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  1. Re:Both jobs and unemployment up? on 222,000 Jobs Added To US Payrolls In June; Unemployment Rate Rises To 4.4 Percent (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    Yet Alabama leads the country in hunger, so their solution is to cut off food assistance.

    Good job Alabama.

    Well, given time it will work.

    Gut off assistance.
    Crime rate goes up
    Build more for-profit prisons - PROFIT

  2. Re:I'd go on food stamps just to get retraining. on 222,000 Jobs Added To US Payrolls In June; Unemployment Rate Rises To 4.4 Percent (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    More like dish washer or cleaning tables at restaurants, dead-end jobs that end up earning less than minimum wage for the majority of workers such as how to cut hair, etc. Anything that is simple but can be padded out to take what looks like a decent course in terms of time, and will give employers cheap or free labour during the obligatory "apprentice" period.

    If your transportation and child care expenses to attend these courses which never lead to a job anyway are more than the value of benefits, you can't go. It's suicide.

    I remember seeing interns from a "web designer assistant" program. What a useless pile of shit that was only designed as make-work. First, what the hell is a "web designer assistant"? To me, that would be someone who fetches coffee. From the people I got stuck with, being able to use a mouse isn't a requirement. Or fonts. Or html. Or css. Or javascript. And forget back-end stuff. "What's a server?" And this was after 9 months of "training."

    It's the same with "office skills" training. A joke. Knowing how to use Office is nowhere near sufficient. Knowing how to spell and proper grammar, on the other hand ... how to deal with buyers and sellers, and the internal departments, etc. ... but those are too hard to teach in a bullshit course that is taught by people who themselves never worked in an office but know how to use Office.

  3. Re: unemployment numbers on 222,000 Jobs Added To US Payrolls In June; Unemployment Rate Rises To 4.4 Percent (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    So does war. And the call for NATO to increase defense spending to 2%. To counter that, Russia and China will increase their defense spending. So next you'll be crying for a large increase in US defense spending. And Russia and China will also have to increase theirs to counter it.

    How far before the economy is just working for the benefit of defense contractors and nobody else?

  4. Re:"Discouraged" job seekers. on 222,000 Jobs Added To US Payrolls In June; Unemployment Rate Rises To 4.4 Percent (npr.org) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Keep in mind that the IRS has records of every lawful employment payment (and many unlawful). Each one is reported with time period, money earned, and a unique identifier.

    These numbers are never used, even though they obviously would give the best data. They can't be manipulated as easily, and it would be too easy to point out that job income per worker has been stagnant or even declined for a generation. GDP has increased tremendously, but it's not showing up in pay packets.

  5. Re:Likely a hash not a checksum on OpenBSD Will Get Unique Kernels On Each Reboot (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    So replace the entry in the checksum list. Mission accomplished - and trying to use the original blob would result in it being detected as malware. That would create a LOT of head scratching ...

  6. Re:Effects on overall speed? on OpenBSD Will Get Unique Kernels On Each Reboot (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    You're the idiot. You're not inserting a blob into the kernel. The reboot process is. Did you even read the summary? You just need to change one file.

  7. Re:Effects on overall speed? on OpenBSD Will Get Unique Kernels On Each Reboot (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    Problem with that is that you can create modules with the same checksum. If you don't care that the original functionality remains (hey, it's malware), it's not that hard. Or more simply, just change the entry for the checksum for that module. Not a peep on reboot,or the next one, or the one after ...

  8. Re:No problem! on EU Parliament Calls For Longer Lifetime For Products (eubusiness.com) · · Score: 1

    I've found that a drill and a few tools can fix many "no user repairable parts inside" devices. I figure if it's broke anyway, I can't do any harm, so there's no real downside to trying to fix "unrepairable" stuff. Washer, dryer, toaster, coffee maker, even the starter solenoid on my old Ford (replaced the contacts with pennies).

