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Comment Re:They're not just blocking (Score 1) 27

Your primary banking card can be 'hacked' without a device, sort of. Give it to your restaurant server, and it is out there. Forbid they take a moment and scrape it.

Stuff it into a reader somewhere. Forbid it is actually the reader covered by a shim.

Read it off to someone to pay a bill. You may never know who that is.

There is no perfect security.

Comment Re: Care to name them? (Score 1) 69

"we're paralyzed by stupidity, bigotry and an overwhelming urge to prevent anyone from having a happy life without being miserable a minimum of 40 hours a week."

As I meant to write, presuming no one can have 'a happy life without being miserable a minimum of 40 hours a week' seems to me a claim that a 40 hour a week job leaves employees universally 'miserable'.

Did I misinterpret your assertion? Please elaborate.

That's one, and it's enough.

Comment Re:It didn't fail music (Score 1) 93

Spotify is a broadcaster. You think broadcaster = radio, but the medium doesn't matter.

And broadcasting is distribution today. And that's control. No different than AM radio, them FM radio. Today you have millions of potential channels, not the two dozen or so the radio gave you.

You want to listen to more than one artist? You have to find them. Broadcasting shows them to you. And if decides what to deliver. If does so by choosing from the perpetual flood of content presented to it.

And artists never got paid well by broadcasting. And, truly, none but the very very popular artists ever do very well. The market dilutes revenue so thoroughly it's pennies for the masses.

Fair? Ha. Life isn't fair.

Comment Re: It's in the effort. (Score 1) 88

Even if it worked, you're thinking the pilot could, in 5 seconds at best, decide between attempting to climb out, finding a less lethal course to suffer the crash with minimized ground casualties, or immediately dive into the nearest obstacle to contain the damage in some way.

Nope. The flight crew may have even trusted the #3 engine failure was not real, but instrumentation failure. The roll would prove them wrong, but too late to change anything. They were already in uncontrolled flight. No recovery.

This isn't like US1549 , where they had double-digit seconds to evaluate the failures. And even then they 27 seconds to decide they could not return to any airport. This accident did not seem to last 27 seconds in total.

If this is caused by engine disassembly, we can expect inspections and both corrective and preventative actions to be mandated. What else could they do?

Comment Re:That just sounds like nonsense (Score 1) 52

AIX is a niche OS, and sadly, because it had potential. Since POEWR9 systems can run Ubuntu Jammy (or later they claim), AIX is caught in competition, though anyone running POWER9 ought to be running AIX and keep Ubuntu in a VM or partition, eh?

PowerPC is pretty much the only modern IBM platform my little brother does not program in. And he is unapologetic, claiming he's busy enough. This I doubt.

Comment Re:That just sounds like nonsense (Score 1) 52

Since the lowering head count and firing stuff was explicitly stated in the announcement, the sad claims of some subterfuge are more Marxist-analog complaint, class warfare at its heart.

IBM wants to shed employees that do not appear, to management, to be the best allocation of resources towards new and different goals. Wow, when you put it hat way, it seems to dastardly and intended to cause maximum harm to society and humankind. Or not. I vote for not.

But this is /. and so is a haven for the Marxist theories, the refuge of those failed, failing, or suffering any indignity such as unmet want, denied desires, or perceived injustice.

Be aware you are wasting your negative mod points. You failed to understand the /. faqs, or you're just trying to be mean. Confession, I do the latter too often.

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