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  1. Do you mean that dialogue and not violence is a better way to solve problems?

    No. What they mean is that they don't like the politicians who were elected so we should all pretend the election doesn't matter.

  2. Re:None so blind as those who WILL NOT see on TED Wants To Remind Us That Ideas -- Not Politicians -- Shape the Future (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    Here's a question for you. How many Bernie Sanders rallies were disrupted by protesters? I can't remember any.

    Now, how many Trump rallies were disrupted by protesters?

  3. what term I should use for an individual that attempts to deny rights to an individual based on things that were determined by accident of birth

    Illegal immigration is not determined at birth. Legal immigrants of any race or nationality are not being denied their rights.

    Do we "deny rights" by arresting someone for shoplifting? Or tax evasion? Race isn't the issue.

    Would you deny my son the right to marry because he is autistic?

    No one has suggested that; quit trying to change the subject.

  4. Re:Look, its the Rainbow Connection! on TED Wants To Remind Us That Ideas -- Not Politicians -- Shape the Future (qz.com) · · Score: 2

    I watched a few TED talks. All of them slipped in the liberal viewpoint or snark sooner or later.

  5. Re:Juice from an IV bag.... on Silicon Valley's $400 Juicer May Be Feeling the Squeeze (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    When I worked for GE a couple of engineers invented a "flame emitting diode", basically an LED that they poured lighter fluid on and lit. If I recall correctly it was published in Electronic Engineering Times (albeit as a humorous article). Today they could rich on an idea like that assuming it was internet enabled.

  6. Re:Seriously? on Silicon Valley's $400 Juicer May Be Feeling the Squeeze (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 5, Funny

    Not only internet connected, but the founder managed to conjure up the ghost of Steve Jobs and inject "Tesla" into his public statements, even though neither has anything to do with a juice squeezer.

  7. smartphones are the future of medicine on Apple Has a Secret Team Working On Non-Invasive Diabetes Sensors (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Remote monitoring of conditions like diabetes, hypertension, congestive heart failure, etc. are a great use for smartphones. We'll see more of it to allow rapid intervention when something gets out of line.

  8. Re:Lessons from this are on Former Sysadmin Accused of Planting 'Time Bomb' In Company's Database (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    He didn't log in months later. He left a time bomb that went off months later.

  9. RTFA, anyone? on Former Sysadmin Accused of Planting 'Time Bomb' In Company's Database (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 5, Informative
    FTFA:

    Allegro's IT staff discovered the sabotaged Oracle finance module on April 14, 2016. Ten days later, on April 24, the IT staffers found Patel's malicious code after comparing the current database with a copy from older backups.

  10. Hu was first?

  11. Alternate hypothesis on As Streaming Booms, Songs Are Getting Faster and Shorter (japantoday.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    "It makes sense that if the environment is so competitive, artists would want to try to grab your attention as quickly as possible,"

    There aren't any instrumentals because most "artists" today can't play a musical instrument or even sing. Concerts are just a backtrack with someone dancing around and lip-synching.

  12. Somewhat misleading headline on Americans Support Letting Cities Build Their Own Broadband Networks, Pew Finds (theverge.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Pew found that 70 percent of respondents agreed that local governments should have the power to start their own high-speed networks if current offerings are “too expensive or not good enough...

    Under half of all Americans, 44 percent, said they supported subsidies, while nearly everyone else surveyed said they felt internet service “is affordable enough” that most households should be able to pay for it. (At the same time, nearly half of all people surveyed said they didn’t know what speed of internet they received.)”

    Read the headline carefully. The survey did not find that most people think their municipality should provide the service. What it did find is that people think that under certain circumstances a municipality should be allowed to provide the service.

  13. Remember AOL on Tesla Tops GM by Market Value as Investors See Musk as Future (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Tesla "worth" $51 billion? Pfft. Back in the dot bomb bubble days AOL was "worth" $224 billion, now it's under $5 billion. We'll see how Tesla holds up.

