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  1. Re:news flash - income varies by region on Interns At Tech Companies Are Better Paid Than Most American Workers (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    You were lucky to have a VAN! We used to have to live in a corridor!

  2. Apparently they don't let you use those now

  3. No idea why you're being downloaded - this is 100% spot-on.

    If the NSA required people to have location services on all the time, people would pitch a fit, yet when an app does it, it's a Good Thing

  4. Re: Union power! on Uber Drivers Demand Higher Pay in Nationwide Protest (cnet.com) · · Score: 2
    not every job should be meant to earn a living soley from that activity

    If you're doing a job for 8 hours a day, 40+ hours a week, you should be able to live on the proceeds. This "entry job" bullshit is merely a rationalization for paying people less. It's similar to "You should do my web|coding|construction project for free, because you'll get good exposure|experience|karma"

  5. You can thank the agriculture lobby for this. on EPA Increases Amount of Renewable Fuel To Be Blended Into Gasoline (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 5, Interesting
  6. s/1986/1981/g

  7. Re:Doesn't depend at all. on Why Automation Won't Displace Human Workers (diginomica.com) · · Score: 1
    What we will need is trained psychologists

    > Tell me more...

  8. Re:Ashamed for a different reason on Slashdot Asks: Are You Ashamed of Your Code? (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 1

    ..patch one bug, re-submit.. 101 little bugs in my code...

  9. Re:Fake number on Volkswagen Plans 30,000 Job Cuts Worldwide (bbc.com) · · Score: 3, Funny

    and incestors are watching

    I assume this refers to the German people.

    They have plants in Arkansas and Alabama

  10. Re:Oh NOW they want to talk to him on US Internet Firms Ask Trump To Support Encryption, Ease Regulations (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    But hey, at least it's not Hillary, right? /s

  11. Re:All Grown Up on 'Stranger In a Strange Land' Coming To TV (ew.com) · · Score: 2

    That's funny because at one time the same thing was said about flying. The engineering was too tough and there is no way humans would ever fly.

    That's a bogus comparison; there were already things flying, we just needed to figure out how to emulate them. There no things living on Mars that we can emulate.

  12. Re:Wasn't looking well on 'Radioactive Boy Scout' Reportedly Passes Away At Age 39 (harpers.org) · · Score: 2

    Somehow I GNU that was coming...

  13. HIPAA for consumer data? on Senate Introduces Strong Privacy Bill · · Score: 2, Interesting
    Last week I had to sit through a HIPAA class ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_Insurance_Port ability_and_Accountability_Act ) Granted, I was bored to tears, but I couldn't help but think that we need these same guidelines were applied to consumer data, including credit and financial info.

    HIPAA is a set of rules, with some teeth, that governs how patient medical information must be handled. The banks, credit agencies, etc would squeal like pigs if such legislation were proposed, but I think that's what we really need.

  14. Re:It was about stopping astroturf not bloggers on Bill to Treat Bloggers as Lobbyists Defeated · · Score: 1

    The Democrats had "pieces of flair," but they made the lobbyists wear them.

  15. Re:police POV on Students Put UCLA Taser Video On YouTube · · Score: 1

    Best reply of the whole thread - I wish I had mod points.

  16. Re:Too expensive and Too risky? on George Lucas To Quit Movie Business · · Score: 1
    Again, the cost nearly as much to create as the "meatspace" models, but they aren't being REUSED in anything else!

    So, you're saying they should take a more OO approach to making movies?

  17. Re:RD Offsored Too. Everyone SOL. on Globalization Decimating US I.T. Jobs · · Score: 1
    I remember from one of my early economics classes that the only wealth-producing endeavours known are agriculture and manufacturing - the rest of economic activity just shuffles that wealth around.

    I wish I had mod points - this guy is spot-on.

  18. Re:It's perhaps time people understood on Controversy Erupts Over Craigslist Prank · · Score: 1
    And if they can make a case for pain and suffering

    Wasn't that was what the original ad was for?

  19. Re:ICANN adopts more specific .FUK and .SUK on ICANN Finally Rejects .xxx Domain · · Score: 1

    You left out .CUM

  20. Correction on Google Staff MD on Carpal Tunnel & RSI · · Score: 1
    after countless hours of hacking, cracking, or whacking

    There, fixed it.

  21. Re:Ack! on The Continuing American Decline in CS · · Score: 1

    You left out the fact that it's harder for an H1-B to jump ship to another company if he doesn't like the conditions, so you can treat him like shit and he just has to take it, unless he can find someone else to sponsor him. I've seen it with my own two eyes.

  22. Overpaying is overpaying... on Music Downloads = Expensive Concerts? · · Score: 1

    How is overpaying to listen to crap in person any different than overpaying to buy it on CD?

  23. Showing your hand: word to the wise-guys on Mafia Boss Using Crook Crypto Captured · · Score: 3, Interesting
    Now, right this minute, every other mobster is in a mad rush to implement a real crypto scheme. The cops, for the sake of some PR, have pretty much guaranteed that it will be harder to decode such communications in the future.

    There was an American mobster a few years ago who did something using PGP, and the only way the FBI were able to crack it was to bug his keyboard http://www.theregister.co.uk/2000/12/06/mafia_tria l_to_test_fbi/

  24. Re:First read on IRS Compels PayPal to Release Info · · Score: 1
    If PayPal wants to act like a bank, they should, well, act like a bank.

    PayPal is fighting tooth an nail to not be treated as a bank.

  25. Re:Apples and oranges... on Is the Physical CD Still A Viable Market? · · Score: 1
    The Cowboy Junkies' Trinity Sessions was literally "5 guys" around a Focusrite mic in a church. But that's the exception that proves the rule. Most major label releases are produced in a studio that's got $500,000 worth of gear and an equivalent amount of studio build-out: sound proofing, acoustic treatments, isolation booths.

    All that, and they still suck ass.