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  1. Re:Depends on the Simulator on Flight-Simulator Enthusiasts Confident of Real-World Skills (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    That's certainly true, but don't have they have to log a certain number of hours flying that type without passengers before they an actually fly with passengers.

  2. Re:GP's point is even more valid then on California Officials Admit To Using License Plate Readers To Monitor Welfare Recipients (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 2

    The anti-poor people narrative is working so well that the parent got modded down twice. Maybe we can adopt a similar philosophy here at / . and give more mod points to white men from wealthy suburbs.

  3. Re:Rolling blackouts can fix it. on Hacked Water Heaters Could Trigger Mass Blackouts Someday (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    Don't even need rolling blackouts. Most electric companies have programs where they can temporarily disable people's air conditioners to manage demand. This is done with mechanical relays. Usually these are voluntary programs where there is a financial incentive to participate. So your hack ratio would have to be higher than the participation ratio. Otherwise, the electric companies have a simple counter-measure.

  4. Re:It makes sense, it's like scalping on Bethesda Blocks Resale of a Secondhand Game (polygon.com) · · Score: 1

    No idea why this is modded to -1. Although the OP pointed out why some bands may not want to do this.

  5. Re:It makes sense, it's like scalping on Bethesda Blocks Resale of a Secondhand Game (polygon.com) · · Score: 1

    If this were true, the scalpers would have no customers and go out of business. Many items are offered in such a way that you get a better price if and only if you are willing to wait in line or otherwise waste time. Sometimes the *only* way to get certain things (like tickets) is to stand in line for days. Anybody whose time is valuable is going to find somebody whose time is less valuable and just pay them to do this. Scalpers have simply turned this into a repeatable business plan.

  6. Re: How does this apply to full length keys? on Hashcat Developer Discovers Simpler Way To Crack WPA2 Wireless Passwords (hashcat.net) · · Score: 1

    If you have unfettered access to the network and some basic skills, you will get in pretty deep. Capturing encrypted traffic won't be of much value. Your next step will be to try to gain access to one of the hosts. Even if all of the hosts are completely patch on day one, you can just be patient. All it takes is one exploit that you know about before the target and you've then gained additional access. If the target is an organization, there are likely many hosts and you only need to find one additional vulnerability now that you are behind a firewall. Probably takes zero skill. Rote use of nmap and metasploit will likely get you there. Boring for sure. I would lose my mind But some people actually find this type of exploitation fun.

  7. Re: How does this apply to full length keys? on Hashcat Developer Discovers Simpler Way To Crack WPA2 Wireless Passwords (hashcat.net) · · Score: 1

    I think you are missing the point of cracking the password. It's not to get internet access. It's to sniff traffic on the network. If you sniff traffic on my home network you could watch This Is Us for free which isn't much of a gain. But if the network is home to higher value targets, getting a wireless connection is a gold mine as you will already be behind the firewall.

  8. Is it possible that the doctors aren't treating the women as aggressively because these conditions are less common on women thus making it harder to diagnose?

  9. Or it could be what the OP said. That female doctors are being assigned easier cases. So the net result is that we can't really conclude anything.

  10. Yes he can. If the board of directors approves a sale. Or maybe they need a 51% shareholder vote. But you don't need 100% of shareholders to sell. The transaction will be forced. It's how publicly traded companies work. It's in their charter and part of the prospectus that one should read before buying the stock.

  11. I don't think this is correct. Typically if a majority of shareholders vote for going private, the transaction happens and minority shareholders are forced to sell at the specified price. They don't become shareholders in the private company. They way this is normally structured is that the entire company is sold to a newly formed private entity. Each and every share is bought.

  12. This comment makes no sense. The OP's point is that if the best companies keep going private, investing in an index fund will start yielding lower returns and then retail investors will be completely shut out. If those index funds suddenly comprise only penny stocks, they wouldn't be good investments. Whether there is a risk of this happening or not is an interesting discussion (but off topic). But the OP is spot on that public markets are the last place where retail investors can get a good return. If those go away, there will be little upward mobility left.

  13. Re:A simpler explanation on Amazon's Curious Case of the $2,630.52 Used Paperback (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Why decline a legit sale? If you don't have enough inventory, you can just buy one of the reasonably priced ones and ship it. Extra profit.

