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  1. Re:Then prove the causation false on Last Time CO2 Levels Were This High, There Were Trees at the South Pole (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    I can't even trust the underlying data so that's a pretty big mountain to climb.

  2. Re:"Privacy Advocates" do NOT represent the public on Judge Orders Fairfax Police To Stop Collecting Data From License Plate Readers (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    You don't know who is a criminal until after they committed a crime.

  3. Blizzard did not lay off any developers on Making Video Games Is Not a Dream Job (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Blizzard laid off mostly IT and reporting staff and other administrative staff and people supporting marketing and HR. No developers lost their job. https://www.tweaktown.com/news...

  4. Re:"Privacy Advocates" do NOT represent the public on Judge Orders Fairfax Police To Stop Collecting Data From License Plate Readers (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    No. I work in data and tracking the movement of criminals is vitally important to doing pattern analysis. Plus, you have no expectation of privacy in public so if you want to be private, lock your front door and have Amazon deliver your groceries.

  5. Perception isn't reality.

  6. Re:You know how IT looks at users? on Facebook is Demanding Some Users Share the Password For Their Outside Email Account (thedailybeast.com) · · Score: 1

    Let me put it this way. Google would have a fit if Facebook was actually skimming passwords.

  7. Re:You know how IT looks at users? on Facebook is Demanding Some Users Share the Password For Their Outside Email Account (thedailybeast.com) · · Score: 1

    "They". Maybe, but I turned on Two-Factor authentication on Gmail almost five years ago so...

  8. Re:You know how IT looks at users? on Facebook is Demanding Some Users Share the Password For Their Outside Email Account (thedailybeast.com) · · Score: 1

    No, the password would not pass through their servers. It would be sent directly to google. Just because the header of the page says Facebook doesn't mean the form is sending anything to Facebook.

  9. Re:No need to be concerned about sea level rise on Last Time CO2 Levels Were This High, There Were Trees at the South Pole (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Farm hands? You know they have self driving tractors now right?

  10. Re:Thus demonstrating CO2 alone is not warming on Last Time CO2 Levels Were This High, There Were Trees at the South Pole (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Exactly. Correlation doesn't necessarily imply causation. If CO2 was this high with warmer temps before and colder temps now, it seems to actually imply the correlation is pretty weak.

  11. Re:Fire the TSA on Laptops To Stay in Bags as TSA Brings New Technology To Airports (bgov.com) · · Score: 1

    That's not how it works buddy. A book is a finite set that is knowable. A population of potential terrorists is a finite set that is unknowable. You don't know who didn't show up at an airport because they didn't think they would get through security.

  12. You know how IT looks at users? on Facebook is Demanding Some Users Share the Password For Their Outside Email Account (thedailybeast.com) · · Score: 1

    Well that's how security professionals look at IT. This is most likely third-party authorization. Meaning Facebook never gets your password. The password is passed to GMAIL and then Google forwards a response to Facebook stating they are now approved. This is actually MORE secure. Also, The Daily Beast isn't a legitimate news source so maybe start there.

  13. Re:Users don't realize how bad they look on IT and Security Professionals Think Normal People Are Just the Worst (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    In other news, MSPs are so bad at using scripts that I routinely call them with solution in hand and they still can't figure out how to resolve my problems.

  14. Users are a security problem and it's IT's fault on IT and Security Professionals Think Normal People Are Just the Worst (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    I studied for the CISSP and the first thing you notice is how many controls revolve around user education. Users will click on anything they can, unless you educate them not to. It is IT's job to education the users to think before they click. Also teach them how to spot fake URLs and not to click attachment from external sources unless they specifically requested said attachment.

  15. Re:Misleading headline on Researchers Trick Tesla Autopilot Into Steering Into Oncoming Traffic (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    The problem is you can't correct the planes path by pulling up on the stick. In a Tesla, all you have to do is move the steering wheel.

  16. Re:so let me get this straight... on Laptops To Stay in Bags as TSA Brings New Technology To Airports (bgov.com) · · Score: 1

    First of all, let me explain WHY CT scans are expensive. This is because CT machines go underutilized. They depreciate constantly and they take up an entire room so the fixed costs make up almost all the costs. The cost of operating the machine is minimal. The analysis costs a little more. Places like Kaiser Permanente that operate as both the insurer and the care provider have figured this out and therefore operate CT machines 24 hours a day with a steady stream of patients. This drives down the fixed cost per patient.

    The second issue is the idea that you can let terrorism go unchallenged and it will remain successful at the same exact rate. This is utter nonsense. The very reason that terrorism is a small percentage of the death rate is because we challenge it at every turn. An extensive defense-in-depth approach reduces the affects of attempted terrorism to near zero in the United States. Other countries are not as successful.

  17. Re:Fire the TSA on Laptops To Stay in Bags as TSA Brings New Technology To Airports (bgov.com) · · Score: 2

    How would you know that? You can't prove a negative. Security is mostly a deterrent.

  18. Re:Radiation? on Laptops To Stay in Bags as TSA Brings New Technology To Airports (bgov.com) · · Score: 1

    I've had eight CT scans and I'm due for my ninth this summer so I'll let you know. I had testicular cancer that moved into my abdomen and began to grow. I have 100% response to treatment but the recommendations are for yearly and then every other year scans to make sure it doesn't come back.

  19. Re: Radiation? on Laptops To Stay in Bags as TSA Brings New Technology To Airports (bgov.com) · · Score: 1

    In fact the article is entirely about directly scanning people. When objects receive radiation, they don't then give off that radiation to the environment at that same rate. That's just not how it works.

  20. Re:Flight Envelopes are not squares on Pilot Who Hitched a Ride Saved Lion Air 737 Day Before Deadly Crash (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    I get all that about relative air speed. However, imagine a scenario in which the GPS shows movement relative to the ground, the GPS shows altitude constant (I know GPS doesn't do altitude well but bear with me) and the altimeter shows altitude constant. Having all that information, wouldn't it make sense to assume that if the angle of attack sensors said the plane was about to stall that they were just wrong?

  21. Re:Taking on the impossible on DARPA Is Building a $10 Million, Open Source, Secure Voting System (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    And yet shareholders vote on annual meetings via Proxyvote every year.

  22. Flight Envelopes are not squares on Pilot Who Hitched a Ride Saved Lion Air 737 Day Before Deadly Crash (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 2

    This system should be using a myriad of sensors to activate, not the least of which is the air speed indicator, backed up by GPS, the altimeter, also backed up by GPS, and the bank indicator. For one thing, the stall angle of attack is completely different at one speed versus another. This is because flight envelopes are not squares. Second of all, if altitude or GPS show the plane about to go below the ground level for the specific location, it shouldn't be driving the nose down.

  23. Re:Socialist Voting Machines? on DARPA Is Building a $10 Million, Open Source, Secure Voting System (vice.com) · · Score: 3, Funny

    Apparently Grindr was actually just a beta test for an online voting system.

  24. Re: I imagine this is going to get worse... on A Worry For Some Pilots: Their Hands-On Flying Skills Are Lacking (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    I can imagine doing a reverse G barrel roll would be great fun.

  25. Re:Hand Fly a 747 into the Pentagon on A Worry For Some Pilots: Their Hands-On Flying Skills Are Lacking (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Landing, taking off, and recovering from a stall are the difficult maneuvers for a jumbo jet. The highjackers didn't have to contend with any of those since they took control after takeoff and they were going so fast that stalling would have been near impossible.