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  1. it goes up...

  2. ...wow...just wow...

  3. Re:These attackers are motiviated by opportunity on British Airways Breach Caused By the Same Group That Hit Ticketmaster (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    as does any site that lets scripts be injected...some heads aught to roll over this...

  4. Re:it must be climate change on Climate Change Drives Bigger, Wetter Storms -- Storms Like Florence (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    +1

  5. Re:100% not good enough! Get me 105%!!! on California Governor Says 100 Percent Clean Electricity Not Enough, State Must Go Carbon Neutral (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    too bad we live in a democracy not an autocracy...you can't order people around...good or bad in the long term, but it's what we have...

  6. Re:100% not good enough! Get me 105%!!! on California Governor Says 100 Percent Clean Electricity Not Enough, State Must Go Carbon Neutral (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    cost

  7. only in California - the breakfast state... on California Governor Says 100 Percent Clean Electricity Not Enough, State Must Go Carbon Neutral (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    ...where everyone is a fruit, a nut, or a flake...

  8. Re:It seems like Apple wants us to ditch adapters. on Someone With an iMac, iPhone, and iPad Might Soon Need Three Different Headphone Adapters (9to5mac.com) · · Score: 1

    one set of bluetooth headphones you use for every device..what's wrong with that? doh.

  9. ...the pc is still useful... on The 'Post-PC Era' Never Really Happened... and Likely Won't (techpinions.com) · · Score: 1

    for: making and editing videos (like with screenflow and others), doing cad (like with autocad and others), doing reverse engineering (like with IDA PRO and others), the list goes on...no tablet does that...and never will...

  10. Re:Why didn't people buy the 7 instead? on Apple Recalls a Number of iPhone 8 Devices For Manufacturing Defect (digitaltrends.com) · · Score: 1

    they're just not distributed...

  11. domo arigato

  12. Re:Great! on Facebook Chooses Singapore For $1 Billion Data Center (bbc.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    if i'm not mistaken there's more fb users outside the us then there ere are us citizens...

  13. Re:On saving space? on Facebook Chooses Singapore For $1 Billion Data Center (bbc.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    yeah, it was poorly worded - i think what they meant to say was it was not a sprawling one story farm...

  14. Re:sea water on Facebook Chooses Singapore For $1 Billion Data Center (bbc.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    not really - they're already preparing

  15. btw - what was PCI DSS called before it was PCI DSS and who came up with that? hint, it pre-dated any law

  16. who do you think pays for shrinkage? the consumer, always has, always will.

  17. Re:Similar experience ... on Quantum Computing Is Almost Ready For Business, Startup Says (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1

    +1 and a good laugh!

  18. yeah, bruce is definitely a moron on this (and most things come to think of it) - he may know applied math (cryptography) but not much else.

  19. no it does not depend on government regulation. it reduces fraud. it's competitive. go away government. we need smarter consumers. we need people to stop saying "...it's beyond me..." well then get someone smart!

  20. Re:Security and reliability are areas of innovatio on We Must Slow Innovation in Internet-Connected Things, Says Bruce Schneier (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 1

    in the airline business there's huge government safety overhead because lots of people die otherwise. in iot they don't die. we don't need standards. we need smarter consumers. buy junk, get junk. doh.

  21. Re:Yet factually incorrect from the first sentence on We Must Slow Innovation in Internet-Connected Things, Says Bruce Schneier (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 1

    homeowner's insurance companies are uniquely positioned to fix this quickly. i get significant discounts from usaa for things like burglar alarms, fire improvements, etc. they can just extend them to iot security. government is not needed or wanted.

  22. Re: Why aren't all benchmarks run "unlabelled"? on Huawei Caught Cheating Performance Test For New Phones (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    precisely - now we get the rash of oops - our benchmark was the result of cheating...we'll find the name of the engineer who was responsible...and force him to use our phone...

  23. Re:And that should be really expensive for them on 380,000 Card Payments Compromised In British Airways Breach (sky.com) · · Score: 1

    as long as the cost of this does not exceed shrinkage (or whatever they call waste, fraud and abuse in the airlines, etc.) it will keep happening

  24. Re:And how would that solve anything for consumers on Professor Who Coined Term 'Net Neutrality' Thinks It's Time To Break Up Facebook (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    precisely - don't like the free service, use another, no one is forcing you

  25. big difference - ms charged, the others don't...what does gmail cost to you? zilcho.