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  1. Re:Back this up please on Microsoft Blamed Intel For Its Own Bad Surface Drivers (thurrott.com) · · Score: 0

    a "Pro" laptop that only supports 16GB of RAM

    What do you work at that requires so much memory on a laptop?

  2. Re:Tests don't fix the problems of identity politi on Canonical Needs Your Help Transitioning Ubuntu Linux From Unity To GNOME (ubuntu.com) · · Score: 1

    Had the same experience, I upgraded my ubuntu box and only had both broken gnome3 and unity as options. There was no easy way to install gnome 2. I went to awesome WM, it was a steep learning curve but my desktop experience has been consistent and out of my way for a long time. Yet I remember being quite happy with gnome 2 at the time.

  3. Re:Hinting at Biologically Inferior? on James Damore Explains Why He Was Fired By Google (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    There are more female programmers on India than on Norway despite the later being a more egalitarian country.

    And there's no lack of females workers as receptionists, nurses and doctors on the Health field. A field dominated by males and with higher indices of open/blatant "Sexual Intimidation" than IT.

    With the risk of being considered a bigot, I would like to postulate that the average women worker at the real world isn't a porcelain princess and chooses the Health sector over IT because she is perfectly capable of dealing with "Sexual Intimidation" but enjoys Health related jobs more than IT related jobs.

    I don't know why IT people think that their field is more hostile to women than any non "woman dominated" field.

  4. Re:Or.... on Fidget Spinners Are Over (fivethirtyeight.com) · · Score: 1

    pens and pencils aren't particularly good fidgets,

    Koreans beg to disagree https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

  5. Gmail evolved a lot from the first closed beta. Jumping from a couple MB to GB, Changing the threads paradigm for "conversations", A spam filter that really works...
    If you say 'gmail is just a rebranded webamail' you don't remember e-mail before google.
    Of course It's not to Marissa's merit, otherwise Yahoo web-mail wouldn't still be the unintuitive, constantly changing shit that's still today. On the other hand Hotmail/Outlook evolved quite fine.

  6. As far as I knew, C++ was fully compatible with ANSI C. That played a big part on its success.

  7. How do they collect something only you know?

    With a 5 dollar wrench. You can argue that there is no difference between that and forced DNA extraction as you can't guarantee that without it investigators will be able to collect DNA samples.

  8. What about encrypted letters on your drawer?

  9. You can be easily compelled to provide biometry evidence, otherwise DNA couldn't be used as evidence.

  10. That's an stupid digression. I've read the verdict and it makes no sense. If the nature of the key "physical/non physical" matters, then why the nature of the thing being protected doesn't?

    The safety box analogy is terrible for both ways of the argument. An encryption password isn't locking anything, the physical support is accessible with a screw driver. For the model to be valid you'd need and "ideal unbreakable safety box", why would you bother to base doctrine on an empty shell when we have concrete stuff like computers.

    The real discussion should be around under which circumstances a judge can compel you to provide incriminatory documentation. It's nature is about information itself and not the support of the information.

  11. Re:Change begins at home on India's Ethical Hackers Rewarded Abroad, Ignored at Home (yahoo.com) · · Score: 1

    Just like anything else, because in the short term they're cheaper, and in the long term if your high risk strategy didn't pay out you had enough time to get another job before the shit hits the fan.

  12. This sounds ideal for women who supposedly "don't negotiate as much" because they're afraid of being "perceived as bossy" or whatever is the latest memetic hypothetical.

    It's not a memetic hypotetical. Agreeableness is a measurable personality trait. On average women are more agreeable than men and there is a negative correlation between agreeableness and salary reproduced in multiple studies. Granted, that agreeableness affects salary negotiations the hypothesis to explain such correlation. http://digitalcommons.ilr.corn...

    On the other hand, the insights you bring on Google's salary management are really interesting.

  13. Nobody says men are not getting paid more than women. The claim is that corrected by equal performance, the salary breach isn't as big and might just be attributed to agreeableness. Women on average are much more agreeable that men, and agreeableness makes you suck at negotiations/confrontations. It's not patriarchy. Just psychology and capitalism. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/new...

    I also don't know why you try to build a strawman. Nobody forces women to be howsekeepers. It's up to them to pursue a career and/or build family. And the responsibility distribution between couples never was supposed to be equal. It's up to each to figure out the rules of their relationships.

  14. Re:Linux in firmware for NAS and other Dohickeys on Wormable Code-Execution Bug Lurked In Samba For 7 Years (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Assuming you earned limited access to a private network, you can use this bug to escalate privileges.

  15. I don't get it. on Wormable Code-Execution Bug Lurked In Samba For 7 Years (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Why would anybody expose a Samba server to the internet?

  16. Re: This opinion isn't new and is still wrong. on 'WannaCry Makes an Easy Case For Linux' (techrepublic.com) · · Score: 1

    Probably, by the collaborative nature and size of the linux kernel project, there are more eyes there than on Windows (more people giving less time to the project). But you're right, it probably means nothing.

  17. Re: This opinion isn't new and is still wrong. on 'WannaCry Makes an Easy Case For Linux' (techrepublic.com) · · Score: 1

    What are you talking about? You can't even fucking ping a windows box with it's default firewall configuration.

  18. Re:the propaganda narrative needs work. on WannaCry Ransomware Shares Code With North Korean Malware, Says Researchers (cyberscoop.com) · · Score: 1

    South Korean media still bugs them a lot (because their propaganda tries to portray the South as impoverished and oppressed by the US, a country that they need to "save"

    Well, they had their president puppeted by a mentalist, they might actually need some sort of saving.

  19. Here, "one persons carelessness", translates to the somebody plugging his laptop at multiple places because he's doing real work. You can't push the blame to the users.

  20. It's the same shit on unix, tons of times I've came with special hardware with drivers released for a particular version of linux (probably redhat). Even having the source of the drivers, if they're unmaintained they won't work with newer kernels. Not everybody is RMS

  21. The price difference for low end devices is huge between ARM and Intel. The cheapest android tablet is less than half the price the cheapest windows tablet.

  22. If they have all the evidence why would they need more evidence?

  23. He's not the healthiest 70yo I know, but he's clearly doing much better than the average.

  24. Re:This is excellent news! on An Artificial Womb Successfully Grew Baby Sheep -- and Humans Could Be Next (theverge.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    There is actually more demand than supply for healthy babies (under 3yo). The issues are laws and state regulations.

  25. Re:I have EEG experience and my two cents on Neuroscientists Offer a Reality Check On Facebook's 'Typing By Brain' Project (ieee.org) · · Score: 1

    But what about correlations between different samples of the same person. With enough training this may be feasible.