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  1. Re:They rely on Google because they want to and ca on Tech's Ruling Class Casts a Big Shadow (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    My kids never use Facebook. It's not dynamic enough for them and they think it's for their parents to find out about the next family picnic.

  2. Re:Where's the work! on Robots in Warehouses To Jump 15X Over Next 4 Years (techrepublic.com) · · Score: 1

    There won't be hobbies in the future if there is no money to fund them.

  3. Re:Automation has a purpose. on Robots in Warehouses To Jump 15X Over Next 4 Years (techrepublic.com) · · Score: 2

    If poor people in rich countries are losing, then so also should rich people in rick countries. It's great that the world is getting better and all, but it shouldn't be by the sacrifice of one specific demographic.

  4. Re: Looking forward to electric cars! on Toronto Start-Up Will Send a Mechanic To Your Driveway To Repair Your Car On Demand (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    Also, I have seen way more electrical problems in cars than transmission problems. It almost seems like they cannot make circuit boards that can stand up to many seasons of freeze and thaw. Once a module is gone, it seems to be at least $500 just for the part, never mind the labor to get to the part which is usually buried somewhere in the dash board. I hope electric cars are simpler electronically as well, and thus less prone to failure.

  5. That's easy, because it is the job of local governments to ensure that no commercial venture tramples on a citizen's right to enjoy their part of society as much as anyone else.

  6. Re: Looking forward to electric cars! on Toronto Start-Up Will Send a Mechanic To Your Driveway To Repair Your Car On Demand (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    Why does that matter? If the manufacturer wants it to break at a certain rate, it will.

  7. Re: bit rot on Ask Slashdot: Best File System For the Ages? · · Score: 1

    Ok yes I was trying to use dedup. There are two features of zfs I found particularly useful; dedup and snapshots especially across network. Snapshots ended up being overkill in that I would have had to set up zfs everywhere, and the fact that dedup needs so many resources makes it overkill as well. Getting back to the original post, I guess I'm not sure what is left that zfs does that makes it better for archiving that can't be done with ext4 and lvm

  8. Re: bit rot on Ask Slashdot: Best File System For the Ages? · · Score: 1

    But the features that are left over can be done with ext4 and lvm2 anyway.

  9. Re: Looking forward to electric cars! on Toronto Start-Up Will Send a Mechanic To Your Driveway To Repair Your Car On Demand (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 2

    Electric cars are simple until they become mainstream, at which point they become just as interested in planned obsolescence as they are with gas vehicles today.

  10. Re:bit rot on Ask Slashdot: Best File System For the Ages? · · Score: 1

    No, I read all the documents and set it up properly. Unless possibly there were options set by default that tuned it for a server that I should have shut off. I didn't get that far. It seemed to be a lot of commands to do very little.

  11. Re:bit rot on Ask Slashdot: Best File System For the Ages? · · Score: 1

    Except back to my original comment. I had 5-6 disks and it was already bringing my system to a halt. So yes, apparently you do need a big server.

  12. Re:bit rot on Ask Slashdot: Best File System For the Ages? · · Score: 1

    Ok so wouldn't that pretty much exclude it from being used for backups? Who is going to want to buy a big server to load hard drives with data?

  13. How come every major new technical commercial venture we talk about seems to crap all over a lot of people in some way?

  14. Re:bit rot on Ask Slashdot: Best File System For the Ages? · · Score: 2

    I tried ZFS once on a backup server, my system crumbled under the load. Did the same config with ext4 and it has been running fine since.

  15. Re: Are they qualified? on Consumer Reports To Consider Cyber Security in Product Reviews (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    I doubt they would want to risk some big hack where it becomes evident that they missed a glaring hole. Even if they do, it will change shortly after said event happens.

  16. Re: Don't believe it will help on Consumer Reports To Consider Cyber Security in Product Reviews (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    I live where water freezes at outside temperatures and I very definitely care if someone can hack my thermostat. Having the pipes all freeze while away for a few days is an insurance claim.

  17. Re: The ignorance is astounding on Streaming Pirate Content Isn't Illegal, UK Trading Standards Says (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 1

    Or maybe that is the Internet doing the kind of thing that it was designed to do.

  18. But does it play Crysis?

  19. I hope these things will be able to refrigerate in hot places and heat in cold places. Different compartments for frozen food / chilled food / normal food / heated food. They're going to have to have monster power packs.

  20. Re:But lets raise minimum wage! on More Fast Food Restaurants Are Now Automating (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    So bring back slavery then.

  21. Re:Unskilled labor mostly going away... on More Fast Food Restaurants Are Now Automating (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    Share a robot fixing job with 50 other people!

  22. Re:Unskilled labor mostly going away... -- 'keep'? on More Fast Food Restaurants Are Now Automating (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    Participation in government assistance has had peaks and valleys but the trend has been upwards since 1970. If people lose hope that they can put the effort in to find a quality job then they will never go off of welfare.

  23. Re:Unskilled labor mostly going away... on More Fast Food Restaurants Are Now Automating (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    Wow so you propose a society where only people who are skilled can live. Don't have money to send your kids to college? They can move to India. What a terrible place that would be to live.

  24. Problem on More Fast Food Restaurants Are Now Automating (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    The problem is that these public corporations must profit more every year, and now they are pulling out too many profits to be in balance with local economies so they have to look to automation as a band aid solution. The issue really needs to be addressed at its root because companies are just alienating people from being able to participate as consumers. It is not a sustainable solution at all.

  25. Re:but when..... on Streaming TV Sites Now Have More Subscribers Than Cable TV (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    There was an attempt in Canada by cable providers to start a streaming service called 'Shomi'. That lasted around a year and they decided there wasn't enough money to be made from it and they closed it down.