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  1. Re:well well well on Clinton Campaign: Russia Leaked Emails to Help Trump (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    Hey, Lookie here! Ralph Nader himself. So heres where you have been hiding since you gave us the Dubya presidency in 2000.

  2. To their credit they are called the glass door on Glassdoor Exposes 600,000 Email Addresses (siliconbeat.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    If they wanted to suggest some kind of privacy to the their users they would have called their site opaque door or at least frosted glass door.

  3. Re:well well well on Clinton Campaign: Russia Leaked Emails to Help Trump (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful
    What the email actually say are normal intra party politics, back stabbing and intrigue. They have not found corruption, extortion or even racist jokes being forwarded. In fact for an email dump it is pretty innocuous. Some embarrassment for some. Debbie seems to be the one they are throwing under the bus. ( She actually looks like Mrs Frizzle from The Magic School bus).

    But I am also intrigued by the Russians deciding to help Trump. Foreign powers meddling with our elections, swaying our public opinion we should be very very wary about. It is definitely illegal for foreign entities to give campaign contributions. It seems to be some sort of in kind contribution. That Russia does not want Hillary seems to be a very big plus point in her favor.

  4. Backups are really painful in fishing expeditions on Yahoo Ordered to Show How It Recovered 'Deleted' Emails (pcmag.com) · · Score: 1
    The IT Gods of our company have implemented some really serious backup and security measures. Something called Bit9 randomly kills my compilation process, the Mozy backup locks the file right in the middle of a git pull --rebase origin master resolving merge conflicts. The damned backup system takes two cores out of my 32 core machine 24/7 constantly. It backsup debug logs and regression suite temp files every 30 minutes. My unit testing script churns through 10 GB of scratch files every night. All I care about it is the the line "Unit test run: 12474, passed 12474, 100%". But all night long Mozy has been backing up the scratch files dutifully. Where it is storing it, how much it is charging our company .... god only knows.

    It is so bad that no developer in our company has used Mozy to recovery anything successfully. You launch the recovery dialog, wait for it to populate the file tree and recovery sets. It spins and spins and spins. We give up. It seems to be some tool meant for office application, some spreadsheets and documents all manually created. How many documents can you physically type up every day? It works at that load. Deployed on a development work station, that downloads some 45 GB of source code in some 20 repos, with daily pulls and rebases, developers maintaining multiple views, running regression suites and unit tests, we easily generate 10 GB of data per day per developer spanning easily 20000 machine generated files. All I touched were three source files, and approved one pull request, boom 10GB!

    Yahoo emails are all manually typed. It does not have to contend with this level of machine generated derived objects and data files. But it is not dealing with a 200 developers, it is dealing with several million users. They could be churning through this much of data in their image files and video/audio clips. It will take significant effort and cost to recover anything from backups.

    There is however, one developer who actually found something very interesting. We don't have wait for the recovery sets dialog to populate. If you know precisely the entire absolute path name to a file that was deleted you could type it as the wheel it spinning and it can be found relatively easily, he said. So yeah, if you know precisely the name of the blob that want to recovery, may be you can. But to go on a fishing expedition finding all files that existed on a particular day it well nigh impossible.

  5. Re:I will buy it in a heartbeat on Turn Your Android Phone Into a Laptop For $99 With the Superbook (techinsider.io) · · Score: 1

    net working.. tethering etc might be a little more convenient. Some apps are tied to the phone, for example whats app. so...

  6. I will buy it in a heartbeat on Turn Your Android Phone Into a Laptop For $99 With the Superbook (techinsider.io) · · Score: 2

    No doubt. I am using chromebook. I use my home desktop only for connecting to VPN to work. This will be great. The shell must have enough space inside to store some really long life batteries. Even a small glove box for cables?

  7. Re:Pretty simple fix... on VW Has Emissions-Cheating Fix Ready, Says Report (pressherald.com) · · Score: 1

    The summary indicates it is a pure software update and a larger catalytic converter. There is definitely performance loss, acceleration most likely. Bur normal users are unlikely to feel it.

  8. Fixed it for you on Android Nougat Won't Boot If Your Phone's Software Is Corrupt Or Has Malware (androidauthority.com) · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Android Nougat Won't Boot If Your Phone's Software Is Corrupt Or Has Malware unapproved by google

  9. Still, amazing that little soap box had the suspension and the chassis to take 600 HP.

  10. Looking back I see it should 480 kW, not 480 GW. Works out to some 600 HP. Not unusual.

  11. < filtered out in the quote.

    Okay, so if my maths and guesses are right...

    400V/188 cells = 2.12766 V / cell

    * 188 cells * 3C = 1200 A discharge

    1200A*400V = 480000W = <<< 1.21 GW

  12. From the quoted article:

    Okay, so if my maths and guesses are right...

    400V/188 cells = 2.12766 V / cell

    * 188 cells * 3C = 1200 A discharge

    1200A*400V = 480000W =

    It ought to be 88 jiga (not giga) watts. What happened to the remaining 86.xx jiga watts?

  13. When you let Goblins write the rules ... on Farmers Demand Right To Fix Their Own Dang Tractors (modernfarmer.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting
    Albus Dumbledore explains to Harry Potter the philosophy of Goblins and the concept of selling an object.

