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  1. Re: I want my data back on Edge Computing: Explained (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    It isn't as important that internal email accounts are only company business as that company business be transacted on internal email accounts. Limited personal use of an internal account is unlikely to cause much damage, not nearly as much damage as firing someone for what is perceived as at best a minor offense.

    As far as criminal prosecution, what law changes are you proposing? It's pretty well established that the CFAA's idea of unauthorized access requires that the defendant either not have normal access or have been informed personally that access is revoked. You're talking about use of authorized access for unintended purposes.

  2. Re: Few people care about user servicability on Apple's iMac Turns 20 Years Old (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    They aren't fads; they're niche markets. For the foreseeable future, we'll have a relatively small number of people who are interested in fiddling with their own computers and phones. As these people tend to be more interested in raw specs than ease of use, I'd think they tend to buy Windows machines and perhaps install Linux, so they wouldn't be likely to be Apple customers even if modern Macs were as easy to open as the 1990s ones.

  3. Re:Few people care about user servicability on Apple's iMac Turns 20 Years Old (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Most savvy people will upgrade RAM and storage

    Back in the 90s, we'd almost routinely get additional memory for our Macs after a couple of years or so, because it improved things a lot, and the price had come down considerably in maybe two years. Is that still true anymore? We haven't noticed the same sorts of issues with computers recently.

  4. Re: Small bump on Apple's iMac Turns 20 Years Old (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    That's more of a Microsoft-Linux thing, I thought.

  5. Governments run the public school systems, so governments can reduce inequality. It was done in Minnesota some time ago, although I think it was allowed to lapse back. As far as the money going in, it's pretty clear that, as long as teachers are expected to be buying school supplies, it's not going where it's needed.

    As far as private schools go, they lack one significant feature of the public school system: they're allowed to refuse to educate children. If everybody's entitled to a K-12 education, then there has to be provision for every child to get into a school. Public school systems have problems with rising and falling enrollment, depending on demographics, whereas a private school can set a hard limit at 200 children and stick to it. Private schools often will not accept children with certain disabilities, while the public school system does. A private school can set tuition, while a public school system can't. Explain to me how an all-private system is supposed to work.

  6. Re:Really? on Google Will Ban Bail-Bond Ads (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Alternatively, become white and middle-class so you're much less likely to be charged in the first place.

  7. Re:nice going, Google! on Google Will Ban Bail-Bond Ads (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Except that this doesn't stop anyone from looking up bail bond agents on Google. It prevents them from seeing the ads. This may or may not hinder them in finding a bondsman, depending on whether the ones that have been advertising are more predatory than the others or not.

    Most, possibly all, advertising providers have restrictions on the ads they will accept.

  8. Re:The Bail System on Google Will Ban Bail-Bond Ads (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    That's not how it works. Suppose I have $2K bail set. I can pay $2K to the court, and get it back when I appear. Alternatively, I can give $200 to a bondsman, who will then post the $2K. When I appear in court, I don't get it back. If I don't appear, the bondsman has a legal right to track me down and haul me in, employing an agent often referred to as a bounty hunter. It may sound somewhat barbaric to you; it does to me.

  9. Re:this is a mistake on Google Will Ban Bail-Bond Ads (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Because Republicans just get away with sexual harassment?

  10. Re:this is a mistake on Google Will Ban Bail-Bond Ads (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Opposition research. I would note that you didn't care when the DNC did it, and *then used it to falsely claim it was intelligence and get a FISA warrant.

    I'd care if that actually happened. Based on the public evidence I have, it didn't.

  11. Re:this is a mistake on Google Will Ban Bail-Bond Ads (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    On the other hand, FISA warrants were acquired under false pretenses and used to spy on a presidential candidate and then predident-elect, while covering the now incontrovertible fact that the entire investigation was based on an opposition research paid for by the DNC and Hillary Clinton campaign.

    If you have actual evidence that that's the case, somebody's committed a felony. Alternatively, it's a lie.

  12. Re:Seems like the right reasons to me on New Service Blocks EU Users So Companies Can Save Thousands on GDPR Compliance (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    I seriously doubt you are an expert on GDPR compliance.

    I seriously doubt LynwoodRooster wants to become such an expert. The proposed fines can be ruinous to a small business (up to $24M), and that's not a risk worth taking to get a little extra business.

  13. Obviously, some of the CO2 is being absorbed by some process or another. Unfortunately, that process isn't twice as effective. It can also lead to bad effects: a lot of CO2 has been absorbed by the ocean, altering its pH.

  14. Hey guy, it is. The evidence is largely statistical, but it's there. It's also not enough to really bother well-off Westerners, except with refugees. The amount of CO2 in the atmosphere is increasing, and temperatures continue to go up.

