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Comment Re:Wise Words (Score 3, Informative) 193

To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public. Nothing but the truth should be spoken about him or any one else. But it is even more important to tell the truth, pleasant or unpleasant, about him than about any one else.

Teddy Roosevelt May 17, 1918

Roosevelt spoke these words in Kansas City on May 7, 1918, no doubt in part to justify his extreme criticisms of President Woodrow Wilson, whom he excoriated for moral flabbiness, for high sounding words unmatched by action, and for not preparing the people of the United States for entry into World War I.

Comment Re:Going for gold (Score 1) 240

>They didn't say whose value it strengthened.

LG's, Westinghouse, GE, and so forth!

Actually, if they had the testicular fortitude, your Samsung would display an add reading, "if you had bought LG, you wouldn't be seeing this!" :)

hawk

Comment Re:Deserve what you get (Score 1) 240

>Has about the same importance as smart tech in a fridge for me.

I live in the desert, you insensitive clod! :_)

but seriously we doohave many days of 115-117F most summers. Self-replenishing ice is *important*.

it's not why we bought it, but our LG actually has two ice makers; one in the refrigerator door, which you can actually clean out, and another for larger square tubes in the upper freezer drawer (which we turn off for the cooler half of the year)

Comment Re:It was never a secret. (Score 1) 240

>A fridge will last for a decade or more,

you would *think* that, but my prior fridge was a Samsung.

The ice maker died of its own buildup just out of warranty, the drip tray for the water dispenser caused rust lines through the paint below it, and the whole thing failed at 4 or 5 years--we came out one morning and it was at 50.

Compare to the Samsung dryers whose stainless steel barrels tend to crack and go out of round, wanting a $400 replacement!

The refurbisher who came out with our temporary dryer told us that from his experience (primarily washers & dryers), Samsung had the highest failure rate, while the other Korean brand, lg,had the lowest, with everything else in between.

Comment Re:It was never a secret. (Score 1) 240

>Agree, and don't even allow my TStat's to connect to wifi.

Have you *read* the license on those?

I brought home a wifi thermostat, thinking it would be nice to be able to change it half an hour out when coming home, and then read the terms.

It was like a parody of the terms you find offered sarcastically around here.

Pretty much, "you agree that we can send armed goons into your house, torture your dog, rape your cat, and sell your children into slavery. We may do anything we want with your data, and even more so if someone is willing to pay us for it."

It went back.

Comment Re:Not a realistic portrayal of AI's capabilities (Score 1) 85

Being able to talk to the computer to ask it to find things based on meanings is like Star Trek technology and it's sad in a way that the hype is distracting from what they're good at. For example, yesterday I had a problem (not tech but a field I know nothing about (oh wait like tech then)) and the first AI search I did gave me an excellent find. Maybe I would have found it after spending all day browsing, but this was a great answer. And what about when we were supposed to wait for the semantic web and all that. So it's a bit sad it gets hyped as being able to replace people.

I hope you checked the answer. AI can give excellent-looking but totally false results.

Comment Re:Code review, not fun. (Score 2) 85

On the other hand, 'code review' is one of the things that really splits senior software developers from the lower levels. Just being good at programming makes you a good programmer. Reviewing and signing off on other people's work is what (generally) makes you a senior or a lead. Probably the number one complaint I hear from senior devs is that they miss coding since so much of their time is spent doing reviews.

When I was at DEC code reviewing was not limited to the senior software engineers--we all did it, both as reveiwers and reviewees. I enjoyed the process, probably because it let me demonstrate my skills to my peers.

Comment Re:Adapter (Score 1) 242

bizarre as it sounds, try Walmart's house brand, Onn.

they'er the only brand (other than apple itself) that I've tried that consistently works (and I've tried most if not all of the major brands).

They usually last until I do something stupid (leave behind, catch in hinges, drop laptop cable first, etc.). And the price is right, too--most are $6-$10.

Comment Re: More recycling (Score 2) 56

On a coop term I wrote some kind of data collection program for Dept of Fisheries and Oceans in Fortran77, and people in the field would upload their data via the acoustic coupler.

If I recall correctly my application worked at 110 bytes/sec

You read that correctly.

I don't think BSD was even a twinkle in anyone's eye in about .. 1981... we would have been using a minicomputer like VAX? Maybe Prime? Possibly HP... I'm guessing Prime, with their own proprietary OS. I doubt very much anyone had considered "security".

What a time to be alive :-)

Actually, that was 110 bits per second, or 10 characters per second. A character transmission consisted of one start bit, eight data bits, and two stop bits. This allowed for an arbitrary time between characters, which was necessary because a character was transmitted when the operator pressed a key.

The next step up from acoustic coupling was the 300 bits per second modem.

I can't speak for HP or Prime, but those of us who worked on the DEC VAX were very concerned about security. We split the usual user mode versus supervisor mode into four parts so that RMS, for example, could be isolated from the user's application but the kernel remained isolated from both.

Comment Re:Buried interesting point (Score 1) 51

No, because experience isn't a protected category. Age is, but only in certain cases mostly dealing with existing employees. Youth isn't protected at all:

https://www.eeoc.gov/age-discr...

"The Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA) forbids age discrimination against people who are age 40 or older. It does not protect workers under the age of 40, although some states have laws that protect younger workers from age discrimination. It is not illegal for an employer or other covered entity to favor an older worker over a younger one, even if both workers are age 40 or older."

Comment Re:Question for you people (Score 1) 70

I would be skeptical that the "no advertisment" claim could be met, and would wait to see if it turned out to be real. Even if it were true for the firrst year, I would worry that the provider of this service would eventually start running ads to improve his revenue. Thus, I would likely subscribe month-to-month so I could cancel if the advertising load became too heavy.

Any movie made during the 20th century is owned by one of the big studios, as are many movies made since. However, there is a lot of movie-making talent out there. Perhaps the provider of this service can fund a wedding photographer and a starving writer to produce some good entertainment using their home studio and a borrowed set. An example is The Man from Earth, https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0..., though in this case the writer was dead.

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