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  1. Re:Oh no! on Microsoft Has Run Out of Windows Phone Stock (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 0

    Next Story: "This guy bought the last Windows phone!"

    I really hope it's like that story on the first guy who bought the first iPhone 3G and then proceeded to drop it while opening the box in front of the camera crew.

  2. Re:If you're allergic ... on Pasta Is Good For You, Say Scientists Funded By Big Pasta (buzzfeed.com) · · Score: 1

    Instantly reminded me of the Wog Boy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

  3. Re:Blacklist these groups? on Pasta Is Good For You, Say Scientists Funded By Big Pasta (buzzfeed.com) · · Score: 1

    Oh, that's right, we don't have much real science going on

    I wish some scientist would come and do a scientific study on "Confirmation bias among Slashdot ACs". But really that's what we call settled science even without a scientific study.

  4. It's almost as if employees are being offered pay and benefits that are directly proportional to the value they bring to the company. Huh. Whoulda thunk

    You'd think so, but you'd be wrong. The most vacation you get in the USA is based on tenure. You don't need to be valuable, you just need to slug away living your meaningless life in the rat race to get vacation in the USA. Oh and don't think of quitting your job or you back where the fresh meat start.

  5. Re:So why is it surprising? on The Higher Your Salary, the More Time Your Employer Will Pay You Not To Work (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    So why is it surprising?

    The surprising part is that even the top people in America still get less paid vacation than the mandatory minimum in many countries.

  6. Re:Generous? on The Higher Your Salary, the More Time Your Employer Will Pay You Not To Work (qz.com) · · Score: 3, Funny

    I get 37 days and I sure as hell am not anywhere near the top 25% of earners in my country.

    Greatings from socialist Europe.

    Was that a typo or just a play on words, you can decide :)

  7. Re:In other words. on The Higher Your Salary, the More Time Your Employer Will Pay You Not To Work (qz.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Vacation leave is nothing more than additional pay and in most companies is negotiable.

    Only in most American companies is it negotiable. In the rest of the world they are mandatory, and we laugh even at the top 25% of earners.

  8. Re:Again, news? on Marissa Mayer is Back (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    This IS news. She'll make and then run into the ground her own business rather than fucking up someone else's.

  9. I find it interesting that women seem to give directions based on landmarks where's men seem to give distance and Street names.

    Yes landmarks are easier to see but far wise when you're trying to figure out where and how you took a wrong turn.

  10. I would be embarrassed... on 'Increasingly, People in Silicon Valley Are Losing Touch With Reality' (500ish.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    If I typed that much without saying anything or making a point.

  11. Hey mate, you do you. The fact your talking file types and places probably means you missed the point, or maybe you just have a different organisational system. If it works for you more power to you.

  12. Re:Onboard safety presentations on Southwest Airlines Engine Failure Results In First Fatality On US Airline In 9 Years (heavy.com) · · Score: 1

    Tue making a lot of assumptions about what happened. Specifically note the lack of panic in the photos. Not a 30000ft pic

  13. Re:EU Type protection for all users on Facebook To Put 1.5 Billion Users Out of Reach of New EU Privacy Law (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    I hope they will afford to pay taxes if they are no longer an Irish company.

  14. Re:Zuck's apology tour is over, back to business on Facebook To Put 1.5 Billion Users Out of Reach of New EU Privacy Law (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    He never apologised that Facebook collected data, only that a third party used it inappropriately.

  15. It is exactly what it says in the title. One place for your notes. It's an electronic notebook, just like a real notebook books and tabbed sections, and pages, and ruled lines, and pen support.

    And electronic too, typeable, searchable, useful for graphics, embedding documents, capturing images, annotating etc etc.

    Its the only Office app I have open more frequently than Outlook, and at least one of my computers autostarts Outlook.

  16. Re:Forcing us to use Universal Apps on Microsoft Drops OneNote From Office, Pushes Users To Windows 10 Version (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    Partially. There are also features of the UWP version that don't exist in the main OneNote, which as a user of the Office version is just infuriating.

