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  1. Re:Don't sign for the package? on Oracle Finally Decides To Stop Prolonging the Inevitable, Begins Hardware Layoffs (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    We find it's always better to fire people on a Friday. Studies have statistically shown that there's less chance of an incident if you do it at the end of the week.

  2. Re:Meh on On Internet Privacy, Be Very Afraid (harvard.edu) · · Score: 1

    As long as I haven't done anything illegal I'm unsure why my content viewing matters...

    If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something in them which will hang him.

  3. Re: This is obvious hogwash on Autonomous Forklift May Eat Up Warehouse Jobs (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 1

    The problem lies in the clinical language of "dislocation and role changes" of labor, as if labor just gets a slip of paper that reassigns them to another job in a different place. This is a major gloss over the fact that these are real people, often at later stages of careers, who practically can't "just go get another job" doing something completely different.

    This reminds me of a conservative radio piece I heard where the guest suggest that travel agents, who are becoming obsolete, should just become app developers, because that's the hot new thing where they need people.

  4. Your right to free speech on Google Cancels Domain Registration For Neo-Nazi Website Daily Stormer (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 1
    ...ends at my SOA record

    Someone more clever than I could probably improve upon this.

  5. I think what everyone is missing... on Amazon Owns a Whole Collection of Secret Brands (qz.com) · · Score: 4, Informative
    Yeah, other companies have their own in-house brands. We get it.

    What's insidious here is Amazon is looking through their data, seeing things from Company X that are selling well, and then short-circuiting that company's supply chain to procure and sell their own knock-off. Company X basically did all the market research and product development, and Amazon steals it reaps the rewards for basically free. Company X is now screwed.

  6. he first rule of dealing with Wells Fargo is: Do not deal with Wells Fargo.

    My new employer has our retirement plan with Wells Fargo, and so far it's the biggest POS I've ever encountered. On top of that, there's an attempted upsell at every turn.

  7. Can you hack space time?

    By whacking you in the head with the same hammer, I can magically transport you 30 minutes into the future.

  8. When I was a kid, people could smoke virtually anywhere.

    I remember those days, and it absolutely sucked - as a non-smoker - to be constantly bombarded with the stench. Your clothes/hair/skin would stink from all the smoke. I worked in an office with smokers, and they would deliberately choke the place up just to fuck with me. I don't give a rat's ass about the smokers' health - they can die from #include <cancers.h> tomorrow. I just don't want to have to smell it.

  9. The economic Pie is not fixed in size.

    Make the pie higher!

  10. Honestly, your best option... on Ask Slashdot: Best Option For a Touring Band With Mobile Data? · · Score: 0

    Take a shower, cut your hair, and get a real job.

  11. Re:Why am I not surprised? on Automakers Are Asking China To Slow Down Electric Car Quotas (electrek.co) · · Score: 2

    At this point, you'd have to be a complete moron to be leading a car company and be against rolling out electric engines.

    s/engines/motors/gi

  12. "a better user experience" on EFF Officially Appeals Tim Berners-Lee Decision On DRM In HTML (techdirt.com) · · Score: 2

    translation: Bend Over Here It Comes Again

  13. EOM

  14. Elephant in the room... on Airport Security Fails 17 Times Out of 18 In Minneapolis (fox9.com) · · Score: 1

    The TSA was really just GW's jobs program.

  15. Re:You need to see the traffic to truly appreciate on Could Technology Companies Solve Traffic Congestion? (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1
    What that means is that while North American traffic behaves a lot like a non-newtonian fluid

    FTFY

  16. Concrete jungle? Luxury!

    We used to dream of living in a concrete jungle; we had to live in the lake!

  17. And the next generation after that, will be Appy App Appers, that will try to get rich by writing the best and most successful Appy App on the AppStore, and become Appillionaires.

    Like my parents always said, you just have to apply yourself...

  18. Meg Whitman's Corrollary to Moore's Law: on HP Answers The Question: Moore's Law Is Ending. Now What? (hpe.com) · · Score: 1

    Lay off half 50% of the employees every 18 months.

  19. I'm getting an error from ld that it wants libbigbrother2.0.so but I'm running 1.3

  20. Re:Hackers in Russian media on Why So Many Top Hackers Come From Russia (krebsonsecurity.com) · · Score: 1

    In the US, few people seem to be ashamed of being ignorant

    In the US, the ruling class wants everyone to be stupid, which is why they're trying so hard to eviscerate public education. That is, except for their own kids, who get sent to Ivy-league schools. A dumb electorate is a more malleable electorate. So you need skilled workers? Import them - they're cheaper and more easily controlled.

  21. Re:Karnak the Magnificent on Snapchat's New Snap Map Lets You Share Your Location With Friends (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Prosecution will be a slam dunk

    You could have said "Prosecution will be a Snap..."

  22. Re: 120 whatchyamacallit on It's Too Hot For Some Planes To Fly In Phoenix (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    Here on Kessel, we measure time in distance (parsecs)

  23. He claims $1T in savings... on Trump Promises a Federal Technology Overhaul To Save $1 Trillion (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 1

    ...to justify $2T in tax cuts to his 1% buddies

  24. Re:Correct! on Ethiopia's Coffee Is the Latest Victim of Climate Change (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    it's too much for carrier pigeons

    It could grip it by the husk...