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  1. Re:He Has the Same Problem As Obama on General Motors To Lay Off 2,000 Workers at Two US Plants (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Yeah, Chinese MDF. We had some come into the shop. Nearly ruined the CNC machine because they pressed a bunch of gravel into it. Pass.

  2. Re:Oh my god, what? on Slashdot Asks: Should The US Abolish The Electoral College? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Two of the last five Elections went to the person who didn't not win the most votes. It's no longer a academic what if.

  3. Re:Little early to be calling Trump's bluff on General Motors To Lay Off 2,000 Workers at Two US Plants (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    He can cancel NAFTA, but he can't do the 35% tariff without an act of congress. These are the same anti-tax, free trade republicans that have been there for years. Trumps experience in getting a good deal is based on not living up to his side of the bargain.

  4. Can't wait to see the H1B caps on General Motors To Lay Off 2,000 Workers at Two US Plants (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Let's not forget the house has been trying to move on removing all H1B caps for a while now. Trump has no love loss for college educated voters, but he does like white males. So that's going to be a toss up.

  5. He Has the Same Problem As Obama on General Motors To Lay Off 2,000 Workers at Two US Plants (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    So, y'all realize the same people that that have controlled the house of representatives are still there right? The people elected the same bunch of Do-Nothings that have been in place for the last 12 years or so. They are anti-tax and free-trade. So unless they all of sudden have decided to become socialists these ideas of having massive taxed on companies that move production overseas is a no go. What Trump can do is Exit NAFTA. But doing that would all of a sudden make millions of materials produced in the US more expensive to North America.

    There will be winners and losers. Most of the losers are likely down South.What's left of the US Textile industry (mostly makers of denim and other bulk fabrics) would likely go out of business. It's economically viable to produce the fabric in the US and ship it to Mexico for production into clothing and then ship the finished product to the US. When that goes away it's do you think the they'll make it all in the US? No. They'll ship raw cotton to one of the super low cost countries in Asia. It will all get done over there and shipped back here because that's cheaper and works under existing tariffs that have ZERO to do with NAFTA and Trump can't easily change.

    This will be a reply of the last time the GOP had control over all three houses. Screw over the poor, cut taxes on the rich, privatize a bunch of stuff that actually runs fairly well, line the pockets of big donors, spend a bunch of money on some bullshit war and then wonder why the budget is out of control. Rinse and Repeat.

  6. Re:Difference in work product on Ask Slashdot: Why Are American Tech Workers Paid So Well? · · Score: 2

    Well, you're bolstered by Russia messing with the former Iron Curtain countries. For a while it appeared that Ukraine was going to upset India for sub-contracting. High quality English, smaller time zone difference and they had no problems pushing back on tech issues and coming up with alternative solutions. Now Western countries are fearful about placing all their bets on a place that could go up in smoke overnight.

  7. Want a Well Built - Speed Queen on Samsung Washing Machines Recalled For Risk of 'Impact Injuries' (usatoday.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    If you want something well built the last player still standing is Speed Queen. You'll pay for that quality and get a factory warranty to that's 3-4 times better than anyone else.

  8. It's too bad budget cuts in the US forced JPL to back out of the program. While the US has several spectacular failures, they also have even more successes. The fact that they got the Rube Goldberg landing device for the Curiosity lander to work is an engineering wonder in itself. Hopefully Europe has the same tolerances for learning from mistakes as the US.

  9. Real Life Final Destination on Star Wars Production Company Fined Almost $2 Million For Harrison Ford's Injury (bbc.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Ford is more or less a real life "Final Destination" character. Between the door and the number of air plane accidents he should have died years ago. That last air plane accident did a real number on him. He couldn't talk for a week. If anything the real hero is his PR guy which made the media think he walked away from the last crash.

  10. The Swiss Regulate the Crap Out of People on Outsourced IT Workers Ask Sen Feinstein For Help, Get Form Letter in Return (computerworld.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    What he doesn't know about the Swiss is they regulate the crap out of everyone. Health Insurance must be not for profit and the Gov't have price controls on the fees doctors and hospitals can charge insurance. The Swiss are the most capitalistic lot in Europe and even they recognize when you're injured or hurt you're in no position to negotiate. I don't see conservatives (or Scott Adams) lining up behind gov't mandated price controls.

  11. Re:Why Are You Training Replacements? on Outsourced IT Workers Ask Sen Feinstein For Help, Get Form Letter in Return (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Usually they send LS-1 workers. They are more like a visiting foreign worker who can only be around for a limited period of time. There's nothing in the law preventing LS-1's from coming to the US to learn a job for the sole purposes of putting citizens out of work.

  12. China is Doing the Same Thing on Japan Plans To Build Unmanned Fighter Jets (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    The biggest fear of the US Military is autonomous fighter jets. Even if you disrupt command and control it's quite possible the jets could still defend/attack enemy forces. The problem for that is the Chinese can make a MIG for a fraction of the cost of a F-35. Sure, the F-35 would take out some MIGs, but the it only holds a relatively small number of missiles.

  13. Re:Finland on Russian Online Trolls Resist The Light · · Score: 1

    Good way to drive up site traffic as the paid trolls will come around and post anonymously.

