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  1. Re:Another campaign promise by Trump kept on U.S. Passes 'Right to Try' Law Allowing Experimental Medical Treatments (chicagotribune.com) · · Score: 1

    It's really sad that these days people are shocked when a politician keeps their campaign promises. Maybe now people will pay more attention to what candidates say during elections.

  2. Re:So, typical class action result on Tesla Agrees To Settle Class Action Over Autopilot Billed As 'Safer' (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    In this case, it's even worse since the victims paid $5k extra for this feature.

  3. Wait. People are blaming Trump for something that started under Obama?

  4. Re:Another site that thinks it knows better... on YouTube Is Messing With the Order of Videos In Some User Feeds (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    > "chronological order,"

    I started uploading videos to YouTube just over twelve years ago, and I can't even see my own videos sorted by date. At least Google is consistent in not allowing both content creators and consumers to sort by date.

  5. Re:RESTful APIs (sans RBAC) FTW on T-Mobile Bug Let Anyone See Any Customer's Account Details (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    > by a guy

    I assume you mean by "guy" you mean an "Indian guy." The ones I've worked with in the past over forty+ years I've worked in tech in the Seattle area typically only stay a couple of years, create a mess, and then move on. I can't blame them since that's basically the only way you can get a raise.

  6. Re:Just as scott adams predicted: on Trump Cancels Singapore Summit With North Korean Leader Kim Jong Un (cnbc.com) · · Score: 2

    Correct. Worked for a car dealer for a couple of summers while in college, and the only negotiating tactic I saw that worked well was walking away. The car salesmen are at a huge advantage since they negotiate car sales several times a week, and they know all of the tricks. Walking away takes away all of their power.

  7. Re: There's already a Pravda, Comrade. on Elon Musk To Fight Fake News, Rate Journalists' Credibility Via a Site Called 'Pravda' · · Score: 1

    Wrong. A CNAME record must have no other resource records of other types like MX or NS records so you can't create a CNAME for a domain name. BIND will give you the error:

    "rndc: 'reload' failed: CNAME and other data"

    Also, RFC 1912 says "A CNAME record is not allowed to coexist with any other data."

  8. Good example. Calling someone an animal that stabbed someone over a 100 times, decapitated him, and removed his heart shouldn't be controversial.

  9. Re:So the public rates their credibility? on Elon Musk To Fight Fake News, Rate Journalists' Credibility Via a Site Called 'Pravda' · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Since Woodward and Bernstein, too many journalists have tried to create the news rather than just objectively report on it.

  10. They consider that their job.

  11. Re:"average 257 components per application." on The Percentage of Open Source Code in Proprietary Apps is Rising (helpnetsecurity.com) · · Score: 2

    Easy for you to say when the output of "mvn dependency:tree -Dverbose" doesn't include over two thousand lines of output.

  12. "average 257 components per application." on The Percentage of Open Source Code in Proprietary Apps is Rising (helpnetsecurity.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Sounds like they're using Maven or NPM. Both include a ridiculous number of transitive dependencies.

  13. Re:How original . . . on The Whole World is Now a Computer, Says Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    The 200MB Maxtors were rock-solid. The Quantums, on the other hand, had a sticktion problem. As for the Suns themselves, the ones built into CRTs (SLC and ELC) would bake themselves to death, but the other shoeboxes and pizzaboxes were quite reliable. Previous pre-pizzabox Suns were maybe a little less so.

    That wasn't my experience with the Maxtors, but you're right about the Quantums wrt stiction. Putting them in a freezer for a few minutes usually helped them start at least one more time. I saved many theses and dissertations using that method. I think I learned that trick from the old Usenet group comp.hardware.

  14. Re:That's frightening. on The Whole World is Now a Computer, Says Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    In the days of Ping of Death, that pretty much happened. Was teaching a CS class in 1997, and I was standing in the back of the room when I saw over thirty Windows machines all blue screen at once. At work, we would often have several floors worth of Windows machines blue screen within seconds. That bug also affected Linux, Solaris, FreeBSD, SunOS, Irix, OS/2, Novell, and HP printers that we had where I worked at the time so basically it was a "worldwide BSOD."

  15. Re:How original . . . on The Whole World is Now a Computer, Says Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    That was when the Wired article with that quote was published. Sun used that phrase for I think nearly a decade before that. I know I heard coworkers quote it many times when I managed Sun workstations in the late 1980s. That was a great time. Other than hard drive failures, which seemed to happen way too often especially with the 200 MB Maxtor SCSI drives, and the electromechanical eject mechanisms on the floppies, they just worked.

  16. What is a computer? on The Whole World is Now a Computer, Says Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Sounds like he is behind the times.

  17. Re:One more reason to love unions... on Supreme Court Upholds Workplace Arbitration Contracts Barring Class Actions (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    True that we only have one vote, but it's a big vote. We can always walk.

  18. Re:How do you know it's more expensive? on Trump Personally Pushed Postmaster General To Double Rates on Amazon, Other Firms: Report (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 0

    No, you're still losing money. You're just losing less of it, and in this case it is Amazon that is paying less than others.

  19. How many hundreds of megabytes is Chromium... on Canonical Shares Desktop Plans For Ubuntu 18.10 (ubuntu.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    going to be? IIRC the VLC snap was 190 MB download and about 700 MB on disk.

  20. Do you work for Microsoft?

  21. Re:California itself should come with a warning la on California Bypasses Science To Label Coffee a Carcinogen (undark.org) · · Score: 1

    You're not exaggerating by much when you say everything. Even parking garages and hotels are required to have cancer warnings.

  22. Re:Cash Grab on Amazon Threatens To Move Jobs Out of Seattle Over New Tax (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    > slush funds

    That's already happening. Even the homeless, who are getting money and paying nothing, are demanding answers to where all of the money is going:

    http://kuow.org/post/homeless-people-also-want-know-where-seattles-money-going

  23. Re:Simpler explanation on Homeland Security Unveils New Cyber Security Strategy Amid Threats (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    But they knew this shouldn't happen. They all voted on the assumption this wouldn't actually happen.

  24. Re:They need to after Trump hatefully... on Homeland Security Unveils New Cyber Security Strategy Amid Threats (reuters.com) · · Score: 2

    Just because the Democrats in the House and Senate and the Democrat President previously approved this doesn't mean it is right for Trump to do. Trump has caused a serious cyber security problem for the US.

    But we voted against this knowing it wouldn't happen. We never expected a President like Trump to ever be elected that would actually do what the passed bill required.

  25. Re: They need to after Trump hatefully... on Homeland Security Unveils New Cyber Security Strategy Amid Threats (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    > The whole act was a charade,

    If true, then why did the vast majority of both parties vote on moving it to Jerusalem?