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  1. So trying to paint the picture of 1%ers being the only group that benefits from better stock prices is disingenuous at best and out and out falsehood at worst.

    Are you deliberately trying to undermine the image of the Jealousy party?

  2. The number of bank branches is now declining rather than increasing âoebecause of industry consolidation and technological change.â

    No. The number of branches is declining, and the queues are getting longer because of MBAs.

    Most economic problems could be reduced by putting MBAs out to dig ditches with spoons. In some cases, significantly.

  3. Re:A+ Econ 102: Macroeconomics. on McDonald's Hits All-Time High As Wall Street Cheers Replacement of Cashiers With Kiosks (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1
    The money usually goes into a hedge fund and does very little for the economy

    Do you think "putting it in a hedge fund" means hiding it in the bushes?

    A hedge fund is a "vehicle for investment in equity" - in other words, invests the money in shares of corporate entities - Apple and McDonalds, for example. Although possibly in a different country - hedging their bets (investment) on the USA by betting on, say European Commercial Property. (Just in case the dollar tanks in response to fatuous statements by Trump).

  4. Re:21st Century Pit Fighting on McDonald's Hits All-Time High As Wall Street Cheers Replacement of Cashiers With Kiosks (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1
    Pay them to fight to the death in open pits for the wealthy. They can also clean houses, be the butt of jokes, and just generally act as disposable servants and entertainers.

    Or, they can join Madame La Guillotine's fan club.

    Do not forget they have the right to arm bears - and some bears are less cuddly than Yogi.

  5. Re:Security company scaremongering IoT on If It Uses Electricity, It Will Connect To the Internet: F-Secure's CRO (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1
    refuse to function unless it makes that connection.

    I expect a very high rate of product returns, given the extreme flakiness of the internet, and complete absence of GSM for most of the planet.

  6. Re: 120 whatchyamacallit on It's Too Hot For Some Planes To Fly In Phoenix (npr.org) · · Score: 1
    Putting different brands on the same axle is a very bad idea even if he external diameter was the same - you might need to do an emergency stop and prefer not to end in the ditch. The stress needed for the grip to fail can vary enormously with the compound as well as the tread.

    ABS MIGHT help, but it is generally better to avoid the risk if your life depends on it.

  7. Re:The core issue is this : on A Third Of the Planet's Population Is Exposed To Deadly Heatwaves (motherjones.com) · · Score: 1
    But no one wants to actually DO something about this.

    Actually, ISIS, Al Quaida, the Russians and a bunch of people in the Middle East and North Africa are actively working on a solution as we sit here typing!

  8. Unfortunately big data is not going away.

    Au contraire, mon frere - the problem is that big data is travelling around the world all too freely!

  9. Re:Consumers != Legislators on The Right To Repair Movement Is Forcing Apple To Change (vice.com) · · Score: 2, Insightful
    You may be an all-American Fuckwit, but never mind:

    Businesses only have the rights they do because the community grants them those rights - including the right to incorporation and limited liability, if the business benefits the community. If the public-at-large decides the corporation is fucking them over, they may decide to remove its right to exist. In a democratic country, the government is supposed to represent the collective views of the people.

    In a Republican one, it is meant to reflect the view of Donald Trump^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^HThe fithy rich.

    (Of course, if you sell your soul to the devil, then the devil has a right to your soul, but if you don't, then its yours).

  10. Re:It would have been for an elite on We Could Have Had Cellphones Four Decades Earlier (reason.com) · · Score: 4, Informative
    Cellular tech was actually what allowed enlarged networks and cheaper prices because more calls could be routed through networks. Cellular was what transformed a luxury good into a more common one.

    NO

    It was the transistor which meant a radio transmitter could be smaller than 2 cubic feet, and cost less than a Harley-Davidson bike.

    Evidently, some people were born yesterday (or clickbait).

  11. Re:Best practices to avoid on Ask Slashdot: What Are Some 'Best Practices' IT Should Avoid At All Costs? (cio.com) · · Score: 2
    If there's a best practice to avoid then avoiding it becomes a best practice, and then you should avoid avoiding it.

    This. A thousand times this!

  12. Re:Password Changes on Ask Slashdot: What Are Some 'Best Practices' IT Should Avoid At All Costs? (cio.com) · · Score: 1
    People are always, always, the weakest link.

    Are you suggesting we should change he users every 60 days? I'll vote for that!

  13. Re:Password Changes on Ask Slashdot: What Are Some 'Best Practices' IT Should Avoid At All Costs? (cio.com) · · Score: 3, Funny
    plus an increase in the use of postit notes.

    As a Post-It shareholder, I resent this observation. We have campaigned long and hard for the 60 day password change philosophy, and share price is important to our pension funds.

