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  1. Re:Melanoma is also possible without sun on There's No Such Thing as a Safe Tan (theconversation.com) · · Score: 1

    Cancer is caused by cell generation/mutation that went wrong and can happen at any time - usually later in life, causing uncontrollable growth and with melanoma and many other cancers the ability to detach and spread to other parts of the body.
    When you're in the sun, you're damaging those cells *increasing* the chance of the damaged cells mutating into the above.

    The sun isn't the sole cause.

  2. Re:Dr. Mercola recommends on There's No Such Thing as a Safe Tan (theconversation.com) · · Score: 1

    In 46C heat in the centre of Australia, as a pale person. I dare you to do that daily. That would prove your doctor to be a quack
    It's all about your environment. If it's the middle of winter, you need more sun time than the middle of summer, assuming you're not close to the equator of course ;)

  3. Re:Thats what you get for running systemd on Linux systemd Affected by Memory Corruption Vulnerabilities, No Patches Yet (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    Yes, but many have suffered through those bugs and now the software is mature with few bugs. Why suffer through it again? I feel Alan's quote which went something like: "Those who fail to understand Unix reinvent it - poorly". Seems Systemd suffers from this issue.

  4. Re:I guess they didn't consider ageism... on Software Developer Tops List of U.S. News & World Report's Annual Best Jobs Rankings (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    Can you hypothesise why this would be the case? You're right, you can be a doctor till you're 90+ yet a 50 year old software developer is a "dinosaur", however in my experience both are typically "old fashioned", don't follow the latest trends in their respected fields, etc. (Generalising, of course) - but for hells sake my doctor didn't believe adhd existed, so refused it as a medical condition and I went untreated as a kid which I believe has negatively impacted by life.

    I guess it could be the fast pace of technology and how quickly it evolves. Medicine's advancements are glacial comparatively speaking for the most part.

  5. Re:how do you manage? on Hospital Prices Are About To Go Public in the US (ajc.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm sorry to hear about your husband, really. However two questions, would he have had the same issues if he had gone to the emergency room at your local hospital and did he die due to the wait time or was he terminal anyway? Anecdotal evidence is purely anecdotal. If I had breathing issues I'd personally go to the doctor that day, failing that to the hospital.

  6. Re:how do you manage? on Hospital Prices Are About To Go Public in the US (ajc.com) · · Score: 1

    I really hope neither you nor any of your family get serious and expensive to treat cancer or another disease. That would mean you'd be relying on others taxes, or others health insurance premiums. You seriously don't want to use other peoples premiums for your own/family healthcare, right?! On the flip side, don't you get angry that others are using your premiums for their healthcare? Socialised healthcare is like private health insurance as in everyone pays, except without the profits, corporate greed, pharma & hospital price gouging, etc.

  7. Re:Legislation Amendment on Apple Rebukes Australia's 'Dangerously Ambiguous' Anti-Encryption Bill (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    It's full title is "Telecommunications and Other Legislation Amendment (Assistance and Access) Bill". The "other legislation" bit means that, in the future, other online services can be forced to install a back-door.

    I've read most of the legislation draft, and if you read division 7 it says:

    Division 7 — Limitations 317ZG Designated communications provider must not be required to implement or build a systemic weakness or systemic vulnerability etc.
    (1) A technical assistance notice or technical capability notice must not have the effect of:
    a requiring a designated communications provider to implement or build a systemic weakness, or a systemic vulnerability, into a form of electronic protection; or
    b preventing a designated communications provider from rectifying a systemic weakness, or a systemic vulnerability, in a form of electronic protection.
    (2) The reference in paragraph 1 a to implement or build a systemic weakness, or a systemic vulnerability, into a form of electronic protection includes a reference to implement or build a new decryption capability in relation to a form of electronic protection.
    (3) The reference in paragraph 1 a to implement or build a systemic weakness, or a systemic vulnerability, into a form of electronic protection includes a reference to one or more actions that would render systemic methods of authentication or encryption less effective.
    (4) Subsections (2) and (3) are enacted for the avoidance of doubt.
    (5) A technical assistance notice or technical capability notice has no effect to the extent (if any) to which it would have an effect covered by paragraph

    Wouldn't that mean that they cannot ask companies to build backdoors as that would weaken their systems?

    Please use fewer 'junk' characters?? I've had to remove a lot of parenthesis from the legislation, so that's why it looks a little "off".

  8. Re:I'm surprised they're using outside product on Linux Now Dominates Azure (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    You've forgotten about business critical applications. Granted more and more are going cloud, so then a switch to Linux is possible, but there is still a plethora of Windows only options (even many cloud ones are just remoteapp/citrix xenapp). Microsoft Office is also a compelling reason for those already ingrained in their ecosystem.

