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  1. Re: Hmmm on President Trump To Use Huawei CFO As a Bargaining Chip (politico.com) · · Score: 1

    under that definition she most definitely won't be extradited as it is most definitely connected with political control.

  2. Re: Hmmm on President Trump To Use Huawei CFO As a Bargaining Chip (politico.com) · · Score: 1

    It is when it is done as a political bargaining chip.

  3. Re: Hmmm on President Trump To Use Huawei CFO As a Bargaining Chip (politico.com) · · Score: 1

    She may be part of a trade-war between countries, but that's not political at all.

    WTF? you don't get much more political than a trade war.

  4. Re:I don't believe it on 'What Straight-A Students Get Wrong' (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    30 years working in IT industry, can say with complete honesty the only people grades mattered was for Grad intakes, anyone else I have never seen them even looked at as they just don't matter.

  5. When you control the whole blockchain it is trivial to regenerate it to say whatever the fuck you like,

  6. paperwork? wtf, we moved past the 90's 2 decades ago, ledgers, balance sheets and transactions are done electronically. Blockchain is merely another way to do that same thing, arguably better, but it has no actual benefit paperwork wise.

  7. People aren't saying it is the end at $3000, there saying it is on it way there though. when it hits sub $1000 early next year is when the true panic will set in for the hold outs. maybe sub $100 in 12 months?

  8. logical fallacy on Bitcoin Options Purchased for $1 Million Will Soon Be Worthless (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    but it may not be quite as bad as it seems.

    FFS, just because you also made some other transactions that weren't flea bitten dogs doesn't make this transaction any better.

  9. Re:I'm stuck in one now. on 'Send Noncompete Agreements Back To the Middle Ages' (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Get another lawyer. So far as I know there's no country in the western world that lacks "Right to work" laws. That means that if your specialty limits your career options and you're in a non-compete, then you should be able to employ "right to work" since no company has the right to lock you into your position by making it impossible to find employment elsewhere.

    Well they can, you just have to be clearly compensated for it. Otherwise it is an unfair restriction of trade.

  10. Re:3 words, Mozilla... "Download Them All" on Google, Mozilla, and Opera React To Microsoft's Embrace of Chromium (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    stupid user, Mozilla will dictate what you want, why would they listen to you.

  11. and? the encryption hasn't been hacked yet. just because many companies are incompetent doesn't make encryption broken. Just like if a house collapses it isn't the hammers fault.

  12. Re: Pure bullshit on a level with ... on Quantum Computers Pose a Security Threat That We're Still Totally Unprepared For (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 1

    Yep but their are quite a few clueless individuals that look at X number of Qubits that have been successfully tested and think that somehow translates into the ability to turn this into an operational quantum computer (i.e. one that can operate for any length of time that would make such encryption breaking calculations possible). They don't seem to grasp the massive gulf between what we have now and where we need to get too.

  13. Re:Pure bullshit on a level with ... on Quantum Computers Pose a Security Threat That We're Still Totally Unprepared For (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 0

    no, their was a retard on here claiming it is only 3 or 4 years away.

  14. and yet it ranks above safari and slightly above firefox for html5 support and no browser has everything. Chrome is definitely the leader at this point but even it has many failings.

  15. The rendering engine in Edge now is actually pretty bloody good, especially speed wise. The problem is they took the morons approach of releasing what was a beta version that lacked features first up, people tried it, rightly so hated it and now will never go back. That approach only works in a market that isn't dominated by successful competitors.

  16. Re:End all subsidies on Trump Administration Wants To End Subsidies For Electric Cars, Renewables (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    At $80 million it still gives him time for poorly thought out rushed decisions that fuck over people not just in the US but the world over. If you could get him to triple his golfing time I think at $240 million I could see that as a worthwhile investment in the USA's and for that matters the worlds future.

  17. In most countries judges have very little leeway. Which on the whole is a good thing as a judge is not supposed to be deciding the good from the bad laws, they are supposed to rule and sentence according to the laws laid out before them. Yes that sometimes leads to cases which looked fucked up, but that needs to be fixed by those writing the laws.

  18. what the fuck? you think before this people weren't transcribing automatically for recorded calls? I guarantee you anyone interested in the content that was already abusing access will have been doing that for a long long time. The only difference here is the transcription is also available for the legitimate users.

  19. It may be a tool for use, but it isn't necessary and wouldn't change a thing if it was gone. They have a wide array of options without bitcoin.

  20. they are awful to hit, Kangaroos have such a low center of gravity they do a lot of damage unless you have a bulbar (even then that doesn't always help, last year a big 7 footer bent his bulbar back into the bonnet). Wombats (or walking rocks as we refer to them) can also do huge damage.

  21. It is only a *Will* if the science is confirmed. At this point it is a definitely *may*

  22. Re:article discusses Australian ruling on Companies 'Can Sack Workers For Refusing To Use Fingerprint Scanners' (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    More like. Everyone loses a days pay.

  23. Re: article discusses Australian ruling on Companies 'Can Sack Workers For Refusing To Use Fingerprint Scanners' (theguardian.com) · · Score: 2

    ummm no it fucking isn't against the law as long as you have a valid reason for carrying it. E.g. I carry a leatherman all the time as I use it for work. It is illegal to carry knives for self protection or purely because you like to have a weapon on you.

  24. DOB - wtf ? Drivers license number, Passport number - really ! They help themselves to all this information because there is no liability attached to it whatsoever and it helps them collect debts and it can be sold.

    That information is a legal requirement to be collected in many countries for foreign travellers, it isn't something they do because they want to.