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  1. unless you are also introducing a huge UBI I think most of those residents will be pissed off at being unemployed.

  2. Considering checkpoint has instructions at the bottom of the article for uninstall from MacOS and they state clearly it has multiple packaging methods I would say you simply didn't actually read the checkpoint report.

  3. yes an by making that travel overly complex with excessively onerous requirements it has economic knockon effects to tourism, business and diplomatic relations. For a president supposedly focused on jobs this is a very anti jobs approach.

  4. Re:HTTPS does not hide a URL on Wikipedia's Switch To HTTPS Has Successfully Fought Government Censorship (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    please go and learn how SSL works before posting garbage. The URL is NOT visible, only the host name and IP address is. The url is sent as a GET after the HTTPS tunnel is established and hence is encrypted so unless they are either spying on your desktop or man in the middling your connection they cannot see what you are accessing, only that you are visiting wikipedia

  5. shock horror on India's Ethical Hackers Rewarded Abroad, Ignored at Home (yahoo.com) · · Score: 1

    amazing, companies don't thank criminals for criminal acts, will wonders never cease. FYI they are NOT ethical hackers when hacking a site without permission.

  6. Delusional on Wikipedia's Switch To HTTPS Has Successfully Fought Government Censorship (vice.com) · · Score: 5, Interesting

    It is completely delusional to think this effectively prevents government censorship as if they can't selectively block content they simply take the sledgehammer approach and ban the site altogether.

  7. Re:Won't stop the offshoring on UK Tech Visas Quadruple After Applications Soar (telegraph.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    you do realise even as a Tax Write off it STILL costs them and the shareholders a shit load of money. A Tax write off means you made a loss and the part written off amounts to only the tax you would have paid (i.e. less than half the amount).

  8. the point is that millennials have there priorities totally out of fucking whack, they will go out several times a week, buy breakfast, lunch and coffee's from Cafe's and have the latest iPhone and holidays all the while bitching about how unfair it is that they can't afford a house.

  9. Personally I would say the opposite. You don't encourage children to excel and improve by handing them something on a platter, you instill good practises like working hard, saving, good money management etc. My parents were very successful, they gave me nothing to start off with except a good impression of what dedication, hardwork and good money practises can provide. I had my first house by age 24, I do the same for my children.

  10. US censorship? on FCC Won't Punish Stephen Colbert For Controversial Trump Insult (slashdot.org) · · Score: 0

    Is US censorship really that bad? I know it is harsher than most of the world where such a statement would not even need to be bleeped out, but seriously you get complaints that are seriously considered even after something has been censored already?

  11. Re:Don't blame me. I voted for Johnson/Weld on Justice Department Appoints Former FBI Director Robert Mueller As Special Counsel For Russia Investigation (thehill.com) · · Score: 1

    Pence I think may well go down with Trump if the worst case happens for Trump. yes Pence could be even worse policy wise (as hard as that is to imagine), but I can't see him surviving a Trump downfall at this point or any of the flunky's that Trump brought with him. Basically they will need to "drain the swamp" of any stench of Trump.

  12. Considering he was explicitly talking about the value of multi core PHYSICAL CPU's I stand by my comment of him talking out his arse. As you mentioned almost no one buys CPU's for servers these days with only 4 cores in any serious businesses or enterprises.

  13. I hear that most servers only user 4-core CPUs and don't need more than that, so I guess EPYC will be a niche use-case.

    Bullshit, such a huge portion of hardware now runs a virtualisation layer and that makes use of whatever you can throw at it.

  14. Re:They should either ban digital or get over it on Going After Netflix, Cannes Bans Streaming-Only Movies From Competition Slots (slate.com) · · Score: 1

    movies stopped being shot on film long ago. regardless this is a lot like the rest of the movie industry where they stick there head in the sand and pretend the world isn't going to move forward as long as they don't want it to.

  15. Re:DRM-free, spy-free Windows? on Ask Slashdot: Is ReactOS A Serious Alternative To Windows? (reactos.org) · · Score: 1

    If they want Safe and stable they certainly WON'T be using ReactOS or Wine!

  16. Re:I smell BS on Apple Pledges $1 Billion Toward Creating Manufacturing Jobs In US (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    So basically a pack of lies and gross exaggerations

  17. Re:I smell BS on Apple Pledges $1 Billion Toward Creating Manufacturing Jobs In US (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    directly or indirectly he is completely full of shit claiming such numbers.

  18. I smell BS on Apple Pledges $1 Billion Toward Creating Manufacturing Jobs In US (cnbc.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    2 million jobs? So apple is claiming to be responsible for almost 1.5% of US employment? sounds like bullshit marketing speak to me

  19. Re:hold off or went elsewhere? on Apple Q2 Earnings: iPhone Sales Fall Flat (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Apart from apps, most people only really buy from the iTunes store which surprise surprise is actually available across platforms. photos and videos tend to be relatively small amount stored in icloud as apple have onerous size restrictions unless you pay them a fortune. So really it is only the apps that is likely to stop most and most of them are available in both android and apple.

  20. hold off or went elsewhere? on Apple Q2 Earnings: iPhone Sales Fall Flat (reuters.com) · · Score: 2

    did customers really hold off or did they go elsewhere? I know quite a few apple phone fans and none of them ever hold off, I also know quite a few disillusioned former fans.

  21. Re:It's already happening... on VC Founder Predicts AI Will Take 50% Of All Human Jobs Within 10 Years (cnbc.com) · · Score: 0

    and instead you now have thousands of jobs maintaining and building those robots. jobs are evolving, robots are better at repetitive/dangerous/mundane tasks.

  22. Re:And HSBC is a honest broker here on Most Millennials Have an Unrealistic View of Their Retirement Prospects, Analysts Say (hsbc.com) · · Score: 1

    except if you were lucky enough to be in on the huge surge post 2008 and got out before the subsequent crash gold really doesn't have a good return at all. e.g. current prices are only 3 times what they were 3 decades ago. That is only around 4% return per annum, for such a long term investment that is mediocre at best. Gold is considered the safe, low risk.low return option

  23. depends on quality of inputs on Ask Slashdot: Are Accurate Software Development Time Predictions a Myth? (medium.com) · · Score: 2

    Quality of prediction comes down to quality of the information fed into making the prediction. Given all information up front with good BA work up front and requirements and scope that don't change I can generally provide good predictions that are close or that even come in under budget for our projects (good predictions always have some buffer built in for staff and technical problems).

  24. Re: So move to Chicago. on Gamers in Hawaii Can't Compete... Because of Latency (theoutline.com) · · Score: 1

    Australians would love to play local servers fuckstick. sadly the Australian market is generally not considered large enough to justify local servers for most popular online games.

  25. Re: Irrelevant Studies on Subway Sues Canada Network Over Claim Its Chicken Is 50 Percent Soy (yahoo.com) · · Score: 1

    lied/mislead or implied. Any of those will see them up shit creek, seems given the statements from the first story unless the food labs are all wrong and these wildlife labs do better food analysis then they are well and truly up shit creek.