Subway is the cheapest lunch you can get in many markets - often cheaper than McDonald's on a calories-per-dollar metric. Soy is cheap volume filler and salt makes the flavor more apparent while doubling as an exceptionally cheap preservative. Corporate is doing everything they can to pay their employees as little as possible - while taking as much as possible from the franchisees - and they found this is another way to improve the margin.
After all they didn't surpass the expansion rate of McDonald's by relentlessly pursuing quality or the propagation of a healthy product.
Your reply wandered so much that it's rather difficult to tell if you even had a plan for it. I'll take the most coherent parts of it and try to reply to them:
Yes, you can, especially if you're only vaguely on social networks. But we shouldn't have to jump through hoops like this
If you are so married to your online existence that you consider leaving your laptop behind to be "jumping through hoops" then you probably couldn't be helped by any amount of anything here. Fortunately for you people who are at that level of dependency seldom notice when they are more than 10 miles from their home - as they almost never look away from their screens anyways - so traveling doesn't really matter. As the majority of slashdot readers are far more than 10 miles from an international border, it is reasonable to expect that you wouldn't be a likely candidate to wander far.
when you're visiting friends and whatever while travelling, guess what, social networks are very useful in that case
First of all, if you are visiting other people, that should be your social network, right there. Why do you need to worry about other people at that time? You're taking your attention away from the people who actually cared enough about you to spend time with you in the real world.
Second, if you are visiting people who you interact with in your online social networks, you probably haven't gone some place where you need to worry about a travel mode for your devices; likely you haven't gone more than 10 miles from your home.
Do you think it stops at social networks? Should you leave your phone completely?
Do you really think the two are equivalent in levels of importance?
Social networks today, your phone call history tomorrow? Is that OK?
There are nations that for years have checked visitors' phones at customs. In case you didn't know this before, US laws don't travel with you when you enter another country - you enter another country and you are now expected to adhere to their laws. If you don't like their laws you should have traveled elsewhere.
You can do this at the moment. Then tomorrow when they start doing automatic searches based on your name, and show you an account they've found that looks like you and has your name, what then?
What are you talking about? This is quite a bit removed from the topic at hand. If you're worried that a foreign nation is going to ask you to log in to a social media account, then you've made yourself a slave to social media. I'm guessing you don't leave home often with that attitude, though so you're probably just fine with that.
Really, traveling without social media is a very pleasant option in most cases. My most memorable vacations are the ones I took where I was not worried about WiFi or 3G service. Your vacation should get you away from what consumes you during the rest of your existence; if you are worrying about that crap while you are away I'm going to tell you that your doing your vacation wrong.
This distro seems to become a bigger train wreck with each passing release. The arbitrary bullshit that my current install (16.04LTS) keeps throwing at me boggles my mind at times. Who the fuck thought it made sense for a laptop to lock the display configuration files when it goes to sleep? Now any time I put my laptop to sleep I have to move.config, and.kde, and reboot the next time I want to connect to an external monitor. Otherwise it will happily detect and lock out any external monitor until the magic locked file is out of the way. A simple reboot doesn't resolve it, the files have to be moved manually out of the way.
I wish that was the worst thing they've done, that is just the problem I run it to most often. The long term solution to it seems to be to just never put my laptop to sleep (as I use a different external display configuration at home than I do at work, and there are times I need to use only the laptop display while at work or on the road).
If 432 million smart phones are sold per quarter that is 1.6 billion per year. One group predicts around 4.77 billion cell phone users by the end of 2017, though that includes both smart phones and less sophisticated phones. If we said that half of those phones are smart that means the number of smart phones is somewhere around 2.4 billion. We already know we are closing in on saturation as the remainder of the world's ~6.8 billion people are not necessarily potential customers for cell service.
So if 1.6 billion of the 2.4 billion smart phones in use today were purchased in the past year, does that suggest that on average over half the world's smart phones last under a year?
Some buses run on batteries, but I've seen several systems now for buses that get power from overhead lines (similar to trains). The summary seems to be overlooking these vehicles.
You're giving Trump too much credit. He has almost zero chance of making it four years. He will either die in office or resign early.
The only way Trump gets out early is if he dies in office or gets impeached and removed. His ego is too big to allow himself to resign. Everything has to be a success, he has to win every time. Winners don't resign.
Just tell him that he is either divorcing the executive branch (presumably to marry a younger one elsewhere) or declaring it to be bankrupt. He's big on both of those. And frankly his platforms will bring the second so much closer to reality that it shouldn't be hard to convince him of it being the case.
You're giving Trump too much credit. He has almost zero chance of making it four years. He will either die in office or resign early. His medical report is as big of a lie as everything else he says (in other words total garbage), he is likely of below average health for his age (it is rather clear that he is overweight for his height - rather you take his imaginary height or his real height).
