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  1. Re:with over 70 percent of companies having 50 emp on Unlike Most Millennials, Norway's Are Rich (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Until you realize that 22% of Norwegian GDP is pulled from the ground, their model would not work here as we only generate 7.6% of our GDP through oil and the greens want even less of it going forward. We should stop comparing ourselves to norway, we don't generate money in the same way.

  2. I've had enough of marketing lies on Digital Ads Are Starting To Feel Psychic (theoutline.com) · · Score: 2

    This is from a digital marketer trying to convince you that your life will be better through digital marketing, until you think about the dangers of it. First off, more than 50% of americans think its wrong for the government to monitor others, and the 2nd most thing that people try to avoid while online are advertisers at 30% (and all bet that the rest of them don't know that their every move online is being monitored. If you were talking to your friend on the street, and a third person started listening in on your conversation, how many of us would tolerate that? Most of us do this every day on line.

    The organs word in the article also stems from a book called 'Gulag Archipelago' by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, the word organs refers to the intelligence network setup by the Soviets which they used to throw 66 million people into jail. Why you would use this word in a marketing article is sheer stupidity. We are only scratching the surface on abuse of what should be private digital information, and someday the axe could come down hard on us.

    If the marketers really 'knew' who I was they would quickly realize that I've only clicked on under 10 ads a year. They wouldn't even display them on websites because they would know that I find ads unappealing. They would realize that it is no use to show me digital ads. I guess they don't know me well enough yet, and that's a good thing.

  3. Where have we heard this before? on SpaceX and Boeing Slated For Manned Space Missions By Year's End (fortune.com) · · Score: 0

    Oh, yeah, the other 100 or so targets promised by Musk and not delivered on time. It's all a big PR sham.

  4. So thats why my light was blinking all the time on Western Digital 'My Cloud' Devices Have a Hardcoded Backdoor (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    I had a drive like this, I took it down after it appeared to be making transfers in the middle of the night when all of computing equipment was shut off.

  5. Did he fire Ajit Pai? on Trump Pushes To Expand High-Speed Internet In Rural America (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Because the first thing the president should do to open up the internet to rural america is fire the entire FCC board and get some sensible people that aren't propping up companies like comcast, qwest, Att, verizon ect. That want to offer crappy service and charge people through the nose for it.

  6. And disasters worldwide were down on US Disaster Costs Shatter Records In 2017, the Third-Warmest Year On Record (cnbc.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    The only reason why 2017 was notable is that hurricanes decided that the best places to mow down were wealthy US cities. Worldwide costs were up, disasters and deaths were down.

    http://www.iflscience.com/envi...

  7. Re:I want to read less on Google Funds A Team Of Robot Journalists (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    The masses can't tell the difference however

  8. I want to read less on Google Funds A Team Of Robot Journalists (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Guess I'll stick with twitter, the bots are only going to rehash social feeds anyway. I refuse to read regurgitated news for the similar reasons I refuse to eat sewage burgers.

  9. I just block all of it on Chrome 57 Limits Background Tabs Usage To 1% Per CPU Core (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    I run hundreds of tabs, I use noscript to whitelist all the good stuff. Adservers almost always run stuff on thier own domain so its easy to blacklist. Now I just want this feature for firefox

  10. Since we could already obliterate every square inch of north korea, why would putting nukes in south korea be any different? Sure it might be 20mins faster but why would that matter?

  11. This is all just a bad dream on A New Video Shows Uber CEO Travis Kalanick Arguing With a Driver Over Fares (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Maybe Kalanick will wake up tomorrow to a news story that all this bad PR is all a plot by Lyft to destroy Uber. Oh wait, all of the bad PR is actively being generated by those associated with Uber.

  12. Innovation is stupid on Why Your Boss Will Crush Your Innovative Ideas (bbc.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Lets be honest, most of our innovative ideas are pure tripe. Why? Because it needs to be good for everyone, you, your department, the company and the customers. How many ideas are going to be good ideas for everyone, not many.

  13. Someone please fill me in on what ng g1 dw is. I get the nanograms, I get the inverse grams. WHAT IS A dw. Thanks

  14. Let me tell it from the other side of the coin on Ask Slashdot: How Do You Deal With Aggressive Forum Users? · · Score: 1

    I moderate an SE forum. There are major issues with n00bs. The user base could easily be divided into two groups, the users that want to stick around and build the community and those that do not. The users that don't want to build the community get on and do one or more of these things.

    1) Expect an answer to their question, even an instant answer, and don't want to do any work or research. A lot of new user questions could be answered by google, but people wont take the time to learn how to use it.
    2) Don't read any of the guidelines\rules
    3) Fail to communicate
    4) Get offended when people ask them for clarification

    On this forum some of the new users are chased away, I don't have a problem with that. If somebody is going to contribute, they will get answers to their questions and they will take the time and present their questions in clear way.

