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  1. By the hour, the wages are not as high. on More Than 60% of Tech Workers Feel They're Underpaid (cnbc.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    If I calculate the amount of time I actually work rather than look at my yearly salary, I am making less than a lot of non-technical unskilled labor jobs.

    Putting in 50-80 hours a week degrades your quality of life and takes much more valuable time away from from family, but cutting down to only 40 hours a week degrades your productivity and puts you on a track to being fired. Tech workers also take less vacation too.

    Because IT is a cost center at most companies, the workers are under more pressure from management to prove themselves essential to the bottom line.

  2. You mean monopolies are bad for consumers? on AT&T Promised Lower Prices After Time Warner Merger -- It's Raising Them Instead (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Wow. Who would have thought?

  3. How about allowing more vehicles to lower fees? on Uber Tests Cheaper Fares For Riders Who Are Willing To Wait Longer (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    Their rules require drivers to use 5-seater vehicles. How about 4 seaters and 2-seaters?

    Who wouldn't like being picked up in a corvette?

    Or how about allowing motorcycles with a second seat or sidecar?
    Most people who ride Uber/Lyft do so alone and would probably be OK paying less for a smaller vehicle.

  4. What could possibly go wrong? on Some Rivers Are So Drug-Polluted, Their Eels Get High on Cocaine (nationalgeographic.com) · · Score: 1

    Tell me that giving cocaine to a bunch swimming fangs doesn't sound like a B monster movie.

  5. He'll just cancel the treaty. I don't think that argument will dissuade him.

  6. Wait...it's possible to find TOR users? on Supreme Court Gives FBI More Hacking Power (theintercept.com) · · Score: 1

    Is TOR not anonymous anymore? How they be found and investigated if they are using TOR and could be anywhere in the world?

  7. Re:The malware is injected into Web sites .. on Linux Ransomware Has Predictable Key, Automated Decryption Tool Released (csoonline.com) · · Score: 1

    How does it get admin?

  8. Barnes & Noble = Hypocrites! on Books With "Questionable Content" Being Deleted From ebookstores In Sweeping Ban · · Score: 4, Informative

    I remember Barnes & Noble making a big thing about how it supported banned books like Huckleberry Finn and The Lorax. They had signs and buttons reading "I read banned books!" all over the store.

    I guess now its "I only read the books I'm allowed to read!"

  9. Totally clueless on Court Declares Google Must Face Wiretap Charges For Wi-Fi Snooping · · Score: 1

    If you leave your wi-fi open, its public. It's commonly accepted practice. I expect Google to win this easily.

  10. Re:Weasel words on Obama Admin Says It Won't Fight Looser Marijuana Laws, With Conditions · · Score: 1

    Most criminals test positive for THC at the time of their arrest. Cannabis is also the drug most often linked to crime.

    http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2013/05/23/192101/marijuana-is-drug-most-often-linked.html#.Uie38z_hcuw

  11. Re:Discouraging underage use? on Obama Admin Says It Won't Fight Looser Marijuana Laws, With Conditions · · Score: 1

    Prediction: Marijuana advocates will claim this is invalid and all part of the conspiracy to keep the drug they are addicted to away from them. Just watch.

  12. Re:Weasel words on Obama Admin Says It Won't Fight Looser Marijuana Laws, With Conditions · · Score: 1

    All the evidence that is not propaganda by marijuana advocates show that should remain illegal.

  13. Re:Weasel words on Obama Admin Says It Won't Fight Looser Marijuana Laws, With Conditions · · Score: 0

    The next few years will demonstrate legal recreational use won't cause the Reefer Madness Armageddon. More people will recognize the stupidity of squandering billions on the prohibition/prison industry and a tipping point will be reached.

    What I think is more likely is that they will find legalizing a dangerous drug to be a disaster for their society and economy. I predict the number of addicts will approximately double, car accidents caused by being under THC influence will increase, addictive behavior will cause more families to suffer and to be torn apart, bankruptcies due to marijuana consumption will go up, and their economy will erode as until they finally realize what a horrible mistake they made.

    Marijuana is a dangerous schedule 1 drug. It should stay that way.

  14. How come so few developers thinks to stick solar panels on their electric cars?

    Put a solar panel that raises up so it charges in "park" mode and I'm sold.

  15. These are separate articles! on For Overstated Claims, Gore, Tesla Upbraided By NWS, NHTSA Respectively · · Score: 1

    These two articles have nothing in common. It seems to me that somebody is trying to present a biased viewpoint about environmentalism and alternate fuel vehicles.

  16. What would happen with a national debt of $0? on PayPal Credits Man With $92 Quadrillion · · Score: 1

    Let's say he actually paid the national debt. I know it's just a mistake, but wouldn't there be seemed lag time between the debt being paid and them correcting it?

    If so, what affect would having our debt be at 0 for a day be? For a few hours? Minutes? Seconds?

  17. Re:Wait. . . What? on U.S. District Judge: Forced Decryption of Hard Drives Violates Fifth Amendment · · Score: 1

    But how is that consistent with the ruling that you do not have to decrypt your hard drive?

  18. Re:But, Corporations are People! on The Amish Are Getting Fracked · · Score: 1

    Except we can vote for the government.

  19. Re:But, Corporations are People! on The Amish Are Getting Fracked · · Score: 1

    Corporations are people.

    Until that is inconvenient for them. Then they are corporations again.

  20. Wait. . . What? on U.S. District Judge: Forced Decryption of Hard Drives Violates Fifth Amendment · · Score: 1

    So forcing you to provide DNA = Not a 5th Amendment violation
    Forcing you to decrypt your hard drive = 5th Amendment violation

    Can somebody explain how this is consistent?

  21. Re:DNA tests on Google Formally Puts Palestine On Virtual Map · · Score: 1

    Perhaps I should have qualified this by stating that Israelis are more genetically related to Palestinians than to Jews living in other countries while Palestinians are more related to Israelis than to Arabs in other countries.

    In other words, they are genetically the same people.

  22. DNA tests on Google Formally Puts Palestine On Virtual Map · · Score: 2

    DNA has shown that Israelis and Palestinians are the same people. Either they both have an ancestral claim to the land or neither one does.

  23. Same problem as Fermi Paradox on Why We'll Never Meet Aliens · · Score: 1

    It's assigning modern human values to extraterrestrials hundreds or thousands of years in advance.

    You can make up whatever thought experiments you want, but until you have real data to back it up it's all just science fiction.

  24. Show that good? on Netflix: 'Arrested Development' Won't Crash Our Service · · Score: 1

    I've never watched Arrested Development. I didn't think it was that popular.

  25. Too much for doing nothing wrong! on Germany Fines Google Over Street View - But Says €145k Is Too Small · · Score: 1

    It's not like they are hacking into networks--these are *unsecured* wi-fis.