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  1. Re:Dismiss the telecom suit with prejudice on FCC Tells Court It Has No 'Legal Authority' To Impose Net Neutrality Rules (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    They would have to limit it only to traffic that stays entirely within the state. On the Internet that's not really possible. Hence they would have to control traffic (aka commerce) interstate which the constitution prohibits.

  2. How are taxes going to help? on Twitter and Salesforce CEOs Spat Over Who is Helping the Homeless More (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    If you gave 37M out of your own pocket directly to the "cause" and it didn't "fix" the problem, how would giving less through government agencies do?

    The homeless problem in SF is a governance problem, not a financial issue, SF is one of the richest city governments in the world. The problem is thus not money but its policy.

  3. Re:Dismiss the telecom suit with prejudice on FCC Tells Court It Has No 'Legal Authority' To Impose Net Neutrality Rules (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    The FCC has no authority to impose regulations on information services, but neither does anyone else. It's not because the federal government "can't" do something, that the states can do it. Laws only give the government authority to do something. There is no laws on the books regards net neutrality (Obama's executive directive was not a law) so technically, neither FCC nor states can implement them. States also can't regulate other states, the Internet crosses states and even international, so the closest entity to an "authority" would be the UN.

  4. Re:Waste Of Time And Money on Amazon Is Raising Some Workers' Pay Further, Adding Bonuses After Controversy (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Between the continuous turnover and an improving job market, this is just turning up the optics on what many companies are forced to do these days. With the lowest unemployment rate, wages are skyrocketing, over the last 24 months, average wages have gone up nearly $1.50/h with the lower income brackets now making ~$300/month more than just 12 months ago (compared to $100/month for those in the higher earning brackets).

    $15/h is advertised in many malls these days for entry level jobs. I just tried to hire on a federal contract (the wage is fixed if I want to get the subsidy) for $10.25 for an entry level job and got all of 3 applicants and I'm not even in a major metropolitan area like NYC, LA or Seattle.

  5. Re:So one solution on Amazon Scraps Secret AI Recruiting Tool That Showed Bias Against Women (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Isn't that what equality of outcome requires?

  6. We're explicitly not talking about (much harder) foreign tests. Blacks, whites, asians, hispanics are all more or less integrated in the same society, have the same school standards etc.

    Nothing else, not even income correlates with IQ and SAT scores as much as race and not even overfunding and preferred treatment is changing the outcome.

  7. So why does it still - on average - result in lower scores for blacks but not hispanics, whites or asians, even when adjusted against poverty levels.

  8. I have a load of SuperMicro gear on New Evidence of Hacked Supermicro Hardware Found in US Telecom: Bloomberg (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Also from that era that they say. I haven't seen anything anomalous. The fact is that some of their IPMI stuff is vulnerable and they're not updating the firmware (eg. old versions of Dropbear SSH), so if you leave it on the Internet, it may get compromised.

    On the other hand, I also don't leave that stuff on a routable VLAN. If it tries to connect to anything (and I haven't seen it reach out), I'd notice and it wouldn't work anyway. Sure the IPMI has some hooks into the rest of the hardware so it is potentially capable of doing 'weird stuff' to my Linux or Windows kernels (although it'd have to be pretty smart to intercept keyboard authentication, wait for someone to be away from the keyboard, automatically replay credentials, then load a workable kernel module to do that) and have the OS compromised do the dirty work, but then again, I haven't seen anything there either and we've used various integrity and antivirus systems from TripWire, Sophos and Cylance that probably would've noticed.

  9. Re:Catch 22 of security on Network Middleware Still Can't Handle TLS Without Breaking Encryption (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    You already have that capability. Simply read out the chips or upload a custom firmware. The problem is generally that it's not easy, but if you want to make it easy, then you're opening the door for others as well.

  10. Re:Catch 22 of security on Network Middleware Still Can't Handle TLS Without Breaking Encryption (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Ah yes, the consumer bill of rights, and now you're advocating for a key-to-all-encryption to get access to the data you're "entitled" to. That is how these laws will be written after all and unintended consequences will mean that not only can you see the data, but so can the FBI and NSA and everyone else.

