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  1. Well yes and no. With 24 billion in your pocket you are just another rich guy. Running an influential tech company you are a celebrity.

    Like you say with that kind of cash you can certainly try some other ideas out. The thing is you can try those ideas out if your the CEO and major stock holder of a huge company too. The only difference is rather than starting a new company you start a new department. If the idea is successful you can spin off the department into its own company, that you also run. If its a flop you move onto something else, and if any good technology etc came out of it ownership by the existing entity is clear and it can be use elsewhere.

    Provided Mark diversified a little by selling some facebook stock and buying some other assets, should something unthinkable happen; he has more influence, and more opportunity to try out crazy schemes like rural internet service via miniature dirigibles, than he does with money alone.

    There is no reason to 'take the money and run' in this case.

  2. Re:Exactly this! Its about revival of Eugenics on DNA Testing For Jobs May Be On Its Way, Warns Gartner (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    You know "curl" vs "cruel" would be spelling not grammar. Which one of us is ignorant now?

    Next lets consider that you understood exactly what I meant as demonstrated by the fact that you proposed an alternative spelling we both recognize. English has a descriptive not a prescriptive dictionary. There is no body that is empowered to decided what is correct English there is only conventional and common usage. One can argue any message that is understood as the author intended without difficulty on the part of the recipient is in fact correct English as far as there can be such a thing as correct English, again there being no authority.

    Don't lecture me about ignorance when you apparently don't even know or understand basic facts about the language your attempting to communicate in and the common definitions of words like spelling and grammar. I'll concede I understood your message so it was in that sense correctly encoded, if unconventional.

  3. Re:ASLR was a dumb idea while it lasted on Researchers Bypass ASLR Protection On Intel Haswell CPUs (softpedia.com) · · Score: 1

    Yes it is but people have been trying to do that for 40 years and have not gotten it right yet so...

  4. Re:Enhanced Mitigation Experience Toolkit on Researchers Bypass ASLR Protection On Intel Haswell CPUs (softpedia.com) · · Score: 1

    EMET on Windows is a great tool! What a name though, only the Microsoft marketing droids could invent that one. "Mitigation Experience" never in a million years would it have occurred to me I should be concerned about my experience mitigating something. Thanks marketers!

  5. You will see this with a lot of SSDs as well larger capacity models have better write performance because many are capable of paralleling writes. It takes some small bit of time to program a flash block, there is not need to keep data contiguous on a medium with no seek time, therefore you can spray data all over the flash medium and that is fine because you are logically mapping all the blocks anyway.

    Its not surprising to me that even the embedded NAND or NOR flash in smart phone would act like a raid0 over X number of chips. I am not saying that is what is going on but its reasonable explanation based on what I know about other memory devices.

  6. Re:Exactly this! Its about revival of Eugenics on DNA Testing For Jobs May Be On Its Way, Warns Gartner (computerworld.com) · · Score: 2

    I imaging the guards at the Nazi death camps were given some version of its not murder they are not people too.

  7. Re:Exactly this! Its about revival of Eugenics on DNA Testing For Jobs May Be On Its Way, Warns Gartner (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1, Troll

    It is disturbing and if you look at the radical pro-abortion agenda being advanced by the left this year. Attacking the Hyde Amendment, trying to ensure elective procedures (murders) are covered by health insurance, the "share your abortion story" push by Richards, the "My sister is a Happy Ghost" children's book etc, its all little bits of nasty final solution. Next look where they put up the free/low cost abortion "clinics" and than look at what groups are having abortions by the numbers, the game is clear.

    Its pretty clear to me the "progressives" in this country are working to revive the early twentieth century eugenics movement. Much of their own electorate is being used as ignorant rubes with lots of fancy language about "rights," "equality," and "liberty" while the elites laugh knowing they are going to pressure these same people into murdering their own children. Making it so they can't get jobs because they don't have the right markers for intellect etc despite their own actual achievements, work ethic, etc is just a way to turn up the heat. "See you don't even have a future yourself, continuing your genetic line would just be curl, you don't want to be parent" I can almost hear it now. If you are unemployed you don't have money to participate in the political system to try and stop them. They are going after the tax exempt status of religious institutions that don't play nice, again take away the money, it started way back with the Johnson amendment and now that people are over that they are turning up the heat a little more.

