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  1. Re:Unicorn Farts ? on Consumer Reports Expects Tesla's Model 3 To Have 'Average Reliability' (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    He isn't rating it, he is saying that his expectation is that when it is rated it will have average reliability. Tesla's other models have had a lot of issues, and there are always kinks with new models from any manufacturer.

    He is just setting expectations because he was asked about it by a journalist looking to make a clickbait story about the Model 3 hype machine.

  2. Re:Everyone mocked Sarah Palin's "Death Panels" on Doctors To Breathalyse Smokers Before Allowing Them NHS Surgery (bbc.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    What about people who like running or sports? They are putting extra stain on their knees. Should they be required to give up running for good to get that knee fixed?

    Maybe the queue could be ordered based on an evaluation of each patient's risky behaviour. Do they drive? Do they live in an area with bad air quality? What is the criteria?

    What about people who gained weight as a result of the thing they want fixed? Bad knee, less exercise... Weight gain is not an uncommon symptom of many ailments. What if it's due to some other health problem unrelated to the knee, does that count?

  3. Re:Won't solve a thing... on New Law Bans California Employers From Asking Applicants Their Prior Salary (sfgate.com) · · Score: 1

    The controlled amount accounts for people choosing to work fewer hours and things like that.

  4. Re:And the biggest blunder of a comment award goes on Slashdot's 20th Anniversary: History of Slashdot · · Score: 1

    I found it much better with an amp. Until the 5th generation they used a crappy headphone driver that was okay with the little earbuds it came with but no good for anything larger. Then they switched to a direct push/pull transistor output and it finally had the power to drive decent cans.

  5. Re:Won't solve a thing... on New Law Bans California Employers From Asking Applicants Their Prior Salary (sfgate.com) · · Score: 0

    After you account for everything there is still a gap. It's smaller than the uncontrolled gap of course, but it's still a significant gap. Headline figure is 2.4%, which is equivalent to working nearly 9 days a year for free, and it's worse in some industries.

    Detailed analysis: https://www.payscale.com/data-...

    Q/A session that probably anticipates most of your rebuttals: https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/...

    Note however that the controlled gap, comparing like-for-like in terms of experience, time worked, age, education, children etc. doesn't tell the whole story. For women there is less opportunity to reach that same level and then get paid 2.4% less. Not just women either, it can affect men who are in some groups such as those with disabilities or who are widowed.

  6. Re:I never provide salary info on New Law Bans California Employers From Asking Applicants Their Prior Salary (sfgate.com) · · Score: 2

    In most cases, the first person that gives a number is the one that loses....

    I don't think that's necessarily true. I know what I'm worth, and I tell them that number. If they were thinking significantly less then we aren't going to come to a deal anyway, if it's significantly more then I probably didn't want that job anyway (too much responsibility/management, lots of travel etc.)

    I find that they usually don't haggle if it is near what they had in mind, they just offer that, or close but with some incentives. Often they offer a bit more just to sweeten the deal, like relocation costs or company car scheme. Maybe it's different in the US but I've never had to really haggle over the exact number.

    Maybe I could have been paid slightly more if I had, but again if they are going to argue over 5k a year they either can't really afford you or have a rigid, pain-inflicting corporate structure that is best avoided anyway.

  7. Re:Employers do that? on New Law Bans California Employers From Asking Applicants Their Prior Salary (sfgate.com) · · Score: 1

    When I have had to do that in the past I just blacked out all the salary/tax information.

  8. Re:Google should see this as a threat!!! on Google Engineers Explore Ways To Stop In-Browser Cryptocurrency Miners in Chrome (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Not so great on battery powered devices though.

  9. Re:do you have a screenshot on Slashdot's 20th Anniversary: History of Slashdot · · Score: 1

    I had forgotten that C&D had the "from the ... department" tags too. I could swear they went away for a long time, only to come back to general derision and indifference. Turns out the O.G. site had them too.

  10. Re:And the biggest blunder of a comment award goes on Slashdot's 20th Anniversary: History of Slashdot · · Score: 1

    I had a 3rd gen iPod. The only way iTunes could organize music was by tag, it didn't care at all about directory structure. Same with the iPod itself, all the files were just renamed to numbers and thrown in a random directory structure, with metadata copied to a special file.

    At first WinAMP could create that file too, but later Apple encrypted it to lock out everything except iTunes. In the end I installed Rockbox.

  11. Re:Old. on Slashdot's 20th Anniversary: History of Slashdot · · Score: 2

    People were complaining about the new layout needing an 800x600 screen in 1998. We /have/ come a long way.

  12. Re:It’s multi-day battery life as long as it on Microsoft Teases Multi-Day Battery Life For Upcoming ARM-Powered Windows Devices (techspot.com) · · Score: 1

    Yeah, calls and SMS/MMS will come through immediately. It's the data connection that really hogs the battery, so anything that needs data to notify like Skype or WhatsApp etc. will be delayed due to sleep.

  13. Re:And the biggest blunder of a comment award goes on Slashdot's 20th Anniversary: History of Slashdot · · Score: 1

    It was a real chore for me, because everything had to be tagged. I was just organizing by directory structure and file name at that point.

