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  1. Re:What the hell are they talking about? on Equifax Breach is Very Possibly the Worst Leak of Personal Info Ever (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    In the US, they use your SSN as a kind of default key, tied with your birthdate and address and phone.

    They're really stupid here. The only people that should ever have had an SSN are those providing you with a pension or retirement plan.

  2. This is very very useful and accurate information.

  3. Should operate? Who says?

    Look, companies die. Net firms go belly up. Fads change.

    If you had told me during the 110 baud Internet days that you'd be wasting bandwidth on taking pictures of the food you eat, I'd have thought you were high on shrooms.

    Adapt. Stuff changes all the time.

  4. Mostly Russians and some Chinese on Hackers Have Penetrated Energy Grid, Symantec Warns (fortune.com) · · Score: 2

    While there are a few North Koreans hacking the grid, it's mostly been Russian state hackers and Chinese state hackers. In point of fact, we made a deal with China to hold off on that, so now it's mostly just the Russians.

    Source: various agencies. No, not linking it.

    On the plus side, residential and commercial building solar and wind power systems are mostly not hacked.

    Far more risk factor from fires, quakes, floods, and storms, actually.

  5. Advertisers regard 18-35 as "young". Remember, these are corporations run by old people, their Boards are mostly 55-75 years old, and most of their executives are in their 50s. The corporations trying to sell stuff, that is. Marketing firms tend to be somewhat younger in age ranges, as is Facebook itself.

    The problem is the desire to reach a demographic. The means used depend on the group identified as desirable.

    They also think that Snap is a fad.

  6. oh and figure about half of the 18-40 yo accounts are actually 10-17 yos fake accounts so they can use certain stuff on the net.

  7. Kids in that range have multiple accounts on Facebook Essentially Has Been Telling Advertisers It Can Reach More People Than Actually Exist, Analyst Finds (marketwatch.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    Look, everyone has:

    school FB that your parents can see
    gaming FB that you use a gmail account for
    sports or arts or news FB that you surf stupid cat vids on

    in each group you connect to different people. You never post stuff to the first one that is really you.
    in the second one you only post cosplay or fake pics so nobody can figure it's you.
    in the third one you post a pic of a fuzzy animal or a truck or some animorph.

    Are you guys so new to the Net that you don't know this?

  8. Re:Three possibilities on Only 13 Percent of Americans Are Scared Robots Will Take Their Jobs, Gallup Poll Shows (cnbc.com) · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Wow. You really don't get what conservatives are. Conservatives always believe in a fixed pie, and getting a larger slice.

    Everyone else just makes more pies. And brownies.

    Because sometimes you don't want pie.

    It's called capitalism. You may have missed it. Check out Adam Smith's seven books (not just one or two, seven).

  9. If this were true, massive catacyclysms make jobs on Workers: Fear Not the Robot Apocalypse (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    If this were true, then a large cataclysm would create more jobs, both from new construction, and by replacing inefficient buildings and energy systems with resilient ones.

    Provided people learned from the mistake of building on a flood plain, or siting a nuclear reactor next to a city instead of on an island.

    (object lesson: this is happening in Japan, where reactor impacted regions now have solar and wind farms, and in China, where industrial impacted sites now have solar farms, but to date has not happened in the US, other than due to fires in SF and Seattle and other major cities, which caused rebuilding which adressed the primary risk factors (wood in SF in a quake zone, buildings on a flood area in Seattle))

  10. Three possibilities on Only 13 Percent of Americans Are Scared Robots Will Take Their Jobs, Gallup Poll Shows (cnbc.com) · · Score: 5, Interesting

    1. People with landlines who answer polls are mostly old retired people who don't have to worry about job loss.

    2. Only thirteen percent of Americans live in Fear. They probably watch some TV channel that starts with F.

    3. 87 percent of Americans are blissfully unaware that robots are going to take their jobs.

    Pick two.

  11. Trump has no power left. Putin threw him under the bus on Russian State TV this weekend.

    He's just lashing out desperately. It's what tin pot dictators do as they lose their grip on power, and the citizens laugh at them instead of cowering in Fear.

    Without Fear, Trump had NADA.

    Phone Congress and tell them to do their jobs. Accept no excuses. They work for YOU, not Comrade Trump.

  12. It's called Freedom on European Court Rules Companies Must Tell Employees of Email Checks (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    and Liberty

    both of which are lacking in America, but still exist in the EU

  13. Good choice.

    What most people don't get is that even in Canada (which if you weren't American, you'd realize is the country to America's north), solar and wind are cheaper than nuclear energy.

