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  1. Re:The days of high taxes on corps are numbered on After Brexit, More Than 100 Firms May Move To Ireland (mirror.co.uk) · · Score: 3, Informative

    I guess those are words you live by.
    $1 a year is to just get around taxes. And unlike the trump foundation the Clinton foundation had a mission to help people.

  2. Re:WTF? on Some Pixels Have Problems (techtimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Building a phone is hard work. There area lot of details that us armchair designers fail to realize. The got rid of a port for more battery life. But look at x they did it with the port only a few months later you see they catch on fire because the battery is too tightly put in the device.
    There is a saying don't get version 1 of a device unless you can afford it to not work.

  3. Re:The days of high taxes on corps are numbered on After Brexit, More Than 100 Firms May Move To Ireland (mirror.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    So people getting paid from non corporate entities means a full tax free economy subsection.
    If you get paid for your work you are a business of one. So you need to pay taxes.

    I think sales tax and having a value add tax would make more sense. Because it gives people more control of their income. If they make more money they can hold onto it but most likely they will spend more. People with less money can't buy as much so they spend less.
    In some ways it is like a fixed tax. However our progressive tax system is so manipulated that it works a a regressive system. Where the rich can pay less than the poor.

  4. Re:The days of high taxes on corps are numbered on After Brexit, More Than 100 Firms May Move To Ireland (mirror.co.uk) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The thing about Trump is he just lies about everything. In business that isn't a big deal as the contract will force all actions. But for government it is a problem. We have the perception of lying politicians however for the most part they are rather truthful they may be wrong or misinformed but they are truthful. When most presidents say I want to do x, y or z when the opportunity comes up to do it they will. Trump who lies about everything just because people want to hear it stands on both sides of the fences and we have no idea what he will do when facing two conflicts ideas.

  5. Re:shocked shes still around. on 'Star Wars' Actress Carrie Fisher 'Stable' After In-Flight Heart Attack (abc7news.com) · · Score: 1

    The 1980s anti-drug PSA tried to send an over simplified version of the problem. Most drugs will not kill you right away or get you addicted on the first hit. But prolonged use does hell to the body's. Chances are her heart attack at 60 is due to that lifestyle of her youth.

  6. Re:Carrie Fisher has a therapy dog on 'Star Wars' Actress Carrie Fisher 'Stable' After In-Flight Heart Attack (abc7news.com) · · Score: 2

    Then after they manned up. They will become alcoholics, violent, or just some other problem to society. But they were tough though on the outside like a real man.
    Or we can just improve our pet infrastructure to allow people to bring sufficiently trained pets who can just diffuse our problems with just a touch or a friendly action. Because such actions we cannot get from people anymore.

  7. You have your customer in the store they are going to buy something if China KFC is anything like the American version most people when they get to the checkout knows what they want. At best you may recommend some up sales or push food with a higher probability. But I don't see the need for all that technology for such a small advantage.

  8. Re:You mean something awful victim? on GamerGate Critic Brianna Wu To Run For Congress (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Similarly how Fox News "accidentally" mislabeled and digraced republican as democrat. So when ever you see a basket of deplorables you want to place them in a group that isn't yours. And we like to think there is a small group of unified people who are such a group of deplorable. Not realizing that most groups are complex and have people with various views and priorities. Sure this guy may be a sexist but he may not be a racist or a religious nut or even vote republican. But because he has this negative aspect to him when he is talking it and showing it we classified him into the bad guy group.

  9. Re:Asking Obvious on How Would You Generate C Code Using Common Lisp Macros? (github.com) · · Score: 1

    The performance of C or any low level language is up to the ability of the programmer and the deadlines placed on them, or the fact they may get board or wiring that one section and say good enough. The reason why most software sucks and every developer thinks they can do x, y or z better is probably because they can with some time. However most people don't have the time to just sit there and fix every part until it reaches optimal because they could waste their life away on a piece of code that may not be worth the life's effort.
    Higher level languages often take the burden from us and give us a presets of better than good enough tools to work with.
    So when I say x.sort() I am confident that it isn't a lazy bubble sort where I needed to code in the last minute because the product was due the next day and x will only be a small list currently and the testers won't see a problem. Until 3 years later after a spec change caused that small list to be huge and slowed the system down.

  10. Re:Liberal whining farms on UK Hits Clean Energy Milestone: 50% of Electricity From Low Carbon Sources (theguardian.com) · · Score: -1, Troll

    After 8 years of the conservatives whining about the liberals in charge coming up with their own set of lies.

  11. 20mph over the limit is dangerous speeding unless the speed limit was set for political reasons. Next to a school or because some jerk protested to the mayors office or something.
    But to the point. Autopilot isn't meant for a self driving car. It is setup to keep you safe while distracted from those odd human needs. Where our eyes are off the road for the split second.
    If you want to speed go ahead. It isn't stopping you. But you can't blame the autopilot if you get pulled over.

