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  1. Re: Someone messed up big time on Atlanta City Government Systems Down Due To Ransomware Attack (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    More like: we don't need that, our $750,000 isilons have everything replicated.

    Followed by: we don't see the need for backup storage within our organization, we built 5 systems in the last few years and nobody uses it.

  2. Re: $51K to restore all of the city's computers? on Atlanta City Government Systems Down Due To Ransomware Attack (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Only like 10-50% success rate with an average number paid about twice that amount. It's not worth the gamble.

    Restore from backup and start using remote Linux sessions for your important data.

  3. Depends on who you ask, it's been pretty clear that the FBI deliberately botched their investigations into Clinton's e-mail server and those scandals are now hamstringing their capabilities to prosecute Trump.

  4. Re:Cash-strapped? on Chinese Companies Are Buying Up Cash-Strapped US Colleges (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    1 FTE - the students have to be in front of at least 1 professor for at least 6-8 hours per day for teaching. A single faculty may teach only one class per weekday, but there are likely 6-8 professors per day involved in a students' class.

    I don't understand the reason for choir college either, but the structures in colleges are pretty much the same regarding of discipline, the overhead gets worse for liberal arts colleges as half the faculty and students are protesting something.

  5. Re:Cash-strapped? on Chinese Companies Are Buying Up Cash-Strapped US Colleges (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Okay: $40k/y, avg. 30 students per class = $1.2M/y. Each class requires pretty much one FTE faculty at $100-150k/y. Most faculty have an administrative staff, deans, provosts etc. We've probably eaten half your class income in wages for people directly related to the faculty and a class and we haven't even put down a building or paved a road, gotten your IT or classroom infrastructure, gotten any research done, no TA, RA or any other lab assistant, we haven't paid scholarships etc

  6. Re:Cash-strapped? on Chinese Companies Are Buying Up Cash-Strapped US Colleges (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 2

    Tuition typically only covers 20-30% of a school's income. The rest comes from states, federal, grants, beneficiaries and returns on investment of their endowment.

  7. Obama got caught just as much as Trump did (neither of them did) however there is a narrative in the media shaping it like one did and the other didn't. Until one or the other is led away in handcuffs for their crimes, they haven't been caught. Clinton is way more "caught" with documented evidence and she is still roaming free, stumbling around drunk in India.

    If you have a top attorney scrutinizing documents for half your presidency and unable to bring charges, you know you're doing pretty good. Capone eventually got caught for tax evasion though, so you never know where Obama/Clinton/Trump will make (or have made) their legal missteps, but it won't be in the political arena.

  8. Re:Why does it look like an sidewalk? on Police Chief: Uber Self-Driving Car 'Likely' Not At Fault In Fatal Crash (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    It doesn't, it looks like a median, it's not a safe place to be as a bicyclist laden with anything.

  9. You are also guilty for /dev/random on Child Abuse Imagery Found Within Bitcoin's Blockchain (theguardian.com) · · Score: 0

    If you pipe /dev/random long enough, some pedo picture or more likely, link will appear to be passing by.

  10. Re: Open Source,The last ditch effort to stay rele on LG Releases Open-Sourced Version of webOS in Hopes To Push It Beyond TVs and Smart Refrigerators (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    The problem back then is still the same today - economics. BeOS and co was great, it just was too expensive at the time especially considering the switch in the ecosystem.

    It was cheaper to go to Linux if you wanted to switch ecosystems or stay on WinDOS 95 or 98 if you already have the applications than go with BeOS or OS/2 Merlin on PS/2 which not only did not have the ecosystem, the cost was twice or triple the price of a regular system even though the hardware was well beyond the x86 of the time. SGI had the same problem, sure it can render Toy Story but it also cost $10k when a similar render workstation (Dual Pentium) on x86 was $5k or so.

  11. It's never legal to intentionally run someone over and it has always been the pedestrian's fault if they cause an accident jaywalking. You cannot legally run anyone over, regardless of their position, you can however be indemnified for hitting a jaywalker.

  12. It isn't legal if you do it on purpose (that is called murder) but if you accidentally hit someone who is jaywalking, the jaywalker is responsible for the accident and may be prosecuted both criminally and civilly.

    Obviously if you are DUI or driving dangerously yourself and that caused the jaywalker's demise, then it could be considered manslaughter or you may also be prosecuted criminally and civilly, the onus could also revert back onto the driver to prove the person was not jaywalking, you can 'legally' walk across the street if it was safe to do so and you would not have to expect a car coming at 90mph around a corner.

  13. I don't know where this idea comes from. You can't pay taxes legally if you're not a legal resident. There is no checkbox ANYWHERE on the IRS forms that say "I'm an illegal resident of the US" and checking any of the other boxes on your taxes, if they don't apply, is a felony and non-citizen (legal) residents are deported if they ever do check a box that claims they have a status (eg. citizenship) that they do not possess.

  14. It's called aiding and abetting. If the police know about a drug stash and they don't have the resources to actively set up a sting operation, simply passively monitoring is not sufficient to protect the public.