However, Pence will do (at most) absolutely nothing to resolve the schism in the US. The only people benefiting from him being VP are the people of Indiana who now get a chance to elect a sane governor.
That doesn't address the fact that a lot of people find encrypted email to be a PITA to actually use. If you are in a user support role, it is very easy to explain to them how to encrypt a file and attach it to an email but vastly more difficult to explain to them how to encrypt the email itself in a way that is useful to the recipient - especially the company you/they work for does not have anything set up for routinely doing email encryption.
People who pull off Ponzi schemes rarely spend that much time in prison. Why would a spammer have to? Usually the people behind the Ponzi schemes do very well for themselves financially before being caught, while the spammers are generally eking out an upper-middle-class existence.
Don't get me wrong, I don't have much pity for the spammers but I don't see justification in grave prison sentences for them either.
If we really want to say we believe in criminal rehabilitation, this is a prime opportunity for it. The spammers could work to right the wrongs they committed. They could be put to work developing better tools to stop spam - and not just more lousy filters. This guy got into spam for the money, have him show how the money moves so that the government and NGOs can work to reduce the profit margin of spamming. When it ceases to be profitable, the volume will crash as it won't be worth the effort for most spammers.
Labor strikes didn't even work very well when our nation was lead by a "liberal" president. Now we are lead by a maniac who prides himself in not paying workers. Where do these guys expect to get support from when AT&T moves to fire them? Anyone who has been involved in the job market in any way, shape or form in the past 2-5 years knows the situation is vastly worse for the worker than any part of government (of any stripe) will say.
These workers will be canned, blacklisted, and replaced by younger people willing to work for vastly less - all in under a week. The official message from our dear government after that (disseminated by the "terrible media" that the same government claims to hate so much) will be that it is all the fault of the workers and their union.
Musk will get many sympathetic ears here on the conservative cesspool known as slashdot. Around here unions are admired about as much as the Ebola virus. Too bad there aren't many people in general on slashdot to help Musk propagate his anti-labor / anti-worker message.
Meanwhile I - one of the last 3 or 4 liberals on slashdot - will keep Mr. Musk's attitudes in mind the next time I'm in the market for a new car.
We're on our second one this century, and this one has somehow managed to be even worse than the first in terms of outcomes for our country. There won't be enough crazy people left to vote in another CEO any time soon after we get rid of this one. He can have a reality show if he wants, and maybe even win a Golden Raspberry as well, but he won't be winning the presidency.
Sure, T-Mobile works great if you live in a city or well-populated suburb. But if you're outside a city, Verizon usually has a distinct advantage in actually making calls. For some people, that doesn't matter but for others the ability to make a phone call is vastly more important than your mobile data bandwidth.
The race-to-the-bottom model that is being forced upon us will be continually pulling more people down from the ranks of "having a little money to invest" to "having no money to invest". The investment bankers can only circle-jerk themselves into employment for so long after that, afterwards they might as well be replaced by robots (or by nothing at all).
When I was growing up, my school district was in a constant refrain of "Spanish! Spanish! Spanish!", it was the language they wanted every student to learn. In middle school we could take a foreign language, but only if that language was Spanish. I ended up suffering through a total of 3 years of a language that is of absolutely no value to me in my life.
I realized then, and have confirmed many times over, that Mandarin would have been vastly more useful for me.
Now, of course this varies from one person to another. One of my sisters works in hospitality and uses Spanish regularly. In my field Spanish is about as useful as Esperanto or Klingon. It turns out that in my field the most useful language I could have taken would have been German.
This of course doesn't mean that all schools should drop Spanish to teach German. It does mean that they should offer more languages and actually encourage kids and parents to think about the applications of them.
And then once we include programming languages, I definitely encounter more Perl than German.
Back in 2013 I knew someone who was 100% convinced that Obama called Putin a jackass in public. I don't suspect that Borowitz was actually trying to fool anyone with this, but the distortion was so high for some people at the time that they would believe almost anything that was damning about the POTUS.
I disagree. In fact, one generally learns little by only conversing with people they agree with. Even if you disagree with someone on a very fundamental level, you can learn quite a bit from a discussion with them - particularly on why they believe the opposite of what you believe.
They would fit right in here; anyone who is more liberal than Genghis Khan is generally chased out as a goddamned commie here. There's plenty of space and bandwidth in this site, considering how little traffic it takes now compared to what it used to...
I have a hard time seeing our democracy last to 2018. The administration is working hard to dismantle it, to thunderous applause from their supporters (who don't realize the implications of those actions). And don't say that getting rid of Trump would make it better, a President Pence would come in so thoroughly wasted on power that there would be no hope for anyone with that either.
Let's just pray for a peaceful revolution in 2017.
