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  1. It was more akin to have a guard at the door telling people they would not be accepted in if they came from the direction from the local library, but it is open door for everybody else not coming from the direction of the library. Then the local librarian went past the house and came back from the other way and the guardsman left him in. Nothing illegal and nothing was broken.

  2. Such a machine is well able to support an ASM virus, just not any modern giant stuff. You can have a contaminate and hook code very easily. As a matter of fact just to learn how to fight the stuff 20 years ago I did my own version of the pong virus from scratch, which also tried to determinate if there was a drive it could write to - it was only using hardware interrupt, 10h, 13h, and 08h/1ch for the "timer", and 03h to detect if somebody was monkeying. Deleted it once I was satisfied. I do not recall the exact size but it was lower than 1kb.

  3. useless without a baseline on More than Half of Americans Say They Didn't Get a Pay Raise this Year (marketwatch.com) · · Score: 1

    Imagine the number for the previous time they polled people were like that :

    "77% got a pay raise.
    6% got a better paying job.
    5% got both.
    12% got neither."

    Then it does not make this year looks very good isn't it ? The point is that you need a baseline, preferably over a decade or two, to be able to compare.

  4. Disagree on Apple Lied About iPhone X Screen Size and Pixel Count, Lawsuit Alleges (cnet.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I have no idea for the actual merit in *this* case but there is a world of difference between "did not like it" and "false advertising". The first indeed merit a scorn, the second is usually very much frowned upon by consumer and by the court (frowned upon : as in usually lead to penalty). Personally I don't care anymore if this is an attorney cash grab, what I do care is that what is advertised is what is sold, within the law. if attorney can punish a lying firm , where I cannot, then much BETTER than doing nothing.

  5. your underestimate esport commitment on Video Games Won't Be Part of the Paris Olympics (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    Knowing all sort of people doing either at a high level you have roughly the same lifetine commitment as some olympic sport (e.g. archery and other similar sports). And frankly you dont need that much body muscle for many either. The only valid reason i see is that it is nigh impossible to agree on any esport due to copyright and similar issues.

  6. or superheroe movie or not your taste on Marvel's 'Avengers: Endgame' Trailer Sets New Record: 289M Views In 24 Hours (variety.com) · · Score: 1

    I never liked avenger or DC comic or whatever. I always preferred self contained stories, or at most a few books I can buy once they are all published with a start and end in the serie/book you bought. That's why I never liked all those US comic, defined by the monster of the week, and no consequence (yeah yeah superman dies, but then he is reborn or taken from another universe. Whatever he is now alive. Consequence zero), barely a long time story. As such the superheroe films NEVER attracted me to begin with, because they come pretty much with the same baggage as the comic. And when I watched a few of them , I found out quickly that without the baggage of having liked those in my childhood, they are actually *very poor* films, lower in entertainment value than the average. And most of the entertainment comes from the cgi. I can then watch machinima youtube.

    So yes, you can simply have no fun in an avenger movie. It all depends on your history with the franchise and your taste. I had far more fun in the poorly copied ghost in the shell movie - and yet that one was really a stinker compared to the GIST book or anime.

    Now that I am finished ranting, let me check those movie date for avenger X+1 : I can then make a movie marathon for something else , anything else.

  7. Why would it continuously emit ? on Thieves Are Boosting the Signal From Key Fobs Inside Homes To Steal Vehicles (www.cbc.ca) · · Score: 1

    It just need to emit when you push a button on the key fob. Or is this one of those "innovation" with scary quotes where you just have to be near your car ?

  8. there is open minded on Tumblr Will Ban All Adult Content On December 17th (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    and there is having your mind so open that your brain fall out and all kind of crap comes in. Complete 100% free speech and liberty means 100% anarchy and rule of the mob or the strongest. That is why we have series of law curtailing both in various fashion in all countries. The question (the answer to which is not *objective* but rather cultural and subjective) is where do you put the limit and what do you enforce. And as such understanding that "some people put the limit at different point" is far more open minded than a blind mantra of "any limit is anti free speech" (especially since the one not liking those limit are the same one wanting to make the life hard for lgbt and remove protection from them - the same way they used to enjoy oppressing people with a skin color different than white).

