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  1. Incompetence pays the most in the USA.

  2. She needs to take her and ALL executives bonuses and start with the lowest paid employees and go up from there.
    Start with saying sorry for being a worthless CEO that is killing the company.

  3. In other words... on White House Supports Renewal of Spy Law Without Reforms (reuters.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Trump is a slimy politician just like all the Career politicians.

    Not one of them give a flying fuck about the constitution.

  4. Humans are NOT designed to eat mostly Carbohydrates. we are meat eaters and we keep finding evidence of this.

    Instead we have "nutritionists" that still preach the diet that makes everyone fat as hell.
    Meat, low glycemic veggies, fruits, nuts, then grains down there with sugar. THAT is how humans are supposed to eat.

    M E A T !

  5. it would be trivial to get rid of the connector, they already have magsafe yet the morons there ditched it for the inferior Usb-C.

    Dont expect real innovation from apple anymore. the left overs in job's office are now gone, it's all about profits and margin now. Even Johnny Ives is phoning everything in now.

  6. Re:Funny numbers from a mechanical engineer on Scraping By On Six Figures? Tech Workers Feel Poor in Silicon Valley's Wealth Bubble (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    If he is an engineer, then the house is all fucked up. I have never met an engineer that can design a house. Architect's know what they are doing, engineers think they know but usually screw things up badly because they let that ego get in the way.

    Dealing with that right now, dumbass engineer broke the AV system design on his boat because all the fiberoptic runs were bent too tightly and there is >10DB loss on every run due to the moron demanding that the fiber be ran next to the other wiring in the same trays. Now he get's to pay to have it all ripped out and redone.

    Fiberoptics also have a 25 bend cycle limit until they crack, the moron keeps playing with endpoints and has cracked 6 fibers out of 16.

  7. Huh? I had a 160K mortgage was was unable to even meet the minimum deduction to itemize. Where the hell are you getting that you can deduct 50% of your income?

  8. I wish I could find a reasonable sized 960 sq foot home in a decent neighborhood. instead all you can find is giant oversized homes that really stupid people want because they hate their families.

    When I go to Ikea I really love the 680sq ft apartment. The only place you can find those are NYC/ Chicago/LA and usually in a pretty shitty part of town.
    and sadly the small home movement is not allowed to grow because of stupid laws that require houses be a certain size or worse, the scourge of humanity... the HOA.

  9. Broke as in "cant afford 2 teslas and other rich guy things he thinks he deserves"

    $200K should EASILY handle a $3000 a month rent/mortgage and living decently while putting away cash.

    What he is whining about is that he thinks he deserves a 4 bedroom mc mansion. he doesnt.

  10. Mostly for stupid people.

  11. Because bigger numbers are better! Only a loser will use a 2:1 screen. Real men? they have a 10,000,000:5,000,000 ratio screen!
    and it has a 330,000 uAh battery! DEAR GOD ITS HUGE! MOAR POWER!

    And all you thinkers can STFU! stop your freedom hating education and knowlege from getting in the way of FREEDOM!

  12. Thank your local trumper... on FCC Chairman Says His Agency Won't Review AT&T's Time Warner Purchase (engadget.com) · · Score: 0

    For voting in a guy that found some of the dumbest human beings on the planet to staff important positions.

    Trump himself wont do the damage, The morally bankrupt 89IQ rich idiots he appointed will.

  13. Re:do you want $100+ oil changes at the dealer shi on The Videogame Industry Is Fighting 'Right To Repair' Laws (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Anyone that owns a performance car has been paying $100 oil changes at even a quickie lube for a while now. MY dealer oil changes are $160.00 If I buy the oil and filter myself it comes out to be $65.00 to do it in the driveway.

    I'm guessing that you have not owned a car and taken it in for an oil change cince 1980? Even my Honda Civic was $70 for an oil change just yesterday at a Valvoline quick lube.

  14. Re:During the 70's or 80's... on The Videogame Industry Is Fighting 'Right To Repair' Laws (vice.com) · · Score: 2

    Except you cant use Microsoft WORD to write anything that says anything negative about Microsoft.... it's in the EULA.
    Oh and they own your docx files because it is in their format.
    Oh and you had better read the EULA of their Visual Studio as to what they own of yours.....

