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  1. This is a good thing. Being overweight is pretty much always better for you than being underweight. If you're 50 pounds overweight, yeah, that's not great, but if you're 50 pounds underweight, you're feeling really bad. Even 10 pounds underweight isn't good for you.

  2. Re:How Stupid Are We? on 'Hack The Pentagon' Bug Bounty Program Opens For Registration (securityweek.com) · · Score: 1

    Yeah, I can't see myself reasonably signing up for this.

  3. That's a build engineer's job.

  4. Re:Hosts = better antivirus than antivirus on Patch Out For 'Ridiculous' Trend Micro Command Execution Vulnerability (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Hosts = better antivirus than antivirus

    In this case, I guess it's probably true. As long as you include keeping your patches up to date.

  5. Re:Glass house on Patch Out For 'Ridiculous' Trend Micro Command Execution Vulnerability (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    IT vendors that take QA seriously are very very rare, most just don't take testing seriously.

    Security vulnerabilities aren't something you can expect QA to find, it's not what they do. If you want secure code, you need to be thinking about security starting in the design phase, and keep thinking about it until release (and beyond). You can't just test for security at the end of the process, that strategy guarantees failure.

  6. Linux has good software updates, which means that the exploit vectors are patched at the same rate that an AV would release updates

    That's a good point, I'd never thought of it like that before.

  7. Re:Sounds good. on California's $15-an-Hour Minimum Wage May Spur Automation (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    "Mostly." There are a few people who realize there's something more to life than feeling good.

  8. Fortunately, Trend Micro won an award, they're the best at stopping zero day threats! So it's not a problem, keep using your anti-virus.

  9. Re:Sounds good. on California's $15-an-Hour Minimum Wage May Spur Automation (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    People would spend time doing what they wanted to do which could include art, literature, sport, playing video games, learning a language, studying science, traveling and many other things.

    But in practice would mostly spend their time on Facebook, Netflix, and trying to have sex

  10. Re:May spur automation on California's $15-an-Hour Minimum Wage May Spur Automation (computerworld.com) · · Score: 2

    I will never understand why minimum wage is not tied to inflation rates - this is a ridiculous argument to have Every Five Years.

    Because it gives politicians something they can brag about to their constituents.

  11. Re:Restaurants on California's $15-an-Hour Minimum Wage May Spur Automation (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Yeap. It'll take a deeper investigation to figure out the true cost.

  12. Re:Restaurants on California's $15-an-Hour Minimum Wage May Spur Automation (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    It's having a lot of different effects. Some restaurants have given waiters raises, and others have increased wages in advance of the required deadline. Reports from Seattle are of restaurants raising prices 20%. Same in Los Angeles.

  13. Re:It has already caused problems on California's $15-an-Hour Minimum Wage May Spur Automation (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Letting each store set its own price would solve the problem.

    With the internet, regional pricing doesn't work as well anymore.

  14. Re:It has already caused problems on California's $15-an-Hour Minimum Wage May Spur Automation (computerworld.com) · · Score: 0

    The National Review is not exactly an unbiased or labor-friendly publication.

    If you don't like it, then find your own fucking source you blockhead. The story was published all over the place; are you some kind of inbred that can't use Google? Seriously, what is wrong with you?

  15. It has already caused problems on California's $15-an-Hour Minimum Wage May Spur Automation (computerworld.com) · · Score: 4, Informative
  16. Re:What about IBM . . . ? on Oracle Seeks $9.3 Billion For Google's Use Of Java In Android (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Well keep reading court cases like that, and soon you'll be a copyright genius!

  17. Re:Source the problem on TSA's Precheck Registration Program Causing Longer Security Lines (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    I like your use of data.

  18. Re:Source the problem on TSA's Precheck Registration Program Causing Longer Security Lines (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    First, the only reason Medical treatment has improved is because "Government"

    No no, that was definitely not my meaning. Uh, government funding has probably helped some, but a lot of things have changed.

  19. Re: Source the problem on TSA's Precheck Registration Program Causing Longer Security Lines (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    The problem is a lack of the simplest kind of regulation--keeping profiteers out of what used to be a reasonably priced service industry.

    That doesn't sound like a simple kind of regulation to me.

  20. Re:I felt a great disturbance in the Force on Confirmed: Microsoft and Canonical Partner To Bring Ubuntu To Windows 10 (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    For one thing, I suspect that any program you write using this API will only run on Windows boxes that have UbuntuWindowsThingy installed, i.e. almost none of them.

    If it's not installed by default, then I'll probably just go back to Cygwin.

  21. Re:Source the problem on TSA's Precheck Registration Program Causing Longer Security Lines (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1, Informative
  22. Re:Source the problem on TSA's Precheck Registration Program Causing Longer Security Lines (usatoday.com) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I'm going to suggest that healthcare was not a problem until recently because it wasn't very expensive. Not long ago, you didn't have to worry about hip replacements because they didn't exist. You didn't have to worry about expensive treatments for cancer, because you just died. Even surgery was rather primitive in the 50s. Healthcare wasn't very expensive, but as treatments have gotten better, care costs have increased.

    Why it matters: if healthcare cost $100 a year for everyone, it wouldn't be a huge issue. Privately, you could pay for it, or publicly you could pay for it. If it were a government thing, then there would probably be some corruption, but not a big deal. But now as it's costing up around $12k a person, the cost becomes a major issue. Even in the last 15 years treatments have improved quite a bit, but also gotten more expensive.

  23. Re:Tell me, why do you want single-payer health ca on TSA's Precheck Registration Program Causing Longer Security Lines (usatoday.com) · · Score: 0

    tbh, it couldn't be worse than what we have now (and by 'now' I mean both pre and post Obamacare)

  24. Re:Are you surprised by the following headlines? on Leaked Emails Reveal Widespread Corruption in Global Oil Industry (theage.com.au) · · Score: 1

    Leaked Emails Reveal Widespread Corruption in HOA

    Woah, woah, HOAs are the epitome of justice and high human ideals. They do no wrong.

  25. Re:Commence Pedantry on Confirmed: Microsoft and Canonical Partner To Bring Ubuntu To Windows 10 (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Yeah, that's what I seeing too. I really hope this means the full POSIX networking layer will finally be implemented on Windows. That will make my job a lot easier.