  9. Depends on your country and unviersity on Who'd Go To University Today? (spiked-online.com) · · Score: 1

    For countries where the university are actually budgeted by the government inscription is still cheap. Last I looked (last year) to enter my study mater - fundemental physics - untila master degreee was less than 500 euro per year. The other document I found state it is between 180 euro and 600 euro depending on various factor (matter, level) https://www.google.com/url?sa=...
    There is no lodging naturally for that price. But last I studied there I paid that for the FULL year. Over 5 years (D.E.A. level - to make a PHD afterward - probably replaced by 4 years master nowadays) that would be 2.4K to 3K cost. When I read 60K cost I think people are either taking a private school, or add housing , or are getting fleeced. Or all 3.

  10. I saw an ad for bitcoin mining in train on Bitcoin Miners Bail, While Cryptocurrency Capitalization Drops 83% Since January (coindesk.com) · · Score: 1

    When it becomes so mainstream as to be ads in train, then I am thinking of people trying to fleece the public, and regulation will follow not far away (this is the EU not the US where consumer protection are somewhat weaker).

  11. no op is right not sanctimonus on Developer Misinterprets Linux Code of Conduct, Suggests Replacing F-Word with 'Hug' (neowin.net) · · Score: 1

    you can say fuck all the time but you should not professionally write it in permanent artifact. City Clerks says fuck all the time but do not write it in birth or death certificate or laws. Accountant says it all the time but don't write it in a document sent to the IRS or local equivalent. Doctor and engineer says fuck all the time but don't write it in patient charts or blueprints. So why in the five fuckity hell of a bitch moaning schweinpriester do you think it is sanctimonious to expect the SAME fucking professionalism from developer ? Sorry, but if you write it does in permanent artifact which are shared with other, you stay fucking polite. If you can't do that then grow up. I have seen the worst in source code from simple swear words to pretending a colleague was a whore and accept credit cards+her phone. None of that shit is OK and if I see it now i immediately ask the idiot to remove it OR escalate it. That 3rd year playground shit is unprofessional.

    Is that non-sanctimonious enough for you ?

  12. That does NOT explain it on US Life Expectancy Falls Further (cnn.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    See if the number of infant mortality was increasing that would explain it, but they have stayed stable or lower slightly. Therefore while this can explain an *offset* between USA and other OECD country, it cannot explain the trend. Furthermore even as an offset, it is incredibly low and cannot account for such a huge discrepancy : infant mortality even with those "lowered" rates are 3 per live birth in Germany and 6 per live birth in USA. That cannot account for the discrepancy in average life expectancy difference : 1.7 years that would require far more than 3 more baby per live birth to drop an average of 1.7 years over 300 million people (hint : 3 more death of baby per 1000, so about 12000 baby death per year, so per cohort at most I come with a gap of about between 1 and 2 month of contribution. That still leaves you 18 month to explain and baby death will not do that).

  13. in germany they even call you on That Virus Alert on Your Computer? Scammers in India May Be Behind It (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    I hate that. I yell "scam" and hang up and the police can only do a useless warning not to agree to what the phone caller says.

  14. Nuclear has an enormous advantage on France To Close Four Coal-Fired Power Plants By 2022, 14 Nuclear Reactors By 2035 (cleantechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    It is base load. Renewable are not, until a major tech advance is not. That alone relegate renewable to side load.

  15. I haven't lived in a german town where you could not wit6hin 10 to 15 minutes either by foot or by bus be to a supermarket. Case in point there are 3 within 15 minutes where I live. Sur4e they are not the super-hyper-mega-big supermarket I saw in the US, but they all can deserve locally. One of them is even a discounter.

