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  1. Sometimes, it does exactly that.

  2. Neither she nor her dogs are dead or starving, whe must have done something right. Meanwhile, do you have multiple bunkers around the world in the case of disaster? You're not guilty of failure to plan for every contingency, are you?

  3. Re: Seven dogs on Two Miles From Facebook's Headquarters, Working Poor Live In Trailers (mercurynews.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I guess you missed the part where rent has recently doubled. In other words, she could afford the rent and the dogs just fine and then the rent doubled.

    What would you have her do, take the dogs to the landlord's house and shoot them execution style on the front porch?

  4. Re:But no money for teachers on Kansas is Trying to Unload $10M in Unused Computer Equipment (apnews.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    You forgot that teachers have to work several hours a day after the last class grading papers, talking to parents, and filling out a never ending stream of documents and forms for the bureaucracy. Also many teachers end up having to pay out of pocket for needed supplies since the official channels will take so long the students will graduate before the request is filled (if ever).

  5. Re:UBI on More Companies Are Trying a Four-Day Work Week (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    The market is still skewed towards low pay, that's why corporations are posting record profits and pay isn't going up.

  6. Re:Ai ai ai! on A Delivery Robot Spontaneously Burst Into Flames (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    They should go with IMR batteries. They don't have as much capacity, but they are also much much less likely to go up in a fireball even if abused.

  7. Re:water? on A Delivery Robot Spontaneously Burst Into Flames (theverge.com) · · Score: 2

    That's just the natural evolution of a lithium battery fire. The extinguisher appears to be a typical ABC dry powder extinguisher.

  8. That's why on Scientists Find a Brain Circuit That Could Explain Seasonal Depression (npr.org) · · Score: 3, Informative

    That's why we have traditions of bringing a tree inside and lighting it brightly.

  9. Re:UBI on More Companies Are Trying a Four-Day Work Week (reuters.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    UBI is in part a reaction to the right screeching about employer's rights to expect long hours, low pay, and unpaid vacation only when approved in triplicate.

    UBI = fine, let the market decide, but the labor side won't be bent over a barrel when it does.

    The capitol class hates it because they know that with the threat of homelessness and starvation removed, wages will drift up to the natural value of labor.

  10. Re:Pot Kettle Black on Intel Attacks Qualcomm for Allegedly Stifling Competition (tomshardware.com) · · Score: 1

    Volume discounts and rebates are standard. Withholding them if someone also sells the competitor's product crosses the line.

  11. Re:Pot Kettle Black on Intel Attacks Qualcomm for Allegedly Stifling Competition (tomshardware.com) · · Score: 1

    Not to mention rigging their compiler to add code to detect competing compatible CPUs and downgrade to the slowest code path. Proven by patching the detection code out and running the code flawlessly at much better performance on AMD processors.

  12. Yes, I do know that all OSes take over once they are loaded. Another reason why EFI is of questionable benefit.

    Since all EFI and old BIOS seem to be good for is initializing the system, finding, and loading a boot loader, why do we even need to invite the new bugs and new pain from EFI? I've seen plenty of old BIOS that can load from iSCSI, USB, FC, etc.

    EFI seems to suffer very much from second system syndrome as well as kitchen sinkism.

  13. Re:This is why I like T-Mobile's approach on AT&T's Silence on 5G Speeds Screams 'Stay Away For Now' (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    Just hitting a website or checking an app for data also don't actually benefit much from the higher speed of 5G. Video conferencing or watching a video will certainly benefit, but the conferencing and watching a video that isn't on the zero rating deal will indeed burn up a whole month's cap in a few minutes.

  14. Re:Let me fix that headline on AT&T's Silence on 5G Speeds Screams 'Stay Away For Now' (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    So in other words, he's right? Today's AT&T is indeed a grown up Baby Bell.

  15. Has anyone actually gotten anything from EFI but pain? Anything that would justify the whole new debacle rather than just an update to the old BIOS to understand bigger drives?

  16. Re:If this was REALLY about security on Logitech Disables Local Access On Harmony Hubs, Breaks Automation Systems (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    I believe you are correct.

  17. If this was REALLY about security on Logitech Disables Local Access On Harmony Hubs, Breaks Automation Systems (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    If the update was REALLY about security, they would leave local access and disable phoning home.

  18. Re:Plus it's not worth killing someone over a pack on Former NASA Engineer Designed Glitter Bomb Trap To Avenge Amazon Delivery Theft Victims (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    The risk is tiny. Hot coffee can be a risk as well, but many thousand people a day drive with hot coffee.

  19. Re: One big lawsuit waiting to happen on Former NASA Engineer Designed Glitter Bomb Trap To Avenge Amazon Delivery Theft Victims (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    That or replace the fart spray with skunk scent.

  20. Re: One big lawsuit waiting to happen on Former NASA Engineer Designed Glitter Bomb Trap To Avenge Amazon Delivery Theft Victims (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Next thing you know, an innocent bystander, possibly a child too young to know better dies of anthrax. Then you do hard time for bio-terrorism.

  21. The prank packages minus the criminal "justice" system are actually about right. Instant karma, a lesson learned, but no lasting harm to their lives.

  22. people have been putting out packages like that since at least the late '70s. The first one I remember was a spring loaded garbage ejector loaded with old tomatoes and such. I've seen a few on the news over the years but I've never heard of anyone getting into any sort of legal trouble for it.

  23. I'm thinking concentrated synthetic skunk spray (actually available) and enough propellant to fill a room with it..

  24. That quote was from *Y*O*U* ( complete sentence cut/pasted from your message). Either you asked it or your "genius" self got hacked by a kiddee. You might want to scroll up and check on that.

    Now, go tell your mother she's looking for you.

  25. Resorting to splitting hairs. Nice move dumb dumb.