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  1. Re:Anyone else bothered by the grammatical devolut on Xbox One Update Adds Cortana (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Hay is for Horses, but better for cows. "Hey is for Horses" just means you can only say, "hey" to horses and not people.

  2. Re:So now, be sure to on Xbox One Update Adds Cortana (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Yes, because when I say, "Hey Cortana, start a chat party with Halo friends!" I'm super worried M$ is going to take that info and sell it away or send it to the gov or blackmail me. When I go, "Hey Cortana, search how to make a bomb and drop it on the White House." I don't think, "Fuck, hopefully M$ doesn't send my search request to the government." the government already knows thanks to Prism.

  3. Re:Only one share... on T-Mobile Is Giving Customers Stock In the Company (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    The FEEES!

  4. Re:Yeah, Right on GE Considers Scrapping The Annual Raise (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Why? He's getting an extra 52 days off a year not drive, not to put wear and tear on his car, not to buy food for work/at work, not to decrease his health through stress of a commute and adding to his livability. He also has time to get more pay over time, everyone that mentions inflation acts like it's one and done, like oh shit, Bob took the day off a week package, he's fucked in 10-20 years! In one year Bob will ask for a raise instead, he'll still cost less than you, so your job might be at risk instead of happy Bob that only work 4 days a week, but gets the same amount of work done.

  5. Re:Not so fast. on GE Considers Scrapping The Annual Raise (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Why would you take it every year though? And in theory if you get more vacation time, you don't have to travel, you can stay home and save money on gas, and vehicle wear and tear, and meals out and such. You'll probably break even.

  6. Re:Not so fast. on GE Considers Scrapping The Annual Raise (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Sure it does, it also stagnates and goes down. http://www.bbc.com/news/busine... Here's an article talking about US inflation being negative.

  7. Re: Not so fast. on GE Considers Scrapping The Annual Raise (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Not all stock markets are the same, and there is plenty of diversification in the stock market itself.

  8. Re:Not so fast. on GE Considers Scrapping The Annual Raise (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    He'd probably take mortgages out on those places as well to earn more off the rest of the money in the stock market.

  9. Re:Not so fast. on GE Considers Scrapping The Annual Raise (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Would you do it for a 3% raise? You already put a value on it, so where does it end?

  10. Re:Not so fast. on GE Considers Scrapping The Annual Raise (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    More that we look, don't see anything and don't know what to do. People are also creatures of habit.

  11. Re:Not so fast. on GE Considers Scrapping The Annual Raise (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    You seem really angry about a notion that isn't new. Companies were starting to talk about buying homes for employees, more vacation, etc when I was in college over 10 years ago. Not everyone is interested in just money, some people want a place they can get paid what they ask and get more OT. A 1-2% increase for inflation isn't a raise.

  12. Re:Not so fast. on GE Considers Scrapping The Annual Raise (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    That's why companies post "5-10 Years experience, entry level position." This is an employers market right now.

  13. Are the ad companies responsible? on 'Alarming' Rise In Ransomware Tracked (bbc.com) · · Score: 2

    If ads are where the viruses is, who can we hold responsible for them? The website hosting the ads, the company supplying the ads to the website, or are they hacked ads?

  14. Re: Slow them with real traffic on Weary Homeowners Wage War On Waze · · Score: 4, Funny

    Kids aren't allowed to play outside in Maryland, neighbors call the cops on them for "free ranging their kids". http://www.usatoday.com/story/... Enjoy, I think a judge finally tossed it, but this is MD in a nutshell.

  15. How much computing power is wasted/used up by crappily designed programs that anticipate having lots of RAM access?

  16. Re:No Profit...Ever! on How The FAA Shot Down 'Uber For Planes' (fee.org) · · Score: 1

    Eh, seems if I want to put a flyer up on the cork board at my local airport saying, "Hey, if anyone is going to New York by 06/22/2016 hit me up, I'll go halfsies on the gas, looking to stay for one day." and a guy calls me, it's on me if I take that flight.

  17. Re:No Profit...Ever! on How The FAA Shot Down 'Uber For Planes' (fee.org) · · Score: 1

    I have my doubts anyone would investigate my pilot friend for flying me to the boonies to go fishing.

  18. Re:No Profit...Ever! on How The FAA Shot Down 'Uber For Planes' (fee.org) · · Score: 1

    If Bob had a commercial pilot's license he'd be ok though in your scenario.

  19. Re: This sort of thing is why people like Trump on IT Layoffs At Insurance Firm Are A 'Never-Ending Funeral' (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Reaganomics saved this country, you sir have no idea what you're talking about! As the Great Gipper said, “How can a president not be an actor?". -Support the troops! Bring them home!

  20. Re:The two-party system sucks on IT Layoffs At Insurance Firm Are A 'Never-Ending Funeral' (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    In response to the winner-take-all, it's worked well for the last 200 years, and even then we used to vote for the vice-president separately and before that the runner up became VP. What we really need to do is increase the number of Reps and Senators to more accurately reflect our population.

  21. Re:In her defense... on Yahoo Becomes First Company To Disclose FBI National Security Letters (tumblr.com) · · Score: 1

    The FBI didn't change the password, the company that owned the phone did. But the problem was that the phone had not been backed up for a long time. If they had not changed the password, the phone would still be connected to that icloud and a manual backup could have somehow been performed without unlocking the phone and then the FBI could have gotten the backup information. Since the phone was locked there was no way to update the icloud info on the phone so that it would sync and backup to the now changed icloud account.

  22. Re:Time to read the 4th on US Court Says No Warrant Needed For Cellphone Location Data (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    But that would fall under the Reasonable part, and warrants can be issued extremely quickly and most likely if you are the one that called 911 for help you're implicitly allowing them to track your phone for help in that narrow frame of reference (the time you need help to the time help has been rendered or called off by the one asking for help). If you're talking about a circumstance where someone is missing or kidnapped there is definitely time to get a warrant if the person missing/kidnapped is an adult with their own cell plan that can't give you permission.

  23. Re:Headline should be... on Hackers Find Bugs, Extort Ransom, Call It a Public Service (threatpost.com) · · Score: 1

    More that they wanted to get paid at all, how many times have we heard of bounty programs not paying out or lying?

  24. Re:Hardly suprising on Nearly 1 In 4 People Abandon Mobile Apps After Only One Use (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    Of course it wasn't announced, why would anyone want you to ditch their perfect person tracker that also sends unencrypted SMS and phone calls right to their servers?

  25. Re:Hardly suprising on Nearly 1 In 4 People Abandon Mobile Apps After Only One Use (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    It was weird, I came from living in Germany and people used SMS over there all of the time, the US hardly at all. It was only like a penny to send in Germany, but like a nickle here, then it went to 15cents. It was crazy.