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  1. Yet various surveys and reports consistently show that more than half of Americans have less then $1000 saved to cover unexpected expenses, let alone leave their job for several months. You are fortunate. Most are not.

  2. Yet various surveys and reports(PDF) consistently show that more than half of Americans have less than $1000 saved to cover unexpected expenses, let alone quitting their job for a few months. You are fortunate. Most are not.

  3. Re:Isn't that illegal ? on Jet Strikes Drone Near Heathrow Airport (marketwatch.com) · · Score: 1

    Other sources say the drone struck the plane first though. Doesn't count if the drone started it.

  4. Re:Low information voters are a scourge of democra on Facebook Employees Ask Mark Zuckerberg If They Should Try To Stop a Donald Trump Presidency (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    Your arguments are logical, assuming people genuinely don't like Trump because they think he is racist. More likely people just don't like Trump, full stop. Any excuse will do. They could just as easily claim his fake tan makes him look like an Umpa Lumpa, or his wig freaks them out, but racism seems like the metaphorical mud that will stick the best.

  5. Re: It says it on the thing! on Dyson Airblades 'Spread Germs 1,300 Times More Than Paper Towels' (telegraph.co.uk) · · Score: 2

    Hey, everyone dies. This is a *hand drier*, not the fountain for eternal fucking youth and immortality. Got it?

  6. Re:It says it on the thing! on Dyson Airblades 'Spread Germs 1,300 Times More Than Paper Towels' (telegraph.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    That's so middle class. Rolls Royce makes a hand dryer that blows germs a minimum of 8 meters away from you.

  7. So far the documents have been remarkably devoid of US names/addresses. This suggests either the list was scrubbed, or FATCA works, or US citizens hide their money elsewhere. Most likely the latter. In any case, whoever did this is safe in the US.

  8. Re:What did the app do? on Taliban App's Publication Points To Holes In Google's App Review Process (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    It points to holes, obviously. Don't ask me why anyone would want that.

  9. Re:Don't do it on Canadian Startup Uses Trump to Lure Tech Workers (siliconbeat.com) · · Score: 1

    Apparently it costs $2,350, plus several years back taxes (and accountant fees), plus an 'exit tax' on assets over two million dollars. And it can take a year to process renunciations due to a growing backlog.

  10. Re:Easy to take the tech workers on Canadian Startup Uses Trump to Lure Tech Workers (siliconbeat.com) · · Score: 1

    Don't worry. If Trump is elected, most illegal immigrants will escape back across the border to Mexico to be with their families before Trump builds a wall so high even the Americans can't escape. Poor gringos won't realize the new Trump wall is actually to prevent THEM from leaving the US, until after midterm elections, by which time it will be too late. East Germans thought the wall was there to protect them didn't they? Yes the did. Until they wanted to leave. Mexico will have started to build a second wall, with dog patrols, in a bid to curb the growing waves of desperate illegal white immigrants trying to cross the border into Mexico. Some people will try official channels, claiming to have distant relatives in Mexico. It won't work. Those caught will end up in 'temporary' detention camps until their deportation can be arranged. Trump will almost certainly try to invade Canada by 2020, spilling the blood of at least 10,000 soldiers, eventually resulting in a fragile truce and a razor wire strewn, land mine infested, Korea style no-mans land between the US and Canada, so you won't be able to go there either. GET OUT WHILE YOU STILL CAN! Good luck.

  11. Re:bribery go-between on Leaked Emails Reveal Widespread Corruption in Global Oil Industry (theage.com.au) · · Score: 1

    I think you mean Qatar bribed FIFA. We're both talking about the same FIFA here, right? Otherwise point well made.

  12. Pretty much. Iranian billionaire Babak Zanjani was sentenced to death last month for corruption and embezzlement. He helped Iran circumvent international sanctions by selling oil via a complex web of companies while Ahmadinejad was running the country. Didn't seem to bother anyone in Iran at the time. Now the new government claims he owes them $1.9bn in oil money. I guess he didn't pay the right people. There are others of course, so the new cart^H^H^H^H government is sending a strong message.

  13. Yeah, he did some real good public service there. We should give him a fucking Nobel prize for service to the community or something \s

    What next? Stab people to teach them a lesson for being so utterly stupid by not wearing stab proof vests in public? Burn peoples houses down to teach them a lesson for being so utterly stupid by not installing sprinkler systems? Put cyanide in the municipal water supply to teach everyone a lesson for being so utterly stupid by not installing cyanide detectors in the municipal water processing plant? Blow up a dam to teach people downstream a lesson for being so utterly stupid for living downstream of a dam? Same dumb-ass logic.

