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  1. Robots create jobs on Robots Are Coming For Our Jobs, Just Not All of Them · · Score: 1

    It has been said before.

    As the cost of production decreases so will the prices. When that happens more money is left to buy other products hence the job growth. However, short term yes it will sting.

    Cars created jobs long term. Many buggy repair places and horse growers were very upset and predicted gloom too! But can we exist today without cars and trucks? No.

    If you are non skilled then yes it sucks and you should have listened to your teachers and got an education in something. Last I looked plumbers still make more than doctors. $120/hr is what a doctor charges and he has a $300,000 student loan to pay off too!

    Eventually all of us will have more free time as we can create businesses with a fraction of the capital and sell them to other people in poorer countries who will ahve an expanding middle class like China and soon Africa hopefully

  2. Re:Windows 10, it's free on A Breakdown of the Windows 10 Privacy Policy · · Score: 2, Informative

    Actually Windows 10 is a lot more modern than 7.

    Power wise there is a HUGE difference between 8.1/10 vs 7 on a laptop. Like double the battery life as MS has tweaked the kernel and services to be more mobile friendly.

    Windows 7 was awesome and finally good similar to Windows 2000 in my opinion. However, it is dated now after 6 years. It's EFI mode is terrible and you need to go into the bios and disable it or put on CSM (compability support module) and emulate 1981 technology via the bios to get it to work?!

    You can't have more than 4 primary partitions without a hack and more than 2 TB due to 1981 bios technology required. Some new pcs will let you use UEFI partitions via emulated drivers.

    It boots slow due to bios limitations and CSM options. With it off on 8 and later your pc will boot in freaking seconds!

    Security is much improved. Windows 7 scrambles ram so no injections without guessing where the other .dll files are running as administrator ... however you can still guess with a workaround :-( Windows 10 uses a better algorithm. Windows 10 has secure boot to prevent rootkits. Windows 10 has a better kernel level sandbox for IE, Chrome, and other apps to use and more separation of privileges.

    With Onedrive and cloud all my settings are synced with my surface and desktop and Office defaults to save it on Onedrive which means I get all my copies on my Android phone, surface tablet, and pc.

    Only problem with 8/10 I see is I find it ugly :-) I am typing this on 8.1 as I needed Hyper-V so 7 had to go. I got used to the lack of aero. Being flat is the new thing regardless of OS as every OS on the planet is following this new thing of turning it into a cell phone. Windows 10 update 1 redstone will have the option to change colors again for the title bar thankfully which I find ridiculous.

    Other than that yes it is an upgrade and 7 feels and looks pretty dated now with its skuemorphic UI and slow speeds and bios dependencies.

    No I am not a fanboy as I do not have 10 yet due to hyper-V being too different for my exams I am studying for (server 2012) so I am waiting until the holidays to upgrade. I am just saying if you need office work done and a few win32 apps Windows 10 is certainly an upgrade over 7 even if I like the look and simplicity of its UI. I could go on too from a technical viewpoint on using dism /online /cleanup-image /restorehealth instead of doing a re-image but that is another topic

  3. Re:Windows 10, it's free on A Breakdown of the Windows 10 Privacy Policy · · Score: 1

    No

    It creates a new unique key by fingerprinting your hardware if you do an upgrade. MS wants they key to go away to prevent piracy and have you either buy a new pc with it or use it at work via autoKMS from a licensing server.

    The work around is to use a program to extract the new key or unplug the pc during a Windows 10 start where safe mode tools will pop up. Select reset my pc and then reset all data. This will install a fresh copy from a hidden UEFI partition created during the upgrade for a fresh copy if you are so inclined. MS really did improve the upgrade process. Since 10 is so much more closer to 7/8.1 it won't recreate the same nightmare it did for XP to Vista/7 upgrades. In essences the Vista kernel and services are almost as different as Windows 9x to NT!

  4. Re: No router with out open wrt. on Why Google Wants To Sell You a Wi-Fi Router · · Score: 1

    Linksys has a new WRT54 series that is up to date and fully open source with full Tomato. A lot changes in 10 years and Linux is too bloated today to run on such old hardware with limited specs and ram of 2005 at the embedded level.

