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  1. Re:Enlightened self interest on Uber Drivers Have Rights on Wages and Time Off, UK Panel Rules (apnews.com) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    If you have a business plan that isn't economically feasible you shouldn't blame your employees. And if margins are so razor thin why does anybody bother? No sympathy for Uber.

  2. My question on Exit Interview: Scott Kelly (atlasobscura.com) · · Score: 1

    What's REALLY going on? One-hundred and fifty billion dollars for a few experiments?

  3. Re:An interesting tactic on Security Firm Creates Chatbot To Respond To Scam Emails On Your Behalf (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Good luck and bon voyage on your drive home. Hope you didn't jinx yourself.

  4. Enlightened self interest on Uber Drivers Have Rights on Wages and Time Off, UK Panel Rules (apnews.com) · · Score: 0

    I can understand why a business owner would want to treat their employees unfairly. But why would someone who works for another object to being treated fairly? After all labor laws are the bare legal minimum yet that's too much for some. And no, you shouldn't be allowed to demand more immigrants to undercut people already here just so you can buy your 3rd Mercedes.

  5. Re:An interesting tactic on Security Firm Creates Chatbot To Respond To Scam Emails On Your Behalf (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Just saying be careful. Lots of pitfalls out there. Can't remember the last time I was 99% sure of anything.

  6. History of Silicon Valley on Ask Slashdot: How Many Books Do You Read a Month? · · Score: 1

    Bear - The Life and Times of Augustus Owsley Stanley III by Robert Greenfield.
    Highly recommended!

  7. Re:An interesting tactic on Security Firm Creates Chatbot To Respond To Scam Emails On Your Behalf (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    How many things happened in the last year that "didn't seem likely" or were "too bizarre"? They could be 100% honest, but when someone says "Here, I'll take care of that for you." beware.

  8. Re:An interesting tactic on Security Firm Creates Chatbot To Respond To Scam Emails On Your Behalf (theverge.com) · · Score: 2

    Unless of course they end up selling your email addresses to spammers. What guarantee do you have that they won't? Or someone hacks them. Or a "rogue employee". This is 2017, you can't take anything at face value. Even though plenty do.

  9. Louis CK took his penis out and started masturbating furiously.
    Slow news day, I guess.

  10. Re:Old news on Google Working To Remove MINIX-Based ME From Intel Platforms (tomshardware.com) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    If Tannenbaum had licensed Minix as GPL instead of BSD, Intel couldn't have done this.

  11. Re:Post-war, eh? on IBM's Quest To Design The 'New Helvetica' (fastcodesign.com) · · Score: 1

    Vee vill not be talking about zee war. Ya?

  12. Re:I work for IBM on IBM's Quest To Design The 'New Helvetica' (fastcodesign.com) · · Score: 1

    IBM: Our revenues have dropped from $110 billion to $80 billion over the past five years. Does anyone have any ideas?
    Abbink: How about a bespoke typeface?

  13. Re:Easy solution: bike paths on Indian Capital Declares Emergency as Toxic Smog Thickens By the Hour (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    They don't use bicycles in India because they want to. Hardly anyone can afford cars and trucks.

  14. Re:And I would say, 'OK. You know, you will be' on Sean Parker Unloads on Facebook 'Exploiting' Human Psychology (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    It's a question of scale.
    Slashdot: 2 million visitors a day
    Facebook: over 1 billion visitors a day
    Anyone care to dispute my stats which I spent 2 minutes googling for?

  15. Re:Easy solution: bike paths on Indian Capital Declares Emergency as Toxic Smog Thickens By the Hour (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Donald Trump doesn't like bicycles.
    “I will stop Iran from getting nuclear weapons. And we won’t be using a man like Secretary Kerry that has absolutely no concept of negotiation, who’s making a horrible and laughable deal, who’s just being tapped along as they make weapons right now, and then goes into a bicycle race at 72 years old, and falls and breaks his leg. I won’t be doing that. And I promise I will never be in a bicycle race. That I can tell you.”
    So it is spoken, so it shall be.

  16. Enough with the breaking news. Someone should tell them that it's not breaking news when you've been saying it for three days. Why don't they just put up an animation of Don Lemon shaking his head while a recording says trump-trump-trump-trump-trump. And what's with all the ex-CIA and former generals? Do they need the money that badly?

  17. >What happend to good old Blame Canada?

    They're not even a real country anyway.

    Oh we're still here. We're just keeping politely quiet while the rest of the world wonders WTF is going on with the U.S.

  18. Re:So... when does it get moved to fiction? on Nearly All of Wikipedia Is Written By Just 1 Percent of Its Editors (vice.com) · · Score: 2

    Did you hear Kennedy died?

  19. A lot of people like to knock Wikipedia, especially on TV. It may have it's faults but it's an incredible resource and the internet is a better place for it.

  20. Re:Too late for that on EPA Approves Release of Bacteria-Carrying Mosquitoes To 20 States (nature.com) · · Score: 1

    That's probably what Indians say about whitey.

  21. Unfortunately what the little guy wants never mattered. We've been played like a fiddle.

  22. I know. Isn't it great!

  23. Tim Cook: Yeah, well I'm gonna sue the Jews for sinking the Titanic.
    Lawyer: An Iceberg sank the Titanic.
    Tim Cook: Iceberg, Goldberg, what's the difference?

  24. Re:Here is a question I have... on Alphabet Is Finally Taking the Driver Out of Some of Its Driverless Cars (recode.net) · · Score: 1

    Looks like you're all set then. While I don't think it's a good idea for me, for you it seems like a good fit.

  25. Re:Here is a question I have... on Alphabet Is Finally Taking the Driver Out of Some of Its Driverless Cars (recode.net) · · Score: 1

    You'll have to excuse me for thinking that autonomous meant no human intervention. But just out of curiosity, you're driving up the street and want to scratch your nuts so you throw the car into "self driving mode" and just at that moment a person walks in front of you and are hit. Does your insurance cover that? What if your tires are wore out and unsafe, does the car know? I see problems.