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  1. Re:...actually that's kinda cool. on Samsung Unveils the First Monitor That Can Wirelessly Charge Your Phone · · Score: 1

    Well for WiFi, the available bandwidth means if I see a 50% reduction I'm still way over what my ISP can possibly provide. Also I don't really want to run Ethernet over the back of my couch or to the dining room table (or the toilet...) or may other places I find it convenient to develop software at during different times of the day.

  2. Re:...actually that's kinda cool. on Samsung Unveils the First Monitor That Can Wirelessly Charge Your Phone · · Score: 1

    I was going to deride this thing as a pointless combination like a refrigerator/toaster kind of combo. When I saw the phone on the stand I looked at my own monitor. Realized my phone is sitting there with a cable plugged in...

    Depends on the range, if I have to stick it right up under the monitor I'd rather just have a wire keeping the phone out of my way.

  3. No Work Phone on Ask Slashdot: Do You Use a Smartphone At Work, Contrary to Policy? · · Score: 1

    When I'm not provide any work phones, my smartphone is my work phone. Which works out because most of the security people I've talked to say just don't take pictures of things on site.

  4. Re:Taxi company on Europe's Top Court To Decide If Uber Is Tech Firm Or Taxi Company · · Score: 1

    So nice to see slashdot is still so tolerant of different perspectives.

  5. Re:My family learned the hard way about licenses on Europe's Top Court To Decide If Uber Is Tech Firm Or Taxi Company · · Score: 2

    That is the problem. Licensing should just be compliance, not barrier of entry.

    And updated to eliminate unsafe methods to keep the licensed operating safely.

  6. Re:Taxi company on Europe's Top Court To Decide If Uber Is Tech Firm Or Taxi Company · · Score: 0

    If you take away the cars, Uber no longer has anything to sell. If you take away the online app, they could switch to some other channel and continue.

    Sounds like it is not a taxi company if you can take away their taxis (cars) away and they can do something else. At least that's the way I read it.

  7. Re:I've said it before on Robots Appear To Raise Productivity Without Causing Total Work Hours To Decline · · Score: 1

    True but most of those burger flipping jobs or registers require enough reading to look at the computer screen showing the next order or read the instructions on what to put on the burger. Not being able to read is almost like a special need. Admitted though you don't need to be able to read or write Shakespeare.

  8. Re:I've said it before on Robots Appear To Raise Productivity Without Causing Total Work Hours To Decline · · Score: 1

    If you can talk the government into giving the unemployed 50k, I'm never working again. I can live quite good off of that.

  9. Re:Wow that's one load of arrogance on America's Technical Debt · · Score: 1

    Or as I like to say, if we had perfect people or perfect leaders we could have a perfect government. We have neither so the government we have is not perfect either.

  10. Re: Holy shit, this is some wank. on America's Technical Debt · · Score: 1

    So we need a programmer for laws. I shall call this profession .... Lawyer.

    We killed them all in the revolution...

  11. Re:Two factories on Robots Appear To Raise Productivity Without Causing Total Work Hours To Decline · · Score: 1

    Read the article.

    That would require the level of intelligence to... I don't know... find a job in an environment where robots are common?

  12. Re:I've said it before on Robots Appear To Raise Productivity Without Causing Total Work Hours To Decline · · Score: 1

    While I generally agree, what happens when the only jobs left are those that require creativity or critical thinking. There's a lot of people out there who can't do anything more complicated than repeating a few simple tasks over and over again. These jobs are going to be replace by robots. When the only jobs left are jobs that require high levels of thought, there's going to be a lot of people who simply can't hold down a job. I don't think that changing the way we educate people or making education free or anything else is going to be able to change the fact that some people don't have the cognitive ability to do the high level jobs that robots won't be able to do.

    I bet people once asked what would happen when all the remaining jobs required the workers to be literate.

  13. Re:I've said it before on Robots Appear To Raise Productivity Without Causing Total Work Hours To Decline · · Score: 1

    Redistributes wealth so that the new unemployed can live and find creative and entertaining ways to spend their lives.

