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  1. I feel like we are living in an 'outbreak' movie on After Dallas Ebola Diagnosis, CDC Raises Estimate of Patient's Possible Contacts · · Score: 3, Informative

    Amazing how the government freaked out over H1N1 years ago and simply nothing happened. Yet, a real virus is on the move and "everything is a-ok" is the word from everyone.

    Yes yes, you only get it if you come in contact with feces, vomit, etc, but that perception is there now that it is in the US.

  2. Re:C# using xamarin on Ask Slashdot: Swift Or Objective-C As New iOS Developer's 1st Language? · · Score: 2

    I do all native for my development. But, if you design your business and storage layers correctly, it is all but a few "find and replaces" to convert ObjC to Java. Then all you have to worry about is your UI. Apps that took months to sort out business logic have been ported (business layer) to the other platform in a day.

  3. Re:Obama declared a war on whistleblowers? on Where Whistleblowers End Up Working · · Score: 5, Informative

    The Obama Admin has prosecuted more whistleblowers than all former administrations combined AFAIK. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/04/16/obama-whistleblower-prosecutions-press_n_3091137.html

  4. Re:Let me guess... on Users Report Warping of Apple's iPhone 6 Plus · · Score: 2

    You are probably more right than you realize. If the phone is parallel to your leg it won't bend. If it rests non-parallel against your thigh and you sit down, the fabric of your clothes will stretch it around your thigh, thus bending it.

  5. Yawn, markets change on Phablet Reviews: Before and After the iPhone 6 · · Score: 0

    What do people expect Apple to say when all they are selling are the smaller phones? OH THATS A GREAT PHONE SAMSUNG. No, they are going to describe how theirs is better.

    Reviewers are shills for whoever is giving them free stuff so their reviews are useless.

  6. Re:iOS NFC Only Being Used for Apple Pay on Apple Locks iPhone 6/6+ NFC To Apple Pay Only · · Score: 1

    I doubt Apple will open NFC up. They released their proprietary ibeacon technology which oh a few aspects has a leg up on NFC. I don't see them undercutting iBeacons.

  7. Won't solve the real issue. on Funding Tech For Government, Instead of Tech For Industry · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Lets say you have the best "mobile app" to do whatever, XYZ.

    Oh great, govt customer wants it. They see it today. Well, thanks to procurement, it will be 18 months before they actually buy it. But, by that point, the product will have changed a good bit - well because that is what software does now a day. But, that isn't what Gov manager wanted - they want what they saw 18 months ago.

    The sales cycle will chew startups up and spit them out. Not many can accommodate 18 month+ sales cycles.

    And that even excludes the issues of continuing resolutions means they don't have cash to buy buy many shiny new objects.

  8. Who cares if they pay $0 on Silicon Valley Fights Order To Pay Bigger Settlement In Tech Talent Hiring Case · · Score: 0

    In the end, no worker harmed by this policy will see a dime of the $320m the government is fining them. In the end, $320m is a drop in the bucket for these firms and won't change a thing.

  9. Re:Mistake #1 on Oregon Suing Oracle Over Obamacare Site, But Still Needs Oracle's Help · · Score: 1

    Not "A" but "A team of" 6 figure DBAs

  10. Re:ITT... on Uber Now Blocked All Over Germany · · Score: 1

    "Low prices" - what? Uber by all accounts is more expensive than traditional cabs.

  11. Eh, not quite on Apple Reveals the Most Common Reasons That It Rejects Apps · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I've had an app in the store for years now that requires a login. We provide two to apple to test (one success one fail). I don't recall the last time the accounts logged in (perhaps version 1.0.0.0), their last login date has sat the same for years. So, not hard if you get in and sit there to slowly change to something malicious.

  12. Re:It isn't due to an EO on The Executive Order That Led To Mass Spying, As Told By NSA Alumni · · Score: 1

    Constitutionally they don't really do anything.

  13. It isn't due to an EO on The Executive Order That Led To Mass Spying, As Told By NSA Alumni · · Score: 2

    EO's have no real weight to create policy. They are simply instructions for federal agencies (which the President is in control of since he is the executive) to do.

    Congress then up until now allowed it and the blame lies on their shoulders alone for creating the surveillance state.

  14. Re:Federal vs. local decision (Re:I like...) on U.S. Senator: All Cops Should Wear Cameras · · Score: 4, Informative

    Such lack of history.

    Look into why the drinking age was raised to 21 nation wide: Failure to comply cut highway funding. It was blackmail.

    So, stick the shitty memes elsewhere.

  15. CA is mind bottling on California DMV Told Google Cars Still Need Steering Wheels · · Score: 1

    Consider how many people die on the roads every year in the United States alone, the biggest factor is humans.

    Then, consider how many people die every year due to firearms in the United States alone and look how CA reacts and tries to limit access to firearms, through laws and technology. Basically, "remove the problem."

    Shouldn't CA be pushing hard for driverless vehicles? Removing human error from the equation would save countless lives.

    Think of the children.

  16. More so the IoT is going to be a disaster on Securing the US Electrical Grid · · Score: 1

    [Besides Snowden] The largest data breach in recent memory was due to an internet connected HVAC system at Target. The electrical grid is a small sliver of the equation, the next decade is going to be a massive shit show.

  17. Re:Safe data ? on Heartbleed To Blame For Community Health Systems Breach · · Score: 1

    Yeah, paper is much safer because you can't just walk in and walk out with the folder.

  18. Re:Need to cut down on contractors and subcontract on Getting IT Talent In Government Will Take Culture Change, Says Google Engineer · · Score: 1

    Yes, great solution. Seeing as agencies take a year+ to hire a new gov hire, it will really help to get things rolling. Instead of a contractor that can be brought in that day and fired at an instant.

  19. Re:Still Secret Source? on Silent Circle's Blackphone Exploited at Def Con · · Score: 1

    AFAIK all of blackphones source is in the public.

  20. Re:Lies and statistics... on 35% of American Adults Have Debt 'In Collections' · · Score: 1

    Golds is a cancer. I was a member there for awhile. For whatever reason, they stopped charging my credit card. I was looking over my bills and noticed they hadn't billed me for 3 months. Contacted the gym and fixed the CC. A week later, a call from collections for non-payment. No one ever contacted me. The CC was fine, hadn't expired. Because of an internal problem, they sent me to collections. Insanity.

  21. Re:umm duh? on Dropbox Head Responds To Snowden Claims About Privacy · · Score: 3, Informative

    You do realize there are several flavors of encryption, right? Microsoft SQL Server TDE is an example. You can login, perform queries, update data in any table, but all data is encrypted - it is - transparent as the name indicates.

    That also ignores things like encrypted volumes, etc. Just because individual files aren't encrypted with unique keys, doesn't mean that encryption isn't there.

  22. Re:Some hilarity on Bot Tweets Anonymous Wikipedia Edits From Capitol Hill · · Score: 1

    While i see the "point" in this Bot, the fact is a lot of the editing is probably bored staffers and interns editing things they find interesting.

  23. Re:Matthew Inman's next kickstarter project... on The Oatmeal Convinces Elon Musk To Donate $1 Million To Tesla Museum · · Score: 1
  24. Re:Fair enough on The Oatmeal Convinces Elon Musk To Donate $1 Million To Tesla Museum · · Score: 1

    Never go full potatoe [sic]

  25. Re:Not Australian, but I support this! on New Zealand ISP's Anti-Geoblocking Service Makes Waves · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    Aussies have voted themselves high taxes on all goods. If they are tired of paying the high taxes on them, well golly do something about it.