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  1. Re:Drivers, not gov't are choosing to deny rides. on UberX Runs Into Trouble In Australia With NSW Suspending Vehicle Registration · · Score: 2

    That's still too much for Uber/UberX. Their business model is derived solely from insufficiently insured cars and misclassified workers.

    To services like Uber, a minimal inspection package is still too much. They prefer a special deal that makes them the taxi company.

  2. Re:Of course RMS is against Uber! on UberX Runs Into Trouble In Australia With NSW Suspending Vehicle Registration · · Score: 1

    Then you'll have Apple offering OSberX, where your car has to have a minimum MSRP of $60k and similar requirements of its customers.

  3. Australia has an answer: NO WAY. on UberX Runs Into Trouble In Australia With NSW Suspending Vehicle Registration · · Score: 1
  4. Step 6) Uber/Lyft loses, Government wins. on UberX Runs Into Trouble In Australia With NSW Suspending Vehicle Registration · · Score: 1

    Australia's government would win this one. Combine due process for denying approved services with penalties for not adopting such frameworks, and the service gets dinged twice - once for the service, once for the blacklist.

    That, and one can turn any untraceability against the service - where the enforcement effort yields no information about individual enforcers.

  5. No, they don't. That's the PR talking. on UberX Runs Into Trouble In Australia With NSW Suspending Vehicle Registration · · Score: 1

    Perhaps if you talked to the people that get shortchanged by driving it, you would see the problems that go beyond taxis.

    The Focus Group Minority might like it, but nobody else.

  6. Not w/ substandard service/working conditions on UberX Runs Into Trouble In Australia With NSW Suspending Vehicle Registration · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I have more trust for the government than I have for a benefits-dodger like Uber. The company shows hate by using contractors as a dodge against benefits as well as implying a second-tier status.

    The government responds and answers to me without regard to stock ownership, while Uber responds primarily to some faceless individuals.

  7. Drivers, not gov't are choosing to deny rides. on UberX Runs Into Trouble In Australia With NSW Suspending Vehicle Registration · · Score: 1

    There's nothing stopping them from delivering their services under the safe, legally approved platform. The government is not denying them the ability to offer a ride - the individual is insisting on an illegal, inconsistent, and unsafe choice.

    Those drivers would be able to operate within the bounds of a taxi or livery service, but that would break the Uber business model.

  8. Live by the cloud, die by the cloud. on Apple Admits iCloud Problem Has Killed iOS 9 'App Slicing' · · Score: 2

    Perhaps higher capacity and SD cards aren't a bad idea after all. They don't die if your provider goes south.

  9. Not if you want it made here. on Does It Make Sense To Hand Make Printed Circuit Boards? · · Score: 1

    No thanks, but I'm not handing anything off to China given their predisposition to copy anything you hand them - and make their own knockoff.

  10. It shows, to China's detriment. on Why Hardware Development Takes Longer in the West Than in China (Video) · · Score: 1

    In the case of the US, one ends up with a well-designed product.
    In the case of China, one ends up with a mish-mash of parts.

    The latter might be "quicker", but it also breaks quicker.

  11. The folly of cultivating Diversity Candidates on Girls-Only Computer Camps Formed At Behest of Top Google, Facebook Execs · · Score: 1

    Promoting and developing diversity candidates is how we get disasters like HP.

  12. Consulting with a harasser and doxxer == bad idea. on Ask Slashdot: How Do I Recover From Doxxing? · · Score: 1

    So you're asking them to have Chelsea van Valkenberg, a known and proven harasser, take on the case? You're asking for a wolf to the henhouse.

    If they're not already involved (directly or not), that group will make things worse. One would do better to study the people that have succeeded against them.

  13. Without pliancy, those couldn't exist. on Why Hardware Development Takes Longer in the West Than in China (Video) · · Score: 1

    The only reason China survives is through the pliancy of its labor.

  14. You mean Chelsea van Valkenberg. on Ask Slashdot: How Do I Recover From Doxxing? · · Score: 1

    ...a known harasser of others.

  15. Harassers & doxxers are not good counsel. on Ask Slashdot: How Do I Recover From Doxxing? · · Score: 0

    So you're asking them to have a known harasser, Chelsea van Valkenberg, take on the case?

    If they're not involved (directly or not), that group would make things worse.

  16. SJW trying to do research? on Ask Slashdot: How Do I Recover From Doxxing? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Something doesn't smell right about this. They're asking for advice in a potentially unfriendly forum (read: it doesn't purge material) and may not be fully honest about their intentions.