  17. Re:So the less useful version. on Microsoft Drops OneNote From Office, Pushes Users To Windows 10 Version (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    I know I havent played with it in a bit, but doesn't the UWP app and site have WAY less features that the desktop version.

    If that is still true, this idea can go fuck itself.

    The UWP version was very feature poor years ago but it's picked up a LOT. However interestingly enough it picked up features that don't exist in the Office app either. e.g. camera support. So now it's not like one version is the poor person's freebe compared to the other, but that they are both actively different.

    I still prefer the Office version though.

  18. Re:Is One Note really useful? on Microsoft Drops OneNote From Office, Pushes Users To Windows 10 Version (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    Yes! God yes. I use it daily for work. It's one of the few programs that was great from the start, and it shows it wasn't originally created by the Office team.

    Aside from actual note taking, the ability to put all sorts of random things and files into your notebooks, syncing across devices as you go, it also has phenomenal pen support and is pretty damn good at reading my handwriting too making my notepad searchable.

    OneNote was the last part of my effort to turn my office paper free.

  19. Re:Prison??? on Amazon Employee Explains the Poor Working Conditions of An Amazon Warehouse · · Score: 1

    This isn't the USA. You don't just go suing for shits and giggles, that'll just likely end you broke. You also forget that industrial action goes both ways. You want to shutdown the fulfillment centre, can you make your next rent payment if you do?

    Sometimes it cuts both ways good and proper. I remember working at a place where a whole lot of people went on strike. The following week there was a performance review and a whole lot of new faces everywhere, and this was in Australia where workers rights are pretty damn well protected.

  20. Re:Throw this scum in jail on A Florida Man Has been Accused of Making 97 Million Robocalls (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    There's two solutions there:

    1. Have a short intro message: "thegarbz here!" and if you hear silence for more than 2 seconds just hang up.
    2. If you hear an indian accent just hang up. .... This actually got me in trouble with one of my indian friends.

  21. Re:Throw this scum in jail on A Florida Man Has been Accused of Making 97 Million Robocalls (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    This. It got to the point where my girlfriend didn't answer the phone from unlisted contacts. So ... she got another phone with a new number when she was working as a substitute teacher with a rule that she will answer that phone and simply hang up if it's not from a school since no one else should have that number.

    Well I was stuck in the bush one day without a phone signal and a used ... a pay phone. I know I was amazed they still exist too. After calling her main phone 4 times and not getting an answer I called this burner and then she answered.

    Phones have been ruined for everyone.

  22. Re:The biggest problem with this offering from MS on Microsoft Ports Edge Anti-Phishing Technology To Google Chrome (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    As usual someone has completely missed the point while frothing at the mouth against the headline.

    This has NOTHING to do with Chrome. This has everything to do with Symantec, McAfee, and others, and is MS trying to prove their Windows Defender product is better than the alternatives and more feature rich.

    And to be honest I struggle to disagree. I think in terms of the overall package (security and performance) users should pick:

    1. Windows Defender
    2. Absolutely no Antivirus
    3. No internet connection or USB ports.
    4. Setting their computers on fire.
    5. Installing Avast.

    That's it. I find using Symantec or one of the others a cure worse than the disease.

  23. Yeah, 20% are TOTALLY legit, because cryptocurrencies are TOTALLY legit things. Just like AI and Deep Learning Neural Nets and autonomous driving. This is totally the future!

    You do realise that there are actual cryptocurrencies being used for actual transactions right?
    Just like Deep Learning is an actual thing which you likely assist in training multiple times a day and underpins pretty much most of the internet services you use. Incidentally one of the biggest companies into this also has over 5 million miles of unassisted autonomous driving under its belt.

    I do agree with one part of your sarcasm though. Whey you say "This is totally the future!" sarcastically, I agree. It's not the future.

    It's the now.

  24. Why does anyone fall for this anymore?

    Are you asking why stupid and/or ignorant people exist? Because we put too many damn warning labels on things that's why!

  25. Re:This is a good thing on Autonomous Boats Will Be On the Market Sooner Than Self-Driving Cars (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Aside from the fact that you're off by a factor of 15 on the actual losses you also seem to not understand how statistics work.