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  1. Holy Crap! on R2-D2: Mall Cop · · Score: 1

    If that thing costs $6.25 an hour to operate then it's a complete rip off. How the hell does that tin can cost that much to operate?

  2. Re:What's wrong with Tokens? on Chicago Transit System Fooled By Federal ID Cards · · Score: 1

    But it gets a LOT worse when it gets cold. one night when it was 0F out it was standing room only and the smell was.... oh dear god....

  3. Re:High-turnover industry is a lemon, make lemonad on Ask Slashdot: Are We Older Experts Being Retired Too Early? · · Score: 1

    Hurts to say no? I find it gleefull to say no. Learn to embrace the joy of telling friends, "sorry I dont work for free". Now if a buddy wants to mow may lawn for 3 weeks for me in trade for dinking with his computer? sure. want me to wast 4 hours putting Windows 8 on something, you had better bring me a bottle of JW Blue when you ask.

  4. Re:Older on Ask Slashdot: Are We Older Experts Being Retired Too Early? · · Score: 1

    "Older people have families, they don't like living in the office like the freshmeat. Sadistic Assholes don't like that."

    FTFY

  5. Age is not the problem. on Ask Slashdot: Are We Older Experts Being Retired Too Early? · · Score: 1

    Your inability to fly out to do the job is. What is holding you back is your "I can work remotely" That is not cutting it right now, change that to "I will fly out and work right there for you" and you will start getting bites.

    The young guys are saying, "Yes I will drive across the country and live in my car for this job" that is what you need to do as well.

  6. Re:Cost-benefit analysis on NY Police Get Tall SUVs To Combat Texting While Driving · · Score: 1

    No what he is saying that he is OK with YOU and others dying in a crash so he doesn't have to miss a text from his BFF.

  7. Re:Oh that's why they can on NY Police Get Tall SUVs To Combat Texting While Driving · · Score: 2

    "That takes skill...or drugs."

    Just being complete sociopath assholes is all that is needed to do that.

  8. Re:Oh that's why they can on NY Police Get Tall SUVs To Combat Texting While Driving · · Score: 1

    Most cops can barely drive, and then when off duty they drive like complete and utter assholes.

  9. Re:Keep looking on European Health Levels Suddenly Collapsed After 2003 and Nobody Is Sure Why · · Score: 1

    warming actually makes it easier for animals to live, it is allowing species to move farther north than ever before. so Global warming would make it a LOT easier for humans. A lot of people die in winters even today, so a warmer winter and summer makes your chances of living higher.

  10. i know why... on European Health Levels Suddenly Collapsed After 2003 and Nobody Is Sure Why · · Score: 2

    McDonalds.. The American fast food chains started pushing HARD across europe.

    The Herpes that is american fast food is spreading across the planet.

  11. Re:Already have that.... on LoJack To Release Tracking Devices For Consumers, Insurance, and Auto Makers · · Score: 1

    No, the dog shock collars are for that. Far easier to get a Pavlovian response that way.

  12. Re:Corporate welfare on Chicago Transit System Fooled By Federal ID Cards · · Score: 0

    It's what republicans are good at. Fuck the poor but give money hand over fist to companies and the rich.

  13. Re:What's wrong with Tokens? on Chicago Transit System Fooled By Federal ID Cards · · Score: 2

    Problem is in chicago, in fact starting now until april the red line becomes a homeless shelter. they get on and dont get off all night long so they have a warm place to sleep.

  14. Re:What's wrong with Tokens? on Chicago Transit System Fooled By Federal ID Cards · · Score: 1

    When I lived in chicago we would do exactly this, I would leave work and notice that a machine was clear and buy $50 in tokens. I was set for at least 2 months. Plus when friends showed up it was easy to give them some to ride with me, etc...

    Only people that never actually used the system thinks that people stop and buy them every single day.

  15. Re:What's wrong with Tokens? on Chicago Transit System Fooled By Federal ID Cards · · Score: 2

    You dont know much about this tech. firstly you have to be damn close for facial recognition to work, only very few systems use HD cameras to be able to work at a distance and then they get overwhelmed when there is more than 5 faces on the camera. Please stop mixing up SciFi with the stuff we really have. In reality, it doesnt work that well because the cops would have it deployed everywhere to have a low effort high capture rate on minor criminals. Even something as simple as the License plate cameras only have an 80% accuracy rate and the cops have to be quite close to you, more than 150 feet away and they cant read a high contrast license plate.

  16. Re:What's wrong with Tokens? on Chicago Transit System Fooled By Federal ID Cards · · Score: 1

    You cant give your buddies multi billion dollar contracts with coins. Plus the damn things keep working decade after decade, and we can not allow that.

  17. Re:$454 million?? on Chicago Transit System Fooled By Federal ID Cards · · Score: 2

    It's Chicago, they are so corrupt it makes DC look like the largest source of honest people on the planet. There is a reason why it is a common saying that "in Chicago, the dead vote twice" It is normal that contracts are kickbacks and given projects designed to make companies and people filthy rich while not delivering.

  18. Re:I have something better that's free to use! on LoJack To Release Tracking Devices For Consumers, Insurance, and Auto Makers · · Score: 1

    It sends bacon to you via radio waves..... Mmmmm smokey radio bacon.....

  19. Re:Track who? on LoJack To Release Tracking Devices For Consumers, Insurance, and Auto Makers · · Score: 1

    No they dont. The ECM may record the last few seconds but there is no special "black box" that spies on you.

    Granted my education on cars is limited to ECM and BCM hacking as well as CANBUS reverse engineering..... so I might be wrong, but I highly doubt it as I have NEVER found a blackbox in any car that I have worked on. granted it's only been about 22 different cars and models ranging from 2007 to 2013 and the data saved in the ECM is very limited. Just throttle position, brake pedal activation, and engine data at the time of airbag deployment. your GPS coordinates of the last 30 places you have been are no where to be found inside.

  20. Already have that.... on LoJack To Release Tracking Devices For Consumers, Insurance, and Auto Makers · · Score: 1

    It's called AT&T family tracking. I know right where all the phones are. and it costs a LOT less than the lojack junk.

  21. Re:Low-salary 95K/year postdoc was well worth it on Is a Postdoc Worth it? · · Score: 1

    It does when you get that job with nearly $200,000 in debt hanging over your head. $4000+ a month student loan payments make that $95K a year salary look like peanuts it forces you to live as if you were making $40K a year. And if you are screwed and end up working in insane places like California, DC, or NYC for that paltry $95K you are living in a slum as housing prices are criminally high.

  22. It IS! on Is a Postdoc Worth it? · · Score: 1

    If you like crippling debt and no better chances at employment. If you are going into the education field and hope to become a tenured professor, then you need to do it. Otherwise it's just pissing away your money and time.

    Even to become one of NASA's top scientists you dont need it.

  23. Fake Alias... on Ask Slashdot: How Do You Protect Your Privacy These Days? Or Do You? · · Score: 1

    Everything I do online is based on a fake alias. airgapped from my real life. yes even my cellphone and internet is via a fake alias I pay for a second internet line to a neighbors house, then I ran my own wires back to mine buried. I asked for no paper billing and it's set to an automatic credit card payment.

    Works great.

  24. set up an asterisk pbx. whitelist numbers you want and send everything else to a blackhole that is the "this number is disconnected" recording.
    you can whitelist your entire area code so it's easy to block everything else.

  25. They have to stop it! on A War Over Solar Power Is Raging Within the GOP · · Score: 0

    Anything that empowers poor people making $120K or less a year must be stopped. Solar power at home? how unamerican!
    The GOP hates americans, they hate Poor people even more.