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  1. That's 100000+ traitors. on White House Petition To Let Foreign STEM Grads Work Longer In US Hits 100K Signatures · · Score: 1

    Given the abuse of every guest worker program, those are 100000+ individuals that oppose the millions of citizens passed up for work - for being a US citizen!

    At best, every body shop staffing firm is having their workers stuff the ballot.

  2. It works out that way more than you think on Software Is Hiring, But Manufacturing Is Bleeding · · Score: 1

    The main point still stands - contracting is used as a dodge to benefits or legal requirements.

    Any pretense of "flexibility" is almost always in the favor of the agency and client, while the talent is viewed as a problem.

  3. Incomplete Measurement of Freedom on Software Is Hiring, But Manufacturing Is Bleeding · · Score: 1

    The attempts to measure "economic freedom" reward despotic countries that have low transactional friction.

    Whether it is Heritage, Mercatus, or another favorite anti-American measurement du jour, they ignore any freedom that does not contribute to a economic transaction.

  4. So Google donates 1 million Euros for terrorists? on Google Donates €1 Million To Help Refugees In Need · · Score: 1

    The reality is that they're donating 1 millions towards non-assimilating criminals and terrorists that will chain-migrate their families over.

  5. When SJW diversity trumps competency... on Bugzilla Breached, Private Vulnerability Data Stolen · · Score: 1

    ...this kind of thing will happen. Hopefully they're competent enough to fix it.

  6. I'd worry about the car, not the driver... on Toyota To Spend $50 Million On Self-Driving Car Tech · · Score: 1

    I'd be worried more about the car itself being a Chinese knockoff and how it managed to get registered and insured for use in the United States.

  7. Toyota. Going places unexpected, like brick walls! on Toyota To Spend $50 Million On Self-Driving Car Tech · · Score: 1

    At least this time, they'll have a lot harder time paying off people when the programming flings the car into an accident.

  8. They're not meant to make cheap chips. on Cheap Smartphones Quietly Becoming Popular In the US · · Score: 1

    N/T

  9. Not as long as MTK powers them. on Cheap Smartphones Quietly Becoming Popular In the US · · Score: 1

    Instead of going with a designed-cheap phone, better to go with a last-generation model - as it will suffer less from corner-cutting.

  10. Re:3D... on Sony Unveils Smartphone With 4K Screen · · Score: 1

    It would be one of the few good cases not to "release the Kraken".

  11. Why am I not surprised? on 20+ Chinese Android Smartphones Models Come With Pre-Installed Malware · · Score: 1

    Huawei G510, Lenovo S860

    The former has government experience to do it in-house (especially with their targeting of Nortel), the latter has been caught on accident.

  12. Re:3D... on Sony Unveils Smartphone With 4K Screen · · Score: 1

    " Anyone else read that as "why people dont like tentacular 3D"

    Sounds like it'd be popular in the Japanese home market.

  13. Re:[citation needed] or you're shilling. on T-Mobile Starts Going After Heavy Users of Tethered Data · · Score: 1

    Yes.

    834.5 KB/s if sustained over a 30.5 day average month, +/- 14 KB/s.

    That presumes that the device is able to:
    * overcome environmental issues that would affect its operation
    * maintain connectivity long enough to keep up with that standard
    * does not run into technical issues related to extended throughput via tethered devices.

    ...at the very least.

  14. Re:[citation needed] or you're shilling. on T-Mobile Starts Going After Heavy Users of Tethered Data · · Score: 1

    He can get them, but we're supposed to take them at face value.

  15. Use something more original than Sprint's excuse on T-Mobile Starts Going After Heavy Users of Tethered Data · · Score: 1

    So data is not simply data, and magically transformed just for going on the wrong interface? Sounds like that could get some carrier in hot water.

  16. [citation needed] or you're shilling. on T-Mobile Starts Going After Heavy Users of Tethered Data · · Score: 1

    That requires a lot of variables to be right (device condition, throughput, network conditions, geography, etc.) that do not always present themselves.

    Without knowing the answers to those variables, Legere is lying about the 2TB figure.

  17. Re:ITT: Tons of carrier shills. on T-Mobile Starts Going After Heavy Users of Tethered Data · · Score: 1

    The most typical reply is to justify it on the same reasoning of Sprint, Verizon, and AT&T - that it is "different" data, even if it involves the same device.

    Hopefully Net Neutrality shoots this one down.

  18. A big [citation needed] for Legere. on T-Mobile Starts Going After Heavy Users of Tethered Data · · Score: 1

    The 2TB mark is very hard to believe, since it requires an minimum sustained throughput of 834.5 KB/s for an average month of 30.5 days, to the device itself.

    I sure would like to know what kind of device T-Mobile found that was delivering that absurd throughput. That sounds like a testament to the quality of the phone since it's taking unrealistic loads.

  19. The familiar, fallacious bromide. on T-Mobile Starts Going After Heavy Users of Tethered Data · · Score: 0

    That presumes service exists with meaningfully different terms.

  20. ITT: Tons of carrier shills. on T-Mobile Starts Going After Heavy Users of Tethered Data · · Score: 1

    Wow, it looks like a lot of folks descended on this thread just to attack unlimited data or tethering.

  21. Re:Terms of Service Matter on T-Mobile Starts Going After Heavy Users of Tethered Data · · Score: 1

    Easy way to top 7GB on a phone - do a Navigon install for the US and Canada.

  22. The royal 'we'? Sounds like carrier shill. on T-Mobile Starts Going After Heavy Users of Tethered Data · · Score: 1

    Your desire to meter harkens back to the bad old days of the 80s and 90s. Thankfully, Net Neutrality makes it infeasible since one cannot readily exempt traffic to recreate CompuServe-era conditions.

    Let it die or metering will find itself at the wrong end of regulation.

  23. Re:Your faith in sports terms is misguided. on Robots Are Coming For Our Jobs, Just Not All of Them · · Score: 1

    There's already plenty of hostility towards business in the US whether there is reason for it or not.

    Their adversarial attitude they regained in the 1980s, with respect to the workforce and other non-business entities, is the source of such hostility.

    And how does one kill a business when the business has no presence in the countries where one wants to do the killing.

    The US has more than a few allies that are happy to help. Case in point, Huawei - a CPC-run "company" built from stolen parts of Canada's Nortel - has a restricted presence in the US and Australia for matters of national security.

  24. Re:I would laugh but that's too much effort on Comcast Planning Gigabit Cable For Entire US In 2-3 Years · · Score: 1

    Today's premium products are tomorrow's commodities.

    Except that the commodities are lower quality.

  25. Really? Without caps of any sort? on Comcast Planning Gigabit Cable For Entire US In 2-3 Years · · Score: 1

    When they can figure out how to roll it all out on a no-cap model for the same prices, then I might be interested.