    This is about slowly boiling Pepe. Its about accomplishing what they could not get done in the 1920s and 30s because honest decent Americans were still organized and could oppose these people. Its because Hitler fouled up and took things to a place so ugly anyone with a little good in them could not ignore. The curl joke is the marketing machine paints the American left as the party of down trodden when really its a viscous machine designed to consume their very lives.

  8. Except that in situations like this one, and probably most situations where things could go wrong the 'live people' are really just passive passengers.

    Even in the 60's the moon landings were done by computer. Could a live pilot have executed no, not with the equipment they sent, the fuel use and tolerances for error were far to small. Could we have sent a more powerful lander possibly at much greater expense and it might have never got off the ground here on earth for reasons of both gravity and money.

    Mostly likely a Mars mission would be the same. Even if money is no object economics still play. Do you want an extra week of pre packaged food stuffs or do want a lander than can tolerate the slop of human pilot? Trade offs like that will exist.

    If things go wrong humans will most likely go splat before the have had time to read the error message on the control computers display.

  9. Pao rejected the idea that Thiel's donation could be dismissed as political speech. "We agree that people shouldn't be fired for their political views, but this isn't a disagreement on tax policy, this is advocating hatred and violence," she wrote. "Giving more power to someone whose ascension and behavior strike fear into so many people is unacceptable. His attacks on black, Mexican, Asian, Muslim, and Jewish people, on women, and on others are more than just political speech; fueled by hate and encouraging violence, they make each of us feel unsafe."

    Pao ignores the fact that just like all the unsubstantiated claims against Trump by people who have worked with him Hillary has a list of accusers as well like her former Chef who says she call a staff member the N-word. Then we have now a nearly endless trail of documentation proving that the DNC arranged for violence at Trump rallies. Hillary can't be conclusively tied to that but given Schultz proved to be in her pocket in terms of rigging the primary elections against Bernie, its hard to imaging Hillary was not at least aware. Keep in mind Hillary never denounced the DNC for the racist e-mails, election tampering, possible voter fraud etc. The media somehow gives her a pass on this while Trump is 'required' by the media to explicit denounce any unsavory groups that endorse him.

    Pao plainly does not have a deep understanding of this issues if she thinks making a campaign contribution to a major party candidate isn't political speech. If nothing else the argument you are supporting the platform and agenda not the man holds. People like Pao disgust me! She basically condemns anyone who does not agree with her and destroys them thru manufactured outrage. She does this knowing full well that the outrage machine happens to be aligned with here political views so she does not have to worry about this back firing.

    We know the truth Ellen, you are where you are because people are afraid of you will accuse them of being misogynists or racists, or whatever people are most upset about next week and your media buddies will help you pile on and rail road that person no matter what the facts are. My guess is you have done this your entire career, you have probably been at it since before college. There are plenty of successful female executives out there who succeed by being good at what they do, people like you taint their achievements. You should be ashamed of yourself.

  10. "I know my show is protected, and it empowers me to be more honest and open with the audience"

    translation:

    I want to be able to speak my mind but I am terrified the outrage machine might latch on to one off hand comment I might make and crucify me.

  11. Re:Maximum yield on Outsourced IT Workers Ask Sen Feinstein For Help, Get Form Letter in Return (computerworld.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    sorry we don't live in a world of unlimited resources, people have an obligation to take care of their own.

    Its My family -> my friends -> my nation -> everyone else in that order. Its not "I have mine, fuck you" its I have obligations to these people all ready and i have to meet them first, before I can help others.

  12. Not if you don't want HR to black ball you where reference calls are concerned.

    In the end you options are, they will say little or nothing other than that you were laid off and not fired for cause, or they will say you were insubordinate; thus preventing you from getting another job.

  13. Unless its a class action thing with you and a bunch of other employees in a similar situation its not worth it. The other case where you can prevail is if its a very small firm you were working for that has not got its own legal department.

    Any company with its own legal department will fight, because it costs them little to do so. They are already paying to have their lawyers hanging around. You on the other hand are having to retain council at your expense.

    Even if you win you loose because its unlikely you'll walk away with more than you would have if you'd instead spent your time finding anther job and drawing a new salary form some place else.

