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  1. Tie expansion to wage figures on Skilled Foreign Workers Treated as Indentured Servants · · Score: 1

    If the demand for domestic tech workers really did outstrip the supply then the wages/salary for these positions would be increasing in response. The H1B program should be reorganized such that expansions in the number of issued visas can only happen when there is real evidence of a shortage through rising income.

  2. Re:Time for Solidarity? on Skilled Foreign Workers Treated as Indentured Servants · · Score: 1

    Of course they are. They are getting a "prevailing wage" that is 10x what they could earn in India.

  3. Re:Not a chance on Why CurrentC Will Beat Out Apple Pay · · Score: 1

    I've had my debit card compromised a few times and I always find out about it by a call from the Visa/MC fraud prevention unit soon after it happens. They've always reversed the charges without issue.

  4. Re:mostly novelty item on Lenovo Reveals Wearable Smartband To Track Exercise Stats · · Score: 1

    There's an entire industry geared toward selling useless fitness gear to the gullible. There's money to be made here no matter that they'll all be abandoned in three years.

  5. Re:I don't accept TFS's this short on FCC Postpones Spectrum Auction Until 2016 · · Score: 1

    Who is this Bennett you speak of?

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  6. Re:The US tech industry on Ballmer Says Amazon Isn't a "Real Business" · · Score: 1

    It's worth noting that direct comparison to P4s high clock speeds can't be made because that family had a longer pipeline and a crippled FP implementation. It was a bad idea driven by marketing to fight in the MHz wars. We are better off that those days are long gone. Modern devices are faster in real terms disregarding clock speeds.

  7. Bigger question on Ask Slashdot: Smarter Disk Space Monitoring In the Age of Cheap Storage? · · Score: 1

    The bigger question is how to reserve less than 1% for the superuser?

  8. Re:Why is FTDI the villan? on FTDI Reportedly Bricking Devices Using Competitors' Chips. · · Score: 1

    Because they are abusing unwitting consumers. They clearly have a method to detect unauthorized clones. They should just have their driver refuse to connect and leave the hardware alone. The economic repercussions on the cloners will be the same without the risk of a class action from your innocent victims.

    As an EE, I will think twice about designing in FTDI products from now on.

  9. Re:I want on More Eye Candy Coming To Windows 10 · · Score: 1

    Don't forget the flames.

  10. Re:Umm, what? on Help ESR Stamp Out CVS and SVN In Our Lifetime · · Score: 0

    Because he wrote the Cathedral and the Bazaar... then got an inflated ego about it. Sort of required knowledge around these parts.

  11. Re:/. please add a filter on An Algorithm to End the Lines for Ice at Burning Man · · Score: 1

    Greasemonkey filter for you to enjoy:

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  12. Mint Debian Edition on Debian's Systemd Adoption Inspires Threat of Fork · · Score: 1

    Isn't Mint Debian Edition effectively a defacto fork already? I would assume most Systemd haters are also Gnome3 haters.

  13. Re:"Read on for the rest" WTF on An Algorithm to End the Lines for Ice at Burning Man · · Score: 1

    I don't have ads. The problem is that the mentality of pushing page views at all costs results in this sort of fragmentary crap.

    Back before Dice I tried to whitelist ads for /. just to give back some and found that I couldn't get them anyway because they were deactivated for accounts above a certain karma/age threshold.

  14. Re:I can already see it on Microsoft Gearing Up To Release a Smartwatch of Its Own · · Score: 1

    The funny thing is that they already did that in a way with the failed Windows SideShow devices.

  15. Re:How on earth? on IBM Pays GlobalFoundries $1.5 Billion To Shed Its Chip Division · · Score: 1

    IBM manufactures ICs for the defense industry. The federal government won't let them shut it down so they're forced to offload it in this craptastic way.

  16. Re:I can already see it on Microsoft Gearing Up To Release a Smartwatch of Its Own · · Score: 1

    You give them too much credit. I envision baby poop brown Zunes retrieved from deep storage with wristbands hot melt glued onto them. Version two will be the voice enabled version done with the Kin.

  17. "Read on for the rest" WTF on An Algorithm to End the Lines for Ice at Burning Man · · Score: 2

    ...by making one small... Well, read the description below of how they do things now,

    I'ts one thing to have to see BH's articles but Slashdot has NEVER sunk to the level of using lame journalistic teasers. The summary should sumarize. It doesn't exist just to coax someone into loading a fresh ad.

    This is the sort of crap that has shrunk the user base. Stop doing it Dice.

  18. Re: I don't follow on Apple Doesn't Design For Yesterday · · Score: 2

    The reason is that MS tweaks the hinting in its screen fonts to ensure minimal problems with alti-aliasing. Cleartype carries forward a legacy of supporting low resolution displays by optimizing the position of strokes to align with the pixel grid.

    Apple just throws whatever the designers get off on at Quartz and let it blur details into oblivion. Yeah, this will become a non-issue with high DPI displays but it is exemplary of Apples user hostility that they make adverse decisions for them and then claim it's for their own good. There's nothing even special about Helvetica other than hipster designers fawning over it.

  19. Regretting their pride now on Snapchat Will Introduce Ads, Attempt To Keep Them Other Than Creepy · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The Snapchat team are really regretting that they were too prideful to take a $3B buyout. Now they get to enjoy the quick, flaming descent into being penniless refugees from a failed startup.

  20. Re:GPS on India Successfully Launches Region-Specific Navigation Satellite · · Score: 2

    The US can turn on SA and degrade positional accuracy whenever they want (by global region). The Russians can't be trusted either. Countries with satellite guided munitions don't want to face the risk of missing their target.

  21. Re:we need the freshest talent! on Cisco Exec: Turnover In Engineering No Problem · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    And brown skin is doubleplusgood.

  22. Re:notability on Python-LMDB In a High-Performance Environment · · Score: 1

    Yeah. Wikipedia has more important things to concern itself with like a comprehensive list of all Pokemon.

  23. Plenty of room for the politicians on As Prison Population Sinks, Jails Are a Steal · · Score: 1

    Now we have plenty of room to house the corrupt politicians that are dragging our country into the ground.

  24. Re:Hollywood is mentally bankrupt on Warner Brothers Announces 10 New DC Comics Movies · · Score: 1

    The book has significant departures from the radio play to accommodate the needs of a written text. Which one is authoritative? Douglas Adams is on record as having approved the changes made for the movie, recognizing that storytelling needs to make allowances for the media it is presented in. That being said the movie could have been better.

  25. Re:Once again proving ARM is awesome on Android On Intel x86 Tablet Performance Explored: Things Are Improving · · Score: 1

    No. Micro-ops were introduced in the Pentium Pro, first released 19 years ago.