  14. If you hire someone that seems like they know what their doing they should know what their doing

    Are you trying to justify voting Trump?

  15. Re: How the fuck on Developer Accidentally Deletes Production Database On Their First Day On The Job (qz.com) · · Score: 4, Funny
    He was a developer not a systems administrator. There is NO reason why he should even be allowed access to production data, let alone live production data.

    Hell, even on a one man business, development should not be done on the same machine as production activities.

    Even my home machines have off-site table backups - and yes I have tested recovery works - cross platform - on different hardware and OS.

    if your data is worth money, you should be prepared to spend money to protect it. If its not worth anything, then just delete it yourself and save the disk space.

    Disclaimer: I do not have an MBA.

  16. Re:16-bit may be the reason. on Why Does Microsoft Still Offer a 32-bit OS? (backblaze.com) · · Score: 1
    I can't tell if most Slashdotters are teenagers, or live in a single office room and never venture outside. Because there are TONS OF BUSINESSES that still use legacy software A DECADE out of "support." The people that wrote the software have left the company. There's no documentation. And the software _still_ _works_.

    No - some are the people that write software that is so shit it gets chucked after 6 months. They find it hard to imagine software that is still useful after a year.

    Probably also children of the tosspots who wrote shareware programs that failed to install and wondered why no one upgraded to the paid version.

  17. Re:I don't know about this... on TSA May Recommend Stowing Laptops In Cargo For US Domestic Flights (cbslocal.com) · · Score: 1
    stopped the shoe bomber and the underwear bomber.

    The "shoe bomber" was a guy who tried to use a non-safety match to light a cigarette in the toilet, and accidentally lit his plastic sole, and then lied to the staff. (It was common to strike these on leather soles in the olden days).

    I don't know of the underwear bomber - maybe it was part of a sex movie plot?

  18. I don't think I can use a coconut as a laptop replacement.

    You need to install Windows 10 on the coconut before you can use it. They don't support Linux.

  19. I don't think the EPO should affect data Centres on other continents. (Oh, there weren't any? Perhaps there was no justification for the CTO's salary then).

  20. wake up before 11:00

    Are you sure you are a millenial? Its kind of hard to believe without evidence!

  21. We need Skype's audio quality,

    Nobody needs Skype audio "quality" - or anything with (anti-) social features. Some of us need a version of the app that can make VoIP calls you can actually hear to people in other countries/time zones.

  22. What is this "Sky Pee" you speak of?

    It is like a phone service for the person at one end of the line, and like a Wince phone for the person at the other end. You may be able to make calls (sometimes, dependent on where the wind is blowing from), but you probably can't hear what the person at the other end is saying to you*, especially if the wind is actually blowing. Until it crashes.

    * unless you are in the same room.

  23. Re:Don't UPSes also act as surge protectors? on British Airways Says IT Collapse Came After Servers Damaged By Power Problem (reuters.com) · · Score: 1
    BA must have multiple redundant data centers with a seamless failover mechanism.

    AND test them every month.

    Not just to make sure the hardware works, but to make sure EVERYONE involved knows what a failure of electrical failover looks like, but that the dual-redundancy also works, and everyone knows where all the controls are, and what they do (hardware and software).

    It may be expensive relative to your pay grade, but in the greater scheme of the world's largest airlines, its totally piddling. Have you seen the price of a new aeroplane? Or the even annual fuel bill for flying a transatlantic route? Hell, you could buy a compete redundant data centre for cost of flying Trump across DC! (Unless you buy your data centres from the wrong guy).

  24. Re:Here you go slashdot, a CODE SAMLE! Have fun!! on ESR Announces The Open Sourcing Of The World's First Text Adventure (ibiblio.org) · · Score: 2
    I am pretty sure the original would have been Fortran 4. Just cos Fortran 77 existed, did not mean people playing games would have used it. People familiar with Fortran 4 (like me) were in no hurry to upgrade anyway.

    Sure new projects MIGHT use Fortran 77.

    no stack, no recursivity, no dynamic allocation nor pointers, no function prototypes, no struct nor classes, no strings of variable length,

    Are you some kind of wimp? Real Fortran programmers don't need that kind of new fangled clap-trap!

    We did, of course, have macro pre-processors. (and you needed them to pack and unpack 6-bit chars in a machine-dependent way. Especially when porting from 24 bit ICL machines to 60-bit Crays).

  25. Re:Holding them to ever-higher standards of securi on Consumers Trust Robots For Surgery Over Savings, Research Finds (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 2
    Higher than the bottom of the world's deepest well, is still "higher".

    I "trust" my bank as far as I can throw them. Hell, at least the Mafia admit to being criminals.