  9. Australia is a racist country, just look at the rise of Pauline Hanson's One Nation Party. It's our Stalinist Border protection minister spreading FUD about Sudanese gangs and immigrants at the moment.

  10. Second, no one keeps their firmware up to date, even if there exists firmware that does have all the fixes. The really fun part, companies that *do* routinely upgrade firmware get bitten when the vendor breaks them, and does so without a good rollback facility (after all, "downgrades" are a security risk, so a key change with a firmware update that *also* happens to be bad for your configuration, well sucks to be you).

    Good example, I worked for a company that upgraded their HP branded Xenserver servers ILO firmware. When the servers rebooted it'd cause a kernel panic, nothing worked due to a bug in ILO or kernel module. Once we disabled the kernel module it booted again.

  11. Re:Just Stop on MoviePass' New Business Plan Is To Charge You Whatever It Wants (qz.com) · · Score: 2

    If they'd put that business model in front of me I'd run screaming the other way

    It's been hypothesized their business model is to get critical mass where they can the be powerful enough to dictate to the cinemas how much it is per ticket. In the mean time they're throwing good money after bad.

  12. More details would be nice on Chinese AI Beats 15 Doctors In Tumor Diagnosis Competition (thenextweb.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful


    Did the AI give any false positives?
    Did the doctors correctly diagnose any cases that the AI did not?

    Whilst this is great news, I hope doctors use it as a learning and aid tool instead of a full diagnosis suite without a review by the specialist.

  13. Phone unlocking? on Juggalos Figured Out How To Beat Facial Recognition (theoutline.com) · · Score: 2

    However, facial recognition tech such as Apple's Face ID, which does not rely on visible light and uses depth perception, would not be tricked by juggalo makeup.

    I read TFA sadly, but I don't understand why this sentence is in there - probably clickbait. The whole article is about surveillance and online face matching technology, and fooling it so it cannot identify you.

    What I understand is if you wear the make-up and try to unlock your phone that uses image recognition, then it'll fail. You cannot unlock any phone using make-up. Besides there are easier methods.

  14. Re:/. headline is misleading on AT&T Promised Lower Prices After Time Warner Merger -- It's Raising Them Instead (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1
    Also, definition of "will":

    expressing inevitable events.

    Being inevitable should be viewed as an undertaking to the court right? So equal to a promise.

  15. Re:/. headline is misleading on AT&T Promised Lower Prices After Time Warner Merger -- It's Raising Them Instead (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 2

    Since when did a promise need to contain the word promise? Saying "it will enable the merged company to reduce prices" sounds like a promise to me. When I say "I will take you to the park after lunch" to my kids, they rightly take that as a promise.

  16. Re:Meat Medicine on Scientists Genetically Engineer Pigs Immune To Costly Disease (theguardian.com) · · Score: 2

    I read somewhere that pigs are often where the avian flu makes its jump from birds to pigs and subsequently humans. If there's a pre-disposition in their DNA to get infected with the bird flu, it'd be good for everyone to fix it.

  17. Re:There Goes Chinas Business Model on Supreme Court Backs Award of Overseas Patent Damages (reuters.com) · · Score: 2

    Until other countries follow suit. Imagine if China or EU went after US companies for infringing on their patents in the US, there would be an almighty uproar about infringing on US sovereignty.

  18. Except an envelope full of money will make the problem disappear!

  19. Re:Single-thread performance doubling: 7.5 years! on Intel Hits 50 Years and Its CPUs Hit 5.0 GHz (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    Except Moore's law wasn't about compute performance, it was about how the density of transistors in an IC doubles every 2 years.

  20. How about NVIDIA Ray Tracing?

  21. Re:Much ado about round corners on Samsung Must Pay Apple $539 Million For Infringing iPhone Design Patents, Jury Finds (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Um, they also infringed upon Utility Patents.

    What's that got to do with corner radii?

    less than 1% of the total payment?

    In other words, if it was less than 6 mill payout for some utility patents, Samsung couldn't care less. But that's not the bulk of the payout, not even close.

  22. Re:crypto-coins? on IBM Warns Quantum Computing Will Break Encryption (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    - by some magic of physics, it instantaneously determines the only possible inputs that could have ever formed that answer. Thus, it works out the SECRET INPUT (i.e. the keys) that was originally used to encrypt it - all in one "tick".

    I know you said it may not be 100% accurate but as I understand it this statement's premise is completely wrong. It should read: "by some magic of physics, it instantaneously determines every possible input that could have ever formed that answer. Then you find the outcome that's not gibberish".