Comment don't use biometrics (Score 4, Insightful) 328
Yet another reason not to use biometrics to unlock devices.
Yet another reason not to use biometrics to unlock devices.
I thought they wanted our wimmin.
To hell with karma, when I pull a stunt like that I'm looking to get some interesting replies.
I agree. Starting a vigorous discussion is a lot more interesting than acquiring some silly karma number.
You might be right, but I think the point is, the first step is to take out the drone to protect your assets. And it seems to me that drones are particularly vulnerable to electronic countermeasures.
If someone were so morally bankrupt enough to create a drone army to infiltrate certain gaps and structural weaknesses in the plant and detonate significant payload to disrupt cooling/power/containment, surrounding area is going to be uninhabitable for a looong time.
Time for plants to consider netting, maybe? If it would help at all? Perhaps reinforce areas so that drones can't easily fly into them?
I'd think, a combination of automatic RF and laser countermeasures. It might actually be fun to design.
> Will millions of people really want to charge and fuss with their watch at least once a day?
I can't speak for everyone else, but I vote a decisive no. I already have a stupid company-issued phone with a non-swappable battery that I have to charge every night, and occasionally during the day if I use it a lot. I tell ya, I long for the days when a pager would run for weeks on a single AA battery. The thought of having a second device that needs that level of care and feeding is frankly revolting.
That's not an alternative - wanting to watch Team A is not the same as watching Team B, or Team Z. Or Sport C.
Tell my wife that. If the game she wants to see is blacked out and she can't find it in a sports bar, she'll watch anything. Even golf.
> Time Warner Cable lost 184,000 overall residential customer relationships
Couldn't happen to a nicer company.
In fact, it was the character Sheldon Cooper.
-Mr. Pedantic
Ok fair enough. Pedantry has its place. The previous reference was of course to the character Wil Wheaton from the same show, played coincidentally by an actor named Wil Wheaton.
He has been in the publishing industry since the forties. He's good with everything except Will Wheaton knocking on his door in the middle of the night.
I thought that was Jim Parsons.
So, what I'm hearing is that SLM is the comic IP equivalent of a patent troll?
If true, I wonder how Lee himself came to terms with his name being directly associated with such an odious business model?
Exactly. Let's not get wrapped up in partisanship. It's wrong when either side does it, and both sides have.
Except one side claims to be on the side of the workers, and the other side... doesn't.
I'mmmmm.... not sure I want to take that bait. Best to just walk away.
Hm. Are you really talking to me, or are you talking to someone with whom you recently had this argument?
That's literally the definition of a union, though.
I mean, more effective unions have mandatory membership, but a union itself is literally a group of employees in a field banding together to protecting their common interests.
Yes, I would call that the classic definition of a union. A bit different than the organizations that call themselves unions now.
It's time to organize the world's programmers and make it clear to business that we won't tolerate this treatment any longer. It doesn't matter if we form a union or not as long as we band together to protect our common interests as programmers.
I'm tempted to say that's a first world view. It's a lofty ideal, and might work if the playing field were more level, but when you're incorporating programmers from third world countries, who are looking forward to a subsistence wage in some craphole, it's hard to tell them to go on strike. These people are looking forward to 70 hour weeks (I've seen this, with H-1B workers locally) at lower-middle-class wages, as something that's *still* one hell of a lot better than they came from.
I suspect that attempts to organize will be taken as first worlders trying to save their overly-cushy jobs.
Memory fault - where am I?