    Economics cares nothing for your failed ideology. It won't save fossil fuels. It won't save fission nuclear energy.

    Fusion will mostly be used by the military for the next 20 years, of course. We're not supposed to talk about it, but it was developed here.

  14. Re:Fun Fact: Juice isn't good for you on Juicero, Maker of the Infamous $400 Juicer, Is Shutting Down (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    do your own fricking research next time, sunshine. I'm not your prof.

  15. Re:Fun Fact: Juice isn't good for you on Juicero, Maker of the Infamous $400 Juicer, Is Shutting Down (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    Actually, jogging can be risky. Walking is better, and in small to moderate increments. Slips and falls due to dietary imbalance can be far worse to an aging population that is increasingly obese (medical obesity).

  16. Re: Fun Fact: Juice isn't good for you on Juicero, Maker of the Infamous $400 Juicer, Is Shutting Down (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    This isn't an academic journal. Link way above. Next time do your own search. And stop doing these fad diets, they're bad for you.

  17. Re:Total box share or total sales share? on Linux Desktop Market Share Crosses 3% (netmarketshare.com) · · Score: 1

    Nope. OS free. Bought in parts. Costs around $4000 if bought as a unit.

    But the Windows OEM OS disk did cost $75.

  18. Re:Fun Fact: Juice isn't good for you on Juicero, Maker of the Infamous $400 Juicer, Is Shutting Down (fortune.com) · · Score: 2

    You mean like this?

    large scale medical study of Americans and fruit or fruit juice intake diabetic risk factors

    now stop pretending you have any idea how google or tech works - AND DO YOUR OWN SEARCHES

  19. Re: Fun Fact: Juice isn't good for you on Juicero, Maker of the Infamous $400 Juicer, Is Shutting Down (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    It's well known in the medical community. Go get a degree there.

  20. Re: Fun Fact: Juice isn't good for you on Juicero, Maker of the Infamous $400 Juicer, Is Shutting Down (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    go. read. the. fine. journals.

    seriously, they publish review issues every year or two. I'm not your biochem prof.

  21. Re: Fun Fact: Juice isn't good for you on Juicero, Maker of the Infamous $400 Juicer, Is Shutting Down (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    [citation needed]

    go read any of the fine medical journals online, at your public library or university library.

    I'm not doing your work for you.

  22. Re:Fun Fact: Juice isn't good for you on Juicero, Maker of the Infamous $400 Juicer, Is Shutting Down (fortune.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    So you think that celery is a fruit?

    I think we found a Juicero investor!

  23. Total box share or total sales share? on Linux Desktop Market Share Crosses 3% (netmarketshare.com) · · Score: 1

    We buy expensive blade servers that run Linux, so we show up in both stats, but if you do metrics by market share, the Win boxen will always show up with a larger market share than the (cheaper) Linux boxen.

    Statistics are only useful when you understand what your numbers mean. If I did a map of electoral votes by geographic area, I'd be seeing a vast map of red. Red in areas with very few people. I would have to use a dot plot to show the correct distribution, with each dot centered on the voting boundaries, and representing an equal quantity of voters or voter shares for states.

    So, if it is increasing on a market share basis, it's corporations buying Linux blade servers that are causing the increase, unless you literally buy a pre-made Linux box yourself and pay tens of thousands of dollars for it. But you're all cheap, like me, so your $500 purchase of a box shows up as only $500, not $25,000.

  24. Untrue - lack of training by employers on US Employers Struggle To Match Workers With Open Jobs (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    We have a much more highly educated workforce nowadays. Most have at least a 2 or 4 year college or university degree. Which means they can be retrained.

    But to do that, employers have to:

    1. Pay them a decent wage.
    2. Train them.

    If you don't do both, you'll get decreased job growth. All because mercantalists are really bad at job growth, whereas capitalists realize you have to pay labor and pay for training.

  25. Fun Fact: Juice isn't good for you on Juicero, Maker of the Infamous $400 Juicer, Is Shutting Down (fortune.com) · · Score: 5, Informative

    Actually, juice is highly correlated with diabetes if done to excess.

    Vegetable juices are fine, but fruit juicers can lead to substantial increases in both pre-diabetes and adult onset diabetes, if not part of a varied diet.

    And having robots take away the exercise of squeezing it is just making it worse. Calories need to be burned somehow.