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  1. Re:How to build that Muslim database on Does Amazon's Clickworker Platform Exploit Its Workers? (techrepublic.com) · · Score: 0

    If it's so damn easy, why not get a machine to do it? Oh, wait, they can't - yet. You're training the machines. So you'll work for less than minimum wage to deprive future people of the "opportunity" to work for less than minimum wage.

    If they can't replace the human with a robot, they need to pay the human enough to live, same as when they replace the human with the robot, they can't say "well, we need to improve the bottom line, so let's cut electricity and maintenance to the robots by 20%, and demand a 15% increase in productivity. It's not like they are in a position to go look for work elsewhere." So why the hell should they be able to pull this shit on humans?

  2. Re:Exploitative by design? on Does Amazon's Clickworker Platform Exploit Its Workers? (techrepublic.com) · · Score: 1, Troll

    It's Amazon. Why should they treat Turkers any better than anyone else who works for them?

  3. Re:Why US minimum wage as standard? on Does Amazon's Clickworker Platform Exploit Its Workers? (techrepublic.com) · · Score: 1

    So a skill that can bring in $80k a year in the US can legally be offshored for $15k a year? Won't help.

  4. Re:Basic Income on Does Amazon's Clickworker Platform Exploit Its Workers? (techrepublic.com) · · Score: 2

    So just how is someone under 65 going to survive on $500 a month? Or someone over 65 on $750? You would have to also bring in universal healthcare and pharmacare with no deductibles, no co-pays, no insurance premiums. Otherwise, you've signed the death warrants of honest people, while the crooks will always manage to survive and even prosper.

    And saying "death warrants" is not an exaggeration.

    Depression is the leading cause of disability worldwide. Remember, 26% of the US population will experience at least one depressive episode in their lifetimes. Economic distress doesn't help.

  5. Re:They can't be serious. on Does Code Reuse Endanger Secure Software Development? (threatpost.com) · · Score: 3, Funny

    If it means that it would be impossible to create stuff like Twitter, perhaps the positives outweigh the negatives.

  6. Re:uh, no on Does Code Reuse Endanger Secure Software Development? (threatpost.com) · · Score: 1

    Because you could certainly code up a more secure implementation of SSL yourself. That's probably the funniest thing I've seen on slashsot, ever.

    It will be the most secure implementation of SSL ever. It won't work, and terminate whatever process is trying to use it. Same as if he builds an airplane, it will be super safe because it will never get off the ground :-)

  7. Re:Evidence, please. on President Obama Threatens Retaliatory Actions Against Russia Over Hacks (nytimes.com) · · Score: 2

    Ah, even more bullshit. Spearfishing is not hacking. Someone emails you their password, you access their account, you have only reached the level of unauthorized access, NOT hacking.

    If the Clinton campaign hadn't been engaging in dishonest activity, and if Clinton hadn't been dishonest herself in her 2-faced speeches, there wouldn't have been any dirt to leak. Blaming the messenger is not going to cut it. She should never have been the candidate, and if the DNC process had worked as it was supposed to, impartially, she wouldn't have been, and Sanders would be president-elect. The machinations of the DNC and Clinton are to blame for the Trump presidency.

    And yes, I have no problem with a campaign being decided that way. Don't do shit that you would be ashamed of your mother reading on the front page of the New York Times. Maybe the DNC will be more honest next time. If so, it was worth it. And whether or not the DNC changes, everyone else has an object lesson to learn from.

    It's not like a Clinton presidency would be any better than a Trump presidency. And remember, you get the government you deserve, so don't blame the leaks, blame the players (both the RNC and the DNC) for coming up with what were the two worst candidates. Picking someone by lottery would have been better. Heck, taking a homeless person off the street and electing them president would be better - they would be happy stealing far less.

  8. Re:Time to outlaw the IoT on Massive Mirai Botnet Hides Its Control Servers On Tor (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    You still need to remove the routers from the network, the sooner the better. It can take years for a lawsuit involving bad construction to work it's way through the courts.

  9. Re:Time to outlaw the IoT on Massive Mirai Botnet Hides Its Control Servers On Tor (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    The various government levels do in fact decide what consumers get. Or would you rather not have standards for manufacturing and operating airplanes, cars, trains, drinking water systems, food safety, etc? That's 3rd world, not America.

    Same thing with consumer protection laws, other laws, the courts, etc. Or would you rather your local 3rd-world warlord dictate the law according to their whim?

    BTW - the FCC already dictates router specs.

  10. Re:Time to outlaw the IoT on Massive Mirai Botnet Hides Its Control Servers On Tor (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    And you look like a damn fool for not knowing the original spelling way back when. Bite me.

  11. Re:Time to outlaw the IoT on Massive Mirai Botnet Hides Its Control Servers On Tor (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    We already have time-of-day electrical pricing to shift demand, without needing any IoT crap, and it works just fine.

  12. Re:Evidence, please. on President Obama Threatens Retaliatory Actions Against Russia Over Hacks (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    All of that is bullshit when it comes to Podesta's account, which is where the motherlode of embarrassing emails with Clinton, the DNC, etc., came from. Podesta's account was NOT hacked.

