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Comment Only if sick (Score 1) 109

Currently the official stance has been to work from home if you are sick. Which with a 5 day incubation time, that is just stupid.
The sad thing is that almost everyone here could work remotely with no real impact. Those who would need to be here, would be better protected if the rest of us were home.
Honestly though, come next week I may just work from home anyway.

Comment One hub reset away from a bad day (Score 1) 151

Seeing as usb hubs and cables can flake out, it seems like this would just be asking for trouble.

Would it not be just as safe to encrypt the hard drive and issue a force reboot when the cable (or whatever) is removed?
Unless your concern is that you could be forced by a court to provide your laptop password.

Comment Re:Amazon Prime delivery (Score 1) 48

I am sure mileage varies for the quality of the deliveries. I know when Amazon delivers to my house they take a picture and ask for a review of every delivery. That did not happen on day one, and is something they added shortly afterwards (probably due to issues like you have experienced).

On the flip side, I have had Fedex hold my package hostage before, and they had given me a 5 minute window at the end of the day, on the other side of town, to pick it up. Each service has their pro's and con's, and likely will differ quite a bit based on where you live.

Comment If only there was a safeguard (Score 2) 144

From Tesla's website:
Note: A paired Phone Key uses Bluetooth frequencies instead of a network connection to communicate with your Model 3. This means that if you’re parked in an underground parking garage with no cell signal on either your phone or your car, you can still lock, unlock, and start your vehicle without issue.

I get the feeling there is going to be a giant ass banner on the app that says to turn your bluetooth on if you are having problems connecting with the servers going forward.

Comment Re:What happened to Perl? (Score 1) 268

I was also surprised to not see it on the list, seeing as there were so many niche languages listed.

It gets a lot of flack for being "old" or "irrelevant". I use a modern framework and have found it is faster, more stable and works better than many of the new fad languages.

Comment Re:I stopped taking pictures early due to the weat (Score 1) 51

You may be correct, unfortunately I do not have pictures up unto the impact itself to completely verify.

That being said the pictures I have are during totality, so the image was adjusted for the darker moon, but the meteor (or whatever it was I saw) came from the left, so it would have been more illuminated.

Comment I stopped taking pictures early due to the weather (Score 5, Interesting) 51

But looking back at some of my totality pictures I am able to see the meteor approach the moon before the impact.

I dismissed it at first as just a background star until I heard about the meteor, I can clearly see it moving towards the moon, and can make out the shape a bit.

Really cool, was not expecting that.

Comment Everyone is worried about the service staff (Score 1) 276

Just wait until Comcast or some other major sp(c)ammer gets their grubby mitts on this.
Expect to get phone calls every day as they want to sell you the latest and greatest crap you don't want.

Need to get your internet fixed? Why pay a worker in a call center $0.03/hour to take your call when you can just have duplex do it?

Submission + - Bill Would Legalize Active Defense Against Hacks

Trailrunner7 writes: A new bill intended to update the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act would allow victims of computer attacks to engage in active defense measures to identify the attacker and disrupt the attack.

Proposed by Rep. Tom Graves (R-Ga.), the bill would grant victims of computer intrusions unprecedented rights. Known as the Active Cyber Defense Certainty Act, the legislation seeks to amend the CFAA, the much-maligned 1986 law that is used in most computer crime prosecutions.

The proposed legislation includes the caveat that victims can’t take any actions that destroy data on another person’s computer, causes physical injury to someone, or creates a threat to public safety. The concept of active defense has been a controversial one in the security community for several years, with many experts saying the potential downside outweighs any upside. Not to mention that it’s generally illegal.

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