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bypoetmatt
19 @01:17PM
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Attached to: AG Barr Says Consumers Should Accept Security Risks of Encryption Backdoors
Didn't administrations before Obama act the same way as well? Wasn't this the whole thing is that basically every few years on cue the gov't tries to fight encryption as if it's a bad thing? Wyden has been at the other end of the spectrum for years. https://www.techdirt.com/artic...
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bypoetmatt
2017 @08:19PM
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Attached to: FCC Approves Next-Gen ATSC 3.0 TV Standard
I believe the correct wording is that it's a mechanism to charge people *of* color
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bypoetmatt
2017 @01:00PM
(#53946931)
Attached to: First Signs of Obesity In Some Arctic Groups Have Been Linked To Instant Noodles
Pasta is about 90% pasta and 10% sauce. I wouldn't even suggest putting them together.
That's like calling pizza a vegetable.
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bypoetmatt
2017 @12:58PM
(#53946911)
Attached to: For This Year's iPhone, Apple Is Ditching Lightning Connector and Home Button, But Embracing USB Type-C and Curved Display
I find it hilarious - here is apple having tried to force a proprietary standard, so everything existing is not compatible (lightning).
Now we have apple finally adopting everyone else's industry standard and everything they had previously is incompatible (USB-C).
Isn't this what happened to Firewire?
Maybe one day they'll catch up to headphone jacks.
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bypoetmatt
6 @09:48PM
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Attached to: Comcast To Offer Pay-As-You-Go TV, Broadband Service
Please. It's something they do because they want to charge people more for the same service. It has nothing to do with customers not paying bills. That's what *contracts* are for.
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bypoetmatt
2016 @06:49AM
(#52455259)
Attached to: Japan Says Yes To Mirrorless Cars
Actually if we're talking a camera, why couldn't people replace it with their own?
Probably not all that complicated.
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bypoetmatt
@09:42PM
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Attached to: Security Expert Jailed For Reporting Vulnerabilities In Lee County, FL Elections
This is explicitly incorrect. You cannot and will never get permission.
The DMCA and other laws need to enable security testing by security professionals if it's not causing harm (as opposed to negligence). I do recall there are already laws on the books for this.
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bypoetmatt
2016 @09:21PM
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Attached to: Snowden Ridicules David Cameron For Defending 'Private' Matter of Panama Papers Leak
government spying is extremely lucrative, so these things are not separate. If you're spying on business deals you're going to profit immediately.
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bypoetmatt
2016 @12:31PM
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Attached to: Laid-Off Abbott IT Workers Won't Have To Train Their Replacements
when those are your choices you're basically telling us you're too ignorant to realize that you shouldn't have to make bad choices. You're the definition of voter apathy.
If your choice is to lose an arm or a leg, well maybe you shouldn't have to accept either option.
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bypoetmatt
016 @12:30PM
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Attached to: A New Reality For IT: the 18-Month Org Chart
This is the very definition of bad math/outsourcing mistakes.
Just because it costs less doesn't mean you're getting an equivalent service. If you save $200k but lose $500k in productivity then congrats you have outsourced to the detriment of the business. Likewise transition costs take out more productivity.
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bypoetmatt
016 @12:23PM
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Attached to: A New Reality For IT: the 18-Month Org Chart
While the relationship isn't equal financially, the leave/fire is exactly equal.
You're not obligated to give 2 weeks and neither are they . You're given whatever the company is financially obligated to give you when you leave and vice versa. Etc.
The relationship isn't equal financially in that they make financially a substantially larger amount of money than what they pay you - which isn't disclosed to you. If you make $100k but they're making $700k off of you (even after expenses), who is getting the bad deal?
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bypoetmatt
03, 2016 @11:09AM
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Attached to: John Cleese Warns Campus Political Correctness Leading Towards 1984
I think a better way to word that is everyone is entitled to offend /insult you.
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bypoetmatt
2016 @04:02PM
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Attached to: AMD Rips 'Biased and Unreliable' Intel-Optimized SYSmark Benchmark
Having to pay money to remove corruption in an established organization is not the definition of ethical business in the first place.
That's called the old extortion/thug plan "pay up for protection".
BAPco deserves $0 from anyone, especially if they have a problem discriminating against people who don't give them omney.
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bypoetmatt
18, 2015 @09:26PM
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Attached to: Scientists Grow Working Vocal Cord Tissue In the Lab
That's only if you put the vocal cords inside his anus.
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bypoetmatt
2015 @08:59PM
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Attached to: Non-Binding Resolution: EU States Should Protect Snowden
Maybe they weren't.
The real vote wasn't 285 to 281. It was 342 to 274. Not "Close".
see: http://www.europarl.europa.eu/...
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