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  1. Re:You people are really dumb on Are Widescreen Laptops Dumb? (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Damn, lazlo beat me to it and right before my post too.

  2. You people are really dumb on Are Widescreen Laptops Dumb? (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Just put your laptop sideways and BOOM! You have a 9:16 display that's a much better fit for websites.

  3. I was referring to the pack balancing circuitry. Why would that be useless on a bicycle?

  4. That's what I've been doing. I got scripts all over the planet mining Bitcoins since 1988.

  5. I'd like to see the results of Tesla's amazing battery tech on electric bicycles.

  6. Re:Who knew on Lycos Finally Discontinues Its Free Email Service (lycos.com) · · Score: 2

    2800bps? Surely you meant 2400bps or 28.8kbps?

  7. Re:Crimes against humanity on Doctors Tried To Lower $148K Cancer Drug Cost; Makers Tripled Its Price (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Its manufacturer, Janssen and Pharmacyclics, has decided on the basis of the doctors' interest in smaller dosages to reprice all sizes of the drug to the price of the largest size.

    The company made all doses the same price. You can buy the four times stronger pills, cut them in four parts and save yourself 75%.

  8. Re:Just because you can doesn't mean you should. on Doctors Tried To Lower $148K Cancer Drug Cost; Makers Tripled Its Price (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Some markets should not be driven by shareholders. This is one area where government spending would benefit everyone.

  9. Re:Even if we agreed we wanted it on Kurzweil Predicts Universal Basic Incomes Worldwide Within 20 Years (hackernoon.com) · · Score: 1

    Then some clown (probably Steve Urkel) would somehow get elected and unexpectedly negotiate a peace with the robots.

    And once the robots uprising starts, president Urkel will appear on TV to say "Did I do that?".

  10. Re:Why does it need to be carrier based? on Google Is 'Pausing' Work On Allo In Favor 'Chat,' An RCS-Based Messaging Standard (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Even if Facebook, Google, Apple, and Microsoft are the enemies of standards as you say, it doesn't matter since that's what people are using. Either we can demand and force them to use XMPP or something similar and open, or you can try forcing everyone to stop using Facebook, macOS, iOS and Windows. Hint: this will never happen.

  11. Re:Ripe for disruption on Demand For Batteries Is Shrinking, Yet Prices Keep On Going and Going ... Up (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    I believe it has three. The main battery, the primary backup and the secondary backup.

    "Starfleet code requires a secondary backup, in case the first one fails." - Chief O'Brien

  12. I think he has bullet points.

  13. Yeah... you're speaking like a Texan now, not a Canadian.

  14. Because they've been rejected and they want to be able to come back and tell the academy awards to suck it.

  15. Next headline will be "Netflix buys Futurama" on Netflix Could Start Buying Movie Theaters to Help Films Gain a Boost in Oscar Race, Report Says (indiewire.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    The Academy Awards: You can't enter your movies for nomination since they're not shown in theatres.
    Netflix: Yeah, well... We're gonna go build our own theatres, with blackjack and hookers.

  16. I actually do like my Canadian coworkers and their culture. Summers up there are awesome.

    Yeah, those 19 days of the year are the best, aren't they?

  17. It's not like Walmart would give the hundred thousand employees making $11 a raise so that 5 people at the top can make more earned income.

    That's what's happening right now. If there was a cap, let's say "those at the top cannot make more than 10 or 100 times the amount of the lowest-paid employee" they'd have to pay their employees more, invest in the company (there's still a limit on what you can invest in, look at Apple, Google and others piling up the cash) or pay it all to the government. In turn, the money collected this way by the government would be reserved to fund start-ups, etc. So if you don't pay your employees, you're funding your next competitors.

  18. You may be a Terran but I'm a Protoss.

  19. I live in America, yet I'm not American. I'm Canadian! Get your own name for your own citizens, U.S.A.!

  20. I never encounter websites that use Flash anymore, haven't for years. So it's in the past for me.

  21. That's nothing on The Higher Your Salary, the More Time Your Employer Will Pay You Not To Work (qz.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    I'm in Canada and I get 365 days off per year!

    Oh wait, I'm homeless...

  22. Flash also has big performance issues. It only ever worked well on Windows systems.

    As for HTML5 having performance issues, I've played 3D games that run fine on my now-8-years-old Mac mini (Core 2 Duo, nVidia 320m) so you must have a really weak computer.

  23. Re:Random on Finland Is Killing Its Basic Income Experiment (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 1

    From what I understand, it wasn't really UBI. So you're trying to apply a selection process logic to a trial that wasn't even UBI in the first place.

  24. Re:Duh? on Finland Is Killing Its Basic Income Experiment (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The real problem is that some people get way too much money for the same amount of work as most people. I'm not advocating the same hourly rate for everyone, but clearly some kinds of limits would be beneficial for society as a whole. If the basic hourly rate is $10 per hour, maybe we should have a ceiling of $100 per hour for top jobs.

  25. For most of the Slashdot readers, no internet is as bad as no electricity.