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  1. Re:Done to _gouge_ the customer better on Regionally Encoded Toner Cartridges 'to Serve Customers Better' · · Score: 1

    You, as a customer, can take this information (its free) and use it to find a better alternative.

    What about all the information about companies worldwide those businesses spend millions of dollars to hide? How can customers use information to find better alternatives when companies move heaven and earth to make sure customers never get that information and keep them in the dark? Right now, the law gives businesses nearly carte blanche to lie to customers (anything outside of a direct lie is allowed); do you really think this total imbalance between trading partners is reasonable?

  2. Re:Why not? on The Challenge of Working At Amazon · · Score: 1

    I, too was born into a poor family - but no grades, no matter how good, could make college affordable to me, and no degree will ever make me acceptable to employers, no matter no good I program. You don't know how lucky you are not to be the subject of prejudice.

  3. Re:some bosses are sociopaths on The Challenge of Working At Amazon · · Score: 1

    That doesn't sound realistic at all.

    That's why they got away with it.

  4. Re:But this is California, so of course it's stupi on Health Watchdog To Bring Legal Action Against Soylent Over Lead, Cadmium Levels · · Score: 1

    So, not only are you suggesting that people who through no fault of their own develop an allergy should accept an economic punishment they did nothing to deserve, but then you add insult to economic injury by suggesting that businessmen should exploit those people and their handicap for personal gain, doubling the economic burden they face. This is what's wrong with the world today; instead of helping each other succeed, we seek out the weak to bleed them out - and when we run out of the weak, we actively weaken innocent bystanders to prey on them.

  5. Re:some bosses are sociopaths on The Challenge of Working At Amazon · · Score: 1

    That will make him really mad, but eventually he'll calm down.

    Spoken like someone who has never spoken to an entitled asshole all his life.

    People like that have staff whose sole job is to ruin the lives of those who "talk back" to the spoiled. I know this personally - I was blacklisted from my industry for five years when I calmly suggested that a particular course of action was bad. I learned the hard way while eating out of garbage cans never to do that again.

  6. Re:Slavery 2.0 Rocks!!! on The Challenge of Working At Amazon · · Score: 1

    ...and if elsewhere treats their employees so similarly to be a distinction without a difference? Your argument doesn't get to exploit those types of loopholes - you're not rich enough.

  7. Re:Why not? on The Challenge of Working At Amazon · · Score: 2, Insightful

    No, you are lucky because you have that much money to begin with. Millions of people work harder than you and want to save as you do, but can't - no fault of their own; they aren't born into the right upper-class mob of people to have access to those opportunities.

    Of course, I won't change your mind about your superiority; - you have an attitude, all right, but it's not "middle-class" - I'd go so far to say it's lacking in class entirely.

  8. Re: Jurisdiction 101 on UK Police Warn Sharing James Foley Killing Video Is a Crime · · Score: 2

    I don't think his point was that he's not going to stand up for his rights; I think his point is is that there is always someone else that can stand taller - and crush you like a bug.

  9. Re:imperfect brain-wave translations on Take a Picture Just By Thinking About It, Using Google Glass With MindRDR App · · Score: 5, Funny

    It'll be transmitted to Google Plus - you'll be perfectly safe.

  10. Re:Over 18 on IRS Can Now Seize Your Tax Refund To Pay a Relative's Debt · · Score: 1

    Interesting idea, but wouldn't that just push the massive taxation to the states?

  11. Re:She discovered nothing.... on Hacking Charisma · · Score: 1

    To me, it is a list of what to do, but not how to do it. Maybe she figured out the how...

  12. Re:Bah! on Hacking Charisma · · Score: 1

    All of it's under NDA.

  13. Re:Only one person in your company needs charisma on Hacking Charisma · · Score: 1

    Except you'll never work in that company if you can't sell yourself. If you are not a charismatic god, you are homeless.

    As I will be, because I can't be perfect enough for hiring managers...

  14. Re:Bah! on Hacking Charisma · · Score: 1

    Are you hiring? I'm rigorously honest and technically skilled...

  15. Re:Java on Ask Slashdot: Moving From Tech Support To Development? · · Score: 1

    I wish someone had told me this anytime significantly earlier than now.

    Maybe then I could get another job.

    This statement deserves its five-score.

  16. Re:Observer bias on Putting the Next Generation of Brains In Danger · · Score: 2

    Life is a tradeoff.

    Be that as it may, most people want to do their own choosing what to trade - with many forms of pollution, that decision is made by other people, with the victim allowed no input.

  17. See no evil, record no evil... on RF Safe-Stop Shuts Down Car Engines With Radio Pulse · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Digital audio and video recording devices in the vehicle were also affected.

    So, they can shut off your camera before they beat you half to death?

  18. Re:Why the PPACA was necessary on How Big Data Is Destroying the US Healthcare System · · Score: 2

    The problem is not whether a business model is possible or impossible, but whether it is profitable. If you can explain how a different business model is profitable, well, what are you doing here - get some investors!

  19. Re:they are doing it wrong on Toronto Family Bans All Technology In Their Home Made After 1986 · · Score: 1

    Forget that - did he cast overhand?

  20. How close is this to treason? on NSA Shares Intel On Americans With Israel · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The NSA is *spying* on us, and aiding a foreign country with the data. Seriously, what separates this from treason? The fact that they're not betraying the government, just the people?

  21. Re:A tad obvious on Humans Choose Friends With Similar DNA · · Score: 2

    This is why I don't have friends - I'm not human.

  22. Re:Just for video recording? on Should Cops Wear Google Glass? · · Score: 2

    My thoughts exactly. With face recognition (likely at the station), the officer can be informed whether the person he's looking at has a warrant or not. Ditto with licence plates. Of course, that can be a double-edged sword...

  23. Re:Unions protect jobs just fine on Automation Is Making Unions Irrelevant · · Score: 1

    Your argument boils down to "No they can't, corruption!" Lawyers can work probono, public defenders do this. Not to mention that never before has it been easier to document things and distribute them to a world wide audience. Sounds like a conflict of interest and there are mechanisms to deal with that as well.

    There's not going to be nearly enough pro-bono lawyers to cover the massive amount of abuses there will be - and the abusers know it.

    Um, yeah, I work in an industry that doesn't have a union, software never has, and we're not subject to beatings.

    Only because the blacklist is as effective, but harder to photograph.

  24. Re:I deeply dislike the end-run aroudn the courts on Valve Removes Right For Class Action Claims From EULA · · Score: 1

    You should send them a note explaining exactly why you left. Otherwise they won't know to change their behavior.

  25. Re:Holy crap! on Auto Makers Announce Electric Car Charging Standard · · Score: 1

    Longer than it will take them to simply mount weather-resistant screens and speakers near the pump.