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  1. Protip on Low-Carb Diet Trumps Low-Fat Diet In Major New Study · · Score: 1

    Eat a balanced diet containing reasonable portions and exercise as often as you can. Driving everywhere and feeding from the McTrough like an animal will result in being a fatty no matter what you cut out.

  2. Re:Okay... and? on For Microsoft, $93B Abroad Means Avoiding $30B Tax Hit · · Score: 1

    Why does the US expect citizens abroad to pay tax after a certain certain threshold or how it some how believes if you travel to the US during a vacation since you are paid for that vacation then you're earning money in the US. For you see being American is so great that you must forever file your taxes and pay your way for being on America's planet.

    Since corporations are people then the same should apply.

  3. Re:Do the math on New EU Rules Will Limit Vacuum Cleaners To 1600W · · Score: 2

    The on,y people with that many kids are religious crazies. They're not as common in Europe.

  4. Re:serious confusion by the author on Email Is Not Going Anywhere · · Score: 1

    They do care about those things but they don't realise it because they probably don't even understand what that means. But I'm sure they're very happy they can use their email anywhere and aren't stuck relying on something like outlook express to access their email.

  5. Lagging behind Xbox ?! on Nintendo Posts Yet Another Loss, Despite Mario Kart 8 · · Score: 1

    The Wii U had more systems sold the last time Microsoft gave numbers for the Xbox. In their last report Microsoft refused to clearly state how many xboxes sold were xbones and which were 360s so it's doing badly and probably still in third place. Hell they were / are taking a breaking from manufacturing in order to sell through what's on the shelves. Let's not try and pretend Nintendo is in some distant 3rd place position given they're probably in a somewhat distant 2nd place position.

  6. Re:surpising on Amazon's Ambitious Bets Pile Up, and Its Losses Swell · · Score: 1

    How is making yet another mobile phone based on Android any good for consumers? Given that smartphones peaked and there's not really any innovation left so the only logical reason for doing it is to lock consumers into Amazon's ecosystem which isn't a consumer friendly action.

  7. Why should people change their energy use... on White House Approves Sonic Cannons For Atlantic Energy Exploration · · Score: 4, Insightful

    When you can kill off the coasts to get a few more scraps to move everyone along until the US finds more oil owning brown people it can 'liberate'.

  8. Re:Price effects MY decisions! on Amazon Isn't Killing Writing, the Market Is · · Score: 1

    Authors and publishers should ignore skinflints like yourself. Society can't advance when tight fisted selfish people listened to.

  9. Where are free market republicans? on White House Punts On Petition To Allow Tesla Direct Sales · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Why is the government allowed to stop the guy from selling a legal product?

  10. Re:Cry Me A River on Normal Humans Effectively Excluded From Developing Software · · Score: 2

    JQuery isn't a language. It's a framework that attempts to fix a shitty language. If you're only using jQuery to make a webpage it's going to suck.

  11. Re:Cry Me A River on Normal Humans Effectively Excluded From Developing Software · · Score: 1

    As someone who does web development, no they're not. Some languages do things quite well but the flavour of the months like Ruby and JS / Node are a mess. Especially JavaScript, it's an awful language.

  12. Re:Not Australian, but I support this! on New Zealand ISP's Anti-Geoblocking Service Makes Waves · · Score: 1

    It's not just hollywood. It's everyone. Google even lets you stop people from viewing your views on non-desktop devices and it's amazing how many people choose to do this. I've not seen anything that implies new corporations care about you any more than the old ones.

    If netflix were free to any content to anyone they would but they'd still set up regions so they could make people in other countries pay more.

  13. Re: Two sides to every issue on No Shortage In Tech Workers, Advocacy Groups Say · · Score: 1

    That's because you choose to operate from an expensive area with the cream of the crop companies. If you want to work alongside those who pay the best then you should have to expect to do that too.

    I don't think developer's jobs should inherently be owned by the people that were born in that country nor am I saying everyone that outsources is doing it for scummy reasons. However every company that I worked for that outsourced didn't get value for money. In one case because they paid miserable wages by Filipino standards even though paying a premium is still virtually like paying nearly minimum wage in this country. In other case they only outsourced it to a company within this country. The costs weren't really less and the employee skill set didn't always match the hourly rate. their suggestions were things that best suited them and not necessarily the company. Had there been no one with an ounce of knowledge (i.e me and other developers) the most anyone could do is moan about the cost but have no legit counter argument to the proposed solution.