    I like this solution. I would quickly become one of the new unemployed.

    Ah, but then you would find that you don't have enough money to do much. So perhaps you'd work part-time, so that you had enough money to do more than sit around reading old funny papers. But maybe you'd only work a few hours a week, because you'd find that having pocket money is enough to find happiness if you're freed from having to go through a crushing and repetitive cycle of senselessness to earn money for The Man(tm).

    So how much money is enough to survive but not do much?

  14. Re:There's already an alternative on "Happy Birthday" Hits Sour Notes When It Comes To Song's Free Use · · Score: 1

    But if you use the same tune they will probably still sue you even if the words are different.

  15. Re:A better solution on "Happy Birthday" Hits Sour Notes When It Comes To Song's Free Use · · Score: 1
  16. Re:NASCAR on NYC Asks Google Maps For Fewer Left Turns · · Score: 1

    Get back with me when that stock car is street legal. Then again this guy at the local short track used to just put the turn signals back in his car at the end of the night. Worked good until he totaled it on track.

  17. Re:Vaccines are great, but on University of Toronto: Anti-vaccine Homeopathy Course Is Fine · · Score: 1

    There's a reason those diseases are exceedingly rare. You anonymous idiot.

    But... but... closing the barn door first is just unnecessary work for something that hasn't been proven to be a problem yet!

  18. Re:divorce psudocode on Taking the Lawyers Out of the Loop · · Score: 1

    I think the GP may have been talking about the missing code before the client awards (no I don't' know this language):

    $lawyer.wallet = take($goldmine)

  19. Re:Quantum mechanics. Wow... on University of Toronto: Anti-vaccine Homeopathy Course Is Fine · · Score: 2

    From the syllabus

    "We will delve into a quantum physics’ understanding of disease and alternative medicine to provide a scientific hypothesis of how these modalities may work. Quantum physics is a branch of physics that understands the interrelationship between matter and energy. This science offers clear explanations as to why homeopathic remedies with seemingly no chemical trace of the original substance are able to resolve chronic diseases, why acupuncture can offer patients enough pain relief to undergo surgery without anesthesia, why meditation alone can, in some instances, reduce the size of cancerous tumors."

    ... and in chapter 2 we discuss the placebo effect and how correlation does not imply causation.

  20. Re:As a physician... on Most Doctors Work While Sick, Despite Knowing It's Bad For Patients · · Score: 1

    They are less concerned with those hit by a bus and more concerned with the cost of hiring enough people to get the job done. Not to mention that qualified DO-178b software engineers are a limited supply and training new people is not the preferred approach.

  21. Re:As a physician... on Most Doctors Work While Sick, Despite Knowing It's Bad For Patients · · Score: 1

    I get pissed off when I have to come into work with a cold. Unfortunately as an engineer I'm usually deep into a project that would take hours or days to switch over to someone else. We also get 3 sick days a year and I'm prone to colds that transition into a cough that lasts more than a week. Not a lot of options if I want to stay employed.

  22. Got Lucky on Ask Slashdot: How Much Did Your Biggest Tech Mistake Cost? · · Score: 1

    I dropped a 50k sensor on the ground but it tested out fine afterward. It was used for development so if there was hidden damage it didn't really matter.

  23. The real life dangers of real life... on The Real-Life Dangers of Augmented Reality · · Score: 1

    and why any sane person would avoid it. News at 11.

  24. Charter is all good... on Study: Major ISPs Slowing Traffic Across the US · · Score: 1

    at least where I live. I'm paying for up to 60 Mbps and when I test it the speed always falls between 50 and 65 (variations seem due to peak hours). Though I still wish I could pay less for 15 Mbps since I really don't need 60.

  25. Re:Knowing when not to on Knowing C++ Beyond a Beginner Level · · Score: 1

    I want my code to reflect my skills so I can work on bigger and better projects.

    Wow, it sounds like your management is competent enough to identify skill levels and promote accordingly!? What's that like?

    Well that is more my want. My management is better at dropping the hopeless cases as opposed to identifying the really good people.