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  1. Re:reduce revenue? are you kidding me?! on Farmers Demand Right To Fix Their Own Dang Tractors (modernfarmer.com) · · Score: 1

    In other words, if forced to be honest about the price, market forces will assert themselves and allow the buyer to make an intelligent choice based on knowledge? And the manufacturer will be forced to provide a good value for the money?

  2. Re:There was a modern MS DOS ... on How (And Why) FreeDOS Keeps DOS Alive (computerworld.com.au) · · Score: 1

    Agreed, FreeDOS serves it's purpose well. Speaking theoretically, if it was to become multi-tasking, a Free DESQview clone would be the way to do it.

  3. Re:Standard of living on Millennials Set To Earn Less Than Generation X (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    I suspect part of it is that there had been a legitimate labor shortage, so entry level positions were actually entry level and included training. They would actually start onboarding new employees in their junior year of college through scholarships and summer employment. They didn't want to waste that training by canning people one quarter and hiring again the next. Even when things got slow for a bit, if they could make payroll, they held on to people so they wouldn't get caught flat footed when things heated up again.

    Now, they expect even entry level to be fully trained on day one and they can people at the drop of a hat, confident there will be enough people out of work that they can hire quickly in the event of an upturn (or bring in another shipload of H1-Bs for cheap).

    When employers start offering actual entry level positions with training and prefer not to do mass layoffs when the CEO wants a new winter yacht, I'll believe we have an actual labor shortage.

  4. Re:Good! on Millennials Set To Earn Less Than Generation X (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Spoken like someone who finds life to be a game rather than a matter of survival. An attitude mostly held by people who have never had to worry about the bills.

  5. Re:An important thing to note on Millennials Set To Earn Less Than Generation X (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Yes, the very wealthy are taxed far less. It's the people having trouble affording to live in the first place that are paying more.

    Keep in mind, the income tax started as something that the average family wouldn't even have to file, much less actually pay.

  6. Re:Standard of living on Millennials Set To Earn Less Than Generation X (bbc.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Nice try, but no. Living in the trendy areas is even more out of reach for that high school kid. So much so that places in Ca are having trouble hiring police, firefighters, and teachers because they simply can't afford to live there, even on 2 paychecks.

    That small house in Boise is out of reach for a single income even if the kid went in to HVAC or auto mechanics and the wife stays home and cooks.

  7. Re:I'm totally shocked... on Millennials Set To Earn Less Than Generation X (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    And then we rolled that progress back until it now takes 2 incomes again.

  8. Re:I'm totally shocked... on Millennials Set To Earn Less Than Generation X (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Don't let them fool you. On the other side of the economic divide, incomes and wealth have been going up up up for all these years.

  9. Re:Big pharmas hate it! on New Study Shows Why Big Pharma Hates Medical Marijuana (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    They tried that and called it marinol. However, since they only extracted the THC, it would make you even more out of your head, multiply the risk of bringing out psychosis several fold, and misses out on the potent anti-inflamitory and anti psychotic effects of CBD. But at least it cost more!

  10. Re:Companies are not people on New Study Shows Why Big Pharma Hates Medical Marijuana (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    you didn't. If you personally as yourself want to voice a political opinion or donate your personal funds to a cause, go for it.

  11. Re:Probably Trump on U.S. Curtails Federal Election Observers (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    They will not accept SSN, often they won't accept SS card.

    And if those go missing/stolen, good luck getting them replaced. They want SS card to replace license.ID and they want ID/licnese to replace SS card. If you don't have those, they want a recent medical record. If you're poor, you may not have seen a doctor in a very long time. So, no vote for you!

  12. Re:DOS's built-in BASIC system? on How (And Why) FreeDOS Keeps DOS Alive (computerworld.com.au) · · Score: 5, Informative

    Yes, GW-BASIC.

  13. Re:Maybe the driver believed it was enabled? on Elon Musk: Autopilot Feature Was Disabled In Pennsylvania Crash (latimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Humans are quite inventive when it comes to ways to screw up. Drivers are expected to not watch TV while driving but I have seen it. They're expected not to talk or text on the cellphone. They're expected to be sober. They're expected to remain awake.

    I don't see why one particular thing that drivers might abuse should be the focus, especially when it is one of the few that has even a chance of reducing fatalities. That's not to say that we shouldn't learn from the problems, but not everything is properly treated as negligence or a liability.

