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  1. Re:Alternate headline on Female Uber Drivers Get Paid Less Than Men, Says Study (recode.net) · · Score: 1

    Or some drivers know better their way around and do not depend so much on GPSes.

  2. Re:Slackware on Ask Slashdot: What's the Fastest Linux Distro for an Old Macbook 7,1? · · Score: 1

    A rolling release is neither necessarily good or stable.

  3. Re:facebook free for a week and loving it on Tim Cook: 'I Don't Want My Nephew on a Social Network' (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    The official facebook app is terrible in fact, and by the way they push publicity, either by how much it is, and stealing your focus and scrolling to the center of the screen, makes me honestly wonder how people put up with the official app.
    I use Friendly+ in the iPhone, that while paid, cuts much of the adverts and also allows me to apply to the fb wall an extensive black list of words of my choice (youtube, videos, trump, obama, religion, football, ....)

  4. Re:You shouldn't have to depend on hackers. on Hackers Seem Close To Publicly Unlocking the Nintendo Switch (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    I get amazed how the level a seemingly banal question can always be dragged down to a conversation about sexism.
    Newsflash, the boys did not keep the computers and game consoles hidden of sight or locked when they were using it, and a partner for playing would ALWAYS be welcomed.
    You know what interest was shown by my sister and her friends?
    Want to guess?
    None....Nada. It was their OWN choice.
    It should also be noted at the time such equipments would be a moderate investment for *many* families, and nobody was ever dreaming of forbidding any element of the family from using it.

  5. Dont they? on 'No One Wants Your Used Clothes Anymore' (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    I have seen 10 years ago branded used clothes in Africa sold for peanuts. This year, I have seen clothes donated for the hurricanes in Philippines...being sold. So apparently, there is still a market.

    What I do see going to all brand and good names clothe stores here, is that while men still can find good looking clothes, all the women clothes have turned to shit in the name of "fashion"....nowadays all the women clothing are of much lower quality, and remember me of the old clothing my mother used to have in the closet when I was young.
    Junk...

  6. Re:Dumb fashion trends on 'No One Wants Your Used Clothes Anymore' (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    I only ever saw people not de-tagging suits in a couple of African countries and in the Philippines...usually poor people.

  7. Re:pricie but worth it ... on 10 Years of the MacBook Air (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    MacBook Air are little underpowered toys. I prefer a lot much more my 15'' macbook pro.

  8. Re:Yes. Yes it is. on Is Finland's Universal Basic Income Trial Too Good To Be True? (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    You are too stupid to use a computer.

  9. Re:Polish... on Why the World Only Has Two Words For Tea (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    An infusion and a tea are two different things. An infusion is an hot beverage normally made from other plants rather than tea, or for purists even rather than a particular type of tea (forgot which).

  10. Re:Polish... on Why the World Only Has Two Words For Tea (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    Many words, sorry.

  11. Re:Polish... on Why the World Only Has Two Words For Tea (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    F used to be ph in many places....

  12. Re:In portuguese it's "chá", and came through on Why the World Only Has Two Words For Tea (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    Maybe distorted by some local pronunciation (Algarve, Açores) may sound like that, but it is not. Not all our words are pronounce nasally Herr Godwin.

  13. Re:bs on Why the World Only Has Two Words For Tea (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    shhh....do not get facts ruin a good store, we are in slashdot after all. We write chá btw.

  14. Re:Portugal did overland trading? on Why the World Only Has Two Words For Tea (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    I am a Portuguese native, and we say and write chá, not "sha"

  15. Re:Is this unexpected? on PC Market Still Showing Few Signs of Life (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    And that is an entirely new conversation. The industry seems to be mostly stagnated, and aside from faster disk/RAM and support for better virtualisation, there seems to not be much evolution on the perceived CPU speed from top tiers equipments from 4 years ago. I just bought a new machine because I found a big Black Friday promotion entirely by chance (being in the right place at the right time), otherwise I would keep using my 4 year-old notebook for 2 or 3 more years.

  16. Re:Now windows malware will mess with that key to on Microsoft Says No More Windows Security Updates Unless AVs Set a Registry Key (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    I thought Windows was THE malware.

  17. 10.3 is full of nasty bugs. Between a rock and a hard place...

  18. Re:Seriously? on Ask Slashdot: How Should I Replace My Netbook? · · Score: 1

    Maybe being stuck in Windows XP is a bigger problem that using the EEEPC 900

  19. Re:Innovative means of escape from poverty on Stolen Car Recovered With 11,000 More Miles -- and Lyft Stickers (sfgate.com) · · Score: 1

    Socialism handed by individuals, how quaint.

  20. Does it run *BSD?

  21. Re:Debian on Linux 4.10 Kernel Reaches End of Life (softpedia.com) · · Score: 1

    I was being sarcastic.

  22. Re:Wow on Linux 4.10 Kernel Reaches End of Life (softpedia.com) · · Score: 1

    I totally agree with you it 4.9 is an LTS...It is just the quasi-sensaonalist way the original post is written here in Slashdot "Change to 4.11 or die a slow dead".

  23. Debian on Linux 4.10 Kernel Reaches End of Life (softpedia.com) · · Score: 1

    Still 4.9.0 here. I am dead worried reading this...Should I email the Debian team? :-P

  24. Re: What is this kernel 4.10 ... ? on Linux 4.10 Kernel Reaches End of Life (softpedia.com) · · Score: 1

    Better move to *BSD

  25. The whole story many not be even here on Uber Starts Charging What It Thinks You're Willing To Pay (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    I have used Uber when I was sick.a lot around at the end of the year.
    This week I had too training events where I wanted to arrive on time and without worries, and I got Uber - the prices were more expensive than they should be.
    From that and this notice, I think Uber is also penalising more frequent users, from them to subsidise lower prices to attract new users.
    Is it a good strategy? I often used Uber because the prices were attractive; if suddenly they are the double, I will start using more my car.
    As a brief example, today I went by Uber to a training conference, the price was a bit steeper than usual; returned by tube. If the price was slightly low, I may had not take the trouble to return by tube, and Uber anecdotally would have had a little more profit.