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  1. Re:Just sad that Obama didn't do that on Washington Sues Facebook, Google For Failure To Disclose Political Ad Spending (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    True but an attorney from Seattle named Marc Elias from Perkins Coie LLP was the general counsel for both Kerry's and Hillary's campaigns.

  2. Re: Just sad that Obama didn't do that on Washington Sues Facebook, Google For Failure To Disclose Political Ad Spending (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    You're talking about Marc Elias. He was the general counsel for Hillary Clinton's 2016 presidential campaign and for John Kerry's 2004 presidential campaign. That's a weak argument to say she wasn't responsible.

  3. Just sad that Obama didn't do that on Washington Sues Facebook, Google For Failure To Disclose Political Ad Spending (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Trump is trying to reduce foreign influence to our elections which was one of his campaign promises.

  4. Re:Rebranding on Microsoft Acquires GitHub For $7.5B (microsoft.com) · · Score: 1

    True, but it uses its own terminology rather than Git's, so it's confusing as hell to use. It reminds me of TortiseGit that uses SVN terminology.

  5. Re:this is why... on Car Makers Used Software To Raise Spare Parts Prices (engadget.com) · · Score: 1, Informative

    Then no one would ever buy a Honda.

    Also, companies charge different prices for the same part depending on which model it is for. A friend was a moderator at corvetteforum.com, and there were several parts that cost less if you ordered it for a Cavalier versus a Corvette. My friend had trouble with water leaking into his door after someone broke into his car, and he went through several power window switches. IIRC, the part for the Cavalier was half the price but the same exact part.

  6. The crazy uncle of open source talking about compromise? I never saw that coming.

  7. Re:My niece had the second most viewed... on YouTube's Top Creators Are Burning Out and Breaking Down En Masse (polygon.com) · · Score: 1

    Brooke Brodack? She's my second cousin's niece. She has only uploaded a few videos the past decade. The last one I watched had the title "YouTube has changed." Despite at one point being #2 on YouTube, she can no longer earn a living on it.

  8. Re:"4 kinds of screws" on Cost To Build a Tesla Model 3 Is $28,000, German Engineers Say (www.wiwo.de) · · Score: 1

    > Why did you need to replace the engine?

    The engine only had a little over 480,000 miles and still ran great, but Jiffy Lube on 85th in Kirkland forgot to tighten the oil plug after his last oil change. They gave him $2k for a nearly twenty-five year-old car without much hassle so I'll have to give them credit for that. The month before that bad oil change, he drove his Corolla to Reno, NV for a poker tournament which is about 1,500 miles roundtrip so it not only ran, it ran well enough for him to depend on it for a long trip.

  9. "4 kinds of screws" on Cost To Build a Tesla Model 3 Is $28,000, German Engineers Say (www.wiwo.de) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    That's huge. Last weekend I helped a friend replace the motor in his 1993 Toyota, and IIRC there were 10, 12, 13, 14, 15, 17, 19, and 21 mm bolts plus several different other Phillips screw sizes. Better than GM which my friend had to buy several sizes of Torx drivers or my other friend that has a Harley we replaced a clutch on that needed a couple of exotic Torx drivers that we couldn't find locally. T25 was too loose and T27 wouldn't fit in one of the bolts. He also replaced one of the heads on it, and the special Torx driver from Snapon was more expensive than he paid for the used head!

  10. I don't think that was the purpose of those laws/regulations, but that was the effect. Small ISPs like the one I work for had to stop offering access due to the oppressive laws that were hard to interpret. I got no bonus two years ago since we paid every penny of profit to Perkins Coie law firm that represented Hillary Clinton. Marc Elias, general counsel for Hillary Clinton's and John Kerry's presidential campaigns, who was our previous lawyer used everything we paid him to support Hillary's campaign and didn't even offer us any advice.

  11. Re:Nice, but when will they fix their auth... on Valve Patches Security Bug That Existed in Steam Client for the Past Ten Years (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    That "Steam Guard code" is just crap. I work a lot of hours so I don't have much free time, and it just sucks waiting on the email with the code so I can login to be allowed to play a game I own. By the time I finally get the code to login, I've usually moved on to doing something else.

  12. Re:Windows. has an update problem on Windows Server 2016 Has an Update Problem, Users Say · · Score: 1

    We're in Seattle and bought a company that has a 25+ year old Microsoft app with an almost twenty year-old web component. You try finding enough good Java or other developers in this area to rewrite a large 500+k line legacy system.

