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  1. Re:Diversity on Apple, Google, Bringing Low-Pay Support Employees In-House · · Score: 1

    And a way to hire more brown people without having to actually let them do any skilled labor.

  2. Re:What for? on Apple, Google, Bringing Low-Pay Support Employees In-House · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Bringing your security staff in-house makes them a more 'bought in' part of the organization. Apple and Google take security very seriously, because they think they are the most innovative organizations on earth and that they have many secrets to protect.

    It just makes sense to not have outsiders guarding the gates.

  3. Re:Digital logic on First Fully Digital Radio Transmitter Built Purely From Microprocessor Tech · · Score: 1

    Not really. Unless it's possibly ECL digital logic, where the transistors are operated in a linear region. The 'analog parts' you speak of are run in saturated switching mode, i.e. not analog.

  4. Re:B.S. Alert on First Fully Digital Radio Transmitter Built Purely From Microprocessor Tech · · Score: 2

    Right. Then it's a peripheral chip embedded onto the same die as a microprocessor. And still not a microprocessor.

  5. Re:We almost lost two! on Harrison Ford's Plane Crashes On Golf Course · · Score: 3, Interesting

    We did lose a PT-22, though. Real geeks care about stuff like that more than Hollywood actors. Or should I say nerds.

      'Geek' is more the 'script kiddie' version of a nerd. Nerds know what a wire-wrap gun is, even if they're more into grinding lenses for homemade telescopes. Geeks know what's cool right now on websites like Boing Boing.

  6. Re:B.S. Alert on First Fully Digital Radio Transmitter Built Purely From Microprocessor Tech · · Score: 3, Informative

    The article says: "The Pizzicato digital radio transmitter consists of an integrated circuit outputting a single stream of bits, and an antenna ".

    That doesn't sound like 'Purely from Microprocessor Tech' to me. It sounds like a strap-on peripheral chip, which is not at all 'Purely microprocessor.'

  7. Re:Breakthrough? on Microsoft Convinced That Windows 10 Will Be Its Smartphone Breakthrough · · Score: 2

    Walmart moves into small towns and runs upper-middle-class shopkeeprs out of business, because said shopkeepers have been bilking the people in their communities with irrational high prices for decades.

    Not that you know fuck all about the quality of the goods at Walmart, because you never, ever, ever shop at Walmart.

    amiright?

  8. Re:Lots of weird crap coming out of Congress latel on White House Threatens Veto Over EPA "Secret Science" Bills · · Score: 1

    How so? The results and the disclosures are published after the double blind studies have been completed, the results tallied, and the conclusions formed. After-the-fact disclosures don't affect the results.

  9. Re: Lots of weird crap coming out of Congress lat on White House Threatens Veto Over EPA "Secret Science" Bills · · Score: 1

    I never did. So ... there's that.

    So why did you include the charming little bit about 'their medical records' then?

  10. Re:Richard Nixon must be turning in his grave on White House Threatens Veto Over EPA "Secret Science" Bills · · Score: 2

    Richard Nixon would not today be a big supporter of the monstrosity the EPA has grown into.

    Hell, even Eisenhower warned about the rise of the 'scientific-technological elite' in the same speech where he warned about the 'Military-Industrial Complex.' Many people excerpt just the 'good part' out of his speech.

  11. Re:Lots of weird crap coming out of Congress latel on White House Threatens Veto Over EPA "Secret Science" Bills · · Score: 1

    Why do you want the most expensive government possible?

    So that hand-wringers, ninnies and other forms of idiot cannot afford much government.

  12. Re:It's like asking on Would You Need a License To Drive a Self-Driving Car? · · Score: 1

    Also, logged-in morons quoting said Anonymous Cowards after they have been modded down below the threshold.

    Thanks, moron.

  13. Re:"Promise a future where we can sip cocktails" on Would You Need a License To Drive a Self-Driving Car? · · Score: 1

    If you drink enough alcohol to have an effect on you, which is (uh...) the point in drinking alcohol, it will impair your ability to react.

  14. Re:"Promise a future where we can sip cocktails" on Would You Need a License To Drive a Self-Driving Car? · · Score: 2

    Subways run on a track. A track, further, that is enclosed away from other things running onto the track.

