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  1. They usually don't.

  2. Those other problems might well have to do with geography. The job market for IT in some cities is white hot, and in others it's quite chilly.

  3. Re:Sorry, not legal on Coders Used Ham Radio To Send Bitcoin From Canada To San Francisco (coindesk.com) · · Score: 1

    I had considered (before my life became really busy) asking the FCC to clarify whether digital signatures verified with a published public key would be allowable under this rule. Think they have bandwidth to consider something like this?

  4. Re:Sorry, not legal on Coders Used Ham Radio To Send Bitcoin From Canada To San Francisco (coindesk.com) · · Score: 1

    Also illegal per 97.113 as technically blockchain messages are encrypted; which for amateur radio is illegal even if the rule is not exactly well-enforced.

  5. This could end up marginalizing the Oscars on Netflix Makes Statement In Wake Of Steven Spielberg's Attempt To Block Streaming Giant From Oscars (deadline.com) · · Score: 2

    Imagine for a moment: Netflix produces a really great indie film. They farm it out to Cannes, Sundance, and a couple of other festivals, and it wins awards. Then they stream it. Now a Palm D'Or winning film is utterly ineligible for Oscar contention, but cleans up at the Emmys. Hollywood is outraged. Netflix issues a statement telling the Academy to go suck on Green Book and Driving Miss Daisy.

  6. Dunning-Krugerrands on Digital Exchange Loses $137 Million As Founder Takes Passwords To the Grave (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    I don't know who coined this term, but given the very expensive rookie mistakes I keep seeing, not to mention the claims of security that keep falling apart, the term "Dunning-Krugerrand" for BitCoin seems apt.

  7. Re:I feel for them on Amid Chaos Venezuelans Struggle To Find The Truth, Online (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    Here in the US the media is controlled by the democratic left

    That's not true, and you omitted News Corp, Sinclair Broadcast Group, Tribune Media, and other conservative media conglomerates; not to mention conservative shows that dominate the News Talk radio format.

  8. Re:Crap title. on Japanese Government Plans To Hack Into Citizens' IoT Devices (zdnet.com) · · Score: 2

    > It's also CRIMINAL

    Ah, well that's just it, isn't it? It's not criminal activity if the Diet says it's legal.

  9. Re:What could possibly go wrong.... on Japanese Government Plans To Hack Into Citizens' IoT Devices (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    This idea has traction because Japanese society is conformist in a way that makes home owners' associations look like anarchy. The government says they're going to do it, the press aren't going to really challenge them, and while there has been and will continue to be push-back from opposition parties and civil libertarians, Abe has the votes he needs to easily push this through.

    Besides which, this idea of a massive public audit of IoT devices is not without merit. It would be another thing if the Abe administration were pushing for back doors in all IoT devices (which, as far as I can tell, they are not ).

  10. Re:Won't happen on CERN's New Collider Design Is Four Times Larger Than the LHC (vice.com) · · Score: 1, Troll

    It isn't in civilized areas like the EU.

  11. Maybe because not every pressing problem can be solved by technology or science alone.

  12. If I were to do this today... on Who'd Go To University Today? (spiked-online.com) · · Score: 1

    If I were an undergraduate student, I wouldn't bother starting at a four-year institution unless I knew I could get a full ride. I'd go to community college for two years, where the tuition is much cheaper and I can get through the basic stuff that's usually taught by TAs at a university. I'd work my ass off and I'd finish a "transfer associates" and then transfer into a bachelor's program at the strongest school I can find. Same degree, 60% of the cost.

    You might ask, what about the social life college provides? Great question, and the fact is, I almost never got along with my classmates, because I was simply too weird. I would have been better off staying in my home town for my first two years.

  13. Re:Your tax dollars pay for it on The US Military is Making Balloons That Hover at the Edge of Space, Indefinitely (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    you get absolutely nothing for it.

    Better weather predictions from easier-to-maintain-than-satellite sensors sounds like something I get for it.

  14. Well, that depends on what scale you're looking at, doesn't it? Chemicals don't have social rules, and neither does energy. But people - people have social rules.

  15. Science says nothing about genders. Science says a lot about biological sex, and even there, there aren't just two, although the vast majority are either biologically male or biologically female. By way of counterexample, I have friends who are intersex - born with both sets of plumbing, so to speak.

  16. Astronomers missed a great opportunity... on Moons Can Have Their Own Moons and They Could Be Called Moonmoons (atlasobscura.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    ...because most of them don't know enough Latin.

    Instead of Moonmoon, they could call them luna lunae, which means, "moon of moon."

    This could give them endless opportunities for singing a rock classic.

    Luna lunae
    Whoa baby
    Sayin, me gotta go
    Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah....

  17. Re:Enough with Linux on the Desktop on Ubuntu Linux 18.10 Cosmic Cuttlefish Beta Now Available For Desktop, Cloud and Server Versions (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    It goes back to an anti-MS backlash after being forced - by means of OEM agreements - to pay for buggy shit-tier software like Win95 and Win98 whenever we bought a computer. Winning the desktop became a goal. I'm saying that goal is obsolete.

  18. Enough with Linux on the Desktop on Ubuntu Linux 18.10 Cosmic Cuttlefish Beta Now Available For Desktop, Cloud and Server Versions (betanews.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Linux dominates on:

    • Mobile devices
    • IoT
    • Servers
    • Cloud
    • Consumer electronics
    • Supercomputers

    Linux doesn't come anywhere near dominating on:

    • Desktops

    One of these markets is fading hard. Guess which one?

    Desktop isn't the metric we should be looking at. Not anymore.

  19. Re:Where is the money? on Linux Now Dominates Azure (zdnet.com) · · Score: 2

    So, if MS is ready to do this to Ubuntu - why haven't they done this with Red Hat?

  20. "Outside product" can be fuzzy on Linux Now Dominates Azure (zdnet.com) · · Score: 2

    Lest we forget: Microsoft contributes a lot of code to the kernel, mostly to make their products run better. So in a broad sense, Linux is part of Microsoft's own dog food.

    This might seem incongruous -- it sure does to me! -- but I am reminded of something Vernard Martin said about Linux: its role isn't to beat Microsoft, but to keep Microsoft honest.

  21. Wait....what's this?

    Those studies, however, left some dangling questions...

    Oh...oh dear. Was that a pun?

    ...effectively cauterised those remaining issues.

    Was that ANOTHER surgery pun?

  22. Re:so any job can now use arbitration minimum wage on Uber Wins Key Ruling In Its Fight Against Treating Drivers As Employees (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    If only there were some sort of, say, club, that employees could join, where they come up with a common strategy to fight employer abuses.

  23. ...I recommend Windows for gaming, and only for gaming. You really don't need it for any other purpose.

  24. I wish I had mod points. I'd mod this "+1 funny" (and probably get barred from ever moderating again).

  25. Thank you.