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  1. boomers ruin everything again on Senior Citizens Hit the Road For Uber · · Score: 1

    Maybe they should be taken off medicare if they are still working. And the wages need to be enough to cover he medical cost. Boomers always take our jobs, so we can't be promoted, and now when we try to make extra on the side, we have to compete with them again,

  2. I WANT a warrent on California Bill Would Require Phone Crypto Backdoors · · Score: 1

    I want my speration of pwoers and warrents back. The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized. The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects

  3. "Dieselgate scandal " Can we please stop calling every controversy *gate. emailgate. Celebgate, Donutgate Climategate, Intelgate, Bridgegate. etc

  4. Re:I passed up a job over this on Can Your Hardware Top 18 Years and Ten Months? (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1
    There is nothing wrong with NT 4.0.

    People like you is why I hate technology. Everything is always breaking because they feel the need to push updates every 2 weeks. It's the same with hardware. Oh lets update hardware shit so we can run the new more bloated software that does the same as the old software. Nothing ever matches up because everything is such a hodgepodge of systems

  5. wrong you fuck wad on Nest Thermostat Bug Leaves Owners Without Heating (thestack.com) · · Score: 1

    no, you are wrong. Expecting a 3d party to be consistently good over time can mathematically be shown to be retarded. You own stock in them or something? Linex is reliable and mature, there is still no good reason for my heating controls to be connected to it. There isn't one complex "reliable and mature" thing that is completely safe if connected to the internet. Besides the company, there are rouge updates, etc.

  6. I hope some people died, and some houses got burst on Nest Thermostat Bug Leaves Owners Without Heating (thestack.com) · · Score: 2

    I hope some people died, and some houses got burst pipes from freezing, and I hope the lawsuits and resulting publicity shuts down the internet of things for another ten years.

  7. Re:If it can be played, it can be copied on Pirates Finding It Harder To Crack New PC Games (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    They are only gaining some critical time at launch

    Games today are like movies, all frontloaded.. If they don't do well the first weekend, they bomb. Games suck, movies suck, their business model sucks. It's all baed on what is marketable, not what is good.

  8. Another BS pyche study, Here Is Why on Star Wars Fans and Video Game Geeks 'More Likely To Be Narcissists,' Study Finds (independent.co.uk) · · Score: 3, Interesting
    Note they didn't even say how much more, just that they were "more likely to be narcissist".

    Also note, from the paper "Separate from Narcissistic Personality Disorder (NPD), narcissism is a normal personality trait characterized by a grandiose sense of self as well as efforts to maintain that sense of self in the face of reality "

    ----- "narcissism is a normal personality trait ", -study

    That is the problem with psyche studies, loose inter-definable terms like narcissism. They didn't find people with a NPD (even if they did, that diagnosis tool is highly suspect). You could rename the study "people with higher self esteem go to geek events" if you just use a few different words with different connotation but same measurably.

    Another problem with psyche studies is they relay on self reported feelings, which are highly suspect (people don't say truth, they say what they think they should say or what they think of themselves)

    It's like when shyness is renamed "anxiety" so they can sale you pills.

    I could go on, one of their data points is "Real Life." Apparently DnD with friends is not real life. But is watching sports on TV real life?

    From Study "(the great fantasy migration hypothesis), to fulfill belongingness needs (the belongingness hypothesis), and to satisfy needs for creative expression (the need for engagement hypothesis)."

    So the study found people do normal things to fill normal needs and the people that do them correlate with a sightly higher scale of something also normal (narcissism) within normal ranges that has a negative Connotation outside of psych research.

    Do you get my point yet about the problems with psych research?

  9. "" falsifiable" on Why String Theory Is Not Science (forbes.com) · · Score: 1

    " falsifiable" is sophomoric criteria that people pick up early and repeat. It has a lot more criticism at higher levels then is known in public circles

  10. "sensitive details" expeect your name and address on Steam: No "Unauthorized Actions" On Exposed Accounts · · Score: 2

    Sure, your CC wasn't shown, but your name and address and phone number were. More than enough for some identity thieving. Old games. "double click icon, start playing" New games "open steam, login in, update steam, you are loging in from unknown location, verify login via email, restart, load steam, update game, ...."

  11. Re:SOMETHING FISHY? on A Broke Fan Owes $5,400 For Pokemon-Themed Party Posters · · Score: 1

    Oh who cares even if he made a little profit. It's still mostly about the 250 fans that lost out on fun because he printed some posters? The fans buy the playing cards and enjoy their fandom.

