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  1. Re:The point is to make an end run on The Gig Economy Keeps Growing, But Worker Benefits Aren't (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 1

    "Where are the laws to protect private business owners."

    They are also designed to protect you in that you need to have customers with disposable income, or the firms that contract with you need to have them in order to invest.

  2. Re:Currency exchange rates and trade relations on Twitter CEO Says Bitcoin Will Be the World's 'Single Currency' In 10 Years (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Yes, the ERM and the ESM weren't a prediction for the euroland disaster at all.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
    It should be no surprise it only survives because the ECB doesn't follow the law.

  3. Maybe. Two administrations were perfectly fine with them having that power, though.

  4. Re:It's Hillary time! on The Unsettling Relationship Between Russia and Wikileaks (dailymail.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    The language wasn't the problem, a western promoted dictator who posed an alleged danger to half the population was.

  5. Re:What's the point? on Ask Slashdot: Would You Fire Your CEO? (cio.com) · · Score: 1

    Alright then, sorry for the confusion.

  6. Re:What's the point? on Ask Slashdot: Would You Fire Your CEO? (cio.com) · · Score: 1

    That's because you apply the same argument that is usually applied by politicians and lawyers, that only the very important people are knowledgeable and wise enough to have a say and the rabble should eat cake. There are a lot of obviously braindead decisions that are never going to work.
    Or maybe's that's us reading too much into it.

  7. Re:I'd probably fire every CEO I've ever worked un on Ask Slashdot: Would You Fire Your CEO? (cio.com) · · Score: 1

    [psychopaths] will dispassionately make the hard decisions for the good of the organization

    By definition, they will make decisions that aren't hard for them for the good of themselves.

    You might have them confused with sociopaths, but either way, not caring about others in the company quickly spreads downwards and there goes productivity when everyone starts just caring about how important they look.

  8. Re:Welcome to the Hotel EuroUnion... on Japan Goes Public With Brexit Demands, Says Data Flow Deals Must Be Protected (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    How cute that people still think the EU is democratic just becomes people vote for someone, somewhere to do something.

  9. Re:Religious groups rights to have countries on Turkish Journalist Jailed For Terrorism Was Framed, Forensic Report Shows (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Well, you're right, I was stupid. The point was that cultural independence was only supported for those that are similar to us, and while the Ottomans are to blame, we didn't do much about it when we should.

  10. Re:Turkey is due for some DEMOCRACY on Turkish Journalist Jailed For Terrorism Was Framed, Forensic Report Shows (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    From what I've been reading off an on, you can add another 100 years to it - Revolutionary Republics, Napoleon, Liberalism civil wars, the Holy Alliance, the scramble for Africa, the Unification of Italy and so on.

  11. Re:Religious groups rights to have countries on Turkish Journalist Jailed For Terrorism Was Framed, Forensic Report Shows (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Except if their not of an Abrahamic religion like, say, the Kurds.

  12. Re:Encryption and Digital Signatures on One of Europe's Biggest Companies Loses 40 Million Euros In Online Scam (softpedia.com) · · Score: 1

    Sociopaths are born that way, what they don't have to be is a psychopath. I don't trust sociopaths, but they're not all evil.
    If he was a psychopath, he would probably be involved in managing the bank; those people are usually the ones who steal from the bank.

  13. Re:Oh yeah? Then what are you gonna do about it? on Apple CEO Tim Cook on EU Apple Tax Case: 'Total Political Crap' (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 2

    they can kiss the trans atlantic partnership good bye, and possible face other trade sanctions

    As a european, I'm all for it.

  14. Well, they'll have your CC number and terms of service that makes you responsible for any damage.
    And a clause that says they can change the contract at anytime and any dispute will have to be trough arbitration by a company with a contract with them.

    You're not paying attention, are you?