    If your new user to a forum, your a sycophant. Its your job to make sure you have a good experience, get to work.
    Most forums have moderators, most forums have rules against aggressive behavior, but your to lazy to figure out how the rules work or how to get help if someone breaks them.

    People are taking their valuable time to help you, respect that, when you do you'll get some respect.

  15. So write your congressperson on Congress Is Trying To Expand The Patriot Act (rare.us) · · Score: 1

    Its an election year, write them a letter and tell them you won't vote for them.

  16. Re:More Hillary's style on Congress Is Trying To Expand The Patriot Act (rare.us) · · Score: 1

    Trump doesn't even know what his platform is any more, he got so caught up in himself he doesn't even remember why people used to like him and his supporters can't remember either.

  17. Tesla had better be careful on Second Tesla Autopilot Crash Under Review By US Regulators (time.com) · · Score: 1

    If there are more crashes and they change public opinion on safety of autonomous driving, then it could delay the adoption of autonomous automobiles for a decade or more.

  18. Its all about history on Camless Internal Combustion and the Digital Age (hackaday.com) · · Score: 2

    I designed some spacecraft. We were limited on what we could use for a microprocessor because we needed something with history. We almost used an 8051 variant. Same goes for engines, lets say you invent an awesome engine, it even makes you toast in the morning amongst other great things like saving you fuel. You take it to one of the manufacturers, and they love it, because it saves their customers fuel and it give them more incentive to buy their products. Then they tell you, we have these things called warranty's that we offer on all of our vehicles can you tell us the MBTF? Most of the parts are new so you go back to your lab and run it for 5-10 years.

  19. Experiment has already been done on VC Firm Y Combinator Launches an Experiment In Universal Basic Income (fastcoexist.com) · · Score: 1

    I worked with an indigenous group in Canada, where each person receives approximately 1500$ CAD every other week. They didn't have to do anything to receive that money. There was some interesting things that went on at their reservation. Most of the houses I visited were halfway destroyed. I watched them build new houses and within a week or two they would be missing windows and the doors would be torn off the cupboards. I heard stories of kids that would get a brand new xbox and it would be rendered nonfunctional. If there was a new window anywhere, and I mean anywhere on the reservation, a rock would be thrown through it with in two weeks. They had a school, the school was surrounded by a fence so people couldn't break in and vandalize it. Vehicles, same thing.

    I'm not going to judge, but I can't help but think that there has to be a link between the money they received and the value they placed on everything. Most people there place little value on material things that they bought (or were given to them, it was my understanding that their organization bought them their houses), I observed that first hand. Was it because of their culture? Was it because they got money? I don't know, but I know that the money didn't help them out any. If you were given a brand new top of the line alienware laptop (or mac book if you like turtlenecks), what would you do with it? Probably keep it and use it or sell it. If you knew you were going to be given the same laptop every hour, and I told you to smash one of them you would be receiving, would you do it? The answer would probably still be 'No', but it would be much easier to persuade you to do so. Its all about value, if you have to trade your resources to get something (like your time) it becomes much more valuable.

  20. Not possible on SCO vs. IBM Battle Over Linux May Finally Be Over (networkworld.com) · · Score: 1

    IBM and SCO have been doomed to eternally fight each other, we will see another legal battle every 4-5 years for the rest of eternity.

  21. Re:Great, another inflationary new statement on China Just Made a Major Breakthrough In Nuclear Fusion Research (techienews.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    So your telling me the efficiency of the Chinese experiment was 0%

  22. Re:Great, another inflationary new statement on China Just Made a Major Breakthrough In Nuclear Fusion Research (techienews.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Yep and you can still give me efficiency numbers with how much energy they put in and how much the plasma produced. But they didn't

  23. Ads are fine on Wired To Block Ad-Blocking Users, Offer Subscription (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    Until you start turning every webpage into a freaking tabloid.

  24. Great, another inflationary new statement on China Just Made a Major Breakthrough In Nuclear Fusion Research (techienews.co.uk) · · Score: 2

    The author of the article must have been running around the street, naked, screaming "fusion is here", "fusion is here". I'm not that excited. For one nobody has said anything about efficiency. Its easy to maintain a plasma if your dumping enough energy into it, so how much energy did they dump into it? Nobody knows. You have to confine the plasma, and get more energy out than you put in. I'm not convinced that they did this. Congrats for producing the longest lasting plasma "flame". But I can make a plasma "flame" in my microwave for minutes at a time. So tell me how much energy did they produce? I'll bet they didn't break even or everyone would be running naked through the streets.

  25. John Carter was awsome on Disney Is Making a Fortune and Safeguarding Its Future By Buying Childhood (economist.com) · · Score: 2

    Disney was too stupid and released it on a busy weekend in the US, it did quite well internationally.