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  1. Re:Welcome distraction on Why Your Devices Are Probably Eroding Your Productivity (kqed.org) · · Score: 2

    I find eat a soylent energy bar always provides a break a few hours later...

  2. Enslave the lower-level employees to run the man-powered generator wheel? A true Carrington Event level disaster will fry most IC parts, and has a high chance of setting back the entire human civilization by a century or so. Fuel for the data center will be the last of your concerns...

  3. The only redeeming feature of Apple's hardware is the color-matching video set-ups for publishing / marketing people. Other than that, they don't even use Xeons anymore in most of the desktops, but still charge Xeon prices.

  4. They may be "starving" on the consumer side, but they have little viable competition (when you include enterprise-level support) for their enterprise-level server hardware. There is only like half a dozen real players in that market, even fewer with US-based support staff. My Dell support for my servers is in my state, and support for my SAN is only a state away. When I needed "global support", I quickly get connected to a bi-lingual rep. They've saved my ass a few times just this year lol.

  5. Re:Cut full time down to 30-32 hours to start! on Slashdot Asks: Do We Need To Plan For a Future Without Jobs And Should We Resort To Universal Basic Income? (vox.com) · · Score: 1

    40? I work 50-60+ hours, on salary. But my job is awesome, so I guess it's cool lol.

  6. I still use the BOFH Excuse Generator at least twice a week. Our new-hire for our helpdesk analyst is bi-lingual, due to our plant in Mexico. I jumped from ITSM Analyst at HPE to Network Admin at a smaller (but rock-solid) corp and made a 15K per year raise. I've also stopped us from buying ANY HP equipment..because you have no idea when HP will "spin off" that department and your "support" evaporates. 4-hour On-Site Mission Critical Dell Enterprise support only! Plus all their call centers for Enterprise seem to be here in the US.

  7. Too bad he's also a racist misogyny. I find myself appreciating some of his proposed business ideals...yet find the actual policy quite lacking. But just that part of his campaign isn't enough to overcome his quick-to-anger, lash-out-at everyone narcissistic personality. Right now he's tweeting in the middle of the night about Betty pageants that happened 20 years ago, stated he will commit war crimes, is WAY too friendly with Putin, rips off small businesses...he's just a horrible human being. If he's President I fully expect him to use the 48 hour/60 day window in the War Powers Resolution to cause World War III by launching into various countries in the middle of the night instead of tweeting like he does now. A scenario of North Korea calling him some name, and him sending in troops, and us getting into a shooting match with China is highly probable.

    I'm not a Hillary fan either, she's pro-corp and very deceptive. But she won't fly off into a rage if Assad made fun of her hair.

  8. Re:Maximum yield on Outsourced IT Workers Ask Sen Feinstein For Help, Get Form Letter in Return (computerworld.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    Comparing the US to the Swiss is a false equivalency. IMHO, the biggest is that many of the Swiss are distantly related to each other, unlike the US. When half the country is part of your extended biological family, you feel far different towards them than the "melting pot" situation here in the US. I'm not condoning the US's attitude, but it's just a very basic and probably pre-human part of our evolution. All animals are more helpful to fellow family / tribe members.

  9. Re:Harassing the security apparatus is pointless on As Contradictions Mount, Experts Call For Declassification of Yahoo's Email-Scanning Order (onthewire.io) · · Score: 1

    So, a world-wide nuclear war that destroys humanity and the planetary ecosystem over Chinese expansion via their built-up islands is better than "the status quo"?

  10. Re:The Gateway: Myth or Fact? on Sean Parker Contributes $9 Million As States Push To Legalize Marijuana (gazettenet.com) · · Score: 2

    Dextromethorphan hydrobromide can fuck you up, on a per-trip basis, WAY more than almost anything else. When you get up to the higher dosages, your jumping through the rabbit hole and pulling the hole in behind you for the next 8-12+ hours.

  11. Re:The Gateway: Myth or Fact? on Sean Parker Contributes $9 Million As States Push To Legalize Marijuana (gazettenet.com) · · Score: 2

    So does high fructose corn syrup, but there is no call to make it a Schedule I substance, nor an entire heavily-armed industry built around it's eradication..