    Nothing has changed except that they hide it better in a wall of text written by the scummiest people on the planet. Intellectual Property Lawyers.

  15. Re:Terrible Idea on The Videogame Industry Is Fighting 'Right To Repair' Laws (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Ebay always sides with the buyer, open the case and ebay will simply refund the money paid if returning the item is too difficult. in international cases from china ebay wil even say, "here is your money, keep the item" because if the auction is marked "no returns" that means that the seller does not want it back for any reason at all even damaged so the buyer can get a refund and keep the item.

    If he did not open a case with ebay then he is either very stupid or just started using ebay.

  16. Re:They did it to themselves on The Videogame Industry Is Fighting 'Right To Repair' Laws (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    I would simply short the power pins of the flash chip on boot. Panasonic toughbook hada high security option in the CF-31 that you could lock the bios and not even panasonic could unlock it. I did on 30 of them by taking a 9V battery and blowing up the security chip on the board.

  17. Re:They did it to themselves on The Videogame Industry Is Fighting 'Right To Repair' Laws (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Welcome to the disparity of paying an electronics bench tech a reasonable wage versus your subsidized game console price designed to get you to buy it and $100 each games.

    If you want minimum wage pay to the bench techs, then you must accept your own wages to be dropped to minimum wage as well.

  18. Re:Simple answer. Dont use SAP. on SAP License Fees Also Due For Indirect Users, Court Rules (networkworld.com) · · Score: 1

    SAP cant scale worth shit, we recently added 4000 people in the call center and it took SAP 8 months to "scale" the stupid garbage pile they call software to handle it.

    Then when we wanted to put in a system in the RMA database to track repair RMA data, the SAP experts said it was impossible, so one of the IT guys wrote the system we needed in PHP with a Open source SQL backend. he has a MITM box that will grab info from SAP and then spit it to the RMA server. when you do a query on the RMA page you get the full history of the device from manufacture date, to ship date, to who, to all repairs and even Tech support calls on the device.

    SAP was unable to deliver this. Because SAP is really shitty.

  19. Simple answer. Dont use SAP. on SAP License Fees Also Due For Indirect Users, Court Rules (networkworld.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Honestly their database and software is god awful crap. Why anyone uses it I'll never understand.

    There are so many other proven alternatives that are built better and has a UI that was not built by raving lunatics...

  20. In other news... on Astronomers Discover 60 New Planets Including 'Super Earth' (nypost.com) · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    The White house denied these as a hoax.

    "These are obviously not real as those planets are orbiting around other stars, this is impossible as everything orbits around our Orange fearless leader."

    This is prompting a huge surge in scientists all over the country to emigrate to Canada.

  21. Um... no. on How Beer Brewed 5,000 Years Ago In China Tastes Today (thestreet.com) · · Score: 1

    If it looks like porridge then it's still in the middle of fermentation.
    If it's sweet, ITS STILL IN THE MIDDLE OF FERMENTATION.

    honestly, did they even look at some of the early recipes out of europe or the middle East? Pharaoh Beer is from 2570bc and if you do it properly is not sweet and not "like porridge"
    What makes beers bitter is Hops, and if you don't have hops in it then it's not bitter Hops were not known to the middle east or china and were not even used until europe in the 9th century.

    archeologists need to stick to digging up things and leave beer making to the experts.

  22. Translation... on Intel Confirms 8th Gen Core On 14nm, Data Center First To New Nodes (anandtech.com) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    8th gen will suck as bad as 7th gen, so that means the 4th gen stuff will STILL outperform it.

  23. Re:Welcome to the Digital Divide. on Most of the Web Really Sucks If You Have a Slow Connection (danluu.com) · · Score: 2

    The art of optimization seems to have disappeared...

    Because shiny and swoopy is more important that performance

  24. Important fix on Most of the Web Really Sucks If You Have a Slow Connection (danluu.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Be sure to run adblockers, stripping out adverts makes a big difference.

    But even slashdot is a big fat bloated pig. no reason at all to load everything and a giant pile of JS.

  25. easy.... on Slashdot Asks: How Do You Know a Developer is Doing a Good Job? · · Score: 1

    When he hasn't murdered the management asking if he is doing a good job....