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  1. Re: Exactly! Re:Girls better in non-STEM on Study of 1.6 Million Grades Shows Little Gender Difference in Math and Science at School (theconversation.com) · · Score: 1

    Why get frustrated? Men tend to view male teachers nurse etc as weak(even though it is a lie) and so stay away from those fields.

    Male nurses tend to even get paid more as they have the muscles to move some of the overweight patients around easier.

  2. Re: The thing that hath been on Millennials More Likely To Fall For Scams Than Baby Boomers (washingtonexaminer.com) · · Score: 1

    I don't disagree with you but I think reward points are an even better scam.

    Sure I will give you $0.005 on the dollar and let you reward yourself with spending money.

    So when credit card company took the full amount out of checking instead of that months payment, I took the chance cashed in all my reward points, and dropped the card. Switched it to a cash back without a program (a fixed rate) canceled my secondary card, and am in a much better option.

  3. Re: Depends on how they got the lobbying group on Did John Deere Just Swindle California's Farmers Out of Their Right to Repair? (wired.com) · · Score: 5, Informative

    You can't change a spark plugs and without a software override code on these tractors.

    Yes it is that bad.

  4. Re: The capitalist solution? on Did John Deere Just Swindle California's Farmers Out of Their Right to Repair? (wired.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    They are plus a ukraining company that I can't remember.

    However tractors tend to be long term investment s(20-40 years) and change is slow. This law was focusing on people who bought tractors 10- 15 years ago and need updates and repair work.

    John Deere is long term destroying their brand. So sad.

  5. Re: Indeed on iPhoneXsMax, Now That's a Tongue Twister (om.co) · · Score: 1

    iPhone exmess is easy to say.

    And it sounds like iPhone excess

  6. Re: The same thing is going on in thunder bay on Swiss Village Votes for Free Money. Now It Just Needs the Cash (bloomberg.com) · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Capitalism fails when all the money is just in one pot too.

    In fact everything fails when it is all in one pot. So what is needed is enough freedom to be flexible, enough regulations to ensure fair play, enough taxes to fill in the gaps, and balanced budgets for governments.

    That is how the economy grows. To much in any one of those four directions and it always fails. Get two or three and the collapse comes quickly.

    Show me one Republican that will balance the budget. you can't. Democrats aren't much better but at least they offset spending with higher taxes.

  7. Re: how do they solve the double-spend problem? on New York State Approves Two Dollar-based Cryptocurrencies (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    No most people compare crypto currencies with how much money they can make overnight.

    They compare it to short term gains not using it for transactions.

    I can't go some where and spend a crypto coin. Businesses won't take them people won't take them as you can't spend them, and the value bounces faster than venezula dollars.

    That isn't a good investment, it isn't good for anything.

  8. Re: It's simple.. on Why Is American Mass Transit So Bad? It's a Long Story. (citylab.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Waiting for technology is the sign of failure of planning and thought.

    Self driving cars are 20-30 years away. Wide scale deployment of waymos level 4 service is 10-15 years away.

  9. Re: 8K content? on Samsung and LG Unveil 8K TVs (cnet.com) · · Score: 2

    Wait you get 1080p? My cable company only supplies hd digital for premium access. I get SD for most of my stuff including football

  10. Re: what is indecent? on The Consequences of Indecency (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    So Democrats killed 60 million welfare babies and you are sad about it.

    Abortion and contraceptives have done more to limit teen pregnancy, limit welfare than anything Republicans have ever done.

    Maybe if you had a brain. You would know this. But Abstince never works when you are horny. And 300 more catholic preists it doesn't work either.

    Time to realize Republicans are usually wrong about life. Accept reality Instead of propaganda.

  11. Re: The headline is missing three words on As Value of Cryptocurrencies Falls, a Lot of New and Risk-Taking Investors Are Suffering Immensely (nytimes.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Except I can buy things with a dollar, ruble or euro.

    I can't buy stuff with 99.99% of crypto currency . Companies stopped accepting it, as the value flycated to much,and transaction times took days.

    Banks,credit cards process hundreds of million of transactions a day. Bitcoin could barely do 3 orders of magnitude less.

  12. Re: Millennial murder spree! on 'Americans Own Less Stuff, and That's Reason To Be Nervous' (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 2

    You do know right now that $10 trillion of the national debt is money owed by the general fund go the social security trust fund.
    In 1998 we knew that you 2010 social security would be paying more than they take in. ,In 2010 that did start happening, and workers wages instead of rising stayed stagnet.

    Now 9 years later the debt ballon owed to social security is rising g rapidly, the economy is good and Trump tries to heat it up more. We now have 3-4 ballons about to pop.

    Do not forget that the number of public companies is down by a lot new public companies is down, and there are fewer investments you can make, while at the same time we are using those investments for retirement planning. That sounds good untill people startwithdrawing siad moeny, and new workers who arepaid less don't have enough to refill it

  13. Kylie Jenner

    A 21 year old billionaire.

