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  1. Re:Who Cares? on Flaw In GoPro Update Mechanism Reveals Users' Wi-Fi Passwords · · Score: 1

    Also, anyone with a WiFi GoPro turns of the WiFi, if they aren't actively looking at it all the time because WiFi kills the battery. The people who bought a WiFi one so they could start and stop the camera with the remote for each run will leave it on, but what could someone do with the WiFi password? Screw up a single recording out of the thousands for the day? Watch what the camera is doing without permission? Mythbusters uses them for the multi-angles from a crash vehicle, but it's not like they are the camera of choice for porn makers, where you could sit outside a porn studio and watch free porn or anything.

    The only thing that could possibly matter about this is people who still haven't heard about password reuse being a bad thing.

    Though, if you were to automate grabbing the pwd and giving the command to wipe data and turn off, it'd be interesting to use in crowds. Everyone with a gopro in a concert would have their footage wiped, or something like that.

  2. Re:Default Government Stance on Feds Admit Stingray Can Disrupt Bystanders' Communications · · Score: 1

    I see nothing in the context of what I wrote that advocated any changes to any voting system. Just an acknowledgement that the error rate for our current system is high, and it's been pointed out to me that would be impossible without collusion. And if a 3rd party were to come in, collusion would be even more beneficial than today. So the low barriers to fraud today would be lowered in the presence of a persistent and popular 3rd party.

    There are ways for verified voting that prevent intimidation. That you can think of non reveals limitations about you, not verified voting.

  3. Re:Default Government Stance on Feds Admit Stingray Can Disrupt Bystanders' Communications · · Score: 1

    U.S BLS May 2014 Jobs Report.

    States who raised minimum wage, saw greater economic growth and more jobs than states that didn't.

  4. Re:Default Government Stance on Feds Admit Stingray Can Disrupt Bystanders' Communications · · Score: 1

    Inflation isn't caused by decreasing the wage gap. Inflation is caused by monetary policy. The two are orthogonal, so there is no answer, because it's like asking to explain the effects of a NYC pizzeria changing its box colors on the average food consumption levels of animals in the San Diego Zoo. Sure, it could be studied, but is unrelated, so nobody has.

    There is no link between minimum wage and inflation, so explaining the link is impossible.

    Oh, and in countries with a high minimum wage, the people on minimum wage make more than America's middle class, so a higher wage for those people would provably improve the middle class. When the minimum wage is set well below poverty level, the effect isn't the same. Set the minimum wage at $25/h or higher, define "middle class" as $50k to $60k, and move the minimum wage from $25 to $30 and tell me the effects on the middle class.

  5. Re:Default Government Stance on Feds Admit Stingray Can Disrupt Bystanders' Communications · · Score: 1

    You are looking at the micro and arguing against the macro.

  6. Re:Default Government Stance on Feds Admit Stingray Can Disrupt Bystanders' Communications · · Score: 1

    What country are you in? The LMGTFY link goes to google.com, but the locality settings for Google will over-ride that, so your search from outside the USA will not give the results anyone going to google.com would get. I got none of the links you mention. I got http://www.raisetheminimumwage... and http://www.dol.gov/minwage/myt...

    Yes, it was as easy as putting the quoted words in my post into Google.

  7. Re:Mismatch on New Seagate Shingled Hard Drive Teardown · · Score: 1

    99% of people don't care. I set up my mother's computer with the OS on C and everything else (and all system defaults) to D, and she didn't even know she had multiple disks. My wife didn't know she had two disks (one SSD cache and one HDD), she just knew it worked and wasn't too slow.

  8. Re:Interesting idea, nasty downsides on New Seagate Shingled Hard Drive Teardown · · Score: 1

    Are you talking about SSD or HDD?

  9. Re:Default Government Stance on Feds Admit Stingray Can Disrupt Bystanders' Communications · · Score: 1

    Who is intimidating who about votes?

  10. Re:Default Government Stance on Feds Admit Stingray Can Disrupt Bystanders' Communications · · Score: 1

    http://lmgtfy.com/?q=Increasin...

    Any other hard questions?

  11. Re:Interesting idea, nasty downsides on New Seagate Shingled Hard Drive Teardown · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I've worked for multiple Fortune 500 companies. All used spinning tape. And nearly everywhere I've worked has used tape. It's cheaper and easier to buy tapes. You sound like a salesman, but I've never seen the numbers work for an off-site storage, Tapes are cheaper than hard drive storage, and more controlable (having them physically stored where you want, restoring only what you want, good for lawsuits).

  12. Re:Interesting idea, nasty downsides on New Seagate Shingled Hard Drive Teardown · · Score: 1

    SSD for boot/OS/swap, and slow spinner for data gives 99% of the performance for 99% of people. And cheap spinners are much cheaper than cheap SSDs. Sadly, there was a time, 2-5 years ago when you could find laptops with spare mSATA slots, and a spinner in them. Put an SSD in the mSATA slot, and biggest drive possible in the spinner slot, and get huge storage for cheap cost.

    Though, one of the ones I got then, had the mSATA already holding a 20GB SSD, set up as a cache for the slow spinner. It runs surprisingly well, especially if you run the same things repeatedly. 100% of the performance of SSD for 95% of what you do. And cheaper than the 256GB/1TB I am running in my laptop.

  13. Re:Why stop at Operators? on Police Could Charge Data Center Operators In the Largest Child Porn Bust Ever · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Why charge anyone? Civil forfeiture of all assets held by Intel, MS, and anyone associated with making any of the servers or owning any of the servers in this case. When civil forfeiture is used as broadly as used in the drug war, it would be ended quickly.