    Even "special order" parts are often not. I was surprised to find out that the piece I would have paid big bucks and waited weeks for on my Kawasaki motorcycle was a cheap in-stock Nissan part. Given the high cost of custom runs of parts, I wouldn't be surprised if this happens a lot. Like New Holland parts that are equivalent to parts from a chinese tractor manufacturer at 1/5 the price - because New Holland is made from most of those same parts.

  9. Re:Downside of needless dependency on Customer's 20-Year-Old Email Account Shut Down Over Unusual Address (www.cbc.ca) · · Score: 1

    Your dependencies are far from low, for any reasonable value of low. And if you think a garden and a few fruit trees makes you independent, why don't you try living on just that for a year.

    Also, solar panels degrade with time, as do storage batteries. You going to manufacture new ones or are you going to buy some magic "solar panel" and "battery" seeds? You are totally dependent on the continued existence of both being available when the time comes.

    As for medicine - you're either getting older or you're dead. It's only the latter case that you can be confident of never needing doctors and medicines.

    You're the one who is looking at the world in black and white, figuring that you have a small measure of independence, you've reduced your dependencies to a low level, when in fact you've reduced them by maybe 1%.

  10. Re:Once again, Slashdot predators will deny this on Tesla Factory Reportedly Described As a 'Predator Zone' By Female Employees (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    We KNOW the complaints are gender specific. How many complaints of sexual harassment are brought by men against women? Get real. We've had 3 stories of men harassing dozens of women in the space of a week, not one of women harassing men.

    And you show you don't know what the f*ck you're talking about to minimize the problem as "men hitting on women." You miss the entire point. Tone-deaf. Total lack of insight into your own assumptions.

    Re-read the stories. Keep on. Eventually it might sink in.

  11. All services, all the time ... on Microsoft Plans Up To 3,000 Job Cuts In a Sales Staff Overhaul To Fuel Cloud Growth (cnbc.com) · · Score: 3, Funny

    Don't forget "Windows as a service." "Pay me now, and pay me later, and again, and again". Abuse of market dominance?

  12. Re:Younger Sperm Donors on Men Are Affected By the Biological Clock As Well, Researchers Find (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    NEWS FLASH - Announced a few minutes ago, starting in September, we will be distributing the abortion pill for free. Good for the first 7 weeks of pregnancy, the doctor's exam, ultrasound to confirm pregnancy, the $300 pill, and medical follow-up are all free. You have no say. None. So wrap your pecker or get a vasectomy if you don't want to make a kid. Otherwise you're stuck with the results of your decision not to.

  13. Re:Effects on overall speed? on OpenBSD Will Get Unique Kernels On Each Reboot (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    You won't be inserting it - the existing kernel would be inserting it into the next bootable kernel. Make a blob that has the same checksum (the checksum routine is in the source, meh) and you're all set. So all you have to do is have access to just the portion of the file system that contains that one blob. No need to hack the existing running kernel.

  14. Bullshit. Transparency is important. Nobody buys the "take our word for it" shtick any more. Don't take the job if you can't go public because you're afraid of somebody on the Internet WAH!

  15. Re:Downside of needless dependency on Customer's 20-Year-Old Email Account Shut Down Over Unusual Address (www.cbc.ca) · · Score: 1

    Really? You running a farm, making your own electricity, medicines, and ISP connection? Weaving your own cloth to make your own clothes. Making your own shoes? Not buying anything from a store, wholesaler, etc? I doubt it.

  16. Re:Younger Sperm Donors on Men Are Affected By the Biological Clock As Well, Researchers Find (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    When are you going to learn that you don't have a right to sex without responsibility? Or even sex? Use a condom or face the consequences. Everything else flows from that. Pick the right partner or face the consequences. This applies to both men and women, but you don't want to accept that you have the responsibility and the ability to prevent an unwanted child.

