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  1. Twitter says that its users own their tweets, and all that personal information.

  2. Cloud yeah on Twitter Employee Blamed For Deleting President Donald Trump's Account (npr.org) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Where your data can get deleted by a click of a button by a disgruntled employee and even the fucking president of the United States can't be spared nor can his data be restored in less than 11 minutes.

    Imagine if you weren't the president, would they even care?

  3. Re: Fines are limited to 20M Euro on Hilton Paid a $700K Fine For 2015 Breach; Under GDPR, It Would Be $420 Million (digitalguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    So this regulation is hostile to small business while it wonâ(TM)t affect big business. Great, exactly what we need.

  4. Waiting for all the rabid left wingers... on Department of Justice Considers Blocking AT&T Deal For Time Warner (reuters.com) · · Score: 0

    ...to tell us how blocking this deal is a bad thing.

  5. Seems to me this is a case of "too much going on" on The Fourth US Navy Collision of the Year Was Ultimately Caused By UI Confusion (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Whether or not it's a UI-issue, it seems to me whoever was on the bridge was simply confused about all that is going on and a variation of the mythical man-month. Splitting controls across multiple officers in multiple locations is harder to manage than just having a single person responsible. I understand the need for fail-over but that doesn't mean you can simply distribute higher loads.

    Not knowing whether you are dealing with a human error or a mechanical issue is another one of those things that just reeks of bad management and having too many cooks in the kitchen, the captain just couldn't keep track of all the information coming in and made bad decisions as a result.

  6. Re:BS - schools can compete on 'We Can't Compete': Universities Are Losing Their Best AI Scientists (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Please let me know where I can find those job postings. Most AI research jobs I can find are in the area of $75-100k and that is with companies like Ford, Intel, Microsoft etc.

  7. Ford borrowed $6B to stay alive in 2009 and gets $2B in subsidies. Pretty much all auto makers, even Tesla get subsidized in the US.

    VW/Mercedes/BMW get protectionist treatment from both EU and Germany governments as does Japan for their manufacturers.

  8. BS - schools can compete on 'We Can't Compete': Universities Are Losing Their Best AI Scientists (theguardian.com) · · Score: 2

    If they really needed that person, they really can compete. 5 times less than a 6-figure salary implies you were paying probably around 20-30k which is about average for a PhD student.

    That particular college has a $167M endowment, others in the US have billion dollar endowments. But yeah, they can't pay $100k for a good researcher.

  9. Because nobody cares. Officials encourage it, regulators oversee it and by the time it goes to trial, it's too late to affect the election.

  10. "Replaces" the items in script src and head on HTTP 103 - An HTTP Status Code for Indicating Hints (ietf.org) · · Score: 1

    So basically you can "tell" the client before sending the page that the page has a number of things in it's "head" and "script" tags and then the browser can pre-load them or multiplex the requests instead of waiting on the HTML to load, parse it and then load them.

    The problem/security will be when you pre-load content from external sites just as regular JavaScript you load externally. It basically wastes a bit of bandwidth in the hope you have a high-bandwidth, high-latency link

  11. In my company, my fingers got chopped off after I tried to take some sticks from the C-level executive suites.

  12. Re:A more serious question... on Microsoft Engineer Installs Google Chrome During Presentation After Edge Freezes (softpedia.com) · · Score: 1

    Most likely the software doesn't work with old-IE (IE6-10), only new-IE (Edge). There are only a few reasons IE10 is still included and it's not because its a good alternative.

  13. My point is that nobody left. People threatened, but I never stopped seeing major companies advertise on Youtube, they simply can't afford to.

  14. Re: particularly people of color ???? on Indiana Is Purging Voters Using Software That's 99 Percent Inaccurate, Lawsuit Alleges (thedailybeast.com) · · Score: 1

    I would call CPS for verbal abuse. If theyâ(TM)re verbally abusive outside, imagine how they are once they get inside.

    Obviously given their political status they wonâ(TM)t be prosecuted but at least attempt.

  15. Itâ(TM)s closer to 1 in 23 for a birth date but that doesnâ(TM)t work if you include birth year.

    So statistically speaking, if you have 100 people with the exact same First, Middle and Last Name born in the same year, on average 4-5 people per common name pair across the US will share the same birthday.

    Not sure how this pans out across 300M people with a somewhat uneven birth year distribution but I highly doubt a few hundred votes are going to matter.

  16. Because then they would find that voter fraud is more common than we imagine. I know for a fact there are some people (mostly GOP voting older people) that register in multiple counties. These people donâ(TM)t consider it fraud because they have a presence in those counties (perhaps through family or property) and from what I understand it is commonly encouraged to do so by get-out-the-vote representatives.

