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  1. You'll be disappointed that Jack and Jill probably isn't in Sandler's 5 worst movies. Jim Carrey made $20 million on Cable Guy and $400k on Ace Ventura. Ace Ventura considered much more successful. But if you think pay matches the end result, you don't get how things work. Other than factory work, there's very little that a person's character doesn't influence the quality of work output. One side wants to pay the least to get the talent they want. The agent for the talent negotiates based on previous experience to get the most it can get. Art is fucking subjective. What some people pay millions for wouldn't be worth toilet paper to others. It's the same thing in any job that isn't identical. Also, getting paid the same as someone who does an inferior job is hard on job satisfaction. You need pay imbalance to reflect better talent. Being forced to be paid ONLY because of gender is sexism.

  2. Now that is poor.

  3. You misunderstand. Nowhere did they say they can't do it. They said it takes time and money and won't do it.

  4. Re: I thought this died in the wind on Devuan Jessie 1.0 Officially Released (softpedia.com) · · Score: 1

    If you run into this again, see what "systemctl status -l mongod" says. That's what I run first and most cases I'd see a similar one-liner to figure out my error.

  5. Re: In the Windows XP era... on In a Throwback To the '90s, NTFS Bug Lets Anyone Hang Or Crash Windows 7, 8.1 (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Lay off the pipe.

  6. Re: Hey, you! on Apple's Jonathan Ive Says Immigration Vital For UK Firms (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Then you're a complete asshole for replying. Fucking useless.

  7. Re: Because... on Apple's Jonathan Ive Says Immigration Vital For UK Firms (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Elderly care is fucking expensive and a decent chunk of any budget. That 65 year old didn't pay taxes for 45 years to pay for it.

  8. So close. Make friends with commas.

  9. Re: Huh, someone was paying attention to Firewire on Intel Drops Thunderbolt 3 Royalty, Adds CPU Integration and Works Closely With Microsoft (windowscentral.com) · · Score: 1

    This is their new tax loophole.

  10. Re: Patch was already released... on Newly Discovered Vulnerability Raises Fears Of Another WannaCry (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    What is a normal update in linux? I've had to manually configure yum-cron on all my boxes. Then I need to check logwatch reports for which yum-cron ran out of memory and needs reboot. That being said, none of my boxes had Port 445 open.

  11. Re: 100,000 computers on Newly Discovered Vulnerability Raises Fears Of Another WannaCry (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    The irony of calling someone stupid while making a stupid error.

  12. Re: Not an error. A lie. on President Trump's Budget Includes a $2 Trillion Math Error (time.com) · · Score: 1

    Wow. I wish /. would add a "no credibility" option instead of friend and foe.

  13. Re: Not an error. A lie. on President Trump's Budget Includes a $2 Trillion Math Error (time.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm waiting to find out what the penalty for misappropriation of charity funds used for personal use will be. I can see a tax auditor skimming things and glossing over a lot of stuff, but when there's photos of art showing it wasn't used as reported, the auditors have a lot more to investigate.

  14. Re: Not an error. A lie. on President Trump's Budget Includes a $2 Trillion Math Error (time.com) · · Score: 1

    Ugh, Trump talks of conspiracy, Cheney outright fabricated one that led to war. Trump would be prevented from going that far down the rabbit hole.

  15. Re: Not an error. A lie. on President Trump's Budget Includes a $2 Trillion Math Error (time.com) · · Score: 1

    That's what your mom said when you were born.

  16. Re: Shouldn't be punishable anyway on FCC Won't Punish Stephen Colbert For Controversial Trump Insult (slashdot.org) · · Score: 1

    When you begin to defend Hitler, you should probably take a step back and take a moment to actually think instead of mouth diarrhiea.

  17. Border intersection? Wtf. Did you mean border crossing?

  18. Re: Withings on Nokia Uses Lawsuit To Make Apple Its Friend (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    I know this is /., but for fuck sakes, it's in the last paragraph of tfs.

  19. Re: Mostly Javascript for US Government Web Apps on Why The US Government Open Sources Its Code (opensource.com) · · Score: 1

    I don't quite know that to be 100%. I've heard a contract payment requirement was to deliver X working demos, source code not specified to me. Note, I'm not privy to contracts... In PowerPoint slides, I see the blocks the company is contributing to a multiple contractor project as 'company owned' and similar with the other contractor IP. If we need other contractor code, we have to work that out, we can't just say, "government owns it so you gotta share it". Since the company was brought on to do similar as a previous project, it makes sense to rehire the ones with previous experience. I'm not aware of the previous project's source code being made available to competitors bidding on the work. None of the copyrights in source file ever mentions the government. I'd say the rules vary for different programs and security clearance level.

  20. Re: For how much longer though? on Why The US Government Open Sources Its Code (opensource.com) · · Score: 0

    There is zero evidence to back that joke up. Anecdotally, I've never seen a Trump tweet without a grade school type error. He makes words up!

  21. For ptp links, Wimax doesn't make sense. For long distance, Wimax in theory is better than WiFi as it's more efficient. WiFi would increase overhead due to more client collisions, whereas in Wimax there would be minimal collisions. Problem is, Wimax needs dedicated spectrum and gets killed if used on WiFi bands.

  22. Re: Not a good Neighbour on Soon You'll Be Able To Build Your Own 4G Network Over Wi-Fi Frequencies (hpe.com) · · Score: 1

    You don't know what the fuck you are talking about. WiFi is like a hub, not Ethernet switch. Going to dual AP on two frequencies would be the Ethernet switch equivalent. A switch with 4 ports could have two independent, simultaneous conversations between 4 parties. Single AP WiFi cannot. Minimizing hidden node problem is as simple as using RTS/CTS at trade off of increased overhead. 11ac wave2 is a better step than LTE.

  23. Re: Not a good Neighbour on Soon You'll Be Able To Build Your Own 4G Network Over Wi-Fi Frequencies (hpe.com) · · Score: 1

    You don't know what the fuck you are talking about. In WiFi, it's listen before talking, so you talk when someone else isn't. This is sharing the spectrum. The more an AP is active, the less available talk time for everyone. You have issues with noise and retries due to hidden node, where a client doesn't know another client is transmitting. Plugging in an AP on the same channel but not actively used would impact very little (a few microseconds every ~100ms). Plugging in an LTE bae station on same frequency without any users would have much more nasty effect. LTE uses 100% of airtime, splitting up downstream and upstream transmission slots. It's efficiency comes from scheduling ahead of time when all the clients can transmit. It doesn't handle ACKS (ARQ) the same as WiFi. You are confused.

  24. Re: Not a good Neighbour on Soon You'll Be Able To Build Your Own 4G Network Over Wi-Fi Frequencies (hpe.com) · · Score: 1

    English, please.

  25. An LTE base station has WAY better transmitter and receiver than the clients. They also use high gain antennas. We're talking multiple watts vs the clients.