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  1. Are property tax bills dropping as well? on Sea Level Rise Already Causing Billions in Home Value To Disappear (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    If property tax bills aren't dropping then this valuation analysis is junk.

  2. Standard RFP process on Is Amazon Rigging the Bidding For Massive Government Contracts? (vanityfair.com) · · Score: 1

    This is a pretty standard part of any RFP, where vendors fight to make sure the requirements favor themselves. It's up to the project committee to weight the various requirements and figure out which ones are real and which ones are vendor-related BS.

  3. They're not bypassing the app store on Netflix Is the Latest Company To Try Bypassing Apple's App Store (marketwatch.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    They're not bypassing the app store, they're bypassing the in-app payment infrastructure.

    Of course you can do it. Amazon's been doing that since the kindle app came out.

  4. Enemies of the state! on The Consequences of Indecency (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    "We need to kill all those old white guys and make sure that someone who represents the actual people runs Washington."

    Is that hate speech? That's basically the left's rhetoric everywhere for the last 80 years.

  5. The federal government doesn't really have authority over state voting procedures. The court systems do, in that they have to ensure that people's constitutional rights aren't stomped on. But when it comes to the nuts and bolds of voting, the Feds don't really have a say.

  6. Lame attempt at bypassing the process on 22 States Ask US Appeals Court To Reinstate Net Neutrality Rules (reuters.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    The Democrats have gotten so used to using the courts to implement policy that they do it instinctively. That's pathetic. Real change comes from the political process...you know, like how marijuana legalization is happening.

  7. Interesting diverging paths on Linux Study Argues Monolithic OS Design Leads To Critical Exploits (osnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Windows NT was Cutler's next time around. MacOS X (technically Mach) was Tevanian's first time.

    Pretty interesting how things worked out.

  8. Myopic view of security on Linux Study Argues Monolithic OS Design Leads To Critical Exploits (osnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Will a microkernel mitigate application-level exploits? No. And really, the application level is the important level because the OS itself is a pretty useless source of user data.

    Will a microkernel prevent a certain class of exploits? Probably. But if the platform is unsuitable for applications, then the question is moot.

    Maybe they want to commercialize Mach 3? Mach 3 was supposed to be BoBW, but apparently nobody actually believed that.

  9. Rural broadband problems on FCC Proposes To Maintain US Broadband Standard of 25Mbps Down, 3Mbps Up (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1, Informative

    Most slashdot readers don't get it, but rural broadband is hard. Remember rural areas? You know, the places outside of cities?

    America is big, and the rural America are really big. Stringing wire and fiber is expensive, and will never be cost-effective.

    Let's take Etex.net. They have a service area of 710 square miles. That's about the size of Singapore, with a population density of about 0. There are probably 30,000 potential customers in their service area.

    They offer 20Mbps, tops. Are they going to string fiber to everyone? No. Can they do bonded DSL? No. They could run two independent DSL lines and bond at the router? Maybe.

    VDSL2 can get 50Mbps at 1,000 meters from the CO. That doesn't get you much when you're out in the boonies. $13k/mile is suburban fiber-per-mile cost, so maybe it's $7k per mile in rural areas. So you can string fiber 20 miles to that guy's house for $140k. How do you make that back?

  10. Looks like some electrons in Georgia took that saying to heart.

  11. Humanities asks the question. on 'Why Liberal Arts and the Humanities Are as Important as Engineering' (wadhwa.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Humanities asks questions. Engineering provides solutions. That's pretty much the difference right there.

  12. Let's ban sharp plastic objects! on Judge Blocks Release of Blueprints For 3D-Printed Guns (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Let's ban sharp plastic objects, because bad people can use them to do bad things!

    If judges really want to do ban something dangerous they should ban the publication of information about re: CRISPR. It's more likely that someone will create a homegrown virus via CRISPR than kill lots of people with plastic guns.

  13. What a lamer. Gucci? For real? He should have just gotten a Tumi bag.

  14. Bullshit attack on IoT Security Flaw Leaves 496 Million Devices Vulnerable At Businesses, Report Says (crn.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    This is a bullshit attack. If they've already gotten to the embedded web server then they don't need you to change your thermostat.

  15. Most US cities are designed on A Look at Street Network Orientation in Major US Cities (geoffboeing.com) · · Score: 2

    Most of the US cities were designed by semi-intelligent humans. When you've got a greenfield install, you do it the Right Way.

    Boston's streets were designed by cows, according to local lore. But what's up with Charlotte?

  16. In 2018, nobody is impressed by a phone on Owning an iPhone is the Number-One Way To Guess if You're Rich or Not, Research Finds (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 1

    It's 2018. Nobody cares what kind of phone you have...unless it's a feature phone.

  17. Large number of Indians were killed by disease on Facebook Apologizes After Flagging Declaration of Independence As Hate Speech (nymag.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    When the settlers came, they killed off a huge amount of indians via disease. You can read Squanto's account of America after his return; a land that was full of people was basically a ghost town.

    It's crazy, but disease probably wiped out an order of magnitude more people than the US did.

  18. Customized plates and pictures? on Would You Pay $700, Plus a Monthly Fee, For a Digital License Plate? (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Can you customize it to have custom pictures, plate numbers, or text?

    If not, it's pointless.

  19. Samsung is just trying to show that it cares by connecting you with your friends.

  20. You must suck at AWS on 'Why You Should Not Use Google Cloud' (medium.com) · · Score: 1

    Sorry, you must be really bad at AWS.

    Amazon's hardware isn't HA, your solution is.

    I've run small to huge workloads on amazon, and saying that it's designed for companies that have hundreds/thousands of servers is totally wrong. In fact, it's not really that well designed for tons of servers because they don't really have a lot of built-in automation to handle hundreds, if not thousands, of servers.

    Just because you use a cloud provider doesn't mean that it's turnkey. You still have to know everything. The difference is it costs less and generally it's easier.

  21. Well, why not put a few million faces of each race or whatever it's called now into your training dataset? I'm sure there are underground datasets that exist.

  22. What's the big deal really? on Should Facial Recognition Cameras Be In Schools? (nyclu.org) · · Score: 1

    Is it a public area? Mostly. Is there a reasonable expectation of privacy? Not really.

    Visual recognition is actually not as error-prone as the ACLU would like to believe, and it's substantially better than eyewitnesses. There probably aren't a lot of benefits to installing it, but there aren't really a lot of negatives either.

  23. Natural selection at work on Mature Fish Are Found In Deeper Water Because of Humans (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Fish that swim in deeper waters survive, and pass their genes on. Fish that swim in shallower waters get eaten.

  24. Clinton had her own email server in her bathroom. Comey probably used gmail/aol/yahoo. There's a difference.

  25. Blue smoke sniffers? on Police Departments Are Training Dogs To Sniff Out Thumb Drives (cnet.com) · · Score: 2

    The dogs, they can sniff out the blue smoke before it escapes. Good dog!

    Seriously, what is the chemical they're looking for?