    You really are a whiny baby. The whole "post conception choice" is bullshit. You don't have a say over a woman.s body any more than she has a say over yours. You can neither force her to carry a child to term or abort. It's her body, her choice. That's part of the whole package, because that's how it works. Forcing someone to carry a child they don't want is involuntary servitude, and slavery was supposed to be over. Forcing someone to have an abortion is also involuntary servitude. Either way, you're forcing someone else to do what you want. You made your decision by not using a condom, and there's no take-backs.

    Women have always had the ability to abort; it's why the Hippocratic oath talks about not procuring an abortifacent even in Greek days. So no, it's not some "newly acquired power."

    There is no way in hell women, who are the majority of the population, will accept you having a say over what we do with our bodies, same as you would object if we started pushing for mandatory vasectomies at puberty.

  17. Re:Downside of needless dependency on Customer's 20-Year-Old Email Account Shut Down Over Unusual Address (www.cbc.ca) · · Score: 1

    You can't "keep your dependencies low" unless you devote so much time to that you can't do anything else. There was a time when that's pretty much how people lived - and almost everyone was a farmer. Their life revolved around it. There wasn't the surplus human capital to develop all the stuff we enjoy today, including modern medicine - I'd rather live longer.

  18. Re:Once again, Slashdot predators will deny this on Tesla Factory Reportedly Described As a 'Predator Zone' By Female Employees (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Rape and sexual assault in general is pretty much a gender-specific problem. Guys (see a lot of comments under this article) who refuse to use a condom and then complain that they "got roped into" getting a woman pregnant is also a very very gender-specific problem. That there may be other problems not related to gender doesn't mitigate this. To the contrary, it's used as an excuse to "get over it, everyone's got their own problems".

  19. Re:Effects on overall speed? on OpenBSD Will Get Unique Kernels On Each Reboot (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Great way to insert a malicious blob for the normal one, and no ability o checksum the entire kernel to detect it.

  20. Re:No problem! on EU Parliament Calls For Longer Lifetime For Products (eubusiness.com) · · Score: 1

    New ones are $793 US at newegg, or over $1000 AUD before shipping and duty, so I don't know where you get your $300 figure from. Also, just scrap the case and put it in a standard one and you can use a generic power supply.

  21. Unconstitutional on Chicago To Make Future Plans a Graduation Requirement (thehill.com) · · Score: 1

    That's an unconstitutional invasion of privacy. Good luck. No wonder Chicago is such a shit-hole.

  22. Re:Once again, Slashdot predators will deny this on Tesla Factory Reportedly Described As a 'Predator Zone' By Female Employees (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Do you really want to be the one to do the survey? And what is the likelihood that people living in anti-gay states would tell the truth if they were?

    However, we don't need to do the survey. There are more women who have experienced harassment and discrimination and misogyny than there are gays and lesbians.

  23. Re: Once again, Slashdot predators will deny this on Tesla Factory Reportedly Described As a 'Predator Zone' By Female Employees (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    If you think having a wedding ring on your finger keeps men from hitting on you, I have news for you. I wore one as what I called "fly repellent" - keeps the nuisances away - but unfortunately, that works out so that only the creeps hit on me. So when I misplaced it, I didn't bother looking for it, since it wasn't doing its job.

    Her response - but I shouldn't have to advertise my relationship status or my sexual orientation

    At work, this is absolutely true. It has nothing to do with getting the job done. And let's be honest, most workplace romances get really awkward when the breakup happens. There are plenty of other places to meet people where the unwritten rules about "no workplace relationships" are more relaxed, such as volunteer work, since money and power shouldn't enter into it, the dog park, or even community-organized social or other clubs.

  24. If that wasn't clearly stated, it would be up to a judge to decide.

  25. Re:No problem! on EU Parliament Calls For Longer Lifetime For Products (eubusiness.com) · · Score: 1

    For quite a while it was a "thing." Bad capacitors with water-based electrolyte that shorted out and went with a loud "bang" and released the magic blue smoke. It also affected motherboards. More on the "capacitor plague"