    Nobody should be able to MITM. If you need control over the end device, you need to obtain control over the end device, not everything else.

  11. Re:WRONG. Do it with Cost and Money, not just fact on IPCC Climate Change Report Calls For Urgent Action To Phase Out Fossil Fuels (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Meritocracy is not democracy. What metric would you even use to gauge who will be in power?

    The best ideas are found out by scientific inquiry and commercialization of those results in a competitive (capitalist) market where success naturally bubbles up. Improving education is also a direct result of capitalism, in a capitalist society nobody remains on top, you educate yourself to get on top, you implement the best ideas to stay on top but the rich 1% of today are not the same 1% of yesterday or tomorrow - there is a lot of flux and capacity.

    If you take away the driver of our current society and put the "smartest" based on their ideas regardless of their contributions you end up with something akin to socialism and as we know, if in socialist societies results cannot be obtained by vote, you get communism where your results are obtained by force.

  12. Re:WRONG. Do it with Cost and Money, not just fact on IPCC Climate Change Report Calls For Urgent Action To Phase Out Fossil Fuels (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    They've been saying stuff like that for years and it never comes true. We humans are a genious bunch when it comes to survival. What scientist need to do is find an economic solution to the problem. What really is an affordable, acceptable solution? So far all we've heard is either limit reproduction severely (a la China's one child policy - that worked out great) or kill people en masse/let yourself be killed. The other alternatives are mass production of inobtainium and going back to a pre-industrial era - that was a great time too and plays right into the "let's all die en masse".

  13. Dems regulating the Internet on Democrats Draft an 'Internet Bill of Rights' To Regulate Big Tech (geekwire.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    The list is a precursor to regulating the Internet. Read the thing, it's overly broad: "unfairly discriminated against based on your personal data" - what is 'fair' discrimination? What is personal data? Does that mean I can't call your unscientific viewpoints out?

  14. Re:The methane "is then liquified and used to fuel on Company That Sucks CO2 From Air Announces a New Methane-Producing Plant (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    You should nitpick the details. 240 cubic meters = 240,000 L. You're producing more energy than you're putting in.

  15. Hydrogen = 1.75 kWh/liter
    240 cubic meter/h = 240,000 liter/h or ~20T of hydrogen/h
    Electrolyser = 1.2 MWh

    That means they produce 420 MW of energy for 1.2 MW of input.

    They are generating 'free' energy from 150T of CO2 in the air? Something sounds really wrong.

  16. Re:The sentence fragment on The EPA's Bold New Idea Has Massive Implications For Public Health (motherjones.com) · · Score: 0, Troll

    Typical left-wing liberal "news" reporting - say a whole lot about something but don't quote any sources.

    And yeah, some people are going to be upset about it, but if there is growing empirical evidence that the concentration-response function the EPA has handled is wrong, that's ALSO science.

    I'm not an environmental scientist but as an engineer I can concur that there is nothing linear about how the human body reacts. Typically it's logarithmic/exponential (eg. with sound you can double the strength several times before becoming damaging to your hearing, once you go over that thresh-hold though damage also does not scale linearly - the difference between a few minutes of discomfort and a burst eardrum is large) but it's very rarely linear.

  17. Re:The request for a TRO was already rejected... on New Yorkers Sue Trump and FEMA To Stop Presidential Alert (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    IPAWS modernization was signed into law by Bush (2006), a version of the WEA was announced by FCC in 2009.

  18. Re: idiots, not from Trump, not authorized by Trum on New Yorkers Sue Trump and FEMA To Stop Presidential Alert (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    The idea is older than that. The extension of EAS to cell phones was publicly announced in 2009 (prior to Obama) - http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs... but the actual order to FCC was given in 2006.

  19. Re: ha! that got their attention on Entire Broadband Industry Sues California To Stop Net Neutrality Law (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    You could say the same about the character of Feinstein, Booker and Ford as well.

