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  1. Why was the FBI brought in? on Student Charged By FBI For Hacking His Grades More Than 90 times (sophos.com) · · Score: 1

    This seems like simple criminal trespass, fraud and larceny. The local or state PD can handle this.

  2. USA Emissions Are Still Declining Under Trump on Carbon Pollution Touched 800,000 Year Record in 2016, WMO Says (bloomberg.com) · · Score: -1
    https://www.the-american-inter...

    "... the drop occurred due to market forces, specifically the displacement of coal-fired power generation by cheap, plentiful natural gas provided by the shale boom. Fracking’s flourishing has made our dirtiest form of electricity production less economical, and because natural gas plants emits half as much carbon as their coal counterparts, this shift has also made our energy mix more climate friendly.

    For the most part, this will continue to be the case under Trump, which is why the EIA is expecting energy-related emissions to fall this year."

    By way of comparison, how’s Europe doing?

  3. Contract law should prohibit giving up rights. Also, unelected and unaccountable government bureaucrats(ie CFPB) should not be making laws. If Congress doesn't want to do it then let state legislatures do it.

  4. Re:Frequently changed on With Rising Database Breaches, Two-Factor Authentication Also At Risk (hackaday.com) · · Score: 5, Informative
    NIST's recent password recommendations say frequent PW changes are not good practice.
    https://www.schneier.com/blog/...

    NIST recently published its four-volume SP800-63b Digital Identity Guidelines . Among other things, it makes three important suggestions when it comes to passwords:

    1. Stop it with the annoying password complexity rules. They make passwords harder to remember. They increase errors because artificially complex passwords are harder to type in. And they don't help that much. It's better to allow people to use pass phrases.
    2. Stop it with password expiration. That was an old idea for an old way we used computers. Today, don't make people change their passwords unless there's indication of compromise.
    3. Let people use password managers. This is how we deal with all the passwords we need.

    These password rules were failed attempts to fix the user. Better we fix the security systems.

  5. Trump won for many reasons. Facebook ads are near the bottom, if they had any influence at all. Russia's goal was to sow chaos and confusion, not to help any one candidate.

    The dems need to stop acting like an outside force caused Hillary's loss. It didn't. She lost because she has no redeeming value and the party had no message, and many voters saw that.

    The dems will continue to lose elections unless they come out with better/younger candidates and a message other than Trump is Hitler.

  6. According to ISIS, he was a recent convert on Las Vegas Shooting Leaves at Least 50 Dead, More Than 200 Wounded (wsj.com) · · Score: 2
  7. Public Safety? Riiiight on London Has Decided To Ban Uber (recode.net) · · Score: 0
    To paraphrase Pitt the Younger, “health and safety” is the plea for every infringement of human freedom in Britain today – it is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves.

    The Freedom Association responds here. International visitors to London who use Uber regularly might want to speak up too.

  8. Re:Crime not Advertizing on Idaho Wants To Establish America's First 'Dark Sky Preserve' (idahostatesman.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    Idaho has its own way of minimizing crime - shoot back. Residents 21 years of age, not disqualified from having a permit, may carry a concealed firearm statewide without a permit.

  9. Re:Can we do that with just cash? on How Techies Rescued Food Stamps (wired.com) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    You're still not even close to the funds needed. And when you cut off the money going to defense contractors what is the military supposed to use to defend the country, spears? What happens to all of the former workers from the defense contractors? They can't all become community organizers.

  10. Google should ban the app for this deception.

  11. Will the dates be as arbitrary as those on drugs? on Scientists Create Smart Labels To Tell You When To Throw Away Expired Food and Makeup (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 1

    Hopefully these manufacturers are less greedy than drug companies with their pharmacuticles' expiry dates..

  12. Re:This is what happens when you can't raise taxes on A 'Netflix Tax'? Yes, and It's Already a Thing in Some States (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1
    Past Illinois politicians agreed to provide city workers with platinum pensions in return for union support. Now those periodic pension payments are eating up a significant percentage of the revenue.

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    Connecticut ran into the same problem and tried to tax its way out of it. It had the opposite effect because some big corporations(GE and Aetna) and wealthy residents moved to better managed states, which caused a reduction in revenue. Now Hartford is teetering on bankruptcy.

    The bottom line is you can't tax your way out of a an ongoing problem caused by graft.

  13. And you get charged with obstruction if you resist on iOS 11 Has a Feature To Temporarily Disable Touch ID (cultofmac.com) · · Score: 2

    I'm not saying it will pass legal muster. Prosecutors use the pain of the process to wear down defendants. You will be vindicated in the end but be out thousands of dollars in attorney's fees and time spent incarcerated.