  14. Re:Programers can not even figures on Names That Break Computers (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    The specs are remarkably flexible, but sites add their own rules, different for each site of course.

    One thing the specs DO NOT allow is for consecutive decimals (..) in the username. Sure enough, one customer sent me a list of email addresses, some of which had consecutive decimals. I tell them it's contrary to the RFC. They reply that the emails are correct. My mail relay rejects those addresses, as it should. I would like to know what mail relay they ran, and if those users ever received emails from external sources.

  15. Re:KRAKEN already used as an acronym? on Stealthy Drone Can Hide Underwater For Months, Then Float To Surface To Take-Off (digitaltrends.com) · · Score: 1

    Covert Unmanned Nautical Tactical System? Who took it? NSA? GCHQ? North Korea?

  16. Re:Amen to that on Uber Seeking To Buy Self-Driving Cars (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    And the Morons...

  17. Re:I saw this coming on Uber Seeking To Buy Self-Driving Cars (reuters.com) · · Score: 2

    A young engineer by the name of Steven Sasson created the first digital camera in 1975 while working for Kodak. It was a completely functional self contained prototype, with batteries, and a cassette recorder to store the images on, and a separate system to load and display the image onto a television screen. He demonstrated what he had made to executives at Kodak, several times. The executives could not imagine why anyone would want to view their images on a television screen, and they had a monopoly on the processed film market anyway, so why would they want to compromise that. That didn't stop them from patenting the technology in 1978.

    Steven Sasson took the technology a step further in 1989, creating the first SLR camera, with a 1.2 megapixel sensor and a memory card. Again, Kodak would have none of it. They wanted to sell consumables. The rest is history.

    Ironically Kodak still earned billions from digital photography, thanks to royalties earned on the patent granted in 1978. That patent expired in 2007. Kodak filed for bankruptcy in 2012. Life's a bitch.

    I would say Kodak had THE expertise, they had the first move advantage, they tried their hardest NOT to convert to digital, they refused to compete, and they could have saved themselves every single day since 1975. Kodak fucked up. If the automakers think they can ignore this technology then they will fuck themselves up too.

    Sources here, and here.

  18. Re:Disable Anonymous Cowards... on The State of Slashdot: Https, Poll Changes, Auto-Refresh, Videos, and More · · Score: 1

    Occasionally, yes. But mostly ACs use the anonymity to go on a tangent.

  19. Re:whipslash, can you fix that abusive modding? on MIT's New 5-Atom Quantum Computer Could Make Today's Encryption Obsolete (pcworld.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Shit happens when you post AC. If you won't own your comment and risk your reputation on it, then don't complain when it gets modded -1.

  20. Re:streamer on Aging Indian Point Reactor Shut Down By Bird Droppings (nypost.com) · · Score: 1

    its motion caught my eye

    Note to self: Do not look at heron with remaining good eye.

  21. Re: Kind of freaky... on Boston Dynamics' Next-Gen ATLAS Sheds the Tether (roboticstrends.com) · · Score: 1

    Competition will also reduce profit margins, reducing dividends, so you need to own more shares to make a living, and the only people who can afford to buy more shares are the people who are already rich. And who will buy all these robots when we don't have jobs to pay for them anyway? Other robot factories? It's going to be robot factories buying from robot factories, all the way to the bottom.

  22. 100% grain fed anus beef on ReactOS 0.4 Brings Open Source Windows Closer To Reality (techrepublic.com) · · Score: 1

    No thank you. I only buy 100% pure anus beef.

  23. I think Microsoft hired a whole committee to write Vista.

  24. Re:I prefer a better approach on UK Pilots' Union Calls For Laser Pointers To Be Classed As Offensive Weapons (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Where I live (not in the UK, but very similar commonwealth laws), you can use "reasonable force" to defend yourself from assault. Pretty sure you can use reasonable force to defend others from assault too. Assault includes any force, or even threat of force, which could harm people. Blinding pilots so they can't control their aircraft and kill everyone on board will do that. Reasonable force is not well defined, but slapping the shit out of idiots seems reasonable to me relative to risking the lives of a few hundred people. And I think even a jaded judge would smile if he ever saw a case of laser up ass, sideways, in defense of a plane full of people.

  25. What does your brother do now?