    It generally fails when outsourcing is based on costs alone and whether everyone wants to admit it or not that is the primary reason most companies do it. If you only worry about the short-term and keep slashing budgets to keep profits up then it has to fall apart eventually. After all if they genuinely can't find someone locally to do it then they should be happy to pay even a premium for someone overseas. But so far all stats have been pointing towards H1-Bs being paid less regardless of people's anecdotal stories and obviously if you outsource to another country you're paying less and if their location didn't matter then whether they were in Ohio or India doesn't matter.

  14. Re: Two sides to every issue on No Shortage In Tech Workers, Advocacy Groups Say · · Score: 2

    you mean it's hard to find acceptable developers at the wage the company wants to pay.

  15. Re:Two sides to every issue on No Shortage In Tech Workers, Advocacy Groups Say · · Score: 1

    A lot of people might not be as super awesome as they think but the vast majority of jobs don't match their advertisements and rarely require everything they asked for in the ads nor are the jobs as grand or as hard as the company made out to be.

  16. Re:AI is always "right around the corner". on By 2045 'The Top Species Will No Longer Be Humans,' and That Could Be a Problem · · Score: 3, Insightful

    All those things your smartphone are doing aren't AI. They're still relatively basic commands but done quickly through increased processing power or off-loading the work to a server. It might make your phone looks like it can talk to you but it's not doing any more than computers in the 80's did.

  17. So something no one uses on Ask Slashdot: Choosing a Web Language That's Long-Lived, and Not Too Buzzy? · · Score: 1

    If a language isn'tlong lived or trendy / buzzy then there is a fair chance it's dead. I understand perl is boring now but I'd say stick with that or learn python and maybe brush up on JS without going full retard and doing everything in JS.

  18. So the selling point is that it will look like windows 7. Why should I pay for it then? Microsoft clearly wants windows to be a subscription. Why else knock out a new version so often and put little effort into fixing what you already have. I'm not into paying an obscene amount for a broken OS where there's osx and Linux which both are so much cheaper and perform better.

  19. Re:Speaking as a guy in his 40s... on Age Discrimination In the Tech Industry · · Score: 2

    Sure there are extreme case but there are also young people that think if it's not built in JS and no SQL then it's lame old man's code. These guys usually grow up to be that old guy so that problem can be reduced by not hiring the young guy with his hipster blinders on.

  20. Re:White collar prison on IRS Recycled Lerner Hard Drive · · Score: 1

    It's not that hard to figure out. The one that ordered it should go to jail and if the IT admin who deleted knew the history then he knowingly destroyed evidence and should also go to jail.

  21. Re:Sigh on European iPhone Chargers Prone To Overheating · · Score: 1

    Neither me or my friend's android phones had buttons that lit up. Unless it's an optional thing they disliked. But still I don't think it's that big of a thing.

  22. Re: on behalf of america on EU's Top Court May Define Obesity As a Disability · · Score: 1

    Which we still can't claim innocence on. Part of the people's suffering was due to sanctions which we placed on Iraq. No one is saying Saddam was a nice guy. He had a problem with religious factions and choose brutal means to solve it. But considering the US is spying on the world in a way that would make the Nazis wet themselves all the while running secret camps, keeping people in prison without trial, force feeding prisons and torturing them and don't forget the drones used to bomb anyone they feel like blowing up. I can't help but think all this justification in that Iraq was such a terrible place is just that justification to try and make people feel better about themselves for destabilising the region and generally just fucking it up so dubya could get revenge for his daddy.

    But it's also the fact that if the US military is so great and the soldiers did such a great thing by losing their lives in the battle of Iraq why throw all of that way in such a short period? At the very least let's be honest about what soldiers are and that is a disposable resource for the wealthy in the US to with as they please. They're not some great honourable warriors because if we genuinely though that we wouldn't be throwing away all their work so quickly.

  23. Re:Sigh on European iPhone Chargers Prone To Overheating · · Score: 1

    Thinking about it, I can't think of any phone that's had an led in the button. I'm kind of glad too, I'm not sure if that would look tacky or not.

  24. Re:Sigh on European iPhone Chargers Prone To Overheating · · Score: 0

    You fucking idiot. Your CD drive button relies on software too. It's no different except it's on the drive and both the cd drive button and the keyboard eject button rarely fail when operated by a human and no some basement dwelling rage turd angry at life.

    Protip: Cheetos dust isn't good for electronics.

  25. Re:Sigh on European iPhone Chargers Prone To Overheating · · Score: 1

    It never moves so why would I need it?