  14. Re:Default Government Stance on Feds Admit Stingray Can Disrupt Bystanders' Communications · · Score: 1

    Nope. If everyone voted for different third parties, then that would gum up the works enough to trouble the main parties, and if a 3rd party saw an opening, it would form a real policy, kinda like the LP keeps thinking will happen, but without all the 'shrooms.

  15. Re:Citations are for wussies on Feds Admit Stingray Can Disrupt Bystanders' Communications · · Score: 1

    If it is as non-sequitur as your posts, it's a waste of everyone's time.

  16. Re:Default Government Stance on Feds Admit Stingray Can Disrupt Bystanders' Communications · · Score: 0

    I believe that they'd just be more open about their vote tampering. The closed ballot leads to massive fraud. Tee margin of error has been larger than the vote difference for many recent elections. And the solution to that, supported by both Democrats and Republicans, over 3rd parties, was electronic voting.

    And they've been doing the "punish the 3rd party" method for years. The only 3rd party in recent history to make all 50 states ballots was apparently the LP for one presidential election. 3rd party candidates who were not party candidates made it, Ross Perot and Patrick Buchanan were on all 50, but were presumed Republicans, despite no official party membership.

  17. Re:Citations are for wussies on Feds Admit Stingray Can Disrupt Bystanders' Communications · · Score: 1

    Are you saying they could work? You seem to have a closed mind, and are looking for confirmation of your opinions, with strong selection bias. My read of you is that there's nothing I could say, and nobody I could cite that could change your mind. As you imply you didn't read past seeing the first thing you could find objectionable, that proved the point I made. That there exists no cite I could have given that you'd believe, if it contradicted your personal opinion.

    Would you like citations about what it is that contradict the Wikipedia page?

    Would you like citations that increased minimum wage increases jobs more than increasing the pay of the upper management?

    What of what I mentioned would you like to see cites of?

    [citation needed] is a ploy by closed-minded bigots to waste the time of the "enemy" for things they won't read anyway. You didn't cite anything that supported you, either. Just linked to something that isn't much more than a definition, but certainly didn't say anything like what you implied.

  18. Re:Default Government Stance on Feds Admit Stingray Can Disrupt Bystanders' Communications · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Anyone who demands citations for "Voodoo Economics" should be 12 or under. Despite Bush deriding it, he practiced it, along with his son. We've had it for many years, and the result is that it harms the economy. Increasing the minimum wage increases the number of jobs. Increasing the pay spread between the lowest paid and highest paid people in a company (expecting some trickle-down), has been shown to decrease jobs.

    But citations don't work. No true scotsman is the standard response, and then the rhetorical games begin that end with the true statement that "Tobacco has never been proven to cause cancer." We only have a correlation that smoking causes cancer, and there's never been a "pure" study done on it (mainly because of ethical issues, but also some practical issues). So someone could still claim that smoking doesn't cause cancer, and you can't prove them wrong. Voodoo Economics is in the same camp. It's been shown wrong many times, but can't be "proven" wrong in a purely scientific method because the supporters of it wander off into Rhetorical Games territory.

  19. Re:Default Government Stance on Feds Admit Stingray Can Disrupt Bystanders' Communications · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Vote 3rd party. But everyone considers that a waste. If everyone did that, we'd have real change, but nobody will. When you are surrounded by dumb people, democracy is the worst form of government. The solution is to move.

  20. Re:Sell any stock before they launch this... on Google Wants To Rank Websites Based On Facts Not Links · · Score: 1

    Fox News gets facts right because there are so few of them. Most of the programming is "opinion" shows that don't count facts. Wrong opinions, "I think that humans are descended from Thetans" or "a clear sky is a brilliant vermilion" don't count for the total.

    One can't help but count opinions as facts, when doing something automated, so I'd expect Fox News to get a lower rank because of errors, even if errors of opinion.

  21. Re:And still on One Astronomer's Quest To Reinstate Pluto As a Planet · · Score: 1

    The rule of "dominates its orbit" or whatever it is isn't arbitrary in the sense that "big enough" is.

    Yes, it is.

    Earth has cleared its orbit. Anything that stays around Earth's orbit is constrained by Earth's position.

    There are about 10,000 known objects in "Earth's orbit" The orbit isn't cleared. I've seen numbers for similar numbers for the other planets. The arbitrary rule in that is that the sum of same-orbit objects should be under 0.01% of the mass of the clearing object, or something along those lines. Again, we have to put some arbitrary line in there, because no absolute ever works.

    Every rule is arbitrary, so it comes down to which arbitrary do you prefer?

  22. Re:FEO on Google Wants To Rank Websites Based On Facts Not Links · · Score: 1

    (true) 2+2=4, (wrong) global warming is a lie, (true) Al Gore was VP. You mix deliberate lies in surrounded by irrelevant truths, to increase the truthiness of the page.

  23. Re:It should stand two degrees, for sure! on 20-Year-Old Military Weather Satellite Explodes In Orbit · · Score: 1

    The resource allocation in this case is time thinking or talking about it.

  24. Re:It should stand two degrees, for sure! on 20-Year-Old Military Weather Satellite Explodes In Orbit · · Score: 1

    You prefer Rube's razor? The more complex answer is more fun.

  25. Re:can't wait to see it work on fox news web site on Google Wants To Rank Websites Based On Facts Not Links · · Score: 1

    Ah, so because you don't believe in fat, the AHA is wrong? Rants like yours are the ones that would get pushed to the end of the list.