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  1. Re:From all of us Linux greybeards: on 'Severe' Systemd Bug Allowed Remote Code Execution For Two Years (itwire.com) · · Score: 1

    SysV never had a "remote access" bug because it didn't have remote access. Not sure why an init system has TCP capacities. This is typically what you'd find in Windows (and systemd).

  2. So they basically confirmed the study was correct on Seattle Minimum Wage Study Has Serious Flaws (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 5, Interesting

    So reading between the lines, the study's results were largely correct when talking about small businesses, higher minimum wage hurts small business. But it doesn't matter, according to these idiots because McDonalds isn't affected by it as much as true small businesses. Since when are we vouching for McDonalds and Wal-Mart as good corporate citizens?

    You can't lump in McD and Starbucks because even though they do employ minimum wage, they will employ minimum wage regardless of the cost. They are large enough enterprises with high enough profit margins to absorb these costs and in the process drive out any competition from small business, which is exactly what McD and Walmart do when they're coming to a new market anyway, they operate at a loss until all the competition has starved out.

    I'm surprised actually that McD, Starbucks and Walmart don't actively drive minimum wages up just so they can completely drive out every other local business. If I were an 'evil CEO', I'd do that and then when I have 90% of a market, I'd lobby to get it reduced again or even just to get my company excluded.

  3. Re: look at $/pound not $/launch on Rocket Lab Inaugurates The Era Of Even Cheaper Rocket Launches (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    It has been rumored SpaceX is doing launches at a loss just to get bigger contracts with governments and destroy any competition.

  4. Re: Really Cheap Satellites may not be good on Rocket Lab Inaugurates The Era Of Even Cheaper Rocket Launches (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    A lunar landing not necessarily, you get it into a pathway to the moon and voila. The problem is returning something from the moon (like people) you need two loads of fuel (once to go, once to come back) which increases the amount of fuel you need to start off with significantly.

  5. Re: bullshit on The US Considers A Remote Identification System For Drones (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    The FCC finds lots of things too burdensome yet still regulates them, that way, if they want to put you away, they can.

    Do you have any imported electronics without an FCC certification? Perhaps from Amazon or Newegg (early RPi or RPi clones) - illegal or a cheap USB WiFi adapter - illegal.

    Ever tried to get anything FCC certified? It's 10k and several months for 1 round of testing thus almost nobody does it for low volume items.

  6. Re: Isn't this already a solved problem? on The US Considers A Remote Identification System For Drones (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    The result would be that you'd have to be much closer to the drone to read it. Depending on frequency and power you'll be proscribing, this could be several meters to several km. Given larger drones, a 1-2W transmitter isn't completely out of this world and only needs to burst once every few seconds.

    And yes, if you build a good unidirectional receiver and you have line of sight, even lower power would be readable from quite a distance.

    The primary problem is throwing a transceiver for the new protocol into airplanes, that is neither free nor easy.

    Also, things for consumers end up malfunctioning way more both intentionally and unintentionally than a well maintained commercial aircraft. If you use similar protocols and frequencies than existing commercial systems you may end up doing more harm than good, a drone will most likely be pulverized by a collision with an aircraft without too much damage. A malfunctioning radio system could easily affect an entire airport.

  7. What to learn from this article on Should Kaspersky Lab Show Its Source Code To The US Government? (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    a) Don't trust Symantec, they've got stuff to hide in their source code whether it's NSA-stuff or sloppy code.
    b) You can probably trust Kaspersky for most things except NSA-stuff.

    I've personally never trusted Symantec and I always thought Kaspersky was good enough for the home, I never considered them to be a serious contender in the enterprise-market. I have serious reservations about most US-based closed source (security) software and closed system hardware manufacturers. The NSA persuaded a relatively small (10k employees) employer of mine to install taps with full cooperation of Cisco and IBM, so any of these larger companies must have ties if not outright taps in the software.

    What we really need is for these companies to open-source their stuff.

