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  1. what you propose is a death penalty on Volkswagen Executive Faces Jail Time After Guilty Plea (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Making the company bleed quite a bit is what happened up to now. What you propose would kill it. Now whether you want to kill it may be up your objective, but keep in mind that 99% of the people working there had nothing to do with the scandal, it was mostly executive and engineer. That is why personally I am against punishing companies that far, I am on the other hand for punishing executive and other people doing the illegal action that far, with possibly *consecutive* penalty rather than parallel.

  2. Make it simpler on The NSA Intercepted Microsoft's Windows Bug Reports (schneier.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The NSA intercepted anything and everything which went in the direction of the US, possibly also stuff which never went in the US. Consider all your communication compromised by the NSA. Now whether you care (privacy minded people, people not liking government overreach and spying and crook/spy/other nations intelligence agencies) or not (most people) is up to you.

  3. Funny you cut the quote early on Iranians Use 'Cute Photographer' Profile To Hack Targets In Middle East (securityledger.com) · · Score: 1

    Otherwise it might have cut short your rant if you had quoted the whole sentence : "of a mostly hetero sexual male population ". Sure they may be using buff men but in absence of knowing gender, the sure bet is big breasted woman.

  4. Something smells on For 20 Years, This Man Has Survived Entirely By Hacking Online Games (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    I can also make the client THINK it got from the server I got 18 quintillion gold, but normally for all sane MMO, the server does not trust the client, and all data are calculated server side then sent to the client. So you may change values in the client like appearing to have lot of gold with cheat engine, but the server still sees you as poor as job. I seriously doubt a MMO as old as wildstar would still have such a flaw, as this is the first thing which get exploited : trusted client data (in today's world usually limited to position, and thus speedhacked). I am extremely doubtful gold values are trusted. I think the interviewer got bamboozled.

  5. their web site on It Is Easy To Expose Users' Secret Web Habits, Say Researchers (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    https://sveaeckert.de/2016/bui...

    It seems they have been at it since december 2016, and this month was their results.

  6. Everybody and their grandma which do social engeeniring will tells you, you use social weakness to bypass the securities. Since men compose most of security teams, use of actractive women (real or just photo) makes so much sense, Do you think the US or Russia are using buff men to crack in security , using social engineering, of a mostly hetero sexual male population ? Heck I can remember an article of a woman doing security penetration testing. Her weapons ? Deep decoltée , big breast, and pumps with a hidden compartment with USB sticks, and lockpicks. I would bet it works perfectely.

  7. Not much of a loophole on Luxembourg Just Passed A New Asteroid Mining Law (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    How are they going to extract mineral without a permanent base (even if it is a fully automated one - without any human) to centralize the gathering, energy, reparation communication etc.... ? Occupy does not mean there are human there, occupy in this context means you are setting a base of operation belonging to an agent of a country - even a private person counts.

  8. all of which cars do on Honolulu Targets 'Smartphone Zombies' With Crosswalk Ban (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    As well as breaking right of way, not stopping at stop, parking on bike lanes, parking on handicapped spaces, burning red light at nights, on lights which do not have a camera, etc...etc... And goddman how often when a car discussion happen everybody and their grandma tells they know better than the speed limit, speed and can speed whatever they want. If there is nobody to penalize them cars do break the law on regular basis. But bike very rarely kills (I am sure somebody can fish out a few cases) whereas cars kills by the ten thousands per years, not counting heavy casualty.

    If you want to have a real effect, try to enforce existing laws on cars, then we can expand on bike or pedestrian.

  9. why "godwining" ? on Apple Pulls Anti-Censorship Apps from China's App Store (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    Most if not all those story about pulling app or stopping software is solely about china censorship laws. Going to the crime against humanity was unnecessary for the argument.

