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  1. Re:Fake news, they aren't spending billions on Verizon To Begin 5G User Trials in 11 Markets by Middle of Year (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 2

    Considering there is no Technology out there today that is actually 5G the story is full of Corporate sponsored "Facts"... The ITU is the body that helps (or forces depends how you look t it) Telecommunications systems conform to standards has not yet finished defining what is required for 5G.... The last time carriers pulled this crap was with 4G... the ITU laid out what 4G was and suddenly all of the 4G networks that carriers were advertising were actually 3G networks pushed to their limits... so they pressured the ITU to align 4G with what was already deployed..

    Since they bent over backwards last time the carriers made up their own definition they are doing the same again today without a clear definition of what 5G is they are telling everyone that the 4G system they have is really a 5G network cause they want to make more money...

  2. Re:I don't see the problem. on Cutting H-1Bs Could Mean More Competition From China and India, Says GoDaddy CEO (cnbc.com) · · Score: 2

    It is truly a farce.. Your example is perfect for how its being used... while the people that interface with the government keep saying there isn't enough homegrown talent to fill the job but yet companies are hiring for lower salaries..

    if they want talent that is not available in the US they should be willing to pay wages in the upper 10%(ish) of the field..

    Companies that use HB1 visa's should also pay a higher tax rate to offset the damage they are doing to the economy... After all if the "Talent" is that much higher from abroad then they definitely should be seeing a higher return from that persons work..

  3. Re:It's not about risk... on Microsoft Seeks Trump Order Exemption for Workers With Visas (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 2

    They should be subject to the 150,000$ a year if they want to keep them... after all there are only 2 arguments that could be made..

    1) They wanted cheap labor and hired a foreign worker instead of an american because they could pay them less.

    2) They found a highly skilled foreigner that has a unmatched skill set they could find in america.

    Both problems are solved with paying that worker 150,000$ a year... They wont keep around someone at that pay rate that isn't worth it. and if they are that good... they should be able to stay.

  4. Blind to the Obvious on Many CEOs Believe Technology Will Make People Largely Irrelevant (betanews.com) · · Score: 2

    So if workers are largely irrelevant then very few people will have job or an income..

    Who will they sell their products and services to in a world that has a 90% unemployment rate?

  5. WTF?!?!? on China To Build a Solar Plant In Chernobyl's Exclusion Zone (reuters.com) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    "Ukraine has passed a law allowing the site to be developed for agriculture and other things, so that means (the radiation) is under control."

    Oh my God... help us all if politicians think radiation will disappear because they passed a law that says its ok..

    I think Solar power generation is a good use for this land maybe... if the radiation doesn't break down the materials in the solar cells or the power systems.. Agriculture no F'in way!!

  6. Really?!?! Fox doesn't report news... Its mostly fiction and non stories... I bet the fox stories were more click bait than anything.

  7. Where is this huge swath of land that previously didn't have any vegetation? Really sounds like Bunk..

  8. Re:Calibration is not a big deal on Facebook Achieves 20Gbps Data Rate Over MMW Radio Spectrum (thestack.com) · · Score: 2

    It would be easier and less trouble to just run a fiber that short distance and ta-da... trouble free communication without interference and easier to reach higher speeds without worry of eavesdropping..

  9. Re:we have always been at peace with the klingons on AT&T's $85B US Bid For Time Warner Sparks Antitrust Fears in Washington (www.cbc.ca) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    If you can't see that the two party system they have enshrined the US into lets them both do what ever they want to line their own pockets..

    If you have 85 billion to buy another company to "Stay competitive"... you not staying competitive your squashing competition.

  10. Re:Correlation? on Police Complaints Drop 93 Percent After Deploying Body Cameras (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    You should be able to make a good guess whats going when police start to put up the hoods of their cars when they stop someone to block the dashcam like the cops in Virginia.. Search for Police Using Car Hoods To Block Dash Cam and watch some of that... those cops should be suspended at minimum...

  11. This just goes to show you they don't even value their own CS degree and would rather hire someone from India...

    This move should decimate their CS deoartment

  12. Re:This almost makes me want to move to Canada... on Canadian Telecoms Will Try to Justify Their 'Ripoff' TV Plans Today (vice.com) · · Score: 2

    Whats going on with the cable companies isn't socialism... its customer protection... "basic" cable prices have sky rocketed and this is how the regulatory body is bringing them back in line...

    It would be nice to see one or two of them to lose their licence to operate over this so they will stop screwing customers over...

    25$ basic cable that has nearly 75$ in service charges? Come on now..

  13. Re:Only for pirates on Google Unveils 'Gigapixel' Camera To Preserve and Archive Art (thestack.com) · · Score: 1

    Ahh yes.. they will also use the highest level of jpeg compression possible to get the file size down to about 100K and since it looks good on their phone they think its super then upload it calling it the most highest definition picture ever...