  14. Re:Old. on Slashdot's 20th Anniversary: History of Slashdot · · Score: 2

    I was going to check how old my achievements made me look but I noticed that maybe they aren't working properly. "Days Read in a Row" is only showing 2^7, but I'm pretty sure I haven't missed a day for at least a decade. Seriously. Certainly zero last year.

    Also, 2^9 score 5 comments. Suck it trolls :-)

  15. Re:What no Katz/Hassellton memorial? on Slashdot's 20th Anniversary: History of Slashdot · · Score: 2

    Remember when the site went down because the database had an integer overflow on the comment index number?

    Or when they first introduced the [domain.tld] after links to protect users for goats.cx bombs?

  16. Re:And the biggest blunder of a comment award goes on Slashdot's 20th Anniversary: History of Slashdot · · Score: 2

    Not sure he was actually wrong though... In many ways the iPod did suck much worse than the competition, it just had better marketing. And yes, I bought one, complete with Firewire connectivity and really crap LCD.

    I think the iPod took everyone by surprise. Apple computers were at least quite functional, but the iPod was a fashion accessory and sold as such, with the iconic white earbuds. Being nerds most of us probably weren't used to that.

  17. Re:It’s multi-day battery life as long as it on Microsoft Teases Multi-Day Battery Life For Upcoming ARM-Powered Windows Devices (techspot.com) · · Score: 1

    Can you tell us what modem, or what size the battery is? On a Pixel XL with 3450mAh battery and Android I get two solid days with similar use to you, maybe a bit more browsing.

    The secret to this is Doze, where the phone can sleep for up to 15 minutes at a time. The only problem is that any messages which arrive during that time are not received, things like wifi and cellular data connections are powered off. Calls still get through. It's okay for messaging apps and email, but for example if someone calls you on Skype you just get a notification of a missed call 10 minutes later - it doesn't ring at all.

  18. Considering you can throw a 2GHz 8 core ARM into a mid range tablet it looks like we have finally reached the point where x86 emulation is viable. It doesn't have to match native performance, apps where it matters will be compiled for ARM anyway, it just have to offer compatibility with all those less popular but essential to the user apps that haven't been updated since 2003 and ran well on a 700MHz Pentium 3.

  19. Re:Sure is gunna be unfortunate on Dodging Russian Spies, Customers Are Ripping Out Kaspersky (thedailybeast.com) · · Score: 1

    Depends on your threat model. Are you more worried about US or Russian intelligence services stealing your secrets, or about criminal hackers and ransomware?

    If you are forced to use Windows then it's probably no worse an option for most people than any other anti-virus product.

  20. Re:30 MW is good but not a lot on First Floating Wind Farm Delivers Electricity (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Solar is one of the cheapest forms of energy, one of the few that is subsidy free in the UK, compete with battery storage. https://uk.reuters.com/article...

    The battery isn't a UPS, it's for smoothing the output as the wind fluctuates slightly. It also gives them some capability to meet short term peaks, which are very profitable.

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

    The problem with litigation is that it's often hard to prove actual harm and financial loss. You could join a class action but then all you get is a $2.50 voucher after a decade or so.

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

    We should treat IoT security like we treat safety. Most places it doesn't matter how old the device is, if it isn't safe then the manufacturer has to do something about it. Recall those 10 year old cars, fix those 15 year old washing machines that occasionally catch fire. Of course in the latter case they would likely just offer you a discount on a new one, but at least you were warned it might catch fire and got a few bucks.

  23. Re:Chalk Up Another Victory... on Google Maps Ditches Walking Calorie Counter After Backlash (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    Seems like the fault there was the guy whose job involved being an international spokesperson for the European Space Agency apparently not realizing that his shirt might not be appropriate for that role.

    It doesn't work, for right-wingers there are no safe spaces, anywhere. Literally not one exists.

    Then why are you complaining about people criticising this guy? Just because he helped land a probe on a comet doesn't create a safe space for him, he has to accept criticism of his shirt any time anywhere according to you.

  24. Re: Unacceptable on Tesla Faces Lawsuit For Racial Harassment In Its Factories (mercurynews.com) · · Score: 1

    China hasn't had the historical problems with a large black population, so is less aware of the issues. That's all it is really, they are more aware of issues that affect them like lingering animosity towards Japanese people due to the war, much like how many British people still hate and mistrust Germans.

    Things are of course changing quickly as the middle class grows. Women's rights in particular are advancing quickly, although they still have a long way to go to reach European levels. And of course it's such a large country they vary hugely between say Beijing and remote parts of Fujian.

  25. Re:It’s multi-day battery life as long as it on Microsoft Teases Multi-Day Battery Life For Upcoming ARM-Powered Windows Devices (techspot.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I highly doubt it will get days of battery life in any realistic scenario.

    There is no magical way to make common tasks 2-3x more efficient. There are no magic RAM chips that draw 25% normal power, no special GPUs that decode video using half as much energy as every other one. Did someone invent a super efficient LED backlight?

    And people expect their Windows devices to stay connected to networks and more active than a phone, so that Skype calls can come in etc. Android and iOS sleep for to to 15 minutes, with no IP connectivity and delayed notifications, to save power.