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  1. It's always perplexing to see Trump Derangement Syndrome posts that both give Trump imaginary infinite power and cunning and call him stupid.

    The President is just a figurehead. Obama's NSA spied on Angela Merkle's phone calls and they want to keep doing that. With the CIA's abysmal track record it's hard to imagine the US has anything worth offering that is worth Germany relinquishing its sovereignty.

    Why the heck aren't they funding a jobs program to build an open source telephony platform on top of OpenSwitch?

    Germany used to be known as the country of first-rate engineering - they ought to leverage their latent genetic advantage. And tell the NSA to pound sand.

  2. LensCrafters is for when you're in town for a funeral and step on your glasses the day before.

    Zenni is for when you can wait three weeks.

    Going blind at the funeral to save $60 means you are an idiot.

  3. Re: Cringley is a moron on Cringley's Next 2019 Predictions: Only 3.5 Cloud Players Will Survive (cringely.com) · · Score: 1

    AWS is limiting and expensive for people who can set up their own systems. AWS gives you push button access to a subset of what's possible and that button is expensive enough to rule it out as an option for businesses doing organic growth.

  4. Re:Old News. Swedish University has (45 w+15b) set on Are People Who Take Frequent Breaks More Productive? (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    Yeah, my college did 50 minutes in the early 90's based on research - this isn't new info on concentration.

    However there are different neurotypes and what should be recognized decades later is that one-size-fits-all is a stupid approach.

  5. oh, no, does that mean cat and grep are being depricated?

  6. I learned a lot from his methodology. I just wish ACS didn't use Tcl, AOLServer, or Oracle. A LAMP stack would have probably held back the likes of Facebook for community organizing.

  7. Re: You would (probably) be surprised on Woman Wins $10,000 For Reading Fine Print of Terms and Conditions of Travel Insurance Policy (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    Your car is not a copyrighted work. There is no need to make a copy of your car to work in it.

    Unlike cars it is illegal for them to make a copy of your image without your permission /license. Even an rsync to the printing machine.

    Don't grant them one and they won't copy/work with your image.

  8. Re:The problem with terms and conditions. on Woman Wins $10,000 For Reading Fine Print of Terms and Conditions of Travel Insurance Policy (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    What did you want from the volunteer organization in exchange for imaginary property?

    Usually volunteerism is about generosity.

  9. There are periodic and limited production runs of movies.

    That's it. Stop accepting a stupid marketdroid's false reality.

  10. Re:Not so good on Chelsea Manning Jailed For Refusing To Testify On WikiLeaks (apnews.com) · · Score: 2

    "Classified" is just a statute construction only in effect since 1917. While it's the single best tool the power brokers have to subjugate the masses, it has no moral authority. You certainly won't find it as a power listed in the Constitution (because the founders knew the dangers of a secret government).

    Manning may be a violator of statute but she's a patriot to the Constitution.

  11. well played, sir.

  12. Reading between the lines of the Verge article, those states may grant municipalities authority to impose local regulations on telephony (home rule) or have other state laws imposing on the service.

    It's not the two-party consent rule, as several 2-party states are on the service list.

    If a service isn't available in the market it's usually because of laws that prevent it, as a rule of thumb.

  13. Probably only 7N1 at that.

  14. Facebook, is really the only source his mother ever relied on for her anti-vaccine information.

    This 'girl' is 18. She was born c. 2001. Facebook opened to everybody in 2006. Most kids receive a full panel of immunizations before they are five, at the recommendation of their physician.

    This mother obviously and provably had other influences. The girl is lying in testimony, if the story is reported correctly.

  15. Re:What fucking moron wrote this? on Self-Driving Cars May Hit People With Darker Skin More Often, Study Finds (futurism.com) · · Score: 1

    You ask the right question. Somebody fishing for clicks and/or cannot understand the idea of contrast.

    And, yes, everything where I am now is covered with snow and ice.

  16. When I RFTA, I see that Cotton died in India - how was this verified?

    Apparently they have the kind of death certificate that can be 'purchased' for $75.

  17. You definitely shouldn't be able to talk privately with your wife.

    No privacy from Leviathan.

    Send nudes.

  18. Re:Problem will hit before 2038 on Linux 5.1 Continues The Years-Long Effort Preparing For Year 2038 (phoronix.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    30 year mortgages were being processed in 2007 ... but they're rarely using kernel time_t for any of that. Cron jobs in 2037 might need to worry.

  19. Good summary on Why 'ji32k7au4a83' is a Remarkably Common Password (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Lately I haven't been able to even parse some summaries but with this one I get a cute story and don't even need to read TFA unless I want details.

    It's like 1999 again.

  20. Re:Well, I for one totally believe the NSA on Disputed NSA Phone Program Is Shut Down, Aide Says (nytimes.com) · · Score: 2

    Continuity of Government is the most important government program and the 'intelligence' agencies support that, not the Constitution.

    Clapper was Just Following Orders.

  21. Re:Saving lives? on Volvo To Impose 112mph Speed Limit On All New Cars From 2020 (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    What if somebody is being chased at 112 miles per hour by a psycho with a gun? Maybe a gang banger or a corrupt cop? Would it be worth uncapping the speed limit if it saves even one life?

    Or maybe this is the Chinese impulse to impose control from the top down. Which seems more likely?

  22. What about DMA attacks?

    That's exactly the right question. Possibly they've got this worked out with TB authorization - supposedly the Windows from last April and boltd on linux do the right thing.

    We've heard that Macintosh still allows stealing network traffic with DMA attacks, but maybe they can fix their IOMMU implementation. I do think Apple has the capability to fix it, but it's also possible that some of the early Thunderbolt machines don't get updates anymore.

    I will be surprised if neither of the current implementations that we think are doing the right thing never have a vulnerability found. The boltd guy is on here sometimes - I hope he can talk about how he has isolated the security surface to the smallest piece of code and has, maybe formally, had that code proven for correctness.

    It's worth doing if we're ever going to get high performance peripherals. I don't know if computer science is advanced enough now to do it right, but we should see if it's possible. With XPoint RAM this is going to be even more important. Heck, you might be able to bring your state with you from desktop to desktop using your phone as a storage backend before long (BTW, @USPTO take notice).

  23. Re:revenue taxing - finally on France Considers Raising Taxes on Internet Giants (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    If we can survive that type of taxation, so can multinational corporations.

    Yeah, they'll raise prices 3%. As long as it's an across-the-board tax there's no competitive advantage to not do so.

    Congratulations, you just raised taxes on the middle class again - as always.

  24. O'Tierney's Cage on Tristan O'Tierney, Square Co-Founder, Dies at Age 35 (sfchronicle.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    It might be useful to understand why and how O'Tierney felt disconnected.

    background for those who learned from egg-brain propaganda:

    https://youtu.be/ao8L-0nSYzg

  25. Re:Obviously Chinese Fentanyl on Tristan O'Tierney, Square Co-Founder, Dies at Age 35 (sfchronicle.com) · · Score: 1

    Don't complain here, complain to the CIA people cutting it in Mexico and importing it.

    Drugs have to remain dangerous if they're going to stay illegal and highly profitable for funding black ops.

    I'm sure your Congressman will be eagar to hear your complaint since you hwve a representative government.