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  1. Re:That seems a glib and useless take on the subje on It's Not Technology That's Disrupting Our Jobs (nytimes.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    If I had mod points, I'd mod you up. The reason people don't want to hire people to do the work is because Technology is overall cheaper.

    While it makes good business sense to do so, if those now unemployed workers can't find a job because other people aren't hiring people, then eventually there will be few people left to buy goods and services. Peak capitalism looks horrible.

  2. Running it from another drive? on Windows 10 Spring Update Improves Linux On WSL With Unix Sockets and More (anandtech.com) · · Score: 2

    They can get Linux to run as a layer or app under Windows, but can't figure out how to get it to run from a different drive. Some of us have a smaller SSD as C drive and would like to at least play with this without having to jump through hoops. Yes, I know about symlinks in Windows, but it's kind of a crappy fix, if it works at all.

  3. Perhaps so, but most states who have such laws also have pretty hefty unemployment tax hikes should the company be found to have fired said employee for a bullsh*t reason.

  4. Re:Seriously? on The Linux Counter Relaunches · · Score: 1

    I don't think Alexander knew about this article. And the traffic could have come from Digg as well, if someone posted the same article there. He was just curious.

  5. Re:Texting is free on all carrieres on AT&T Kills $10 Texting Plan, Pushes $20 Plan · · Score: 1

    IIR the 140bytes is bandwidth already used by the carriers, but the messages do require store-and-forward servers. By now the servers have to have been paid for, so the carriers are making almost pure profit, except for maybe a little upkeep on the hardware. Sales strategies aside, I see no reason why texting is still so expensive or even charged for at all. The technology is mature and in maintenance mode. Carriers seem to be milking as much profit as possible before they have to compete with the data versions. Of course, if they have their way they won't have to really compete. By capping data plans to point it's not worth it, they can still keep some control. What happened to the days when "unlimited" meant unlimited and not "unlimited but only as far as we so"?