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  1. Re:I don't get CR process. on Consumer Reports Refuses To Recommend Microsoft Surface Book 2 (betanews.com) · · Score: -1, Troll

    They're fishing for money.

  2. Re: Unacceptable on Tesla Faces Lawsuit For Racial Harassment In Its Factories (mercurynews.com) · · Score: 1

    It does not make it ok *within the US* because it's a different societal norm. But to judge other cultures (as many of the parent postings do) based on your own (limited) understanding of other cultures is just as bad.

    As a non-US-ian I am well aware of how the US got to be where it is now, but I've got enough context to be able to say that even within the US, not every societal group accepts those rationalizations of the US's adaptive behavior.

  3. Re:the Church of Elon will be here soon to complai on Consumer Reports Expects Tesla's Model 3 To Have 'Average Reliability' (cnbc.com) · · Score: 2

    It's basically an indication from CR that Tesla should go ahead and pay them some money for better reviews. You can see that in a number of reviews they do on anything from cars to computers, they are the ones "recommending" Microsoft products like the Surface, until widespread issues came up that any tester would've found and after enough publicity they pulled their recommendation.

    Consumer Reports is to consumers what Gartner is to businesses, at least Gartner is up front about the $250k startup fee.

  4. Re: Unacceptable on Tesla Faces Lawsuit For Racial Harassment In Its Factories (mercurynews.com) · · Score: 2

    What *you* call racism is acceptable in certain cultures and in certain contexts. Even if it is racism per definition, the majority of the world accepts that racism is a natural thing and works with and around it.

    It's hard to explain in words to an American like you but travel the world, get to know people and you'll see, people make jokes about their own and other races much more often than American Puritans or SJW would allow them to.

  5. Re: Unacceptable on Tesla Faces Lawsuit For Racial Harassment In Its Factories (mercurynews.com) · · Score: 2

    Black people - in America - found it offensive. Apparently no asian person found it offensive nor did the person appearing in the ad, they wouldn't have made the ad otherwise. In Europe we have black people going as slaves/helpers in religious processions with white saints.

    Travel the world, you'll find it interesting how much hullabaloo we make of political issues that to the rest of the world and in context, don't matter.

  6. Re: Unacceptable on Tesla Faces Lawsuit For Racial Harassment In Its Factories (mercurynews.com) · · Score: 1

    And based on that commercial you can see that "racism", on both the giving and receiving ends of the equation is just what society says is acceptable.

    What I meant is that in Asian societies, what we call "racist" is acceptable. If you had a universal translator in Chinese groups working within the US, many, many people would be grossly offended. Even within Asian subcultures you'll see Japanese, Koreans and Chinese dislike each other based on the color of their skin and they see nothing wrong with it, hell, they take stuff like network equipment or computers home from work and they see nothing wrong with it.

  7. Re: Unacceptable on Tesla Faces Lawsuit For Racial Harassment In Its Factories (mercurynews.com) · · Score: 1

    Middle and upper management is always clueless, itâ(TM)s how they keep in that place. If the middle managers admitted being aware they would be responsible.

  8. Re: Unacceptable on Tesla Faces Lawsuit For Racial Harassment In Its Factories (mercurynews.com) · · Score: 2

    You have obviously never worked with Asian people. If you want to hear racism, learn a bit of Chinese or Hindi.

    The thing is any people in any group will do it at some level. There are gradations of it but youâ(TM)ll see it anywhere.

    The French are also really good at it, while Germans donâ(TM)t say it as much as act upon it.

  9. Re:Is there a way to request them to stop ads? on The Internet Is Ripe With In-Browser Miners and It's Getting Worse Each Day (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    Whatever access you decide to give them through your browser. Their code can only request it, it's not like you have a contractual obligation to run it.

  10. Is there a way to request them to stop ads? on The Internet Is Ripe With In-Browser Miners and It's Getting Worse Each Day (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    No? Then this is the same discussion we had decades ago about ads and it will end up in the same way.

    If you go to a site, then you give it explicit permission to use resources on your computer. Whether that resource is doing stuff on the Internet (AJAX) or doing stuff on your computer (mining).

    A user can control your computer though, they can limit the amount of cycles a website or browser gets to spend, block JavaScript, block whatever resource they want. In the end, the user is letting them do this and once sites see that it's costing them more money than it profits (when people stop visiting the "slow website") they'll learn.

