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  1. Re:Work close to where you live as a priority on Has the Love Affair With Driving Gotten Stuck in Traffic? (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    Where does it get better though? The one big study on "Induced Demand": https://www.aeaweb.org/article... - "We conclude that increased provision of roads or public transit is unlikely to relieve congestion."

    Just googling around suggests there's a 1:1 or near 1:1 correlation with capacity and increased traffic.

    That isn't to say we shouldn't build more lanes and roads, but as more people move to cities etc - traffic is going to get worse. Where I live - rush hour went from something that happens between 8-10 am in the morning and 4-7pm in the evening - now it's pretty much rush hour traffic all day every day from 7-9pm, and even on weekends.

  2. Re:How pointless is that on Microsoft Working on Porting Sysinternals To Linux (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    How do I watch filesystem/network events from a specific or collection of applications running in user/admin space in realtime on Linux?

    I see lots of addons for Linux as well (nothing out of the box), but nothing as simple as procmon.

  3. That might make sense, but these are essentially intel pc's and my windows machine's memory cost 4x less - and it's the same cpu/chipset.

  4. Linux has its own share of dumb security bugs too though - like the recent libssh issue (yeah I know its not linux per se, but whatever).

  5. Re:Sadly, yet another typical ignorant atheist on Stephen Hawking Warns That AI and 'Superhumans' Could Wipe Humanity; Says There's No God in Posthumous Book (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    No Atheism the absence of belief in the existence of God - not sure how you jump from that to "I have no knowledge" - for example I know a thing or two about programming a computer.

  6. I'm a member - because I like the magazine - when I had time for HF the QSL bureau was quite useful - plus if your into contesting you really do need access to the logbook of the world (which I guess you don't really need to be a member for).

    The ARRL does successfully lobby for our rights as well - if you live in Oregon for example the NW Division successfully exempted amateur radio use from recent mobile device distracted driving laws: https://www.oregon.gov/ODOT/Sa... (section 4 - on early drafts and even later drafts of this law none of that was there).

    Not to mention the ARRL made is much easier for people like yourself to even get a license (yes I know there are maybe 8-9 VEC's, but the ARRL is the only nation wide organization that proctors exams).

    Despite the politics in Newington - they really are on our side - most of the organization is really being run by people like you and me on the division level.

  7. Re:Giveaway is actually a shakedown on Cities Will Sue FCC To Stop $2 Billion Giveaway To Wireless Carriers (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    If the city owns the poles why should the federal government be allowed to dictate the rental price?

  8. Re:History on one's side on Entire Broadband Industry Sues California To Stop Net Neutrality Law (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 2

    States rights started out as a euphemism for continued segregation - these days it's always used as an excuse for "laws I don't like".

  9. Re:do I just hang out on lefty sites on Trump Administration Prepares a Major Weakening of Mercury Emissions Rules (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Trump is the worst kind of politician though - the corrupt kind. Plus - anyone who has followed him since the 90s knows as well he's been politically involved - I'm not sure what made him such an outsider except his marketing campaign.

  10. Republicans and states right on Ajit Pai Helped Charter Kill Consumer-Protection Rules In Minnesota (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 0

    Can shove that sentiment ;).

  11. Re:Probably more correct than comical... on TiVo Says It Will Discontinue Support For Dial-up Service Later This Month (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    I assume they hardly have anyone using it - and at least in my experience on the data center side of things it costs a small fortune to support dialup (compared to other connectivity methods).

  12. Re:Nothing to do with net neutrality on Verizon Throttled Fire Department's 'Unlimited' Data During Calif. Wildfire (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Yes it does - because fuck Verizon.

  13. Someone is missing the point on Baseball Players Want Robots To Be Their Umps (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 1

    Part of baseball is the human factor - its the same reason they don't allow instant replay like in football - no second guessing umpires.

  14. I don't think it's true, but private prisons have basically been handed blank checks:

    https://www.wsj.com/articles/t...

    I don't think anyone realizes how much corporate welfare goes on in the prison system in general.

  15. Re:Gee, can't imagine why... on Fewer Than Half of Young Americans Are Positive About Capitalism (cnbc.com) · · Score: 2, Informative

    Medical bankruptcies account for over 60% of all bankruptcies in this country. And since your a right wing ideologue here's a fox news article about the study:

    http://www.foxnews.com/story/2...

  16. Re:small "c" capitalism on Fewer Than Half of Young Americans Are Positive About Capitalism (cnbc.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The other thing that is really bad about our system is we largely privatize all the profits and socialize all the risk (think bailouts, or welfare money to prop up farmers over trade wars, or corporate welfare in general).

  17. Re:Unions savaged industry on More Than 60% of Tech Workers Feel They're Underpaid (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Thats a tad over simplified.

    There are for instance companies that are run by the mafia, and unions that are not corrupt.

  18. This is extremely dangerous... on FCC Vote Likely Dooms Sinclair-Tribune Merger (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    to our democracy...

  19. Re:iPad before Linux. on Adobe To Launch Photoshop for iPad in Strategy Shift (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Ages ago I was hired at Adobe to work on a number of products coming out for Linux (I don't work there anymore) doing developer support - this was around 2003-2004. Adobe had previously made things like Photoshop and Illustrator for Solaris and Irix back in the mid 90s (when the last really big push for Unix on the desktop happened) - so it's not a completely crazy idea - the Linux desktop. Adobe also made Acrobat Reader for Linux.

    Ultimately in focus groups a lot of the potential big customers (many of which every single man, woman and child has heard of) indicated they didn't have any intention of replacing Mac/Windows client computers with Linux desktops so these projects were dropped. A lot of people don't consider the hundreds of millions of dollars that could have been spent to make it work, only to not pay for itself in sales.

    There were also problems with support - for example - one of the things that was debated on internally was what scanner api do we support or color management support. Ultimately too - if it had come to fruition the support agreement likely would have been "we've tested it on xyz distro's".

  20. The issue is if you don't make people upgrade - they will call and write and complain that it's all broken because you don't or can't test on again - a 17 year old OS.

    BTW - Firefox and Chrome did the same thing years ago... (yes Chrome and Firefox have a hard - no you can't do this stop on XP) No-one on Slashdot complained.

  21. No-one should have have to support an OS that came out 17 years ago.

  22. Hur hur - Micro$haft am I right?

  23. Re:This could be about American jobs on US Reaches Deal To Keep Chinese Telecom ZTE in Business (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    I think the point though is Trump didn't give two shits about those suppliers - just how these tarrifs are going to screw over American farmers - especially soybean producers until $500 million in loans were in jeopardy for a hotel in Lido City.

    Just ask yourself this - what if Obama did this?

  24. Re:Just as scott adams predicted: on Trump Cancels Singapore Summit With North Korean Leader Kim Jong Un (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Or take another take at this - Trump fucks up everything he touches. There's not a single thing he's successfully negotiated in his entire life that hasn't turned to complete shit and Scott Adams is just trying to spin this dumpster fire of a presidency like everyone else on here is.

  25. Re:Three Senators, not two on Senate Votes To Save Net Neutrality (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 2

    To be clear too - every single republican except those 3 voted against, every single Democrat voted for.

    For those who spout "both parties are the same!" ;).