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  1. Re:Sounds like indentured servitude on US Law Allows Low H-1B Wages; Just Look At Apple (networkworld.com) · · Score: 1

    And it wasn't even the CIA's intelligence- it came from the Israelis.

  2. Re:Sounds like indentured servitude on US Law Allows Low H-1B Wages; Just Look At Apple (networkworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Bingo, that's it. You win slashdot for today.

    Oh, and BTW for the original headline- what is "Allowed by law" and what is "allowed by overworked bureaucrats bribed under the table" are two vastly different things.

  3. Re: Excluding the unfortunate exceptions on 'Don't Tell People To Turn Off Windows Update, Just Don't' (troyhunt.com) · · Score: 1

    He wanted to leave the 4xx ports open to the internet? I block them at Windows Firewall, or in Linux and Android, I refuse to even install SMB derived protocols (SFTP is good enough)

  4. Re: Excluding the unfortunate exceptions on 'Don't Tell People To Turn Off Windows Update, Just Don't' (troyhunt.com) · · Score: 1

    Yep. STILL dealing with this on my laptop. Of course, I do not have idiots opening spam links in emails either, and SMB is blocked even for LAN on my network

  5. Re:The proposal is way simpler than the summary! on Google's 'Project Treble' Could Lead To Faster Android Updates (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    It hasn't always been that way. Sound on the Apple IIe was accomplished by reading a certain memory location that was physically wired to a speaker, very very fast.

  6. Re:The proposal is way simpler than the summary! on Google's 'Project Treble' Could Lead To Faster Android Updates (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Yep. That's exactly the conclusion I came to.

  7. Re: More on Pepe the Frog Is Dead (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    And oddly enough I got a reasonable, if a bit strange, answer: Golan Heights Oil Fields.

  8. Re: More on Pepe the Frog Is Dead (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    I was unaware they had discovered oil in the Golan Heights. That explains a lot actually.

  9. These script kiddies are either idiots or this is indeed a false flag. Did nobody ever think to put the sentences into a database and retrieve them with a random number generator, and do the same with the contact info?

  10. Re: More on Pepe the Frog Is Dead (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Why is it then that Democrats are anti-Israel and Republicans are pro-Israel?

  11. Re:More on Pepe the Frog Is Dead (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    So why is it that you ADL types are so anti-Israel, but the alt-right is so pro-Israel?

  12. Re: More on Pepe the Frog Is Dead (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    First I've ever heard of Pepe, and I'm involved in partisan politics to the point that I believe the SPLC and the ADL are racist hate groups, and that the Republicans are fiscal Libertines, and that the Democrats are sexual libertines and that the whole country is going to hell.

    What was this Boys Club anyway, some sort of misogynist comic strip?

  13. What's so wrong with OpenID on Inside Germany's Plan To Kill Online Registrations (cnn.com) · · Score: 2

    Haven't we been down this road several times before?

  14. One that is being used by the diabetic community is the idea of glycemic load- how much does your blood sugar go up when you eat certain foods. Oh yeah, and sugar is just refined carbs.

  15. Re:Useless article, half baked.. on The Parts of America Most Susceptible To Automation (theatlantic.com) · · Score: 1

    Fast food is another prime target. Burger-and-fries cooking robots aren't that hard to build. Someday, Redbox will not be sitting next to a restaurant, but next to another red box with a big golden M on it.

  16. The evidence-based solution is low carb, high fat diets, which actually DO reduce obesity, unlike low fat, high carb diets, which promote obesity.

  17. Re:One of these things is not like the others on VC Founder Predicts AI Will Take 50% Of All Human Jobs Within 10 Years (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    distribution of food alone can keep Madame L Guillotine at bay. One need not redistribute ownership to do that.

  18. Re:One of these things is not like the others on VC Founder Predicts AI Will Take 50% Of All Human Jobs Within 10 Years (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    I haven't trusted that "authority" as an authority on unemployment since the Reagan Administration.

    When you have only a 60% labor utilization rate, it's impossible to have only a 17% U6 number, because that means that you're failing to count 23% of the population.

  19. Re:One of these things is not like the others on VC Founder Predicts AI Will Take 50% Of All Human Jobs Within 10 Years (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Not really. Democrats and redistribution to the poor is like Republicans saving unborn children. They trot it out every 4 years to get votes, then sit back and do absolutely nothing new once in office, because actually solving the problem would mean that they'd lose the reason to get the votes every 4 years.

  20. Re:One of these things is not like the others on VC Founder Predicts AI Will Take 50% Of All Human Jobs Within 10 Years (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Why would the rich want to redistribute anything at all? Of what PROFIT is there in redistribution?

  21. Re:One of these things is not like the others on VC Founder Predicts AI Will Take 50% Of All Human Jobs Within 10 Years (cnbc.com) · · Score: 2

    And what exactly would be the reason anybody would want to be educated if the computers and robots are doing all the work?

  22. Re:One of these things is not like the others on VC Founder Predicts AI Will Take 50% Of All Human Jobs Within 10 Years (cnbc.com) · · Score: 2

    When you look at the U6 numbers, we're hovering between 30%-40% unemployment in America already, due to EXACTLY the situations you proclaim (we hide it behind "disabilities" where people only suited for those kinds of work are now "disabled" and on "permanent disability").

    Yes, I foresee a day when 90% of US Citizens are idle, and on some sort of government welfare check or living off the wealth of previous generations.

  23. One of these things is not like the others on VC Founder Predicts AI Will Take 50% Of All Human Jobs Within 10 Years (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    "replace 50% of human jobs, create a huge amount of wealth for mankind and wipe out poverty"

    I agree with you, only two of these things are achievable. You can either eliminate 50% of jobs, or wipe out poverty. You can't do both.

    A huge amount of wealth will be created either way.

  24. Re: Why not? on Should Banks Let Ancient Programming Language COBOL Die? (thenextweb.com) · · Score: 1

    The one thing Cobol does well is formatted output. CSV is just a special formatted output.
    http://www.csis.ul.ie/cobol/co...

  25. Re: Why not? on Should Banks Let Ancient Programming Language COBOL Die? (thenextweb.com) · · Score: 1

    I'd disagree with that. You can write HTML in any language that has a print statement just fine.

    And most Cobol systems can output CSV or any other text based file format you want.