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  1. Re: So glad I never use BA - (the Sucky Airline). on British Airways CEO Won't Resign, Says Outsourcing Not To Blame For IT Failure (bbc.com) · · Score: 5, Funny

    Slightly reduced bonus? He confirmed the issue was not his fault, and not that of the new guys maintaining the system... It was obviously an issue of the old people who didn't properly train or leave adequate documentation of the intricacies of the system when they left 5 months ago. If anything, an extra large bonus should be coming for getting rid of that level of incompetence.

  2. Re: But voter ID is raaaacist!!!! on DEFCON Conference To Target Voting Machines (politico.com) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Of course, because mandating a separate photo ID for voting only, which expires after a single election, and is only able to be obtained from a limited number of locales, some of which disproportionately placed in affluent neighborhoods is in no way thinly veiled racism.

  3. There seems to be a language barrier... The postulation is that we can only observe 13.5 billion light years away from us in any direction, and with it there is a wall that we can't see beyond as light, radiation, and general energy just hasn't gotten here yet. Amidst that, we see radiation that isn't uniform, but is mostly similar. As we can't observe past the edge of this wall of sorts, there may or may not be /something/ amidst the vast emptiness of the cosmos. Ergo, in a purely physical sense, there /may/ be something beyond the physical space that we can't yet see, and it may be interfering with what we'd perceive as the cosmic background radiation of our /limited, but vast/ view of the cosmos. As such, it can be that what has previously been defined as the 'universe' may just be a larger iteration of galaxies, and physically separate and adjacent - rather than occupying the same coordinate system in an inobservable way - there exists another very large 'universe' that ours may have previously interacted with, influencing the distribution of the cosmic background radiation. Think of it like "large gravity fields impacts the flow of light by bending it" except instead of inward towards our universe, portions are being pulled /outwards/ effectively reducing the amount directed towards us, or slowing it's travel.

  4. Re: I'm not sure I like the idea... on Slashdot Asks: Should Businesses Switch To Biometric Passwords? (hbr.org) · · Score: 4, Informative

    That's why people should adopt the philosophies of "biometrics = who you are (username)", leaving "passwords = something you know", and allowing for "tokenization = something you have". If usernames and passwords are decoupled to the point where biometric authentication serves as a realtime handshake of the resulting hash by the destination server, even to the point where they are stored in different tables with the functional equivalent of public key vs private key components, than the compromise of a single system would effectively result in a rainbow table only that needs to be iterated for all users on the system.

  5. More often than not, specifications are general enough that you may as well be telling someone "I once saw a car driving down the road, and this is what I remember about it... build me one!" Where it's unknown what pieces you already have at your disposal, what parts need to be adapted, and what needs to be fabricated from the ground up.

    With clear, unchanging specifications on what is being built, than sane timelines can be given. When it's "smile and figure it out", than the timeline too is variable commensurate with the number of unknowns and undefined pieces.

  6. Re: Sounds like it's working as intended. on US College Grads See Slim-to-Nothing Wage Gains Since Recession (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 2

    Social Security has always been a premise of "collect money today from taxes based on promise of population growth and the assumption that those people too will pay taxes". The model breaks down when there isn't a steady stream of people, such as a large segment of the population simultaneously exits the job market (retiring).

  7. Re: Potential Damages? on A US Ally Shot Down a $200 Drone With a $3 Million Patriot Missile (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Paint is harder to wash off? So vandalism charges, especially the need to rapid re-sod a golf course because of this stunt... versus some guy with a hose. Potentially much more expensive than 3m when taking into account the direct costs of mitigating the paint and indirect costs of finding and prosecuting the offender.

  8. Except, this time... they already coated the paper in it! Convenience! Oh, the convenience!

  9. Re:Oracle worked very hard at making a closed ecos on Oracle Effectively Doubles Licence Fees To Run Its Stuff in AWS (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    SQLite is the most deployed database in the world.

    So? How often do those /databases/ need to be anything more than a JSON or XML doc? How often is said SQLite DB a technologically advanced, elegant, or better solution?

    Just because someone /can/ create a database doesn't mean someone /needs/ a database.

  10. Re: Meaningless on The Doomsday Clock Is Reset: Closest To Midnight Since The 1950s (npr.org) · · Score: 3, Funny

    My father was a watch maker. He abandoned it when Einstein discovered time is relative. I would only agree that a symbolic clock is as nourishing to the intellect as photograph of oxygen to a drowning man.

