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  1. Re:Problems for legacy OSes on Microsoft To Disable TLS 1.0 and TLS 1.1 Support in Edge and Internet Explorer (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    XP also had TLS 1.0 disabled by default, it was stuck with ssl2/ssl3 unless you explicitly enabled TLS.

  2. Re:Do sports fans understand this any better? on Struggle With Statistics? Your 'Fixed Mindset' Might Be To Blame (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    You're more likely to learn something if the subject is interesting to you...
    So for many people, "math" might be perceived as boring, while they like "sports"...

  3. And they know this, so they don't want to be blamed when significant military installations get owned...
    They're putting themselves out of the bidding and trying to spin it as good PR for them instead of lack of faith in their own products.

  4. Re:It ignores - what is not happening? on Climate Change Report Actually Understates Threats (thebulletin.org) · · Score: 1

    Unfortunately the qualified scientists often have agendas to push, so you can't be sure how thorough and unbiased their statements are.

  5. Re:Getting sick of climate change hyperbole on Climate Change Report Actually Understates Threats (thebulletin.org) · · Score: 1

    Unless flooding happened unexpectedly and extremely quickly, very few people would die - they would simply move to higher ground or more accurately, they would follow the coastline as it moved as people tend to live near sources of water for a reason.

  6. Re:$320 billion wasted on The US Grounds All F-35 Jets (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Costa rica does not have a military..

  7. Re:Sally Miller Gearhart would be pleased on Scientists Create Healthy Mice With Same-Sex Parents (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    So 9 women for every man, i think most men would actually support this.

  8. Re:Stop eating meat? on Huge Reduction in Meat-Eating 'Essential' To Avoid Climate Breakdown (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    What's being advocated is reducing the animal population to allow a matching increase of human population..
    The end result is the same, humans also produce quantities of shit and piss just like animals.

    Animal waste is also generally used to fertilise crops, whereas human waste generally is not. With a massive reduction in the production of animal waste, you'd require an increase in artificially produced chemical fertilizers.

  9. Loyalty cards? on The Long, Long History of Long, Long CVS Receipts (vox.com) · · Score: 1

    How about instead of printing out all these coupons and wasting paper, as well as requiring the customer to remember the coupon next time they visit the store...
    Why not just automatically apply any discounts the customer is eligible for, identified by their loyalty card?
    Or better yet, don't require a physical loyalty card and recognise repeat customer by their payment cards (of which you can store a hash instead of the actual card details), so you don't have to carry around a stack of different loyalty cards for the different places you use.

    It's not like the stores aren't already taking, storing and cross referencing this data, might as well use the data to provide something that's actually useful to the customer.

  10. Re:Without "pirated" music on More Than One Third of Music Consumers Still Pirate Music (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    The big labels don't want new bands to become popular in this way, they want to control which new bands become well known.

  11. This already happens.

    Many companies do hire lots of foreign workers for way less money, a lot of jobs are being offshored regularly.
    Many foreign workers are also employed locally especially for various low paid unskilled work, as they are willing to work for lower wages.

    For higher skilled positions, especially local rather than offshored ones foreign workers are also frequently used, but they are less likely to accept lower wages in such conditions, and why would they? If they are equally skilled such that they're able to do the job, then they should be equally paid.

  12. Re:Judge to Limo Firm on Limo Firm To Judge: Tell Us Whether Uber Drivers Are Employees (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Then your insurance is not suitable for private hire purposes, and uber would not permit you to drive for them at least in some locations.

  13. Re:Visitors invited to view internal resource on Chrome 70's Upcoming Security Change Will Break Hundreds of Sites (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    I doubt i'd ever do that...
    I would either send the video to them, or invite them to view it on one of my existing devices.

    In any case, my NAS devices are not reachable from the guest network, and a NAS would typically be accessed over SMB or NFS anyway.

  14. Re:If it quacks like a duck... on Limo Firm To Judge: Tell Us Whether Uber Drivers Are Employees (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Uber also negotiate - you accept the rate they're offering, or you don't, they won't make you any other offers.

    The same can be true of any independent contractor, the company you contract to is under no obligation to negotiate. They can set the rate they're willing to pay and refuse any changes. It all depends on the market conditions.

