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  1. Re:They needn't be on Tim Cook Told Trump Tech Employees Are 'Nervous' About Immigration (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Why would Trump promise things that would be difficult to pass in the courts? He was the one that was supposed to anticipate these issues, and it's not the court's fault. Either he was lying or he has no idea what he is doing.

  2. Re:Tech employee here on Tim Cook Told Trump Tech Employees Are 'Nervous' About Immigration (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    I don't care if I get lower wages, as long as everyone is lower across the board and the economy levels out so that I can afford more things with the money I get.

  3. Re:Tech employee here on Tim Cook Told Trump Tech Employees Are 'Nervous' About Immigration (cnbc.com) · · Score: 2

    If IT wages are as they should be then there must not really be an issue for these companies to get skilled workers. Since the only way in the market to get more/better workers is to raise wages.

  4. Re: The working Poor of California. on Google Fights Bay Area Housing Prices With Pre-Fab Housing (siliconvalley.com) · · Score: 1

    Go find a psychotic bitch and live like you're a wingnut vagrant. Heed the immortal guide to happiness by a guy named 'drinkypoo' on slashdot.

  5. Re:I have the answer and it is a SIMPLE answer. on How Can Businesses Close 'The Cybersecurity Gap'? (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    Wouldn't it be nice if there was a large organization that represented all people so that they could take action and make these incidents hurt the company, because it hurts the people. Even better, maybe people could pay this organization a percentage of the money they earn and use to spend on things, so that this organization would have resources to help them with these things. Yup, it would be nice to have an organization like that.

  6. Right, so I have around 25 minutes to get there and back.. By the time I top up my bike tires, find a bike helmet, and find my bike lock there is 10 minutes gone. Find a backpack so I can carry the groceries, another 5 minutes at least. Listen, I am not the most organized person, that's why my kids didn't have lunch in the first place. Furthermore, a section of that 15 min ride is a 50MPH speed limit so it's a longer ride than you think.

    At one time in my life I used my bike all the time and used it to get to work every day, at that point in the shape I was in I may have been able to manage it in 25 mins but not today.

  7. It would take close to an hour on a bike, not practical.

  8. Non-parents on A Colorado Group Wants To Ban Smartphones For Kids (apnews.com) · · Score: 1

    I see a lot of non-parents commenting on how people should simply not buy their kids a smartphone. Then your kid comes home and says they couldn't get on a computer at school because they were all broken and the rest of the class did the assignment they needed to do on their phone and the teacher condoned this. Then you find out it isn't that simple.

  9. Re:Seems obvious ... on A Colorado Group Wants To Ban Smartphones For Kids (apnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Schools now ask kids to 'do research' with their phones in class, so that is getting more and more difficult. Sure, they'll let your kid use the computers down the hall to do the same research but then they are separated from the rest of their class and most of the computers are broken. Is this a shitty way to run a school? Absolutely, but try complaining to a school and see how deaf they can be.

  10. Re:The working Poor of California. on Google Fights Bay Area Housing Prices With Pre-Fab Housing (siliconvalley.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    You definitely don't have kids. Or a wife. Or want a girlfriend.

  11. Re:General "Buck" Turgidson: on How Can Businesses Close 'The Cybersecurity Gap'? (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 2

    Unlike mineshafts, any reasonably competent CompSci or Engineering grads, or existing employee autodidacts can take an interest in cybersecurity and become a valuable asset and volunteer to get underpaid for it. FIFY

  12. I think people have a very lofty view of the condition that a shared car with no driver will be in. I think they also are dreaming if they think the response time for these cars will be any better than a taxi. Apps will give these companies all the flexibility in the world to multiply your charge if you are slightly out of the norm, and people will have to pay it because everyone else will be out of business. Right now with a vehicle in my driveway if i am stuck for a lunch to feed my kids in the morning it takes me 15 minutes to go to the grocery store and back. If personal ownership becomes unaffordable then that freedom is gone. I do not believe we are headed for a good place.

  13. Whether liability is accepted by the software company or not, the crown goes to the one that can take liability for the same price as the others.

  14. Shocked on Oil Changes, Safety Recalls, and Software Patches (daemonology.net) · · Score: 1

    I'm shocked no one explained how an EV would solve every one of your problems. No EV needs to be serviced ever.

  15. Re:No thanks... on Google Drive Will Soon Back Up Your Entire Computer (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Speaking for myself, that data easily fits on an external drive that I ask them to bring with them once every couple months so I can sync it. I used to have a remote rsync to their house set up but it's easier just to have them bring the drive here.

  16. Tried it in Firefox the other day, wouldn't work.

  17. Re: Ban all cars on Congressman Steve Scalise Among 5 Shot at Baseball Field (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Except if you consider the real necessity of transportation versus necessity of being able to shoot something, it makes sense that we tolerate automobile deaths.

  18. Web mail clients all seem equally bad to me. Gmail doesn't even let you select a large range of emails at one time. They all have these kinds of issues.

  19. You know what I see here in most of the comments against? Denial.

  20. Re:This is great. on Cancer Drug Proves To Be Effective Against Multiple Tumors (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Again, it's up to them and the American government to come up with some trade agreement that prohibits this if it is a problem. You can't get benefits from the upside of capitalism without facing the downside.. That your product is worth what people are willing to pay for it.

  21. Re:What a great country we live in on Verizon Closes $4.5B Acquisition of Yahoo, Marissa Mayer Resigns (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    Wait awhile and you might get laid off. Then you'll have gotten more of it.

  22. Re:I don't think so on Ask Slashdot: Will Python Become The Dominant Programming Language? · · Score: 1

    Yes I realize that, and that's why I wouldn't use Python for a driver. I'm talking about a website back-end.

  23. To be fair, these were never amazingly dynamic websites. Yahoo was a hierarchical directory and slashdot is a basic comment site. That said, there are MVC web frameworks for perl and I'm sure they work fine to create a site of any size.

  24. Re:Did an Uber Driver Run Over Your Dog? on Trump-Style Tactics Finally Stopped Working For Uber (buzzfeed.com) · · Score: 1

    +6, Insightful

  25. Slashdot is in perl? That's cool.