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I pay for NY Times and WSJ. If more people did that, we'd have less malicious "fake news."
Re:Theranos and David Boies Cut Legal Ties on Friday November 25, 2016 @12:04AM (#13034513)
You know who did commit fraud and was never, ever prosecuted? The millions of homeowners who applied for mortgages they had no way of paying back.
Without any facts, I'm skeptical. He should either move on with his life, or make a formal complaint and/or a lawsuit.

Taking the middle road with a story with few details on Medium doesn't help anyone.

Re:Teen Creates “Sit with Us” App for Bullied Kids on Wednesday September 14, 2016 @01:28PM (#12499263)
Won't the bullies use this app to lure "losers" over and then make fun of them? I don't see how this will help.
Re:How the Sugar Industry Shifted Blame to Fat on Monday September 12, 2016 @01:41PM (#12481834)
This bad advice may have directly contributed to the deaths of millions of people.
Re:Sophisticated OS X Backdoor Discovered on Thursday September 08, 2016 @03:48PM (#12456640)
I think he's paid by Apple.
Re:Association Between Cesarean Birth and Risk of Obesity on Wednesday September 07, 2016 @02:35PM (#12445841)
Why would a person who had had a "Cesarean Birth" choose to eat more? This raises more questions than it answers.
Re:I lost my OpenBSD full-disk encryption password on Monday September 05, 2016 @03:21PM (#12431840)
That's why I keep them written down in my safe!
Re:Can Facebook really make ads unblockable? on Monday August 15, 2016 @04:33PM (#12293200)
I'd be happy if all ads became served from the same domain, an integral part of the page (no popovers, popups, focus stealers, etc) and not-dynamic. That would remove 90% of my objections to them.

Third party ads with javascript can and have been used to introduce malware, through deception or zero-day/drive-by exploits, even on otherwise reputable sites. It is for that reason that I block ads.

Re:How Home Loans Have Changed since 2000 on Monday August 15, 2016 @04:28PM (#12293158)
If everyone had to pay 20% down, house prices would be lower.
Re:The cost of small modules on Monday August 15, 2016 @03:05PM (#12292646)
In pure functional programming, which is most of what I do, there are zillions of "small modules" and everything seems to work just fine...
It reminds me of IPV4 addresses. All this panic about "we're going to run out and the Internet will stop working" yet we haven't seemed to run out. We keep finding more! And we have an obviously finite supply.
Re:What Makes a McMansion Bad Architecture? on Sunday August 14, 2016 @06:40PM (#12287655)
The guy likes his houses symmetric. That's about all he said.
No. I am concerned about the city's property being stolen.

The recyclables belong to the city once I leave it out for recycling. They collect the value from it, including any deposit value.

As a Taxpayer, I want this value to go to the city.

Re:A New Wireless Hack Can Unlock 100M Volkswagens on Saturday August 13, 2016 @09:57PM (#12283978)
Yes, but SDR allows for the quick and easy experimentation, even if the hack ends up being implemented on other equipment.
Exactly right. People _steal_ recyclables in my area, too, and many Progressives seem fine with theft and the unreported income that results. We have many other criminal acts (which have been caught on camera) associated with this, including rummaging through cars and package theft.

When "three strikes" was foolishly overturned by pro-crime Californians, the amount that you have to steal to be charged with a felony also increased. So people can steal items from cars and doorsteps, in addition to recyclables, and never have to worry about spending a day in prison.

Re:A New Wireless Hack Can Unlock 100M Volkswagens on Saturday August 13, 2016 @02:19AM (#12280502)
Nobody (including me!) expected extremely cheap software-defined radio transmitters and receivers to be available. A short key and a rolling code seemed like a good enough obstacle for a door lock 20 years ago.
If you haven't looked at windows lately, look at Windows 10. It's wonderful; I "switched back" from Mac, and so has everyone else at the office, except for ios development.

So you can get exactly the hardware you want and a stable experience.

Re:The fight to cheat death is heating up on Thursday August 11, 2016 @06:22PM (#12272067)
With obesity at 66% (in the United States) I think the average life expectancy will start going down.

1900/day isn't very extreme. It's what I do on days I don't go to the gym (and 2200/day on days I do go). And I'm not underweight either--I'm within the healthy BMI range. People just eat too much food!

Self-Service Checkouts Can Turn Customers into Shoplifters, Study Says

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/11/business/self-service-checkouts-can-turn-customers-into-shoplifters-study-says.html?module=WatchingPortal&region=c-column-middle-span-region&pgType=Homepage&action=click&mediaId=thumb_square&state=standard&contentPlacement=9&version=internal&contentCollection=www.nytimes.com&contentId=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nytimes.com%2F2016%2F08%2F11%2Fbusiness%2Fself-service-checkouts-can-turn-customers-into-shoplifters-study-says.html&eventName=Watching-article-click&_r=0

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Re:Researchers crack open malware that hid for 5 years on Wednesday August 10, 2016 @05:59PM (#12265028)
That's another great idea! Like the cages around thermostats!
Re:Researchers crack open malware that hid for 5 years on Tuesday August 09, 2016 @04:24PM (#12257446)
And that's why you can still buy new i7 and Xeon motherboards with PS2 keyboard connectors--because some sites don't want there to be USB ports on the computers.

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