  11. Re:Three Laws Safe! on Europe Calls For Mandatory 'Kill Switches' On Robots (cnn.com) · · Score: 2

    DON'T DATE ROBOTS!!!

  12. Re:Can't this be saved for Windows 11? on Microsoft Is Working On a New Design Language For Windows 10 Codenamed Project NEON (windowscentral.com) · · Score: 1

    They will pull an Apple and release 10.1 - Husky

  13. Re:Also Troubling on No Evidence of Aloe Vera Found in the Aloe Vera at Wal-Mart, CVS (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 5, Funny

    Or Girl Scouts in Girl Scout Cookies. This is some weapons grade bull shit deceptive advertising at its best!

  14. Re: Electronic voting on FBI Launches Internal Investigation Into Its Own Twitter Account (thinkprogress.org) · · Score: 2

    If you're trying to rig an election at the voting booth, you're doing it wrong.

  15. Re: Hindiburg all over again on SpaceX Blast Investigation Suggests Breach in Oxygen Tank's Helium System (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Stupid, naturally safe helium.

  16. Re: Obligatory.. on Computers Decipher Burnt Scroll Found In Ancient Holy Ark (nationalgeographic.com) · · Score: 5, Funny

    Archaeologists near Mount Sinai have discovered what is believed to be a missing page from the Bible. The page is presently being carbon dated in Bonn. If genuine it belongs at the beginning of the Bible and is believed to read "To my darling Candy. All characters portrayed within this book are fictitious and any resemblance to persons living or dead is purely coincidental." The page has been universally condemned by church leaders.

  17. Re: Seven phucking photons? on Pluto Is Emitting X-Rays (digitaltrends.com) · · Score: 1

    Some might say that Pluto is home to Plutonium.

  18. Re: Why do people continue to believe alarmist cra on The Sixth Mass Extinction Will Hit The Biggest Animals The Hardest, Says Stanford Study (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    Global Warming is causing major extinctions - citation: Gawker Media. I'm not saying it isn't happening, but I'd much rather an article from someone who doesn't make a living from flashing photos of starlet'a crotches, intertwined with stories of "is your cat the cutest on the block? 15 steps to know for sure".

  19. Re: My God on Europe Has Added 1.1 Billion Stars To Its Milky Way Map (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    He could be in line like most people... I hear he's really down-to-earth.

  20. Re: iPhone 7 = the new pet rock on Apple iPhone 7 Plus Packs 3GB RAM, Early A10 Fusion Benchmarks Look Very Strong (hothardware.com) · · Score: 1

    Last I checked, Bluetooth 3 and 4 offers 25Mbps. I'd have a hard time saying that isn't adequate for uncompressed, bitstreamed audio. However said devices require a reasonable codec, DSP and DAC to to be viable and overcome your concerns.

  21. Re: grit on New Research Reveals Hundreds of Undiscovered Black Holes (phys.org) · · Score: 4, Funny

    The thing about space - the color of space... your normal space color - is its black. And the thing about black holes, is they're black. So how are you going to see them?

  22. Re: Possible solution... on Meet URL, the USB Porn-Sniffing Dog (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    I'd think it's because you likely know a vast majority of the people in your area (at least superficially), and in the event that something happens by an outsider, they'd have a 30-60m drive to leave the county on the 1, possibly 2 highways out of town. I say that having lived in a place just like that.

  23. Re: AFAIK Porn is not illegal. on Meet URL, the USB Porn-Sniffing Dog (cnn.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    That's what the article is suggesting. The dog can't sniff for porn, but it can sniff for flash memory, and is being used to identify flash memory that may be concealed in non-obvious locations.

  24. Re: What about perjury? on Warner Bros Issues Takedown For Own Website (bbc.co.uk) · · Score: 4, Funny

    They did abuse it, against themselves, and I hear they agreed to a settlement with the wronged parties to make them whole, and that appropriate steps will be taken to avoid inflicting further damages against themselves. Considering that corporations are people, attempted self harm is taken very seriously. Thankfully they already have an on-site Looney Bin.

  25. Re: Discomfiting on Apps Are Devouring the Open Web (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    At what point does the browser become an app itself? Is a browser that doesn't ship with your device an app? Is an app that lets you view differing content on demand still an app?