  15. Or instructed by superiors not to interfere in order to further a narrative.

  16. Re:Truss Bridge Self Supported. Not Cable Stayed. on The Ordinary Engineering Behind the Horrifying Florida Bridge Collapse (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    Yes, but I meant, it's not like there is a permanent gauge attached with a little red panel indicating they workers are over-tensioning it.

  17. Re: Questions on How Einstein Lost His Bearings, and With Them, General Relativity (quantamagazine.org) · · Score: 1, Informative

    Read Einstein's books, they aren't copyrighted anymore and have all those answers.

  18. And those last paragraphs are the problem, with your traffic optimized app you're entering and driving through rich people hoa's much more often. Many times these developments were built in an optimal place for nearby shopping and work centers thus also being a shortcut between two or more arterial roads.

    Especially California where rich people are concentrated at the expense of the rest of the US and their own state, where you can have low income housing if you make less than 95k/y, how dare you drive your Honda Civic through our gold encrusted vineyards.

    A local town where I live had the same "problem" - they built the roads to optimize mansion developments and unintentionally built a highway between two interstates. Then they called for a town meeting on what to do about increased usage from out-of-towners in the last couple of years.

  19. Yet over the last few decades violence has decreased, not increased. The same arguments were used in the 80s about television and before that about radio and before that about books. The thing is, what sets of a psychopath is more about years of environmental issues that lead up to it (bad parenting, being a target for bullying, incompetent and insensitive school administrators) than what they used last week as entertainment.

    It's easy to point the finger and blame something you don't understand than taking responsibility for and changing yourself or your community.

  20. Not quite realistic though. The physics and graphics improved but you almost always play a superhero space-marine bullet-sponge with near perfect aim and no issues of bodily function, exhaustion or ill effects from environment, exposure or combat.

    A true combat simulator would be boring and 99% of people wouldn't make it 5 minutes into the first fight (if one even popped up). Unlike what most people believe, firing a fully automatic weapon is hard, expensive and requires a lot of training, even a handgun is hard to accurately use repetitively and anyone with an ounce of actual police or military training would be taking you out before you even empty your clip.

    That's also why most of these 'school shooters' generally already have $10k+ worth of guns, had used and trained on them extensively and why even one guard or police officer, trained in close quarter combat in the school would stop them dead in their tracks.

  21. Re:Slashvertisement! on How Hardware Artisans Are Keeping Classic Video Gaming Alive (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 2

    Here's the thing, even Nintendo released their SNES "retro" with an ARM processor and an emulator layer. There is no input lag that is perceptible by a human and you can program physical controllers on both original hardware and emulators to do frame by frame input (although you have to keep in mind that modern systems run at 60Hz and not 59.94 - in the US at least) and they won't skip a beat.

  22. Re:Slashvertisement! on How Hardware Artisans Are Keeping Classic Video Gaming Alive (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 0

    Most games have lost copyright protection, the rules don't apply and if they did, there are also various exceptions for this purpose. Most cartridges are simply unavailable in the market and if they exist, many have decayed significantly over the last decades.

  23. Slashvertisement! on How Hardware Artisans Are Keeping Classic Video Gaming Alive (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 2

    It's an FPGA-based emulator of an old gaming system. There is nothing special except that it can't do save games and more that regular emulators can do. It's not any better than a good emulator, higan can and does match the performance of this overpriced system, even better it doesn't require the original cartridge.

  24. Re:Truss Bridge Self Supported. Not Cable Stayed. on The Ordinary Engineering Behind the Horrifying Florida Bridge Collapse (wired.com) · · Score: 2

    Yes and no, there is no 'gauge' you can check although you can check the post tensioning being done twice. It's typically what you pay architects and engineers for, not only to design but also check and double check the work during and after construction.

    A lot of construction companies these days however rather have it done quickly and rather not deal with 'overhead'.

    I was involved in a construction project also with prefab pieces where the architect had specified a different size for some of the levels and the edges to stay within the boundaries, however it was apparently cheaper to build all pieces at the same size (or someone just assumed they all were and didn't bother checking).

    The foreman and the construction company engineer signed off on the delivery even though they knew it was wrong. Luckily code enforcement actually measured, found it not acceptable (the building would've been wider and higher and thus not have properly sized foundation, some of the concrete spans would've been longer, plumbing, fire sprinkler pressure etc) so they had to remove an entire level and some poor chaps had to manually cut out hundreds of bricks, trim them to size so they could manually redo it without tearing the entire building down.

  25. Re:Adversely affected? on Entire Broadband Industry Will Help FCC Defend Net Neutrality Repeal (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    The whole Obama "Net Neutrality" was also to enrich the corporations. We haven't had true net neutrality in the US yet, the things they're talking about is about regulations and letting companies merge and become monopolies or not.

    When Obama implemented the new rules, it took away a lot of protections against monopolization and made running a smallish ISP very costly so they all got gobbled up into 2 or 3 large networks across the US which was approved because 'regulations are costly'. Now that they're "back together" they want the regulations gone so they lose the cost and make it harder to start up new ISPs.