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  1. Re:I got a bonus every single quarter at Wally-Wor on Marissa Mayer Is Giving Yahoo Employees Her Annual Bonus To Make Up For Massive Hacks (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Have you ever thought to ask those teachers how much they make, and what their expenses are? I'll bet they overextended themselves, like many of us. And if they truly are underpaid, that's purely a local problem that needs to be handled in your school board meetings. In my district, for what is at most 10 months of work the average teacher earns about what I do (plus superior benefits), and I have 20 years of experience in my field. But no one wants to have their OWN property taxes raised. They want the federal government to step in and make the "rich" (everyone who make more money than you) pay for it.

  2. Re:I got a bonus every single quarter at Wally-Wor on Marissa Mayer Is Giving Yahoo Employees Her Annual Bonus To Make Up For Massive Hacks (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Because a graduate student working as a TA is totally the same thing as someone who might not even have a GED stocking shelves.

    #whiteprivilege

  3. I have no ass, you insensitive coward! What about the rectally challenged?

  4. Re:with this admin in place on Anthem's Historic Data Breach: What We Still Don't Know 2 Years Later (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    So what did Obama do about this, again?

    Oh, I know-- totally helpless with that obstinate Republican Congress. Yup, they stole his phone and his pen.

  5. Re:Not good for the enterprise... on Microsoft is Making It Easy To Stop Windows 10 Rebooting Your PC Randomly For Updates (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Or you could have done the smart thing, and change your "mandatory" maintenance window (someone has authority to change it-- who is it?) to 24 hours, then set the work hours on ALL machines through the GPO.

  6. Re:People still use AIM? on AOL Is Cutting Off Third-Party App Access To AIM (9to5mac.com) · · Score: 1

    I don't even remember the last time I fired up Trillian, which let me connect to AIM, ICQ, Yahoo... I forget what else. Never even installed it on my current box, which I've already had like 4 years.

  7. The magazine once known as Maxim no longer exists as of 2014. Maybe there's room for an online version.

  8. In the USA, Maxim never had nudes, but it was fun and hilarious. Now, it's mostly boring. The articles read like National Geographic for rich millennials-- and mind you, I've enjoyed reading National Geographic since I was a kid. The guy who bought them thought the world needed another Details, when it didn't even buy the original Details.

  9. That's like someone injecting a leftist rant on Wal-Mart into a discussion on something totally different.

  10. Re:DOS Hackers on Ask Slashdot: What Are Some Things That Every Hacker Once Knew? (ibiblio.org) · · Score: 1

    Being nitpicky, but CGA could display 4 colors from 16 split over two palettes with high/low intensity. You could also perform some hackery, like changing the palette in the middle of the scan to display up to the full 16 colors, or use text mode to get 160x100 with 16 colors.

  11. Re:DOS Hackers on Ask Slashdot: What Are Some Things That Every Hacker Once Knew? (ibiblio.org) · · Score: 1

    Surge protectors can be pretty reliable, as long as you have a good quality one (330V) and a PROPERLY WIRED, GROUNDED RECEPTACLE. The ground pin in my apartment 9 years ago was shorted to HOT, so when we had a surge, the surge protector could not direct it to ground and the MOV took the entire surge, which cooked it. When I came home, I was treated to the stench of a smoldering surge protector. We were frighteningly close to a fire.

  12. Re:That the only way to on Ask Slashdot: What Are Some Things That Every Hacker Once Knew? (ibiblio.org) · · Score: 1

    I remember I had a Zoom 14.4 modem that had no error correction or compression in hardware, so it was actually slower than my roommate's 2400 bps modem unless I used the funky Windows 3.1 terminal software it came with that wouldn't run in a Win-OS/2 session. I also remember that somehow, IBM's internet service software must have had compression built into it too, because I used to get almost 3K/s downloads with it (but it was way more expensive than the mom'n'pop ISP).

  13. Re:Zero Page memory locations on Ask Slashdot: What Are Some Things That Every Hacker Once Knew? (ibiblio.org) · · Score: 2

    18? Must be a Y2K bug.

  14. First, you have to buy a couch. Then, you get bored, so you need something to do. Guess I'll buy a TV. But I only get 3 digital TV signals, so I get a Netflix subscription.

  15. Re:What is the objective of UBI? on eBay Founder Pledges $500,000 To Test Universal Basic Income Program In Kenya (mashable.com) · · Score: 1

    Profits ultimately go into reinvestment, such as R&D. Otherwise, the only way to get the funds is though selling more stock. Profits are what come AFTER payroll, so if you think taxing corporations is getting after the greedy CEOs, you need an education.

  16. Re:Somewhat selfishly, I look forward to this. on Scientists Successfully Decode the Genome of Quinoa (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Yeah, apparently hughbar believes that food can be gentrified.

  17. Re:What does it taste like ? on Scientists Successfully Decode the Genome of Quinoa (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    People taste things differently. I have no patience for picky people who refuse to try anything new like they're still 3 years old, but lemongrass tastes like lemon Pledge to me, cilantro tastes like soap to my wife, and both items are liberally thrown in food while only noting "spices" on the ingredients. Both of us pretty much eat anything, but it is annoying when we eat Indian or Mexican food and run into these ingredients. Quinoa hasn't impressed me too much, but I'm still open to trying some more. I guarantee that most people aren't enjoying it as much as you.

  18. Re:Capital, means of production on French Politician Uses Hologram To Hold Meetings In Two Cities At the Same Time (reuters.com) · · Score: 0

    You Europeans should stop thinking that your state-run schools told you the truth.

    I agree that the USSR and Nazi Germany had many things in common. They have little in common with the liberal democratic republic headed by Donald Trump.

  19. Re:Umm... just WMVs? on Windows DRM-Protected Files Used To Decloak Tor Browser Users (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    Or you could trust your HARDWARE firewall, not the Windows OS firewall, to do that.

  20. Re:That's a great idea, google... on 'Here's Where Google Hid Chrome's SSL Certificate Information' (vortex.com) · · Score: 1

    F12 is not a discoverable part of the UI.

    I see that developers STILL have no clue how to build user interfaces.

  21. Re: Which version? on 'Here's Where Google Hid Chrome's SSL Certificate Information' (vortex.com) · · Score: 1

    Yes. For example, on this site, it gets a green lock icon because it uses a valid certificate chain with TLS 1.2. However, it uses an obsolete cipher. This may be seen as nitpicking for most, but hiding this information might cause the end user to not bother investigating when it might actually be a risk.

  22. Re:CNN? on Google Bans 200 Publishers From Its Ad Network (recode.net) · · Score: 1

    Trump boasting that he could fondle women and get away with it isn't an admission of rape, you moron. If a bomb goes off in the White House, are you going to arrest Madonna for it?

  23. I don't know if a Peruvian accent sounds anything like a Colombian accent, but I just imagined Sofia Vergara shouting "Hey, bitch!" across the house and contemplated how you might enjoy that!

  24. Re:Elon Musk doesn't have a private plane? on Elon Musk Says He'll Start Digging a Tunnel From SpaceX HQ Next Month (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 2

    As opposed to boring a tunnel to LAX?

  25. Coach woulda put me in the fourth quarter, we woulda been state champions.