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  1. Re: In college courses they teach that taxes are on The House's Tax Bill Levies a Tax On Graduate Student Tuition Waivers (nytimes.com) · · Score: 2

    Well then the choice is yours to make a meaningful contribution to government and change where the money goes. Avoiding taxes just screws everyone over.

  2. Re: In college courses they teach that taxes are on The House's Tax Bill Levies a Tax On Graduate Student Tuition Waivers (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    You are so far off base, I don't even know how to answer. No one 'deserves' anything. At some point we decided that it would be a good thing if society had roads and a way to distribute clean drinking water, among thousands of other things. Even someone living in the middle of nowhere and off the grid benefits from living under law enforcement. This all costs money. Everyone has a right to have everyone else paying their personal fair share towards it.

  3. Re: It's you on iOS 11 'Is Still Just Buggy as Hell' (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    Why, did the proper usage of double quotes change in 2000?

  4. Re: It's you on iOS 11 'Is Still Just Buggy as Hell' (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    If it was an inches mark you wouldn't have used it as double quotes and no one would understand your sentence.

  5. Work experience program? on Tech Companies Try Apprenticeships To Fill The Tech Skills Gap (thehill.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    So a work experience program? This is nothing new.

  6. Re: It's you on iOS 11 'Is Still Just Buggy as Hell' (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 0

    My point exactly, I'm wondering why Apple thought they needed to improve double-quotes.

  7. Re:Notepad is faster. on Is Firefox 57 Faster Than Chrome? (mashable.com) · · Score: 1

    For one thing, Firefox defaults to NOT sending everything to Google. That's quite a feature.

  8. Re:I don't really like it on Is Firefox 57 Faster Than Chrome? (mashable.com) · · Score: 1

    That's strange.. I just upgraded on a mac and my tabs got much, much smaller.

  9. Re:You get what you pay for on iPhone X Owners Experience 'Crackling' or 'Buzzing' Sounds From Earpiece Speaker (macrumors.com) · · Score: 1

    This makes me wonder if the OnePlus 5T crackles or buzzes.

  10. People owning bluetooth headsets shouldn't be surprised it doesn't go loud enough.

  11. Re: In college courses they teach that taxes are on The House's Tax Bill Levies a Tax On Graduate Student Tuition Waivers (nytimes.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    It's not robbing rich people. Maintaining a civilization costs money, someone has to pay for it. Rich people have benefited the most from it, so why shouldn't they pay more?

  12. Re: It's you on iOS 11 'Is Still Just Buggy as Hell' (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    These posts make me wonder what was wrong with the old-style quotes. "these" seem to work just fine.

  13. Tourist traps on Tesla Is Rethinking the Rest Stop For California Road Trips (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 0

    I'll keep my ICE so i can fill up and go somewhere that isn't a tourist trap thanks.

  14. Re:Actually the flaw is pretty bad on Amazon Key Flaw Could Let Rogue Deliverymen Disable Your Camera (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    You're right, far more concerning that someone on the internet finds a 0day and puts your Amazon camera on some open website. Probably more likely than getting robbed at all. Good thinking.

  15. Re:Actually the flaw is pretty bad on Amazon Key Flaw Could Let Rogue Deliverymen Disable Your Camera (wired.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I'd say 'the bad' is that you never really know if every flaw is patched.

  16. Re:No, double clueless on Walmart Is Raising Prices Online To Increase In-Store Traffic (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Target has much better BI than wal-mart, it's their entire niche business strategy.

    You should look into the fiasco that was their expansion into Canada. Hint: They were here for maybe a year and pulled out because they had no clue.

  17. Of course we do! Need a break from Slashdot once in a while!

  18. I bought a ZWave switch and dongle once during the Windows 98 days. Played with it a bit, but didn't really work very well. Needed the dongle in a specific place in the house to contact the switch or get another couple hundred dollar station. The next time I decided to pull it out ant play with it I was on Windows 7 and there was no compatible driver for the dongle. So I thought to myself, do I really need this switch to work this badly that I will want to buy a new dongle with every new OS? The answer was no so I gave up on home automation at that point.

  19. Re:No on Foreign Students Have Begun To Shun the United States (axios.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I don't think there is any political system in the world that allows the 'best and the brightest' to rise to the top and run things in a way that benefits from their superior way of viewing the world. They are ultimately doomed to failure, too many corrupt toes to step on.

  20. Well we choose to live somewhere where work is less than 20 minutes away and the grocery store is on the way home from there, if that's what you mean.

  21. Re:Clueless on Walmart Is Raising Prices Online To Increase In-Store Traffic (theverge.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    The general consensus around where I live is that people must go to Amazon for the selection instead of the price, because Amazon is usually more expensive. Most people around here go to brick and mortars for this reason. Once they can't find it at a brick and mortar, then they'll try something like Amazon.

  22. Your attitude is enough alone to explain why people are dissuaded from using Linux.

  23. think for yourself on 'Black Friday Is Dying' (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    It's clear to me that the very wrong time to shop is the time that they *think* you are shopping. The real key to get good deals is to follow your own pattern and not the pattern set up by corporations.

  24. Re:Out of date article^W summary on Without Humans, Artificial Intelligence Is Still Pretty Stupid (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    I think very few people would call a computer that acted like a baby 'intelligent'. Again, like insects, babies operate on fairly simple rules.

  25. Re: Out of date article^W summary on Without Humans, Artificial Intelligence Is Still Pretty Stupid (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    Insects operate on simple sets of rules that led to their survival as insects, so.. no.