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  1. Re: Who cares about bathrooms? on Apple, Amazon, Microsoft, and Google Lobby Against Texas 'Bathroom' Bill (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    If the bathrooms are all unisex, you can go into the bathroom with your daughter and make damned sure nothing bad happens.

  2. Re:Who cares about bathrooms? on Apple, Amazon, Microsoft, and Google Lobby Against Texas 'Bathroom' Bill (arstechnica.com) · · Score: -1

    It proves that conservatives also get *triggered*, just about different things.

  3. Re: Who cares about bathrooms? on Apple, Amazon, Microsoft, and Google Lobby Against Texas 'Bathroom' Bill (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    All of those driving laws are because no further volitional act is required for death and injury to result. Luck of the draw will decide if it comes out OK or not.

    The case of the 'man' in the women's bathroom results in no harm unless/until a further volitional act occurs.

    Here's one to jam the works. A father is out and about with a young daughter and she needs the bathroom. Should he take her into the women's bathroom, take her into the men's bathroom, hand her over to a woman he has never met before in his life, or tell her to go pee on the potted plant in the corner?

    Perhaps, rather than a law, we all just need to learn not to get so triggered in the bathroom.

  4. What might get them is that even authorized parts can't just be dropped in. An authorized repair person has to enable each new part to operate in a particular tractor. If it was JUST for emissions, each partt's firmware being correctly signed would be good enough.

  5. Re:If advertised as a laptop in the UK on Get Real, Microsoft: If the New Surface Pro Is a Laptop, Bundle It With a Type Cover (pcworld.com) · · Score: 1

    For anyone not being deliberately ignorant, laptop implies a portable computer with it's screen on a hinge and keyboard on the body. Some sort of mouse (or at least the pencil eraser) is expected as well.

  6. Re:No kidding. I love how he's "warning Trump" on India Tech Giant Warns Trump's 'Radical Shift' to Hurt Industry (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Only if you consider yourself brutally assaulted when a gnat lands on you.

    If you want to crap your pants over $0.50, that's your call, there are probably people who will give you a dollar to let them video it.

  7. Re:Not Counterterrorism, Counter-Espionage... on Leaked 'Standing Rock' Documents Reveal Invasive Counterterrorism Measures (theintercept.com) · · Score: 1

    I was being as generous as possible with the paid protester claim, not suggesting what I believed happened. In fact, I do believe no money was passed on to the protesters.

  8. Re:No kidding. I love how he's "warning Trump" on India Tech Giant Warns Trump's 'Radical Shift' to Hurt Industry (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    No, I'm really not. Sure, prices of some things may go up a bit, but by the time you factor the number of units software development costs are amortized over plus the savings brought by higher quality development (yes, Indian programmers can be great, but Infosys doesn't typically hire those programmers), the additional cost is quite small.

  9. Re:No kidding. I love how he's "warning Trump" on India Tech Giant Warns Trump's 'Radical Shift' to Hurt Industry (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Well, that's off the table now. They'll have to settle for good as in competent. Why should I shit my pants over employers having to pay employees what they're worth?

  10. Re:No kidding. I love how he's "warning Trump" on India Tech Giant Warns Trump's 'Radical Shift' to Hurt Industry (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Not really, no. There are plenty of good tech workers right here in the U.S. already. Students will move back to tech once the glut of under-employed U.S. tech workers is absorbed.

    I'm no fan of Trump, but even a stopped clock is right twice a day.

  11. Re:Somewhere, an IT guy is crying on IT Crash Causes British Airways To Cancel All Flights (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Quite true. Or, like megaupload, some other customer might attract unwanted attention that spills over on you.

    More fundamentally, if my IT is supporting a million a year in income, I will treat it as a vital part of 1 million in value. If I outsource it to the cloud for $1000/year, it will be treated as a vital part of 1 thousand in value. If you aren't your provider's biggest customer,. your infrastructure as implemented in the cloud will never be treated with the importance you might give it yourself. Most of us would at most represent a drop in the bucket to Amazon. That's not meant as a dig at Amazon, just a mathematical fact.

