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    Amazon Won't Say If It Hands Echo Data To The Government

    I tried both and nothing happened. How's that False Equivalence working out for you?
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    Warren Buffet Is Pretty Certain That Cryptocurrencies Will End Badly

    Five steps to cash doesn't sound all that liquid but at least it sounds less aggravating than all the recent articles make it out to be.
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    Warren Buffet Is Pretty Certain That Cryptocurrencies Will End Badly

    It isn't income until you cash out and crypto isn't that liquid. Some caution would seem prudent.
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    I love Linux

    UAE runs on well on Linux! :angelic::whistle:
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    Vulnerability Note VU#584653 - CPU Hardware Attacks Solution

    Speculative execution has been around since the S/360 in 1968. It's certain at least a couple of eggheads predicted this kind of attack since then and got told to shut up. Remember how PK encryption played out? On the upside, considering how many direct vectors of attack there have been up...
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    Exploits for Intel CPUs (NOT AMD) Documented

    Yeah, the actual white papers. I find the two-column format headache inducing but is better than the glossy overview.
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    Exploits for Intel CPUs (NOT AMD) Documented

    The whitepapers from the people who discovered it. https://meltdownattack.com/
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    Exploits for Intel CPUs (NOT AMD) Documented

    ALL of the things you mentioned are enabled via these attacks.
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    Exploits for Intel CPUs (NOT AMD) Documented

    Yes.
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    StatCounter: Windows 10 Still Hasn’t Overtaken Windows 7

    Add people who use ERPs from Infor to that list. Moving to W10 requires an in-place upgrade of the software, costing _almost_ as much as an implementation. As such, we will be upgrading long past 2020. Same thing happened with W7.
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    Some Galaxy Note 8 Phones Not Turning On after Battery Hits Zero

    Li-ion are notoriously fussy about charge and are supposed to prevent themselves from being discharged fully for this reason. Maybe they're pushing the margins to hit a set uptime for marketing?
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    Is Technology About to Decimate White-Collar Work?

    That's referred to as "padding". They have computers in the law library for research. You can get citings from 1867's Constitution Act or SCC decisions back to 1876 if you like. Generally, using century-old precedents isn't common outside of a decision that's being pumped up for possible...
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    Tesla Will Release a Pickup After the Model Y

    Like the crew-cabs with a full-size bed and a small diesel that "aren't for the NA market" (except Mexico, though)? I remember those, too. GD market segmentation!
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    Is Technology About to Decimate White-Collar Work?

    It is worth it when you produce over a hundred million parts per annum. There is no morality to it, either. You either have the lowest price or you don't get the job awarded to you and all the workers are SOL.
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    Is Technology About to Decimate White-Collar Work?

    All decisions in Canada are online, as are all Acts, and they're considered valid. There are a number of states that have this capability as well.
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    Is Technology About to Decimate White-Collar Work?

    We manage our costs to 6 decimal places in manufacturing; 1/1000th isn't granular enough. We also make heavy use of automation as, after material, labour is the highest controllable expense.
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    Elon Musk Calls Transit Expert “An Idiot” and Says Public Transport “Sucks”

    Aren't arcraft carrier lifts usually hydraulic? That's more of a PITA for maintenance than a simple electric motor.
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    Elon Musk Calls Transit Expert “An Idiot” and Says Public Transport “Sucks”

    I appreciate the clarification of your argument, but bad infrastructure is what Canada is known for. There is no top-down planning; streets are the provenance of the municipality paying for them and there is simply no way what you propose would work. The best commute is the one not taken...
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    The FCC Has Repealed Net Neutrality

    The US killing that deal was the best thing to happen to Canadian Internet users. We'd be open to getting rammed by the House of Mouse every time l'il Timmy decided not to wait for whatever they recently excreted to hit BluRay, amongst other things.
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    Elon Musk Calls Transit Expert “An Idiot” and Says Public Transport “Sucks”

    I think a large part of the problem is our current corporate overlords still want asses in seats. A substantial number of staff could work from home via VPN and not commute at all, which is the ideal scenario if you are trying to relieve congestion and go easier on the environment. Companies...
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    Elon Musk Calls Transit Expert “An Idiot” and Says Public Transport “Sucks”

    Your cargo bike isn't heated and if you are dumb enough to bike 2 kids in an unheated trailer on the typical winter commute in Ontario you will be arrested for child endangerment. Your argument is the typical claptrap from someone who's never actually had to commute in a suburban landscape in...
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    Elon Musk Calls Transit Expert “An Idiot” and Says Public Transport “Sucks”