    I donâ(TM)t understand the complaint either, I do understand statistics and I will grant them that the criteria listed are statistically going to get them some false positives which is a problem. But I donâ(TM)t see how this targets or benefits any party specifically given the margins are so small, they typically donâ(TM)t sway much if any of the vote.

  17. Re: This is excellent. on Scientists Find a Better Way To Wash Pesticides Off Your Apples (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    You misquoted:
    (a) Such sanitizing solutions are used, followed by adequate draining, before contact with food.

    So what you quoted is basically for cleaning food equipment. 200ppm is what is used industrially, at home you're recommended to use an 800-3200ppm solution.

    Food processing in-plant chlorination systems typically produce water for processing with residual available chlorine levels of no more than 0.5 ppm.

  18. Re: Even Better Method on Scientists Find a Better Way To Wash Pesticides Off Your Apples (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Yeah, because plants produce copper hydroxide and azadirachtin naturally. Look up the names, most of those are chemically synthesized meaning they aren't "natural". Glyphosate is non-toxic and biodegradable, copper hydroxide is slightly toxic to humans and highly toxic to aquatic animals. But don't let science get in the way of your marketing-fed ideas.

  19. Re:Upgrades? on Purism Now Offers Laptops with Intel's 'Management Engine' Disabled (puri.sm) · · Score: 5, Informative

    On your first question, usually the cheaper processors these days are actually different layouts, a long, long time ago this wasn't the case but then it was a case of binning, you could potentially get lucky but it was usually a more expensive model that got rejected but still ran on slower speeds with large portions of cache and other features disabled (eg. due to low yields on the wafer). These days production has gotten smaller, better and cheaper so yields are rarely a problem and even if they were, they probably wouldn't produce useful products anymore.

    The management engine provides exactly that, management. It's intended for servers and enterprise systems. It's a form of baked-in IPMI and these days runs a version of MINIX. It can connect either directly or over VPN to your corporate environment and then you can remotely manage the machine, it can do security posture assessments (because it's not controlled by the OS, it can peer into hypervisors or compromised hosts), it can even emulate a serial port so you can connect to your host if you're running Linux/Unix-type systems.

    Nothing about this is open source besides it being based on MINIX, to actually use it you have to pay Intel for their closed source software to be able to access the devices.

    Purism is a computer technology company based in South San Francisco, California and registered as a social purpose corporation in the state of Washington.

  20. Re: Thanks, NSA on NotPetya Outbreak Left Merck Short of HPV Vaccine Gardasil (securityledger.com) · · Score: 1

    The OP is claiming that the only way to get HPV or any VD's of any sort is extramarital sex which is simply untrue.

    HPV is indeed sexually transmitted but also occasionally from mother to child during childbirth, but there are no reservoirs outside of humans that carry HPV. Given 75% of people carry the sexually transmittable strains of HPV, it's unlikely to be solely spread by extramarital sex.

  21. What I'm saying it works both ways. Google is the ad agency's customer, the vendor of the ads can't afford to piss off their customer (Google) either.

  22. Re: Thanks, NSA on NotPetya Outbreak Left Merck Short of HPV Vaccine Gardasil (securityledger.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Look something up about VD before you spout off nonsense.

    You carry a form of HPV because itâ(TM)s a normal thing to have and humans are the only reservoir, just like you have e.coli, and various fungi in your intestine. And just like cholerae, many strains are probably harmless. If you ever had any sort of wart or skin growth anywhere, probably when you were little, you have HPV.

    Most diseases in humans are venereal after all and most diseases have more vectors to spread than just extramarital sex.

  23. Walmart does. They are big enough they can tell their suppliers what to do. Walmart knows that their suppliers canâ(TM)t lose them.

    Donâ(TM)t want to advertise on Google platforms and they would lose their demographic.

  24. No it wouldnâ(TM)t. They wouldâ(TM)ve switched ad agencies and continue doing what theyâ(TM)re doing as soon as everything blew over. Corporations really donâ(TM)t care what they are put on as long as it is profitable, if there is a demographic within ISIS they wouldâ(TM)ve been glad to advertise to them.

  25. Which was really only advertisers being politically correct, YouTube couldâ(TM)ve let the whole thing blow over and/or allowed a way for advertisers to specify channel filters. Ad companies would never have used it because they really donâ(TM)t care as long as people see the ads and buy the stuff and everyone else wouldâ(TM)ve been happy and the SJW appeased.