  15. Re:Breakthrough? on Microsoft Convinced That Windows 10 Will Be Its Smartphone Breakthrough · · Score: 1

    What does shopping at Walmart have to do with buying lottery tickets. You could just as easily have said 'vote for Obama' as 'shopping at Walmart.' Or mentioned any of a bunch of other totally unrelated activities to as dumb a thing as buying a lottery ticket.

    I bought this Windows 8.1 tablet at Walmart, by the way. I am fairly certain it wasn't a stupid investment. We'll see, of course.

    Personally, I see a shaking out coming. Windows, Android and iOS can't all remain dominant platforms for mobile. Personally I'd like to see Apple die, because Android is pretty nice.

  16. Re:Hey Bruce on Schneier: Either Everyone Is Cyber-secure Or No One Is · · Score: 1

    Bruce is just a blogger and a journalist. He wrote the Cryptology book that nobody else dared publish and got it into print. He's not a credentialed cytologist, and his 'security expertise' comes from him having been a blogging journalist on the topic for over a decade.

    He probably would be good at explaining the issue to the President and Congress, but that would be because he's a good communicator, not an expert or scientist.

  17. Re:Insecure on Schneier: Either Everyone Is Cyber-secure Or No One Is · · Score: 1

    It's not that hard to build that society.

    We could start by eliminating the notion of the Social Security ID being a 'secret number.'

    There's no reason it needs to be a secret number for the Social Security system to operate. SS was set up as a pension savings plan and the SSN was never intended as an identification number.

    The government could simply publish everyone's SSN in a publicly available digest, either online or in big phone-book like volumes.

    That would fuck over the 'cheap' way that the Credit and Banking system has been using the SSN as a 'secret identifier' but it would quickly settle out.

    There's not supposed to be some sort of 'magic power' inherent in having someone's SSN and it only 'works' as such because people act like they're secret numbers.

  18. Thats a lot of cards on One Year Later, We're No Closer To Finding MtGox's Missing Millions · · Score: 2

    $180M is a lot of Magic the Gathering cards.

    Haven't they gone down significantly in value in recent years. That's probably enough to own all of them.

  19. Re:Bad idea on Snowden Reportedly In Talks To Return To US To Face Trial · · Score: 1

    The broadband is probably better in Leavenworth.

  20. Re:In the future on Ultra-Low Power Radio Transceiver Enables Truly Wireless Earbuds · · Score: 1

    That's sort of what I was thinking. My spouse keeps having to replace her earbuds, so we get cheaper and cheaper ones all the time, because the new kitten likes to destroy the wires. I was thinking 'bluetooth earbuds' but the problem there is that she can't even keep track of the TV remote, and bluetooth earbuds are even smaller.

  21. Re:Sulfur on Craig Brittain (Revenge Porn King) Sues For Use of Image · · Score: 1

    But.. but... but... I thought there was progress. Didn't the people in the 60's invent sex and in doing so trigger the sexual revolution?

  22. Re:this is one more reason on Under US Pressure, PayPal Stops Working With Mega · · Score: 1

    Now we just need the big banks to refuse to do business with the other big cloud providers. Start with Apple, Microsoft and Amazon's cloud services. We can extend the list as we go along.

  23. Re:Honest question here on Google Taking Over New TLDs · · Score: 1

    They definitely have some tweaking to do. I typed in 'search' alone as a url (why did you put the period in your url example?) and it brought up nothing. A finger fumble later turned it into a google search and it brought up a Google.com search page. The first two links found, after the spammy 'news' that Google likes to throw on top, were search.yahoo.com and bing.com.

  24. Re:And no one cares on Google Taking Over New TLDs · · Score: 1

    There was no DRM in the Octal switch codes I used to toggle in to bootstrap the PDP-8e in the Science Building to the high speed tape reader to start streaming to get FOCAL running.

    And that was a good thing, although taken to an extreme degree.

  25. Re:And no one cares on Google Taking Over New TLDs · · Score: 1

    Save your battles for the important stuff.

    GP's point is the important stuff. From a privacy point of view, going through your search provider to load a URL is like calling the police station and having the switchboard operator dial your number for you.

    Again, the new squirts won't even know what I am talking about.

    "Math is hard! Let's go shopping!"