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  1. Technology doesn't stand still.

  2. Re:Never Happens (Till it Happens) on Self-Driving Cars Will Boost the Job Market, Says Marc Andreessen (recode.net) · · Score: 1

    How hard will it be to teach a manufacturing robot to replace a circuit board?

  3. Re:"It never happens". on Self-Driving Cars Will Boost the Job Market, Says Marc Andreessen (recode.net) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    No, but we need to do better than the Right's drumbeat of "only the lazy don't have jobs". If we continue to worship corporatism and capitalism we could end up with large numbers people starving because they aren't capable of getting the education and skills they need to get a job. That's a significant number of people.

  4. Re:Free laptop rental service! on US Might Ban Laptops On All Flights Into And Out of the Country (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    The President shouldn't be on Slashdot OR Twitter.

    In other words, you are an unethical douche.

  5. not foolproof on Mastercard is Building Fingerprint Scanners Directly Into Its Cards (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    There are other things you can comment on like above, but I there are other ways this can go wrong as well.

    I have been diagnosed with bad eczema on my hands recently, and it mostly affects the tips of my fingers. The sensor on my Nexus will now periodically stop accepting my fingerprint scans until I log in with another authentication method and rescan them.

    If you don't have any backup ways to provide authentication there are cases where people will get locked out for medical reasons. That won't be extremely common I guess, but fingerprint biometric will, like all systems, not solve all problems.

  6. Re:Way to prepare kids for the real world on New Research Says Starting University Classes at 11am or Later Would Improve Learning (qz.com) · · Score: 2

    I'm with you! God made us to be corporate slaves! Start in grade school to work toward your corporate servitude! Oscar Muñoz and the CEO league salute you!

  7. At a party school 11am is to early and 1pm is too late. The idea is to get the piece of paper, not learn anything.

  8. Re:More US warmongering on US Strikes Syrian Base With Over 50 Tomahawk Missiles (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 1, Informative

    How is claiming that there was a big payoff "conspiracy stuff". Every one of these attacks is a big corporate payoff no matter what the reasoning behind the attack.

  9. Re:More US warmongering on US Strikes Syrian Base With Over 50 Tomahawk Missiles (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 0

    They paid Haliburton to deal with a lot of that stuff it and ended up being nothing more than a corporate payout since they really wanted to take the money an run.

  10. This is more CEO worship tripe. There is NO ONE worth that money when it comes to a CEO. No one at all.

  11. You don't need constitutional amendments for each and every issue. To need a single constitutional amendment to limit influence of the massive amount of lobbyist and donor cash that has flowed into government since 1980.

    The amount influence corporate cash has on the system is the problem that is behind every major problem we have, whether it is health care, right to repair, or massive amount of money we are spending on national defence. The situation looks a whole hell of a lot like we have no representation... that is we have representation in name only. My Congressional rep sure as hell doesn't care about his constituents. It's all about the donor culture now. If we are smart we would working to change THAT.

  12. Re:poor workers? on Struggling Workers Found Sleeping In Tents Behind Amazon's Warehouse (thecourier.co.uk) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Negotiate? How much power do you think an individual has as compared with the corporation currently? There is no negotiation... you take it or leave it.

  13. Re:They could always work elsewhere. on Struggling Workers Found Sleeping In Tents Behind Amazon's Warehouse (thecourier.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    This is the type of selfish bullshit that is threatening the US and the whole world right now. Thanks, jackass. You're the problem.

  14. Re: 10x more job loss than coal on Self-Driving Trucks Begin Real-World Tests on Ohio's Highways (cbsnews.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Not everyone can get a PhD or Master's degree. You have to allow for the "stupid" people unless you want to promote extermination, which makes you an even bigger idiot than your comment makes you out to be.

  15. Re:Get some space ready.. on Self-Driving Trucks Begin Real-World Tests on Ohio's Highways (cbsnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Screw that. They are just "skills challenged". We'll just train them to be coders.

  16. Re: Our Jerbs!! on Self-Driving Trucks Begin Real-World Tests on Ohio's Highways (cbsnews.com) · · Score: 1

    The party of personal responsibility doesn't do anything but suck corporate wang.

  17. I am confused why it would COST 2x to the consumer. It's two times the cost of manufacture, but as I have read the manufacturing cost is actually quite low and most of the cost of an iPhone has to do with the premium paid for the Apple name.

    2x a small number is often still a small number.

  18. I have asked many times for someone to come up with an example of a country besides the US that has a system of law and enforcement that actively prefers non-citizens to citizens. No one can come up with an answer.

  19. Yeah.. right now all worker shortages are in this category.

  20. The same old shit from corporate assholes. This isn't how things work and you know it.

  21. When so many corporations get around their taxes completely, what can cuts do.

    We keep doing the same bullshit over and over and over. Cutting corporate taxes helps the corporate class and does little for anyone else.

  22. Re:Trump says science is a fake on What the Trump Win Means For Tech and Science (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Coal is very much needed in steel and aluminum manufacturing, and those things are needed if one thinks our manufacturing is important, as Trump clearly does.

    In the long run being able to breathe is more important than manufacturing.

  23. Re:Trump says science is a fake on What the Trump Win Means For Tech and Science (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    On the other hand, if he can get his corporate income tax cut passed, we'll see a resurgence of manufacturing in the US.

    BULLSHIT.

    First, you're pushing a myth. The tax rate is high because they get so many deductions, but their actual paid taxes are lower than they every have been. The corporations with the best tax lawyers have an affective NEGATIVE rate in many cases.

    Secondly, the only way manufacturing is ever coming back to the US is if the labor pool because the virtual slave labor pool of China, India, and other parts of the 3rd world. If that's what you hope for then screw you, you're part of the problem.

  24. Re: Trump says science is a fake on What the Trump Win Means For Tech and Science (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I would add that he got elected because he knows how to run a confidence scam.

  25. Re:Not (quite) dead yet on What the Trump Win Means For Tech and Science (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 2

    Trump might not be a criminal technically because he has never been convicted in criminal court, but he breaks the law all the damned time.