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  1. Re:WALL-E on China Won't Solve the World's Plastics Problem Any More (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    Very true, but was there ever a time that more expensive meant better? I feel like there might have been, but not for at least 20 years. Alot of upscale devices are manufactured the same as cheap junk and just get a different label.

  2. Re:Quantity game? on HPE Announces World's Largest ARM-based Supercomputer (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Managed some clusters that did engine modelling for Rolls-Royce. Your spot on. When you run dozens (or hundreds) of identical machines, there is alot that goes into it. It's not simple by any means. You could have warmed soup in the back of our clusters, especially when under load.
    File system can make a huge difference, as can job scheduler.

  3. Re:Quantity game? on HPE Announces World's Largest ARM-based Supercomputer (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    To be fair, High performance computer clusters can work on multiple problems simultaneously. I think you mean that all the computers on the internet need a centralized queue management system to be considered a "supercomputer".

  4. Re:Been doing this for 10 years with my Mac+iPhone on Android Messages Will Now Let You Send Texts From Your Computer (www.blog.google) · · Score: 2

    KDE connect lets me do this.

  5. Re:Locks are useless on The 'World's Worst' Smart Padlock Is Even Worse Than Previously Thought (sophos.com) · · Score: 1

    Amazon has a 24 pack

    This site seems to offer custom amounts. This model, or several others. They even have combination locks with custom master keys.

  6. Re:Still cant accurately predict hardware failure on Google Is Training Machines To Predict When a Patient Will Die (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Dude, your hard drive is going to fail. Make a backup.

  7. Re:Liberal death panels on Google Is Training Machines To Predict When a Patient Will Die (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    It was good enough for our Ancestors.
    These people aren't dragging their kids away from a loving nanny and a summer at the pool with afew hours of PBS kids.

  8. Re:6 months later.... on Google Is Training Machines To Predict When a Patient Will Die (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Eventually it will hit a feedback loop. Doctors will see this patient is 30% likely to die, don't need that patient. Patients don't get the care they need and die quicker.

  9. Re:That time table on Self-Driving Cars Likely Won't Steal Your Job (Until 2040) (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    I've worked in plenty of warehouses that took deliveries from semi's in city centers.

  10. If we're going to toss around whataboutism's, Trump was using an unsecured Android for at least a year.

  11. Re:They just charge instead on Comcast Says It Isn't Throttling Heavy Internet Users Anymore (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    I will admit that the xbox eats GB's of data when we leave it on. PC games use much less, and yes I do torrenting as well.

  12. Re:They just charge instead on Comcast Says It Isn't Throttling Heavy Internet Users Anymore (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    I have 6 kids. Between them, my wife, and myself I average 400 GB of internet. I've never exceeded 750 and that included dumping about 300GB to a backup server.

  13. Re: Check it on Sweden Tries To Halt Its March To Total Cashlessness (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Hamilton Southeastern.
    I generally try to avoid writing checks because the take forever to cash them, so I use cash, or cc when I can.

  14. Re: Check it on Sweden Tries To Halt Its March To Total Cashlessness (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Do you have kids in school? In American schools I need to write checks for everything. School lunch, spirit wear, book fees, field trip fees, yearbooks, etc.. Sometimes there is an online payment portal, but often it has additional fees to use.

  15. Same story here in Indiana.

  16. MS-13 is an American Gang, we exported it.

  17. Sad trombone...
    try again..

  18. Must be nice to be ignorant of history.
    Mexico had alot of problems that were never replicated in the US. Spanish and English colonization was very different.

    Your remarks remind me of the times my Mother used to tell me that Israel turned desert into farmland. Remarkably ignorant of history.

  19. Re:I thought this was standard for SNMP on Cisco Removes Backdoor Account, Fourth Incident in the Last Four Months (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    Maybe ok, only on a controlled network. It's certainly not ideal. SNMP supports authentication now and has for over a decade.

  20. Re:Article 27 GDPR was the breaking point on Copyright Law Could Put End To Net Memes (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    If you can't relax then get some different legal advice because the current one you're getting is making you afraid of being sued by your own shadow.

    'murican problems

  21. Not necessarily. My sister has cell data only and told me she sometimes uses a free hour on the xfinity wireless by her house. I offered to make her an account on my xfinity to allow her to use it for free and she has yet to take me up on it.

    I'm forced to conclude she's happy using her phone for everything.

  22. Re:Supermicro Firmware Updates on Severe Firmware Vulnerabilities Found In Popular Supermicro Server Products (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    Google's apps all have changelogs that just say "bugs fixed".

    No shit sherlock, what the fuck did you do to fix them? Which bugs?

  23. Re:Inside perspective on Internal Microsoft Poll Shows Employees Are Less Satisfied With Pay (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Dead wood is also hard to identify. I remember hearing a talk while back where the manager type talked about firing the bottom 10% of performers.
    Turns out a decent percentage of those weren't getting their work done, but only because they were doing everyone else's. When they got fired, productivity for the department plummeted.
    Dead wood isn't always useless and some metrics can't be measured more then a step or two away.

  24. Re:We know all your searches... on Google Facing Billions in EU Antitrust Fines (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    Looks to me like google isn't just a US company: https://www.google.com/about/l...

  25. Listen to conservative radio. A common theme is that parents don't raise their kids right. Parents don't teach their kids consequences or reality or something, so they shoot up schools.
    The logical endpoint of this is someone else raises your kids. I'm extrapolating that out.