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  1. Re:Then France will have no global business on France's After Work Email Ban Is 1 Step Closer To Reality (huffingtonpost.ca) · · Score: 1

    Having the clients interact directly with employees causes a lot of communications issues too, where various team members may have information that others (including the manager) do not, which creates conflict and issues with the project (and setbacks as a result). (Or, as I was told at a previous job, don't try to do the project manager's job for them. They (and other client liasons) exist for a reason

  2. Re:There you go. on France's After Work Email Ban Is 1 Step Closer To Reality (huffingtonpost.ca) · · Score: 1

    They own APC (one of the most common makers of UPS's). Beyond that I haven't heard of them.

  3. Re:Here's the problem. on FBI Has Sights On Larger Battle Over Encryption After Apple Feud (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    In things like your first degree murder example, I mean enacting the death penalty quickly.

    While some wrongly convicted (definitionally NOT innocent, as they were convicted) people may die as a result, the purpose of the penal system is not to serve some epistemological Platonic ideal of "justice", nor is it to enact "vengeance", as some would argue (thus allowing victims families to testify prior to sentencing), it's to act as a deterrent to rule breakers *other* than the person being held up as an example of what society does to people who break the rules.

    Logically, their guilt kind of doesn't matter all that much. So rapidity serves the public good, more than accuracy.

    Actually, I saw that very thing happen this year in a DUI accident case (in the Baltimore County Circuit Court) - the judge asked the victims to speak prior to sentencing the defendant.

    Maybe I'll put it like this: how do you envisage police obtaining evidence when a phone such as the iPhone (with WhatsApp) is used for all communication around planning a crime and executing it?

    By demonstrating probable cause that the iPhone contains the evidence they seek.

    And then getting a warrant and serving it on Apple to obtain access to the iPhone's contents from the iCloud backup, after not being fucking morons and causing the iCloud password to be changed.

    Agreed.

  4. Re:Hey assholes! Gonna make a habit of this now? on Microsoft Removes Wi-Fi Sense Feature From Windows 10 Which Shared Your Wi-Fi Password · · Score: 1

    And nothing of value was lost. Seriously. Stop with the spam. It's annoying and off topic.

  5. Re:How about adding back ip over firewire? on Microsoft Removes Wi-Fi Sense Feature From Windows 10 Which Shared Your Wi-Fi Password · · Score: 2

    It was rather useful for device-to-device networking - direct connection at 400 or 800Mbps. I think the bigger complaint was that it was simply dropped when other consumer operating systems still support it. However, if he's still complaining about something that was dropped ten years ago, it's time to move on to a different OS if he's that bound to it.

    SSH, on the other hand - that's my single biggest feature request for Windows....

  6. Re:They left out a clause on Microsoft Removes Wi-Fi Sense Feature From Windows 10 Which Shared Your Wi-Fi Password · · Score: 1

    P@ssw0rd12345

  7. Re:Can we get them to remove other annoyances? on Microsoft Removes Wi-Fi Sense Feature From Windows 10 Which Shared Your Wi-Fi Password · · Score: 1

    That's enough SAS for one day...

  8. Re:More than one million Americans on Open Source Artificial Pancreas Helps Engineer's Son Survive With Type 1 Diabetes · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Which is why I wish type II had a different name. There is no "cure" for type I - there is no magic combination of exercise and diet that can make it better. Diet control and exercise are required to manage type I, but the fact is the body is damaged and cannot regulate it's insulin levels (and as a result, cannot regulate blood glucose levels). People spreading misinformation like that is one of my biggest pet peeves (that, and all of the "oh, but you're not fat!" type of remarks that I get).

  9. Re:Saddled with Windows 10 on Sales Of PCs, Laptops, Tablets Continue to Fall, Hit Lowest Point Since 2011 (canalys.com) · · Score: 1

    That's why I went with a refurbished Mid-2012 MBP when I replaced my old MBP (early 2006 model) at the beginning of this year. Plus I can service the 2012 model still (first thing I did was max out the RAM at 16GB when I bought it, and I was still way under what buying the newer laptop would have cost me). One of these days I'll replace the HDD with an SSD....

