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  1. Yes it does. on Zuckerberg: Facebook Doesn't Use Your Mic For Ad Targeting (engadget.com) · · Score: 1, Informative

    It also links you to other people's devices. I started talking about a political viewpoint I don't have in front of a friend's phone, and I started getting ads for that viewpoint within the hour.

  2. Does anyone really care that an adult bought a (perfectly legal) magazine for another adult?

  3. Not good enough. on Cable Industry Finally Fights Cord Cutting With Fewer Ads (dslreports.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I'll come back when I can have a la carte subscriptions to quality content without ads.

  4. Good. on FCC Accuses Stealthy Startup of Launching Rogue Satellites · · Score: 0

    Using regulation to keep people out of the market just means that businesses will do business elsewhere. India and China are large, emerging markets and space isn't US territory. Good on the team for not taking "no" for an answer. Regulatory hurdles that keep them on the ground are at least as big a threat to their business as a government that won't let them off of the launch pad.

  5. Starting a business is not on this list. on Chicago To Make Future Plans a Graduation Requirement (thehill.com) · · Score: 1

    Why is that? Why are we training people to wait idly for jobs that may not come? Why are we not teaching them how to make more jobs?

  6. Premature birth is terrifying. on An Artificial Womb Successfully Grew Baby Sheep -- and Humans Could Be Next (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    I watched a friend struggle with a premature birth. The baby was born at 26 weeks, just barely past the point of viability. She's very lucky that her child is totally healthy, but it was a long struggle. This kind of technology could save a lot of suffering, and maybe even a lot of effort and expense. Her child needed constant monitoring and interventions to develop somewhat normally. It would have been terrific to be able to put him back into a plastic womb and finish developing that way.

  7. It's sexist unless and until men can also choose.. on Google Schools US Government About Gender Pay Gap (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    ... to take time off for family.

  8. Terrible development practices cost $150m. on Amazon Outage Cost S&P 500 Companies $150M (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    If your systems are *that* important, you should mirror them across multiple geographic locations. I've seen the same story in multiple forms several times now. The cloud is not a magical place in the ether. There is a computer somewhere with your code on it. That computer can catch fire, lose power, be destroyed in a hurricane, etc. This is what happens when you don't account for that reality.

  9. I'm not surprised. on Former Engineer Says Uber Is a Nightmare of Sexism; CEO Orders Urgent Investigation (susanjfowler.com) · · Score: 5, Informative

    As much as Slashdot likes to believe that sexism is imaginary, this behavior is pretty common in tech. Frankly, I've seen worse.

  10. That's under the H1B salary minimum of $60k/year. You don't pay enough. Even the "body shop" contracting agencies pay more than that for junior devs in 3rd tier cities. I lived and worked in one of the poorest cities in the US and starting contractor wages were $28 an hour as a w2 consultant through an agency. You are very much out of line with the market and that's why you have a problem. Even during the worst of the recession, that wage would be very bad.

  11. I like seeing good news on Slashdot. on Trump's FCC Chairman Pick Ajit Pai Vows To Close Broadband 'Digital Divide' (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    This will be a good thing. I like good things. More good things please.

  12. Re: I don't even like Uber but on When Their Shifts End, Uber Drivers Set Up Camp in Parking Lots Across the US (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    He made a mistake and is now stuck. It is presently his best option, as we have not invented time travel yet.

  13. Re:I don't even like Uber but on When Their Shifts End, Uber Drivers Set Up Camp in Parking Lots Across the US (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    This desperation is what happened when factories left the Midwest. The good jobs are gone for the unskilled. The remaining jobs need training that the unskilled can't afford. This is the guy's best option right now. If he could just stop being poor, he would. His best option is to sleep in a parking lot where he could freeze to death in a Chicago winter. Think about how bad things must be to have that as your best available option. This man isn't the only one making this choice. There is a bigger problem, and telling people to just stop being poor won't solve the bigger problem.

  14. The goal of the H1B program is supposedly to bring talent to this country that simply cannot be had otherwise. Talent like that should be rare and paid accordingly.