    For a single person in a warm climate, your idea has merit. Try biking in Ontario (Canada, not Cali.) when it's -20 out and you have two kids to drop off at daycare.
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    Traffic Engineers’ Epic Fail

    It's pretty normal here and, not visible in that photo, the new ones illuminate the crosswalk beneath them so you can see people in it at night.
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    Traffic Engineers’ Epic Fail

    Does the rest of the world have snowfall that's measured in feet? Speed humps are hard on snow plows and bridges would need to be de-iced or end up closed in the winter.
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    Traffic Engineers’ Epic Fail

    My Garmin has this feature. It pops a large notice when the speed limit changes. Not much use since I don't need a GPS to navigate my neighbourhood but for the cars with nav systems it would be worth doing (if they ever stop blocking OTA updates for said system.)
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    Hackers Shut Down Plant by Targeting Its Safety System

    No need, most of them don't work!
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    Happy 24th Birthday Doom!

    We tossed the cable out the window, dropping it down a floor, to connect two apartments together with coax! Many beer-infused deathmatches commenced (they started as co-op...:whistle:)
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    Happy 24th Birthday Doom!

    Falcon 3 .0 and X-Wing were the reason Thrustmaster was making a mint. The joys of mapping 19 buttons is lost on kids today with their 2/6 layouts!
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    State Legislator Wants to Ban Kids from Buying Video Game Loot Boxes

    S'okay, it's tricky business! I think you're correct with the "intended value" part of the argument as I think that's how baseball cards avoided this mess.
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    State Legislator Wants to Ban Kids from Buying Video Game Loot Boxes

    My point was that, through skill, you could earn a free game or two whilst playing on the first quarter. And try telling poker or baccarat players there's no skill involved!
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    State Legislator Wants to Ban Kids from Buying Video Game Loot Boxes

    You put a quarter in a pinball machine and you win a free game. The game has a monetary value ($0.25) and a combination of chance and skill was involved. Guess how gambling is defined by the law? I just can't believe this still hasn't been sorted out after all the noise over online betting...
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    State Legislator Wants to Ban Kids from Buying Video Game Loot Boxes

    They were regulated in many jurisdictions, for one. There were all sorts of scare articles at the time, too, of the "turning tricks to pay for pinball | pacman | fad of the week" variety.
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    Neverwinter Nights Enhanced Edition Announced for PC

    They had a Linux client as well; it's still installed on my system!
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    Patch alert: Microsoft Acknowledges Printer Bug; Forced 1709 Upgrades Continue

    Anyone else get the "A critical process has stopped" error after the upgrade? Not even a minidump left behind.
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    Munich Council: To Hell with Linux, We’re Going Full Windows in 2020

    It was an Excel sheet saved in 2010 and opened in 2010 and entirely reproducible. Blaming the user for software bugs is silly.
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    Munich Council: To Hell with Linux, We’re Going Full Windows in 2020

    Binary drivers don't always play nicely with embedded GPUs has been my experience, but that was a long time ago. Also could be relegated to using the legacy driver, which can also affect Windows.
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    Munich Council: To Hell with Linux, We’re Going Full Windows in 2020

    There's a 50/50 chance an Excel sheet will open correctly in Excel. My favourite bug is when it decided to reinterpret a date column as text, but only for half the rows!
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    Munich Council: To Hell with Linux, We’re Going Full Windows in 2020

    Exchange is terrible and always has been. The endless ways it can fuck up your Active Directory is legendary. Even today, when I lookup documentation for my Exchange 2016 it dumps me into 2013 docs, which may or may not apply as "some cmdlets have been changed." It's nice when it works but...
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    Munich Council: To Hell with Linux, We’re Going Full Windows in 2020

    Which is an argument in Microsoft's favour. That was their grand strategy and it still is. Get the cheap IT staff hooked on the MS suite and that's who (and what) will proliferate. I use Linux for every instance I can in our business but continuity matters and I can't be sure my successor...
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    Munich Council: To Hell with Linux, We’re Going Full Windows in 2020

    Active Directory is just LDAP and you can use Samba if you want the file shares. Postfix for SMTP, Dovecot for IMAP, whatever you like. The only thing lacking is the integrated calendar which is 90% of what businesses want when they go Outlook/Exchange. LibreOffice for most tasks, but not the...
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