  13. Re:Windows. has an update problem on Windows Server 2016 Has an Update Problem, Users Say · · Score: 5, Informative

    I found a method that's worked every time on >250 servers since I found it a couple of months ago. Before that, I used to have interns just hit retry over and over and over again for days. That was dangerous since we have to give them admin access.

    https://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/scriptcenter/2d191bcd-3308-4edd-9de2-88dff796b0bc

    Install the PowerShell module then run:

    Get-WUInstall -AcceptAll -KBArticleID KB

    Updates like KB4088889 that would usually fail dozens of times, always work using that method. It's just too bad that Microsoft can't have Windows Update do what that PowerShell module does so well.

  14. Re:Trump by comparison will die in Federal Prison on Canadian Hacker Sentenced To 5 Years For Yahoo Security Breach (seattletimes.com) · · Score: 0

    > an illegal alien maid pick-up classified FAXes in a SCIF room

    The illegal part hasn't been proved. Yes, her maid had access to FAXes and to Hillary's email:

    https://nypost.com/2016/11/06/clinton-directed-her-maid-to-print-out-classified-materials/

    And even worse asked senders to forward messages to her maid's personal email, but I don't think it was ever proven that her Filipino maid was here illegally. Also, it's strange that the FBI never asked for access to the maid's iMac.

  15. Just click on the ads... on Lawyers Are Sending Mobile Ads To Patients Sitting In Emergency Rooms · · Score: 1

    and they'll stop. They're expensive ads.

  16. Re:Trump by comparison will die in Federal Prison on Canadian Hacker Sentenced To 5 Years For Yahoo Security Breach (seattletimes.com) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    > lost their career.

    Correct. If I remember correctly, the term SCIF came about in 1994, but before that I had a friend from high school that was in the Air Force for just over twenty years that in the early 1980s took a floppy out of secure room that got court marshaled with no retirement. I think the precursor to SCIF was JAFAN 6/9. We all knew the rules, and no one without clearance, not even a janitor, was allowed in. Just sad Hillary allowed not only a maid in the room, but allowed the maid to deliver classified FAXes.

  17. Re:They weren't old.. on Intel Faces Age Discrimination Allegations Following Layoffs (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    > ...49. Even if we could cut the average age to 30 years-old, ...

    Just looked at the quote we received from our insurance broker, and the multiplier for 30 years-old is 1.135 versus 1.706 for 49 years-old where 24 years-old has a multiplier of 1. So you pay about 50% more in your case.

  18. Re:Sounds liek an investigation, no evidence yet on Intel Faces Age Discrimination Allegations Following Layoffs (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    Good point about pay. Higher paid employees are easier targets when doing layoffs.

    For us, it was hours worked. We let nearly every dev go that was working less than 60 hours a week. Of course, that skewed to a higher average age. Someone complained to the state DoL about that, and when we explained the metric used, we never heard back from them. I assume that meant using hours worked was a acceptable metric even when it appeared to result in age discrimination.

  19. Re:for 28K you can buy a REAL CAR! on Star Citizen Video Game Launches $27,000 Players' Pack (bbc.com) · · Score: 2

    Or the "road tax deluxe" as my friend calls his HOV lane violation tickets.

  20. Re:pointless extensions. on Windows 10 Spring Update Improves Linux On WSL With Unix Sockets and More (anandtech.com) · · Score: 1

    > Daemons,Welcome to 1991.

    It's a lot older than that. I remember using nohup in BSD 4.3 in 1987, over thirty years ago.

  21. Re: Running it from another drive? on Windows 10 Spring Update Improves Linux On WSL With Unix Sockets and More (anandtech.com) · · Score: 2

    You misspelled KDE.

  22. Re:Apple Hardware Program on iPhones Will Reportedly Get the Power To Unlock Doors Using NFC (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    I don't think that's correct. There was no charge when we did that, but that was years ago. According to this, there's still no charge:

    https://mfi.apple.com/MFiWeb/getFAQ.action#2-5

  23. Brick fares much better to keep buildings cooler in the summer and warmer in the winter.

    Which you won't find much of on the west coast because of earthquakes. It's been years since I've seen a brick house, but strangely a lot of the new condo buildings in Seattle have brick facades on the first floor which seems like a problem.

    During the 2001 earthquake, the brick building where I worked was made uninhabitable and a block away a brick wall crushed a van. If someone had been inside it, they would have been killed.

  24. Re:Object serialization is dangerous. on Oracle Calls Java Serialization 'A Horrible Mistake', Plans to Dump It (infoworld.com) · · Score: 1

    > Much like goto

    Or worse, eval().

  25. Re:Was very obvious back then on Oracle Calls Java Serialization 'A Horrible Mistake', Plans to Dump It (infoworld.com) · · Score: 2

    Oh please. This wasn't a failure with their implementation. It's an issue with the concept which is still a good thing because the positives still outweigh the negatives.

    It just sucks though going through a 100+ projects to add jaxb to their pom files to prepare for Java 11 LTS that's coming in September.