  15. Stay where you are and spiff up the resume. on Ask Slashdot: What's The Best Job For This Recent CS Grad? · · Score: 1

    See if you can turn that part time position into a full time position. Everyone I've ever met has had a crappy first job. You are lucky in that you at least like yours. Once you get some kind of work experience, you have a much easier time finding the second job that you really like. Even if the current job is a dead end, you can easily find hackathons, programming contests, and meetups to learn new skills. This is a habit you'll need to pick up anyway, so start doing it now while you're not important to be busy all the time. There are so many companies out there that make themselves look good on paper, but unless you start networking you won't know which ones are faking it and which ones are the real deal. Building your network not only saves you from this, but it will come in very handy later when you know what you really want to be doing.

  16. Mail script have always been a headache. on Millions of Websites Vulnerable Due To Security Bug In Popular PHP Script (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 2

    Use a third party service and call their API. Done.

  17. Re: NAFTA killed the Midwest. on President Obama Orders Review of Cyber Attacks On 2016 Election (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    If it was so onerous, why has it lasted?
    Because it benefits other people who continue to vote in favor of such things.

    Don't you want free trade?
    How do you feel about an H1b taking your job? Don't you want open borders?

  18. NAFTA killed the Midwest. on President Obama Orders Review of Cyber Attacks On 2016 Election (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    And GATT didn't help. People remember that. Trump is capitalizing on that sentiment. Clinton was offering the modern equivalent of applying more leeches to bleed out an illness.

  19. Machines make customers irrelevant too. on Many CEOs Believe Technology Will Make People Largely Irrelevant (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    We are only a means of production. If all of the means of production are automated, then we employees will be useless. The machines will do the production part. Why bother with employees when the machines will just create what their owners want? We will be cut out completely, and we will no longer have value.

  20. IMO this is a problem of experience. on Slashdot Asks: Are You Ashamed of Your Code? (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I've seen some shady things, and it was ALWAYS in a setting full of people too junior to ask questions. Junior people are sometimes naive, and will believe management when told that certain shady things are normal. Junior people may have no resume to speak of and are basically forced to look good at their first real job. Junior people may not be able to afford to quit without having something else lined up, and don't want to be marked as job-hoppers. Senior people have the marketability to leave, and the experience to see through BS. They may also have enough savings to quit out of principle and take a sabbatical, or the ability to shift gears to their side business. I don't really know how to solve the problem, given that young adults need to eat regardless of their ethics. I do know that the problem is hardly contained to computing. Maybe we gravitate to this field because we love logic, but the rest of the world isn't logical. We still have to deal with human nature in this field too.

  21. Tech workers always have to stay current. on 2016 Has Been an Ugly Year For Tech Layoffs, and It's Going To Get Worse, Says Analyst (ieee.org) · · Score: 1

    From TFA, the one thing that is death to a tech career. >> “They will always remain unemployed,” at least in tech, he said. “Their skills will be obsolete.

  22. While this is a very tacky response... on Outsourced IT Workers Ask Sen Feinstein For Help, Get Form Letter in Return (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1, Informative

    It's worth noting that calling, or even visiting in person, are the most effective ways to get a response from a public official. As stated in the article, public officials are deluged with email. Phone calls and visits are less common, therefore getting more attention than other ways of communicating. Something as serious as a request for an investigation is serious enough to warrant the time investment into a more personal method of communication.

  23. Maybe we are the simulation. Maybe we don't exist outside of it and if we leave, we cease to exist.

  24. Read the TOS - it scans your email for advertising on AOL's Innovative Card-Based Email Service, Alto, Comes To iOS And Android (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    According to the TOS, and common sense, this is scanning your emails to serve you ads. Granted, Gmail does the same thing, so maybe no one will care. It is still worth mentioning.

  25. Inequality is already in my DNA on We Risk Programming Inequality into Our DNA (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Inequality is already in my DNA, in the form of epigenetic changes caused by my ability to afford a certain lifestyle. I can afford to shop at the organic grocery store. I can afford a gym membership. I can afford time to meditate because I don't have 3 jobs. I can afford to relax when I want. Instead of punishing people who can achieve something, lets plan to help the ones who can't achieve what they need, for whatever reason. I'd rather have a conversation about how to make genetic fixes available to the poor too, instead of screaming that the rich ought to suffer with the rest of us. The rich will have this anyway. Someone, somewhere else, will perfect the technology, and people who can afford to travel will have it.