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  1. All of that was done by Republicans. The last time we had a balanced budget we had those other guys in office. In fact we had a surplus but W et. al. squandered it.
    And the Republicans are the libertarians darlings. Go figure.

  2. Re:Personally I blame... on Over 1,800 MongoDB Databases Held For Ransom By Mysterious Attacker (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    This is one big reason I have come to hate IT and developers. The same stupid mistakes over and over again. And when you flag it you get a an attitude of "u r old sk3w1", "you don't get it", etc.

    And in at least 2 cases I tried to warn them and when the fecal material impacted the rotary air circulation device guess who got blamed? The guy who tried to stop them. As if I had somehow jinxed them by trying to help them.

  3. Re:Nuke, upgrade, and restore from backups on Over 1,800 MongoDB Databases Held For Ransom By Mysterious Attacker (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    they backed up to /dev/null because it was web scale.

  4. The lack of admin password is the secret sauce.

  5. How do he get rich! Volume! As well as the attitude of "let's just pay it it's so small". Factor in that it might even be a misdemeanor in some places. And we do not even know how many places were hit. Overall a clever strategy.

  6. As many breaches are inside jobs exposure to the internet is not even a valid criteria. No DB should ever have open security by default. See Postgresql for a much better model.

  7. reinstate child labor. let the market decide. we need to get the government off the backs of the American people. It's the libertarian thing to do.

  8. Industrial farming looks to be destroying the food value of crops see http://hortsci.ashspublication...

    It may make sense in terms of cost per nutrient value. More and more industrial grown food is becoming empty calories.

  9. Who said anything about orchards on the 24th floor?

  10. we really don't need genetic engineering. There is plenty of under utilized land out there, see an aerial photo of Detroit as an example.

    Plants love CO2 already and there is some thinking that increased CO2 due to climate change would increase plant growth rate, with unknown side effects.

    You do not even need to engineer plants for indoor lighting as there are things called "grow lights" that have light spectrums optimized for plants.

    Plants already love grey water as it often contains phosphates and nitrogen from lawn runoff.

    WHere warehouses really make sense is in areas with a short growing season, e.g. the interior of Alaska, or a lack of open land.

    GMO is not needed, just a basic understanding of farming.

  11. 1) make unproductive land useful.
    2) build community
    3) grow food with better nutritional value. See http://hortsci.ashspublication...

  12. Re:While warehouse-based factory farming. . . on The US Government is Loaning Millions of Dollars To Jumpstart Urban Farming (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 1

    you don't need a warehouse, just a patch of land. A few acres would do for a start. For labor you can hire hands or go the co-op route.

  13. Citation detroit is moving in that direction. Industrial agriculture with heavy equipment is probably out, but more traditional agriculture focused on shallow rooted vegetables would be feasible. Orchards might even be feasible.

    Detroit is headed in that direction
    http://www.greeningofdetroit.c...

  14. Re:In unrelated news, pot farming on The US Government is Loaning Millions of Dollars To Jumpstart Urban Farming (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Not really unrelated. Pot farms in urban warehouses are on the upswing.

  15. Re:That might work somewhere rural... on The Farmer Who Built Her Own Broadband (bbc.com) · · Score: 2

    It's not really laws blocking you but apathy

  16. Re:There is only one answer on How Would You Generate C Code Using Common Lisp Macros? (github.com) · · Score: 1

    The beverage or the lab chemical (though one can be both but not the other)?

  17. Re:I don't know about you on How Would You Generate C Code Using Common Lisp Macros? (github.com) · · Score: 1

    Yeah another IoT security breach.

  18. Most "managers" I've met have been spreadsheet monkeys running things through formulas for other managers. Not much analytical skills and little if no human or leadership skills. Easily replaced by automation and good riddance when we do. The sooner the better.

  19. Re:Political Crash on Uber Pulls Self-Driving Cars From San Francisco, Sends Them To Arizona (sfgate.com) · · Score: 1

    Let's call it what it is, Apha testing in production. That's what happens when the company is run by marketdroids and the developers are clueless code monkeys.

  20. I lived there. It's a hole. Nothing burbs as far as the eye can see, racism, drug running, bandits, real estate sharks, and an under class of poor white and latino workers to support it all. Get out while you can.

  21. Re: Even without environmental concerns on Obama Blocks Offshore Drilling In Atlantic, Arctic Areas (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    Not the ones I know. They are more into their grandchildren than lake front property.

  22. Re:Mass Bribery? [Re:So...] on Obama Blocks Offshore Drilling In Atlantic, Arctic Areas (npr.org) · · Score: 2, Informative

    outfits like Greenpeace are after China and other developing nations. As well as corporations that exploit those nations. The problem with 'Globalization' is that it is intended to strip away environmental, health, safety, and labor laws; which is why it must be stopped. BTW, do you have any citations for Russian and Chinese governments funding free activist organizations?

  23. Re:Basic Income on Does Amazon's Clickworker Platform Exploit Its Workers? (techrepublic.com) · · Score: 1

    If you can't commute, you can't work or look for work.

  24. Re:Lost $800 Million on Uber Lost $800 Million In Third Quarter (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    See also the US auto industry, where a crash in employment would be a disaster for the global economy. Which is why Obama proved them up for a few years.

  25. Re:This is what you get with low cost manufacturin on China Chokes On Smog So Bad That Planes Can't Land (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    You should see what NAFTA did to Juarez. Very much the same thing though not as large or dense. And pollution does not respect political boundaries the people of New Mexico and West Texas get to enjoy it too.