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  1. Re:I don't think that word means what you think... on LA To Become First In US To Install Subway Body Scanners (apnews.com) · · Score: 1

    'Comply or lose the freedoms of citizenship' is coercive not free. I this case, the right to freely travel. Restricting the most commonly used method of private citizen travel in the area absolutely is a restriction, especially since it's a gov't 'for the people' utility.

    I'd also like to see the FDA studies showing that the scanners are safe in this use. This is the same thing as the airport scanners where they're not and won't be tested isn't it? Somehow increasing cancer risk is a huge problem in CA unless the Gov't wants to increase the risk wholesale... (and if the scanners are safe, why act like they have something to hide?)

  2. Re:voluntary on LA To Become First In US To Install Subway Body Scanners (apnews.com) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I have a hard time doing that too because the difference is mostly terminology.

    The trick I use to remember is that the Nazis didn't use starvation to kill as often, killed far fewer people and a few right wing nutjobs claim their Holocaust didn't happen whereas the Bolsheviks are beloved by the left 'I've seen the future and it works' and the Holodomor (and Gulag system) are denied by the left or dismissed with 'they didn't do it right' rhetoric.

  3. Exactly. We need to fix the wage gap right now. Force women into the coal mines, into skyscraper construction and all the other high paying but dangerous and unpleasant jobs they avoid. We need to get their pay up now. (Or you can decide not to be a lying bastard about it and recognize the stats are manipulated)

  4. Go to the Well on FBI Warns of 'Unlimited' ATM Cashout Scheme (krebsonsecurity.com) · · Score: 2

    So, how much mortgage fraud will it take Wells Fargo to make up for the losses...

  5. Re: Skip ahead to the Pixel, even if it costs more on Ask Slashdot: What's the Best Unlocked Smartphone? (slashdot.org) · · Score: 2

    Exactly. I've got my phone with me all the time. My DSLRs are heavy, especially if I've brought a lens selection. Thus the cliche 'the best camera is the one with you'. I love trick lighting photography and I'll always use a DSLR for that, but cell phone cameras have come so far they're producing good quality lots of the time.

  6. Re:Wait for the US wide database sharing on Faces Are Being Scanned At US Airports With No Safeguards on Data Use (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    People who had a bad breakup with anyone involved with the system or know someone who is.

    People whose image had the wrong associated metadata applied to it.

    People who expose a flaw in the image matching system the vendor won't acknowledge.

    People who look very similar to someone else.

  7. Re: Heh on Do Businesses Really Need to Hire CS Majors? (cio.com) · · Score: 1

    This was to replace primary storage. I.E. Move the active production database VMs from the SAS raid array onto a consumer drive in a USB case. You guys think that could ever be useful? Really?

  8. Re:I'd want to know how to disable the behavior on Security Researchers Express Concerns Over Mozilla's New DNS Resolution For Firefox (ungleich.ch) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    So when I'm using an internal nameserver that resolves local servers with their local IP address, this thing will force resolve the external address from an external DNS and break local access, won't it? (split brained DNS)

  9. Yep. They committed fraud. So much fraud that they automated the fraud with the computer. But bless their little cotton socks, it seems no actual person was involved in the crime! It was the computer that's guilty dontcha know.

  10. Re: Incompetence, not conspiracy on Wells Fargo Says Hundreds of Customers Lost Homes After Computer Glitch (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Yep, assuming the property isn't bought at below distressed market pricing by someone connected who pays a bird dog fee.

  11. Re: Heh on Do Businesses Really Need to Hire CS Majors? (cio.com) · · Score: 1

    Ours demanded that storage be added to the VMware server via a Best Buy external USB drive because 'We're doing it my way'. genius...

  12. Re:You mean to tell me... on Apple's 2018 iPhones Are Rumored To Not Include Headphone Dongle In the Box (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Think different, think disposable quality (same high price though).

    Be sure to have some eco friendly marketing though!

    Doesn't anyone get quality headphones that sound great and last anymore? You know you can do better than beats right?

  13. How soon before it only works with an Apple licensed headphone too, just like they did with the docks?

  14. Wait until you need to keep track of which headphones Apple allows to work with this phone. Remember ipod docks? Remember that each new iPhone/pod refused to work unless you bought a brand new dock - each with it's own licensing fee to Apple? How soon before the headphones have to be Apple licensed to work, or are in a reduced quality mode etc? One more generation of devices or sooner?

  15. Politically connected restaraunt owners on San Francisco Officials Are Planning To Ban Corporate Cafeterias, Force Tech Workers To Eat Out At Local Restaurants (nytimes.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    So, who owns the restaurants/commercial property they're on that stands to gain financially? Someone politically connected stands to make a bunch of money by forcing this change.

  16. Re:simple make a playstation phone/app on Sony's Mobile Business Is Shrinking Out of Existence (theverge.com) · · Score: 3, Funny

    Strengths? So, make it require Sony Memorystick instead of SD, and use a proprietary interface to connect to anything - but one that's standard on Sony PCs. Then make sure the devices have the rootkit pre-installed.

    Their strengths do revovle around making an unworkable and expensive walled garden, right??

  17. Re:Probably a good buy on Logitech Is Acquiring Blue Microphones For $117 Million In Cash (theverge.com) · · Score: 2

    I switched to Sennheiser headsets after my friends and I all had Logitech early failures. We had similar problems with mice and keyboards at work and stopped using them. The now quite old optical mice are all working, the newer ones didn't last a year. They're on the vendor of last resort list now.

  18. Re:About f**king time. on New York Threatens To Kick Charter Out of State After Broadband Failures (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    They know it's cheaper to pay off the right folks than to keep the promises.

  19. And they also have BS patents. And they're known for showing up at a business who's recently successful and just demanding a payment. They'd reference a dozen patents, and when the wet behind the ears company proves they don't practice those the IBM lawyers present another dozen and point out that they'll just keep doing this can can litigate them all. It doesn't matter whether there is actual infringement.

    I've always heard IBM's patent lawyers referred to as the Nazgul for behaving exactly like that and never going away until they've been paid no matter what.

    Where did you get the impression that IBM is at all the good guy? They've always seemed like the other bastard to me. (which doesn't make them wrong on any specific issue)

  20. Re:Seems easy to fix on Leaked Documents Show Facebook's 'Threshold' For Deleting Pages, Groups (vice.com) · · Score: 0

    You'll also need to make sure those decoy posts follow progressive ideology.

  21. Louis at least shows you exactly why it's bad instead of just saying it is. Especially when he's showing the same design flaw through several MBP generations, it's easy to see why he's ranting given the premium pricing.

  22. He'd make sure everyone felt bad until the quality wasn't so bad.

  23. Re:Go bankrupt you rats on Wells Fargo's Scandals Finally Hurt Its Bottom Line (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    List the house for sale and sue them for slander of title?

  24. Re:It's all about that business model on Wells Fargo's Scandals Finally Hurt Its Bottom Line (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    They bought First Interstate, the bank I liked and did business with and did business with. They were a constant problem, from sending my statements with original checks to different addresses (seemingly they couldn't fix this - but definitely wouldn't) to refusing to close accounts/services and instead making a high pressure sales event.

    I switched my personal banking to a credit union and my employers been shifting business to a local state bank. I wish I'd moved much sooner. I'd have saved so much trouble.

    You may need to hire an attorney to send a demand letter for verification that they've actually close all of your accounts when you move. Definitely send a registered letter.

  25. You have to pay for a support contract to get the fix for the security manufacturing defect? Wait, this should be a 10 shouldn't it?