  5. Re:ADVERTISING on Why Google Wants To Sell You a Wi-Fi Router · · Score: 1

    They want to control your network. They want to inject advertising into everything you do. They want you to have no choice but to use DNS servers they control.

    This isn't some benevolent endeavor, its purpose is to make money by selling you again.

    Thank yOU!

    If MS were selling routers everyone here would be screaming MURDER and SPYWARE etc. Google does ... oh that is because they want to advance technology as they care about all of us and never do any evil. BS Google will always spy and sell your information and push ads. That is who they are and what they do.

  6. Re:No Way In Hell. on Why Google Wants To Sell You a Wi-Fi Router · · Score: 1

    Comcast and other have been guilty of tracking, ad insertions, and DNS hijacking.

    Which is why I left them for crappy CenturyLink DSL and bought my own $200 Linksys 54 series that geeks use which is opensource and can run Tomato if I wish. Hell I can even create vlans and separate wifi networks for crying out loud!

  7. Re:Ulterior motive implied on Why Google Wants To Sell You a Wi-Fi Router · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Uh hello spying.

    Google will own the DNS. Google will packet sniff your network. Google will look at your Netflix habbits. Google will push ads through your router on all platforms.

    Come on folks Google is not your friend or cool while MS is somehow evil that Windows 10 has telemetry data. The router is a great way for Google to continue what they are doing and I doubt it is philanthropy like they actually care about us. We are just products to sell ads and personal data by the highiest bidder!

  8. Re:Behind the times on COBOL Comes To Visual Studio 2015 · · Score: 1

    But is it webscale?

  9. Re:Why not implement on COBOL Comes To Visual Studio 2015 · · Score: 1

    And in Java you would have a billion lines of code show in the stack trace debugger for adding two checks together

  10. To bad IE 8 is worlds most popular browser on Amazon To Stop Accepting Flash Ads · · Score: 1

    Advertisers will be reluctant to switch.

  11. Re:AdBlock+ = inferior & 'souled-out' vs. host on Amazon To Stop Accepting Flash Ads · · Score: 1

    I use Nod32 and never had this problem with a custom hosts files for development work. Odd, maybe a setting in APKs host is not really safe as it is a huge host file.

    In this day and age I use NortonDNS and do blocking at my router. I advise to do the same. It is easier and your protect your cell phone and other home devices too. I want some ads to go thru after they have proven not to be assholes which is what adblock is. To get whitelisted you can't be going to another 3rd party, have vidoe, sound, or evil tracking. SO I use that so slashdot gets revenue when they use ehtical ads and lose money with unethical ones

  12. Re:Happily married? on Extortionists Begin Targeting AshleyMadison Users, Demand Bitcoin · · Score: 4, Insightful

    That is not the point.

    It is still wrong to extort people and demand ransoms between private affairs that is really none of our business.

  13. Re:Communism doesn't work on Finland Considers Minimum Income To Reform Welfare System · · Score: 1

    From the days of dawn bartering took place.

    Economists point to countries that tried to make everyone equal and there are shortages of supplies and services as evident with the 10 year wait. Why do western countries do not have this problem?

    It is because of hte profit motive to create, innovate, and with cash from Ford there are now steel companines, brake makers, seat fabric specialists, and so on ready to supply Ford so the cars can be cheaper and more plentiful and it gives the consumers incentives to work longer and harder to afford them.

    Everyone wins. It's a mathamatical fact proven by Milton Friedman who studied pricing functions

  14. Re:Because they get to keep most of the money? on Finland Considers Minimum Income To Reform Welfare System · · Score: 1

    I used to be left wing and poor.

    But I realized those who have tried to solve the problem including LBJ's war on poverty did not eliminate it. It increased it! I taught in inner city schools as a substitute teacher. Very tough job. Sadly manly do not understand the value of work and basic economics.

    Paying them more money will not cease poverty but harm the new college graduates and those who want to start a business and need to hire them for service sector jobs.

    They will just hire illegal immigrants then instead which creates a new wave of problems.

  15. Re:It does work... on Finland Considers Minimum Income To Reform Welfare System · · Score: 1

    If there are not enough jobs why are illegal aliens coming into this country (assuming you are an American)?

    It is because people won't do them.