  12. Re: Isn't this just welfare for the rich? on Mark Zuckerberg Calls for Universal Basic Income in His Harvard Commencement Speech (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    A quick google suggests that Ontario is outperforming surrounding areas economically.

  13. Re:Wrong, they left many other things behind - inc on Leaked 'Standing Rock' Documents Reveal Invasive Counterterrorism Measures (theintercept.com) · · Score: 1

    They might have actually cleared their trash as they went along if doing so didn't involve running a gauntlet of law enforcement that wasn't particularly careful not to blow people's arms off, soak them to the bone in sub freezing weather, and such. Others have already explained the dogs and the cars.

  14. Re:Not Counterterrorism, Counter-Espionage... on Leaked 'Standing Rock' Documents Reveal Invasive Counterterrorism Measures (theintercept.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    You didn't do the math, did you. The tribal council accepted $375,000. Assuming they passed 100% on to the protesters, that comes to the lordly sum of $125 each. Wow, they must be living large now in their new Lambos.

  15. Re:Finish building it, go ahead. on Leaked 'Standing Rock' Documents Reveal Invasive Counterterrorism Measures (theintercept.com) · · Score: 1

    Make it leak where the rivers aren't.

  16. Re:Should read PILOT is to blame on Working Theory In Jet Crash: IPhone In Cockpit Is To Blame (appleinsider.com) · · Score: 1

    Whoever installed the wrong plug on the toaster of the wrong outlet on the 220V circuit.

  17. Re:Somewhere, an IT guy is crying on IT Crash Causes British Airways To Cancel All Flights (cnbc.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    What concerns me though is that ion spite of that, Amazon went down due to a thunderstorm. And again due to fat fingering a re-configuration.

    I run my own servers. Admittedly on a much smaller scale, but Amazon has had 3 failures since the last one I had.

    I can see use cases for the cloud but it's not going to give you proper high availability.

  18. Re:Fortunately... on Vermont DMV Caught Using Illegal Facial Recognition Program (vocativ.com) · · Score: 1

    But your honor, I only robbed two liquor stores a month, it's not like I got greedy or anything!

  19. Re:"you can afford it" is not a valid reason on Accused of Underpaying Women, Google Says It's Too Expensive To Get Wage Data (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Google signed a number of contracts with the government of their own free will. This request is being made under those contracts. If they didn't want to handle requests like this, they were free to not sign (and not take the money, of course).

  20. Re:Weird behavior on Investigation Demanded Over Fake FCC Comments Submitted By Dead People (bbc.com) · · Score: 2

    It may be the same dead people who commented to the FCC.

  21. Re: Isn't this just welfare for the rich? on Mark Zuckerberg Calls for Universal Basic Income in His Harvard Commencement Speech (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    Only if you tax people who can't really afford it. Otherwise the people you are taxing still have too much to loose if they revolt. Taxes in the upper brackets are far lower now than they used to be.

  22. Re:Isn't this just welfare for the rich? on Mark Zuckerberg Calls for Universal Basic Income in His Harvard Commencement Speech (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    Then use the UBI to finance a small business.

  23. Re:Isn't this just welfare for the rich? on Mark Zuckerberg Calls for Universal Basic Income in His Harvard Commencement Speech (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    You can provide the guy hit by a truck the needed medical care to recover. Inoperable cancer just plain sucks. You can't cure old age, but you can provide palliative care so they can die peacefully. You can certainly provide health care for a variety of ailments. Pretty much the rest of the 1st world already does.

  24. Re:Isn't this just welfare for the rich? on Mark Zuckerberg Calls for Universal Basic Income in His Harvard Commencement Speech (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    In practice, the work found will be things nobody else would be willing to do for less then 3 times the offered pay. The jobs will be scientifically matched to the skills and temperament of the applicant by grabbing whatever card happens to be at the top of the stack.

  25. Re:Isn't this just welfare for the rich? on Mark Zuckerberg Calls for Universal Basic Income in His Harvard Commencement Speech (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    The federal poverty level is manipulated politically to avoid reporting the true extent of poverty and income disparity. It has nothing to do with what it actually takes to live a normal life.