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  1. Re:Ted Kaczynski on 'I Tried to Block Amazon From My Life. It Was Impossible.' (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    Of course if you like things like running water and electricity.

    I'm pretty sure he has running water and electricity now (and no Amazon!). It's in the Constitution.

  2. Re:I don't think she tried hard enough. on 'I Tried to Block Amazon From My Life. It Was Impossible.' (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    Buy a log cabin in the woods with no power, no internet, cell connectivity, at least 30 miles away from any neighbor.

    Just make sure that your brother doesn't know about the pipe-bomb supplies you are buying.

  3. Re:Yes, and? That was the point! on 'I Tried to Block Amazon From My Life. It Was Impossible.' (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    Because traveling on asphalt-paved road supports the genocidal, Cheney-backed, corrupt, oligarchical oil companies. There.

  4. Re:Most people can't tell the difference in A/B te on Why High-Fidelity Streaming is the Audio Revolution Your Ears Have Been Waiting For (forbes.com) · · Score: 1

    Yeah, for short cable lengths, any sufficiently large diameter wire works fine.

    Sounds like a challenge. I see your "short" and raise you this.

  5. Re:He had "deliberately evaded oversight"... on Chinese Scientist Who Gene-Edited Babies Fired by University (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    If it helps, it's pronounced differently from the pronoun "he".

  6. Re:The Anti-JUDEN petition on Facebook Launches a Petition Feature (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    They are probably downmodding it because they recognize the poor copy-and-paste job (what's with the repeat paragraphs?): https://pastebin.com/aqA2kf5A

  7. Re:Setting Fires on Is California's PG&E The First Climate Change Bankruptcy? (marketscreener.com) · · Score: 1

    TL;DR: they gambled; they lost. Somebody ought to be put in a debtor's prison (or its analog).

  8. Re:Come to California on Too Many Workers Are Trapped By Non-Competes (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Thank God for that, too. I think this year (by which I mean the 2018-2019 rainy season) will average out to average rainfall year, rather than being a very dry year that early- to mid-fall was shaping up to be.

  9. Re:Come to California on Too Many Workers Are Trapped By Non-Competes (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 2

    If your competitor does that, then drive them out of business by outcompeting them with higher-quality American workers. If you know someone who works in engineering, you will hear of a night-and-day difference between U.S.-educated engineers (at the top of their game, leaders in their field) and a lot of foreign engineers (need constant supervision, prone to mistakes).

    If you are not working for an employer doing this already, then start up your own!

  10. Re:The much more serious google drive issue on Google Drive Has a Serious Spam Problem, But Google Says a Fix is Coming (howtogeek.com) · · Score: 1

    And they have. There's just no official client.

  11. Re:Something WRONG ! on Possible Superconductivity In the Brain? (springer.com) · · Score: 1

    As nutty as the paper sounds, this alone isn't dispositive enough to dismiss it out of hand. These transition temperatures don't have to obey some kind of order. For example, the Fermi temperature of most metals is far in excess of their melting temperatures, which is why free electron model describes metal behaviors so well.

    Having said that, at those temperatures, if there is to be any superconductivity, it's clearly not through formation of Cooper pairs, or frankly any phenomena where quantum coherences are important.

  12. Re:I don't know. Is having a resume still relevant on Ask Slashdot: Is LinkedIn Still Relevant? · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Yeah, I guess I "opted out" of that social media aspect. I never understood people posting streams of stuff on LinkedIn—the negatives (you might unknowingly piss off someone who was considering you for a position) far outweigh the positives (someone looking for a candidate notices you), and unlike other social media, the impact on your job prospect is direct and purposefully so.

    LinkedIn is useful for what it started out as. Do you want a public copy of your resume out there where people can see it, but you don't want to bother with maintaining a personal website (not to mention most personal websites don't get much traffic anyway)? Then LinkedIn is very useful for that. Are you expecting LinkedIn to just deliver best jobs to you? In that case the blame lies with unreasonable expectations, not what LinkedIn can or can't do.

  13. I don't know. Is having a resume still relevant? on Ask Slashdot: Is LinkedIn Still Relevant? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I mean, employers just throw out most resumes they get for an opening. So does that mean you should no longer have or update your resumes?

    LinkedIn is basically an online resume repository. Being active on LinkedIn doesn't mean you can ignore other good advice on job hunting (networking, etc.).

  14. Re:Call it hacking on Scientists Have 'Hacked Photosynthesis' To Boost Crop Growth By 40 Percent (npr.org) · · Score: 2

    He just hates Monsanto (see: Roundup).

  15. Re:Man, this takes me back on Vermont Will Give You $10K If You Move There and Work Remotely (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1

    And it could have easily been Wyoming, rather than New Hampshire. Both awfully cold states.

  16. Re:BULLSHIT on Mark Zuckerberg on Facebook's 2018: We've Changed, We Promise (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Is your Facebook account still $FREE ???

    Then YOU are the one getting plundered, pillaged, and raped.

    Yeah, but we thought the EULA specified only one rape per month. We would never have agreed to a daily rape!

  17. Is that a typo? Because that only covers 12.5 people, which doesn't sound newsworthy.

    Don't be silly. It's for 25 people, since the grant is $5000/year, renewable for one additional year. It's twice as newsworthy as you thought.

  18. Re:I believe it! on In Some Bay Area Counties, College Grads Have Higher Unemployment (mercurynews.com) · · Score: 3, Funny

    It's your fault for getting cut off. If there's less than 1 car length between your car and the car in front of you, no one can cut you off (or at least in the case of accident, they'll be at fault).

    It's called defensive driving.

  19. Re:Forest fires and bird habitat on Tech is Killing Street Food (theatlantic.com) · · Score: 1

    No, I didn't miss it, because I do remember how it was like dying when my family had to move when I was young.

  20. Re:Forest fires and bird habitat on Tech is Killing Street Food (theatlantic.com) · · Score: 1

    It could be nesting season, those eggs/fledglings didn't move.

    Good thing most human cultures stopped practicing—thanks to the industrial revolution and the green revolution—exposing of newborns and starving fledglings to death when they have to move.

    I don't think the OP suggested that there were no impacts on the street food vendors; they (and their young 'uns) didn't die—or be forced out of business en masse.

  21. Re:Didn't measure/compare against abuse rate for M on A Woman on Twitter is Abused Every 30 Seconds (fastcompany.com) · · Score: -1, Troll

    It doesn't matter what the "baseline" is. A woman is a fragile creature who should never be abused, and I'm sure the authors of "Troll Patrol" would agree with this sentiment.

  22. Re:Who cares? on The GPS Wars Have Begun (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    You clearly missed the point about the Chinese having ability to shoot down satellites some while ago. /sarcasm

  23. Yeah. Even dumber things happen "in science." At least these authors knew they were doing a dumb thing.

  24. Re: Do they deal with law enforcement? on What Happens After Surprising DNA Test Results? (bloombergquint.com) · · Score: 1

    Exactly. I have nothing to hide, and I'm sure you have nothing to hide either. Who needs the Fourth Amendment?

  25. While we are at it, let's kill all the retirees. After all, they contribute nothing to the society any more.