  14. The other employees knowing they will be treated decently in the event they are not needed is important. Talent retention is often hard. If you know that the company you would for would cut you lose without so much as a few months pay would you stay if you saw a similarly compensated job offer available at another firm who had a positive reputation for taking care of employees?

  15. There is no free market when the government 'gets' to license spectrum. Quite honestly I think it should be all made to work CB like, there should be maximum power and set of rules that everyone must follow but anyone should be able to use the spectrum.

    That will give us lots of choice, but also will probably preclude the operation of a national network, and greatly reduce reliability. Oh well

  16. There is what is know as normative behavior though. If you are in a public place and you want to share something private with someone, you look around as you say to see if someone is near by, you lower you voice.

    Posting on facebook, Twitter is just that its posting, its more like standing in the public square with a megaphone and sandwich board, or nailing you list of grievances to the cathedral door.

    There are plenty of ways to send private or more private communications online. PGP + E-mail works pretty good (pun intended).

    The difference is really the longevity and discoverability of the message. It used to be the wind and rain would take the message you pinned up down eventually, if you said something stupid in public and found yourself ostracized for it rightly or wrongly you could move a couple towns over where nobody knew you. Now everyone can discover every stupid thing you ever said on the Internet anywhere you go no matter how long its been (in a lot of cases). People simply need to get used to it and adapt, maybe be a little less "free" with their self expression online, least they find their passions and ideas evolve later but their posting history and reputation can't seem to catch up.

       

  17. "You know I'm automatically attracted to beautiful [women]â"I just start kissing them," Trump told Access Hollywood's Billy Bush, according to an audio tape leaked to The Washington Post on Friday. "It's like a magnet. Just kiss. I don't even wait. And when you're a star, they let you do it. You can do anything. Grab them by the pussy. You can do anything."

    Emphasis mine, because, well, you can't do that. Grabbing an unsuspecting and unwilling person's genitals is a criminal act of sexual assault under any definition of sexual assault. Trump is evidently proud of the fact that he wielded his wealth and star power as a weapon to help him abuse womenâ"to kiss and grope them without their permission. This is violence, full stop.

    No specifics there, yes it is violence so is half the stuff in 50 Shades. In human sexuality people agree to acts just by making eyes at each other. Its not a good or reliable system but its the way it works, in much of the animal kingdom too. I highly doubt Trump goes around grabbing anyone by the pussy, if he did there would be more sexual assault complaints. That is exactly the kind of talk men boast to each other with, "I am so gosh damn important that women line up to have me fondle them..." Its dick waiving lots folks do.

    I am not saying its right, its just common.

  18. This all falls in with the same logic as how after all the other crazy stuff Trump has said (speaking as a likely Trump voter) he should some how be suddenly disqualified for some "joshing around guy talk" from 10 years ago. The reality is just about everyone says some in appropriate, poorly considered, things in bad taste some times. The fact that its all searchable and forever in public now is what has changed.

    I don't see the problem with law enforcement data mining peoples public statements for stuff related to current events/open investigations. That seems perfectly reasonable actually. The rest of us though need to learn to set the stuff aside when it comes to character judgements, because if we don't their won't be a qualified person among us to collect the trash, let alone run for president, or teach 3rd grade english.

  19. Consider "Aliens Exist" form probably their most popular album "Enema of the State"

    Hey mom there's something in the backroom
    Hope it's not the creatures from above
    You used to read me stories
    As if my dreams were boring
    We all know conspiracies are dumb
    What if people knew that these were real
    I'd leave my closet door open all night
    I know the CIA would say
    What you hear is all hearsay
    I wish someone would tell me what was right
    Up all night long
    And there's something very wrong
    And I know it must be late
    Been gone since yesterday
    I'm not like you guys
    I'm not like you
    I am still a skeptic yes you know me
    Been best friends and will be till we die
    I got an injection
    Of fear from the abduction
    My best friend thinks I'm just telling lies
    Alright

  20. Wait on NSA Contractor Arrested in Possible New Theft of Secrets (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    the contractor (identified as male) stole

    I thought we had to be concerned with how the contract identifies zis self. I am still trying to get with the program here.