  15. If safety critical systems can fail catastrophically, the designer already failed miserably at his job.

  16. Re:How Active Does Development Need to Be? on Ask Slashdot: Is KDE Dying? · · Score: 1

    Hey, I'm not trying to be aggressive, even though I'm too terse when I talk/speak.
    WebKit browsers like Konqueror don't show up by default on SuSE, and really shouldn't anywhere. It doesn't mean it's useless and, due to the amazing modular nature of Plasma (yeah, I know) and Qt, I doubt it takes any significant resources.

    I wasn't trying to imply Kontact serves every need (I checked and it doesn't seem to connect to it, but it does to Kolab), just saying that for many companies (which are SME outside rich countries like the US, so no money for Exchange) and for personal usage, it seems useful enough. I wasn't trying to compare to anything because it's not my area, and all I used from Exchange was mail, contacts and a personal agenda, which you can do anywhere.
    I totally believe YMMV, and that bigger companies need it for some reason I'm not aware. I just wish people wouldn't throw so much money away to companies like MS and Oracle when they have no need to do so, that's all.

  17. Re:How Active Does Development Need to Be? on Ask Slashdot: Is KDE Dying? · · Score: 1

    WebKit doesn't have to be used on the web to be useful. It's an easy and fast way to make GUIs for people who are used to the web, and every single graphical library has one.

    I have no idea how useful Kontact is with Exchange or compared to Google, and I don't care since a home user doesn't have access to either.

  18. Re:Front Door Access on Computer Science Professor Mocks The NSA's Buggy Code (softpedia.com) · · Score: 1

    They want the same thing Hoover wanted... And even if somehow they don't want it right now, it's terrible idea to allow them the capability.

  19. Re:Post Bait. on Ask Slashdot: Is KDE Dying? · · Score: 1

    Because Explorer had kio support, tabs, symlink creation, bookmarks, split view, single panel tree view, invert selection, useful multiple file rename, tagging, filtering, previews... oh wait, it still has none of that 21 years later.

  20. Re:How Active Does Development Need to Be? on Ask Slashdot: Is KDE Dying? · · Score: 1

    I don't know that maintaining a web browser in the face of Chrome, Firefox, Edge, Opera and the rest makes any sense?

    Konqueror is just a shell for qt's web rendering engine, which is needed if you want html email or easy to make apps with qtquick.

    Also, a standalone mail client? I haven't used one of those in nearly 5 years now. So, do I care that it hasn't updated? Do its users want it to become more like Outlook? I think probably not.

    Use Kontact, it syncs email, contacts, agenda...

  21. Re:The problem with FreeDOS... on How (And Why) FreeDOS Keeps DOS Alive (computerworld.com.au) · · Score: 1

    Maybe I'm just ignorant, but now I'm curious. You mentioned

    possibly reverse-engineering a proprietary and undocumented hardware interface

    Would that hardware even work on a modern PC? Hmmm, I forgot PCI still exists, would that be how you'd connect it?
    I'm just curious.

  22. Re:$100 to go from 500 to 2TB? on Microsoft's New Xbox One S Will Go On Sale On August 2 -- Will You Buy One? (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    I don't know about the Xbone180, but that definitely happened with the 360.

  23. Re:Punish the serf class. on Theresa May Becomes UK's 'Spy Queen' and New Prime Minister (arstechnica.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Well, I'm not a Brit, and at least since Blair I'd rather just avoiding the UK altogether. After the latest concessions, you were really in it in name only, probably not much will really change for either side.

    As for a central bank dictating policy... no, the ECB had no mandate to cut financing to Greek banks, at the very least.

  24. Re:Punish the serf class. on Theresa May Becomes UK's 'Spy Queen' and New Prime Minister (arstechnica.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    So, where's the democratic mandate for the Eurogroup and Ecofin - who, to be fair, don't pass laws, merely mandate them. Where's the mandate for the ECB to dictate policy instead of doing it's job as a central bank? Again, nowhere.

  25. Re:Proof the EU is Working on Spain Runs Out of Workers With Almost 5 Million Unemployed (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Right, because austerity has worked exactly nowhere, with even the IMF giving it a negative 1.5 multiplier.