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  1. Re:Past on to customers, no doubt on Visa, Mastercard Mull Increasing Fees For Processing Transactions: Report (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Probably not. Generally they lease floor space to the company that owns the ATM. So they'll get rent for it, but typically not a cut of the fees.

    And why would that bother you anyway? They aren't preventing you from bringing in cash from outside. Just providing you with an easy way of getting it if you didn't previously. For everyone who's using it to grab cash to pay with, there's a dozen using it because they're there and it saves them a trip to the bank.

  2. Re:Law needs some privacy protections ... on California Lawmaker Wants to Ban Paper Receipts, Require Digital Ones (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    I have a new phone. Doesn't do that. If it did, I'd find an immediate way to disable it- what a fucking security nightmare.

  3. Re:It's a Trap! on Elon Musk Offered Chinese Green Card (politico.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Yes, because the US drives tanks over its protestors. And the US locks up political dissidents. Don't be fucking stupid.

  4. Re:Law needs some privacy protections ... on California Lawmaker Wants to Ban Paper Receipts, Require Digital Ones (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Any solution that involves a QR code is automatically garbage. Nobody scans QR codes. They're annoying, hard to use, half or more of the people don't understand them. And it would require ever store to be hooked up to the internet and record every sale. Not to mention anyone else standing nearby could capture the QR code. I can't begin to count how many ways this idea is idiotic.

  5. Ridiculous lawsuit on Grindr Harassment Victim Asks: Are Tech Companies Immune From Product Liablity Laws? (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I understand why the plaintiff is upset. But the person to be upset at is his harasser. There'd be no lawsuit if this was being done in the newspaper classified ads, or on a bulletin board. It wouldn't be possible to confirm that a picture sent in by someone over the internet is actually the sender. The correct person to sue is his harasser. Possibly even look into prosecution (I would be shocked if this didn't go into criminal harassment).

  6. Re:It's dead Jim. on Ask Slashdot: Is LinkedIn Still Relevant? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    And that's what Linkedin is- its a list of all your contacts, except you don't have to work to keep in contact with them- they update their own info as it changes. And its separate from your personal network.

    Nobody actually cares about the social networking portion. Its just a place to hold your resume and keep a list of your connections.

  7. Re:Not really on Ask Slashdot: Is LinkedIn Still Relevant? · · Score: 1

    They serve totally different purposes. Linkedin is a roledex. Its a list of all your contacts and connections, so you can prove your experience, and so you can contact your network in the future. Github is a source code repository. It can work as a bit of a portfolio, but only if you work on open source projects (remember most devs don't).

  8. Re: And thats why on Dev vs. Ops: The State of Accountability (overops.com) · · Score: 1

    Sure they do. And ops != architecture at any rate.

  9. Re: And thats why on Dev vs. Ops: The State of Accountability (overops.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm perfectly prepared to be outsourced- I have all the manager's emails, and I'll let them know that my hourly rate is 4x what I charge as an employee to fix things after they fuck it up. As the inevitably will-- the percentage of oursourcings which work is way down in the single digit percents. The number that work but don't end up costing more in the end are even smaller.

    Not to mention your argument is non-sensical- if they can outsource dev, they can outsource ops. So it would make someone no safer.

    In the meantime, I'll continue writing code in the hottest market for devs I've seen since the dot com craze. I'm not going to call ops work easy (it takes its own skill set), but the pool of people who can do it at a high (or even mediocre) level is 5x the number of people who can write good code.

  10. Re:And thats why on Dev vs. Ops: The State of Accountability (overops.com) · · Score: 2

    Bullshit. I've never known a dev not to care about maintainability and stability of their service. What devops causes is burnout for developers, as people who never signed up for 24/7 on call get forced into it, and people who know absolutely nothing about being a sysadmin get forced to do it, and do it half assed as a result.

    Its one thing to have devops at a small startup, where you literally can't afford more people and need to wear multiple hats. At anything bigger, its a complete joke- you either have 1 person on the team doing 100% ops anyway, or you have a bunch of unqualified people hacking at it and doing it badly. The main cause of 1 am pages on Saturday is having devops instead of ops.