  12. Re:How long will the company stay up? on Volkswagen Diesel Scandal Spreads To Porsche and Audi · · Score: 1

    THe reason they do these things is because the CEOs still get their 7 figure stock options and retire rich and happy. Thye only way to stop people like wall street bank firms and others from laughing all the way to the bank is to impose real consequences. They need to start jailing people that cheat regulators, only hope reallh

  13. Re:Minimally invasive education on Lack of Teacher Training Hampers UK Programming Education · · Score: 1

    This only works in enclave schools. In my school with 45 students per class, over half of them English language learners and most of them not having a computer at home, and most of them being slow learners you would of had no space for that. And even when we tried the other kids parents shouted racism at us and forced us to try to include kids that couldn't do jack and torpedoed the whole project.

  14. manchild and thier nerf toys get real on Why Do So Many Tech Workers Dislike Their Jobs? · · Score: 2

    I want to come to work at 8:30, take an hour lunch and leave at 5:30. During that time I work, I don't facebook, I don't surf the web, I don't IM on my phone. I don't need perks besides a quiet office environment with a comfortable chair. I really don't need lunge chairs in the lounge or a lounge at all or nerf toys or free snacks all day, and I don't want the co-workers those things attract

  15. NSA backdoor on New FCC Rules Could Ban WiFi Router Firmware Modification · · Score: 1

    guaranteed this is to protect a NSA or planned NSA backdoor that is hardware based

  16. rely on goverment for job. heatlh care... on Finland Considers Minimum Income To Reform Welfare System · · Score: 1

    Relay on your government to take care of your job, health care, housing. Pretty ant colony-ish.

  17. Re:didn't happen in Manitoba on Finland Considers Minimum Income To Reform Welfare System · · Score: 1

    problem with that iis genernal changes in the value of working won't appear for decades

  18. if you use it to punish the women on Data-Crunching Could Kill Your Downtime At Work · · Score: 1

    Why do I feel this would be used to punish the real workers even more and give the women free passes? Offices I have been at always have some lazy workers (usually women) that facebook, and generally kill 3 to 5 hours a day till it is time to go home, smart phone broswering ( how does this help that?) personnel calls, office kitchen chatter, etc. Somehow I feel they will still be gone soft on and the people will use 95% of their time well will just be ridden harder. Because certain people just seem to get a free pass because of social tyes and manager subconscious favoritism.

  19. Re:Not unusual - Uline is very similar on Debate Over Amazon Working Conditions Goes Back Years · · Score: 1

    what is wrong with any of what you said? Personal items are distracting, eat on lunch, don't do that thing where you talk and gab for an hour then come back to your desk hungry, etc

  20. regarding perks on Debate Over Amazon Working Conditions Goes Back Years · · Score: 1

    Regarding perks. I've always been suspicious of the IT companies that offer man-child tier tastes such as nurf toys or endless candy bars and lounge chairs. The best workers are 40 years old, show up at 8am, take an hour lunch, and leave at 6 pm. And anyways we all know a lot office workers are lazy in general, though some of that is from Dilbert-ish stagnation of corporate stuff.

  21. nope wrong. on USC Vs. UC San Diego In Fight Over Alzheimer's Research · · Score: 1

    That is just silly reasoning, you are taking a part out of the whole system. The university supported him. deal with it.

  22. Re:Appropriate on USC Vs. UC San Diego In Fight Over Alzheimer's Research · · Score: 1

    So can the Professor at the last moment before rdy-for-market product is designed abscond to the private sector to cash in screwing over his new host? Get real. There is a reason he was at the university. The system of grants works as a part of a bigger system, stop being a pedantic and realize his old university is owed something if not everything.

  23. Re:Seems easy to me on USC Vs. UC San Diego In Fight Over Alzheimer's Research · · Score: 1

    assert that UCSD didn't provide support commensurate with the indirects charged on the dollars that came through the door.

    Who cares? You don't get to steal IP just because your bosses are dicks..

  24. hey guys, The Cloud is secure right? on USC Vs. UC San Diego In Fight Over Alzheimer's Research · · Score: 1

    The computers in question, I believe, are in the cloud (if I remember the Aisen et al filing correctly.)

    Hey guys, the cloud is secure right? Lets put our accounting details in there too and not have backups.

  25. NSA beats that 1 in 4 on One In Four Indiana Residents' E-Record Data Exposed in Hack · · Score: 1

    Meanwhile 4 out of 4 Indiana's complete records plus cell tracking data has been exposed by the NSA