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  1. Re: and GDPR is? on Will GDPR Kill WHOIS? (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Whois does more than just return registration information. It is the database of domain names. Without it you cannot ascertain whether what your DNS return values are true or whether or not a domain is unique.

  2. Re:The war hawks in US won't like that on Two Koreas Agree To End War This Year, Pursue Denuclearization (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 0

    I’m not sure China would like it. South Korea is a US ally and the US has got both parties at the table. If North Korea becomes westernized and their economy funded by the US like South Korea, China will lose a powerful deterrent.

  3. Talk to people in Korea before you say the war has been over. Just because people aren’t continuously exchanging gun fire doesn’t mean there are no people dying in war zones.

  4. Re:Nobel Peace Prize Winner on Two Koreas Agree To End War This Year, Pursue Denuclearization (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    It’s called negotiation and persuasion. Regardless of whether you agree with him, he has a way of getting under his opponents skins. CNN is still talking about the elections while Trump is changing policies right under our noses.

  5. Re:"My child can't go to a private school" on Chinese Journalist Banned From Flying, Buying Property Due To 'Social Credit Score' (cbslocal.com) · · Score: 1

    Not for private Chinese schools, they have scholarships for students studying abroad with the hope that a large portion of those will bring back the knowledge and expertise we have here in higher education.

  6. The software is NOT free-as-in-beer. That's the thing, they are giving the disks to end-users as a courtesy, resellers need to pay at least for OEM licenses. Even if you sell the computer hardware, the software license typically doesn't come with it unless you do an explicit transfer in writing and even then, the license can only transfer between end users.

    Again, if you don't like the license don't use it, or don't understand the license, talk to a lawyer.

  7. Anyone promoting Microsoft products in business should go to jail imho.

  8. Depends on the Linux distribution. If it's RHEL, probably, if it's Debian, probably not. The license has a lot to do with it. You can't download Oracle or Red Hat Linux without a proper license. They may give away licenses to home users and non-profits but for-profit businesses are expected to pay. Another one of those is TeamViewer, plenty of people use it, but in a business setting you're supposed to pay for it and yes, they do go after companies using the free version.

  9. It wasn't free, it was gratis, it costs time, bandwidth, server and client storage, depreciation and an empty disk and is intended to help end-users. Middle-men and resellers do not get to use that download link, because it doesn't apply to them. If Dell were downloading the image each time they needed their techs to repair a computer, Microsoft wouldn't be very happy with their consumption either.

    Selling software you do not have the license to sell is illegal, plain and simple, don't like it, use "free software", not proprietary software you obtained gratis. There is plenty of proprietary software that you do not have the license to use in a business setting as you do at home or at a non-profit, again, don't like it, use "free software" or pay the fee to use it in a business setting.

  10. Re: Not zero emission in China yet. on Electric Buses Are Hurting the Oil Industry (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Luckily China is investing in nuclear fission plants (~25 in the next decade) and pumping lots of money in fusion research.

    They know what they need to do and they are driving their economy by building it.

  11. Re: Blind hiring on Your Next Job Interview Could Be With a Racist Bot (thedailybeast.com) · · Score: 1

    Bots already filter out your resume long before you get called to an interview. Those bots are explicitly programmed not to look for names and yet they still don't hire 50% black, 50% Asian and 50% whites.

  12. No, you forgot basic science and math. You say: I have a drug that treats everyone, that includes the subset of cancer patients, so if it doesn't work on cancer patients, then you can't claim it treats everyone. You can then say it treats group x and group y, but you've excluded cancer patients and you keep doing that.

    Ideally, you'll do a randomized trial with a small group of people at high risk for whatever the medicine treats that would be motivated enough to take the medicine. You'll also typically do a placebo test on half of said group. Translate that to UBI, starting with a small group of poor people that have the most benefit and then comparing them to a similar group of poor people that did not get the benefit (or perhaps they got existing, non-UBI tax and other social benefits) is actually the way science is done.

  13. TMobile waited exactly 2 days on Net Neutrality Is Over Monday, But Experts Say ISPs Will Wait To Screw Us (inverse.com) · · Score: 1

    After the Obama NN law to offer zero rated service for their music/video service and a few weeks later Comcast, AT&T and TWC announced their merging with a bunch of smaller players the FCC had blocked but the FTC allowed eventually culminating in the TWC/Comcast merger.

    That's luckily going away so the companies will be broken and the playing field will be leveled, right?

  14. Re: Exactly, after you eat. Could refuse next tim on What Happens When Restaurants Go Cashless (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    Which is illegal after you have already racked up the debt. You have to sign off on that kind of understanding and even then it might be considered usury.