  11. There are bachellors and associates of nursing. Associates still take 2 years. Bachellors take 4. I believe there are some types of nursing that has more overlap with doctors (including prescribing power) that requires a bachellors, but the standard floor nurse is an associates.

    And no, AI isn't going to replace nurses. I doubt it will even replace doctors, but someone has to do the practical stuff like drawing blood, putting on sensors, inserting IVs, etc.

  12. Re:They don't on How Do Universities Prepare Graduates For Jobs That Don't Yet Exist? (theguardian.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Nursing schools have been a thing, and a degree/test in it required to be a nurse, for at least 30 years. Because you don't want the hospitals hiring someone with no training and letting them learn on the job- you want them to have at least injected a few oranges before doing it on a human. And you want them to know the signs of a heart attack, not get taught them by missing it the first time and being told after the patient codes.

  13. Re:The rot is growing stronger on OpenJDK Bug Report Complains Source Code 'Has Too Many Swear Words' (java.net) · · Score: 1

    No, its mostly a profession these days. In the major open source projects, the number of people paid to contribute by major tech companies vastly outnumber the number of hobbyist coders.

  14. Yeah, they cap it out at 10K euros? That's not a serious system, that's something they put out there to ride a fad. Call me when they process 10 million euro transactions. You're not showing a serious use of blockchain, you're showing a toy.

  15. Name a bank that's actually doing that, and show proof. Not that they're looking into the possibility, but proof they're actually doing it. You won't find any- nobody is actually doing this.

  16. People- like the people who were working there until GM shut it down, already building cars? That might go a long way towards fixing their production problems.

  17. Re:Still waiting for a another legitimate flagship on We're No Longer in Smartphone Plateau. We're in the Smartphone Decline. (nymag.com) · · Score: 1

    You're better off getting an external thermometer. Phones get hot- particularly batteries and CPUs. Its impossible to filter that out and figure out what the actual temperature is outside.

  18. Re:Future Business Case Study on VW Says the Next Generation of Combustion Cars Will Be Its Last (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Why wouldn't it be? The fun of a motorcycle is the open road, feeling the wind, the speed and the power. What tech the bike uses to go forward doesn't matter so long as it goes.

  19. More like "there are beneficial uses of this technology, so we should follow through on those". A better analogy is we didn't stop pursuing nuclear power because it could also be used as a weapon. There's definitely morally and ethically troubling issues, like controlling gender. There's also non-troubling things, like removing genetic disorders. The possibility for the first shouldn't preclude using it for the second.

  20. An appraisal isn't done for the seller. That's what comps are for. You generally don't get an appraisal until after its sold. The appraisal is for the lending bank to make sure they aren't loaning them too much on the property, in case they buyers default and the bank takes ownership.

  21. An appraisal generally isn't for you, its for the bank. The bank wants it to make sure you aren't paying more than the place is worth, and they aren't lending you too much. Otherwise I have a 100K condo I could sell you for 1M. You declare bankruptcy, the bank takes the property, I make a 900K profit and split it with you later on. With the appraisal they make sure that they don't lend more then the appraised value, and possibly make you take out PMI or refuse the loan.

    Inspections are a good idea, and cheap enough you're stupid not to get one. But they aren't legally required (although a bank may require you to get one as a condition of a loan. I believe VA loans require termite inspections).

  22. Generally not required. I've sold real estate in 3 cities across 2 states. Never had an inspection requested by the buyer. Of course you're an idiot if you don't, but there's no general legal requirement.

  23. Language had nothing to do with it. This could have occurred in any language. Its the culture of using random libraries found off the web without doing security audits that's the culprit.

  24. Re:blockchain enterprise on Amazon Enters Blockchain Market With Cloud-Computing Services (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 2

    No, they're the last people to need blockchain. You use blockchain because there's no central source of truth. Inside a company, the company has a central source of truth- itself. Blockchain might, possibly, make some sense in a distributed system with multiple members who can't afford or don't trust a neutral 3rd party. It makes no sense in an enterprise, and is far more difficult and expensive than other systems.

  25. Re:Fundemental weakness on The App Destroying Iran's Currency (foreignpolicy.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    Strong dependence on a single commodity (oil). When oil drops, as it is now, the economy suffers.