  10. it is suggestive of no such a thing on Tech Leaders Speak Out Against Trump Ban on Transgender Troops (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    The anecdote of 1 TG cannot lead to a suggestion of anything whatsoever. Statistic do not work that way. But with respect to suicide , that was what the point I was hinting at with peer review - you also have to look at why the suicide are done BTW and whether the reason of those are likely to happen in military situation (training camp, combat etc...). It could be that properly studied , we find that the situation leading to those suicide is unlikely in military and make TG even better soldat (unlikely but could be - the point is not to act on prejudice)

    That still that does not make length a policy was alive a factor worth looking at, which was my point of contention.

  11. By that standard on Tech Leaders Speak Out Against Trump Ban on Transgender Troops (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    You could have said 1 year after the end of the segregation/miscegenation laws the same thing. Length of existence of a policy is not a good argument for or against or for its validity. The only valid argument I see are : 1) are the TG folk mentally fit enough ? 2) are the TG folk physically fit enough. (2) is answered already by exam at the start and (1) should be answered with time and possibly exams, or study on TG psychology/psychiatry. But nothing about time a policy existed makes for a valid argument.

  12. They are actually not equal anymore on Fact-checking and Rumor-dispelling Site Snopes.com Held Hostage By vendor (savesnopes.com) · · Score: 1

    From reading the complaint, since the shares could not be sold to a corp, they were given to idnividuals at the LLC under the agreement they would be holding it for the LLC (whether that is really clean and ethical is another question). But one of them "green" was convinced by the 50% owner to side with him, what proper LLC in their complaint see as conspiracy. If it is true and legal, then he HAS more than 50% under control and therefore proper media llc cannot force anymore those holding more than 50% to do anything whatsoever. Now I am neither a lawyer nor i play one on TV so I have no idea who is on the good side/bad side or even if there is one, but it does not seem as easy as a 50/50 share holder dispute.

  13. As long as the definition does not change that often, or when it changes we know what the effect on the number are, the number in itself is in absolute value useless. What is important is for the same stable definition, whether that numbers rise or drop indicating a fuller or less employment. Frankly 4.6 or 4.5 or 4.7 is about as useless in absolute number than 79, 79.1 or 78.9 to take your measure. BUT knowing that under one political team goal it went from 4 to 8 (or 79 to 75) or the other way around, is a good proxy. Frankly all of you telling it is a lie, misses the point of that proxy measurement, it is a proxy on how the workforce is doing related to the economy. It has never been about the absolute numbers. Otherwise we would still be talking in million of people instead of percent of workforce.

  14. The reason I am drastically reducing all sort of sugar consumption (sugar AND starch - potatoe/bread/pasta etc...) is because the doc think I am what he call "pre-diabetic" e.g. if I continued my way I would get diabetes melittus in short order. Now I have a chance to have my beta cells live a "little" bit longer, apparently. Although since I am not a cat, they won't come back

  15. It only needs a few seconds on Navy Unveils First Active Laser Weapon In Persian Gulf (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    If it can buy the few second, then it can have an effective strategy to make sure no surface get lit long enough. For example , start spinning so that no surface get those 50 kW dumped long enough to damage the aircraft. And yes, while it reflects, if it reflects 90% , that means your 50 kW laser is only a 5kW laser *effectively*.

  16. It could be a lifestyle problem. I know that in my case I started with sugar cola, then switched to diet because I was getting too much sugar, so much I was starting to show off early signs of diabetes mellitus. Then now I am trying to switch off to water (more difficult than you think - I have now bouts of water consumption and bouts of soda without sugar - bad habits are hard to shake. On the other hand my weight is dropping).

    For many people the alternative is not healthy lifestyle with diet soda and healthy lifestyle without, the alternative is unhealthy lifestyle with lotta sugar and sugary drink OR unhealthy lifestyle with diet cola , that is slightly less sugar. As such , yes people consuming artificial sweetener soda seem to are more likely to get lifestyle related disease... But the alternative may actually be they get those disease earlier if they consumed sugary drink instead.