  14. Aren't all non-FDA approved diet pills fake? on Facebook Is Cracking Down On Deceptive Ads For Porn, Diet Pills (adweek.com) · · Score: 1

    Any weight loss pill that's not backed up by an independent double blind study that proves it causes fat reduction is a fraud.

  15. World's KNOWN Richest Person on Jeff Bezos Surpasses Bill Gates as World's Richest Person (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    What is the financial wealth of Vladimir Putin or the owners of Saudi Aramco?

  16. Maybe getting jammed on People Are Complaining That Their New DJI Drones Are Falling Out of the Sky (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    Maybe someone was pointing/testing a GPS or other signal jammer in the vicinity. On a side note, I'm not sure why anyone would purchase a drone from a manufacturer that controls where you can fly it. http://www.dji.com/flysafe/geo...

  17. Hope they have a good legal department on Global Network of Labs Will Test Security of Medical Devices (securityledger.com) · · Score: 1

    I expect device makers to try and litigate them into submission before they can go public with vulnerabilities.

  18. Re:How about using VR for calling balls and strike on Intel's Big Bet On Baseball (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    The ump should have a real-time display in his mask showing the pitches in proximity to the strike zone.

  19. How about using VR for calling balls and strikes? on Intel's Big Bet On Baseball (axios.com) · · Score: 1
    Give a VR device to the home plate umpire so he can see if the pitch was in the strike zone. It won't slow the game down and will make it more fair.

    With 200+ pitches a game the home plate ump is bound to get some calls wrong or is just having a bad day. The umps get fatigued, their view gets blocked by the catcher, catcher framing the pitch making it look like a strike and the catcher moves the mit back into the strike zone in such a way that the ump thinks it was a strike.

    Baseball should have a goal to get every call correct.

  20. A gag order should require a warrant from a judge on US Appeals Court Upholds Nondisclosure Rules For Surveillance Orders (reuters.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    National security letters serve the same functions as a warrant but do not require judicial(disinterested party) oversight. A gag order is too large a step to permit one branch/agency to decide.

  21. Windows' Cryptic Error Messages on Ask Slashdot: What Software (Or Hardware) Glitch Makes You Angry? · · Score: 1
    I was recently trying to get windows updates and it came back with an error. I clicked the error message help and it said it couldn't find any help on this error. I googled the error code and it came up with numerous hits. Many links said it may be a GPO disabling windows updates over the internet, which was my issue.

    Is an obtuse error code really the best Microsoft can do for its users.

  22. Not caused by global warrming on Iceberg the Size of Delaware, Among Biggest Ever Recorded, Snaps Off Antarctica (marketwatch.com) · · Score: 2
    http://time.com/4854428/iceber...

    At the end of the video we get "It was a natural event that had been anticipated for months and was not directly caused by climate change."

    Putting this 'insignificant' piece of information at the end speaks volumes as to why people are tuning out MSM.

  23. You can not tax your way out of wasteful spending on Seattle City Council Unanimously Approves Income Tax For the Rich (geekwire.com) · · Score: 1, Insightful
    People are leaving high tax states-rich and poor. Just ask Connecticut, Illinois, New York, California and New Jersey.

    https://www.usnews.com/news/be...
    http://www.kitsapsun.com/story...
    http://www.investopedia.com/ar...

    You can also see it in the cost of a 26' UHaul between Texas and California/NY
    Los Angeles, CA to Dallas, TX: $2,558
    Dallas TX to Los Angeles: $1,232

    NY, NY to Dallas, TX: $2,772
    Dallas TX to NY, NY: $653

  24. Re:Both jobs and unemployment up? on 222,000 Jobs Added To US Payrolls In June; Unemployment Rate Rises To 4.4 Percent (npr.org) · · Score: 1
    Food stamp changes in Georgia & Alabama may account for some of it. People who were not working or looking for work had to get a job or training.

    http://www.theblaze.com/news/2...
    In Alabama, the state government began to require this year that able-bodied adults without dependents in 13 of its counties either have a job or go through a work training program while receiving benefits. The result has been a staggering 85 percent decrease in the number of food stamp beneficiaries in those counties.

    And in Georgia, state lawmakers began requiring this year that ABAWD in 21 of its counties either hold a job or complete job training as a condition of receiving food stamps. So far, the requirement has resulted in a 62 percent drop in the number of beneficiaries in those same 21 counties.

  25. Re:And this is why we need Voter ID on Privacy Watchdog Sues Trump's Election Committee Over Voter Data (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    If you need to show ID to buy a beer, why is it an outrage to require the same when voting?