  11. Re:This is the biggest problem? on Tribal 'Sovereign Immunity' Patent Protection Could Be Outlawed (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    I don't think you know what Sovereign Immunity means. It means that even though you can force it in whatever process you want, they are Immune from the effects of the process. So if the USPTO says "it's invalid" the "Sovereign Immunity" clause means they can say "so what, you can't touch it".

    And Restasis is eyedrops + cyclosporin. They also have eyedrops + hydrochloric acid, eyedrops + saline. Look at the ingredients, they aren't unique.

  12. Re:So, what happened? on "Maybe It's a Piece of Dust" (theoutline.com) · · Score: 1

    I think it's just bitching that the minimum wage computer techs at the Apple Store don't know how to fix a computer.

    Double spacing, I think perhaps you have the key repeat/delay screwed a bit too high and/or you don't know how to type.

  13. Re:If a single piece of dust... on "Maybe It's a Piece of Dust" (theoutline.com) · · Score: 1

    It's still pretty hard to destruct a MacBook with moisture, most decent brands actually are fairly resistant these days. I've had plenty of people run into my office with a wet laptop, I turn it upside down with some paper towel and let it dry, 80% of the time, they survive, I've only had 1 failure of a 2012 MBP due to water spillage.

  14. Re:I haven't had _that_ problem... on "Maybe It's a Piece of Dust" (theoutline.com) · · Score: 1

    My question is how do you accidentally graze the touchbar that's on top of your keyboard when you're typing. I never touch any of the function keys when I'm typing, my fingers are on the bottom half of the number keys if I even have to reach them.

  15. Re:This is the biggest problem? on Tribal 'Sovereign Immunity' Patent Protection Could Be Outlawed (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    It's not the biggest problem but it's a big fucking problem.

    In 2011, this thing was legalized where patents no longer have to go through the already minimal review process, benefiting big pharmaceutical corporations. This is literally a constructed loophole.

    So let's say your an inventor and you invented this thing, let's say a cure for cancer, and out of the goodness of your heart you release it to the world for free. A pharmaceutical company, through this process can take your cure, patent it and make sure everybody now has to pay them to be able to produce or use the cure.

    In this case, the company patented cyclosporin, a drug you can easily produce from particular mold strains which has been in use since the early 1980's.

  16. Stop what? Unemployment is already available in most if not all states including CA where Tesla is located. The problem with unemployment is that it makes it harder to compete for low-wage jobs. High-paying jobs don't care much about unemployment, if I were on unemployment for too long, I wouldn't be able to afford my lifestyle, then again I've never been without a job for more than a month.

  17. Re:Impossible battery life on Microsoft Surface Book 2 Puts Desktop Brains in a Laptop Body (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    Your CPU goes in lower power mode if your computer isn't doing anything else (like checking network packets, receiving e-mails, writing out logs etc), but the synopsis is talking about a desktop CPU, it's not optimized for mobile and won't go into as aggressive of a low power mode.

  18. Impossible battery life on Microsoft Surface Book 2 Puts Desktop Brains in a Laptop Body (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    A Core i7 with that amount of RAM, screen and battery wonâ(TM)t have 15h life. In standby perhaps but not anywhere near useful life. These puppies use 77W so they can keep a cup of coffee warm. You need a Tesla powerpack to keep the system running that long.

  19. Re: Linux doesn't even have a good desktop environ on Munich Plans New Vote on Dumping Linux For Windows 10 (techrepublic.com) · · Score: 1

    You are misinformed, you can actually set up Samba 4 as a leaf/trust of an AD domain or vice versa. There are actually companies out there that use Samba as an AD drop-in replacement with which you can actually do an AD-takeover.

  20. The problem is on the client imho. Basically what you do is replay the authentication packet "as if" the packet got lost and you're just asking for the packet to be re-sent. The client will then re-send predictable data (zeros) which an attacker can thus use to decrypt the key.

    It's a bit similar to the apocryphal story about hacking the Enigma, if you send "Heil Hitler" at the end of every message or weather reports, you can guess those portions of a key and by calculating back/forwards you can get a number of partial or complete messages.

