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  1. Re:$50,000 on Silicon Valley Thinks It Invented Roommates. They Call It 'Co-living' (theguardian.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    Hell no. Dead broke people needn't apply.

  2. Friends is so 90s, who wants to live with something that doesn't even get reruns?

  3. Re:Wow IT sucks as a career now. on Silicon Valley Thinks It Invented Roommates. They Call It 'Co-living' (theguardian.com) · · Score: 2

    PUSHING anyone anywhere is wrong. You know, back when I was young, everyone and their dog had to become a doctor or a lawyer. Preferably both, so you can handle your own malpractice lawsuits. Anything else and you were stupid.

    Today we have lawyers and doctors with huge debts for their expensive education with no chance to ever recover any of that in their lifetime (unless they're extremely lucky or extremely good at their job) because you can't throw a lawyer over your shoulder without hitting a doctor. And that's especially true for those that don't really want to be either, have zero passion for their job, actually hate it and only put in as little effort as absolutely necessary, for they will never be among the top tier of their profession and hence most likely lose any position they might have to someone more qualified and motivated.

    This and nothing else is when you pretend that there is ONLY ONE career worth pursuing and that you have to do it, whether it's something you want to do or not.

  4. Re:Nursing homes for millennials... on Silicon Valley Thinks It Invented Roommates. They Call It 'Co-living' (theguardian.com) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    So... from mom's basement to assisted living to nursing home.

    Back where I come from we only have such programs for retards. Then again...

  5. Re:You don't say... on Investigation Finds Security Flaws In 'Connected' Toys (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    And that hardware you want to use is certified for the purpose you plan to use it in? Because if not and ANYTHING happens (whether related to the hardware you use or not), be prepared for a lengthy and costly legal battle that you most likely will lose.

    Get it certified? Not really cheaper.

    You'd be surprised just how little choice you actually have sometimes.

  6. Re:Do you even tech, bro? on Detroit's Marginalized Communities Are Building Their Own Internet (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    I don't really think that you have to start at "tech illiterate". Who said that they didn't already have to set up some kind of network infrastructure? Cellphones are cheap and common, as are access points. No, the setup will probably not be perfect, and it's unlikely they know what BGP means, but we're also not talking about .9999 availability networks. We're talking about "glad to have one" solutions.

    I doubt that they'll compete with you for your job. If they do, your ISP is probably not an ISP I'd want to have because I want more than a "glad to have one" solution.

    And finally, learn to spot jokes. You needn't consider them funny, but taking them serious makes you look kinda ... well, autistic.

  7. It's only funny when it's too soon.

    Like: What's the opposite of Christopher Reeve?
    Christopher Walken.

    See? Not funny anymore. 20 years ago it was a riot! Timing is everything when telling jokes.

  8. #TwitGolf

    Not legal in my country.

    At least that's what the cop said after I bashed that twits head in with a sand wedge.

  9. But if you're suicidal, the military ain't the worst place to be either.

  10. Re:Do you even tech, bro? on Detroit's Marginalized Communities Are Building Their Own Internet (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    There's plenty of young people with plenty of time in the area. And, let's face it, the skills to set up some internet connection isn't so different from the skills to hotwire a car, cables are cables.

  11. Re:What's keeping the ISPs on Detroit's Marginalized Communities Are Building Their Own Internet (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Oh PLEASE take a video of a lawyer telling a gang member that he can't have his free porn because ... if he gets past because, he found a gang member that was so high that he missed his first few shots.

  12. Re: A Damn Sick Shame on Detroit's Marginalized Communities Are Building Their Own Internet (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Because they come out of my pocket.

  13. Re:What a fucking surprise on Detroit's Marginalized Communities Are Building Their Own Internet (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    It's amazing to watch US political debates. It's like a flock of sheep bickering over which wolf is better as a shepherd because at least he eats fewer of them instead of realizing that killing both is what is actually in their interest.

  14. You dare go dismantle that dish?

  15. You want to protect me? Great! Here's how: on New EU Consumer Protection Law Contains a Vague Website Blocking Clause (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    1) Taking down isn't. You're in no position to do that. Morally anyway, and legally in most cases where you simply don't have jurisdiction. Blocking access is enough to protect people.
    2) Blocks you implement are made public, with the site blocked along with the reason why you did it.
    3) I get the right to overrule your decision and put myself in harm's way if I so please.

    After all, you're trying to protect me, right? Not patronize me. You want to keep me safe from Chinese pages trying to steal my money? Awesome. You want to cut access to malware C&C servers? Even better.

    You want to censor opinions you don't like? Not quite a good idea, with the provisions above you will not do it, because you would essentially create a who-is-who database of what you want to censor.

    Can we agree on these three simple rules? Hmm?

  16. Recover from being married to a Jesus freak? Yeah, I can see the need for a self help group there. That's mental torture.

  17. Say, why is it always the Republicans that are caught cheating on their wife with that 14 year old friend of their daughter? Or her boyfriend for that matter...

  18. Re:It’s not all rosy on The Brutal Fight To Mine Your Data and Sell It To Your Boss (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Once headhunters have invested time in you, they want to sell you. All you need is a foot in the door and that's what those pages do.

  19. Re:May as well be a billion miles away on Astronomers Find An Earth-Size World Just 11 Light Years Away (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Yes. And like nearly all life directly or indirectly dependent on plants, which in turn depend on chlorophyll to synthesize sugar with solar power. What's the point of the question?

  20. Re:May as well be a billion miles away on Astronomers Find An Earth-Size World Just 11 Light Years Away (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    The point is that there is NO place in the known universe that contains chlorophyll. We find iodine and manganese, and the Miller-Urey experiment showed that even very complex organic compounds are far from impossible without life under certain external conditions.

    The only place so far where we have found chlorophyll also happens to be the place where we know life exists.

  21. FACT: Nobody gives half a shit.

    FACT!111eleven!!

  22. Re:May as well be a billion miles away on Astronomers Find An Earth-Size World Just 11 Light Years Away (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 2

    While true, all "higher" plant life relies on two forms of chlorophyll that have roughly identical wavelength maxima (680 and 700nm IIRC).

    If you're searching for "any kind of life", we'd have to take into account that there are actually obligate and facultative anaerobic lifeforms that breathe methane, sulfur or even stranger stuff. But they never evolved to multicellular life. And I guess if we want to look for someone to answer a call, we will probably have to assume that whatever life this may be will have to have evolved WAY past this stage.

  23. Re:That explains it on The Brutal Fight To Mine Your Data and Sell It To Your Boss (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Those articles are a lot of hot air and aimed at managers who get impressed by big words and people who use them.

    This said, there are a few articles worth reading on lists worth following. Most of them are invite-only, though.

  24. Re:That explains it on The Brutal Fight To Mine Your Data and Sell It To Your Boss (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Like I said, it's a screening process to weed out the stupid. I do not want to work for people who can't think past the tip of their nose.

  25. Re:That explains it on The Brutal Fight To Mine Your Data and Sell It To Your Boss (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    In my job, being able to come up with elaborate lies and fortifying them against cursory examination is more likely to land you a job than to disqualify you.