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  1. Re:AC Lays Out Plan To Get First Post on Scientists Have Laid Out a Plan To Search For Life in the Universe (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    -1. too bad you weren't first...

  2. Re:I thought we were all a simulation on Scientists Have Laid Out a Plan To Search For Life in the Universe (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    you should read about images on Plato's cave wall...to find out what's really real...

  3. complete and total waste of time and money... on Scientists Have Laid Out a Plan To Search For Life in the Universe (qz.com) · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    for what purpose? what would we do if found any other microbes? we'd be better off spending that talent and money on renewables...ok, pundits criticize away!

  4. you were the only one to see that pun...

  5. +1 (would have been +2 if it ended with "...and so on, ad infinitum..." but I repeat myself

  6. Schrodinger doesn't actually possess the application so it should be "...The Schrondiger Application..." as in an adjective modifying the noun application...

  7. Re:The Register also discussed this... on New Evidence of Hacked Supermicro Hardware Found in US Telecom: Bloomberg (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    just like we did to them with cisco routers etc. not everyone.

  8. Re:Bloomberg! Bloomberg! Bloomberg! on New Evidence of Hacked Supermicro Hardware Found in US Telecom: Bloomberg (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 2

    exactly! phishing is nearly free, but we have to spend all this money - viola, hardware exploits, buying software zero days, etc. the ends (i. e., the data) justifies all means to get it. money is not the issue.

  9. Re:Bloomberg! Bloomberg! Bloomberg! on New Evidence of Hacked Supermicro Hardware Found in US Telecom: Bloomberg (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 0

    you've clearly never been a government contractor. the money is usually not an issue.

  10. Re:Might not be just Supermicro on New Evidence of Hacked Supermicro Hardware Found in US Telecom: Bloomberg (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    the phone homes could be extra data in an email to a hop point...

  11. Re:Might not be just Supermicro on New Evidence of Hacked Supermicro Hardware Found in US Telecom: Bloomberg (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    phone homes with encrypted data - but covert channels are notoriously hard to find.

  12. Re:I have a load of SuperMicro gear on New Evidence of Hacked Supermicro Hardware Found in US Telecom: Bloomberg (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    you have no ip worth stealing...why would they go after you?

  13. Re:summary judgement standards on Limo Firm To Judge: Tell Us Whether Uber Drivers Are Employees (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    by the way I know Michael Gibbelson and have done work for him...as a matter of law he's asking the judge to rule without a trial...

  14. Re:summary judgement standards on Limo Firm To Judge: Tell Us Whether Uber Drivers Are Employees (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    not exactly. in summary judgement each side says what are matters of law hoping for a ruling, which the judge can decide on then and there without a trial, including all the issues - so no trial at all, and which issues are matters of fact and are decided at trial.

  15. summary judgement standards on Limo Firm To Judge: Tell Us Whether Uber Drivers Are Employees (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    "The standard for summary judgement is that there is no triable issue of material facts. That seems to be the case here," Wrong! That's only half - if, in the Judges mind there are only matters of law, the judge can rule for or against the plaintiff or the defendant without a trial. That's actually what will happen here.

  16. Ring is the worst... on Average Time To Resolve Problems is Three Times Higher Than Customers Want (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Ring has the worst customer servicer of a major tech manufacturer - they're clueless and incompetent. And the engineers never fix anything.

  17. reminds me of a story I always tell my students - Xerox deigned copiers that were easy to fix - you know those screens that walk you through a paper jam - the Japanese built copiers that did not fail. guess who won?

  18. fitbit serves another useful purpose on Police Use Fitbit Data To Charge 90-Year-Old Man In Stepdaughter's Killing (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    I have a fitbit charge 2 which counts steps and sleep habits, both of which are very useful to counter my diabetes. (why can't they track glucose too?) In this case it also tracked her heart rate going to zero and the time that happened. Also very useful to add forensic evidence for her murder. You could argue that's an invasion of privacy but I think the fact a murderer was caught outweighs that invasion, which she probably agreed to in any case. I'll gladly continue to wear my fitbit and I'm a security professional who cases about privacy. The benefits far outweigh the consequences.

  19. Re:I did this to myself a long time ago on The Coders Programming Themselves Out of a Job (theatlantic.com) · · Score: 1

    there needed to be an encrypted key you put in once per week to keep the vb running. no key, it stopped after a week. the routine was there for qa purposes - you had to make sure it was running correctly. after a week passed and you were gone - viola no vb ran.

  20. Re:Authored by a machine on A Computer Has Written A 'Novel' Narrating Its Own Cross-Country Road Trip (theatlantic.com) · · Score: 1

    in any case, the ai and the wp were authored by the programmer...so they're the author, not the machine...

  21. Not written, any modern book is done on a word processor...so it's "written by s/w" but it's authored by the author

  22. the point of social media is to be known on Facebook Faces Class-Action Lawsuit Over Massive New Hack (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    how can anyone complain? fb is free. now you're widely known. doh.

  23. Re:Not as simple as it seems. on iPhone XS Passcode Bypass Hack Exposes Contacts, Photos (threatpost.com) · · Score: 1

    uh...no

  24. Re:Why on Earth would I submit files to Google? on Alphabet Launches VirusTotal Enterprise (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    most normal people only send the hash - others, those who can't read, like you apparently, send the whole file...

  25. Re:Google scanning ALL your documents? on Alphabet Launches VirusTotal Enterprise (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    send the hash moron...