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  1. In general, there's truth to that, but in the most recent case, we had one party with a field so weak the just do something simple guy won. In the other camp, the guy who wanted a more nuanced and comprehensive approach got the sandbag so they could run on a platform of more of the same.

  2. And I'll explain for you. The minimum wage worker can probably manage the $8.50 meal once in a while. If he loses his job he has $0 to spend on any sort of burger.

    That trend will not go well for anyone unless you're prepared to implement a basic income that will allow him to manage that $11.50 meal once in a while.

  3. Re: I guess 2017 won't be the year of Linux on Japanese Government Requires Java and Internet Explorer 11 X86 · · Score: 1

    When your expected deployment is measurable in millions, vendors become keenly interested in meeting YOUR requirements.

  4. Re:Second that on Ask Slashdot: How Do You Deal With Aggressive Forum Users? · · Score: 1

    I care little about that as long as it isn't spewed off topic in tech fora. The google it crowd are a special level of stupid since they render useless exactly that which they advocate.

    In contrast, the Bieber fans tend to congregate in appropriate fora where they can swoon over him all they want and I don't have to wade through it.

  5. Re:How do they know... on Privacy-Centric Linux Distro Tails 3.0 Will Drop 32-Bit Processor Support (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    It could also mean that the software isn't yet 64 bit clean.

  6. Re:Calculated risks on Report Finds PFAS Chemicals In One-Third of Fast Food Packaging (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    The problem is that people will assume that if it's used in the fast food industry, it isn't something that will give your kids cancer by the time they're 50. They also won't know that the grease proof wrapper is an endocrine disrupter. You can bet when asking which wrapping you want the cashier won't ask "would you like to super-size your prostate?".

  7. Re:Recursion is dead! on Developer Argues For 'Forgotten Code Constructs' Like GOTO and Eval (techbeacon.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    It gives you a chance to unwind something (like taking a lock) before the return.

  8. Re:Second that on Ask Slashdot: How Do You Deal With Aggressive Forum Users? · · Score: 2

    It would take some good AI for Google to differentiate between a thread that discusses exactly the problem I'm having and provides a good answer, and one that discusses exactly the problem I'm having but contains nothing but self-important windbags suggesting googling for it.

  9. Re:Second that on Ask Slashdot: How Do You Deal With Aggressive Forum Users? · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I just wish they wouldn't pollute search results with a bazillion messages suggesting that people google it, such that any attempt to google it will fail.

  10. Re:I don't see the problem. on Cutting H-1Bs Could Mean More Competition From China and India, Says GoDaddy CEO (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Next up, a tax on offshoring.

  11. Re:piracy is not theft on Hacker Dumps iOS Cracking Tools Allegedly Stolen From Cellebrite (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Both of those definitions involve leaving the victim without the property. If I find my way into your private FTP directory and download everything, what do you find missing when you next connect to it?

    In that scenario, what I did is more easily mapped to trespassing than theft.

  12. Re:Automatically fired on Ransomware Completely Shuts Down Ohio Town Government (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    That's why you need a rolling offline backup. You might lose the day before yesterday's backup, but you'll still have yesterday's.

  13. Re:Warrant issued upon probable cause on Police Use Pacemaker Data To Charge Homeowner With Arson, Insurance Fraud (networkworld.com) · · Score: 1

    It's not as if they know to the microsecond when the fire started. He could easily have smelled smoke before the fire "officially" started.

  14. If you have to cut him open to get to it and he needs it to stay alive, I think there's a good case for it being part of him.

  15. Re:speeds "up to".... on New York Sues Charter Over Slow Internet Speeds (reuters.com) · · Score: 2

    Up to isn't get out of jail free. The "up to" speed needs to be at least theoretically possible given the equipment in use even if it would require perfect conditions never seen in nature.

    That is not the case here since the modems they're providing cannot provide the up to speed under any conditions.

  16. Re:I know it's fun to make fun of Homeopathy on FDA Confirms Toxicity of Homeopathic Baby Products; Maker Refuses To Recall (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Where did you get the idea I wanted a non-government replacement?

    I just want a total replacement with an iron-clad charter.

  17. There are way too many loopholes and nobody is really trying to enforce the rules. It is actually quite reasonable and legal to require hiring citizens and permanent residents first since the H1-B isn't even allowed to be here without a special visa that nobody is obligated to grant.

  18. That has always been "required" but nobody actually cared to enforce it. Many companies got around it by "requiring" impossible qualifications (like 6 years experience with a 5 year old language) and then conveniently not minding later when they hire an H-1B who just happens to be cheap.

  19. Re:I know it's fun to make fun of Homeopathy on FDA Confirms Toxicity of Homeopathic Baby Products; Maker Refuses To Recall (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Because if recent history is a guide, they'll make another power grab and grant someone an exclusive on drinking water which will then be a bargain at the low-low price of $100/liter.

  20. Re:I know it's fun to make fun of Homeopathy on FDA Confirms Toxicity of Homeopathic Baby Products; Maker Refuses To Recall (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm generally left leaning, but in the case of the FDA, I think we'd do well do away with it. Where I part ways with the deregulaters is that I would like to see a smaller and more sane replacement.

  21. Re:Can't say you weren't warned. on CNET Editor Rails Against Non-Consensual Windows Updates (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    So you're saying they'll surely lift the restriction later and his preview conditions are somehow unfair?

    Or perhaps that once it's in production, MS will never in a million-zillion years have a single error that results in needing to download a working driver from elsewhere?

  22. Re:Oracle worked very hard at making a closed ecos on Oracle Effectively Doubles Licence Fees To Run Its Stuff in AWS (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 2

    While I agree that SQLITE isn't nearly the performance or features of Oracle, it's amazing how many places using Oracle because the name and cost impress the execs on the golf course could actually do just fine with PostgreSQL or Mysql.

  23. That seems to be the misguided belief. Naturally, they would like for the product to just appear in the warehouse for free, but likewise as long as they're wishing, they would like the potential customers to spontaneously wire money to them. Thus, in reality sales is also overhead.

    Even janitorial services should be counted as savings since otherwise they would have >100K/year engineers or multi-million a year CEOs spending their expensive time waxing the floor in the lobby. Alternatively, they would lose everything as people flee from their filthy and trashed work environment. It wouldn't be very impressive to major clients either.

  24. Of course not, you were a "cost center". Also apparently bad at metaphor.

  25. No, wrong headed to decide one department is a profit center and gets gold toilets and another gets scraps because they are a cost center.

    Risk analysis is fine, but only when that analysis is done by people smart enough to know that every center has a cost and every center brings profits. Those odd ideas about cost centers and profit centers lead to poor decisions which lead to bad results, like a police department that's loaded for bear but then loses all the digital evidence.

    The fact that you had to keep an evidence file suggests the management regretted more than one of those decisions. Otherwise they would have already known how it happened and would be ready to write it off as a worthwhile risk that didn't pay off.