  12. Re:This is the problem on Sean Parker Contributes $9 Million As States Push To Legalize Marijuana (gazettenet.com) · · Score: 1

    Or just hacking the highly insecure voting machines.

  13. Re:Hold on, let's think about this on Sean Parker Contributes $9 Million As States Push To Legalize Marijuana (gazettenet.com) · · Score: 1

    At it's FAR easier than growing poppy and manufacturing the plants into viable heroin/Oxycontin/morphine. The only real difference is an acetyl molecule, and once in your bloodstream all three are the same thing. But one is Schedule I, the other two are Schedule II. My adderall is Schedule II, but just amphetamines are I. This is all culture-based legislation from 40+ years ago and has little if anything to do with actual medical science.

  14. Re:GET MONEY OUT OF POLITICS!! OMG!! on Sean Parker Contributes $9 Million As States Push To Legalize Marijuana (gazettenet.com) · · Score: 1

    Several of the biggest opponents in California AGAINST legalization were drug dealers. They too want to protect their revenue stream.

  15. Re:The real reason on The Real Reasons Companies Won't Hire Telecommuters (oreilly.com) · · Score: 1

    HP (well, HPE) paid me for doing pretty much nothing for over a year. I did ITSM coordination for several large airlines on the overnight shift. At first it was great, but eventually I watched every movie and TV show I could find on Primewire, netflix, etc. I was actually kinda glad when I got laid off with severance.

  16. Re:The opressed can not opress on Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer Led Illegal Purge of Male Employees, Lawsuit Charges (mercurynews.com) · · Score: 1

    Per the original definition, America "with a K" would be a second-world country. This terminology is from the Cold War. NATO = First World, WARSAW Pact =2nd World, everything else=3rd World.

  17. Re:Quite impressive! on Blue Origin Lands Rocket During Launch Escape Test (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    I was more meaning "smooth" as in nothing blew up/crashed lol. For real" astronauts, it would have been bumpy but OK. For tourist astronauts...yeah, everyone would need a shower after that hahaha

  18. Quite impressive! on Blue Origin Lands Rocket During Launch Escape Test (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    Damn, that was really smooth. They didn't even expect the rocket to return; this is a double-win for Blue Origins. The commentator said this was both vehicles "final flight"...that rocket looks pretty beat up on the outside lol. Hopefully, after all the post-flight analysis is done, Jeff donates this to a museum. I'd love to go get a up-close of this impressive vehicle even if it's slightly phallic lol.

  19. Re:I've grown to dislike Bezos on Blue Origin Lands Rocket During Launch Escape Test (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    It's all probably part of a conspiracy to restart the astrospies program.

  20. Re:parachute on Blue Origin Lands Rocket During Launch Escape Test (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    That procedure is under "open the window and just jump" when your that close lol

  21. Re: imagine if.. on Blue Origin Lands Rocket During Launch Escape Test (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 2

    We didn't "plunder" the scientists, they willfully and happily came to the US after the fall of Nazi Germany.

  22. Re:News in 1993 on Blue Origin Lands Rocket During Launch Escape Test (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 2

    So true, because manufacturing and engineering costs in 2016 are exactly the same as they were in 1993. Material science hasn't advanced at all in the last 23 years either.

  23. Re:Competition.... on Blue Origin Lands Rocket During Launch Escape Test (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 2

    The REAL definition is when your actually in space, no one can hear you scream.

  24. Re:Leaving Yahoo! on Yahoo Secretly Scanned Customer Emails For US Intelligence (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    If you have your own static/email server, all you need to do is make sure your server isn't an open relay. Google wants you to have an IPv6 address too, or it rejects your email. But...I've had an email server running on a static, public IP for months now without getting blacklisted. Yet, in a way, your right about the RFC violation...Google uses the PTR RFC stuff to force an IPv6 address on you.

  25. Re:Don't mistake this for the typical anti-US rant on As ICANN Gains Full Oversight Of Domain Name System, Some Wonder If It Means the US Has Given Away The Internet (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    It's not a requirement, just a thought-process game about the potential future of President Trump wanting to "do something" about "the cyber", so he sends the DOJ to "take down the internet's headquarters" or such. I wouldn't put it past him to go try and seize ICAAN because someone on the internet made him upset.