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Subway is the cheapest lunch you can get in many markets - often cheaper than McDonald's on a calories-per-dollar metric. Soy is cheap volume filler and salt makes the flavor more apparent while doubling as an exceptionally cheap preservative. Corporate is doing everything they can to pay their employees as little as possible - while taking as much as possible from the franchisees - and they found this is another way to improve the margin.
After all they didn't surpass the expansion rate of McDonald's by relentlessly pursuing quality or the propagation of a healthy product.
... do you have battletoads?
Yes, you can, especially if you're only vaguely on social networks. But we shouldn't have to jump through hoops like this
If you are so married to your online existence that you consider leaving your laptop behind to be "jumping through hoops" then you probably couldn't be helped by any amount of anything here. Fortunately for you people who are at that level of dependency seldom notice when they are more than 10 miles from their home - as they almost never look away from their screens anyways - so traveling doesn't really matter. As the majority of slashdot readers are far more than 10 miles from an international border, it is reasonable to expect that you wouldn't be a likely candidate to wander far.
when you're visiting friends and whatever while travelling, guess what, social networks are very useful in that case
First of all, if you are visiting other people, that should be your social network, right there. Why do you need to worry about other people at that time? You're taking your attention away from the people who actually cared enough about you to spend time with you in the real world.
Second, if you are visiting people who you interact with in your online social networks, you probably haven't gone some place where you need to worry about a travel mode for your devices; likely you haven't gone more than 10 miles from your home.
Do you think it stops at social networks? Should you leave your phone completely?
Do you really think the two are equivalent in levels of importance?
Social networks today, your phone call history tomorrow? Is that OK?
There are nations that for years have checked visitors' phones at customs. In case you didn't know this before, US laws don't travel with you when you enter another country - you enter another country and you are now expected to adhere to their laws. If you don't like their laws you should have traveled elsewhere.
You can do this at the moment. Then tomorrow when they start doing automatic searches based on your name, and show you an account they've found that looks like you and has your name, what then?
What are you talking about? This is quite a bit removed from the topic at hand. If you're worried that a foreign nation is going to ask you to log in to a social media account, then you've made yourself a slave to social media. I'm guessing you don't leave home often with that attitude, though so you're probably just fine with that.
That's because Google Knows That Slashdot Editors Don't Know What Their Job Is About
Really, traveling without social media is a very pleasant option in most cases. My most memorable vacations are the ones I took where I was not worried about WiFi or 3G service. Your vacation should get you away from what consumes you during the rest of your existence; if you are worrying about that crap while you are away I'm going to tell you that your doing your vacation wrong.
This distro seems to become a bigger train wreck with each passing release. The arbitrary bullshit that my current install (16.04LTS) keeps throwing at me boggles my mind at times. Who the fuck thought it made sense for a laptop to lock the display configuration files when it goes to sleep? Now any time I put my laptop to sleep I have to move .config, and .kde, and reboot the next time I want to connect to an external monitor. Otherwise it will happily detect and lock out any external monitor until the magic locked file is out of the way. A simple reboot doesn't resolve it, the files have to be moved manually out of the way.
I wish that was the worst thing they've done, that is just the problem I run it to most often. The long term solution to it seems to be to just never put my laptop to sleep (as I use a different external display configuration at home than I do at work, and there are times I need to use only the laptop display while at work or on the road).
If 432 million smart phones are sold per quarter that is 1.6 billion per year. One group predicts around 4.77 billion cell phone users by the end of 2017, though that includes both smart phones and less sophisticated phones. If we said that half of those phones are smart that means the number of smart phones is somewhere around 2.4 billion. We already know we are closing in on saturation as the remainder of the world's ~6.8 billion people are not necessarily potential customers for cell service.
So if 1.6 billion of the 2.4 billion smart phones in use today were purchased in the past year, does that suggest that on average over half the world's smart phones last under a year?
Some buses run on batteries, but I've seen several systems now for buses that get power from overhead lines (similar to trains). The summary seems to be overlooking these vehicles.
the next four years.
You're giving Trump too much credit. He has almost zero chance of making it four years. He will either die in office or resign early.
The only way Trump gets out early is if he dies in office or gets impeached and removed. His ego is too big to allow himself to resign. Everything has to be a success, he has to win every time. Winners don't resign.
Just tell him that he is either divorcing the executive branch (presumably to marry a younger one elsewhere) or declaring it to be bankrupt. He's big on both of those. And frankly his platforms will bring the second so much closer to reality that it shouldn't be hard to convince him of it being the case.
the next four years.
You're giving Trump too much credit. He has almost zero chance of making it four years. He will either die in office or resign early. His medical report is as big of a lie as everything else he says (in other words total garbage), he is likely of below average health for his age (it is rather clear that he is overweight for his height - rather you take his imaginary height or his real height).
However, Pence will do (at most) absolutely nothing to resolve the schism in the US. The only people benefiting from him being VP are the people of Indiana who now get a chance to elect a sane governor.