  13. Re:Time to outlaw the IoT on Massive Mirai Botnet Hides Its Control Servers On Tor (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    You didn't even read the blurb, did you? 900,000 routers. Should we ban routers now?

    Absolutely yes. Any router that is easily p0wned should be banned. How could you be against that?

  14. Re:Time to outlaw the IoT on Massive Mirai Botnet Hides Its Control Servers On Tor (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    Why not ban crappy routers? It gets p0wned, it gets fried. Spend more on a better one next time.

  15. Re:Time to outlaw the IoT on Massive Mirai Botnet Hides Its Control Servers On Tor (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    Not a problem. They don't stop people from breaking into your house, or committing crimes, so they just give a false sense of security.

  16. Re:He didn't, did he? While nobody was around to? on RIP Dr. Henry Heimlich, Inventor of the Heimlich Maneuver (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Well, he was in a hospital, and the odds of living after a code blue in the hospital are about 25%. Even less outside a hospital, so make sure you have your advanced medical directives all filled in. There are some things (such as being a semi-vegetable from brain damage) that are worse than death.

  17. Re:A true hero on RIP Dr. Henry Heimlich, Inventor of the Heimlich Maneuver (bbc.com) · · Score: 2

    RIP. While I don't know much about his life, that one brilliant idea has saved so many lives. That makes him a hero in my books -- and I don't bandie that term about casually.

    Bullshit, His son runs a website debunking the effectiveness of the Heimlich maneuver. Why risk damaging internal organs without first trying a few good thumps on the back?

  18. Re:Evidence, please. on President Obama Threatens Retaliatory Actions Against Russia Over Hacks (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    The emails were leaked because Podesta forwarded a password reset form of his email account to a tech and asked him if it was legit. Podesta mis-heard him or the tech got it wrong, and Podesta sent his log-in credentials to the spear-fisher. There was no hack. Not when your sucker emails you their password.

  19. Re:Evidence, please. on President Obama Threatens Retaliatory Actions Against Russia Over Hacks (nytimes.com) · · Score: 0

    Clinton speeches to bankers.

  20. Re:Evidence, please. on President Obama Threatens Retaliatory Actions Against Russia Over Hacks (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    The same result can be achieved by taking hormones sublingually. Directly into the bloodstream, bypasses the first pass through the liver. Please note that typical birth control pillsshave 100 less estrogen than m2f HRT - otherwise they wouldn't do the job :-)

    Same as birth control pills aren't powerful enough to protect against osteoporosis and cardiovascular diseases in post-menopausal women. It's time we started treating menopause and andropause as what they are - life-threatening diseases. 34% of women and 56% of men will eventually break a hip or their pelvis, and 10% of them will never return home - they die in the hospital or a long-term care facility, where they deteriorate very quickly.

    Contrary to what the Women's Health Initiative study reported, estrogen replacement does not increase risks in women who have been menopausal for 5 years or less (just goes to show, don't recruit 78-year-olds for a menopause study, don't feed them horse estrogens (Premarin) or mixed with horse progestins (Prempro) and that would never be approved today because the manufacturer is unable to identify the effects on humans of the over 50 impurities in it), don't pick a sample population that is obese, etc.

    It's a shame that millions of women got scared off estrogen therapy for no good reason, and ended up on antidepressants as a "treatment" that left them at risk of breaking their ribs if they sneezed too hard.

    The same might be able to be said for testosterone therapy (I don't know - no personal incentive to check it), but if it keeps your bones from turning to mush and eliminates the need for viagra, why not?

  21. Re:Evidence, please. on President Obama Threatens Retaliatory Actions Against Russia Over Hacks (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    You don't. Ban all contributions to electoral campaigns except by individuals, with an annual limit of $3,000.00 total per year. Remove all tax breaks for total donations over $100.00. Remove anonymous contributions.

  22. Time to outlaw the IoT on Massive Mirai Botnet Hides Its Control Servers On Tor (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: -1

    The "internet of Things" was a stupid idea, so why not just ban it once and for all? Or create a separate internet just for people who want such stupidity as turning on their lights without getting off the couch. The world would be a better place either way.

  23. Re:Evidence, please. on President Obama Threatens Retaliatory Actions Against Russia Over Hacks (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Caffeine, acetaminophen and estriol (a natural estrogen) also were frequently detected in sewage but had high removal rates.

    Thanks for the info .Now I can keep peeing with a clear conscience as long as I'm in the city. I remember the stories about estrogen found in untreated waste from septic tanks causing problems with fish. I wondered what happened for urban waste.

    Never even considered caffeine ... mind you, it's not like fish sleep the same way we do.

  24. Re: Selling private repositories is their money ma on Building a Coder's Paradise Is Not Profitable: GitHub Lost $66M In Nine Months Of 2016 (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    And they can also self-host, all the benefits of collaboration without worrying that your stuff is dependent on others.

  25. Obama can say anything he wants because he won't be around for the consequences.