  15. Re:Reasons... on What Happens When Restaurants Go Cashless (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    It's the same thing as demanding a jacket/classy attire to enter certain restaurants. Yeah, they won't allow homeless people in.

    Also, poor people generally have EBT cards which they can use and if you cater to millennial hipsters, you generally aren't catering to the poor anyway, you're selling $35 rolls of sushi.

  16. Re:Failing electronic system on What Happens When Restaurants Go Cashless (usatoday.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Even though that has been stated many times, VISA and MC both have clear requirements for merchants during outages and downtime. You should be able to take the card as long as your POS system has power - the transaction will process later, you can call their call-centers by phone to process a purchase, you can write the card number on a special form and then process it later (or remember back when they had those slide-things, they still have those for embossed cards).

    The problem is obviously your volume/throughput will suffer if you end up doing that and your employees need training. It's either that or you let your customers walk through with stuff unpaid, if there is a VISA/MC sticker and they don't WANT to process the card, VISA/MC says their customers have the right to treat it just like you wouldn't accept cash and the customers can actually complain to their CC company and they'll get a fine too.

  17. Re: In other words. on The Higher Your Salary, the More Time Your Employer Will Pay You Not To Work (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    Where and when I lived, Unlimited PTO was not a thing, the government pretty much dictated the number of hours I was allowed to work and allowed to take off and what range of income I was allowed to make as part of a "negotiated contract", it was basically government-negotiated collective bargaining for an entire industry or an entire company, including what eventually became IT. This is fairly common in Austria, Belgium, France, Netherlands, Portugal etc.

  18. Re: In other words. on The Higher Your Salary, the More Time Your Employer Will Pay You Not To Work (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    People that can't manage their jobs without either telling their bosses to get more people or leaving the abusive environment are not salaried. I recently got a promotion and I'm now in contact with a higher strata of managers, I manage the expectations of managers as much as they manage me, it's part of being in that position. If someone is forcing me to work 60h/week to get the "job done" just because I'm salaried, I would definitely negotiate to work hourly.

  19. Yes, you would. If it's a drug that promises to make EVERYONE healthier, then trialing it on people that have 1) Nothing to Lose and 2) Will Gain Immediate and Significant Benefits is actually a pretty damn good trial.

    The worst kind of trial, which is what UBI proponents want would be to find a bunch of homeopaths to try the drugs against, then write about its health benefits and then dose everyone with the drug through the water system or by dispersing it in the air.

  20. Just went to a talk on any type of fusion, even the researchers involved at the highest levels (Sandia) don't think fusion will happen in the next 20-something years, although they will get closer and even if they do find the solution to all the problems they encounter which would require massive funding, both funding and systems an order of magnitude larger than what we have, it would still take a good 10-20 years to get a number of fusion power plants up to help out the grid and another 50 to replace all the coal, nuclear and other options. AI has a similar problem of both funding, scale and research number of magnitudes less than what we have available in Neuroscience, that's even further away.

  21. Re: In other words. on The Higher Your Salary, the More Time Your Employer Will Pay You Not To Work (qz.com) · · Score: 2

    Everything in the US is negotiable. It's the American dream. Being truly salaried, I get unlimited PTO which is more than I ever did in Europe being "salaried" which doesn't really exist there and at a higher rate too. The PTO reporting is just for statistics and rate calculations and comes out to ~35% across the workforce when you include sick and holidays.

  22. Re:Largely Pointless Article on Finland Is Killing Its Basic Income Experiment (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 1

    As some have pointed out within the country, it provides a disincentive to work and existing and new jobs don't get filled. Finland has a huge shortage of workers from construction and engineering to teaching, research and nursing and the results of the tests were basically that people stopped working jobs that were considered low-rank and didn't improve themselves to get higher-end jobs.

  23. Re:The issue remains - what to do with people on Finland Is Killing Its Basic Income Experiment (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 1

    As low-end stuff gets more complicated, more people end up using their brains and lifting themselves out of poverty. Unless you can automate all fields of science, there will always be jobs.

  24. Re:Duh? on Finland Is Killing Its Basic Income Experiment (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Well, but it's at least a trial and a data point. If you're starting a research study for a new wonder drug, we don't dose the entire population and see if it works, why would economic policy be any different.

    If it doesn't work on a small set with controlled parameters, how would it work on a larger scale without said parameters.

  25. Re:veterans? on Amazon Employee Explains the Poor Working Conditions of An Amazon Warehouse · · Score: 1

    If you WANT to have or change jobs, finding a job should be considered a full time job. So if you need to "work two jobs", yes, get some PTO and go to an interview. This isn't skilled labor either, it's not like the job interview is going to take more than a walk in and a conversation.