  14. What's illegal about it? Anyone can file a lawsuit for any reason, doesn't mean anything until they win.

  15. Re:The question should be ... on A Huge Trove of Patient Data Leaks, Thanks To Telemarketers' Bad Security (zdnet.com) · · Score: 3, Informative
    If you had bothered to read the article...

    HealthNow is owned by Dino Romano, a former Unistar executive and securities fraud recidivist. It ceased as a business in 2015...

    When contacted, Daynier Brown, a software developer contracted to work on building a customer database for Romano, confirmed he obtained a copy of the database during the time he worked for Romano. In a phone call this week, Brown said he found the backup drive on a failing hard drive on a development server he owned from his previous HealthNow project. He spun the data out on an Amazon Web Service instance he owned, which pointed to MediboxSolutions.com, a website owned by Brown, intended to eventually provide customer database solutions for medical services.

    In other words, a scammer stole the data from another scammer and didn't bother to secure it. Yes, that's a huge HIPAA violation.

  16. Re:The traveller on Eric S. Raymond Unveils New List Of 'Hacker Archetypes' (ibiblio.org) · · Score: 1

    In my experience a better name for this archetype is "The Incompetent". They claim to be making great progress, almost done, but never get it working. Then they move on or are invited to leave.

  17. Re:What are they charging him with? on Should The FBI Have Arrested 'The Hacker Who Hacked No One'? (thedailybeast.com) · · Score: 1
    FTFA:

    “During the course of the conspiracy, Huddleston received over 25,000 payments via PayPal from Net Seal customers. As part of the conspiracy, Huddleston provided Shames with access to his Net Seal licensing software in order to assist Shames in the distribution of his Limitless keylogger. In exchange, Shames made at least one thousand payments via PayPal to Huddleston.”

    Conspiring to commit a crime is not free speech..

  18. Re:"Estimated" population on Manatee No Longer An Endangered Species (miamiherald.com) · · Score: 1

    that still seems barely sufficient minimum viable population against development and impending climate change

    Which is why they're still listed as "threatened".

  19. Re:So now Trump is to blame for applications on This Year's H-1B Visa Applications Look A Lot Like Last Year's (newsweek.com) · · Score: 1

    We got to look at your "Impeach Obama" bumper stickers and the rest of your crap for eight years... Get used to it.

    Yeah, after listening to you crybabies saying "Shrub" stole the election for eight years, everyone is used to your whining already.

  20. Re:Why is this bad? on This Year's H-1B Visa Applications Look A Lot Like Last Year's (newsweek.com) · · Score: 0

    He's followed through on many of his promises (although the Democrats are trying to block pretty much everything they can). He'll get around to H1-B reform when he gets to it.

  21. Re: Because rural WiFi crowding is such a problem. on The US May Finally See Widespread 'Super Wi-Fi' Deployment (siliconvalley.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    An approach that would meet the needs of far more people would be addressing poor inner city areas

    That's a different problem that requires a different solution.

  22. Re:manatee reproduce too slowly on Manatee No Longer An Endangered Species (miamiherald.com) · · Score: 2

    You'll never eat tilapia again if you find out what they feed it.

  23. Making those wages in a comfy office sure doesn't beat flipping burgers for a living.

  24. Re:He has data. He has it. on House Approves Bill To Force Public Release of EPA Science (ap.org) · · Score: 1

    You can't replicate it, but you can certainly publish your results and data. The problem is if three other teams also went out and did the same measurements but came up with a different conclusion. Should then EPA use only one of those studies without saying why or supplying any supporting data?

    Or if there is only one set of data, should we all trust that it was collected correctly and that your instruments were properly calibrated? I think it's reasonable to require more than one data point

  25. Re:What about Google? Facebook? on Minnesota Senate Votes To Bar Selling ISP Data (twincities.com) · · Score: 1

    Because one has nothing to do with the other.