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  1. Far worse in other countries on The Gig Economy Keeps Growing, But Worker Benefits Aren't (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 1

    Look at Japan or any number of European countries and see how many young people are working as contractors. They don't accrue retirement benefits like the previous generation and are screwed in the long run unless they are hired on at a company.

    When the price of taking people on as full time employees is too high then businesses will do everything possible to avoid. This means contractors and outsourcing wherever feasible.

  2. Of course on Ask Slashdot: Can FOSS Help In the Fight Against Climate Change? · · Score: 3, Funny

    FOSS can solve the hunger crisis, cure all disease, and anything else your imagination wants to believe.

    Reality may be different however.

  3. Re:Why is everyone seeing rises? on For the First Time, a US City Has Banned Cryptocurrency Mining (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 1

    The town gets a limited amount of cheap electricity from hydro power. That was enough for the people who lived in the town before the miners moved in. Once the miners came in all of the cheap electricity got sucked up and they had to buy the more expensive electricity on the market.

    Blaming this on privatization is immature and infantile. Are you up for tenure at a college university?

  4. Joke's on him on Man Fined For Implanting NFC Train Ticket In Hand (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    The serial number for smart card is 666.

  5. First they want to get rid of the 2nd amendment on New Bill In Congress Would Bypass the Fourth Amendment, Hand Your Data To Police (medium.com) · · Score: 0

    Now the 4th goes out the window. I better clean out the spare room in order to properly quarter the soldier that will be assigned to my home.

  6. Re:So it's still a profit center then? on Tesla Raises Prices At Its Supercharger Stations · · Score: 1

    Tesla created these stations so that people would be able to make long multi-state trips without having to stop for an entire day when the battery ran low. The problem is that people are using these stations for convenience when they don't necessarily need to. This is causing traffic issues so when they start to release a larger number of cars they don't want people to be queued up five or six deep waiting for a recharge.

    I would expect them to raise the price further so that the people who are buying the cheaper models would be discouraged from using these stations unless they have no other choice. Unless Tesla can scale up their charging facility be several orders of magnitude they will need to do exactly this.

  7. Re:Locals and HBO without CNN on Cable Industry Finally Fights Cord Cutting With Fewer Ads (dslreports.com) · · Score: 0

    They are not allowed, they are required to do exactly that. The content producers dictate the terms under which their content is accessible.

  8. The only companies putting filters on the Internet are Google, Facebook, and Twitter. But since they aren't telcos people like you are perfectly fine with that.

  9. Stop putting the cart before the horse on Google Fiber Is a Faint Echo of the Disruption We Were Promised (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    If Google wants to drive the adoption of high speed fiber Internet then why don't they develop an application that requires it? You don't need gigabit speeds to stream Netflix.

    I guess chasing away all the people who were actually developing products in favor of SJWs is beginning to backfire.

  10. Re:Why this may kill cryptocurrency DEAD on Coinbase: We Will Send Data On 13,000 Users To IRS (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 2

    You have to consider this from a non-first world point of view. How would you like to have had your money tied up in Zimbabwe dollars when the inflation rate hit 1,000,000 percent? Many places in the world either to do not have trusted third parties for exchange or the price is exorbitant for the regular person. Cryptocurrency is a possible solution for these people.

  11. Re:This may cause the price of it to go up on Coinbase: We Will Send Data On 13,000 Users To IRS (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 2

    Then you would have to pay the tax on the gain. Once you convert it into something else of value then the tax comes due.

  12. This may cause the price of it to go up on Coinbase: We Will Send Data On 13,000 Users To IRS (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    You don't have to pay taxes on it until you convert it back out of crypto-currency. I think a lot of people will hold onto it until they can cash out at a lower tax rate (either in retirement or by moving to a lower tax locale).

  13. Wait a minute on Tesla Will Supply Free Charging Stations To Office Parking Lots · · Score: 1

    Isn't this just a standard 240V outlet with a proprietary connector? Can't somebody just come up with an adapter for other electric vehicles?

  14. What exactly are they going to be taught? on The College Board Pushes To Make Computer Science a High School Graduation Requirement · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Reminds me of the Cisco Networking Academy. The idea was to prepare kids to step into all of the Network Engineering jobs that were going to be created in the coming years.

    Funny thing happened, between virtualization, containers, and cloud computing demand for this skill plummeted. Now you have a bunch of kids who spent years learning Cisco's technology only to find no jobs waiting for them.

    I suppose they could teach classical Computer Science (algorithms, data structures, etc.), but given the typical drop out rate in college after one semester of Computer Science I doubt it will stick for many students. The ones that do well would likely have done so without the requirement.

  15. Re:CS isn't for everyone on The College Board Pushes To Make Computer Science a High School Graduation Requirement · · Score: 1

    What exactly is the requirement? I keep seeing kids graduate from high school without Math or English skills.

  16. Can I make payment with a tire iron upside his head?

  17. Re:If it's OK there, Why not here? on Trump Administration Approves Tariffs of 30 Percent On Imported Solar Panels (axios.com) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Simple, if Trump says something is bad then people here will say it is good. Don't need any fancy reasoning skills for that.

  18. They're creating a race of Pigmen on China, Unhampered by Rules, Races Ahead in Gene-Editing Trials (wsj.com) · · Score: 1
  19. Re:I don't understand why cities compete on Amazon Picks 20 Finalists For 'HQ2' Second Headquarters Location (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 1

    I want Amazon to come to where I live because of the effect on property values. All of those people making 100K+/year should easily increase my home price by 20% if not more.

    I can then sell at the top of the market and move someplace cheaper where I don't need 100K/year to get by.

  20. Easy solution on AT&T and Comcast Finalize Court Victory Over Nashville and Google Fiber (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The city directs Nashville Electric to perform all work on the utility poles. Nashville Electric then bills Google for the expense. The work is done properly without some fly by night contractor coming in and breaking other people's stuff.

    Why didn't Google propose this? Maybe they don't want to pay Nashville Electric to hire qualified people to do the work and just wanted to have low paid contractors?

  21. It would be the end of Twitter on Why Twitter Hasn't Banned President Trump (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    They would lose millions of users overnight and their growth potential would go right into the toilet. This is a company that has never made a profit but survives on the promise of future profits.

    Twitter would be as relevant as Steve Bannon this time next year if they banned Trump.

  22. Ridiculous argument on The FCC Is Preparing To Weaken the Definition of Broadband (dslreports.com) · · Score: 1

    All bandwidth is shared by the subscribers. Let's say we have a 10 Mbps link that is used by 10 users. The government then decides that 25 Mbps is the new definition of broadband. The ISP can then change the 10 Mbps link to 25 Mbps and increase the service group to 25 users.

  23. Re:more idiots on The FCC Is Preparing To Weaken the Definition of Broadband (dslreports.com) · · Score: 1

    The only opinion that matters is the opinion of the person paying the bill.

  24. Re:First step in a five-step plan? on The FCC Is Preparing To Weaken the Definition of Broadband (dslreports.com) · · Score: 1

    Let's not let anybody cast doubt on the words of MaxBonerstorm! How could anybody not believe him?

  25. Re:But...but...but....I thought... on The FCC Is Preparing To Weaken the Definition of Broadband (dslreports.com) · · Score: 1

    I guess you haven't been paying attention:

    https://www.bloomberg.com/news...
    https://finance.yahoo.com/news...

    Funny the changes hasn't even been in effect for a week yet the liberals want to declare failure. Yet they were willing to wait 8 years for Obama to accomplish something and he never did.