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  1. Fair Comparison on After Iceland and Germany, Now France Declares War on the Gender Wage Gap (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    As long as they release salaries *and* hours worked for a fair comparison, I'm ok with this.

  2. Thats the thing they are directly comparable, and even the sales people say any change is mirrored overnight by the others. There's "competition" in a "They all charge the same so there's no competition" kind of way.

  3. Cell phones are cheap in Saskatchewan. They have competition (sasktel) I just got new phones the other day and every fucking salesperson told me that there was no difference between carriers because "there's so much competition their pricing is identical" That's collusion.

  4. funny on How SSL/TLS Encryption Hides Malware (cso.com.au) · · Score: 1

    I talked about this at the Atlantic Security Conference back in April. It's a real problem. NGFW's are doomed to fail. Even the Fortinet techs agree.

  5. Fastest on Chattanooga's Municipal Network Doubles Down On Fiber Speeds · · Score: 1

    200Mbps/30Mbps upload, at $200 per month for the first three months. Other than that, 100Mbps/50Mbps upload Oh, don't forget about the 250GB Cap (Combined upload and download), it's $1 /GB after that. My ISP called me out of the blue and said they were changing their pricing, and I was using 450GB of data. My next bill "was going to be $300" but they were waiving it where it was a new policy. Fucking Canadian Duopoly.

  6. Misc Mail order pharmacy?? Pfft. on Ask Slashdot: When Does Time Tracking at Work Go Too Far? · · Score: 1

    I worked in a Apple Call Centre. Apple the computer and iPhone company. Doing front line tech support. (1-800-APL-CARE). You know, Steve Jobs, etc. A real company, with 60 BILLION in the bank. We got 4 min a day for bathroom breaks. It was labeled "9. Aux" on the softphone, but when the only time you go in the code is to leave your desk, for something not covered by 1-8 and the only time you can leave your desk without a managers specific approval is to use the washroom, we all knew what they were doing.

  7. Shipment of food every 6 months on NASA Working on Mars Menu · · Score: 1

    Why can't you? McDonalds figured this out 40 years ago, a Drive through. Actually, I'm patenting a Drive-Thru (In Space, on a mobile device) If it's a year and a half trip, send the first batch of food 1.5 years before leaving, the second 1 year before leaving, and the third 6 months before leaving. The first one lands on Mars, the other two are put in orbit around the sun in a straight (ish) line to mars. When the ship carrying people is 2-3 days out, accelerate the food to the speed of the ship so that they are travelling the same speed beside each other. Dock, and voila! Space Drive Thru

  8. Re:wat on Garage Startup Develops "Personal Computer" · · Score: 2, Insightful

    its making fun of apple.

  9. This should work well.. on Israeli MP Plans Passing a New Popcorn Law · · Score: 3, Insightful

    popcorn goes from 10 to 2, movie goes from 10 to 18 to compensate, This won't work well...

  10. Re:So Many Questions on Gaming in the 4th Dimension · · Score: 1

    Think of it this way, If you pull an object up in a 2D World, where did it go? 3D World. If you pull a 3D Object "up", where does it go? 4D world. The point of the gave is to assume there's 4 spatial dimensions, not 3 and time.The reason there's transparency is when something is can be only partially represented in 3D space, as its hard enough to display a 3D world realistically on a 2D screen let alone a 4D world.. It's like trying to draw a perfectly one dimensional line on a piece of paper. not going to happen. The Best 3D analogy of that demo I can think of is this: Take a piece of paper, and draw a 1" square in it. Place a penny beside it. How do you get the penny inside the box, in a 2d world, without crossing the box? You don't. You pick it up, into a 3D world, and place it in the box. He picked the ring up, into a 4D world, and looped it with the other ring. Natural progression of dimensionality Can't wait for the game though.

  11. BTW on Google Search Flagging Everything As Potentially Harmful · · Score: 1

    Google uses Genetic Algorithms in their search.. proof: http://xkcd.com/534/ On a side note, If I'm not mistaken, WTF Wouldn't the redirect links work.. Would that have anything at all to do with all sites being flagged? Not that I can think of..

  12. Captain, whats that white text off the port nacell on British Royal Navy Submarines Now Run Windows · · Score: 1

    DAMN IT, not another BSOD.

  13. Sales on The Myth of Upgrade Inevitability Is Dead · · Score: 1

    I called Microsoft Sales, and said I'll give you 5 minutes to convince me to buy Vista for 20 computers at my business. After 5 minutes, I asked, Me: What OS are *you* running? Microsoft Support Rep: Vista, at home Me: and at work? MSR: We're in the process of upgrading..... trails off

  14. Re:Return envelope... on Grey Lines Mar MacBook Air Displays · · Score: 1

    They should use manilla envelopes for shipping! Of course, nobody reads the fragile logo, and Homeland would shit a brick

  15. Re:That's not a macbook air on Grey Lines Mar MacBook Air Displays · · Score: 1

    yeah, as the other ac post saying the exact same thing says (that was me, I just made this account...) I think that this is a tiger computer being run through Apple Remote Desktop. The simple fact of running over a VNC server can and will cause a display to look like that.

  16. Re:They are still recommending antivirus! on Apple Says Macs Are Safe, No Antivirus Needed · · Score: 1

    "Apple is providing links to these applications as a courtesy, and makes no representations regarding the applications or any information related thereto. Any questions, complaints or claims regarding the applications must be directed to the appropriate software vendor." read the fine print

  17. Re:"Muddy the crispness"? on Grey Lines Mar MacBook Air Displays · · Score: 1

    Radio Shack'll have them "half off".. Problem is, gold connectors or even platinum connectors are as good as copper as far as a digital signal is concerned.