  14. Re:Unfortunate on Toyota Teams With Microsoft On Connected Cars (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    Sorry officer.. I don't mean to be blocking traffic... but I am just waiting for my car to reboot..

  15. Shouldn't Apple be chasing after them for circumventing the encryption and digital rights management system on the phone? Its what they do to people coming up with jailbreaks... why would this be diffrent?

  16. Re:Not brute force on Jamming Wi-Fi With a $15 Dongle · · Score: 1

    it would be best used to attack lte-u deployments just replace the costly amplifier with a cantenna and keep the channe(s) busy..

  17. Re:Publishers need to be responsible on One Day After iOS 9's Launch, Ad Blockers Top Apple's App Store · · Score: 5, Insightful

    With so much malware being pushed from shady advertising sources your crazy not to block them...

    Running without a ad blocker is more akin to walking around with a open wound in a infectious area than stealing music ect...

  18. Re:Maybe on Ask Slashdot: Can Any Wireless Tech Challenge Fiber To the Home? · · Score: 1

    there isn't enough free spectrum to do it in any densely populated area.. if you think there is enough you should read and learn about wireless technologies then start to do the math on how much spectrum you will need to be equiv to FTTH...

    Using a low density of 30 houses per square mile and a tower with small footprint of 30 square miles... 900 homes just at 500 Mb/s thats 450 Gig/s per second...

    Now lets scale that back to a more reasonable number... 50 Mb/s... even at 45 Gb/s there are very few potential wireless technologies that could meet that modest demand in a point to multipoint configuration..and that is no where near what can be done with a fiber deployment.. Most modern fiber deployments are looking at delivering 1-2 G/s.. Wireless cannot scale to meet that in high density deployments... there just isn't enough usable spectrum out there or Point to Multipoint technologies... and if your foolish enough to think you can put 900+ antenna's on a single tower that will not interfere with each other you obviously need to start thinking about how to scale your thoughts up to a real world scenario...

  19. Re:Best of intentions on Grooveshark Shuts Down · · Score: 1

    They have the infrastructure and know how to run a music streaming business.. They should reopen a pandora type service for unsigned artists that are willing to forgo royalties to get their music out there..

    There needs to be someone that will champion a new music business model and weaken the control the recording industry has on music today...

  20. Re:FTFY on Microsoft Announces Device Guard For Windows 10 · · Score: -1, Troll

    If MS was capable of programming a installation process that can't be circumvented then drive-by-downloads of malware wouldn't exist.,..

    Just saying this looks like another layer of software that will only raise the barrier of entry for malware a little bit... Buggy software is buggy software no matter how many layers of buggy software you have ontop of it.

  21. Re:Why not let him know what to do on Ask Slashdot: Dealing With User Resignation From an IT Perspective? · · Score: 1

    Do you really think a disgruntled employee that has found another job wouldn't possibly wreak any havoc day's/hours/mins before he turns in his two week notice?

    if you think he is going to wait till after he turns in his notice your are just naive..

  22. Re:It is time to get up one way or the other on Obama: Maybe It's Time For Mandatory Voting In US · · Score: 1

    Mandatory Voting coupled with the first option on the ballot being "No acceptable candidates" Would be a good start... especially if the vote gets tossed out if no acceptable candidates wins the election and anyone on the ballot is not allowed to run again during that election cycle :)

  23. Re:Run your own equipment on At Least 700,000 Routers Given To Customers By ISPs Are Vulnerable To Hacking · · Score: 1

    And they should have liability for that rented equipment :)

  24. Re: HOWTO on How To Execute People In the 21st Century · · Score: 1

    And if they are a constant threat to the lives of the people that have been put in charge with their psychiatric care?

    There are so many bleeding hearts out there that want to protect the rights, freedoms and lives of people that have had ultimately removed another persons right to live or be brutalized by another..

    No one ever thinks about the safety and wellbeing of guards and people that have the charge to look after inmates.. How do you punish someone thats already in prison? Keep them there longer? Life in prison with no chance of parole.. WHat can you possibly deter that person from inflicting harm on law abiding people that have been put there to look after them during their incarceration let alone other inmates..

    If you really think prisoners are treated harshly and deserve a better quality of life in prison you should go work in a prison for a year or so and see if you change your mind...

    rehabilitation only works for a very small percentage... to the rest prison needs to be a deterrent some place they do not want to go back...

  25. Re:All it means is on Do Tech Companies Ask For Way Too Much From Job Candidates? · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Skills to Salary converter... That is what is needed... So mindless HR drones start to plug in all these "requirements" and they see the salary for the person they are looking for skyrocket and come to the realization they are asking for the moon at a walmart payscale... Hiring offshore labour with a HB1 seems to significantly lower the requirements oddly enough...