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  1. Re:No, vague DNC spin, not US intelligence agencie on Bruce Schneier: Our Election Systems Must Be Secured If We Want To Stop Foreign Hackers (schneier.com) · · Score: 1

    Sure no evidence, except for the whole stack of damning digital forensics evidence.

    What stack of evidence?

  2. Re:The answer to malvertising on Malvertising Campaign Infected Thousands of Users Per Day For More Than a Year (softpedia.com) · · Score: 1

    Don't look down on the victims who weren't geek enough to know about Ad blockers.

    I don't look down on them, I look down on the advertisers.
    But they need to learn about ad blockers, for the good of all of us.

  3. Re:That's Right on China Bans Internet News Reporting As Media Crackdown Widens (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Hopefully.

  4. Re:The answer to malvertising on Malvertising Campaign Infected Thousands of Users Per Day For More Than a Year (softpedia.com) · · Score: 1

    The answer to malvertising is ad block (of some kind). Use it. You're negligent if you don't.

  5. Re:Bad Move on Snowden Questions WikiLeaks' Methods of Releasing Leaks (pcworld.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Worth mentioning that Chelsea is being moved to solitary confinement.

    But don't worry, the government has recognized national whistleblower's day!!

  6. Re:Not like they didn't have time on Snowden Questions WikiLeaks' Methods of Releasing Leaks (pcworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Either Assange doesn't care about what collateral damage he causes

    He might not. He probably views the DNC as accessories to the crime.
    If he is a Donald Trump fan though, that would be wildly entertaining.

  7. Re:Deeeep and Trooouuuubling Questions! (Ahem) on Australia Has Moved 1.5 Metres, So It's Updating Its Location For Self-Driving Cars (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    So does this mean that the "infinity" between centimetres and infinitesimal is larger than the infinity between nanometres and infinitesimal?

    No. You can subtract a constant from infinity, subtract any finite number from them, and the size of the infinity doesn't change.

  8. You talk like a politician.

  9. Oh yeah, I was referring mainly to the effects within the company.......

  10. My company did the same shit. Had a great quarter then the next day after earnings released "By the way we need to lay off 3% of staff to position us better for next quarter."

    Likee this?

  11. Re:You are forgetting on Microsoft To Lay Off Another 2,850 People In the Next 12 Months (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 1

    Ross is still cool. Trump will never be.

  12. given that they are, you know, Microsoft.

    No, I don't know. What difference does that make?

  13. pivoting on Microsoft To Lay Off Another 2,850 People In the Next 12 Months (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 5, Informative

    They are pivoting to the cloud. Firing people who worked on non-cloud projects (mainly smartphone), hiring new ones to work on cloud projects. Incidentally, the total Microsoft workforce is ~115,000, so this is not a huge amount.

  14. Re:That's Right on China Bans Internet News Reporting As Media Crackdown Widens (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Nah, the idea of self-determination here is applied to the country as a whole. Specifically meaning, outsiders (like the United States) should let them be, instead of trying to impose our own ideals of government on them.

  15. Re:Concert Venues? on E-Cigarettes Emit Toxic Vapors, Says Study (upi.com) · · Score: 1

    Vaping folks use around 5ml a day of a combination of PG, VG, nicotine and flavorings. So, call it a maximum of around 4ml of PG, per day. Some people use less in volume, or PG ratio. There's 3785.41 ml in a US gallon. So call it around somewhere between 2 and 10 years worth of vaping to reach one gallon of fog machine. Theater fog machines use a lot more than a gallon.

    I'm going to tell you, this analysis is utterly useless, because you don't inject fog machines directly into your lungs like you do with vaping. You can't compare them like that, and you know it. At least, I hope you know for your own sake.

  16. Re:You can't blame them. on Millennials Are Obsessed With Side Hustles Because 'They're All' They've Got (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    It's reasonable to think Trump might be worse [on trade], and so someone might well vote for Clinton while thinking she'd ship fewer jobs

    Why is that reasonable? Other than general dislike of Trump.

    although I'd think AC would have liked Sanders better.

    Maybe true.

  17. Re: Computers are for chumps on Tech Takes Its K-12 CS Education and Immigration Crisis To the DNC (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Except I don't have a BA/BS degree. I got an AA degree

    It doesn't matter. I got a BS in CS, and I always hide it at the bottom of my resume because no one cares. Once you have the experience, it's more important than degree (except maybe at government places, I don't know).

    I'm studying for InfoSec certifications. My next job should double or triple my current pay rate.

    Sounds like you have it handled.

  18. Re:Rules for thee, not for me on Getty Sued For $1 Billion For Selling Publicly Donated Photos (thestack.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Getty sent her a legal threat and demanded money for using her own photos on her own web site

    That is the most delicious part of the entire story.

    (Note also that this the online Getty image provider, not related to the Getty museum).

  19. Re:Concert Venues? on E-Cigarettes Emit Toxic Vapors, Says Study (upi.com) · · Score: 1
    Maybe not death traps, but according to this link:

    In July 2001 DOW, a manufacturer of Propylene Glycol, issued a document titled "PROPYLENE GLYCOL - CONSIDERATIONS AGAINST USE IN THEATRICAL FOGS" where they state "As a result, use of propylene glycol in theater fogs is impractical." Many manufacturers continue to use the ingredient despite warnings and there is no governing body that regulates fog fluid ingredients

  20. Re:As a C programmer on C Top Programming Language For 2016, Finds IEEE's Study (ieee.org) · · Score: 1

    If you're into it (and like languages), you might be interested in learning APL. Gnu APL seems to work alright, and there's some good documentation. I've had to make my own key-mapping, but all the needed characters are in unicode, and that's part of the fun.

  21. Re:Object-oriented is a fad on C Top Programming Language For 2016, Finds IEEE's Study (ieee.org) · · Score: 1

    I'll be honest, although I linked to that article, I don't think it shows much of anything! lol. The main reason I linked to it was to give a sample of the attitude that is popping up recently, not because that attitude is right.

  22. Re:Object-oriented is a fad on C Top Programming Language For 2016, Finds IEEE's Study (ieee.org) · · Score: 1

    Yeah, sorry, I don't think I'll be able to find you a convincing argument lol, I just presented it to show typical attitudes towards OOP these days.

    The truth is, if you don't know how to organize your code, no programming methodology, no design pattern set, no hype is going to save you.

  23. Re:Let's be certain first,.. on Tor Project Confirms Sexual Misconduct By Developer Jacob Appelbaum (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    It might win the presidency. (Not gg in particular, just that particular attitude)

  24. What does lidar give you that radar doesn't? Serious question.

  25. I would say there is a nearly equal chance that Tesla is dissatisfied at their capabilities and realizes they need to bring it in-house to better serve themselves.

    In any case, that is what Tesla needs to do if MobileEye is unwilling or can't build autonomous cars.