  17. It should be used only for numbers (1700's) and single letter (the k's) but not for abbreviation (https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/punctuation/apostrophe scroll to apostrophe and plural form) - but I am not English and English is my third language, frankly it does not disturb me as it clear from th4e context the submitter meant plural.

  18. Predictive behavior (whichever) IS biased on Artificial Intelligence Has Race, Gender Biases (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    Whatever predictive behavior you are using in AI today will mostly be based on scenario learning and extrapolating from historical data. As historical data in many case IS gender, religion, skin color biased, the result will automatically be. Which is why I am against such system in many cases, at least until the AI system can find ways to BUCK TREND like we attempt to. An AI system predicting recidivism and thus assigning patrolling based on that WILL be biased against male , and against non white, and will not even counting the real context and situation. That is why such board SHOULD always be humans.

  19. False dichotomy on Ask Slashdot: Why Do So Many of You Think Carrying Cash Is 'Dangerous'? · · Score: 1

    Scenario C crackhead are not complet imbecile robbing random people, they know that people coming out of a bank will most probably have cash. Crackhead try to watch for people coming out of ATM booth then follow up and rob you. If you do home banking and plastic, the probability of that happening is vanishingly small. If you do go to ATM to get money...

    Scenarion D Crackhead want to know who has money. Watch outside a place where a lot of people pays stuff either with card or with cash. Crackhead ignore plastic people. Crackhead see somebody paying with cash. Crackhead rob the one paying with cash.

  20. actually ani al do NOT reach equilibrium on Era of 'Biological Annihilation' Is Underway, Scientists Warn (theguardian.com) · · Score: 2

    If there are no predator, herbivore multiply and will eat every greenerie available for example. Nature do not care for equilibrium, it cares only fir fitness to reproduction, and overwhelming an environment with offspring work well. It is only because prey are paired with predator that an equilibrium SEEM to be reached on small time scale. But look again on bigger time scale and you see the same, that species can go out of equilibrium, change environment sonetime for the worst, and there are period of extinction. That is why this is the sixth and not the first.

  21. That is not a valid counter point on Seattle Minimum Wage Study Has Serious Flaws (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    That is from various polls from non cited source in a text book (" I include a table of propositions to which most economists subscribe, based on various polls of the profession") and limiting the scope of the proposition in the poll on young people is suspicious. What is the overall effect for example is not cited. And frnakly polls are useless they only represent what people EXPECT, they do not represent what study finds.

    Call me crazy but I am untrusting your blogspot source about polls, and expect peer reviewed litterature, just for the reason that at least peer review and publishing allow to uncover the flaw cited in the summary.

  22. You know also what kills empathy ? on Tylenol May Kill Kindness (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    Pain and particularly headaches. They should also compare with tylenol and pain together, and pain alone. I am betting they will find out while tylenol MAY have an effect, not using it will also have a strong negative effect....

  23. When publishing in s cie nce journal i wouod expect kelvin, in normal news celsius is perfectly acceptable, and i would say fahrenheit too, as long a s the writer is not an idiot and precise the measurement unit . And yes celsius is the modern acceptable unit used by the crushing majority of human on earth.

  24. Banning would work on E-cigarettes 'Potentially As Harmful As Tobacco Cigarettes' (uconn.edu) · · Score: 1

    Most smoker smoke round the hour. Since in msot work/public/station building they are banned (at least here in germany) they smoke outside. How do you propose that they smoke without being caught ? Alcohol smuggling worked because people went to a speakeasy and similar after work to drink. Cigarette smuggling would not work is it would force people to ONLY smoke outside work hour and only in hidden palce (at home for example). Many people would adapt and chain smoke at home, but the majority ? They would almost certainly try to stop , give up.

  25. Somebody clarify me ... on The Internet Of Things Is Becoming More Difficult To Escape (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    ... Until it is *mandatory* to connect your IOT fridge to the internet, which i am pretty sure will never happen (data protection, right of consummer, and the problem of legacy place without internet) , what's the problem to buy an IOT fridge which is not connected to anything whatsoever ?