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  1. Re:How much do you believe ? on Clinton Campaign: Russia Leaked Emails to Help Trump (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 2

    The accusations against Clinton have been proven by the FBI with the only excuse being "she's too big to jail" and an obvious golden handshake by Bill Clinton with the AG that should've prosecuted who subsequently dropped the case.

    I'm sure the Russians helped, they have their own agenda just like they would've attempted to help their cause with any other election in the world (the US does the exact same thing through the CIA as does any other world power including the UK, Germany etc).

    We all know in every country, the leadership is corrupt whether it be UK, Turkey, Greece or the US. The problem is how do you get them removed without a bloody coup and subsequent civil war?

  2. Re:Here's more credible evidence of Trump-Russia t on Clinton Campaign: Russia Leaked Emails to Help Trump (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 0, Troll

    The Clinton astroturfing is strong with this one.

  3. Re:Wow what a useless conference. on Programming Language Gurus Converge on 'Curry On' Conference (curry-on.org) · · Score: 1

    With Perl 7 being released, Perl is young and hip again and actually I've seen an uptick in new upstart projects using them just because they can. Releasing open source projects in obscure languages is the newest trick to keep the host companies involved with expensive licensing/support agreements.

  4. Backups? on Yahoo Ordered to Show How It Recovered 'Deleted' Emails (pcmag.com) · · Score: 2

    In the best case, Yahoo recovered them from tape, in the worst case they actually keep stuff around for various nefarious purposes. My bet is that they're doing both for their customers and simply lying about it to their products.

  5. Do not look into laser with remaining eye on Can Iris-Scanning ID Systems Tell the Difference Between a Live and Dead Eye? (ieee.org) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    A pupil's response can be imitated with a video in response to the flash. I work with several types of eye trackers fairly frequently, the eye is relatively slow in responding to stimuli, it's definitely within the realm of a cell phone to play back the image of an eye and it's iris in response, in time to one of these flashes.

    The problem with biometric is that it is considered the end-all of security system whereas it should be considered only part of something (who you are, what you know, ...)

  6. Re:Communism spreads the poverty on Maximizing Economic Output With Linear Programming...and Communism (medium.com) · · Score: 1

    It does somewhat work as long as there are resources that are easily produced and exported to capitalistic countries. Once production halts, people will fight for their own and those with the power will win. It would require the entire world economy to go communist and it stops when one faction goes capitalist (saving up a single resource to drive prices up and starve out their neighbors creating an inequality of resources, poor and wealthy).

  7. Several problems on Maximizing Economic Output With Linear Programming...and Communism (medium.com) · · Score: 1

    Consumers wanting to consume whatever they want; to sustain this model I need to always earn more than my neighbor. In effect the equation calls for an infinite source of money on the bottom end to sustain the consumer consuming what the upper classes produce. Only in that case can the middle class maintain being richer than the consumer. Middle classers are also human, if I could spend every day with my kids or toys and not worry about either time or money, I'd be very wealthy and not go to work even though my job is very good.

  8. Re:Code doesn't need punctuation on Ask Slashdot: When Do You Include 'Unnecessary' Code? (sas.com) · · Score: 2

    The problem is and remains readability, not testability. You can perfectly test minified JavaScript (all the superfluous is removed). Additionally, your code may test correctly but still not give the results expected, especially when you're doing things like write mathematical code or image processing (you can't test for correctness if you don't know the result yet). Manually scrolling and looping through a program in your head is not easy with everything is in superfluous functions. And that is precisely the code where you'll easily go 5 loops or more deep and left spinning, dazed and confused with a beginner language like Python.

  9. Code doesn't need punctuation on Ask Slashdot: When Do You Include 'Unnecessary' Code? (sas.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    In effect most punctuation, indented blocks etc is superfluous to a computer. Is your code more or less readable with whatever construct you include? What if you add more code between eg your declaration and your use, would it still be obvious?

    That's why languages without those construct are a pain to work with, you add a bunch of code and suddenly you've lost whether you're 4 or 5 tabs deep when the tabulation decreases. I like to add comments to the end brackets of regular code myself and add brackets to all if statements. It's superfluous but it's harder to rewrite a conditional one liner into a multiline code after the fact.

  10. 0.5% on a high interest loan on Amazon Wants To Sell You Everything, Including Student Loans (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    An average $1000-2000 over 10 years, the origination, application and prepayment fees alone are double that.

  11. Re:Reaching the limits of the unlimited on Verizon To Disconnect Unlimited Data Customers Who Use Over 100GB/Month · · Score: 1

    a) Most of these things fall under contract law. If I have to sign up a 2y contract, they shouldn't be able to just change it halfway through. That's what's happening here though, they have a contract which they're failing to abide by.

    b) These carriers are virtual monopolies and all are colluding together to keep prices up. Many areas only have 1 provider and even if you have a choice, all providers do these rate hikes and service downgrades at the same time. They actually have the FCC colluding for them on their behalf (by limiting spectrum only to the big carriers). If the market would work (no colluding on spectrum, BYOD networks and no locks on either devices or contracts) we would see providers competing for your business.

