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  1. Just sell DD branded flash drives -- that just happen to have sample CAD files pre-loaded on them.

  2. Re:if still with aol, hotmail, yahoo, or bing on Is Your Email Address Holding You Back? (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    a hotmail address shows that you've actually got some experience

    Nope. It just shows that you are old. If a younger person has the same knowledge and skills as you, then it is reasonable to conclude that you are a slow learner.

    If a younger person has *all* the same knowledge and skills as you then maybe you're a slow learner. Otherwise, not so much.

  3. Re:Another judge legislating from the bench on Federal Judge Rules Against Trump Administration on 3-D Gun Blueprint Case (latimes.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    What is so complicated about "[s]hall not be infringed?"

    The Second Amendment talks about the right to keep and bear arms, not manufacture them ...

    Who is manufacturing them? This is like Metallica suing Napster for distributing mp3 files. The judge says you can't download these files. What if you printed the text of these files into a book and sold it? Would that book be deemed illegal?

    Then it sounds like a First Amendment issue, not Second.

  4. Re:Another judge legislating from the bench on Federal Judge Rules Against Trump Administration on 3-D Gun Blueprint Case (latimes.com) · · Score: 2, Informative

    What is so complicated about "[s]hall not be infringed?"

    The Second Amendment talks about the right to keep and bear arms, not manufacture them ...

  5. Re:Two things... on Mass Shooting Reported at Madden Video Game Tournament in Florida (polygon.com) · · Score: 1

    Also, there seems to be a problem with Florida. Maybe we should build a wall around there?

    I think Mexico might actually be willing to pay for that one ...

  6. Imperial All Terrain Armored Transport vehicles (aka Walkers) vulnerable to attacks via hidden AT-AT commands.

  7. Look on the bright side ... on Half of Audited JavaScript Projects Contained a Vulnerability (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Half of audited JavaScript projects *don't* contain a vulnerability. Seems like a win.

  8. This won't end well. on Japan Wants To Bring Flying Cars To Its Skies (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Hundreds of flying car headlights + Mothra = disaster.

  9. I can pursue my hobby of photographing vampires with D/SLR quality results ...

  10. Thanks! I learned something. I'd mod you "informative" if I had points ...

  11. Actually, the contract allows throttling when there is not a fire emergency. It's part of the deal the Fire Department and Verizon negotiated.

    Thanks, I saw that. It seems like tracking that and/or manually toggling that state would be tedious. Is there a (default) time-limit for the emergency state? And who gets to decide what is an "emergency". Seems like a hassle with potential problems (as we've just seen). I would be better if (a) the FD simply got a better plan and/or (b) Verizon simply provided something better at no extra charge to First Responder work devices -- instead of their usually gouge the customer as much as possible SOP.

    We all know throttling (and data caps) has less to do with bandwidth management and more to do with gouging the customer. Case in point, Verizon (and other companies) offer multi-media packages where using their preferred resources doesn't impact your data limits.

  12. So the fire department should get free access? All for that. Who will pay the bill?

    I never said or implied anything of the sort. They *already* pay for "unlimited" service. The Fire Department is complaining that their service is unreliable because Verizon is throttling their bandwidth. Verizon said "oops" we should haven't done that while you were fighting a fire. Did you even read TFS? My comment was, how is Verizon going to track *that* and that, perhaps, it would be better to not throttle the bandwidth at all.

  13. Timing isn't the issue. on Fire Department Rejects Verizon's 'Customer Support Mistake' Excuse For Throttling (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Verizon yesterday acknowledged that it shouldn't have continued throttling Santa Clara County Fire Department's "unlimited" data service while the department was battling the Mendocino Complex Fire.

    Or at any other time, really, not just while battling the fire -- unless Verizon is going to monitor the activity of the fire department and throttle their service whenever the department isn't fighting a fire...

  14. Time to update that idiom ... on Google's Data Collection is Hard To Escape, Study Claims (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Nothing is certain except death and taxes -- and Google data collection.

  15. Re:This should be a fine on Verizon Throttled Fire Department's 'Unlimited' Data During Calif. Wildfire (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    The moment Verizon staff deliberately stepped over that line: it should have resulted in all their spectrum licenses and their FCC Telecoms license being placed in jeopardy.

    I'm sure Ajit Pai will get right on that.

    Ajit Pai ... serves as the Chairman of the United States Federal Communications Commission (FCC). Before his appointment to the FCC, Pai held positions with ... Verizon Communications (as Associate General Counsel).

  16. That gives me an idea. on People Keep Trying To Scam Their Way Into Free Video Games (kotaku.com) · · Score: 1

    The scams have grown increasingly elaborate over the years, and ... it can be tough to sort out which requests are legitimate.

    They could develop a video game around these scams, but the results might be paradoxical.

  17. Elliptic prime field curves including NIST and Dan Bernstein curves which have psuedo-mersenne primes with sparse representation are allowed in TLS v1.3.

    TLS v1.4 will use Amazon Prime field curves ...

  18. what might happen if ... on Hacked Water Heaters Could Trigger Mass Blackouts Someday (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    Yes, yes, yes, yes, and what if the Core is made of cheese?

  19. Nuke forest fires from orbit. on Should the US Air Force Bomb Forest Fires? (popularmechanics.com) · · Score: 1

    It's the only way to be sure ...

  20. Re:A tool is a tool ... on Blockchain Hype May Have Peaked, But IBM is Still a Believer (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    In warm weather it goes dry as a board in hours. Recently we've been throwing away more than we eat, it really pisses me off.

    Texture-wise, bread doesn't like to be refrigerated, but freezing doesn't seem to affect is at all, so I usually leave the loaf in the freezer and take out slices the day before I use them. In addition, bread seems to take *way* longer to get moldy if you freeze it first, so you can freeze a loaf over night, then put it out and it will last a lot longer... Just my $0.02.

  21. A tool is a tool ... on Blockchain Hype May Have Peaked, But IBM is Still a Believer (qz.com) · · Score: 2

    I'm sure blockchain is a good and appropriate tool for some (many?) things, but it's not the best thing since sliced bread, nor can it be used to slice said bread.

  22. Re:Oracle might actually have a point here. on Oracle Challenges Pentagon's $10 Billion Cloud Computing Contract (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Ya, but $10 billion would only buy the Government about 50 Oracle licenses?

  23. ... obviously involves a $5 wrench.

  24. Current FCC Chairman Ajit Pai, and former Associate General Counsel at Verizon Communications, shrugged, and remarked, "Eh."

  25. Saudi Arabia called, they want their Oil in control

    They might want to start by getting a better press / twitter manager: (parenthetical mine)

    A Saudi Arabian organization is apologizing after posting an image on Twitter appearing to show an Air Canada plane heading toward the CN Tower in a way that is reminiscent of the 9/11 attacks in the U.S. (article includes copy of said photo)