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  1. And using the Walmart Pay would be any different than using a credit or debit card how? One way you swipe a card to get your payment info. Another way you present a QR code that uniquely identifies you, looks up your payment info. Both ways process the transaction basically the same from that point on.

    This isn't running the transaction through Google or Apple Pay like an in-game purchase would do, racking up large transactions mommy and daddy end up paying.

  2. Re:At what point... on The FBI Recommends Not To Indict Hillary Clinton For Email Misconduct (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    The same isn't true of our elected officials now?

    That's what I'm asking, specifically for the position of President but I guess any federal elected title or high ranking position (Sec. of State, Sec of Defense, etc). If you are prevented in the private sector from holding security clearance does that legally prevent you from holding that office or title? I'm not talking strictly from a moral/ethical/philosophical ground of what should be, rather what is actually legally the case.

  3. Re:TMobile.... on Verizon To Hike Prices On Plans But Offer More Data (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Unlimited Data. $50 a month. Roaming data in 100+ countries. Free rental of WiFI router.

    You forgot little to no service in many rural (and some not so rural) locations. If such things are important for your use, T-Mobile may not be the best choice. It's gotten better the last while, but it's still doesn't come close to Verizon and AT&T's footprint.

  4. Re:At what point... on The FBI Recommends Not To Indict Hillary Clinton For Email Misconduct (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    ...I can tell you that if I did this, I would be fired, lose my clearance, and most certainly never be granted another.

    Does the president have to go through the same process for obtaining security clearance? Or does clearance just come with the title? Is it theoretically possible that the President could not be cleared to receive secret (or higher) classified information?

  5. Don't underestimate the overhead expense of context switching.

  6. Re:Best fanless video card? on AMD RX 480 Offers Best-in-Class Performance For $199/$239 · · Score: 1

    Yes but motherboards with the Displayport out are a rarity, especially with AMD motherboards for APU.

    Newegg lists at least 77 motherboards that support displayport and Intel 6th generation (skylake) CPUs that will do 4K. I beleive 5th generation Broadwell-H CPUs will also do 4K over displayport. Why are you stuck on just using AMD motherboards with APUs?

  7. Re:Is it leaked or is it not yet leaked? on 2 Million-Person Terror Database Leaked Online (thestack.com) · · Score: 1

    It's not really a leak though if you've paid a subscription for the commercial service. It's only leaked if you reshare that information unauthorized, or someone figures out how to share the information without a subscription and authorization to do so.

  8. Re:Latency vs.Bandwidth on Google's 'FASTER' 9000km, 60Tbps Transpacific Fiber Optics Cable Completed (9to5google.com) · · Score: 2

    Ignore him. He's that guy.

  9. Re:They aren't already? on Congressman Wants Ransomware Attacks To Trigger Breach Notifications (onthewire.io) · · Score: 1

    It certainly indicates that the data was not truly secure in the first place, at the very least!

    Not necessarily. PHI data may have been encrypted when stored on disk. Ransomware infection re-encrypts data making it unusable for it's intended purpose, but PHI data, even if it managed to leak out, is still protected.

    Another scenario which is probably much more likely is PHI is kept on a secured server. Client computer becomes infected. PHI was never compromised. Does that still trigger a notification?

  10. Re:Dumpster Fire on Microsoft Kills Windows 10's Messaging Everywhere Texts, To Bolster Skype (pcworld.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    I'm guessing Microsoft is doing this to get more people to use Skype.

    Coming soon to a popup notification on your windows desktop:

    "Do you not want to not install Skype to not take over all your conversations you don't not want to not receive?

    Select Yes to install. Select Cancel to skip not installing. X to being install now."

  11. Re:" 0.0% people want this." on Microsoft Kills Windows 10's Messaging Everywhere Texts, To Bolster Skype (pcworld.com) · · Score: 1

    I reread it multiple times.

    From the image shown on the tweet (emphasis added):

    We have been testing with WIndows Insiders a preview of the "Messaging Everwhere" feature that allows you to receive and send text messages from your Windows 10 phone directly to and from your Windows 10 PC. ...
    The ability to reply to text messages on your PC using Cortana is unaffected

    So what this actually means I have no idea. I have zero interests in texting using any MSFT product, be it a WIndows Phone, Cortana, Messaging Everywhere, or Skype.

  12. Re:cheating is expected on Tour de France To Use Thermal Cameras To Spot Cheats (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    2000-2002 he had the highest average driving distance* over the season of any Tour golfer. Oddly enough those years weren't his longest averages of his career though. And there is only about a 15 yard difference since 2000 between his lowest average and highest average.

    * drive distance statistics are measured twice per round selected on 2 holes that face approximately opposite directions to counteract any effects from wind.

  13. Re: Yes please on Wisconsin's Prison-Sentencing Algorithm Challenged in Court (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    That wouldn't work. How you have it would result in anyone of either gender whose birth and identified gender are the same would appear as one gender (false), and anyone who has changed gender would appear as the other gender (true).