    If all you care about is the last few days of mud-slinging while ignoring what happened during the 'regular' process. I wouldn't vote for Kavanaugh but I do like his consistency in upholding the constitution and the fact that he quite clearly indicated that "Roe vs Wade is confirmation upon confirmation of prior cases, SCOTUS should not be interested in changing that"

  20. Re:Tables turned on The Coders Programming Themselves Out of a Job (theatlantic.com) · · Score: 1

    The thread is about automating your job and your employer not noticing. That's a management problem. If I want my employees to do x - they can do that in an 8 hour day or figure out how to do it in 1 hour - if I don't know, don't care or don't understand how the 1 hour person does it and more importantly, if I don't care or want to expand that to the rest of my workforce, then that's MY problem, not my employee's - they've min-maxed their jobs, just like I try to min-max my employees and investment.

    I'd likewise find that person a better job but given the situation, most likely that person's manager is more concerned with finding minions that do their bidding than actually provide value to the organization; per the article, they hire programmers to do data entry - the managers most likely know they aren't qualified to manage actual programmers and so it goes all the way upstream. Most likely that manager is also concerned that if you have an 8-fold increase in productivity by automation, the managers are jobless together with the workers so they have no incentive to do anything about it.

    Only by incentivizing these kinds of things across the organization along the lines of: do data entry, find a better way of doing it, get promoted and we'll increase your salary by half the productivity increase (so if you increase productivity 8-fold, we'll give you your salary 4-fold AND a manager position).

  21. Re:Tables turned on The Coders Programming Themselves Out of a Job (theatlantic.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Neither entity is owed anything. If I code myself out of a job, I don't have a job? Most 'auto-automation' still needs occasional tweaks eg when the process changes. So you're sitting there as an assurance/insurance that you can still do the job manually if necessary.

    It's like saying: "police and firemen spend 80% of their time in the station, in a car or in coffee shops, let's fire 80% of them" which is a legitimate argument to make but it's also a bad argument to make when you need to hire police and firemen on the spot.

    As an employer, I would rather have someone on hand that knows how to automate their own job than someone that simply goes through the motions of a factory worker every day. I know that the first can handle things if something changes as for the latter they'd have a huge productivity problem when it does.

    If your employer doesn't KNOW that things can be automated, then that is a management problem, hire the guy that did the automation as a manager - but if you have an entire layer of middle-management to feed, THEY don't want to be out of a job either and most likely THEY are the ones that are holding back your company.

  22. a) You can download the manual from a website to read on a Kindle or iPad - most even come with a barcode on the outside to do just that.
    b) Most people are tech-advanced enough NOT to need a manual
    c) Most of the time, the manual is outdate by the time you receive the package

  23. We listened to our critics AKA the Market on Amazon Will Raise Its Minimum Wage To $15 For All 350,000 US Workers (recode.net) · · Score: 1

    Over the last 12-18 months, finding people to work a bit above minimum wage (due to the fact that we receive federal aid for those jobs, we can't post them any higher) has been increasingly difficult. We recently posted one for basic grunt work and got only 3 applicants and I keep passing McDonalds locations that have signs up at $15-18/h for shift managers.

    Economic growth is exploding, the lowest unemployment in decades drives wages up. NYS is increasing minimum wages to $11.15 next year but nobody even wants to work at those rates anymore.

  24. Re:I'm more worried about... on Apple Watch's Fall Detection Could Get Users Into Legal Trouble (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    If you've fallen so much that a court will grant conservatorship against your will, then you're in a bad situation. I understand some elderly really don't want to go into a home or be cared for by family, but some of them actually need to be and shouldn't be driving around or living by themselves anymore.

    The data is still private unless it calls the ambulance, if you obtain the data illegally or without consent, that's still illegal so your conservatorship suit turns into a civil or criminal lawsuit and you lose it all.

    My wife's grandmother is like that, she is going to either burn the house down or crash her car some of these days, but her kids don't want to do an intervention because she throws a fit every time. She poisoned her own dog with medicine accidentally, stores plastic in the oven, then 'wants to bake a cake' and forgets all about the fact she put the (old gas) stove on and falls asleep.

  25. Re: How many mac users are there? on Apple Demands $9 Billion From Google For Default Search On iOS (neowin.net) · · Score: 1

    There were about 1B Apple OS devices active in 2016 and that has only exploded in places like China and India.

    That's less than $9/year per user. Given Google sells clicks at an average of $1-2 (up to $50 for the most expensive keywords) that's a pretty good deal.