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  1. If the open paragraph doesn't start with... on Former Slashdot Contributor Jon Katz Believes He Can Talk To Animals (amazon.com) · · Score: 2

    In the post Columbine era .... He used a ghost writer.

  2. Re:Dual processors like this are a bad idea on Samsung Begins Production For Its First Internet of Things-optimised Exynos Processor (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Because the average slashdotter hasn't a clue about how electronics actually work.

  3. Or a picture of the various shelves. Don't over complicate things. It's not that hard.

  4. Excluding all the perfect people on Slashdot, I think you'd be hard pressed to find someone who hasn't had to 'run back to the store' upon finding out they needed something they thought they had in the fridge, or bought something they didn't actually need. Not saying its worth the cost, but the use cases certainly exist.

  5. Re:Not sure I'm sold on them. on McDonald's Hits All-Time High As Wall Street Cheers Replacement of Cashiers With Kiosks (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    When its Siesta time and nobody else is serving or you don't have an hour and a half for lunch and you are starving you don't have much choice at times. And to be honest, Spanish food isn't French food. Not saying it's bad, just doesn't support your if you don't eat it for a month you are some sort of heathen. Oh, and on top of that you need the code on your receipt to get into the bathroom, though most McDs leave theirs unlocked.

  6. Re:Not sure I'm sold on them. on McDonald's Hits All-Time High As Wall Street Cheers Replacement of Cashiers With Kiosks (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Coke actually hired Dean Kamen to work the project, presumably for his experience in the medical medication field, though more so for the publicity. He agreed to do it in exchange for Coke helping support his clean water in Africa initiative.

  7. Not sure I'm sold on them. on McDonald's Hits All-Time High As Wall Street Cheers Replacement of Cashiers With Kiosks (cnbc.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Spent a month in Madrid and they have them there. Unless you eat at McDonalds way too much per person they are definitely a lot slower. However you can easily have 3 times as many as cashiers. The problem I see is similar to if you've ever seen a 65 year old try to use those touch screen Coke fountain drink machines that give you every combination on Earth. Old people won't like them. I also don't know that it eliminates all that many jobs. It seemed to me that they had just as many people, they were just expediting orders. Not saying they won't work, but questioning them being worthy of a stock boost.

  8. So they're still up like 10000% from their original employee.

  9. His point is that the engineering costs will be so low because it'll be sold as single component there will be no reason not to put it in. Of course the same thing was said about RFID 20 years ago and while its certainly used quite a bit, it's hardly taken over the world like it was supposed to. And that's much simpler.

  10. Re:Everyone hates tipping on Uber Finally Adds a Tipping Option To Its App (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    Some places, yes. For a large party the tip is often added to the bill.

  11. Re:Tech employee here on Tim Cook Told Trump Tech Employees Are 'Nervous' About Immigration (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    That's like saying the guy flipping burgers at McDonalds should be making more because he has a pivotal role. The reality is most IT labor is fairly low skill. Obviously not all, the real problem is that anyone who touches a computer calls themselves IT and thinks they are highly skilled and 20 years ago they could get away with demanding a high wage. IT organizations now are a big mess and half of those employed are getting more than they deserve wage wise. Sorry to burst the IT bubble.

  12. Re:Tech employee here on Tim Cook Told Trump Tech Employees Are 'Nervous' About Immigration (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    IT wages are what they should be. The days of getting crazy money because you have rudimentary computer skills are over. However, if we're going to pay low wages, they might as well go to Americans.

  13. Re:Cost Australian Network 'Hundreds of Millions o on Movie Piracy Cost Australian Network 'Hundreds of Millions of Dollars' (theaustralian.com.au) · · Score: 1

    The movie industry shouldn't have to do anything to control the distribution of their own product. Just because you can do something easily doesn't make it morally, or legally right.

  14. Re:Cost Australian Network 'Hundreds of Millions o on Movie Piracy Cost Australian Network 'Hundreds of Millions of Dollars' (theaustralian.com.au) · · Score: 1

    So you're ok with $1M, or $50k, or even $10? Dollar value itself shouldn't matter, assuming its greater than zero.

  15. No on Google AI AlphaGo Wins Again, Leaves Humans In the Dust (cnet.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The real intelligence isn't in the people playing the game, but the people who made the game in the first place. This is why AI is a misnomer here.

  16. Re:equal opportunity homelessness on Amazon To Build Homeless Shelter In Its New Seattle Headquarters (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    This is actually all the more reason to target women and families in an attempt to get them away from the perpetual homelessness which is a much harder issue to tackle. Trying to do everything more often leads to failing at everything.

  17. Oh really. on Hackers Came, But the French Were Prepared (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Had nothing to do with the government threatening French media that covered it with charges. Freedom can be messy.

  18. Re:You don't have to pay per unit royalties sure.. on Startup Offers A Chip Based On The Open Source RISC-V Architecture (computerworld.com.au) · · Score: 2

    If only there was this way to program a gate array in the field.

  19. Ya, get your chainsaw out and start chopping away. I think you are missing the immense size. Even with explosives this would be a daunting not to mention dangerous act.

  20. Re:Haha on FCC Considers Fining Stephen Colbert Over Controversial Trump Joke (rollingstone.com) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I kind of disagree. In his search to find something to paint the worst picture of Trump that he can he chose an act that homosexuals do every day. For that matter, he's actually insulting women who give blow jobs as well because its such a vile act that only Trump would do it.

  21. Not over the joke, over the words he used in it.

  22. Re: It's my house though on Airbnb Gives In To Regulator's Demand To Test For Racial Discrimination By Hosts (theguardian.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    Once you use a listing service that opens it to the public then there are all sorts of rules and laws that follow. Want to keep your rules? Don't use a listing service. Rent only using word of mouth to people you know. Rent to whomever you want, but don't advertise it to people you have no intention of renting to. That is what is illegal.

  23. If you can't play by the rules, get out of the business. You can still rent to whomever you want, just don't advertise your place to the public. Can still be a bigot, I have no problem with that, but you can't take advantage of a system designed to be fair to all to do it.

  24. Re:Sounds like an illegal law on Uber Face Fines Over Drunk Driving Complaints -- And Lost $2.8 Billion Last Year (usnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Courts often strike down laws as illegal/unconstitutional. It's one of their primary jobs.

  25. Cost cutting on Spotify Executive Chris Bevington Dies In Stockholm Attack (variety.com) · · Score: 0

    That really makes a difference..