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  1. Re: So, pilot error? on Pilot Who Hitched a Ride Saved Lion Air 737 Day Before Deadly Crash (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    It doesn't help that people generally do not want to admit there even is a 'human problem', chalking up everything to 'moral weakness', 'corruption', or pretty much any other excuse that lets them draw a line between 'correct' humans like them and 'faulty' ones that everything would be fine if we just removed.

  2. Re: So, pilot error? on Pilot Who Hitched a Ride Saved Lion Air 737 Day Before Deadly Crash (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    The system was not highlighted or trained on, but it was not a secret either. Like any other 'broken step' type problem, some people are going to know about it and learn work arounds informally through talking to others and encountering less lethal versions of the problem.. but the knowledge is not going to be evenly distributed.

  3. Re:FFS on The Most Powerful iMac Pro Now Costs $15,927 (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    I had a similar thought. I've specced out number crunchers for our sims that go well into that price range. There are some tasks that can pretty much take any resource you can afford to throw at them. And since our sims can actually run in OSX, we could actually make use of a monster like this.

  4. I guess it depends if they bothered to include a 'shut off the system' button.

  5. I suspect it started with something like that and then cascaded from there.

  6. Plus.. why is that a bad thing? Some researchers posted a piece that played with language a bit and demonstrated a different way of viewing a linguistically ambiguous statement that produces an interesting alternative result. It doesn't actually change anything, but it still kinda cool and I think that is all it really was.

  7. That is kinda the idea yeah.

  8. Since we use CentOS as opposed to RHEL, I can only comment on my experiences with the OS I actually use.

  9. Re:Instagram is down too on Facebook is Down · · Score: 1

    Now watch.. the outage will be because of the redundancy implementation.

  10. Heh, within that analogy, could you imagine the outrage if computers had to have yearly inspections in order to remain internet legal?

  11. CentOS isn't much better. I've given up trying to upgrade servers across major versions at this point, and just tell my employers that various services are never coming back.

  12. I think the idea here is protecting us from each other. Radio generating devices are regulated because they interfere with everything around them via a shared medium.

  13. Re:Rush to What? on Has the Great 'Moonrush' Begun? (thespacereview.com) · · Score: 1

    This is why it is a shame we can only mod to +5. I actually do expect some of these companies to start including 'blockchain' in their space projects.

  14. And here I am planning to hit the bank so I have cash on hand for getting lunches. This really strikes me as someone living in their own affluent cultural bubble and confusing 'millennials' with 'their immediate peer group'.

  15. Re:Not all millennials on USA Today Tech Columnist: Millennials Will Live To See a Cashless World (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    Yeah.. the original piece is confusing hundreds of millions of people across a wide geographic area with a wide range of life situations with 'their friends'.

  16. Re:It's just a freakin laptop on Prioritizing the MacBook Hierarchy of Needs (sixcolors.com) · · Score: 1

    This. Keynote is a great tool for occasional users or ones who just want to produce slides. Powerpoint is better if you really want to get into producing flashy 'wow' presentations.

  17. Re:It's just a freakin laptop on Prioritizing the MacBook Hierarchy of Needs (sixcolors.com) · · Score: 2

    Even when people can switch, they still might simply prefer OSX. In my lab we have windows, OSX, and linux machines, and many of us use all 3 for various tasks. But when it comes to laptops pretty much everyone uses macbooks to do their real work.. and this is a software development shop and thus not exactly 'average users'.

  18. Re:It's just a freakin laptop on Prioritizing the MacBook Hierarchy of Needs (sixcolors.com) · · Score: 1

    Depends on what you use your tool for. One of the big reasons people use Macs is the OS and software, and stick with the macbooks mostly because hackintoshs are too much trouble.

  19. Re:Cash still a good thing on Philadelphia Bans Cashless Stores (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Because we are talking public policy, not what makes individual companies more money or prestige. What is good for the community and what is good for individual businesses are not always the same thing, otherwise we would just go back to 'whites only' signs.

  20. Re: Cash still a good thing on Philadelphia Bans Cashless Stores (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    Bank accounts are one of those catch 22 type things, once you are in the system you are in, but if you are outside of it, things can be difficult. Banks can also be surprisingly selective about who they allow to open accounts and redlining has been a historical problem. People with similar incomes often find themselves being marked as a risk or not depending on where they live.

  21. Re:Cash still a good thing on Philadelphia Bans Cashless Stores (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 2

    Yet I still encounter plenty of companies that give you a discount for paying cash due to the additional fees credit card companies charge them. I question how much this actually saves them vs simply presenting a more modern image that just happens to keep out the unwashed.

  22. Hrm. But couldn't they figure out the address of the cold storage wallets by looking at the transfers going to them from customers? The BTC going in would be recorded, so it should be possible to see it going out too. Though maybe this is exactly what the 'audit' was doing?

  23. Should probably be saying that she can now afford a new husband.

  24. If one is going to buy products that depend on someone else maintaining infrastructure for you, then yeah, when the manufacturer no longer feels like giving you free services, that is gonna stop.

  25. Re:If MariaDB Cared on MariaDB CEO Accuses Large Cloud Vendors of Strip-Mining Open Source (zdnet.com) · · Score: 2

    Ah the GLPv3.... it closed the tivo loophole and opened the cloud one because the people who wrote it worked for server companies but played with embedded devices.. so naturally the license protected their professional freedom and hobbyist freedom, but not the other way around.