    So there are still more jobs. The problem is people's inflated self worth and of course an enabler like a government will make these jobs less attractive.

    When I was out of work for awhile I volunteered and lowered my salary to well below 50% of my previous value. I got headhunters calling me left and right and got an offer FAST. Why? They couldn't find anyone and were willing to take the risk for cheap labor. :-)

    Then after I got rid of the risk by proving I am hirable and not a risk I left them fairly quickly and made more. See how that works? My point is if you economics prove it is a fine line like a x in a square with demand and supply. Lower your demand ($) and your supply goes up. Up your demand and supply goes down meaning not many want to pay you for your services

  16. Re:It does work... on Finland Considers Minimum Income To Reform Welfare System · · Score: 1

    Right now, wealthy people in the top 2% love America. They have it made.

    The middle class struggles, and can fall from grace very quickly. Lose your job, your house, everything.

    The lower class works multiple jobs, usually part time at each, to try and keep a roof over their head and food in their belly. In many ways, especially in their encounters with police, America resembles a brutal dictatorship. If they want anything better in life, they have to resort to crime, notably selling drugs.

    This is not stable. It's a recipe for disaster. All it takes is one spark for a revolution to start. And we've seen it time and again throughout history. Look at Germany in the 1930s, or France in the early 1800s.

    Now suppose everyone has a basic income. It's enough to keep you alive. But if you want nice things, you have to get out there and work for them. Now you don't have people stealing so they don't go hungry or because they're cold. Now prison isn't considered an improvement to their living conditions. Now the lower class has a stake in the success of American society. They have something to lose!

    Nobody's talking about communism. But right now we have democracy for those on top, and a brutal dictatorship for the vast majority on the bottom. Hey, 97% conviction rate in the courts!

    This could change things to democracy over socialism. People who are fed & sheltered & happy are far less trouble.

    And they will want better things. And those who can work, will want to work. Not because they have to. Because they want to.

    All the difference in the world...

    When the state determines who can work and at what price that is communism buddy. The government controls the market.

    If the value of the labor is below what the subsidies are then the government is controlling production or I should say lack of.

    Now lets look into the inequality myth here? Let's say you make $23/hr which is about $48,00 a year (median income for avg worker). When you pay a burgur flipper $15 - $18 an hour it means the value of your labor GOES DOWN. Your rent sky rockets and you now have to move into an apartment with minimium wage workers. How is that fair? You worked soo hard. You went into debt to get that college degree. You come in at night during projects. Some highschool dropout now makes close to your salary in the ball park. :-(

    Worse to pay for this your taxes go up. Hey you rich at the $48,000 average salary right? Go pay up buddy for those unproductivie. Now you want to buy a car too. What the price of used cars doubled?? Oh that is right those that get free money and a minimum wage boast now have jerked up the price of cars. Sucks to be you etc.

    Most if not the vast majority of the top 2%'s are 1st generation millionaires. They worked hard for it. They bought clunker cars in cash when their buddies leased Mercedes S class on lease fresh out of college new every year. So 25 years later they want to live like kings because they earned it. That my friend is reality. The free market rewards those who provide for society and takes less. It brings incentives to maximize your value. All this does is distort this which makes a worse situation for everyone.

  17. Re:Because they get to keep most of the money? on Finland Considers Minimum Income To Reform Welfare System · · Score: 1

    That has been said but in reality 95% of people won't get up at 4:30am to make your coffee. Is it really a life improvement to slave away for the worker? Honestly it is not unless he or she has bills to pay. They work to better the customer. Plain and simple.

    They want to be youtube stars or not work at all. Watching TV all day is easy and pays so why bother? Try putting your savings down to start a business or franchise chain and your opinion will radically change. The workers won't serve you to make you and your wife rich for hte goodness of your heart. Hell 50% won't even show up as the value of the labor is so low as it is. This will give another incentive not to work?!

    You can talk about inhumane work is and we all should live like a utopia paradise but reality is dark. No one is going to build your house, serve your coffee, work for you to help generate your income, or pick your vegetables for your salad you plan to make for dinner unless they need money and you pay them. 90% of people even if they did receive incentive in personal fulfillment will simply not work as hard or not work 2nd jobs or take risks to get ahead. What the market wants vs what someone wants to do is not always compatible.

