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  1. Re:Stealth layoff on IBM is Telling Remote Workers To Get Back in the Office Or Leave (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    People who really want to work being at home don't bother with working from home, they just find a bogus way to go on disability leave.

  2. How does a CEO get a pay package like that if the shareholders are irate about it? Isn't it the shareholders that decide to approve the pay package?

  3. Re:Acceleration on America's Cars Are Suddenly Getting Faster and More Efficient (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    You can't push as far as you can on the accelerator because the wheels will spin with regular street tires. There is an art to it. And yes the lights are usually very close together.
    As far as I understand, the laws of physics dictate that many fast accelerations wear down the battery than casual driving. Correct me if I am wrong, but the laws of inertia also apply to a Tesla do they not? If it is a gas vehicle then I drive into the one of twenty gas stations along my cruise route and I'm on my way in ten minutes. If it is an EV, I don't think there are any charging stations along my route. So I have to spend 2 hours driving home and charging, and by that time everything is over.

  4. Re:Profit on 'Without Action on Antibiotics, Medicine Will Return To the Dark Ages' (theguardian.com) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    That's a pretty stupid stance to take, considering the government is the only entity with significant power that will ever defend you.

  5. Good thing we have the for profit industry in the US. With all those dollars guiding them we should have a solution by next week. Of course, only the 1% may be able to afford it anyway, but citizens in single payer countries will be ok.

  6. Re:An unfortunate use of technology on America's Cars Are Suddenly Getting Faster and More Efficient (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Ok I should have qualified that with 'that most people can afford as a hobby'.

  7. Re:An unfortunate use of technology on America's Cars Are Suddenly Getting Faster and More Efficient (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Formula 1 cars aren't designed for acceleration either and they aren't street legal so I'm not really getting the point.

  8. Re:What's the point? on America's Cars Are Suddenly Getting Faster and More Efficient (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    And when you can get that light to light, it's awesome.

  9. Re:Showing off on America's Cars Are Suddenly Getting Faster and More Efficient (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Personally I think it's awesome when cars chirp into second and third.

  10. Re:"Halo" cars on America's Cars Are Suddenly Getting Faster and More Efficient (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Are you one of those people that start coasting a full city block before a traffic light and take two more blocks to get up to speed again? My wife in her 4L mini-van complains about people like that all the time.

  11. Re:More HP does not always mean faster on America's Cars Are Suddenly Getting Faster and More Efficient (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    What kind of quarter mile would that end up doing though? You can't really say it is fast unless it does at least a 13-second quarter mile.

  12. Re:More HP does not always mean faster on America's Cars Are Suddenly Getting Faster and More Efficient (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Sorry, what about a Volkswagen Beetle impresses people? There is a turbo-charged one on Street Outlaws that is pretty cool but it can't keep up to the other beasts on that show.

  13. Lol when I'm driving my 500 hp vehicle I stop on the gas at every light. If I had a Tesla Model S I'd probably get frustrated that the battery couldn't even take me on a single night's cruise.

  14. Re:Waste and responsibility on America's Cars Are Suddenly Getting Faster and More Efficient (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    You must be a real bummer to have at parties.

  15. Re:An unfortunate use of technology on America's Cars Are Suddenly Getting Faster and More Efficient (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    I can't see any 4-cyl turbo hitting less than a 13 second quarter mile unless the car is very small and light.

  16. It makes lots of money so how bad can it be??

  17. I've noticed that Trump is fairly quick to claim victory when he saves a few jobs, but where is he when there are layoffs? Why did he feel Carrier more worthy to use his magic sparkles on than Cisco?

  18. It's pretty easy to sleep on a factory floor for the night when you can make up for it by sleeping in your yacht in the Bahamas the next night. There are probably a lot better ways he could have made the point. It's things like this that make me think Musk is really out of touch.

  19. They're still slackers

    I'm sure their families aren't complaining.

  20. It was an article on slashdot a couple months ago.

  21. Re: Public WiFi on Any Half-Decent Hacker Could Break Into Mar-a-Lago (alternet.org) · · Score: 1

    Because there is no independent assessment of the infrastructure he does use when he is there. Without such, it is far easier to believe that he uses the public wifi than it is to believe he installed a secure infrastructure equal to camp David and that is all he uses. If you have any such sources stating the fact, please feel free to prove me wrong. Otherwise I have to believe even if he is not using the public network, it is probably still not as secure as it should be no matter what it is.

  22. Re:Heaven forbid on Any Half-Decent Hacker Could Break Into Mar-a-Lago (alternet.org) · · Score: 1

    Please cite your evidence that there is actually a top secret level secure network in this 'hotel' and it is all the Trump uses when he is there.

  23. Re: Heaven forbid on Any Half-Decent Hacker Could Break Into Mar-a-Lago (alternet.org) · · Score: 0

    Suuuuuure it is.

  24. Re:Wow. You da man. Accessing a public network! on Any Half-Decent Hacker Could Break Into Mar-a-Lago (alternet.org) · · Score: 1

    yes apparently Camp David, which IS set up for the president, was a little to rustic for Trump. Also, he would prefer to line his own pockets.

  25. Re: Heaven forbid on Any Half-Decent Hacker Could Break Into Mar-a-Lago (alternet.org) · · Score: 0

    Right and Trump didn't tell anyone to riot or be violent either. Funny how it happens around him anyway.