  14. Re:Doomed from the beginning on Lenovo: Motorola Acquisition 'Did Not Meet Expectations' (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    +1

    First thing they do out of the gate is orphan a bunch of very new phones for updates. All the great press Moto had worked years to gain evaporated overnight. Why would you buy a Moto phone when you could just buy a Nexus?

  15. Re: After I received a DMCA notice from them... on Copyright Trolls Rightscorp Are Teetering On The Verge Of Bankruptcy (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 2

    In the US most ISDN service was terminated to an PRI T1. That hooked into a modem bank that would answer both ISDN and 56K calls. By that point the ISDN modems where smart enough to be able to use both 64K channels as a pair bond. It would utilize two modems at the NOC.

    It was also pretty common for us to order channelized T1s for 56K applications. You could get one extra modem per T1, but we would lose the ability to get real time ANI data and ISDN.

    Eventually we started having the NOC/POPs configured with a T3 and them demux it into a variety of T1s and fractional T3. For instance for a mid size POP we could have a single T3 handle both the incoming phones and the upstream data. I.e. We wanted to drop a crap ton of modems into the back room of a rural shopping mall because that was the most cost effective location based on LATA lines and what was considered the "local calling area".

    A lot of the times people would claim MSN or AOL or whatever was the best service. In reality in most parts of the US all the main national services would terminate to the same place and run on the same equipment. We'd just route it differently based on the number you called.

  16. Re:Most everybody else does it on Amazon To Sell Its Own Private-Label Groceries (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    The large grocery chains have quite a lot of R&D into the white label products they sell. They have test kitchen's and conduct focus groups. I think Target and Trader Joes in particular have set the expectations bar fairly high in terms of what a white label brand should deliver. In many cases they offer products and flavors that are new. They don't just replicate an existing brand like some generic.

  17. Re:Who Cares? on Jeremy Clarkson's Amazon Show To Be Called The Grand Tour (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    I think LaBlanc will come off better on the show than Evans. LaBlanc seems like an actual car guy and he's got no problem with having his ego take a back seat for some self deprecating humor.

  18. Re:Chemistry and strong takes on Jeremy Clarkson's Amazon Show To Be Called The Grand Tour (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    I think that Chemistry was the outright distain they had for each other's opinions. It worked and I think it's missing in the US version of the show.

  19. Re:People say "custom-made" like it's a bad thing on Why BART Is Falling Apart · · Score: 1

    There are plenty of companies that make rolling stock for that gauge. BART had no problem finding someone to make new rolling stock. At issue is they mandated an 18 month period to test accessibility. So they won't have the new cars until early 2017. So in the mean time they'll have to scavenge parts until the new rolling stock is delivered.

  20. Re:Better have Dolby atmos and at least 4k at that on Peter Jackson and JJ Abrams 'Back' Sean Parker's Screening Room (variety.com) · · Score: 2

    Nope. If you want that service it already exists and has for many years for the ultra-wealthy. $500 for a single screening. Credit Check required. The equipment has a fingerprint scanner to verify you authorized the screening. It uses a satellite connection to pull down an encrypted file ahead of time and then the internet connection to get the key to decrypt. It's basically the same source material a theater would use.

  21. Re:MS Store is instant delivery, but BitCoin is no on Microsoft Store No Longer Accepts Bitcoins As Payment (techtimes.com) · · Score: 1

    THIS!

    Legitimate retailers don't need the hassle. This transaction time issues have been known for some time, but you have competing parties on the solution. So we are at a stalemate. I believe the dispute between developer factions has been going on for over a year. Different factions have interests that are not always about what's best for the general user population.

  22. Re:Libel? on How Donald Trump Uses Twitter As a Weapon of Fear · · Score: 1

    Sure. But you need the money to enforce your claim. He can keep a case like that in limbo for years.

  23. You'll Never Know if a Device is Compliant on New Energy Efficiency Standards Take Effect This Week In the US (nrdc.org) · · Score: 2

    Go out to Amazon and start looking closely at adapters, chargers and lights. A shocking number of items have obviously fake Under Writers Laboratory marks. Outside well known US and Major Asian Brands (Sony, Sharp, Panasonic, Samsung, LG) I'm dubious that the devices will be compliant.

  24. Re:GOOD on Oracle To Drop Java Browser Plugin In JDK 9 (softpedia.com) · · Score: 1

    To a certain extend the JVM does attempt to detect poorly writing code and will attempt to optimize the opcode at runtime. But there's only so much it can do.

    Even Microsoft has a pretty decent VM for .Net, but because the op codes change so much version to version the JVM has proven to be far more useful for other languages (JRuby, Jython, Scala, Closure, etc.)

  25. Re:Not a big surprise on Java Named Top Programming Language of 2015 (dice.com) · · Score: 1

    There are tons of crappy C++, C#, Java, VB.Net, apps out there. Frankly your comments come off as out of touch. This idea that somehow C++ guys are the only ones that understand what it takes to write good good is laughable. Lotus had the same opinion of C and C++ and insisted on writing windows apps mostly in assembly. That hubris allowed other companies to run circles around them.

    Some languages tend to attract poor coding because they have entry points that require no skill. You end up with developers that pick up a lot of bad habits over the years. PHP is a notable actor, but .Net has the same baggage from all the guys who started with VB in Access and .Net back in the day. It doesn't matter that Microsoft actually has a really good VM and really put a lot of effort into C#.

    Put another way, you can't take the AOL out of the internet.