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  1. Re:Easy Guaranteed Returns are why I Use Amazon on Amazon's New Refunds Policy Will 'Crush' Small Businesses, Outraged Sellers Say (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    I live in an apartment complex and I've seen packages sit on doorsteps for afew days without anyone bothering them. Despite the fact that they could be dropped off at the main office.
    However, I'm in a relatively affluent area. I think the density of the complex discourages that sort of theft because there are always at least two or three different apartments (at a minimum) that could see you.

  2. Re:Not a tablet? on Facebook Is Working On a Video Chat Device (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 2

    https://www.amazon.com/dp/B008...

    Although it might fail on the "not attractive to toddlers" front.

  3. Re:misleading headline on Seed Funding Slows in Silicon Valley (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Good points, wish I had some mod points.

  4. Re:Look outside of Silicon Valley. on Seed Funding Slows in Silicon Valley (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Yeah, but the climate didn't change over night. It's always had a desirable reason to exist. Compare that to say, Indianapolis. What's the reason for people to settle there if the city didn't exist?

  5. Re:Look outside of Silicon Valley. on Seed Funding Slows in Silicon Valley (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    So while technology is hot again, it is far more reserved, and will not classify a pet food store as a tech company because it sells its product on the internet at a loss.

    I'm not so sure about that...

  6. Re:why was SMB1 still enabled 20 years later? on Microsoft Won't Patch 20-Yr-Old SMBv1 Vulnerability (You Should Just Turn the Service Off) (onmsft.com) · · Score: 1

    What's the app?

  7. Re:then dont' make it public on LinkedIn Says It's Illegal To Scrape Its Website Without Permission (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Have you seen google's "snippets" they do scrape content from sites, sometimes alot.

  8. Our youthful population is part of what made America Great. You would have us stagnate and let the other countries that want to have children take over.

  9. Wow, you've managed to NIMBY poor people.

  10. Re: Lousy advice! on The Quitting Economy (aeon.co) · · Score: 1

    Well, my other merger wasn't EDS to HP, but everyone said this one was shaping up the same.

  11. What if you exclude churches?

  12. Re:iPod touch is very close to iPhone on Apple Discontinues iPod Nano and iPod Shuffle (macrumors.com) · · Score: 1
  13. Re:Lousy advice! on The Quitting Economy (aeon.co) · · Score: 1

    I'd love to stay at one company, even with low pay raises I would consider it since I'm nearing the top of my pay range. Unfortunately, the companies keep screwing me. I got caught up in the HPE => DXC spinoff and the resulting (0 notice) benefits change yanked about 10% of my salary. I had to dump benefits and cut back 401k, FSA, etc. to keep enough paycheck to pay my bills.

    This is the 2nd merger I'd been a part of, both with similar results. The company with worse policies seems to take over everything.

    Anyways, I'm gone now, moved on to greener pastures with about 15% more pay. I would have happily stayed there another 3 or 4 years.

  14. Re: Truth on The Quitting Economy (aeon.co) · · Score: 1

    +1 would enjoy schadenfreude again.

  15. Re:Want my business? Give me ad-free a-la-cart sho on AT&T Loses Record Number of Traditional TV Subscribers In Q2, Drops 156,000 DirecTV Satellite Customers (variety.com) · · Score: 1

    I have cable television, just dumped AT&T and went back to Comcast. AT&T's service was really substandard. When I first switched, they had 4 tuners and comcast had 2, but now the x1 box has 5, and it's interface is light years ahead of the Uverse interface.
    The real kicker is that every on-demand show lets me fast forward, Uverse restricts this on anything. If the DVR didn't get it I would torrent before resorting to Uverse on-demand. Comcast on-demand is actually usable and has a significantly deeper library.
    My biggest compliant is the Uverse DVR search. If a show is more then 13 days away, you can't set a recording. Comcast/Xfinity will let me set a recording for anything, even if it is currently only showing up as an on-demand offering.

  16. Re:See Detroit on Tech Jobs Are Surging in Seattle, Declining in Silicon Valley (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    Pennsylvania and Detroit both have alot of tech jobs. Their city problems have more to do with white flight and the decline of manufacturing.

  17. Re:That'll change too on Tech Jobs Are Surging in Seattle, Declining in Silicon Valley (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    Your assuming they want to fix things for people and not just line their own pockets.

  18. Re:Verizon unlimited for $50 on Ask Slashdot: Best Option For a Touring Band With Mobile Data? · · Score: 1

    Looks like that deal is already dead
    https://www.fmca.com/verizon/

  19. Re:One word on Ask Slashdot: How Can You Avoid Routers With Locked Firmware? · · Score: 1

    Citation please.

  20. Re:Get a cheap PC that 10 years old, add PFSense on Ask Slashdot: How Can You Avoid Routers With Locked Firmware? · · Score: 1

    That's a good option if you have a couple hundred bucks.
    If your not opposed to closed source and just want something with enterprise features, the cheapest option is a mikrotik routerOS device. You can snag one for around $50 usually, with 802.11 b/g/n.

  21. Re:Get a cheap PC that 10 years old, add PFSense on Ask Slashdot: How Can You Avoid Routers With Locked Firmware? · · Score: 1

    Go with an embedded x86 platform for PfSense.
    Something like this, I have a netgate APU which is similar.

  22. Re:Amazon Prime on FTC Probing Allegations of Amazon's Deceptive Discounting (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    I don't think that's true. Try opening a private browser, or better yet, a different browser without being logged into Amazon. You'll see different prices then you see in prime, often lower.

  23. Amazon Prime on FTC Probing Allegations of Amazon's Deceptive Discounting (reuters.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    They should really investigate Amazon Prime, they advertise "free" shipping, but inflate prices to account for shipping.

  24. Re:Wheres the source of the cash? on Apple, Google and Microsoft Are Hoarding $464 Billion In Cash (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    No mod points today, but your probably right.

  25. The hardest part is getting them to clearly identify themselves, but most of them are not too bright.