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  1. Re:At McDonald's... on Seattle Minimum Wage Study Has Serious Flaws (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    "Now what makes an Egg McMuffin so yummy in the tummy?

    Is it the delicious cheese? The egg itself? The Canadian bacon (or optionally, the sausage patty)? Or is it the English Muffin?"

    No, it's the 730mg of sodium and 6g of saturated fat, the combination of which can make even a slice of cardboard taste like something.

  2. Wow, first I've heard of it on Elon Musk's Boring Machine Completes the First Section of An LA Tunnel (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    This is the most exciting boring machine I've ever read about!

  3. Re:Data centers and GPUs on AMD Looks To 'Crush' Intel's Xeon With New Epyc Server Chips (extremetech.com) · · Score: 1

    I said there are applications that were not GPUs.

    You were able to come up with some all by yourself.

    Why do I need to tell you more? You answered your own question.

  4. Re:Data centers and GPUs on AMD Looks To 'Crush' Intel's Xeon With New Epyc Server Chips (extremetech.com) · · Score: 1

    There are also applications for PCI-e that are not GPUs.

  5. Any modern aircraft, power distribution, or medical system is orders of magnitude more revolutionary than a fucking iPhone.

  6. Re:The #1 practice sure to sink your business on Ask Slashdot: What Are Some 'Best Practices' IT Should Avoid At All Costs? (cio.com) · · Score: 5, Funny

    I spend a lot of money paying Internet trolls to trash-talk linux in public forums so that my competitors won't run it.

  7. Re:Didn't 'wipe' the drive. on Call Center Operator and His Cousin Steal $645,000 From UK Water Supplier (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    Their "job" is to generate traffic and ad impressions. By trolling people who care, they accomplish the mission of their job quite well.

  8. Hands down thread winner.

  9. The US Gov't Could Spend it in 30 Days on Apple Has a Record $250 Billion In Cash, 90% of It Is Banked Overseas (phonearena.com) · · Score: 1, Informative

    Yes, it is a lot of money, unless you're the US Government, in which case you can blow through it in less than 30 days...

  10. Frequency does not get you around the 1/r^2 energy flux density problem.

  11. TRS-80 Model I, with 16K and Extended BASIC on Ask Slashdot: What Was Your First Home Computer? · · Score: 2

    Ahhh yes, finally an article that belongs on Slashdot.

    My very first computer was a TRS-80 Model I that my dad got for us back in 1980 or so. It had an external cassette recorder for saving programs - 600 baud AFSK encoding, IIRC.

    That thing was fun to play with, although I got a lot of blank stares when I'd presented a program I wrote to my 3rd Grade show-n-tell in NYC in 1982. I think it was a sorting program or something like that.

    I wish I could remember some of the games so I could perhaps find them today...

  12. Step 2: State-level AirBnB Tax on Indiana Considers Prohibiting Cities From Banning Airbnb (usnews.com) · · Score: 1

    This is just a precursor to a state-level tax on AirBnB. Why should localities get that tax money when the state can have it?

    Government does nothing out of benevolence. This is no exception.

  13. Re:The right to bear arms shall not be infringed on Lack of Oxford Comma Could Cost Maine Company Millions in Overtime Dispute (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Absolutely. I have several sets of bear arms mounted above my fireplace. I love the fact that I can have as many bear arms as I want. They're so furry and make for excellent decor.

  14. I Grew Up in NYC on 58% of High-Performance Employees Say They Need More Quiet Work Spaces (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Noise? What is this noise thing you speak of? I don't hear any noise...

  15. Re:Fruit of the poisoned tree on FBI Says It Can't Release iPhone Hacking Tool Because It Might Still Be Useful (zdnet.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    That's what Parallel Construction is for...

  16. The FBI is allowed to distribute child pornography. The BBC should have let the FBI handle this investigation.

  17. Re:oh fuck all of you in the zombie apocalypse... on One Bitcoin Is Now Worth More Than One Ounce of Gold (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    So first they are worth more, and then they are worth both?

    Can you help clarify?

  18. The worker called the AWS internal helpdesk and the BOFH on the other end said "Okay, log in as root and type this... rm -rf slash... that'll fix it"

  19. Re:Smells fishy on T-Mobile Promises Big LTE Boost From 5GHz Wi-Fi Frequencies (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Point to Multipoint transmitters in unlicensed ISM bands are limited to 36dBm EIRP. Point to Point transmitters in those bands are limited to 48dBm EIRP.

  20. Example of Government Stifling Innovation on College Senior Turns His Honda Civic Into a Self-Driving Car Using Free Hardware, Software (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 1

    So, they got a letter from big government, and decided to give up and go home? That must have been a seriously threatening letter. How dare they try to innovate and compete against the large corporate oligarchs like Google, Apple, and Tesla?

  21. Re:More interested in the quality of the images on Sony's Latest Smartphone Camera Sensor Can Shoot At 1,000fps (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    You could, you know, go to the linked article and watch the videos. That is, if you wanted to know what the quality of the images was like.

  22. One would never leave a car parked at a gas pump on Tesla Introduces Fee For Owners Who Leave Their Cars At Supercharger Stations (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 2

    Hah, bullshit. I see people pump gas, leave their car at the pump, and go inside and do 30 minutes of shopping for beer, ho-hos, beef jerky, and lottery tickets (which they insist on scratching off right there at the counter before they walk away).

  23. Any engineering manager will tell you that you can have an infinite number of number one priorities.

  24. "You can only have one number one priority"

    You've never been an engineer, have you?

  25. "- If the federal reserve dramatically raises interest rates, the interest on the massive national debt will skyrocket. The government will meet payments by issuing more debt (how else?). This will lead to more inflation, not to the dollar "hitting the moon""

    If the federal reserve dramatically raises interest rates, the interest on the existing massive national debt will not change one bit. The coupon rate on US Treasury bonds is fixed for the life of the bond and cannot be changed, not even by an act of congress.

    The only thing that will change is the coupon rate on newly issued debt. The current coupon rate of newly issued short term bonds is 0.00%, and the only yield investors are realizing is that which is obtained by purchasing the bonds at a discount to face value.