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  1. Re:Surveillance or Evidence on Body Camera Maker Will Let Cops Live-Stream Their Encounters (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Police cameras should be running 24/7. It's not surveillance it's evidence, both for and against police actions.

    Which is why police would never agree to it willingly. Police love body cameras so long as they control when they get turned on, what gets saved and who gets to see the footage.

    Otherwise, they hate body cams.

  2. Re:Can U feel the fueling? on Japan's Silent Submarines Extend Range With Lithium-Ion Batteries (nikkei.com) · · Score: 2

    If you like half the total energy efficiency and a fraction of the energy storage capacity compared to diesel/lithium ion combo then, yeah...way better!

  3. 3.5" is a standard size, though some have 2.5".

    I had an 8" Wang.

  4. Re:I'm surprised they're using outside product on Linux Now Dominates Azure (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    It's called findstr, and it sucks

    findstr is outdated. Get with the times.

  5. Re: Thanks Rei on Tesla Meets Q3 Product Goals of 50,000 To 55,000 Model 3s (electrek.co) · · Score: 1

    ...SEC taking actions that 99% of TSLA shareholders don't want, in order to "protect shareholders"...

    What the cult of Tesla wants is not determinative of whether or not Musk broke the law.

  6. Re:I'm surprised they're using outside product on Linux Now Dominates Azure (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Did Microsoft come out with a grep equivalent?

    Yes.

  7. Re:I'm surprised they're using outside product on Linux Now Dominates Azure (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    I've run into the version issues you talk of.

    I had to install the updated version of Windows Management Framework on a bunch of remote Windows 7 machines in order for the script I wrote to be able to work on both Windows 7 and Windows 10. I couldn't just write the script for the earlier version of powershell because one of the commandlets had a new feature that I needed.

    On another occasion, I was deploying bitlocker to a mixture of Windows 7 and Windows 10 machines, I had to mix powershell cmdlets with the oldschool commands because the bitlocker cmdlets only worked on Windows 10.

    Version hassles aside, I appreciate powershell over the old vbscript/batch days.

  8. Re:I'm surprised they're using outside product on Linux Now Dominates Azure (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Interesting perspective on the documentation. I first delved into the world on *nix after using only DOS and Windows throughout my childhood in the 80s and 90s and I found the FreeBSD documentation superior for someone like me who came in with very little prerequisite knowledge.

    I also appreciated the FreeBSD community's higher signal to noise ratio, e.g., there were a lot fewer people trying to replace Windows clogging up discussions.

  9. Re:I'm surprised they're using outside product on Linux Now Dominates Azure (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    and have you ever dealt with BSD users? I'd rather take a performance hit.

    *sadface*

  10. Re:I'm surprised they're using outside product on Linux Now Dominates Azure (zdnet.com) · · Score: 2

    You would use powershell in lieu of the old sc utility...

    Set-Service
    Get-Service
    New-Service
    Restart-Service
    Resume-Service
    Start-Service
    Stop-Service
    Suspend-Service

  11. Re:I'm surprised they're using outside product on Linux Now Dominates Azure (zdnet.com) · · Score: 3, Funny

    And, of course, you can script literally anything in Linux. You can't in Windows.

    Absolute nonsense.

  12. California is a big place with many different regional differences in costs of living,

    To your point, I just saw a 6 bedroom 3.5 bathroom house come on the market in my area of California. Asking price: $299K.

  13. Re: Rock and hard place on Trump Tells Apple To Make Products In the US To Avoid China Tariffs (thehill.com) · · Score: 1

    Because Apple is run by private-school Progressives who viscerally hate the American working class.

    As a public school progressive, sadly, this rings all too true.

  14. Re:This is a good thing on The 'Post-PC Era' Never Really Happened... and Likely Won't (techpinions.com) · · Score: 1

    ...after adding a keyboard, mouse, peripheral hub, stand, etc. to make the tablet as functional as a laptop, you might as well just buy a touchscreen ultralight laptop.

    My experience exactly. We piloted Surface Pro 4s at work. They are fine, for the most part, but after a year of using the surface with a dock I would have preferred an ultralight laptop that swivels.

  15. Aesthetically pleasing? Have you seen a Model 3? It looks like a Kia Forte but more bubbled up on the top. It's honestly hideous.

    Yes, it does indeed look awkward from a few angles.

    A friend of mine got one. It was really cool - the interface is definitely Apple-esq in its look and responsiveness, and overall, it was very comfortable, but the ride wasn't any quieter or smoother than my 2014 Chevy Volt.

