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Comment Re: I'm surprised... (Score 1) 42

Also, Rte. 28, along the Fairfax/Loudoun county border has a natural gas pipeline running under it, installed during the 2005-2012 period. There are a number of data centers and office buildings there with generators, including one with five or six at least as large as a diesel locomotive.

Comment Re:Let me be the first to say ... (Score 1) 53

From TFA summary:

or have it instantly lock when it no longer sees their face.

Given how often it fails to detect my face to unlock, I can't imagine this working well. A mask or sunglasses really throw it off. But even if that worked well, I often leave it sitting on a table while I read something at an odd angle.

I'm trying to figure out how it's going to be a Good Thing for the phone to lock as soon as I put it to my ear and my face disappears from the camera's view.

Comment Re:Reverse the role (Score 1) 565

When you find you have been signed up for a legit company site. Go to the site using your email and press the forgot password on the site. When you get the email back, log on and maybe you can get the information that you need to track him down.

Track him down? I would use the forgot password feature to login and delete the account.

Comment Re:This is not true! (Score 1) 98

TFA also says, in the quotation from the Evernote privacy policy, that customers can turn off the machine learning that is the reason for the employee access by disabling it in the account settings. I just did that with no problem at all.

If one is serious about security, though, then why would he/she trust any cloud provider's encryption?

Privacy

Starting Next Year, Evernote Employees Could Access Your Unencrypted Notes (betanews.com) 98

Mark Wilson, reporting for BetaNews: Evernote has published an update to its Privacy Policy, revealing that as of 23 January 2017, employees will be able to access unencrypted notes. The change is being wheeled in because of the apparent failings of machine learning. Perhaps more worrying is the fact that Evernote says that it is not possible to opt out of having employees possibly accessing your unencrypted notes. The only way to fully protect your privacy is to delete all your notes and close your Evernote account. The update to the Privacy Policy starts off sounding fairly innocuous: "The latest update to the Privacy Policy allows some Evernote employees to exercise oversight of machine learning technologies applied to account content, subject to the limits described below, for the purposes of developing and improving the Evernote service."

Comment Maybe it's not such a bad thing (Score 1) 307

It might not be such a bad thing if Gawker were put out of business. I had never heard of Gawker until I read How Gawker Ripped Off My Newspaper Story seven years ago. Who needs to read the story from its original source when Gawker has published a digest? And this has helped put local newspapers on their back.

Of course, this isn't a lot different from a SLAPP, so it is troubling. The funny thing is that most litigation is supposedly about "being made whole", and our court system evaluates wholeness in dollars and cents, but Thiel seems to want wholeness in destroying the organization that outed him.

Comment Parking in front of sidewalk ramps? (Score 1) 177

Why the hell is NYC allowing people to park in front of sidewalk ramps? I'm not sure how it is in the Big Apple, but most jurisdictions do not mark crosswalks at every crosswalk, even though it's a logical and safe place for a person to cross the street, like a street corner. (This is why one should be suspicious when reading about an accident in which "the victim was not in a crosswalk"; odds are decent that it's because there are insufficient pedestrian accommodations on the road.) If it's OK for an able-bodied pedestrian to cross somewhere, there should be curb cuts so that a person in a wheelchair can do the same, and there shouldn't be a vehicle blocking it.

Comment That depends... (Score 2) 561

Is it ageism when the interviewer remarks "You're a little old" during the interview? This happened to me when I was 40 and still had hair, none of it gray. No offer was forthcoming, but the place didn't rate very highly from my perspective, either. And then there was the letter I received recently from EEO investigating a complaint about a company that hadn't bothered to have me come in after the phone interview despite my having all of the skills they seemed to be seeking.

Now I work for a small company where I am probably the oldest employee., but we all get along well, and I'm having the time of my life.

Comment Re:Pi (Score 1) 291

YMMV with the tablet. I own an Asus tablet that consistently loses a lot of time even though NTP is enabled. I know that NTP isn't blocked because unchecking the "Set time automatically" box and then rechecking it brings the thing into synchronization right away.

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