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  1. Re:or maybe less people can afford to eat out... on American Eating Habits Are Changing Faster than Fast Food Can Keep Up (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    because they are poor.

    Even when working 2 jobs.

    Somethings gotta give...

    Heck, I ain't poor but eating out 185 times a year is close to $1k for one person as cheap restaurants, even $2-3k isn't too nuts depending on where you eat at. That is a pretty fair amount of extra money to spend if you can avoid some of it.

  2. Wet Dream Ads on Amazon is Stuffing Its Search Results Pages With Ads (recode.net) · · Score: 1

    I pretty much only click ads for products I only wish I could buy, maybe if I win the lottery. Makes me a little curious what that does to their add algorithms...

  3. Re:Wait, TiVo is still around? on TiVo Says It Will Discontinue Support For Dial-up Service Later This Month (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    I honestly had assumed that TiVo had dropped dead years ago.

    Holy hell, getting program guides from TiVo over dialup .. and TiVo is too stupid to realise that nobody is doing that by choice. I can see they don't want to maintain dialup stuff, but I bet they're going to lose customers who don't have the choice.

    Oh well, they'll just lose more customers and continue fading into obscurity like I thought they already had.

    Not obscure when Charter set top boxes allow recording on two channels and no viewing of tv recorded from a different box. I can't complain about Charter's service where I am, just their set top boxes are crap.

  4. Re:Stopping suddenly on Waymo Self-driving Cars Are Having Problems Turning Around Corners (siliconangle.com) · · Score: 1

    If I have to do an emergency brake because the driver if front of me behaves erratically and I can stop safely I was driving correctly, and was actually respecting the safety distance.

    In Italy there's is a fine if a driver stops suddently or even drives too slowly without reason., for traffic obstruction,

    I could be wrong, but I feel like suddenly stopped in the article means unexpectedly stopped, rather than break check stopped. While stopping a car for no apparent reason on a normal road is a bad thing to do, it is still up to the car behind to not run them over.

    Such as every day lately on the freeway all of the traffic stops for no apparent reason. Probably ten minutes ago, someone merged in and resulted in the cars behind slamming on the breaks. Ten minute later, everyone is still stopping at the same spot as the traffic hasn't returned to smooth flowing. Just because there is no apparent reason for the traffic to still be stopping (no accident, no car on the shoulder, traffic just stops), doesn't mean I can chose to not stop myself.

  5. Re:the rightwing media self protrait as unreliable on Trump Accuses Google of Rigging Search Results To Favor 'Bad' News About Him (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Look, we aren't blind and deaf. When we see/hear stupid stuff like fox news comparing Denmark and Venezuela, or even many other completely ridiculous pretension like part of london being muslim only, and I pass many other, not even counting you have theblaze as conservative media we come to our conclusion alone why fox news is called faux news. You don't like it ? Then ask your conservative media to have a fact based reporting , rather than wishful thinking reporting.

    My apologies for Fox news on behalf of the less conservative peoples of the US.

  6. Re:This should be a fine on Verizon Throttled Fire Department's 'Unlimited' Data During Calif. Wildfire (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 0

    Yep, the government is at fault for not following Verizon's rules. Good to know who really runs the country.

  7. Re:That's funny... on 'Americans Own Less Stuff, and That's Reason To Be Nervous' (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    They don't make more money from me. Except for a few rare books (maybe one a year, often not that), if the new paperback price is significantly cheaper than the ebook price, I don't buy it. This has led to me reading a lot more independent books that cost lest to start with anyway.

  8. Re:Sooo... on FDA Approves First Generic Version of EpiPen (go.com) · · Score: 1

    Wait... you mean all my coworkers aren't serious about dying if they don't get their Starbucks in the morning???

    Ask them for the hospital bill as proof, I can show you mine.

  9. Re:Big beautiful rockets... on VP Pence Lays Out Trump's Vision For Establishing a US Space Force (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Is this what leftist "comedy" has turned into? Sad!

    What is funny is I always voted Republican.

  10. Big beautiful rockets... on VP Pence Lays Out Trump's Vision For Establishing a US Space Force (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    We'll have big beautiful rockets! And the Martians will pay for them.! And they will be flown by the most elite astronauts, but the true elites are all of you right here who voted for me! And...cough...sputter

    Sorry, can't keep that up.

  11. Re:Megacorporation denies political impact of prod on Apple Tells Lawmakers iPhones Are Not Listening In On Consumers (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    We will also be discussing cigarette companies denial that cigarettes cause cancer and big oil companies denial that fossil fuels contribute to global warming, news at 11.

    Seriously though, whether or not they actually are, do we expect Apple to say anything different if it can't be proven (or possibly even if it can)?

    Fucking just watch for network traffic out of the phone while it is ostensibly asleep.

    Easily verified, moron.

    And when the phone prefers to limit network traffic by compressing the data stream and only piggybacking the transmissions on phone calls? Not going to convince a conspiracy theorist anyway.

    Beside, I never said they were doing it. My original comment is more about, if they are doing it or not, is a denial of something that will get the company in hot water really news? To me the accusation is the news, the denials is more of a footnote. The news doesn't even need to wait for the denial and could just about immediately publish, Apple expected to deny accusation...

  12. Megacorporation denies political impact of product on Apple Tells Lawmakers iPhones Are Not Listening In On Consumers (reuters.com) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    We will also be discussing cigarette companies denial that cigarettes cause cancer and big oil companies denial that fossil fuels contribute to global warming, news at 11.

    Seriously though, whether or not they actually are, do we expect Apple to say anything different if it can't be proven (or possibly even if it can)?