    We do have to consider that the driver might not be entirely truthful here as well.

    None of that means it can't properly be considered a form of autopilot or that the term is setting up unrealistic expectations.

  14. Re:Maybe the driver believed it was enabled? on Elon Musk: Autopilot Feature Was Disabled In Pennsylvania Crash (latimes.com) · · Score: 2

    That's a hard one. Notably, we have yet to fix the problem of driver drifting off to sleep even when there isn't an autopilot to back them up.

  15. Re:Maybe the driver believed it was enabled? on Elon Musk: Autopilot Feature Was Disabled In Pennsylvania Crash (latimes.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    It can. Note that in an airplane, the pilot is expected to remain alert and at the controls while autopilot is engaged.

  16. Re:no end-to-end no streaming media on UK Gov Says New Home Sec Will Have Powers To Ban End-to-end Encryption (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 2

    Internet security is imperfect. However, in this case, the UK would have to have stolen the signing certs for all existing CAs to intercept all HTTPS without it becoming obvious.

    When corporate gateways intercept HTTPS, they do it by installing a new CA cert in all the browsers and it is obvious.

    Of course, if Netflix ships an app with a privately generated cert embedded in it, none of the above will work unless they get hacked too.

  17. Re:Law and Equity on TOS Agreements Require Giving Up First Born -- and Users Gladly Consent · · Score: 1

    When corporations do that we call it slavery.

    Yet it happens. Just make possession of that plant you found in a ditch a felony, then send you off to a privatized prison where they have something called a "work detail".

  18. Re:Free-speech-for-all spectrum? on FCC OKs Sweeping Spectrum Frontiers Rules To Open Up Nearly 11 GHz Of Spectrum (fiercewireless.com) · · Score: 1

    However poorly enforced, there ARE regulations on sound. Lots of them. There is less need for actual licensing since sound rarely travels so far that the source can't be readily identified and it's hard to justify licensing an in-born vapability.

    If we were born able to emit radio frequency, we'd probably have no licensing there (but we wouldn't likely allow radio at all since it would be equivalent to standing on the sidewalk with a megawatt power bullhorn.

  19. Re:As little as I like Microsoft on In Privacy Victory, Microsoft Wins Appeal Over Foreign Data Warrant (zdnet.com) · · Score: 2

    Given current conditions, I'd say it is in the public interest. The DOJ needs to learn that it isn't omnipotent and does not have carte blanche.

  20. Re:Community, GPIO to build physical thing. Also H on A Smaller Version of Raspberry Pi 3 Is Coming Soon (pcworld.com) · · Score: 2

    Not to mention that 6 months from now when you want to duplicate the project, you'll easily get an identical PI but who knows about the cheap cellphone? Even if it is the same model, the internals may be all different.

  21. Re:The solution is horribly obvious on Security Researcher Publishes How-To Guide To Crack Android Full Disk Encryption (thehackernews.com) · · Score: 1

    The difference may just be the phones we're dealing with. Do the ones you've worked with/on do locked bootloader/network? The ones I've seen do, and use the processor in the radio to lock it down. It may be the ones you know of simply don't do that. It could also be a matter of the generation of phone. My knowledge is a couple years out of date at this point.

    There is still the question of the radio though. Does it have independent access to the microphone or does it depend on the AP for that? can it access the GPS without help?

  22. Re:So just rename it then? on Consumer Reports Calls For Tesla To Disable Autopilot (consumerreports.org) · · Score: 1

    While some may misunderstand, a pilot is expected to remain at the controls when the autopilot is engaged.

  23. Re:As little as I like Microsoft on In Privacy Victory, Microsoft Wins Appeal Over Foreign Data Warrant (zdnet.com) · · Score: 2

    It is supposed to exist in the public interest.

  24. Or, marketers could say what they actually mean so people have at least a clearly defined boundary. Don't say unlimited if you'll squawk after 50 GB, say up to 50GB and be lenient if you want. Similarly, your school should have upon hearing rumors of a second skip day announced that unexcused absences would not be tolerated and actually made it stick (or suggest to teachers it's a good day for a test). Next year, overlook ONE skip day as usual.

  25. The horse, in spite of a number of drawbacks did have a number of collision avoidance mechanisms that are only now being re-implemented.