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  1. Re:You will never automate yourself out of a job on So You Automated Your Coworkers Out of a Job (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    IIRC, Edison broke the rules of his job by automating the keepalive message.d

  2. You will never automate yourself out of a job on So You Automated Your Coworkers Out of a Job (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    Bears repeating: You will never automate _yourself_ out of a job.

    Quitting seems like a Quixotic gesture.... just kinda delays the inevitable while they find a new engineer.

  3. You got the headline wrong.... on Waymo Self-driving Cars Are Having Problems Turning Around Corners (siliconangle.com) · · Score: 1

    "Waymo Self-driving Cars Are Having Problems Turning Around Corners "

    According to TFA, it should be "Waymo Self-driving Cars Are More Risk-Averse than Human Drivers."

  4. Offer incentives not to register through Apple.

  5. Git Block Enumerated New Treasury on Microsoft Addresses Pressure From Developer Community, Promises To Rename GVFS · · Score: 1

    GitBENT

  6. Easy metrics that measure the wrong thing on Ask Slashdot: Why Do We Still Commute? (citylab.com) · · Score: 1

    Measuring attendance, hours worked, hours in the office is easy.

    Measuring productivity is hard.

    Previous job, I worked at home because all my time was billed. Measuring productivity was easy.

    Current job, I work from work because none of my time is billed. They see me, they say they're validating that I'm working. But none of my output is measured in a meaningful way.

  7. Re: Insurance on Ask Slashdot: What Are Ways To Get Companies To Actually Focus On Security? · · Score: 1

    Say it with me, now, "compliance is not security."

  8. Re:Perhaps he can recover some dignity... on Sean Spicer Resigns as White House Press Secretary After Objecting To Scaramucci Hire (cnbc.com) · · Score: 3, Funny

    "Perhaps he can recovery some dignity..." ... but he'll never recover his integrity.

    Why anyone reported on what he said baffles me; he has to rank up there with Baghdad Bob.

  9. Accounting.... on Ask Slashdot: What Are The Lesser-Known Roles Of The IT Department? · · Score: 1

    I never knew I would go into IT in order to become an accountant, calculating depreciation schedules and providing chargeback/showback charts to "internal customers."

    And I'm not some middle-management drone....

  10. Rare hatred for a company on More Than 20 Employees Fired at Uber in Sexual Harassment Investigation (cnbc.com) · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Rarely have I hated a company as much as I hate Uber....

    Ignoring and violating local regulations
    Violating labor laws
    "Greyball" tracking
    Interference in local politics
    Toxic culture

    What did I miss?

  11. Not sure why this is news.... on Silicon Valley Is Too Focused On Taking the Easy Path in Health Care (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Business wants easy way to make money. News at 11.

    They just need to admit to themselves that it's about the money. Once they nail their "low hanging fruit," they're going to diversify... by finding more low-hanging fruit.

  12. You resisted the temptation? on Any Half-Decent Hacker Could Break Into Mar-a-Lago (alternet.org) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    In other words, you know that violating the CFAA has draconian penalties and you want some stupid script kiddie to take the risk for you....

  13. Still waiting for my Google Fiber on Alphabet's Self-Driving Cars To Get Their First Real Riders (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 2

    Now I have to wait for my Google self-driving car.....

  14. Totally reputable and NOT FAKE! on 'Verified' Is Now a Derogatory Term on Twitter (theoutline.com) · · Score: 1

    TheOutline.com, serving quality journalism since December 2016, and which is totally not a propaganda site.

    riiiiiiight.

    The wayback machine shows this domain for sale for a long time... and it just started serving articles last December.

  15. Risk Compensation on Are Tesla Crashes Balanced Out By The Lives That They Save? (eetimes.com) · · Score: 1

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

    Risk compensation is a theory which suggests that people typically adjust their behavior in response to the perceived level of risk, becoming more careful where they sense greater risk and less careful if they feel more protected. Although usually small in comparison to the fundamental benefits of safety interventions, it may result in a lower net benefit than expected.[n 1]

    By way of example, it has been observed that motorists drove faster when wearing seatbelts and closer to the vehicle in front when the vehicles were fitted with anti-lock brakes.

  16. "Your grand entrance on the red carpet of light."

    Really? Who the eff writes this drivel?

    Might as well read, "drive this and display your flaming narcissism for all to see!"

  17. Re:Chain of custody? Forensics? Anyone? on Assange: Wikileaks Will Publish 'Enough Evidence' To Indict Hillary Clinton (rt.com) · · Score: 2

    Um, no....

    The defense asks, "where did you get these files?"

    Prosecution replies, "Wikileaks."

    Defense says, "motion to suppress."

    Judge rules, "granted."

  18. Re:Chain of custody? Forensics? Anyone? on Assange: Wikileaks Will Publish 'Enough Evidence' To Indict Hillary Clinton (rt.com) · · Score: 1

    "To make that motion, the defense would have to admit that someone hacked their server in order to place fake emails."

    Nope. It's up to the prosecution to show that the emails actually came from Clinton's server.

  19. Chain of custody? Forensics? Anyone? on Assange: Wikileaks Will Publish 'Enough Evidence' To Indict Hillary Clinton (rt.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    E-mails are just text files, and can be easily forged. Anyone who's ever gotten a spam message from themselves should realize this.

    Collecting forensics evidence from a hard drive so that it's admissible in courts is not the same as just dumping files. Last I knew, you have to preserve the data in the original format, and provide access to the defense.

    Unless these E-mails are signed by a private key known to be Clinton's, I don't really see how they're going to be admissible.

  20. Can I trade... on Chile Has So Much Solar Energy It's Giving It Away for Free (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    ...worthless copper for worthless electricity?

    No?

  21. That's the wrong saying.... on Hackers Claim to Have 427 Million Myspace Passwords (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Companies are rapidly all falling into the same category: those that have been hacked and will be hacked again.

  22. They're consumers of the public road system, and consumers of the local legislative process, which is what Uber and Lyft were trying to hijack.

    I might not have opposed Prop 1 if it had just been about background checks. I wouldn't use Uber or Lyft, because of that issue, but if you want to get drunk and then ride home with a felon, who am I to stop you?

    I ended up opposing Uber and Lyft due to the the provision allowing them to block traffic.

  23. All new businesses are mostly crap on One of Silicon Valley's Most Esteemed VCs Says Startups Are 'Mostly Crap' (vanityfair.com) · · Score: 1

    That's why 8 of 10 new businesses fail.

  24. Re:Easy. on Ask Slashdot: How Do You Deal With Glare On Cellphones? · · Score: 1

    Enable the auto-brightness setting.

    Done.

  25. Re:News for gamers with no life? on Video Game Cheaters Outed By Logic Bombs · · Score: 4, Informative

    Dice sold Slashdot. Maybe you missed it?

    http://meta.slashdot.org/story...