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  1. Re: Why did Wendy's do this? on Wendy's Faces Lawsuit For Unlawfully Collecting Employee Fingerprints (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Restaurant employees clock each other in/out all the time. This is a basic accounting control that works in both the company's and the employee's interest.

  2. Re: Privacy is dead on Wendy's Faces Lawsuit For Unlawfully Collecting Employee Fingerprints (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    I get to work before everyone else. I'm the guy that knows when everyone else gets in and I also know it does not matter. Plus I have no idea when they leave cause my ass is gone at two or three....sometimes 4:15.

  3. Re: This shit is dangerous, but government is wors on Wendy's Faces Lawsuit For Unlawfully Collecting Employee Fingerprints (zdnet.com) · · Score: 2

    So the government can store my fingerprints forever but Wendy's can't sore them through my consent for something that is actually useful? Sounds like lawyer trolling.

  4. Re: This won't work long term. on Should The US Government Break Up Google, Twitter, and Facebook? (siliconvalley.com) · · Score: 1

    Require that data be democratized through free and open integration. That way everyone competes on merit.

  5. Re: This won't work long term. on Should The US Government Break Up Google, Twitter, and Facebook? (siliconvalley.com) · · Score: 1

    Nope. I use that host file thingy advertised on Slashdot comments.

  6. Re: This won't work long term. on Should The US Government Break Up Google, Twitter, and Facebook? (siliconvalley.com) · · Score: 1

    But the only reason for a startup is to generate buzz and sell out to the deep pockets of the monopolies. Imagine if people built stuff again.

  7. Re: This won't work long term. on Should The US Government Break Up Google, Twitter, and Facebook? (siliconvalley.com) · · Score: 1

    Just requiring friction free integration is how you break up tech. These are not industrial companies.

  8. Re: what about we just build more schools on MIT's Elegant Schoolbus Algorithm Was No Match For Angry Parents (bostonglobe.com) · · Score: 1

    Ding ding ding. My kids go to a private school that costs far less to run than an equivilent public school. The education is better, no stinky busses, starts at 9am, ends at 4:30, kids love it, and it is located a few minutes from the house.

    Funny how all the neckbeards on here fixate on the complex algorithm when the solution is a simple distributed system.

  9. Re: Optimal Busses on MIT's Elegant Schoolbus Algorithm Was No Match For Angry Parents (bostonglobe.com) · · Score: 1

    Rule of thumb: bureaucrats will ignore the real reason for thier existence and optimize for thier system.

    They are a fucking day care. Period.

  10. Re: Optimal Busses on MIT's Elegant Schoolbus Algorithm Was No Match For Angry Parents (bostonglobe.com) · · Score: 1

    Incremental changes would work great if they functioned like all of the other gears in a public school system where small groups are marginalized and given the shaft. Classic big government, keep the marginalized groups small enough and thier clamoring can be ignored.

  11. Re: Optimal Busses on MIT's Elegant Schoolbus Algorithm Was No Match For Angry Parents (bostonglobe.com) · · Score: 0

    Public schools do not scale. If we developed systems that behaved they way public school systems scale and operate we would be shown the door. For some reason this is all allowed to persist.

  12. Yeah....ask Damore.

  13. He was dead in the water and would have been worse than Trump. Presidents are not powerful enough to make the sort of changes he claimed to have sought. Reality would have set in and you would have had another Obama.

  14. "Well, we don't actually know that since Georgia deleted their database and a whole bunch of registered democrats were purged from the lists before the election." ...and nothing of value was lost.

  15. Cisco is going to have real problems if Pure gets in the router business. Cisco is a true and wholesome suckfest.

  16. Everything you just described is what is wrong with IT today. As long as the top keeps letting IT throw money out the door the cowards will keep doing it.

  17. In small companies it is like this all day every day now. I don't get to see the infrastructure drama at the largest company I work at now but I can imagine it is rough. Systems Engineering is a lame duck career choice. Some people move to security but that is just a lame.

  18. How else are they going to jams bloated software into the phone until the user just gives up and buys another?

  19. The F-250 XL gives me the Willie's. I have to have an XLT at the least. Lariats are a bit expensive and cushy but I have been considering one since I have been making all this money slinging tight, efficient python and Java code. The people lifting big data have to count every millisecond because those fuckers add up quick when you are dealing in factors of billions.

  20. Yeah... If you want "normal, honest, descent communication" then you should definitely leave Facebook.

  21. If my ten year old can't understand it it is wrong. Back to the drawing board dumbass.

  22. Re: So the final result is that... on What Ecstasy Does To Octopuses (theatlantic.com) · · Score: 1

    No but they can definitely lead to homosexual sex.

  23. Re: It's actually kind of a big deal on What Ecstasy Does To Octopuses (theatlantic.com) · · Score: 1

    Interesting, but I'm genuinely concerned that these animals consciousness could be elevated by such experiments to the point of becoming self aware. A moral delimma because these people are now trapped in an octopus body with no way of alerting the researchers to thier God given human rights. Dunking animals in drugs for fun? This is sick.

  24. Unfortunately, Walmart is a far better retailer than Target. Target is all about keeping middle class mom and her daughters coming in to waste money. They nailed that. The rest of thier juju is fucked.

  25. Yeah. They don't have training problems they have engagement problems. Shame, they could have easily been the greatest retailer the world has ever known. They are blowing it.