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  1. Like the Truman Show?? on Facebook Envisions New Campus With Affordable Housing Units (sfgate.com) · · Score: 1

    By signing up for Facebook, you surrender your identity as it is - maybe this is to take it to the next level. They will stream everything these people do for our entertainment. That's the price they would have to pay to live there.

  2. Re:Do you have any idea what you're talking about? on The EFF's 'Let's Encrypt' Plans Wildcard Certificates For Subdomains (letsencrypt.org) · · Score: 2

    The majority of browser users will click past any warnings about certificates without thinking about it. So I think you are correct.

  3. Re:Doesn't belong here on Seeking YouTube Fame, A Teenager Kills Her Boyfriend (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    You could have gone to the range and learned the same thing without the tragedy. As soon as I saw .50 caliber I knew that the book wasn't going to do squat. If they had used a .22 instead they might have had a chance.

  4. They know what they are doing is wrong... on 'Microsoft' Scam Callers Arrested After Years of Terrorising the Technically Challenged (gizmodo.co.uk) · · Score: 2

    If you scold them and tell them that they should be ashamed of themselves for trying to rip people off, they hang up. I suppose I could play dumb and waste their time, but I would be wasting my own time at the same time.

  5. Who didn't see this coming..

  6. Re:"As a believer"? on Researchers Create New Probiotic Beer That Boosts Immunity (upi.com) · · Score: 1

    Well lying about your age is something lots of people do, but they usually want to drop a few years and not the other way around.

  7. Well, that is the sort of thing that one might easily crack using a dictionary. For all I know it is in amongst the "common" passwords somewhere.

  8. Re: passwords need to go on UK Parliament Emails Closed After 'Sustained And Determined' Cyber-Attack (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    That's what encrypted hard drives are for...

  9. I didn't know on YouTube Claims 1.5 Billion Monthly Users (cnbc.com) · · Score: 2

    I didn't know that people liked cat videos that much.

  10. Re:Those Kiosks are incredible slow on McDonald's Hits All-Time High As Wall Street Cheers Replacement of Cashiers With Kiosks (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    But they don't care. You can fumble around on the thing for 15 minutes, and they won't care because it doesn't cost them all that much. That's why Wall St loves this sort of thing. Fewer people, less salary to pay. It isn't like they pay much of anything in benefits, but they don't have to worry about employees that don't show up for work or don't give a crap.

  11. Re:Not sure I'm sold on them. on McDonald's Hits All-Time High As Wall Street Cheers Replacement of Cashiers With Kiosks (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    I saw the inside of one of those Coke machines once when they were servicing it - the thing reminded me of a giant ink-jet printer. There were tons of cartridges with the various flavors and whatnot. Others have posted pictures: http://moriartys.net/2011/03/p... I have no doubt that they are gouged as much on those flavor cartridges as people are in ink-jet cartridges. It all seems rather pointless to me.

  12. I could use some EXTRA BIG ASS FRIES right now.

  13. Re:Ancient version of Windows on How Hollywood Got Hacked: Studio at Center of Netflix Leak Breaks Silence (variety.com) · · Score: 0

    Not quite. Security updates will still come until 2020 - *after* 2020 you have to pay extra $$ for what they call "Custom Support". Given what a flop Windows 8 was, it doesn't seem inconceivable that they might extend the 2020 date.

  14. Re:Why do ppl think old tech os bad tech? on Trump Promises a Federal Technology Overhaul To Save $1 Trillion (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 1

    It works, nobody remembers quite *how* it works, and it is critical that it never go down. Then the only viable path forward is to do a complete top-to-bottom replacement, but nobody can agree on the specs for the new system.

  15. Re: Why do ppl think old tech os bad tech? on Trump Promises a Federal Technology Overhaul To Save $1 Trillion (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 1

    Even that is a solvable problem, but the costs gradually escalate over the years.

  16. Re:AI is not "exploding" on As AI Explodes, Investors Pour Big Bucks Into Startups (siliconangle.com) · · Score: 1

    Even that would be an improvement over exploding batteries.

  17. How did they get a patent for this? on Amazon Granted a Patent That Prevents In-Store Shoppers From Online Price Checking (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Best Buy is already doing the same thing.

  18. I would like it to back up /dev/random. on Google Drive Will Soon Back Up Your Entire Computer (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    There is a lot of important stuff there that I wouldn't want to lose.

  19. Re:Why processes instead of threads? on Firefox 54 Arrives With Multi-Process Support For All Users (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 0

    No doubt the reason is that the thing is so bloated that they need 4 processes worth of address space.

  20. They may well have done this, but an admin is well placed to create a backdoor that nobody else knows about.

  21. Hardly surprising. People look at the bottom line. Ohhh, we can save $$$ by outsourcing nearly all of our IT to some cloud company!

  22. Re: Mercked on Cancer Drug Proves To Be Effective Against Multiple Tumors (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    You can go online and find that 4 vials goes for abound 8-9K$, but I have no idea how many vials you would need for a full round of treatment. At the end of the day what matters more is if insurance companies will pay for it or not. But all other forms of cancer treatment aren't cheap either.

  23. Re:Things go wrong.. on Japan To Launch Self-Navigating Cargo Ships 'By 2025' (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Your 30% figure is purely speculative, and the real cost difference is probably far less than this. The major costs for airlines is typically fuel, but they also have to pay for the aircraft lease and all of the ground crew that might load/unload an aircraft. These days many of the pilots aren't the highly paid union jobs that were common years ago. These days you get young people who work long hours and don't get paid all that much. Before you can get rid of pilots, you need to have automation handle all of the edge cases. Various mechanical failures for one thing, also unusual weather conditions, geese being ingested in to the engine, etc.

  24. Re:Things go wrong.. on Japan To Launch Self-Navigating Cargo Ships 'By 2025' (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Redundancy has a cost as well, and time and again we have seen instances where companies want to cut back on redundancy to save money. Or you might have a situation where as designed there is sufficient redundancy, but wear and corrosion over the years weakens things to the point where the redundancy is gradually lost. I wouldn't say that the crew sits around doing nothing much of the time. There are various maintenance tasks (repairing a spare pump or some such) that engineering can take care of. And time spent in port is time spent not making money - typically they want to load/unload as fast as possible to get underway on the next voyage, and that's why they typically try and perform as much maintenance as they can while they are underway.

  25. Things go wrong.. on Japan To Launch Self-Navigating Cargo Ships 'By 2025' (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Mechanical parts fail for one reason or another. You need engineering staff who can go in and fix things while the ship is underway. And you need crew on board to recheck the lines to make sure the loads and hatch covers remain properly secured while the ship is underway. There is a lot more to it than picking a course and steering.