That doesn't address the fact that a lot of people find encrypted email to be a PITA to actually use. If you are in a user support role, it is very easy to explain to them how to encrypt a file and attach it to an email but vastly more difficult to explain to them how to encrypt the email itself in a way that is useful to the recipient - especially the company you/they work for does not have anything set up for routinely doing email encryption.
This is much easier to manage, and it is not clear that encrypting the email itself is that much better.
People who pull off Ponzi schemes rarely spend that much time in prison. Why would a spammer have to? Usually the people behind the Ponzi schemes do very well for themselves financially before being caught, while the spammers are generally eking out an upper-middle-class existence.
Don't get me wrong, I don't have much pity for the spammers but I don't see justification in grave prison sentences for them either.
If we really want to say we believe in criminal rehabilitation, this is a prime opportunity for it. The spammers could work to right the wrongs they committed. They could be put to work developing better tools to stop spam - and not just more lousy filters. This guy got into spam for the money, have him show how the money moves so that the government and NGOs can work to reduce the profit margin of spamming. When it ceases to be profitable, the volume will crash as it won't be worth the effort for most spammers.
Labor strikes didn't even work very well when our nation was lead by a "liberal" president. Now we are lead by a maniac who prides himself in not paying workers. Where do these guys expect to get support from when AT&T moves to fire them? Anyone who has been involved in the job market in any way, shape or form in the past 2-5 years knows the situation is vastly worse for the worker than any part of government (of any stripe) will say.
These workers will be canned, blacklisted, and replaced by younger people willing to work for vastly less - all in under a week. The official message from our dear government after that (disseminated by the "terrible media" that the same government claims to hate so much) will be that it is all the fault of the workers and their union.
Musk will get many sympathetic ears here on the conservative cesspool known as slashdot. Around here unions are admired about as much as the Ebola virus. Too bad there aren't many people in general on slashdot to help Musk propagate his anti-labor / anti-worker message.
Meanwhile I - one of the last 3 or 4 liberals on slashdot - will keep Mr. Musk's attitudes in mind the next time I'm in the market for a new car.
We're on our second one this century, and this one has somehow managed to be even worse than the first in terms of outcomes for our country. There won't be enough crazy people left to vote in another CEO any time soon after we get rid of this one. He can have a reality show if he wants, and maybe even win a Golden Raspberry as well, but he won't be winning the presidency.
It sounds like the date is almost never, ever, used as they are all dated the same. Why even consult that field or have it exist at all?
Sure, T-Mobile works great if you live in a city or well-populated suburb. But if you're outside a city, Verizon usually has a distinct advantage in actually making calls. For some people, that doesn't matter but for others the ability to make a phone call is vastly more important than your mobile data bandwidth.
The race-to-the-bottom model that is being forced upon us will be continually pulling more people down from the ranks of "having a little money to invest" to "having no money to invest". The investment bankers can only circle-jerk themselves into employment for so long after that, afterwards they might as well be replaced by robots (or by nothing at all).
When I was growing up, my school district was in a constant refrain of "Spanish! Spanish! Spanish!", it was the language they wanted every student to learn. In middle school we could take a foreign language, but only if that language was Spanish. I ended up suffering through a total of 3 years of a language that is of absolutely no value to me in my life.
I realized then, and have confirmed many times over, that Mandarin would have been vastly more useful for me.
Now, of course this varies from one person to another. One of my sisters works in hospitality and uses Spanish regularly. In my field Spanish is about as useful as Esperanto or Klingon. It turns out that in my field the most useful language I could have taken would have been German.
This of course doesn't mean that all schools should drop Spanish to teach German. It does mean that they should offer more languages and actually encourage kids and parents to think about the applications of them.
And then once we include programming languages, I definitely encounter more Perl than German.
I am not a rocket scientist, and I do not play one on TV either. How does the turbine function in this rocket?
Back in 2013 I knew someone who was 100% convinced that Obama called Putin a jackass in public. I don't suspect that Borowitz was actually trying to fool anyone with this, but the distortion was so high for some people at the time that they would believe almost anything that was damning about the POTUS.
I disagree. In fact, one generally learns little by only conversing with people they agree with. Even if you disagree with someone on a very fundamental level, you can learn quite a bit from a discussion with them - particularly on why they believe the opposite of what you believe.
They would fit right in here; anyone who is more liberal than Genghis Khan is generally chased out as a goddamned commie here. There's plenty of space and bandwidth in this site, considering how little traffic it takes now compared to what it used to...
I have a hard time seeing our democracy last to 2018. The administration is working hard to dismantle it, to thunderous applause from their supporters (who don't realize the implications of those actions). And don't say that getting rid of Trump would make it better, a President Pence would come in so thoroughly wasted on power that there would be no hope for anyone with that either.
Let's just pray for a peaceful revolution in 2017.