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  1. Re:loyalty on The Long, Long History of Long, Long CVS Receipts (vox.com) · · Score: 1

    Way to stick it to the man. Show the cashier you don't go for that corporate bullshit. I'm sure it will roll uphill.

  2. We've got Indian Giver, N*gg*rd, Jewed, Gypt... what slur can Apple use on their internal reports to describe this behavior by the Chinese? May I suggest: "We got 'chinked' out of billions".

  3. With great power... on New App Lets You 'Sue Anyone By Pressing a Button' (vice.com) · · Score: 2

    So, do you just start the app, point it at someone and push?

  4. White men should rape more than any demographic, because they are the majority demographic. However, do the math per population and you'll find that Mexicans rape the most followed closely by blacks per capita. In fact, blacks likely rape the same as mexicans because clearance rates for rape in majority black cities is below 20% while nationally the clearance rate is much higher. There's your lesson in stats for the day, but hey, don't let that get in the way of your outrage followed by that homo fantasy you ended with.

  5. Vomit Bags on Alaska Airlines Trials Virtual Reality On Some Flights (pcmag.com) · · Score: 1

    You know those unused vomit bags next to the SkyMall magazine? They're about to see if they can handle airport food at high velocity.

  6. Re:Just go 5th Element, knock us out on Alaska Airlines Trials Virtual Reality On Some Flights (pcmag.com) · · Score: 1

    Sure, and the anesthesiologist will cost more per hour than the pilot making the costs go way up

  7. The real root of the parents complaint is the lack of individual situational data into the algorithm. Plug that data into the system, and the results would not be as dramatic, but I guarantee they'd still pay for the project itself multiple times over.

    I wonder why they overlooked the individuals as components of the algorithm versus just scheduling the bus. It's like they were programming a motherboard bus where people are 1s and 0s instead of dealing with complex human individuals.

    Here's a good exercise for them to remember to think of people:

    Create a program to determine where an office full of 15 people can eat lunch on Fridays. Take into consideration, work schedules, personal restaraunt preferences, food preferences, allergies, location of eatery, menu options, service level, eatery reviews, avoid repetition, transportation, weather, traffic, eatery wait times, busyness by hour, price.

    Humans negotiate a lot of that in a conversation and usually with a larger group, there's some sacrifices that need to be made. A program should be able to do this, and MIT should have done something like this before attempting the schoolbus problem.

  8. Re:Let's hope it's nothing like what Nintendo did on Sony Announces PlayStation Classic, a $100 Mini PS1 (polygon.com) · · Score: 1

    Oh, there will be mass hysteria given that they're launching it in the first part of December. (That seems insane to me). A business-minded person would create a tuned small emulator system that is a little more in price but is actually available with 4x the games. I'm a business-minded person.

  9. It's a tool... on Does LinkedIn Suck? (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    LinkedIn is a professional tool that can be used correctly to your benefit. I have a hyper-focused field I'm in, and I've personally make a few hundred thousand off of it, so here are my tips:

    Don't accept high school contacts. If you are now in a hyper-focused field like "Freelancer with 10 years experience in medical coding software", then don't accept contacts that aren't in your field (like contacts from your first general programming jobs). If you freelance and have clients listed as jobs in your job history, don't accept just any rando who has worked at the same company unless you know them or would benefit from knowing them.

    If you want to be aggressive, find the companies you want to contract with or work for, send a linkedIn invite with a personal message to the person in your field. Some will respond immediately, some will take a month, and some will ignore it. I've had good luck with only getting about 15% ignores.

    Occasionally 'like' articles that are interesting and pertain to some new development in your field. Not necessary, but it will show in people's feed who glance at LinkedIn.

    Include a good level of detail at each relevant company you've worked for. I like to know who is browsing past my profile, so I pay $30 a year to see who is coming by. I occasionally find a reason to reach out to some of these people if they're relevant. Compared to my revenue, the $30 is a no-brainer.

  10. Are they trying to get the backing of religious groups? Why the hell would they name it that? Why not DNA Vault or something like the 'Global Seed Vault'

  11. Bye on Theranos To Close Shop (cbsnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Bye bitch, have fun in your next scam.

  12. Re:Cameras are racist dependent on altitude? on Some Baltimore Residents Are Lobbying To Bring Back Aerial Surveillance (theoutline.com) · · Score: 1

    Right. From the air, they can argue they dindunuffin.

  13. Baltimore is not suffering from crime - which is an abstract concept. Baltimore is suffering from black people.

  14. My news feed is Google-driven and every single day includes negative Trump news right at the top in the 'Headlines' section. There is absolutely an anti-Trump slant to the major media outlets (Fox excluded). The media money is overwhelmingly producing anti-Trump material, so that's what Google indexes. However, I don't believe Google is as impartial as they claim. James Damore's saga illuminated the internals of Google politics. Google is bearing partial responsibility for Trump. This is why they started their fake news initiative.

  15. Obvious on Evidence is Piling Up That Facebook Can Incite Racial Violence (technologyreview.com) · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    So, when a place is getting overrun by illegal invaders who skipped over thousands of miles of viable lands in order to leech off of your resources and bring their broken culture with them, you don't expect people to talk about it with each other? You don't expect people to get angry? People's culture... their core sovereign tribal identity is being attacked by leeching illegal invaders. Their reaction is natural and is rooted in millions of years of tribal identity to the point where it's literally encoded into everyone's DNA pairs that affect social behavior: tribes are good, outsiders are bad. Borders mean something. Culture means something. I hope that being hostile to the invaders deters more from coming to Germany. I rather like the place. Hopefully they'll pick other ground to bring their broken civilization to. The Russian Steppes are a nice open place to put them.

  16. China already has this, Mr. 'I speak mandarin' Zuckerberg. It's called the Social Credit System: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.... Just wait until government agencies start asking for this info.

  17. News for Commuting Nerds? on After 60 Years, 1,900-Mile-Long Interstate 95 Is Almost Finished (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I don't know why this is on Slashdot

  18. I can't believe on Netflix Deletes All User Reviews (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    Most of the reviews were like this: "I can't believe they paid that fat cow Amy Schumer real money to stand up in an outfit made of electrical tape to talk about her nasty vagina for 2 hours."

  19. Confused on AWS Error Exposed GoDaddy Business Secrets (zdnet.com) · · Score: 5, Funny

    I'm confused should this information should have been kept confidential? I wish the summary would clarify that

  20. This is the bigger threat as those receivers are fully metal and made for repeated use. Not this plastic thing you make as a proof of concept.

  21. A chink in the armor

  22. Re:What Happens When 3D Printers Get Better??? on DOJ Reaches Settlement On Publication of Files About 3D Printed Firearms (joshblackman.com) · · Score: 1

    You're not familiar with the unmilled metal lower receiver you can buy then. You can get that piece then a machine to finish drilling it out and you've got a non-serialized, non-registered, legal, lower receiver. This plastic crap was just a concept idea. The real loophole is with the unfinished receivers.

  23. Dead, not Deactivated on PayPal Told Customer Her Death Breached Its Rules (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    The person was only dead, but that's just a status for their estate. The only technicality here is that after the status of death has been reached, the template should have been amended to address the 'Estate of Lindsay Durdle' instead of Lindsay Durdle. They do have the right to collect the money. Probate courts handle this sort of sorting.

  24. I wonder what effect all that black on white porn viewing is going to have

  25. Outrage on 'Plugspreading' is an Abomination (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    This is outrage for outrage's sake. This is Dalsim-level reaching for article content. This isn't a problem, move along.