  15. Re:If it quacks like a duck... on Limo Firm To Judge: Tell Us Whether Uber Drivers Are Employees (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Employees are paid a fixed wage wether there is work or not, and potentially an added bonus/commission depending on their performance.
    Uber drivers are only paid that commission, and don't have any base salary.

  16. Re:WIDESPREAD RAMPANT ABUSE OF THIS LAW IN CALIFOR on Limo Firm To Judge: Tell Us Whether Uber Drivers Are Employees (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    A: no contractor is free from the control and direction of the contracting entity, the whole point is that as a contractor you are bound by the terms of the contract. on the other hand uber drivers have a high degree of flexibility as to when, where and for how many hours they work, a benefit most employees will not have.

    B: many uber drivers also operate independently of uber and are free to do so, where uber has competitors a lot of drivers are signed up to the competing services as well, plus many also take bookings through local private hire companies, or even random customers hailing taxis on the street. All this depends on local legislation as to what jobs a driver can take.

    C: as b, depending on local laws

  17. Re:Judge to Limo Firm on Limo Firm To Judge: Tell Us Whether Uber Drivers Are Employees (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1, Troll

    The law in many western countries typically requires that drivers insure their cars in order to drive on public roads... In order to operate as a driver for hire you legally require appropriate insurance and uber requires drivers to prove they hold valid insurance before allowing them to operate under their scheme.

    Many local taxi companies operate the same way, the drivers are independent contractors often driving their own vehicles and the company just provides a booking service.

  18. Re:This not about security, because it does not he on Chrome 70's Upcoming Security Change Will Break Hundreds of Sites (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    Even if the site is mundane and harmless, it can still be used to perform mitm attacks against the client.

    On the other hand, HTTPS sites break the captive portal system used on a lot of wifi networks.

  19. Re:This not about security, because it does not he on Chrome 70's Upcoming Security Change Will Break Hundreds of Sites (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    For an internal network you typically control all the endpoints, so you can create and trust your own CA...

  20. Re:Find a more appropriate target. on Canadian Music Group Proposes 'Copyright Tax' On Internet Use (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 1

    Or big software updates...
    I blow through much more than 15GB, and most of it is software updates for the various devices in the house.

  21. Re:You don't see Chrome Workstations on Will Chromebooks Someday Threaten Windows? (itworld.com) · · Score: 1

    High end is a niche... Although what you really mean are "high end desktops", since the ultimate high end (supercomputers) are actually dominated by linux already.

    Most corporate desktops are lowend machines doing mundane tasks, chromeos can perform the vast majority of these mundane tasks with less cost, less maintenance overhead and less security risks than windows.

  22. Re:There's more to life than Office on Will Chromebooks Someday Threaten Windows? (itworld.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Macs were not successful primarily because of the cost, Apple do not make cheap lowend desktops to compete with the machines that the average corporation buys thousands of to throw on everyone's desks.
    ChromeOS devices on the other hand are available cheaply and from several suppliers.

    Chrome lacks the biggest disadvantage of apple (price), while offering many significant advantages over windows for a corporate environment.

    When it comes to custom applications, especially in-house ones, many of these are now web based and the market is heading that way. The client does not matter when the custom apps are web based. Those few remaining (and declining numbers) apps which are not web based can usually be handled via rdp or telnet/ssh clients with the apps running on a remote host.
    In most of the offices i see, what the majority of users are doing could easily be performed on a chromebook, and switching to chromebooks would result in significant cost savings and security benefits.

  23. Re:Are students being prepared? on Will Chromebooks Someday Threaten Windows? (itworld.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    You should be preparing students by showing them a range of different technologies, showing them how to get their work done using whatever tools are available and how to pick the best tool for a given task for a range of options.

    Getting tied to a particular technology is a bad idea, because by the time these kids enter the workforce whatever they learned in school will be obsolete and have been replaced with something else. Teach them how to adapt, embrace change and get things done regardless of what tools are given to them.

  24. Re:let that be a lesson. on Entire Broadband Industry Sues California To Stop Net Neutrality Law (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Commerce takes place not only between states, but also between countries, so by extension why should the US government have any control over commerce taking place with any other country?

    Although, a neutral network in california would not interfere with interstate commerce, it would facilitate it.

  25. It looks like pretty much all of these features are things that Apple users already had...