  12. Re:If they didn't want unlimited use on Verizon To Disconnect Unlimited Data Customers Who Use Over 100GB/Month · · Score: 1

    This is more akin to having a contract with an $8 Chinese buffet so you can get all you can eat for $120/mo. You then go to eat there every day so you end up eating there for $4 every day. The restaurant can't just break the contract because they didn't expect you needed to eat every day.

    Verizon didn't expect people to go for online video every day. These contracts are pre-iPhone or ways of getting people to switch from their competitors, they bet that they could delay 3G development another decade and resell the spectrum they bought up at a profit, instead they now need to lay out 3G (which they market as 4G) as promised when they bought the spectrum.

  13. Re:So basically... on Verizon To Disconnect Unlimited Data Customers Who Use Over 100GB/Month · · Score: 1

    If you sell something, expect it to be used. If you sell unlimited, people will use all they can and you should provide it. Those contracts have a minimum bandwidth requirement from the provider so as long as the provider provides these "abusers" with 256k (or whatever) they aren't rate limiting and everyone will be happy. Verizon simply wants more revenue from their subscribers, they don't care how, this is just an excuse. They want to artificially limit bandwidth usage so they don't have to pay up to actually develop their 3G network.

  14. Re:Reaching the limits of the unlimited on Verizon To Disconnect Unlimited Data Customers Who Use Over 100GB/Month · · Score: 1

    No, unlimited means just that: unlimited. Real data communication networks come with only 1 limited resource: bandwidth which is measured in packets per second and their inherit delay so you can get from one end to the other. The data is not artificially limited on any time basis beyond a few milliseconds as long as you keep the connections going. The spectrum and hardware doesn't give a rats ass how many 0s or 1s go over a line per month or if they even make sense (corruption is handled higher up).

    What Verizon is doing is trying to get people to pay more by using an artificial (virtual) limit of how much data you can transfer from point a to point b on a monthly basis. They don't care if you actually exhaust the local area's bandwidth by consuming your quota in the first few hours of your billing cycle, they just want you to keep paying more.

  15. Re:Your tax dollars at work! on 'The Wolf of Wall Street' Movie Was Financed With Stolen Money, Says DOJ (nydailynews.com) · · Score: 1

    They will spend close to 10B in lawyer fees to get your 1B back. If you have a receipt for the movie ticket, you'll get $1 refunded on your 2025 taxes.

  16. Re:Where did the money come from? on 'The Wolf of Wall Street' Movie Was Financed With Stolen Money, Says DOJ (nydailynews.com) · · Score: 1

    Yes. If you have near 10k in transactions from/to the same places over an unspecified time period, you are guilty. You just have to make sure it doesn't look like you are structuring to a civil administrator, judge and/or jury.

  17. Re:Why not use the real finger? on Police 3D-Printed A Murder Victim's Finger To Unlock His Phone (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Because humans tend to swell up when they decompose, not sure about the rate in morgue fridges (they don't deep freeze you) but I think over time someone (usually family) would eventually want to burry or burn you.

  18. Re:How quickly can they print a fingerprint? on Police 3D-Printed A Murder Victim's Finger To Unlock His Phone (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    On mine it's 12h (I think, it may be 8, I do it every morning and sometimes after a long day out) and I have a >4 character code. Also whenever the device restarts or anything (base band) is updated.

  19. You get what you pay for. I regularly (every week) order things from Amazon for a variety of electronics and components, their search is fast and consistent. I stay away from lower stars and if I want guaranteed quality (after prototyping), I happily pay 20% more at Mouser or other retailers. I like that when I don't get the quality I need, I ship it back for a full refund where most retailers will charge you a restocking fee even though they shipped you garbage.

  20. Depending on the sale it's typically about 8-15%. Some high-risk items are 45% (software licenses and other intangibles like digital music and books).

  21. What chemical lab uses flexible glass? Corning Glass and Pyrex are no longer owned by this company.

  22. Re:Pyrex exploding glass problem on Corning Unveils Gorilla Glass 5, Can Survive Drops 'Up To 80% Of The Time' (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Pyrex is no longer manufactured by Corning, they sold that years ago to concentrate on inventing things like Gorilla Glass. They sold many of their properties not because they weren't profitable but because it wasn't innovative. The buyers subsequently went with lower manufacturing standards and substituted cost making Pyrex style glass a lot cheaper but also less resistant to heat and impact.

  23. Re:Bullshit on How The Internet Helps Sex Workers Keep Customers Honest (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    I know some high class dominatrix and kink professionals, you don't get into the door without some form of background check or community reference.

  24. Re:Bullshit on How The Internet Helps Sex Workers Keep Customers Honest (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    I don't know about the details of this story but highly paid sex workers do verify their clientele. You can't afford getting stiffed for $10k. These are not hookers on the streets, these are professionals you can take to a classy party with you (and get sex).

  25. Re:But... on Farmers Demand Right To Fix Their Own Dang Tractors (modernfarmer.com) · · Score: 1

    property tax is for land, not for equipment. Sales and sales tax in most jurisdictions implies transfer of ownership, if you don't transfer ownership, then you are renting and the taxes may be different. If you imply transfer of ownership on a document (eg bill of sale) you also transfer the title, if there is no title for the type of equipment, the bill of sale is the title (typical for small boats and car trailers). Whoever owns the title owns the equipment unless it is encumbered by a lien.