  18. Communism doesn't work on Finland Considers Minimum Income To Reform Welfare System · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    We tried this in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe and ended up with 10 year waiting lists for cars.

    Just don't be surprised when no one serves you latte and breakfast on the way to work. After all why should someone wake up at 4:30 am and bust their butts when they could be still be being paid sleeping in and watching TV for the rest of the day

  19. Re:Drivers have been the major problem we've had.. on Could the Best Windows 10 Laptop Be a Mac? · · Score: 1

    with Windows 10. The upgrade hasn't gone smoothly on any of our desktops and even worse on laptops. Our biggest customer is upgrading to 10, so have to use it for testing so we have no choice but to upgrade some of our systems. The MacBook we tried 10 on worked pretty well. It locked-up a couple of times in a week of use, but that's better than the non-Apple systems. The Apple drivers for Windows, while not perfect, seem better than the ones from most other companies. I would guess that after the next Boot Camp update, it will be even better. With Microsoft's policy of not providing drivers and leaving them to manufacturers, they've really put users between a rock and a hard place.

    I find this hard to believe unless it is a small mom and pop shop with a son who loves modern thingies. Most IT managers and executives would fire anyone with poor judgement when the 1st service pack hasn't been released and it is not at least 6 months to a 1 year old with no testing.

  20. Re:Yes - known for years. on Could the Best Windows 10 Laptop Be a Mac? · · Score: 1

    With the exception of outdated drivers and little to no support from Apple fixing them and forcing WIndows 8 on newer macs.

  21. Re:Yes - known for years. on Could the Best Windows 10 Laptop Be a Mac? · · Score: 1

    You can say that again. This is the first year the Holy Grail of Dell XPS 512 meg XP's being the defacto standard of work for me.

    Those things lasted forever well past what should have been retirement. Shoot I remember 1 gig of ram being standard by 2005/2006 so these are probably from 2002 which ran for 10 freaking years

  22. Like IE 6 it will be here for 10 more years on The Agonizingly Slow Decline of Adobe's Flash Player · · Score: 2

    The problem is:
    1. Too many business apps have flash built into like a dependency such as signing payroll forms, training videos, websites made for older versions of IE (use flash to make up the lack of ability in IE 6 and 7) etc
    2. Zombie cookies. These cookies are permanent and can never be deleted. Advertisers LOVE THIS. It means always tracking
    3. Mouse and keyboard logging. Yes actionscript can monitor your keywords and mice and sell the data to those who feel it can be useful for more targetted ads.

    Advertisers hate HTML 5 and will fight tooth and nail to make sure flash is required on a PC and not play content even if they offer it via IOS. How frustrating :-(

  23. Re:I think it's hilarious and ironic Facebook on The Agonizingly Slow Decline of Adobe's Flash Player · · Score: 4, Insightful

    That is because of zombie cookies.

    Facebook LOVES FLASH because the cookies are permanently stored in flash and can never be deleted. Advertisers and tracking companies including Facebook love this. Yet another reason to ditch this. However, reality is easier said than done. Man the pc is like the mainframe now where it is old and creaky and no one wants to dare touch or change them or do anything different on them. That is what phones are for etc.

  24. Yeah most buggy with no qa team on How Microsoft Built, and Is Still Building, Windows 10 · · Score: 1

    WindowsME didn't have any of the problems I had with 10. All agile and always changing with privacy nightmares. Great corporate OS who like things never to change and pesky updates adding elements of uncertainty. Different alright to irrelevent.

  25. Re:YES on Facebook CIO Discusses Zuckerberg's "Will You Resign?" Email · · Score: 1

    Well I never said walk out the door immediately. If you can't find other work that is better than you don't deserve it. Ask any SV Nosql programmer here? They get several calls a week for jobs.

    If you can't leave you're not a valuable employee. Probably because you have a bad attitude for not loving your job and wanting to quit. Ouch but it is true

    Life is short for the employer too. I refuse to stay chained to misery and encourage others. If risk is not your Forte then you need an attitude adjustment and be happy you have a job. Some don't. I had a CEO who would always ask if you liked your job. Anything but a yes was grounds for termination. Didn't have time for negative people etc