  16. Re:no shit on Study Finds 58% of Tech Employees Feel Like Frauds (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    The other half know their Google-fu. And that's good enough I guess.

    It is.

    The current amount of technology-driven productivity enjoyed in business today would not be possible without the internet and "Google-Fu."

    It takes above-average level of intelligence just to be able to find the answer you need on the internet. That cuts down your pool of possible decent IT people quite a bit and going beyond that, it takes a significantly higher IQ to be able to absorb information fast enough to become a "real" expert on one or more of the technologies used today.

    Just by the numbers, that means that a small minority (5%-10% maybe?) of the population are even capable of being "real" I.T. experts, and of those many will never go into I.T., choosing other lucrative professions. Below that there will be experts of a lesser levels, going down to the people that rely on Google-Fu, or at the bottom, colleague-assisted Google-Fu.

    So if you know the answers, keep sharing them on the interwebs, and assisting your colleagues with their Google-Fu. It will make the world better.

    Or at least monetize it and become a good consultant.

  17. Re:I think DK is over-talked about on Study Finds 58% of Tech Employees Feel Like Frauds (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    DK includes both sides of the spectrum.

    See the graph here and the quotes below it.

    It's one of those things that people had always suspected based on their intuition, but was not formally studied until recently.

    The original study is here.

  18. They are a re-purposing of laptop batteries.

    That's a bit of an oversimplification.

    The "innovation" was in being the first to using Lithium Ion batteries in a production car.

    To me, Tesla is pretty much exactly like Apple. They take already mature technologies and integrate in a unique and aesthetically pleasing ways, and cultivate cult-like followings using their dear leader's charisma.

  19. Re:Same with WIndows 10 on Microsoft Removes Device Install Limits For Office 365 Subscribers (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    The funny thing is, if you click on his username, slashdot barfs and says the user doesn't exist. Why is that?

    Looks like a bug in the site code. Perhaps the special characters in the username getting scrubbed at the wrong time, causing the lookup to fail.

  20. Re: When their alternate energy has blackouts on California Moves To Require 100% Clean Electricity by 2045 (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Nobody would go hungry if CA was forced to cut Ag production. California grows a very high percentage of certain foods, but a relatively low percentage of the all of the food. The crops California dominates in are not staple foods like corn and wheat, but food items that are less essential, like garlic, almonds and artichokes. Everything that is currently produced in CA can and would be produced elsewhere if a hole opened up in the market due to a cut in production in CA.

  21. Re:Why is the FS a problem? on What Dropbox Dropping Linux Support Says (techrepublic.com) · · Score: 1

    Nice to hear from you.

    I was the one with the RIL that would go comatose for no apparent reason. You kept tweaking it and sending me new builds, but we never could never figure out what the problem was.

  22. Re:When their alternate energy has blackouts on California Moves To Require 100% Clean Electricity by 2045 (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    They're already struggling to meet water demand for agriculture and human needs.

    Ag takes up 90% of developed water in CA while making up less than 2% of California's economy.

    Apple takes in more revenue every quarter than the entire California Ag industry takes in in a year.

    What will happen is Ag will lose some of their water allocations because, economically, they are not important enough to the state.

  23. Re:Why is the FS a problem? on What Dropbox Dropping Linux Support Says (techrepublic.com) · · Score: 1

    A lifetime ago, myself and a few other people had the pleasure of working with Howard Chu for a short time working to port Android to our HTC Touch Pro 2s.

    Being the smartest guy in the room by far, Howard was actually doing 99.9% of the actual work, but us script kiddies also wanted Android on our phones, so we tried our best to help him debug.

    I remember either myself, or someone else writing an init script that would do some kind of debugging on startup for an issue we were having. Given what it needed to do, the script was ridiculously complex, complete with functions and error checking.

    When Mr. Chu saw the script, he literally lol'd (we conversed via IRC), remarking that he would have made it one line.

  24. Re:I don't know if the internet makes us dumber... on Does Google Actually Make Us Dumber? (buzzfeednews.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Science does NOT have all the answers -- and never will.

    Science is a system, not a container you hold stuff in.

    Intuition is the Non-Linear approach to Truth.

    A person's intuition might serve to form hypothesis, but it is not a system like science is.

  25. Re:Who died due to capitalism? on Fewer Than Half of Young Americans Are Positive About Capitalism (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Fighting against the spread of communism was used as an argument to the public for engaging in the war.