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  1. Re:the "why we can't have nice things" department on Amazon's 1.7 Million Free Bananas 'Disrupting' Local Fruit Economy (consumerist.com) · · Score: 1

    We are talking about a single product here and bananas tend to be loss leaders at supermarkets anyway. 1.7million in a about 18 months thus around $100K per month. A lb is about 2 bananas at a cost of 0.50 per lb -> around $25K/month in sales of bananas potentially taken out of local economy.

  2. Anonymize IPs on FCC Won't Release DDoS Logs, And Will Probably Honor Fake Comments (zdnet.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    Anonymizing IPs is rather simple. Poor excuse.

  3. Google watches absolutely everything its employees do on their work laptops:

    Just like they watch everything their users do...

  4. Once the cat is out of the bag, they can't really have assurance that the files will be "returned" and copies not kept.

  5. Re:Training, maybe? on Credit Suisse Deploys 20 Robots Within Bank (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    This is a way to deflect risk? Have Robots provide by design faulty compliance advice then blame them if you don't meet compliance requirements.

  6. Most will be replaced by robots anyway.

  7. Re:Finding Patterns in Crime on IBM Watson Now Being Used To Catch Rogue Traders (siliconrepublic.com) · · Score: 2

    This is precisely what these organization want. It is a way to turn your head the other way. "Look we know in order to remain competitive, rules have to be bent but we would prefer if you don't leave a trace within our infrastructure".

  8. Actually if they indeed used the word "MAY" implies other samples may not be the same. Having even one sample meet the 50% threshold validates the statement. You know like ISP advertising "UP TO" 100mb/s internet but only a handful of locations can reach that speed.

  9. This. A single supplier may have been delivering lower quality.

  10. CBC claims there is around 50% of real chicken not that it is 50% soy. Remaining 50% are various fillers including soy.

  11. Very true, when your primary metric is number of "active" users. There is a lot of incentive to game the system. something that can be easily accomplished.

  12. Real estate prices in Vancouver can rival that of Bay Area, salaries not so much.

  13. Re:Point and Laugh Journalism on Uber Manager Told Female Engineer That 'Sexism is Systemic in Tech' (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    And those stories are relevant on a tech site because...?

  14. Re:Discount != paying you. on FedEx Will Pay You $5 To Install Flash (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    This need mod points. Headline is a click-bait.

  15. Re:55 million golden parachute!! on The End of Yahoo: Marissa Mayer To Resign; Yahoo To Change Its Name To Altaba (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 2

    Verizon acquired AOL for 4.4B the year before...

  16. Re:some of you really don't get it on The End of Yahoo: Marissa Mayer To Resign; Yahoo To Change Its Name To Altaba (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Give points to this post. Core services acquired by Verizon will likely remain Yahoo branded.

  17. Re:55 million golden parachute!! on The End of Yahoo: Marissa Mayer To Resign; Yahoo To Change Its Name To Altaba (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 0

    Half the price, and twice as fast!

  18. How much are the hackers selling it for?

  19. Re:How is it valuable on Once Mocked, Facebook's $1 Billion Acquisition of Instagram Was Genius (bgr.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm sure food advertisers would like to know what people are eating.

  20. Re:Article disagreement on A Typo Led To Podesta's Email Hack, Says Report (thehill.com) · · Score: 1

    Because he believed it was a legitimate email, he trusted the embedded link to reset the password.

  21. Re:hundreds of security and privacy experts on Uber Defends Privacy Practices After Allegations It Spies On Riders (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Well they do have a bug bounty program. If you count those involved, I'm sure you can hit a couple hundreds and more!

  22. Re:Survey brought to you by on Survey Says: Elon Musk Is Most Admired Tech Leader, Topping Bezos and Zuckerberg (teslarati.com) · · Score: 1

    Do we know how the survey was conducted? Perhaps it was chose among "a. Mosk, b. Bezos c. Zuck d. Jobs"

  23. Re:Employees on Volkswagen Plans 30,000 Job Cuts Worldwide (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    They have over 600K employees - %5 of overhead/incompetent/irrelevant... is not that much.

  24. Re:Whitelisting renders your computer useless... on Google Security Engineer Urges Hackers To Focus Less on Anti-Virus and Intrusion Products (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Ad blockers are nice whitelisting solutions. Deny everything by default except sites I want to support. Guess what happens to google ads...

  25. I agree on Apple CEO Tim Cook: 'We're Going To Kill Cash' (cnet.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Once you purchase apple devices and accessories, you have no cash left - only debt.