    If the Anonymous Reader is honest in their intentions for seeking advice, I hope they will understand the reason for suspicion.

  17. If you can't overcome it, bribe the author on Creator of Top iOS Ad Blocker Pulls App After Two Days · · Score: 1

    He got bribed and the only crisis of conscience was whether he should accept the bribe openly or lie about it.

  18. Or just make it a royal PITA to offshore. on HP To Jettison Up To 30,000 Jobs As Part of Spinoff · · Score: 1

    First, repeal the 1965 Immigration Act and subsequent guest worker programs.
    Next, place large penalties on offshoring such that a greater reward comes from a direct-hire, indefinite-term, FTE, majority-US/First World workforce.
    Finally, calculate a penalty that will reward repatriation by making it costlier to keep things offshore. To twist the knife, employ individuals that the private sector has offshored, ignored in hiring, or given involuntary early retirement.

    After that is all done, then they can have their tax cuts.

  19. In other words, the H in HP stands for Hellhole. on HP To Jettison Up To 30,000 Jobs As Part of Spinoff · · Score: 1

    ...outlined a plan under which it is cutting jobs in what he called 'high-cost countries' and moving them to low-cost countries. He said that by the end of HP Enterprise’s fiscal year 2018, only 40 percent of the group’s work force will be located in high-cost countries."

    It's just an easier way to say that they don't like their workers having any freedom.

  20. Straight from WebYoga's site on University Employees Suspended Due To Guest Worker Scandal · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Understanding our clients' strategy, culture and business methodology leads us to fulfill their IT needs with custom and articulated solutions. Our results speak for themselves

    The results indeed do speak for themselves.

    1. Offering excellence in technology solutions, utilizing automation, creativity and innovation to solve client IT issues.

    They were quite creative in H1-b fraud by involving the university.

    2. Providing service to our customers and affiliates, based on the principles of professionalism, integrity and the spirit of partnership.

    ...for varying degrees of integrity.

  21. No, more relevant to NCR than that on 25 Years Ago, a Meeting Spawned Wi-Fi · · Score: 2

    When AT&T bought NCR in the 1990s, they offered to move lots of people over to Atlanta. Since more people accepted than they could hire, that resulted in people moving hundreds of miles to receive a pink slip.

    In 2008-2009, the World Headquarters was moved from Dayton, Ohio to an Atlanta suburb called Duluth - due to political incompetence at the city and state levels in Ohio. NCR did about everything they could to make a case for Dayton, but they couldn't get a response.

    If you want to be politically incorrect, feel free to blame Rhine "but they'll never move!" McLin, part of a Dayton family thriving more on diversity status than competence. Not only did the McLins let 125 years of Fortune 500 history walk out the door, their family blocked economic development in the 1980s and one of them mishandled human remains of over 50 people. Race did not save them from justice, thankfully.

  22. Considering that IBM's origins were from NCR on 25 Years Ago, a Meeting Spawned Wi-Fi · · Score: 1

    NCR was drawn to open standards by years of frustration with IBM's control of computing through its mainframes, Hayes said. Like other vendors at the time, NCR constantly had to adapt its products to work with whatever IBM built. "We were tired of being a follower," he said.

    I'm both surprised and not surprised at hearing this statement. I'm surprised since they have followed IBM's path for hardware design, but not surprised since NCR was ahead of IBM for moving closer to services on commodity hardware (courtesy of AT&T's purchase, evisceration, and spin-off of the company).

  23. Your comment was moved on 25 Years Ago, a Meeting Spawned Wi-Fi · · Score: 2

    Your comment hasn't disappeared, it just got an offer to move to Atlanta.

  24. Citizens would make more, globalist shill. on White House Petition To Let Foreign STEM Grads Work Longer In US Hits 100K Signatures · · Score: 0

    Compared to restricted guest workers, citizens would provide a greater value in those same roles. This would be accomplished with more tax revenue, higher domestic GDP (no remittances to siphon off), and higher labor participation rates - all possible with just US citizens.

  25. Re: ranton the UNAMERICAN on White House Petition To Let Foreign STEM Grads Work Longer In US Hits 100K Signatures · · Score: 1

    They're not helping US citizens, as their primary attraction is their pliancy - something desired by business but not possessed by citizens.

    They largely don't become citizens, nor do they assimilate - they hire only their own.