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  1. I can't remember the last time I read a book outdoors, much less tried to read one on a tablet outdoors. I much prefer to read while I'm sitting in my comfy recliner sipping on a good cup of coffee. I recharge my tablet every night and it lasts all day, but I don't read at work.

    Summer is coming. Kindle e-ink variety is great by the pool while the kids splash.

  2. Re:A big improvement... on 'Hack The Pentagon' Bug Bounty Program Opens For Registration (securityweek.com) · · Score: 2

    My first thought was whether someone managed to properly coordinate all the agencies and jurisdictions or not so that anyone who submits a successful hack and is awarded by one agency isn't then immediately arrested by another.

  3. Re:Sounds good. on California's $15-an-Hour Minimum Wage May Spur Automation (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Paris Hilton's, whose "purposeless" existence - based on a multi-million dollar inheritance

    Actually no, thanks to her shenannigans her would have been inheritance was turned into a charitable foundation. That's why she has to do slinky burger ads.

  4. Re:May spur automation on California's $15-an-Hour Minimum Wage May Spur Automation (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    I will never understand why minimum wage is not tied to inflation rates

    What you seem to want here is an institutionalized price-wage spiral, an economic situation where wages rise to match prices and prices rise to match wages. It happens naturally already and is a prime cause of inflation. To institutionalize it would make it go faster, which is more bad.

  5. Re:No hyperbole whatsoever on Repeated DDoS Attacks Force Coinkite Bitcoin Wallet To Close Down Web Service · · Score: 1

    How odd they chose to use the very thing they've trying to get away from.

    Lolz, no, I assure you the lawyers are most certainly NOT trying to get away from "real fiat dollars". Quite the opposite, in fact.

  6. Re:Apple? on Company Creates Gun That Looks Like a Cellphone (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 1

    The article is about a derringer, so: iHave1more

  7. Re:Fear Mongering? on Mass Surveillance Silences Minority Opinions: Study · · Score: 2

    Just because the US government is really good at squelching discussion of how they have treated people with minority views doesn't mean it didn't happen. For example socialists, communists, homosexuals, native Americans, Japanese during WWII, Germans during WWI and WWII, and blacks during the civil rights movements.

    There are university courses devoted to bemoaning each of those categories in seperate classes. The exact opposite of "squelching".

  8. Re:Not on Slashdot... on Mass Surveillance Silences Minority Opinions: Study · · Score: 1

    You want a world where the most imaginitive people shy away from reproduction? You got it

    One can find a mate without taking a loud public stance on polarizing political issues.

  9. Isn't EVERY Johnny Depp movie a "Johnny Depp Acting Weird" movie?

    Was he "acting weird" or "channelling" in Ed Wood?

  10. Re:and the HB1 makes 0.60 + 60-80 hours a week on Female Computer Programmers Make $0.72 For Every Dollar Made By Male: Study (siliconbeat.com) · · Score: 1

    and the HB1 makes 0.60 + 60-80 hours a week

    So do women H1-Bs make .72*.6*(men) ?

  11. Re:The solution seems clear on Female Computer Programmers Make $0.72 For Every Dollar Made By Male: Study (siliconbeat.com) · · Score: 2

    And if you really want to slash labor costs then hire women H1-Bs?

  12. Re:Lots of handwavium on this.... on OLO, World's First Portable 3D Printer Prints On Top Of Smartphones (hothardware.com) · · Score: 1

    You just make sure that the first thing you print is another smartphone

    Ah then the second thing you print can be another printer...

  13. Re:Suzie can vote. Suzie can get a pitchfork. on Fast-Food CEO Invests In Machines Because Regulation Makes Them Cheaper Than Employees (yahoo.com) · · Score: 1

    If you think that a cashier at the local burger chain adds any value to society, you're an idiot

    Depends on how you define "society". Until cashiers are replaced by a robot, they are most certainly adding economic activity to the local economy.

  14. Re:Thin end of the wedge on RBS Cuts Hundreds of Jobs As FCA Approves 'Robo-Advisers' (thestack.com) · · Score: 1

    Next up, perhaps, "robo-lawyers". Just for the poor people, obviously.

    What do you mean, next up? Legalzoom and similar have been around years now.

  15. Re:"Please repeat your statement" on RBS Cuts Hundreds of Jobs As FCA Approves 'Robo-Advisers' (thestack.com) · · Score: 1

    "I'm out of work and me kids are STARVING!"

    They wouldn't be starving if Dad stopped prank calling the investment hotline and went to apply for Child Benefit.

  16. Re:more squeezing by the 1% on RBS Cuts Hundreds of Jobs As FCA Approves 'Robo-Advisers' (thestack.com) · · Score: 2

    Oh, but I can get the smarter human advise I need to make more money if I already have a significant amount of money, but not until then

    With modest amounts to invest your best strategy really can be summed up by a robot: buy index funds. You have to have serious capital to diversify enough to make more money reliably doing other strategies that need active management by a person.

  17. Re:Let's take back the words co-opted by SocJus on NASA Begins Planning the First Human Mission To Cislunar Space (blastingnews.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    You sound (reads) like gay. But it's alright.

    And "gay" is the first word that needs to be reclaimed; as "carefree happiness" it has no synonym. And with all the constant angst over equality and rights, there seems to be very little gayness involved in being gay :/

  18. Japan isn't one massive Tokyo

    How do you figure that? It sure is in every anime I've ever seen.

  19. And speaking of RF leakage, what he's probably also doing is giving himself a much higher risk of cancer. The illegal jammer made in China is hardly a well regulated device made with user safety in mind. And there he sat with it in his pocket.

  20. Lets You Use Loo Without Touching Anything

    Welllll... I might have to touch ONE thing at least or else there will be a mess on my shoes.

  21. Re:Can't stand FireOS devices anyway... on Amazon Just Removed Encryption From the Software Powering Kindles, Smartphones, Tablets (dailydot.com) · · Score: 1

    My family has a few and I couldn't see myself ever tolerating Amazon's take on the interface for more than a couple of minutes...

    Cyanogenmod installs nicely on Amazon's hardware.

  22. Re:Above the Law? on Maryland Public Buses Record Passengers' Conversations (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    The government has no rights and only the powers granted it by the Constitution.

    People in government control both the gold and the guns. Guess who gets to make the rules?

  23. Re:tip of the administrative iceberg on Are CEOs Overpaid? Not Compared With College Presidents (cbsnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Free college is completely unaffordable for any government budget otherwise.

    Free healthcare burdens many a national budget with unsustainable debt but that doesn't stop politicians from promising even more free stuff.

  24. Re:salary? on Are CEOs Overpaid? Not Compared With College Presidents (cbsnews.com) · · Score: 2

    Are they just talking salary? As far as I know university presidents don't have stock options.

    A lot of companies are big enough to have a CEO but are not traded.

  25. It's the free market at work

    Except that H1-B is a government intervention in the market; by definition it interferes with (and demonstrably screws up) the local free labor market. To be free market at work, the temporary foreign workers in question would need to be immigrants permanently coming to the local labor market.