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  1. Re:Here's a thought: on The US is Facing a Serious Shortage of Airline Pilots (cnn.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    If you Don't pay the pilots more, then the pilots will move to another airline that does. You won't have any passengers because you don't have pilots to fly them. Your competitor with higher ticket prices will actually be offering flight routes that you don't and so your customers will go to your competitor.

    So is it better to pay pilots and raise ticket prices?

    If there really is a pilot shortage then ticket prices are going to rise anyway because there will be a limited number of flights that can be operated by all airlines combined.

  2. Re:Here's a thought: on The US is Facing a Serious Shortage of Airline Pilots (cnn.com) · · Score: 2

    Don't forget sleep deprivation.

    Pilots get to rush to a company sleep facility that is like a crappy motel. Probably has several people sleeping there, but coming and going at all hours so that nobody really gets good sleep.

    Pilots don't get to party with alcohol.

  3. Re:Impressive on Microsoft Is Making the Windows Command Line a Lot Better (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Bring back the blue scream of death which is even more sorely mist.

  4. Re:Powershell is powerfull on Microsoft Is Making the Windows Command Line a Lot Better (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Isn't it already a C# version?

  5. Re:what on Microsoft Is Making the Windows Command Line a Lot Better (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Emojis are simply a side effect of supporting Unicode characters -- at long last.

    Now Windows Console will support foreign languages.

    With bigger and bigger Unicode character sets, every font will not only have emojis, and various human languages, it could also eventually have a set of font glyphs for every possible 8x8 cell grid. (That's only 2^64 characters extra in each font!) Then you could use these font characters to display text and graphics like it is 1980 again! That would make Windows Console great (again).

  6. Re:As usual, they are decades late on Microsoft Is Making the Windows Command Line a Lot Better (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 2

    But will there still be any Windows developers left?

    Oh, well. As long as edlin still works.

  7. > 'Double the Number of Black and Latinx Students and Girls Taking AP Computer Science'

    This sounds like two groups can take AP Computer Science:
    1. Black and Latinx Students
    2. Girls
    Aren't the girls part of the first group despite their gender?

  8. Re: Potential Debcale on UK Wants An Electric-Vehicle Charger In Every New Home (thedrive.com) · · Score: 1

    > Fortunately, UK bureaucrats are well-known for their intelligence.

    If UK bureaucrats are so smart then why are they even considering this? Don't they understand this would encourage the wider use of electric vehicles? This is NOT the direction we want to go! I know it's true, I heard it from an oil company executive.

  9. Re:Your personal information or your life on Google Is Training Machines To Predict When a Patient Will Die (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Which can you make a backup of?

  10. Re:Conservative death panels on Google Is Training Machines To Predict When a Patient Will Die (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 2

    They decide which people get insurance, and how good the coverage is.

  11. The whole reason I was about to upgrade to Windows XP was for Steam. Now it seems like there is no point in upgrading.

  12. Cisco needs to get serious about making its hardcoded back doors less easy to find.

  13. AI will bring the speed and power of computers to screwing up policy decisions.

    And by AI, I mean Artificial Insanity.

  14. Re:Sad day on Microsoft Acquires GitHub For $7.5B (microsoft.com) · · Score: -1, Troll

    NOT a Sad Day.

    This is a GREAT Day!

    GitHub can finally be migrated from Linux servers to Windows 10 S on ARM cpus!

    Microsoft can convert all of the hosted projects to proprietary licenses which are much better than open source licenses. Or hosted projects that have no license at all!

  15. Re:Amateurs on T-Mobile Bug Let Anyone See Any Customer's Account Details (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Do you think they were hiring based on quality? Or based on cost? How cheap can we hire them for? Oh, look, this candidate looks like the cheapest of the pile.

  16. Re:What is RIP? on T-Mobile Bug Let Anyone See Any Customer's Account Details (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Rust in Pieces

  17. Re:I had a bent iPhone 6 on Internal Documents Show Apple Knew the iPhone 6 Would Bend (vice.com) · · Score: 0

    Using Samsung's bendable screen technology, Apple can now make pre-bent replacement screens for your bent iPhones.

    So no need to replace the phone. Just repair it by installing a new, working, pre-bent screen into your bent phone.

    Apple innovative thinking at work. And it's by design. The new design is in fashion. Soon all new phones will be bent. Don't believe me? Just look at how many Android phones are copying that horrible abomination called "the notch", now that Apple is getting rid of it.

  18. Re:No need to freak out on Facebook's Android App Is Asking for Superuser Privileges, Users Say (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    But a web browser doesn't ask for root privileges the way the app does.

  19. Would I first have to sign up for Facebook in order to #deletefacebook?

  20. Re:Who the Fuck is Writing the Shit? on Hardcoded Password Found in Cisco Enterprise Software, Again (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    Cisco needs to get a lot more serious about security. Best practices would be to make sure that next time it is much more difficult to find what the hardcoded password is.

  21. What does Hillary's tour schedule have to do with anything?

  22. Re:I listened to it backward on 'Yanny vs. Laurel' Reveals Flaws In How We Listen To Audio (theproaudiofiles.com) · · Score: 1

    Sometimes a phrase can be difficult to understand if spoken when your mouth is full of something.

  23. Hillary might discover that although they are somewhat larger, Electric Scooters are generally better than Electric Chairs.

  24. No need to freak out on Facebook's Android App Is Asking for Superuser Privileges, Users Say (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    No need to be freak outing. Just grant access for Facebook. Nothing could go wrong.

    The Facebook
    Is Your Friend
    Trust The Facebook

  25. Re:MAGA on Senate Votes To Save Net Neutrality (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    It won't ever be as good as it was. Nobody who could enact sane policies is in power. Those in power are paided to ensure things only work in favor of a few at the expense of everyone else. It's sad. But it's true.