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  1. Re:Pay gap is real, but exaggerated on Google Schools US Government About Gender Pay Gap (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    With a few really bad exceptions out there, I think the majority of pay disparity really is career choices.

    married men make more than single men, and married women make less than single women.

    Different valuation put on risk, culturally speaking. I think men feel the need to take more risks to be able to provide more, whereas women take fewer risks to have more consistent and reliable income.

  2. Infrastructure isn't cheap, but it's a lot cheaper to maintain than it is to build. This is also how most AT&T-owned copper was built. This is better than handing the money over to a single private company.

  3. Credit card companies have access to enough of your personal information. Do you want to give them entire prison databases, too?

  4. Re:Sad they lost in TLD lottery. on Investigation Finds Inmates Built Computers, Hid Them In Prison Ceiling (cbs6albany.com) · · Score: 1

    It's typically used for state and county governments. In IL, all public schools get *.k12.il.us domains.

  5. Of course since most of that wouldn't function without the rest, you could have just saved the money until you could buy it all at once. It would have worked almost the same (unless you bought the case and GPU last and the CPU had on-die graphics).

  6. Re:Google, fixing problems they cause on Chrome Now Uses Scroll Anchoring To Prevent Those Annoying Page Jumps (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    Google Analytics added 70ms to the loading time for this page when I went to view your comment. And with it loading post-render and not modifying the DOM, there's a lot less impact. Slashdot Media's own analytics script also loaded on this page. It took over 400ms.

  7. Re:Google, fixing problems they cause on Chrome Now Uses Scroll Anchoring To Prevent Those Annoying Page Jumps (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    Google does this to at least make the page readable quickly. On the other hand, they didn't count on developers just making worse lazy-load ads.

  8. Re: It's relative on Sorry America, Your Taxes Aren't High (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Maybe a little, but I had no money and I used mostly loans and state grants. I didn't get any school-sponsored scholarships.

  9. Re:Who cares....its almost summer rerun time anywa on TV's Golden Age Is Anything But, Say Writers Preparing To Strike (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Writing season is about now. Shooting typically starts in summer, while writing continues on later episodes. Even when shows begin airing in the fall, they likely don't have all the episodes in post-production yet or even finished filming.

  10. The USPS and FedEx both reserve the right to inspect suspicious packages or even refuse to accept them for delivery.

  11. Re:Wait wot? What about the Nexus 4? on Qualcomm Says Apple Broke Contract, Hindered Performance of Its Chipsets (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    *theoretically, under specific conditions.

  12. Re:Who cares....its almost summer rerun time anywa on TV's Golden Age Is Anything But, Say Writers Preparing To Strike (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Who cares, most "real" shows are going into summer reruns here soon if not already.

    Right, because they're getting started with pilots and writing season now. This is how there are shows in fall. They are filmed and edited in advance.

  13. The tool recommends one not embed text into images, rather to use direct text (in HTML).

    And that's really a simplification on the tool's part. A good ALT attribute shouldn't prevent you from using text on images. And HTML5 has a whole range of ARIA tags that help screen readers out with more complex scenarios.

    I got an email from the USPS where the logo had the following ALT tag: "USPS.com home. The profile of an eagle's head adjoining the words United States Postal Service are the two elements that are combined to form the corporate signature." All this when it was just a logo with an eagle head next to "USPS.COM" on the graphic itself.

  14. Re:More problems with this than I can easily name on A Big Problem With AI: Even Its Creators Can't Explain How It Works (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 1

    Stop calling it 'AI' unless you can have a conversation with it, in human language, about what it's doing and why.

    A fruit fly has some measure of real intelligence. You can't do any of those things with it.

  15. Re:Okay, but someone wrote the algorithm on A Big Problem With AI: Even Its Creators Can't Explain How It Works (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 1

    Approximating it artificially is the "A" part of AI. If a machine can truly learn and understand and make novel solutions, then it's not AI - it's just intelligence.

  16. Re:Wait wot? What about the Nexus 4? on Qualcomm Says Apple Broke Contract, Hindered Performance of Its Chipsets (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    It's about Apple claiming there's no discernible difference between Intel & Qualcomm iPhones

    If they're hindering the performance of Qualcomm chips to match, wouldn't that premise also be true?

  17. Re:The question IS... on Sorry America, Your Taxes Aren't High (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 2

    It's a group-buy. Theoretically cheaper to administer than each person building a road in front of their own house. A collective system of roads is a government "service." This is what government service is and should be.

  18. Re:Health Care on Sorry America, Your Taxes Aren't High (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    The lowest tax bracket here is 36%, which seems surprisingly close to the 37% we ended up with in the table.

    Is every dollar you earn taxable or is the first $x,000 you earn exempt from income tax? In the US, you get at least $6,300 worth of income ($12,600 if married and filing jointly) before you owe any federal taxes (based on "standard" deductions, though this is a minimum). If you pay 36% on only 80% of your income, then your effective tax rate is lower than 36%.

  19. Re: It's relative on Sorry America, Your Taxes Aren't High (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    I also have two kids in college, which most people get tax deductions for (unless your rich)

    Unless you're rich, you're probably not paying for your kids' college.

  20. Re:Common Sense calling - Women have babies on Google Schools US Government About Gender Pay Gap (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    That's not what the current pay gap seems to suggest. Most men just tend to be too cowardly or want to use their job as an excuse while at the same time calling it a "woman" problem.

  21. Re:Numbers on Why Do Airlines Overbook? (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    I would have been driving this in the first place, personally. The 4 hours of driving is almost as much time as getting through airport security and waiting on the flight.

    But we were talking about the 46,000 annually and not the 4 from this flight.

  22. Re:Also a self-perpetuating cycle on Google Schools US Government About Gender Pay Gap (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    And what line of work is she in - what STEM job does she have that only pays $28,000? Or is this even relevant to the discussion at all?

  23. You're right - both the Slashdot summary and the linked article leave out the vital information:

    In 2010, LiveJournal
    sought to exercise more control over ONTD so that it could
    generate advertising revenue from the popular community.
    LiveJournal hired a then active moderator, Brendan Delzer,
    to serve as the community’s full time “primary leader.” By
    hiring Delzer, LiveJournal intended to “take over” ONTD,
    grow the site, and run ads on it.

    As the “primary leader,” Delzer instructs ONTD
    moderators on the content they should approve and selects
    and removes moderators on the basis of their performance.
    Delzer also continues to perform moderator work, reviewing
    and approving posts alongside the other moderators whom he
    oversees.

    All this decision does is remove the ability of a summary judgment. They might still find in favor of LJ at trial, but it seems unlikely. Looking at this, it seems like they are trying to claim control without claiming responsibility. The act of "editing" (posts only appear when approved) is enough to make the posting an act of LJ themselves.

  24. Re:Were the employee schedules really that tight? on Why Do Airlines Overbook? (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    They had mandatory rest periods before a flight. The driving/passenger time isn't allowed to count toward that.

  25. Re:Why? Abuse is now common. Also social inability on Why Do Airlines Overbook? (bbc.com) · · Score: 2

    While a lot of what you said is correct, it appears that flight 3411 is actually a Republic Airline flight. And really, it appears it's not so much a mis-labeling as it is outsourcing/contracting. United is correct in sharing the blame for this in choosing to partner with them.