  15. Re:Will disproportionately impact people of color? on Placing Election Ads On Google Will Require a Government ID (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    In various places, people of color have more difficulty in getting valid IDs because the people controlling who issues the IDs make it more difficult. Only a Republican would think otherwise.

  16. Re:Attempting to do what is already done? on Placing Election Ads On Google Will Require a Government ID (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    The NRA was the one helping blacks get guns to defend themselves from the Democrat-founded KKK lynchers,

    The KKK hasn't lynched people recently, but the NRA doesn't seem to have cared when a black man with a concealed carry license was shot (Philando Castile).

  17. Re: Surprised it wasn't already a requirement on Placing Election Ads On Google Will Require a Government ID (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    You're quoting Trump to try to establish a fact? Have you ever fact-checked his claims?

  18. Re:Surprised it wasn't already a requirement on Placing Election Ads On Google Will Require a Government ID (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    What would voter ID laws have to do with illegal immigration? People who vote have to identify themselves, with or without documents, and so the important thing would be to keep illegal immigrants off the voting list.

  19. Re:Surprised it wasn't already a requirement on Placing Election Ads On Google Will Require a Government ID (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    If nobody's enforcing election laws, than anything goes that's allowed by the authorities, and the only solution is to do something about corruption. Voter ID, or any other, laws won't stop the fraud. Besides, this isn't voter impersonation.

    In a district where there's even indifferent law enforcement, voter impersonation has an extremely low risk-reward business.

  20. Re: Surprised it wasn't already a requirement on Placing Election Ads On Google Will Require a Government ID (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    As I understand it, citizens in many (most?) countries have a national ID card, which is in common use. Where I live, official ID is a driver's license or a non-driving ID card. The driver's license is necessary to drive, which not all people do. The alternate ID card is about as inconvenient as a driver's license, and is rarely used. Not driving, or learning later, is a trend right now, and elderly people may hang up the keys (I was very relieved when Mom did without an intervention).

    In addition, voter ID laws have often been associated with making IDs harder to get. This includes closing stations that give out licenses in poor areas, among other things.

  21. Re:22 Years Out on UK Car Industry On Alert Over Reports Some Hybrids Face a Ban (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Ambulances are a great candidate for electrifying. An ambulance goes out maybe fifty miles max and returns. Then it has to be sterilized, restocked, etc., for the next person, and it can be on the charger.

    Police cars typically don't need really long range. Eight hours at 30mph is 240 miles, and they'll be back to be charged. (Or eight hours at 60mph, and recharge during lunch.) We could do that today.

    Fire trucks are somewhat different. The fire truck needs to drive to a fire and continue providing power for pumps and such. It's possible to have a bad fire, so the truck could have to be active for quite some time. They're also extremely specialized vehicles.

    As far as the military goes, well, fuel has been a big logistical issue since WWII, and if the Army can substitute solar panels for bringing in fuel that would be a big win in many places. It won;'t work everywhere, so I'd expect plugin hybrids for a long time to come.

  22. Re:5% is nothing on Can We Live Without Concrete? (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    How would that work?

    If there were about a hundred million people on Earth, we'd have to feed that hundred million. To do that, we'd need to grow far more food than we do now. We probably couldn't afford much meat, since it's an inefficient way of turning plants into food. So, we have lots and lots and lots of crops. They take CO2 from the air and use the C. That C is eaten by people and exhaled as CO2. The amount of CO2 put into the air by breathing is about equal to the CO2 taken out of the air by growing food for people. Net result: no significant change.

  23. I'm not going to justify saying that public schools are a function of government.

    However, I have to take issue with the "public school system" again. There is no such thing in the US. You can't generalize like that.

    As far as spending goes, it's the question of spending on what. To give one example, my wife's first high school had excellent support for the rifle team (which she was on) while the building had large unrepaired cracks. Heck, teachers get tax deductions for school supplies they have to buy with their own money, which is official recognition that state and local governments don't necessarily provide them. I don't know where the funding is going, in many cases I know where it isn't going.

  24. Supernovae are pseudo-science, to give one example. They're irreproducible, like cultures. We have observations, just like we have observations of cultures, but apparently that's not enough.

  25. Re:That "government" IS those coprorations! on New California Ballot Measure Demands Groundbreaking Privacy Rights (mercurynews.com) · · Score: 1

    Large governments do not necessarily infringe more on personal freedoms than small governments. A government that coordinates universal health care provides more personal freedom than we've got now, when health care is tied to employment. When we want to provide services to everybody, we need government, because private enterprise will cut off the less profitable potential customers. We need government involvement in education or lots of people wouldn't get an education. We need government involvement to make sure everybody gets access to drinkable water (not that that always works).

    The Federal government mostly operates within the Constitution, although the interstate commerce clause has been stretched pretty badly. The Constitution really didn't work well for everything. The Electoral College broke down almost immediately, probably the most obvious failure. The Federal government we had in 1800 would probably be a failure today.