Comment The Quality Improves (Score 1) 205
Maybe I am just out of the TV thing.
Comment How does that work? (Score 5, Informative) 106
I authorize you to break the law. Are they above the law or refusing to enforce the law? Not much difference.
Comment Re:other uses... (Score -1) 20
A physical wall is not required. Trump's wall is simple. The US company offshoring jobs is going to pay the highest taxes on importing their goods. It needs to be punitive. Of course they can't compete with foreign companies by keeping jobs in the US. That is by progressive design. The bucket that was kicked down the road is now filled with C4.
Comment Re:other uses... (Score -1) 20
Like this hasn't already happened. I am willing to bet that the number one purchaser of quadcopters are related to drugs. If it isn't they are stupid. Excuse me while I deliver this dime bag down the street.
Comment Re:Annoying (Score -1) 211
Why not use a password like "This is the first password change."
and then
"1 more password change and i kick your ass!"
and then
"2 times? Why?"
Comment Re:So that makes it OK then (Score -1) 704
There was one instance where they caught themselves
https://wikileaks.org/dnc-emai...
Comment Re:What crimes? (Score -1) 704
There was something in there that made DWS bail out pretty quick. Not even an attempt to defend herself. There was a statement that more will follow after this evening. I wonder what those could include...
Comment Re:No one will be ruled by Trump even if he wins (Score -1) 769
It is funny that you still see this as a partisan problem.
Comment Re:Same trick David Petraeus used (Score -1) 80
If only he had an outside party delete them! Keeping the good stuff of course!
Comment And? (Score 0, Insightful) 140
There is a 50% chance of a world war in that period as well. Which one will kill more?
Comment Re:Not the first time (Score -1) 115
I am pretty sure DameWare lost their ass on the single license they sold to the Navy/Marine Corps.
Submission + - China Bans Ad Blocking, Adblock Plus Cries Foul (adexchanger.com)
An anonymous reader writes: Two weeks ago, China released its first ever set of digital ad regulations that impacted Chinese market leaders like Baidu and Alibaba. "But hidden among (the new regulations) is language that would seem to all but ban ad blocking," wrote Adblock Plus (ABP) operations manager Ben Williams in a blog post Wednesday. The new regulations prohibit "the use of network access, network devices, applications, and the disruption of normal advertising data, tampering with or blocking others doing advertising business (or) unauthorized loading the ad." There is also a clause included that addresses tech companies that "intercept, filter, cover, fast-forward and [impose] other restrictions" on online ad campaigns. ABP general counsel Kai Recke said in an email to AdExchanger that the Chinese State Administration for Industry and Commerce (SAIC) has much more control over the market than its otherwise equal U.S. counterpart, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). "After all it looks like the Chinese government tries to get advertising more under their control and that includes that they want to be the only ones to be allowed to remove or alter ads,” said Recke. “Ad-block users are a distinct audience and they require a distinct strategy and ways to engage them,” said ABP CEO Till Faida at AdExchanger’s Clean Ads I/O earlier this year. “They have different standards they’ve expressed for accessing them, and advertising has to reflect that."
Submission + - SPAM: EPA's gasoline efficiency tests are garbage
schwit1 writes: The tests the EPA uses to establish the fuel efficiency of cars are unreliable, and likely provide no valid information at all about the fuel efficiency of the cars tested.
The law requiring cars to meet these fuel efficiency tests was written in the 1970s, and specifically sets standards based on the technology then. Worse,
The law requiring cars to meet these fuel efficiency tests was written in the 1970s, and specifically sets standards based on the technology then. Worse,
[T]he EPA doesn’t know exactly how its CAFE testing correlates with actual results, because it has never done a comprehensive study of real-world fuel economy. Nor does anyone else. The best available data comes from consumers who report it to the DOT—hardly a scientific sampling.
Other than that, everything is fine. Companies are forced to spend billions on this regulation, the costs of which they immediately pass on to consumers, all based on fantasy and a badly-written law. Gee, I’m sure glad we never tried this with healthcare!
Submission + - How the Internet Helps Sex Workers Keep Customers Honest
HughPickens.com writes: Mid-range prostitution is a relatively new market, enabled by technology. Before the internet, it was hard for escorts to find customers: They had to either walk the streets searching for customers, rely on word-of-mouth, or work with agencies. The internet changed all that as Allison Schrager writes at Quartz that if you work at Goldman Sachs in NYC and you want to tie up a woman and then have sex with her, you'll first have to talk to Rita. Rita will "insist on calling your office, speaking to the switchboard operator, and being patched through to your desk. Then she will want to check out your profile on the company website and LinkedIn. She’ll demand you send her message from your work email, and require a scan of either your passport or driver’s license."
Though some escorts rely on sex work-specific sites that maintain “bad date” lists of potentially dangerous clients, others make use of more mainstream sources to gather information about and verify the identities of potential johns. Rita is addressing a problem that every business, both legal and illegal, has. Before the internet, more commerce occurred locally—customers knew their merchants or service providers and went back to them repeatedly. As technology has expanded our transactional networks, it must also offer new ways of building trust and reputation. "The lesson here is that, while you’d think all the technological options for finding customers would make Rita’s job as a madam obsolete, it has actually made her services more critical," says Schrager. "One step ahead of the mainstream economy, Rita’s thriving business shows that some jobs won’t disappear. They just need to be recast in a way that capitalizes on what made them valuable in the first place."
Though some escorts rely on sex work-specific sites that maintain “bad date” lists of potentially dangerous clients, others make use of more mainstream sources to gather information about and verify the identities of potential johns. Rita is addressing a problem that every business, both legal and illegal, has. Before the internet, more commerce occurred locally—customers knew their merchants or service providers and went back to them repeatedly. As technology has expanded our transactional networks, it must also offer new ways of building trust and reputation. "The lesson here is that, while you’d think all the technological options for finding customers would make Rita’s job as a madam obsolete, it has actually made her services more critical," says Schrager. "One step ahead of the mainstream economy, Rita’s thriving business shows that some jobs won’t disappear. They just need to be recast in a way that capitalizes on what made them valuable in the first place."
Comment Re:what? (Score -1) 135
How do we know it was a programmer? I am thinking about how difficult it would be to accidentally exclude 10B and 10C. It almost has to be intentional.
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