    From the Goblin POV, the only true master of any object is the person who made it. They do not like the habit of witches and wizards acquiring goblin made objects and passing them from wizard to wizard by sale or by inheritance. What wizard think as the price paid to a Goblin own an object, is merely a license fee to use the object for the lifetime of the purchaser. When the wizard dies, or no longer wants to own it, the object should be returned to the Goblin who made it.

    John Deere will agree with this philosophy wholeheartedly.

  14. (For the record, I'm not involved in that type of business, but I do know some things about the evolution of modern payment systems, so I'm speaking from that angle, not as someone interested in dirty talk with an anonymous liar. Really.)

    Wow! Even anonymous cowards do not want to be mistaken for phone sex callers...

  15. A good question: What is it about paying rent people find so appealing?

    Some opt to pay rent knowingly and willingly. If your job does not have steady predictable minimum income stream, you would be wise to rent a home/apartment, rather than owning. If you want to keep the option of taking a job anywhere in the country, again you would knowingly pay rent, rather than own.

    Others are forced to rent knowingly and unwillingly. Usually poorer people without good credit history, they don't qualify for loans or have enough to invest. One of the startling findings about expanding solar to sub-Saharan Africa was this: They were paying lots of money for batteries, battery lamps and lighting oils but were too poor to acquire solar panels for themselves. A rack of 10 solar panels is too expensive for anyone in that village to own. The micro lending organizations stepped in and created loans for someone to buy a 10 or 20 solar panels and let people charge their phones and flash lights and lanterns for a fee. It is a very successful program. Rate of return is too small for big banks to even look at it. But some social welfare organizations solicit donations to lend money to poor villagers to buy solar panels and cell phones as micro or nano business opportunity. This is another example of people paying rent, knowing the economics but resigned to fate.

    Then comes the third category that made you ask that rhetorical question. Some people are tricked into paying rents.

  16. Re:Many things are worse than bad comment punctuat on Linus Torvalds In Sweary Rant About Punctuation In Kernel Comments (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1
    Thanks for the follow up. I agree with you on using long descriptive function names and variable names to reduce the need for comments.

    Differences in our backgrounds explain the different emphasis we are placing on comments. But all three of us agree more than we disagree. Splitting hairs about the last 5% disagreement, while ignoring 95% agreement.

  17. Wonder how easy IRS would be on me if ... on Programming Bug Costs Citigroup $7M After Legit Transactions Mistaken For Test Data For 15 Years (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 2
    If I have a software glich in my brain and enter made up data in my tax return, for 15 years, will IRS be as easy on me as SEC has been to Citi?

    The banksters are simply too big to jail and too big to even question. Break up the banks.

    "Honey I shrunk the government. And the banksters drowned it in the bathtub!"

  18. What if ... on Pokemon Go Becomes Biggest Mobile Game In US History (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 5, Funny
    What if you can catch angry birds in Pokemon Go?

    And then slice virtual fruits using virtual knives to feed the angry birds?

    What if the angry birds eating sliced fruits become candy that you must crush?

    Inquiring minds want to know...

  19. Re:Many things are worse than bad comment punctuat on Linus Torvalds In Sweary Rant About Punctuation In Kernel Comments (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1
    I agree with Kosh, not with swillden.

    The most important comments are the ones that specify "why not". Often we will implement the interface using some methods, after release we find the inadequacies and change the implementation. Often the first implementation would be simple, intuitive and the first thing anyone would think of. Now that implementation is gone, and new less obvious and often tricky things are introduced. If the "why this and not that" comment is missing, a later code review might remove the complex second implementation and restore status quo ante.

    It is important to document why it is not done that way, what we intend to do. Without it we will be forced to constantly reverse engineer to understand the code and might repeatedly re learn the same lessons over and over again.

  20. Many things are worse than bad comment punctuation on Linus Torvalds In Sweary Rant About Punctuation In Kernel Comments (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 4, Interesting
    Worst comments are obsolete comments. The comment described what that function was designed to do, some 8 years ago. It has morphed since, default arguments added, the list has been replaced by multimap which was replaced by hashmap completely changing the behavior, and still the comments have not been updated.

    Next worst are ego comments. Every inline function preceded by three line comment naming the author as though he is Leo Tolstoy or she is Jane Austen.

    Next worst are trivial comments. Next worst are no comments.

    Then comes badly formatted comments.

  21. Every snake oil merchant addresses the ailments very clearly.

  22. Re:It's Heartbreaking you're not in Jail on Clinton: It's 'Heartbreaking' When IT Workers Must Train H-1B Replacements (computerworld.com) · · Score: 2

    Yes, but elected officials get access to secret material based on certification of election and they are not subject to security clearance. You think that GOP clown running the 10 hour hearing who showed the map of CIA secret facilities in CSPAN would ever get security clearance?

  23. Too many things on Third Tesla Crashes Amid Report of SEC Investigation (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1
    Wish Elon Musk would concentrate on a few important difficult things than to go for every fancy thought that crosses its mind. Self driving cars are Google's obsession. Leave that to google. Concentrate on getting an affordable middle class, ok, ok, upper middle class electric car. The rocket is good. The power wall is good. The giga factory is good. Hyperloop is a stretch even for Elon.

    Focus, man, Focus.

  24. Re:Lost focus on Third Tesla Crashes Amid Report of SEC Investigation (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    Yup. Unfortunately Melon Usk lost it when Ford registered focus as its trademark.

  25. Is it worse than yodlee and its progeny? on PSA: Pokemon Go Has Full Access To Your Google Account Data (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    Yodlee.com wanted user name and password of all your financial and bank accounts.