  13. Re:You hate C because you can't code in it. on The 2018 Top Programming Languages, According To IEEE (ieee.org) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    And likely creating all the security holes that make the internet the wild, wild west that it is. Thanks bud.

    Handing a good language to a bad coder doesn't result in better code. I've seen plenty of security holes in any language.

  14. Re:ORLY? on Windows 10 Continues To Close in On Windows 7 (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    And Windows 10 continues to be the only Windows OS being offered by OEMs and Microsoft itself. With older computers dying or being utilized, you have to wonder which OS is going to become more widespread. Except you don't.

    Oh, and Windows 7 will cease to be supported in 2020 while Windows 8 expiry date is set to 2023.

    This all sounds so familiar...

  15. Re:Notchtastic on Google Bans Android Phones From Having Three or More Notches (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    A notch is typically a rectangular cutout on one side of the screen to make room for front-facing cameras, physical buttons, etc.

    The quoted description is a long way to say, "The top and bottom edges may each have a single notch."

    Personally I'm quite happy with my notchless moto droid z. Just make the usable display a rectangle, I have no need of a quarter inch of extra, interrupted, screen space.

    Just my bent $0.02.

  16. Downstream of "$150,000 loan for gender studies undergraduate degree" is reduced quality of life, reduced lifetime wealth, and overall economical drag from less available income from consumers. If anything, these loans should have a California's mandatory cancer warning label attached.

    My preference is stick to local state colleges, where you can get a degree at a cost of ~$13k per year in tuition and books. Much lower loans necessary, including the engineering track

  17. Re:Poached with money on Ask Slashdot: Why Did You Quit Your Last Job? · · Score: 1

    Let me restate then, if you want to keep me, you need to pay me at least equivalent to what other employers are willing to pay.

    Why do they need to keep you if they can hire someone else for less money?

    Since others will pay me more, why do I care if they hire someone for less? In the long run, they went from having a hundred some engineers for contract work, to less than a dozen, 10 years later.

  18. Re:Poached with money on Ask Slashdot: Why Did You Quit Your Last Job? · · Score: 1

    No, your clients and employers (there is no difference) will pay the absolute minimum you will work for. Yes it sucks, but you have to get yourself into a position in life where you don't give a shit and can take or leave the work: yes, this is unfair and hard, but what you need to realise is that the pay rate you receive has much more to do with you than it has to do with the company employing/engaging/hiring/contracting you.

    Let me restate then, if you want to keep me, you need to pay me at least equivalent to what other employers are willing to pay.

  19. Re:$135,000 is good outside of the bay area! on More Than 60% of Tech Workers Feel They're Underpaid (cnbc.com) · · Score: 2

    See the tax man before you go hog wild.

    Even if various taxes pulled 50% of the increase from what I'm currently making, I wouldn't really know what to do with the extra money.

  20. Re:$135,000 is good outside of the bay area! on More Than 60% of Tech Workers Feel They're Underpaid (cnbc.com) · · Score: 2

    $135,000 is good outside of the bay area!

    $135k would make me feel very wealthy where I live

  21. Re:60% of Tech Workers wfeel on More Than 60% of Tech Workers Feel They're Underpaid (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    they are underpaid and would like to get paid more. I am shocked!!!

    That it is not 100%

    Just my 2 cents ;)

    How much is the workers not making enough for their qualifications and how much is the workers not making enough to buy all the new tech toys they want to play with?

  22. Re:Poached with money on Ask Slashdot: Why Did You Quit Your Last Job? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I've left every job because I was poached with money.

    Roughly the same for me. Lost my job due to the great economy crap and the only alternate I found was a contracting position. Said contracting position offered me pretty much the same hourly I was making at my full time job with no benefits. A month later they gave everyone a job cut across the board. A year later I asked for at least cost of living increase, pointing out that from the 12 engineers hired with me, I was one of only two the customer kept on, and was turned down. Found another company with benefits and told them they just needed to match my current hourly and they happily said yes.

    If you don't want to pay benefits, at least compensate with sufficient hourly wage...

  23. Unless they overcome the access speed issues listed in the article, it is going to be much slower than existing storage methods. But this could be used as a long term storage layer, below a faster SSD.

  24. Re:How about not blowing away work? on Windows 10 To Use Machine Learning in Latest Attempt To Make Reboots Less Annoying (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Not going to work. My users are ex-military buddies and they don't care much about non-compliance or anything else.

    I need longer government shutdowns.
    --
    Dwayne Johnson's Rampage As A Kaiju ("Weird Beast") Monster Movie

    Sounds like a good application of the policy, any machine without given critical network update has no network access other than to IT until the update is made. OK, probably not practical but...

  25. Re:How about not blowing away work? on Windows 10 To Use Machine Learning in Latest Attempt To Make Reboots Less Annoying (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    For example my college uses Google drive. I've gotten that working in Ubuntu...

    I'm a little confused. I have Google Drive pinned in a tab in a browser on my Ubuntu box. What's your use-case where you need it more like a native file structure rather than just using it through the browser?

    I never really thought much of using the web apps rather than desktop applications. Most office stuff is there. How about visio diagrams or opening text documents into a spreadsheet so they the data from a command line run can be graphed? Looks like Lucid chart may be a good Visio alternative. Not having offline access to the files can be a bit of a problem. I should see how Matlab is working on Ubuntu, looks like it is pretty compatible these days. Skype on linux has been problematic at times too though.

    Might have to look into it again. The problem with working full time and doing grad school is it takes a bit of time to track down the alternate programs and compatibilities and just hard to find the time.