  8. Re:so if not RoR.... on Is Ruby's Decline In Popularity Permanent? (computerworld.com.au) · · Score: 2

    Whatever language and framework you or your team is most versed in.

    You can do this in PHP if that's what your programmers know but when you set forth programming language requirements based on mostly managerial gibberish, you've failed at design.

    Whether your applications is going to end up with a REST or SOAP interface with an RDBMS or NoSQL backend is largely unimportant to the customer, as long as it works, is done in time and is easy to maintain.

    For a new application, since you specified you 'require' REST as an API, I wouldn't even go the layer of ORM + RDBMS, most of the time an Object Oriented DB may be sufficient here since you don't require any state and most inquiries will be (or should be) simple. So since you've got REST + OODBMS and you need a service layer - at this point, I'd be looking more at Zend or NodeJS because those are the broadest understood and fit better with your prerequisite of a stateless object-oriented API.

  9. Re: Angular + bootstrap is eating the world on Is Ruby's Decline In Popularity Permanent? (computerworld.com.au) · · Score: 1

    That's the problem of pretty much any JS framework except maybe some of the staples like jQuery (and even there they often kick out working code). I've worked with many a framework of CSS/HTML/JS and they all suffer from the same problem, upgrading the framework results in your program being completely useless.

  10. Re:Ruby hangs when run from PowerShell on Is Ruby's Decline In Popularity Permanent? (computerworld.com.au) · · Score: 1

    Nobody should use Windows for servers and those that do shouldn't need to program anything because it's just to run closed source software. If you want to program, do it on a proper server, there is no need to hang it in Windows-space just for the heck of it.

  11. Re:science policy advisors, not actual scientists on The White House Now Has Zero Science Advisors (cbsnews.com) · · Score: 1

    That's amazing, in less than 5 years from waitress to Presidential Advisor. And these are the people we rely on to govern the country.

  12. Re:What? on The White House Now Has Zero Science Advisors (cbsnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Your reading comprehension fails. The Office of Science and Technology Policy is the Science Division of the White House. If the OSTP does not have a science division anymore, what are the other 30-something people still doing there?

    Seems more like someone got fired and they were deluded enough to think they were or represented an entire division. I think we've all worked with people that thought they were irreplaceable and the only people that did any work at their job.

    I'm all for the reduction of staffing at all political levels, if they need any help, they can just reach out to the proper academic resources instead of making up their own stuff, possibly generously 'donated' to by some large shell company.

  13. Re:Least worst option on California Has So Much Solar Power That Other States Are Paid To Take It (mic.com) · · Score: 2, Informative

    Uranium produced energy has been less toxic so far than solar panels. They may be recyclable, they often aren't but the mining of materials and production of the batteries in itself is highly toxic as well, often done in places where regulations are non-existent.

    Hydro is the cleanest option to store energy, even if you have to make the lake, there are hills to be found pretty much everywhere but it requires a lot of investment, the problem is California although plenty of hills doesn't have a lot of water as it is. Perhaps if they dumped the energy in desalination plants, they'll fix both problems.

  14. It only changes if you're paying market prices. So if you're speculating on demand and supply in the energy market (kind of like the stock market for energy supply), you're basically been given some money if you invested correctly previously.

    This doesn't affect customer much. My energy supply costs me $0.02xxx and even though I have a variable rate, that cost doesn't vary much throughout the year, only the smaller digits change, the other ~10c is primarily delivery and transport and about 3-4c in taxes and regulation costs.

  15. Re:How are they storing energy for the night? on California Has So Much Solar Power That Other States Are Paid To Take It (mic.com) · · Score: 1

    They are basically "storing" it in Arizona, paying Arizona to take it and paying Arizona to give it back.

  16. Re:energy storage on California Has So Much Solar Power That Other States Are Paid To Take It (mic.com) · · Score: 2

    It's harder than you think, any sort of 'storage' will be either potentially highly toxic (as in batteries), require lots of investment (like hydro) and take up lots and lots of space. Given California is already paying a premium for their energy, I don't think they want to invest in even more 'waste'.