  14. Re:Where do I sign up? on US Healthcare Records Offered For Sale Online · · Score: 1
  15. Re:Why? on Airbnb Has Sued Its Hometown Of San Francisco (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    But it would be a due process violation to just automatically revoke it. And there are already established processes with the legal system for dealing with code violations or civil infractions.

  16. Re:cheating is expected on Tour de France To Use Thermal Cameras To Spot Cheats (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    Golf - steroids will allow much more power hence much farther drives

    Except drive distance isn't necessarily a indicator of overall golf performance. If you're on a 400 yard hole, it doesn't matter that much if you drive it 300 yards and have a 100 yard approach, or drive it 350 yards and have a 50 yard one. It's a few years old, but here's a pga.com article about how almost all of the long ballers didn't make the cut for the 2012 US Open.

    I'd say that doping for power is less of a factor in golf than doping for other reasons, like recovery, endurance, concentration, or as you mentioned steadying.

  17. Re:Yes please on Wisconsin's Prison-Sentencing Algorithm Challenged in Court (engadget.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    My compiler says that criminal.attractive is undefined. Can you post the code for that property so that the system knows what attractive is.

    Also, I think criminal.gender is deprecated. These days, I think you're suppose to use criminal.birthGender or criminal.identifiedGender.

  18. Re:That's the whole point! on Woman Wins $10,000 Lawsuit Against Microsoft Over Windows 10 Upgrades (seattletimes.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    There's a huge difference though between providing a security update when an obscure bug, buffer overflow, or some other specific vulnerability is fixed, and an entire OS upgrade is relentlessly, essentially forced on the user.

  19. Re:T-Mobile's Binge On on Net Neutrality Advocates To FCC: Put the Kibosh On Internet Freebies (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    It appears from option 3 here that the content provider still could provide a https or otherwise encrypted feed and still qualify for the zero rating. T-mobile has to be able to detect the video feed, so perhaps such content needs to be served from a particular host, ip, port, etc. But it doesn't appear that they have to have visibility into the actual content.

  20. T-Mobile's Binge on does offer free streaming (both radio and tv) for qualified rate plans.

    No, it offers streaming that does not count against your 4G data limits. You pay for the streaming, just not on a per-byte basis.

    That's what I meant. It's semantics. Since I qualified it with with "for qualified rate plans" obviously it's not free as in no cost. It's free as in no additional cost for it not to count against your caps.

  21. They don't advertise it, but I believe there is a porn site that is part of Binge On

    If you go to the Binge On page and click on the link "See list of all streaming services", scroll to the bottom of the pop up box and say you're over 18, they say that MiKandi and
    Streamate. So they aren't advertising it, but they do mention it.

  22. Binge on on Net Neutrality Advocates To FCC: Put the Kibosh On Internet Freebies (cnet.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    T-Mobile's Binge on does offer free streaming (both radio and tv) for qualified rate plans. But I was under the impression that any provider could opt in or out of the program once they met the technical criteria for the reduced bitrate streams. It saves the provider bandwidth to get the stream to T-mobile, and it saves t-mobile bandwidth to get it to the customer. There's no denying any service access to T-Mobile's customers, requiring bribe money to T-Mobile in order to be included in the service, nor prioritizing any service over another as far as I can tell (but could be wrong).

    Is this any different really than Netflix's Open Connect for instance? It seems to be an advantage for everyone without being a detriment to anyone.

  23. If only there were some type of a book or service that you could use to look up a definition of the kibosh...

  24. Just thinking of all the computer devices that I have at home:
    2 laptops: fans are so quiet you'd have to have the microphone next to the vent to hear it
    cellphones and tablets: no fans
    server: If you can hear the two cpu fans over the 9 jet engine fans for the power supplies and disk arrays running at full speed 100% of the time, you can have my data.
    computer 1: passively cooled
    computer 2: Just has a large pretty silent 12V constant speed CPU fan

  25. At some point though, we start introducing machines so advanced that they don't need that operator anymore. Sure, there needs to be someone supervising them, but that person already existed - he/she is just supervising machines now instead of people. You're not adding efficiency so much as you're just replacing labor.

    It reminds me of the scenes in the 2005 version of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. In the movie Charlie's dad's job as the was eliminated at the toothpaste factory where he twisted on the caps. It was replaced by a machine that did it. However in the end his dad got a job servicing said robot.

    Replacing a human with a robot doesn't automatically equate in that human job never working again. As you pointed out who supervises the robot? But who also programs them? Builds them? Installs them? Services them? Who makes all the parts and components that were used to build them? Eliminating one job can result in other jobs being created.

    If you look at advances since the Industrial Revolution, most resulted, in some way, of machinery replacing the work that humans did either completely or making them much more efficient. More efficiency means either higher production if existing demands were not met, or a workforce that could expand into other areas because they were no longer needed to produce the basic necessities. It's why everyone doesn't every working hour growing crops and raising animals just to survive.