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  1. Re:Who knew.... on Europe -- not the US or China -- Publishes the Most AI Research Papers (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    A country is an entity with a representative in the UN.

  2. Re:Because of monitoring on Chinese Mobile App Companies Are a National Security Risk, Says a Top Democrat (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Sure... like only leaking data when the phone is connected to a certain rogue LTE nodes...

  3. Re:Huh? on Kubernetes' First Major Security Hole Discovered (zdnet.com) · · Score: 2

    There are two scoring methods used by CVE, CVSS 2.0 and CVSS 3.0. You may find this link to the vulnerability enlightening: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/deta...
    Still, your point is well taken. This is not the first.

  4. iOS was the death knell for a lot of proprietary IE crap pervading the web and in the enterprise. As soon as CEOs started showing up with their shiny new toys to find the corporate web site and intranet looked like crap or would not render, heads rolled and a whole new set of web developers were hired on to replace the IE6 mess they had been maintaining for a decade.

  5. How many of these idiots are popular because their message and popularity are amplified by those that would gain from their idiocy?

  6. Re:There goes Aliexpress... on US Announces Plans To Withdraw From 144-Year-Old Postal Treaty (thehill.com) · · Score: 1

    So, because you're happy with your current deal, others should just suck up the imbalance? Sorry, leveling the playing field is long overdue.

    Where did I ever say any of this? You are putting words into my mouth.

  7. Re:There goes Aliexpress... on US Announces Plans To Withdraw From 144-Year-Old Postal Treaty (thehill.com) · · Score: 2

    Exactly. Canada, EU and AU are my biggest foreign customers. Screwing up our postal relationships with the rest of the world in order to fix a problem with China could be very disruptive.

  8. Re:There goes Aliexpress... on US Announces Plans To Withdraw From 144-Year-Old Postal Treaty (thehill.com) · · Score: 2

    The question for those of us that export goods from the US is "what is this going to do to our shipping costs?"

  9. Short people are easy to spot based on the head to torso ratio. While not exactly short, Ehrenreich does not have the same stature as Ford. It makes the fake look really weird to me.

  10. Re:Fees Don't Matter When You Don't Trade on Many Pay High Investment Company Fees For Services They Don't Use, Survey Shows (consumerreports.org) · · Score: 1

    Unless you're a very high net worth individual, you probably don't have access to the sorts of funds that charge a percentage of assets under management

    That's just not true. All of the financial firms you see advertised on TV (Edward Jones for example) is marketed to middle class families and charge a % of assets under management.

  11. Don't worry. It will only affect the little people. JPM would not risk losing a Chase Private Client(tm) customer over this.

    You're not "little people", are you?

  12. How's the pay? on DHS Forms New Cyber Hub To Protect Critical US Infrastructure (wsj.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Are they going to pay worth a damn for talent, or stick with the current GS pay scale?

  13. I give you this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8EZFBB-MntE

    I've seen lesser crimes called treasonous by the same person.

  14. Re:China vs USA on eBay and Amazon Delist Faulty Carbon Monoxide Alarms (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Until there is a costly recourse to *someone* involved in the import, advertising, and sale of these shoddy devices, there is a serious moral hazard here. We cannot allow Amazon to become some sort of legal firewall for illegal foreign activity.

  15. Re:The 3300mWh/g figure is over the 100 years life on Russian Scientists Upgrade Nuclear Battery Design To Increase Power Output (sciencealert.com) · · Score: 1

    I certainly do have applications that can run on 60uA amortized. Charge a capacitor while drawing 100nA, to use during the short periods where you need to consume a few mA.

    A million in parallel is a metric ton, right?

  16. Then you probably shouldn't install the app, don't you think?

    Sometimes our options are a little more limited than we'd like. As an employee, the only car hire option I have for business travel (to/from airport mainly) is Uber for Business. Which requires that I install the Uber app. And we have a BYOD policy. So that Uber app has to be installed on my phone.

    Now, I typically remove the app the moment it is not needed, and re-install as required. But still, it's a royal PITA from both a privacy standpoint (I have little recourse when the app is installed) and a convenience standpoint (constantly installing/uninstalling offensive apps).

    This is one place where consumer protection regulations would be helpful. I don't want to have to swim with the sharks in order to do my job.

    Uber for Business is not allowed for my European co-workers because of GDPR.

  17. Re:Broadcom is a US company FFS on US Calls Broadcom's Bid For Qualcomm a National Security Risk (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Bullshit. They have no allegiance to the US. If they did, they would not have moved their HQ outside the US.

    You want Commerce, State and the Navy helping you negotiate deals and protecting your hardware & IP, you damn well better help foot the bill for that shit.

  18. Facebook's customers are international and, unfortunately, pedophilia is not universally banned.

    Or universally defined.

  19. Computers don't understand 2+2.

    How does your understanding of 2+2 differ from a computer's?

  20. Re: I only have one question on Dell is Considering a Sale To VMware in What May Be Tech's Biggest Deal Ever (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    That's why it says "VMware's other shareholders". But I guess you posted AC because you know your reading comprehension sucks ass. They still get to make the other 20% eat there shit, which is something.

  21. Re:I only have one question on Dell is Considering a Sale To VMware in What May Be Tech's Biggest Deal Ever (cnbc.com) · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Is this more or less a game on paper to get an infusion of cash for Dell, or could this actually have an effect on the VMWare business where I should be prepared for a chance of VMWare dying off?

    If you are a shareholder in VMware, you're about to be screwed. If you think Dell will hang like an albatross around VMware's neck and you are a VMware customer, you're screwed. If you are an investor in Dell, your are about to spread the cost of your fuck-up on the public market, and specifically on VMware's other shareholders. (See stories hitting the wire that look like "VMware plunges on news...)

  22. Been an avid Subscriber For Most of those 20 Years on LWN.Net Celebrates Its 20th Birthday (lwn.net) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I met Jonathan Corbet at the Boulder (Colorado) LUG back -- had to be sometime between 1998 and 2001, back when the meetings were held at NIST. I'd been an avid reader because their news was always timely, their articles more technical and in-depth that others, and they were local Linux enthusiasts. I continue to be impressed with their technical and editorial content.

  23. Re:White noise can be copied too on White Noise Video on YouTube Hit By Five Copyright Claims (bbc.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    The copyright claims are valid if his video copied the white noise audio track from other videos, which can easily be determined by comparing the wave forms. [Ed: Emphasis mine.]

    That is true of uncompressed audio. Once you compress the audio, the noise is going to look pretty much the same. Much of the phase information which is necessary to distinguish one sample from another is gone, and all that is left is the frequency domain which is pretty much the same from one white noise source to another.

  24. Re:State should honor the tickets on A Glitch Stole Christmas: S.C. Lottery Says Error Caused Winning Tickets (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    Since these lotteries have fine print legalese that lays out what happens ...

    What the advertising giveth, the fine print taketh away.

  25. Re:If polygyny is the problem, say so in the headl on The Link Between Polygamy and War (economist.com) · · Score: -1, Troll

    Polygamy in their culture isn't a disease, it's a symptom of a disease.

    Oh... you're going straight to hell for that one. -- Gomer Pyle

    The multiculturalists are going to be up in arms over this comment. You should respect everyone culture, no matter how abhorrent it may be.