  10. Re:Shame on Debian Dropping Support For Older CPUs (distrowatch.com) · · Score: 1

    Actually it doesn't - IIRC Pat added something a couple versions ago that made it 486 only (and Linus dropped 386 at kernel 3.7 IIRC too), and (A) I don't think anyone noticed before he said something, and (B) he suspected it didn't care or have the hardware to check. How many distributions even bother to test on 486 and Pentium era hardware anyway?

  11. Re:So.. Slackware? on Debian Dropping Support For Older CPUs (distrowatch.com) · · Score: 1

    Depends on what you are looking for, and what you call older. I have Slackware running both my Precision M4500 (i7 860, 8GB RAM, QuadroFX 880m, Dual SSD) and my Thinkpad 600e (Pentium II, 192 MB RAM, Neomagic NM2200, 8GB IDE HDD....) which are both older systems. The Pentium II isn't viable for anything internet related, but still works for somethings (serial terminal in my case). XFCE works on both (so does MaXX)

  12. Considering that 4K monitors still aren't common, you've still got at least another year to go.

  13. Re:AMD just crapped themselves on NVIDIA Unveils GeForce GTX 1080, GTX 1070, Faster Than Titan X For a Lot Less (hothardware.com) · · Score: 1

    Depends on the task, not everything benefits from GPGPU.

  14. Re:Vulkan API could bring DirectX to Linux on NVIDIA Shows New Doom Demo On GeForce GTX 1080 (hothardware.com) · · Score: 1

    Somehow I disagree - marketing has always been the area that makes all the difference.

  15. Is it the error where even explicitly running something as Administrator it says you need to be an admin to run this? I saw that once on Windows 7 - the permissions for Administrators was corrupt on both C:\ (yes, the root) and on the system registry, and I think there was a third part to it that I am forgetting. Ultimately, that system was wiped and reinstalled because it was faster to do that and restore data from backup then to figure out the problem.

  16. Not just putty - but any .exe in your Downloads folder (I haven't tried .exe in any user folder, but that is my suspicion.

  17. Re:And when we have no home no job no doctor on 'I'll Make Their Life Miserable': Tech CEO Bullies Low-income Vendors By His Home (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    No, I think he saw it and is implying a mass exodus from the US.

  18. And that is your prerogative to do so, just as plenty of other women choose to engage in sexual activity (and some even against the man's will). I have met women that will refuse to date a man if sex isn't part of the deal.

  19. Failure to consummate the marriage is grounds for annulment in some religious institutions...

  20. Re:And the problem is? on Self-Driving Features Could Lead To More Sex In Moving Cars, Expert Warns (www.cbc.ca) · · Score: 1

    Who says they aren't attempting to reproduce? You don't know that! They could be a married couple attempting to fulfill their duty!

    Also, religious fail. Fornication is not one of the worst sins, much less a deadly sin. Feel free to try and find a reference otherwise, because the Church has never classified it as such. There are some right wing heretics in the States that might agree with you, but like I said, there is no reference in Church dogma nor the Bible itself (which most of those heretics scream Sola Scriptura...) claiming it as such. There are multitudes of offenses much greater then that.

  21. Re:And the problem is? on Self-Driving Features Could Lead To More Sex In Moving Cars, Expert Warns (www.cbc.ca) · · Score: 1

    The biggest error is people going out in conditions that they shouldn't be on the roads in the first place. See it all the time here in Baltimore - people who call out of work but can drive to the mall because they want to. It's one thing if you are going to work (and you should probably call out if you can in some of these storms), or have to work in it (EMS, hospital staff, road crews, automotive mechanics, etc), and another to be that guy that just wanted to go to the bar. People are stupid, plain and simple.

  22. Re:In before accusations of bloat on Ubuntu Quietly Raises Install Image Size to 2GB (omgubuntu.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    IIRC the kernel dropped boot floppies around version 2.6

  23. Re:With 32 gig usb sticks so cheap ... on Ubuntu Quietly Raises Install Image Size to 2GB (omgubuntu.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    I believe Red Hat did that a long time ago with Kickstart...

  24. Re: With 32 gig usb sticks so cheap ... on Ubuntu Quietly Raises Install Image Size to 2GB (omgubuntu.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Just curious - what are you using an Intel 8088 for? I ask because I have a laptop with one in it that I'd love to find a use for, just to be able to say it is doing something.

  25. Re: With 32 gig usb sticks so cheap ... on Ubuntu Quietly Raises Install Image Size to 2GB (omgubuntu.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    I'd rather be able to fix the thing when it breaks....