  12. Re:We already have one. on White House: US Needs a Stronger Social Safety Net To Help Workers Displaced by Robots (recode.net) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    That stuff you learned in C++ can translate easily to node.js as the languages are cousins to each other.
    However with my formal education I am comfortable learning a new language as I know the roots on how these languages work at many levels.
    I was self taught before I went to school. Before schooling I was a good coder and worked professionally on many projects (oh the 1990s were wonderful). But after schooling there was less magic. The problems that I ran into afterwords made sence and I know how to approach solving it vs hoping for a blind solution or blaming the compiler.

  13. Re:Why they are slow? on Slashdot Asks: Why Are Browsers So Slow? (ilyabirman.net) · · Score: 1

    Well more to the point the web browser is a very vulnerable software.
    So there is a lot of extra things to do to keep your system safe. Memory sandboxes, double checks on all requests figuring what to do about malformed messages.... browsing and rendering is the least of its conserned.

  14. Re:Great on AT&T Is Adding a Spam Filter For Phone Calls (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    So you are blame for the crappy design in our telecom infrastructure?
    In a system where we get billed for every call we make or get. To say that there is no way to validate the call origin seems like criminal negligence on the telecom side.

  15. Re:We already have one. on White House: US Needs a Stronger Social Safety Net To Help Workers Displaced by Robots (recode.net) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Education != intelligence
    I think the real issue isn't formal education but vocational towards jobs that are needed and offer a formal retraining when such jobs go out of date.

    The fact is you can't do the same job every day for the rest of your life. Even us software developers workers over the past 40 years (full career) needed to move from COBOL to C to Perl to what ever is new now Python/.Net/Java/Node.JS.

    To survive today you need to be well trained. Formal education is valuable because such people know how to teach themselves. However for many we need continued training on new ways to do things to keep our skills up.

  16. Re:Great on AT&T Is Adding a Spam Filter For Phone Calls (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    If AT&T can tell that it is a spoofed caller ID, then they could automatically block the call. AT&T being AT&T who handles the call routings should be able to tell if the call (at least the phone bill for the call) is based on the given service area.

  17. Re:France, federation? on France Becomes First Federal Postal Service To Use Drones To Deliver Mail (vice.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    I wouldn't call it being pedantic. While the United States is a federated government. Where we have 50 states with their own set of rules and constitutions with a federal government to oversee the states.
    France's government isn't like the US. And its postal service isn't federal.

  18. It isn't taking away ports or keys. It is because they are taking away stuff and not adding an alternative.

  19. Re:America hates Hillary Clinton on Electoral College Elects Donald Trump As President (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 1

    We do have heat indoors.

  20. Re:America hates Hillary Clinton on Electoral College Elects Donald Trump As President (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    She did win the popular vote though.

  21. Re:Hate the office life on Are Remote Offices Becoming The New Normal? (backchannel.com) · · Score: 1

    if you feel like you can do your job just as well from home (All the time) the chances are your job is at risk. Because that job can easily be done from anywhere else in the world for less money.
    There is value working face to face with your coworkers. Bouncing ideas off them seeing if they find a better solution to the mess you feel like you are coding yourself into. Helping out others you may be coming to a deadline while they help you when it gets to you.
    Yes it will require many developers to get past there vision of themselves being flawless super techs. Because to be honest we all get stuck or are just in the wrong frame of mind. Person to person interaction keeps us honest and helps us to produce better.
    If your job just means taking the specs and coding them. Then you are going to first in line to be replaced.

  22. Re:It might be an issue in the future on Tesla Introduces Fee For Owners Who Leave Their Cars At Supercharger Stations (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    If you have money to buy a testa I would think your time would be a bit more valuable then that. It takes me 3 minutes to fill my tank. So the time to charge up from your specs are 5x as long as a gasoline car.

  23. Re:I can think of bigger central problems on Snowden: 'The Central Problem of the Future' Is Control of User Data (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Many of these problems can't be solved where people are afraid to speak up and offer solutions that may differ from the norm.
    The issue I see with meta data collection is it makes us fearful to look at these "dangerous" ideas. While most of these ideas may be stupid there are often a few points in them that often shows a point on where some people are struggling. But if we to research them we can get blacklisted and our Findings will not be listened to because we are flagged as a dangerous person.

  24. In a past life having to fix tektronics solid ink printers. I found that when people used non OEM products after a few months there is a problem that is out of warranty because it wasn't approved consumables used.
    This created a loose loose situation because we had to charge the customer for the fix and we tried to give them a discount who's was less then the vendor would pay us. So the customer felt ripped off and we didn't get the most for our services.

    These devices run on tightly controlled parameters and the third party reversed engendered solution often will work for a while while slowly causing harm.

  25. Re:Patients controlling their OWN information? on Quest Diagnostics Says Personal Health Information of 34,000 Customers Hacked (cbsnews.com) · · Score: 1

    You can ask for your copy of your medical information and they will give it to you where you can do what you want with it.
    However the real problem is getting it in a format that all the healthcare providers can read.
    The standard is the CCD/CDA format XML based format. However most institutions doesn't use the medical coding scheme Snowmed-CT so the data is difficult to discretely import into their systems.
    Then on the whole is individuals with there medical information any more secure? No not at all it many ways it could be worse because people who could steal it would be people who know you and are emotionally in one way or an other invested in you.
    So your parents gets their teenage kids record and finds failed pregnancy or an STD they could get kicked out of their home.