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  1. Work done, no need to continue on Microsoft Dumps Notorious Chinese Secure Certificate Vendor (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Wosign's work is clearly done now and presumably the Chinese government will move on to another certificate vendor.

  2. Re:1 letter change on The Man Who Wrote the Password Rules Regrets Doing So (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    At a former employer, we were required to change our passwords every 90 days. You could not define your own password, instead, only select one from a list presented to you, but....

    Each system (IBM mainframe) had its own copy of your password. You could push your password from one system to the others.

    I found that the generation of new password choices was not remotely random and that, by changing my password, pushing it out to other systems, then logging onto a remote system and going to the password change form again, my old password would appear in the list of new password choices.

    I was able to keep the same password for years using this technique.

  3. It's entirely possible that he expects to get a niche cushy no-show "consulting" job at Comcast or some other telco, or perhaps at a "think tank" when his term at the FCC ends.

  4. Re:An even better punishment.. on Volkswagen Executive Faces Jail Time After Guilty Plea (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    They won't go in landfills. They will be exported to countries with lower pollution standards.

    In the USA, the settlement with VW prohibits sending the cars to other countries with lax standards.

  5. Re:I'm happy the GRSecurity folks are doing this on Linux Kernel Hardeners Grsecurity Sue Open Source's Bruce Perens (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Here is where I think GRSecurity's argument fails:

    While the Company aims only to terminate access to the stable patches in the event of willful violation of the terms in this agreement, we reserve the right to revoke access to the stable patches and changelogs at any time for any reason. In the event of termination, the Company will at its own discretion refund payment for any remaining pre-paid period.

    In other words, GRSecurity can terminate access and keep their client's money.

  6. Re:No expectation of privacy on BLU Claims Innocence, Gets Phones Reinstated On Amazon (slashgear.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    While apps are all phoning home, the type of your personal data that an app can access may be limited.

    This, however, as a firmware install, can presumably access everything on the phone: all actions, all data.

  7. Re:Apparently has never heard of regenerative brak on Electric Cars Are Not the Answer To Air Pollution, Says Top UK Adviser (theguardian.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    "can" and "does" are two different things.

    Take the example of the Nissan Leaf. It can recover approximately 80% of the energy under regenerative braking, but, it has a hard limit of 30kW of regenerative braking. If you brake sufficiently hard that it puts out more than 30kW, then the car is going to use the conventional brakes as well as regeneration.

  8. Someone did a study of the dust from tyres, and the amounts that EVs put out was quite high. The added weight of the EVs from the batteries resulted in greater dust from the tyres.

    http://www.sciencedirect.com/s...

  9. Re:The alternative... on Why We Can't Have the Male Pill (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 0

    Perhaps you just don't get the opportunity ......

  10. In Texas, they don't even consider chicken to be meat.

  11. Re: Health benefits? on Thousands Show Up For Jobs at Amazon Warehouses in US Cities (apnews.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm not ADDING drama, at all. I'm simply describing the thing the way it actually is,

    No, you are just repeating the lies you have heard from the right-wing media outlets. You are not describing the way it is.

  12. Re: Health benefits? on Thousands Show Up For Jobs at Amazon Warehouses in US Cities (apnews.com) · · Score: 1

    No, they cannot take that into account. That's part of the law's structure.

    You individually, correct. You part of a larger pool of people your age, certainly.

  13. Re:And requiring cable boxes on Charter Has Moved Millions of Customers To New -- And Often Higher -- Pricing (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Comcast did this in my area some years ago. Initially, the additional DTA boxes were free, but at some point, Comcast started charging for them.

    Keep a close eye on your bill. The charges will eventually show up, just about the time that Cox believes people have forgotten about any promises to provide the adapters at no cost.

  14. Re: Health benefits? on Thousands Show Up For Jobs at Amazon Warehouses in US Cities (apnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Pregnancy is certainly rare in certain age groups. For example, if you are over 50, the chance of pregnancy is so small, that providing coverage for it is insignificant.

    And, yes, under Obamacare, people of different ages can be charged different amounts, so the cost of providing pregnancy coverage to 80-year old NUNS is effectively zero.

    It's like car insurance, except that, with car insurance, the young get to pay higher premiums because their chance of making a claim is much higher. That's how insurance works.

  15. Re:Impossible to win on Inside Mozilla's Fight To Make Firefox Relevant Again (cnet.com) · · Score: 2

    I think that you missed the importance of Apple.

    Apple pushed another browser onto its users, and that, in turn helped to push website developers away from the MS-only crap that they had been turning out. The more sites that work in non-MS browsers, the more users Firefox picked up.

  16. Re:Andreas Gal is right on Inside Mozilla's Fight To Make Firefox Relevant Again (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    You know that the same synchronization is possible between with Firefox, right?

  17. Re: Health benefits? on Thousands Show Up For Jobs at Amazon Warehouses in US Cities (apnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Our carrier says that no, without the Obamacare mandates requiring them to insure us against the costs of things that will never happen

    Guess what? They are lying to you. If those things are never going to happen, then the cost to the insurance company is zero, so why put up the premiums for something that costs them nothing?

    If you mean something that will never happen to you but may happen to others, even that argument is specious, because those things will only happen to very few people, and, once again, the cost, when spread across all the policyholders, is insignificant.

  18. Health benefits? on Thousands Show Up For Jobs at Amazon Warehouses in US Cities (apnews.com) · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Why would people care about this? Trump told me that young people are only paying about $12/year. What's the big deal?

  19. Re:But why? on Are App Sizes Out of Control? · · Score: 1

    Why would you install a LinkedIn App?

    Because you want to send the details of all your contacts to LinkedIn (Microsoft), so that, at some time in the future, LinkedIn can send them all some SPAM that appears to come from you.

  20. Re:I'm Shocked, Shocked I say... on New Data On H-1B Visas Prove That IT Outsourcers Hire a Lot But Pay Very Little (qz.com) · · Score: 2

    (I know that a fair number of H1B holders do convert to green card holders, but that's deliberately NOT the point of an H1B).

    Wrong. H1B visas are "dual-intent" -- this means that it is expected that the holder will apply for a green card.

  21. Re:Seriously? on New Data On H-1B Visas Prove That IT Outsourcers Hire a Lot But Pay Very Little (qz.com) · · Score: 5, Informative

    As a former H1B holder who was paid far more than the equivalent homegrown employees, I can tell you that you missed the point of the article.

    The point is that US companies that directly employ H1B holders pay more than the companies whose business is outsourcing.

  22. It has National Insurance numbers

    But not actually numbers. They start with two letters and finish with a letter.

  23. Steve Jobs was a brilliant asshole.

    Kalanick is just like Jobs, except for the "brilliant" part.

  24. Re:We're about to lose a corrupt leader too! IMPEA on Calibri Font Plays Its Role: Pakistan Now Sans Sharif as Prime Minister is Disqualified (neowin.net) · · Score: 1

    And has to meet the "high crimes and misdemeanors" standard or Trump has to be proven incompetent

    Please tell me what is the definition of "high crimes and misdemeanors"?

    You can't because it isn't defined. Congress could decide that jaywalking is a high crime or misdemeanor, and impeach on that basis.

    Impeachment is a political process, not a judicial process.

  25. Re:Unintended consequence? on India is Betting On Compulsory Internships To Improve Its Unemployable Engineers (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    I should also mention that unpaid internships are yet another way the wealthy can give their kids an advantage.

    If you can't afford to do an unpaid internship, you may not get that job, while the scion of a wealthy family can easily afford to get that boost into employment.