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  1. and how exactly do they pay their rent or mortgage? and why are the trains in NYC packed with people going to work every morning and packed when it's time to go home? and why is car traffic backed up with people driving into business districts every morning and going home every afternoon?

  2. Re:$300 to read books? on Amazon Kindle Oasis With 'Months' of Battery Life, Redesigned Body Launched · · Score: 1

    and if you read on a phone or tablet that's a lot of devices where you are on different pages that need to be sync'd

  3. Re:$300 to read books? on Amazon Kindle Oasis With 'Months' of Battery Life, Redesigned Body Launched · · Score: 1

    still, that's a lot of money just to read a book at the beach or the pool. and then you have to remember to sync it first before you leave the house

  4. why can't it be as big as a hardback? on Amazon Kindle Oasis With 'Months' of Battery Life, Redesigned Body Launched · · Score: 1

    for $300 they should make it like a premium device and have a larger screen as large as a first print hardback book. when i hold up my iphone or galaxy s6 next to a kindle it makes me not want to spend all that money to buy another device to carry around and dig in my bag that only does a single thing

  5. $300 to read books? on Amazon Kindle Oasis With 'Months' of Battery Life, Redesigned Body Launched · · Score: 0

    like i'm going to dump my ipads and phones to buy this

  6. Re:This must be why paternity tests are illegal on Genetic Studies Prove Cuckolded Fathers Are Rare In Human Populations · · Score: 1

    you marry a geeky pushover with good earning potential, but have kids with an alpha male

  7. you want cheap, you get cheap on Surveillance Cameras Sold On Amazon Found Infected With Malware (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    half the crap on amazon isn't sold by amazon but by no name fly by night operations or direct from china. be wary of buying anything on the internet but then this is how name brands got started almost 100 years ago and stupid millenials are figuring it all out again

  8. and we solved global warming on Tiger Numbers Rise For First Time In a Century (nationalgeographic.com) · · Score: 1

    Fuck1ng cold here in the northeast and snowing out west in the USA

  9. Re:Still a better deal than cable on Most Netflix Customers Don't Realize Prices Will Increase Next Month (time.com) · · Score: 0

    are you stupid? every cable TV provider has On Demand as part of the sub and most channels have apps on mobile and streaming boxes that support most providers allowing you to watch a show anytime you want

  10. Re:Apple sold 13 million iPhone 6s/6s+ in 3 days on Tesla Says Model 3 Had 'Biggest One-Week Launch of Any Product Ever' (theverge.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    there are only 15 million cars sold in the USA every year. figure the dozens of models out there and this was a great launch

  11. Re:Where was the hardware made? on The White House Finally Got Color Printers (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 2

    this is probably for non-secure work. the classified gear has it's own separate network and their own standards

  12. Re:Err - no. on Tesla May Need Cash To Deliver On the Model 3, Says Analysts (cnbc.com) · · Score: 2

    building a factory and cars are two different things. they built a factory but they still need to buy the parts and other raw materials to build the cars and pay the daily bills. for this you need cash long before you see the first dollar in revenue of selling a car

  13. Re: How quickly we forget the 90's on Tech Billionaire Mark Cuban Argues Stock Regulators Hurt the Economy (sfgate.com) · · Score: 1

    only the companies that go IPO in the early part of a bull market generally become successful. the ones who go IPO late are generally junk. and most of the IPO's of the late 90's were junk companies with no profits who went belly up or were bought out for a fraction of value. Amazon was an early IPO and still here. Same with Yahoo. can't think of anyone else from the 90's

  14. How quickly we forget the 90's on Tech Billionaire Mark Cuban Argues Stock Regulators Hurt the Economy (sfgate.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    And all the junk ipo's and stocks of the time. Going ipo back then was a way to cash out on junk companies by suckering the idiot peons into giving up their money Just like gambling

  15. more cores = more licenses on Intel Launches Xeon E5 v4 Family of Processors Based On Broadwell-EP (hothardware.com) · · Score: 2

    with everyone going to per core licensing this is just going to be another money pit. we run SQL on 12 cores and don't really need them all. we get more bang from more cache on the CPU than more cores

  16. Re:Finally! on Apple Releases iOS 9.3.1 With Fix For Unresponsive Links · · Score: 1

    just wait until your phone manufacturer has to customize it for their phone and wait on the carriers to approve it. iphone 8 will come out before it happens oh wait...............

  17. Re:Counterfit Sex Toys on Amazon.com Now Bans USB Type-C Cables That Aren't Up To Spec (google.com) · · Score: 1

    shopping on amazon be wary of anything not sold and shipped by amazon itself. all those small sellers are the small businesses like the scam NYC electronics shops you are told to avoid when visiting NYC.

  18. Re:IFTTT... IFTTT... IFTTT... IFTTT... on 'My Heroic and Lazy Stand Against IFTTT' (pinboard.in) · · Score: 1

    it's a website to collect your credentials for everything and for geeks to script out automation for dumb sh1t that if it never happened, no one would have cared anyway

  19. Re:I'm sure... on Volvo Wants You To Ditch Car Keys For Its New Smartphone App (dailydot.com) · · Score: 1

    ha ha in the 80's when the remote unlock systems first came out someone made a box that listened to the easy to crack code and then sent his own unlock code. he sold them via mail order before the internet to car thieves

  20. Re:isn't it time for it to fall apart? on Why BART Is Falling Apart · · Score: 1

    those B-52's are far from originals. new engines, new avionics and most of them had air-frames rebuilt because it was worn out. the only original thing about them is the name and the shape

  21. isn't it time for it to fall apart? on Why BART Is Falling Apart · · Score: 4, Insightful

    it's 40 years old at this point which is about the time that most big transit projects need a lot of money to rebuild and upgrade the system

  22. Re:go see an eye doctor on Ask Slashdot: How Do You Deal With Glare On Cellphones? · · Score: 1

    those $30 reading glasses will most likely have the wrong PD which can screw up your eyesight even more

  23. go get an iphone on Ask Slashdot: How Do You Deal With Glare On Cellphones? · · Score: 1

    it's not great but iphones have better sunlight usage screens i've seen. better than my Galaxy s6 too and better than every other android phone i've used. and turn the brightness all the way up

  24. go see an eye doctor on Ask Slashdot: How Do You Deal With Glare On Cellphones? · · Score: 1

    had this last year really bad and saw one of the sleazy doctors at an eye glass store. he wrote me a weak prescription for reading glasses. i have a $99 set of warby parkers now and the coating on there is pretty good. but this week i'll probably spend $500 or more for nice Alain Mikli glasses with Prevencia anti-glare and blue light coating. just be careful with eyeglass stores. it's like disney world and the doctors are there for sales leads. like on disney rides, you come out into the store and pressured to buy on the spot. research your frames first

  25. Re:Printable instant tickets? on Six Charged For Hacking Lottery Terminals To Spew Only Winning Tickets (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    yes, the obvious strategy is to make people send their $5 to the state lottery and wait 4-6 weeks for their ticket to be mailed back them. that will get people playing.