (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    I think the real question is, since X is just the minimum, do you really want to be the kind of person who only does the minimum?

    Flair

  16. So your alternative is as described by other commenters - buy a pre-paid SIM/phone using cash only and don't let the cameras see you at the store and never use it from a location that might be traced to you. Alternatively if the man assumes you are where your phone is, that can make a great alibi. Leave the phone at home while you drive about committing murder. "Yes your honour, as my phone data will clearly indicate, on the evening in question I was at home playing Pokemon Go while walking in circles around my record player."

  17. After one of the more recent OS updates I noticed that my android phone would now tell me every morning just before I left for work how long my commute would be. Even though I've never identified my work address as "work", it has (probably easily) figured out where I work and tries to be helpful by doing a quick route lookup just before the usual time it detects that I leave the house. Honestly when I first noticed it I was a bit put off that they would go so far as to do that without any opt-in, but then I realized that it's kind of handy and frankly isn't really that concerning overall. If I actually had a need to suppress my whereabouts, just having a cell phone that is paid with a credit card pretty much defeats that.

  18. Re:they should be teching real skills not outsourc on University of California Hires India-Based IT Outsourcer, Lays Off Tech Workers (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    +1. I went to university for 5 years for a CS degree and it cost me $25k for tuition alone (it's closer to $40k today). As far as being a prerequisite for my current job goes, I'd say maybe 5% of the overall content was useful, another 5% provides a nice background, but otherwise 90% was wasted time on unnecessary specialization (AI, search engine algorithms, heuristic search, advanced maths). But 100% was required to get the piece of paper which is a requirement for my position.

  19. Re:not gonna happen on Finland Prepares Their First Tests Of A Universal Basic Income (futurism.com) · · Score: 1

    You get nothing for free in your country; you pay for it through taxes, and if you are above average (which you are as a software developer with a Master), you are paying a lot more than you would in a free market.

    Like universal healthcare? Oh wait...

  20. Re:No surprise on Android Companies Keep Pretending That Android Doesn't Exist (theverge.com) · · Score: 2

    My android has become somewhat slower as more OS updates have come through. Potentially I am also using more features as time goes by. But the same thing happened to my iPhone, so...

  21. Re:Failure on the *pad* not the rocket on Falcon 9 Explodes On Pad (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    Quote not present in the linked articles.

  22. Re:Illusions on Researchers Discover How To Fool Tesla's Autopilot System (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Maybe the only difference here is that it may be hard to understand afterwards what happened.

    I don't know about that. When a serious accident occurs and you see a large group of nerds in lab coats hurriedly packing up strange equipment into briefcases, piling into a van, and speeding away, we can safely assume there was outside interference.

  23. Re:Just not excited, won't be watching any Olympic on Olympic Committee Prohibits Streaming Apps, Vines and GIFs From Its Events (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 0

    I bet you also refuse to watch rented VHS tapes anymore because they closed all the rental outlets.

  24. Just to add to that: I'm 35, didn't floss at all till late 20's, drink 2 cokes a day or more, only brush my teeth at night. Never had a cavity. I do however have very thin enamel on the tops of my teeth, and it's unclear if that is due to grinding and/or the coke.

    I suspect that there are many factors for teeth health, such as diet, hygiene, genes, etc, and certain things like flossing may help certain individuals more than others.