  21. Re:Linux has no Office, Exchange, Sharepoint kille on Munich Plans New Vote on Dumping Linux For Windows 10 (techrepublic.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm very glad there is not more software like Exchange/Office/Sharepoint out there. There are way better solutions out there to fill any sort of need you have, the thing is finding out what that is for your environment.

    There are plenty of groupware, text editors and wiki's out there, the Microsoft suite is one of the most hated pieces in the repertoire where I work but to be able to give each department what they need requires a knowledgable (as in domain knowledge) staff person dedicated to that area and many other groups don't have that person, so they "officially" only have Microsoft, but plenty of shadow systems exist in Dropbox, Google and various other third party.

    If you say Microsoft products are good enough for your company, you can be sure as hell that you don't have any control over what your users are ACTUALLY doing with your data.

  22. Re: Forget Power...just wait until the computer cr on In a Cashless World, You'd Better Pray the Power Never Goes Out (mises.org) · · Score: 1

    There are no laws surrounding credit cards, there are agreements with the card systems. They state you have to accept the cards and process them offline, you know, the way they did it âoeback thenâ with the sliding thing and the copy paper. You can call the 1800 number on a card to check for available balance.

  23. Are they really asking for code, point to GitHub? on Ask Slashdot: How Can You Apply For A Job When Your Code Samples Suck? · · Score: 1

    My resume points to my GitHub (it used to have SourceForge). Most hiring managers don't actually check your code, they will check your references. But if you don't have (good) code in an open source fashion, make some, contribute to some project that showcases your code skills.

    If you can't find a job within ~1-2 months, you should probably review your resume, expectations and skills. It might just be that your code isn't all that great, that you're aiming for a position way above what you're qualified or your resume just sucks. A set of references is also a very helpful tool.

    Your code, again, is usually not reviewed until later in the hiring process. If you get through the first set of interviews but never get a second interview or an offer, review your code, add some code to a big enough project where people won't be afraid to make changes or rejections. If your code continues to be rejected, you've got a skills problem.

    There are a variety of resume parsers online, Indeed and ZipRecruiter are decent enough, if your resume doesn't parse correctly in those type of systems, you can be sure it won't parse in the majority of business' HR systems and your resume will be rejected. I just went through the process myself, and chiseled at my resume until it parsed, it's not very "eye catching" to say the least but I instantly got better responses from hiring managers. There are services that will actually polish up your resume for a fee, it may be worth it depending on the pay grade you're looking for, if you're aiming for C-level, it almost makes no sense to make your own resume.

  24. Re:Better than the alternative? on Dutch Police Build a Pokemon Go-Style App For Hunting Wanted Criminals (csoonline.com) · · Score: 2

    This is basically the same though but instead of buying sensors on a state budget where it can be controlled with oversight, this is making every citizen's device the 'sensor'.

    The goal is that you take pictures of people's license plates (including the GPS location) and then you get rewards. The fact that a particular car may be stolen is only matched after the plate has been stored and processed. So they're building a giant database of people's whereabouts without having to invest in the camera systems all while evading state oversight on privacy rules.

    This type of surveillance is particularly useful to the State of the Netherlands because the tax systems, if you have a car, you pay extreme amounts of 'road taxes' on the car for personal use however for "home-work" travel use, you can deduct the distances you cover.

    Many people nowadays have figured that if they take a back-road home, they can evade the highway where there are already license plate cameras in order to be able to make detours to the grocery store without "losing" the deduction. If you take a detour for personal affairs (like shopping), the entire trip is no longer deductible and cameras on the highways have already caught people that deduct too much this way.

    So now they're basically wanting people everywhere take pictures of license plates, under the guise of "car theft prevention" so the state can map the whereabouts of people, if they happen to deduct home-work road taxes but are parked not at home or at work, the state could calculate how many days they took the deduction without qualifying for it.

  25. Re: Can't they go back to the 5-1/4 inch disk form on Microwave Tech Could Produce 40TB Hard Drives In the Near Future (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    Does your trim saw run with less than a micrometer of flex on the blade and have less than 10W power consumption? 10 and 15k RPM disks exist in 2.5" and 3.5" but they become significantly more expensive to produce, increasing the power, thus heat production to the point that SSD is simply cheaper. SSD is already becoming cheap enough for many datacenter purposes when you're taking into account power costs.