    Given more energy is going to consumed in the future, it's probable that anything they start building now is never going to be used 5-10 years down the road when it will be completed.

  17. And still the US companies managed to do business with them going as far as providing their government copies of space shuttle designs etc.

    Iran and North Korea is a bigger shithole than Soviet Russia ever was with virtually no customers yet they all have Microsoft and Cisco gear.

  18. I've heard woke being used for decades among the black community (Ebonics) to just mean "awake". Like "hey, is you woke" or "when has you woke this morning". I never heard some white SJW co-opt it.

  19. Re:Gulshan Rai is an idiot on India Presses Microsoft For Windows Discount in Wake of Cyber Attacks (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    IRQ or DMA conflicts were resolved with dip switches, jumpers and later on in BIOS.

    ACPI came later and wasn't necessarily implemented well in either a lot of hardware, BIOS or in Windows so it caused a lot of problems around the era especially since some systems still came with an ISA bus, the 'only' solution in computers was to swap around the hardware slots until it worked (or only be able to use ~2 of the slots in your motherboard) or again, get proper hardware that allowed you to select an IRQ line.

  20. Re:get government out of broadband and healthcare on Tom Wheeler Defends Title II Rules, Accuses Pai of Helping Monopolists (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    The Internet was created for defense, research and academics. The fact that some people do commerce on it does not mean that this was the intent of the law. And given intent is now all that matters to the SCOTUS, they should apply it as such.

  21. Re:Gulshan Rai is an idiot on India Presses Microsoft For Windows Discount in Wake of Cyber Attacks (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Decades ago, most non-shit computers ran an alternative OS, matter of fact, Windows couldn't handle most proper hardware (NE2000, full 56k modems, SCSI) without serious dicking around.

    Cheap computers with "free" Windows and proprietary drivers for even cheaper hardware is what got Windows to where it is. It had no security model, modems were soundcards, your CPU had to drive the hard drive (IDE) and peripherals (USB and even printers), and all that crap only came with Microsoft drivers and Microsoft actively blocked proper interaction with other software vendors. Between that and major screw-ups from incumbents like HP, IBM and others Microsoft rose to the top of the garbage pile.

    If you had proper hardware (Postscript printers, SCSI drives, proper modems that talked the AT commands), you could've used Caldera DR-DOS, Amiga, OS/2 until the early 2000's and Linux, BeOS or Mac since.

    I personally have never had my main computer running any Win9x or WinNT version. I ran Windows 3.11 with DR-DOS, switched to OS/2 and Linux after that, only fairly recently did I get MacOS (had a laptop since 10.3, desktop since 10.5). And yes, I could browse the Internet, IRC, ICQ and it was far faster, secure and more stable than Windows computers and never needed a virus scanner.

  22. Let me get this right on Tom Wheeler Defends Title II Rules, Accuses Pai of Helping Monopolists (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Wheeler allowed the mergers of Comcast, TWC, AT&T, ... all the while allowing the destruction of local coops and municipal Internet and preventing others like Google Fiber to flourish and now he's complaining that we don't have a choice.

  23. Re:Wow, this is SJW message shaping at its best on Facebook's Secret Censorship Rules Protect White Men From Hate Speech But Not Black Children (propublica.org) · · Score: 1

    And Democrats have lost how many seats and positions in the last few years? They lost the Senate, Congress and the Presidency as well as many States and other local positions. People are now calling for the dismantling of the Democrat party. Occupy Wall Street, BLM, ... they all went under purely based on internal issues.

  24. Virtualization is older than a Pentium. IN modern times QEmu has been around forever and even the Mac PPC platform had a pretty decent x86 emulator.

  25. Re: I love this crap on London Metropolitan Police's 18,000 Windows XP PCs Is a Disaster Waiting To Happen (mspoweruser.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    How about using free software to begin with, the manpower argument is nil because you're spending more on keeping this old crap running.