    Do you really think she runs her company? Or did her family set her up with good people who manage the money, control expenses and deal with operations so all she has to do is sit back and go yes no that one and then run off for a couple of weeks while the real work gets done.

    CEOs of large companies don't do any work. That is why they get so much vacation to get them away from the place so real work can get accomplished.

    Now CEOs of small and even mid size companies they really do work

  14. Re: Forget Windows - Mac is where this will shine on ARM Makes Its CPU Roadmap Public, Challenges Intel in PCs With Deimos and Hercules Chips (pcworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Why do you think arm is publishing this? Apple takes the basic arm and tweaks it for it's desired specs.
    Though arm 7 and 5nm are in truth closer to Intel 10 and 7nm.

  15. Re: Extremely misleading article. on US House Candidates Vulnerable To Hacks, Researchers Say (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    It is misleading since nothing of real value can be done to those websites.

    It is the old xkcd.
    https://xkcd.com/932/

    I don't hide tricks using links.

  16. Re: How exactly does this work? on Malicious Faxes Leave Firms 'Open' To Cyber-Attack (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Except for us all faxes go to a targeted email address. Usually a general inbox.

    While not hooked up, our old fax machine is a copier, scanner printer. All scans automatically do into a folder. Faxes used to do the same thing but we moved the fax number to a digital service.

    Ideally ditching faxes all together would be great, just can't be done yet. To many still use them to send data.

    Scanning is not always tech illerate friendly. Where sending a face is a phone number and press send

  17. Sometimes it does come in handy if you want to know restraunts in your immediate area.

    Though once a year I come across an article about it and promptly log in to delete all extra data

  18. Re: Not surprising on Millions of Android Devices Are Vulnerable Right Out of the Box (wired.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Not only is it crapware it is uninstallable crapware. Let me uninstall samsung mail , calendar I don't use it anyway.

    Fine lock me into TouchWiz z but let me uninstall apps I don't actually use.
    Bewteen Samsung and att I have 30 unstallable apps

    Apps, not settings, or keyboards that I replaced just apps

  19. Re: Happy Birthday Piratebay! on The Pirate Bay Turns 15 (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 1

    His mom is not a back alley hooker, she is moderately priced escort.

    His dad is a back alley hooker

  20. Re: The problem is too many channels on People Still Don't Like Their Cable Companies, ConsumerReports' Telecom Survey Finds (consumerreports.org) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Which is why we need local loop unbundling so the last mile fiber and wire can be hooked up by lots of people.

    Not disimmialar from electricity. I pay one company for distribution and another for usage.

    I am also not againist usage metering as long as the meter is publicly visible to me, and all data is the same. Att Comcast all don't count cettian services againist your data use

  21. Actually they aren't willing to train. They say they are but go doit. They won't pay for the training.

    Neither will they pay for welders. That takes time and skill. Lots of time and they don't want to put that time in to train.

    Lots of companies say they pay training. But you have to work 40-60 hours a week first and then in your free time do the training.

  22. You are stupid. Yes $100 an hour you get charged get broken down and the guy himself end up getting $25 an hour.

    The rest goes to the truck, insurance, taxes, materials, tools etc.

    All of that stuff adds up fast. Very fast.

    Also add in enough to cover slow times when you need to pay your employees to keep them, but don't have incoming business to offset.

    I have worked for contractors and even that $100 an hour was barely covering expenses. Profit overall came from big jobs.

  23. Those trades are dying because they don't pay. Be a plumber watch your salary capped at $50-60 k for thirty years. 50k with kids is poverty level.

    Trades will die as long as wages are stagnant.

    Yes a few trades pay more than that but not many and not early. Even the union gigs are not high pay rates.

    You need a salary of $100k a year by age 30 to live at the level of 30 years ago you could do at 50k.

  24. Re: Distopian future.. on Slashdot Asks: Which is Better, a Basic Income or a Guaranteed Job? (timharford.com) · · Score: 1

    Forget political it will take a huge hange in economnics to make UBI a reality.

    When we get just in time manufacturing, in stead of just in time shipping that we have now then we can talk about UBI. Until that point the exonony won't be able to sustain it.

    Just in time manufacturing means product is only produce as it is sold with minimal stock. For reference that is ,walk into Best buy pick out a TV. They may have 2-3 in stock, but your TV they build for you and you pick it up the next day.

  25. Re: Easy.... on Ask Slashdot: How Do You Handle Hardware That Never Gets Software Updates? (hpe.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    The issue isn't updates but people who don't apply updates at all.

    Linux and osx let you schrdule them but that says the user is smart enough to do so. 20 years of Windows updates have prove that to be false for 99% of users.

    The forced updates of iOS have proven to be !ore secure than the fragmented updates of Android.

    How often do you update your router? If your up time is over 60 days you are missing updates and are insecure.

    That is the issue. The other issue is designing software to use decraprated apis. Anyone building software using win32