  16. from 1 to 100. And no, I was told by my banks that having NO data is not the best possible for lender, as it means they have no way to assess risk (remember : lender cannot see your outflow/inflow money in your account! Exception are only bank lending). In fact in my case they did not care since they knew I was solvent (they can see my inflow/outflow) but a random car seller would not be able to.

  17. "Germany to remove all talk of German history?" in case you were sleeping through in the past decades : germany put the ACCENT on its history ww2 and genocide as a mea culpa, and forbid by law denying it. So your list looks funny in that context. You can tell a lot of things, but modern german put the accent on reparation , and on never forgetting.

  18. I can't speak for the US but in Germany as soon as you get a permanent address you will have a SchuFa Auskunft. It does not matter if you borrow or not.

  19. Most disinformation article I see spread around appeal to at least ONE of the part of the people : fun, hope, fear, political tribalism... Most fact based article are party pooper, hope killing, anti tribalism or at least makes the party of the reader (whichever) looks like ass, echo chamber killing, and are mostly downright going against the user feeling - reality is mostly like that after all. So yeah, MOST people will spread the disinfo and ignore the article not going their way. It is nice to see it confirmed by a study, though.

  20. That is peanuts. Comapred to politician action on NYC Subway, Bus Services Have Entered 'Death Spiral,' Experts Say (theguardian.com) · · Score: 4, Informative
    From the article you lniked, there is this gem : https://www.nytimes.com/2017/1... what you say about 200 worker is nothing (it is probably a rounding error for a billion dollar project) , compared to the action local politician forced which cost billions - generation of politician literary plundered the NYC public transit system.

    It was the result of a series of decisions by both Republican and Democratic politicians â" governors from George E. Pataki to Mr. Cuomo and mayors from Rudolph W. Giuliani to Bill de Blasio. Each of them cut the subwayâ(TM)s budget or co-opted it for their own priorities.
    They stripped a combined $1.5 billion from the M.T.A. by repeatedly diverting tax revenues earmarked for the subways and also by demanding large payments for financial advice, I.T. help and other services that transit leaders say the authority could have done without.

    That and what follows is what killed your public transit.

  21. Your method is the best way to run into budget problem or useless empty places. You do a first study, then an initial program with very few places like their 20. THEN if a lot of people start to want to participate, you increase the programs budget and size of available places.

  22. Normally I don't care about moderation, but that one made me laugh to tears. Now plain demographic and comment on evolution of internet connectivity outside first world is trolling. Guys. WHY should a guy in Bangalore getting connected to internet like pewdiepie or a well known US youtuber or media, MORE than the local celebrity ? Now multiply by 1 billion with far eastern region and 1 billion indian sub continent. The most view in video plateform in the future will simply be there. it is demographic !

  23. "More than half of the 10 most popular channels on YouTube in terms of monthly views are from outside the U.S" let us put it that way, there was a lag from non US country to take up on youtube. The US had the innovator advance. But 95% of the world is outside the US, and a big part of that is getting more and more connected. I am predicting that in 5 to 10 years the top youtube channel by view will be world wide media conglomerate, or big celebrities in india & china.

  24. Music taste are subjective. Lyric/song are not on Food Taste 'Not Protected By Copyright,' EU Court Rules (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Lyric/song , text, video are objective. You can copyright them. You cannot on the other hand copyright the taste/feeling associated with them. You can't copyright the horror generated by some horror film scene, because it would be subjective by age/gender/culture etc....

  25. Jill Stein and Gary Johnson were candidate with problems. Mrs stein runs as the green and take a look at their plateform, really. Mr johnson had more chance but he ran as libertarian rather than republican. he would have had a far more better chance if he had run as non-endorsed republican and publicized his plateform as anti corruption. Libertarian have a lot of negative baggage. People do not look at the subsidy part , they look at the rest of the program or the party. That is why your counter point isn't in reality one.