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Comment Adjusting pay based on a choice of area is dumb. (Score 1, Insightful) 142

by grub on Wednesday June 09, 2021 @03:56PM (#61470832) Attached to: Facebook Says It Will Expand Remote Work To All Employees, But May Reduce Pay If They Move To Less-Expensive Area

If they can adjust salary based on where a person chooses to live, will they adjust it for other things? Say, a preference for higher end scotch or nice German cars?

Comment Re:Search Speeds (Score 1) 62

by grub on Wednesday June 09, 2021 @11:47AM (#61469588) Attached to: Ultra-High-Density HDDs Made With Graphene Store Ten Times More Data

My first hard disk was 3600 RPM. Old 10 MB thing (forget the manufacturer) in 1984 or so. I remember the sales guy pumping up the fact that it could read "a meg a minute!"

Comment Their stuff downloads just fine here. (Score 3, Funny) 68

by grub on Wednesday June 09, 2021 @11:41AM (#61469550) Attached to: Is HBO Max Broken?

Oh wait...

Comment Waiting for Rama. (Score 1) 47

by grub on Monday May 17, 2021 @10:41AM (#61393096) Attached to: Improvements Finally Made in How We Name Asteroids

Now I think I'll read Rendezvous with Rama again.

Comment Re: How convenient. (Score 1) 106

by mvdwege on Sunday May 16, 2021 @08:25AM (#61389970) Attached to: Cloudflare Wants To Kill the CAPTCHA

Passthrough SSL exists. And although it is harder to do, it can be load-balanced. So it's not as black-and-white as you assert.

Comment True. (Score 0) 74

by grub on Friday May 14, 2021 @11:07PM (#61386298) Attached to: Mammals Can Breathe Through Their Intestines

If you saw the front of goatse guy, you'd see he had a plastic bag over his head.

Comment Re:I may... (Score 1) 43

by grub on Friday May 14, 2021 @08:44PM (#61386036) Attached to: Gaming's Biggest Space Opera Returns

I am envious of you getting to experience Mass Effect for the first time. If there was a pill that could wipe my memory before replaying, I'd pop it without reading the side effect warnings.

Comment Re:OK (Score 1) 139

by grub on Friday May 14, 2021 @03:50PM (#61385144) Attached to: Darkside Ransomware Gang Says It Lost Control of Its Servers, Money a Day After Biden Threat

Sure, but in the past the feds have auctioned off crypto with no shenanigans. Just thinking Occam's Razor here.
/. doesn't allow editing or deleting of comments. Wonder if I'll read this in a year and feel dumb. :)

Comment Re:OK (Score 5, Insightful) 139

by grub on Friday May 14, 2021 @03:25PM (#61385056) Attached to: Darkside Ransomware Gang Says It Lost Control of Its Servers, Money a Day After Biden Threat

They don't need to. "We took your money and there's nothing you can do about it."

Comment Re:OK (Score 4, Informative) 139

by grub on Friday May 14, 2021 @03:11PM (#61384990) Attached to: Darkside Ransomware Gang Says It Lost Control of Its Servers, Money a Day After Biden Threat

No, the ledger will only show where it was sent to. If this crypto gets laundered through Monero or Zcash (or other anonymizing crypto), then that pretty much proves it wasn't the feds.

Comment Re:OK (Score 5, Interesting) 139

by grub on Friday May 14, 2021 @02:51PM (#61384906) Attached to: Darkside Ransomware Gang Says It Lost Control of Its Servers, Money a Day After Biden Threat

I'm betting it is an exit scam to avoid paying their criminal affiliates.

Comment Re:Its a URL (Score 1) 15

by grub on Friday May 14, 2021 @08:50AM (#61383692) Attached to: A Podcast App is Exposing Subscribers-only Shows

Seems that podcasts are the only things that use RSS anymore,

My torrent and usenet feeds disagree.

Comment Re:it's not Oumuamua, it's Rama (Score 1) 22

by grub on Sunday May 09, 2021 @02:29PM (#61366156) Attached to: Astronomers Search For Answers To Origins of Interstellar Visitors Like 'Oumuamua

Ah yes, that is correct.

Comment Re:it's not Oumuamua, it's Rama (Score 1) 22

by grub on Sunday May 09, 2021 @12:25PM (#61365808) Attached to: Astronomers Search For Answers To Origins of Interstellar Visitors Like 'Oumuamua

Rama was 16 km across and 50 km long iirc.

Comment Re:Nice. (Score 2) 352

by mvdwege on Sunday May 09, 2021 @11:52AM (#61365726) Attached to: Capitol Rioters Identified Using Facial Recognition Software, Cellphone Records - and Social Media Posts

Let me turn your own side's words back on you: Fuck Your Feelings.

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