  21. Re:More to the point on Yahoo's Delay in Reporting Hack 'Unacceptable', Say Senators (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    That is my point though, the users don't really leave. You have to offer them some token credit monitoring or something for a few months and 80% probably would not even change their password if you did not make them. They certainly are not moving their e-mail and web searches elsewhere.

    So the value of Yahoo! isn't actually impaired by the breach at all. Basically the attitude should be "breach smeach"

  22. Re:What selfish bastards on World's First Baby Born With New '3 Parent' Technique (newscientist.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Just increase immigration to compensate and better outcomes for all.

    Maybe, or it could me a worse outcome for all. I won't talk about race, race has been more or less scientifically proven to be a not a real thing. While there may be some clustering toward the lower and upper bounds of the normal range for various characteristics in some populations its not big enough to be relevant.

    Culture on the other hand is. Europe has had a huge problem with 'multiculturalism' you can't allow just any immigrants to show up and form ghettos. Its curcial to recognize and value ones one culture and probably ones national identity. I am all for legal immigration but the people who come here (speaking as an American) so do so because they want to be Americans, not ${former nationality}-Americans, no ${former continent}-Americans, or ${ethnic-population}-Americans but just plain simple Americans. I am all for freedom of religion and am okay with whatever they want to do inside their homes, or at their meeting place on ${Weekday} or if they don't want to ${food item} etc. In general though they need to join the rest of secular society, see the same movies, talk about the same sports, eat most of the same foods, date people no from their orign group, etc. Its simply wrong to place equal value on other cultures. Western civilization is superior its brought like to a dark world that other cultures frankly have not made lasting contributions to in terms of thought and ideas since before the fall of Rome.

    'We' as individuals are not better than 'them' but 'we' as a culture certainly are. If 'they' want to immigrate grate as long as their desire is to be like us. If its to come here or to Western Europe just to live in Little-${whatver} but collect a bigger public assistance check than is available back home, no we should not want them and we should not let them come. Recently cultural appropriation has been branded a bad thing. Its not its great thing, imitation is the highest form of flattery! Cultural appropriation is in fact the correct and proper way to value other cultures. You recognize what is best about them and perhaps better than our traditional way and adopt it! That is the melting pot model, we take the best ideas from everywhere and made them our own! Everyone should be welcome who wants to add and integrate. Unfortunately this idea that we have to allow them to instead replace, in the name of respect has taken hold.

  23. Re:More to the point on Yahoo's Delay in Reporting Hack 'Unacceptable', Say Senators (zdnet.com) · · Score: 2

    fraud was it? You are required to disclose know problems with most assets prior to sale, at least to the degree you are not misrepresenting the nature of thing.

    If I sold you a car and did not mention that when I had the head off the other weekend I noticed the block was cracked that would be fraud. On the other hand if I fail to mention its due of an oil change nobody is going to come after me for violating a lemon law let alone fraud.

    This is where the wicket gets sticky with Yahoo! Is a data breach a serious impairment? I mean with the exception of Avid Life Media most companies end up not being really harmed from a PII related breach. Look at all the retailers that have bounced back just fine, look at the social media platforms, etc. Its a short term problem most of the time. Any of the security professionals will tell you its not if but when you are breached anyway. So if "it happens to everyone" and you are not an especially sensitive use case should have to disclose a breach at all? I would argue: No!

  24. Re:Not sure you have a lot of options? on Tuesday Was Microsoft's Last Non-Cumulative Patch (helpnetsecurity.com) · · Score: 1

    Right to for the right job. A dedicated video player should be just that. It should not be a PC. You would be way way better off with some purpose built raspi image on that hardware. I would not even recommend using full linux distro for such a chore.

    Your best bet would have been to spec out a smart TV that could play the videos without having to hang anything off the back. Sure those things have their own security issues but if put a few switch port ACLs on there to make sure it only talks to the file sever or DLNA server that has the videos on it, than the risk is low.

  25. No its not indicating a problem status.

    Its green if the device is safe. Effectively and everything is ok alarm.

    Why they would not make the update show the battery icon as red or have a ! accross it or something if the device has one of the faulty batteries escapes me. That would both comply with Googles license and probably make people with the faulty batteries take more notice.