  14. We all know that correlation is not causation (In any other story, just posting that sentence is a guaranteed +5). But if you had to guess at a causal relationship, do you really think that strict gun laws are a cause of gun violence or a reaction to gun violence? Maybe they aren't a *good* reaction (That's a separate topic), but they are a common reaction. I've never heard of an area with no gun problems (say a sparsely populated rural county) suddenly passing strict gun laws for no reason and then turning into a den of gang violence. Have you? I have heard of cities who are desperate to stop innocent victims from getting killed in drug violence passing gun laws. Those places are already borderline war zones. Now if it were up to me, I would give the drug dealers free firearms training so that when they go to shoot each other they stop missing and hitting kids. But that probably would be politically very difficult.

  15. Re:I want to say Unpopular Opinions Anonymously on Reddit's Case for Anonymity on the Internet (theatlantic.com) · · Score: 1

    Your statement is factually correct but somewhat misleading. Schools have punished to the extent that kids have intertwined these activities with their school activity. The cases that I'm aware of involve kids making statements outside of school that they themselves link to school. i.e. sexually offensive comments about other students/teachers. I'm not aware of a case where say a kid advocated for something unpopular in a way clearly separated from their school activities and got into trouble. There seems to be a lot of legal grey area about how much association with school is necessary. But I'm not aware of a case where a kid didn't create their own grey area by linking their out-of-school and in-school activities voluntarily. (i.e. if you want to make a pornographic video, don't mention your principles name)

  16. Re:Owning is better than renting on Best Buy Stops Selling Music CDs (cbsnews.com) · · Score: 1

    And if you calculate the lifetime 'rent' vs what it would take you to buy enough CDs to have a tolerably sized library, the rental option appears vastly superior

  17. Re:I want to say Unpopular Opinions Anonymously on Reddit's Case for Anonymity on the Internet (theatlantic.com) · · Score: 1

    Well I'm all for avoiding problems. But it doesn't seem that this is one that we're in danger of having. We have the OPs anecdote but is there any actual data on this? I've never seen a restaurant ask to see your Facebook profile before seating somebody.

  18. Re:I want to say Unpopular Opinions Anonymously on Reddit's Case for Anonymity on the Internet (theatlantic.com) · · Score: 1

    Who do you know who has ever been banned from an establishment because of something they said on a discussion forum? If that happened to me, I sure wouldn't be bragging about it. You'd have to be expressing some pretty extreme viewpoints. And at that point, maybe what the OP is saying really is dangerous/hateful.

  19. I've had some caffeine dependence and I can tell you that the terrible headaches and sleepiness that come with withdrawal are no fun.

  20. Re:I want to say Unpopular Opinions Anonymously on Reddit's Case for Anonymity on the Internet (theatlantic.com) · · Score: 2

    You should also be able to say that the earth is/is not flat and that the sun does/does not revolve around the earth. You certainly shouldn't be imprisoned. But you'll have to define reprisal a bit more specifically. If you are saying any of these things too loudly, I may not want you in my establishment. (Well if I had one that is) Many of the things you listed above can be said in both hateful and non-hateful ways. So how you say those things would be a factor as well.

  21. Re:Too early on Splitting Water For Fuel While Removing CO2 From the Air (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Medium density housing (apartments) are the best places for EVs. The owners of the complex can install the charge points. And the parking lots are generally pretty full so it's an efficient installation (won't be a lot of unused chargers around). Rural areas are hard because affordable EVs really may not have enough range yet for a trip into town with multiple stops. Cities also work for EVs.

  22. Re:Bad Chemistry on Splitting Water For Fuel While Removing CO2 From the Air (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 2

    I'm as much of a skeptic as you are, but if you create the hydrogen near the point that it will be used (i.e. right next to a gas turbine), you can solve a lot of safety issues. Raising the pH of the ocean is a problem. But right now it is acidifying to to atmospheric CO2, so this may be a net win if we only raise it back to "normal" levels.

  23. Re:Intent is not required for all felonies on Colorado Lawmakers Want To Make It a Felony To Fly a Drone Over a Wildfire (thedrive.com) · · Score: 1

    IANAL, but I think that intent is required for many crimes. But negligence is considered a substitute for intent in some cases. The actual term is mens rea.

  24. Re:Shouldn't have been possible in the first place on Home Security Camera Sends Video To Wrong User (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Except that you then have a small possibility of key collision!

  25. Re:The cloud on Home Security Camera Sends Video To Wrong User (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    What could be even more insecure than sending the data to "some server somewhere" that somebody has probably made at least a trivial attempt to secure? A webcam with a routeable IP address!