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  1. Re:Full Text on Pennsylvania To Apply 6% 'Netflix Tax' (allflicks.net) · · Score: 1

    What does it matter? No one on slashdot is going to actually read a linked article especially when the summary gives us so many ways to spout of uninformed on a variety of hot button topics.

  2. Re:Ok on Pennsylvania To Apply 6% 'Netflix Tax' (allflicks.net) · · Score: 1

    Now you not only will risk a lawsuit from the appropriate industry association (MPAA, RIAA, ETCAA), you are also potentially a tax evader. The part of the government that might not have been in Hollywood's pocket now has strong incentive to crack down on piracy.

  3. Re: any proxy sales soar on Pennsylvania To Apply 6% 'Netflix Tax' (allflicks.net) · · Score: 1

    Because you aren't a huge company that can fund a campaign.

  4. Re:Thanks, Google on Average Broadband Speed in US Rises Above 50 Mbps For First Time (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    Huntsville, AL is about to experience the same. Our biggest ISP (AT&T) just lost out on a bid to deliver fiber internet through the utility company's fiber network. Suddenly, they've decided to listen to their customers who have been screaming for years for faster service and roll out their own fiber service. Of course all this is presuming that since corrupt Montgomery has their finger in all local politics, they don't just bribe their way in to legislating out Google.

  5. I've solved the writing password policy issue. I have a private portion and hashing scheme that are static and I keep in my head. I have a public portion that changes with the password policy timing scheme that I keep on a post-it or in a notebook. I don't have to remember an obscene password and I don't have to leave a note that compromises any account.

  6. It is kind of hard to gauge your age, but end of life care is expensive. My dad's parents did 529 plans for all the grand-kids, but everything else from that generation got burned in end of life care. Assisted living for a year+ for both my grandmothers. The only way my mom's mom could get into a facility was to hand over the deed to her house. By the time Dad's mom ended up in a facility she didn't have any physical property. There wasn't much to inherit after either of them passed.

  7. Re:if only it actually worked... on Google Play Rolls Out Family Sharing (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    TFA: "By Friday, Google Play users will be able to share nearly all their purchases with family members, across all their devices."

  8. Your company is doomed to fail then. If you start shifting that money into engineering then engineering's IQ will plummet and you won't have a viable product anymore. Maybe if you shifted it to marketing or something.

  9. I'd imagine people like me throw off the numbers as well. It is easy to add and drop streaming month to month, it is more difficult to do that with cable/satellite. I drop streaming for Spring and Fall TV seasons, but I don't drop satellite during summer. That drives up the per hour cost of traditional TV, but since I'm maximizing value out of Netflix by catching up on everything during the summer that drives down the per hour cost of Netflix.

  10. Re:"What Difference Does It Make?!?!?!" on 'DNC Hacker' Unmasked: He Really Works for Russia, Researchers Say (thedailybeast.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm surrounded by evangelicals in my day to day life. Only about half of them think it is important enough to beat Hillary to show up at the polls. They all hate Trump with just about as much passion as they hate Hillary.

  11. Re:"What Difference Does It Make?!?!?!" on 'DNC Hacker' Unmasked: He Really Works for Russia, Researchers Say (thedailybeast.com) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    To be fair, the Republicans managed to toss the Democrats the most easily defeatable opponent ever in someone who is consistently offensive to nearly everyone including most of the party he is nominated for and the Democrats still couldn't actually field someone who could soundly beat him.

  12. Re:What is the appeal of these things? on Smartwatch Shipments Fall For the First Time; Apple Only Company In Top 5 To Decline (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    Seems like they struggle a lot from a price point. A lot of consumers aren't going to spend as much on a smartphone accessory as they did on the smartphone, but when you start making the smartwatch do stand-alone things you are having to replicate a lot of phone functionality in a smaller form factor driving the price towards the phone price.

  13. Re:The mighty data on Technology Is Making Doctors Feel Like Glorified Data Entry Clerks (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1

    One of the goals of medical organizations are to keep treatment reasonably consistent across practices. Certainly it is a real world system with real world flaws, but if they are regularly meeting that goal and you don't have either abnormal problems or abnormal side effects from the standard procedures, the vast majority of patients should experience similar quality of treatment and medical outcomes if they visit the vast majority of practices. That shouldn't really have to come up in a review.

  14. I'm pretty much done purchasing music. There is more entertainment content that I can consume in my lifetime. Getting rid of Youtube or Pandora is going to net them $0 from me as a consumer.

  15. Re:Ugh on Amazon Wants People to Pay for Podcasts (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Same here, but it goes downhill pretty quickly when you get off the top 20 lists.

  16. By the time we get to the polls it will be the other party's fault that we didn't really get what we "wanted" from the terrible law we demanded right now. Totally not our fault for going off half cocked and demanding action before anyone could possibly know anything much less formulate a realistic and practical solution.

  17. "The situation is emotionally charged right now, and that is not the place from which to make long lasting policy." That is the only place we make policy from. Otherwise it won't be influential enough for you to remember it when you visit the ballot box.

  18. Re:Double Standard on Ask Slashdot: Is It Ever OK To Quit Without Giving Notice? · · Score: 1

    We had a great employee just leave us for Google. Her two weeks was enough time for management to shift her work to other in-team developers, for her to get them up to speed on the projects, and for her to close out some open issues she was working. It certainly wouldn't be time to hire and retain a "replacement," but it is a decent enough balance between respect for the outgoing employee and pivoting a well-managed team to compensate for the period they are down a developer. But like any rule of thumb, exceptions are frequent.

  19. Congress isn't people on Entire Federal Government Exempt From Robocall Laws, FCC Rules (thehill.com) · · Score: 1

    It was already common sense. Nice to see we have a court ruling as proof.

  20. Re:I wonder if they'll cancel Petraeus's sentence on DOJ Will Not File Charges Against Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton (politico.com) · · Score: 1

    I can't help but feel like the people calling others idiots for not dropping the issue now wouldn't be as comfortable putting Darren Wilson back in a badge in Ferguson despite him having pretty much the same credentials of innocence.

  21. Re:If Done Correctly... on 73% of Subscribers Would Download Netflix Content, Says Survey (allflicks.net) · · Score: 1

    Likely this would be an additional service with an additional fee. This feature would be a negative when they negotiate their next deals with content providers.

  22. Re:It's all fun and games on Japan Says Yes To Mirrorless Cars (carscoops.com) · · Score: 1

    Usually about once a week I have to adjust my mirrors so they aren't directly shining someone's high beams or the setting sun directly into my retinas. That usually is to the tune of them being completely useless. That isn't broken but it is pretty much the same thing.

  23. Re:So find an unreasonable one on The FBI Recommends Not To Indict Hillary Clinton For Email Misconduct (theverge.com) · · Score: 2

    If they charge her and rule that she can't have a security clearance, but she gets elected anyway or is already elected then they are going to be in a hell of a bind. If she meets the constitutional election criteria, the FBI shouldn't really be able to block it. She can't really serve as president without a de facto clearance. And they are open to serious reprisal if they do more than issue a stern warning to the president or presumptive president. The easiest play is to recommend nobody push for indictment.

  24. Re:And she gets away with it... on The FBI Recommends Not To Indict Hillary Clinton For Email Misconduct (theverge.com) · · Score: 5, Funny

    At least tell us which candidate is which.

  25. Re:Academic and member of the Democratic Party? on Elizabeth Warren Says Apple, Amazon and Google Are Trying To 'Lock Out' Competition (recode.net) · · Score: 1

    She apparently wants to go back to being a professor though: http://www.cnn.com/2016/06/30/...