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  1. Re:Mapping lies to lies... on Using Machine Learning To Find a Better Job · · Score: 1

    Which is interesting, but I rarely get hits on Linked In (like twice a year if I'm lucky) despite all my associations and resume/skillsets. Then again, I don't have a picture uploaded either. I'm seriously wondering if that's the problem on Linked In. I'm just a normal looking dude that prefers not to have his portrait cached on the Internet. I guess I'm funny that way, but there you.

  2. Re:Best way to get a tech job on Using Machine Learning To Find a Better Job · · Score: 1

    By design. This is to create a permanent underclass in America. The only thing keeping this in play by the tech industry is the all the people jockeying for one of two positions; the haves and have-nots. At least the Indian's understand the caste system. For the rest of us, welcome to the "new normal".

  3. Re:Makes USA kind of look like ancient Rome on Mississippi - the Nation's Leader In Vaccination Rates · · Score: 1

    Being that America's moral and ethical values are falling like ancient Rome, this is par for the course. In fact, i'm really thinking that America is just the phoenix of Rome. It fucking moved half-way around the world!

  4. Re:Monomania on One Man's Quest To Rid Wikipedia of Exactly One Grammatical Mistake · · Score: 1

    My comprised statement is comprised of your statement, which is comprised of the previous 47,000 comprised entries.

  5. Re:Science... Yah! on Science's Biggest Failure: Everything About Diet and Fitness · · Score: 1

    I'm not sure if it's a conspiracy with HFCS as it is the metrics of products that sell. Take the entire food industry as a whole; I doubt there's some secret meetings that discuss HFCS and how much to use. Most likely, products that use a certain percentage of HFCS is based on trial and error (blind study, sales metrics...etc) and hunting for the ultimate profit margin. Fact is, people like sugar subconsciously; and math doesn't lie so long as the original source data holds true.

  6. Re:Expensive on Telomere-Lengthening Procedure Turns Clock Back Years In Human Cells · · Score: 1

    You're missing the point. By working more, individual lives become more "rich". Meaning the standards of living rise for everyone. But in terms of financial wealth, power is in the disparity of what you have over those who do not. So basing wealth on the idea of increasing denomination via savings is a moot point, because everyone else will be doing the exact same thing; supply and demand carry over.

  7. Re:Expensive on Telomere-Lengthening Procedure Turns Clock Back Years In Human Cells · · Score: 1

    Yeah, right!

    Do you remember the saying that with computers "we could perform the same amount of work in less time, thus live a more leisurely life"? In reality, we perform more work in the same amount of time.

    At the end of the day, everyone is competing against everyone else. That's capitalism. The only difference is that we'll work the same as we always did, but with more years attached to our life. You will be rushing to save up for retirement no matter what; be it till 90 or 190 years of age.

  8. Re:Why? on Microsoft Launches Outlook For Android and iOS · · Score: 1

    Agree with the assessment of the iPhone. It's not needed. Android OTOH this is a godsend!!! I can't emphasize that enough. I've had to help many clients with all their various Android make/models; a few of them won't support Office365 without downloading a 3rd party mail client. iPhones? I never had problem unless public DNS records are missing or invalid (such as autodiscover SRV record for example).

  9. Re:Not too big to fail on Alibaba Face Off With Chinese Regulator Over Fake Products · · Score: 1

    It's bad enough when pirated phone and laptop batteries make its way through distribution on Amazon. The same seller will either knowingly or unknowingly sell pirated crap intermingled with legitimate inventory.

  10. Re:Power Costs on Proposed Disk Array With 99.999% Availablity For 4 Years, Sans Maintenance · · Score: 1

    You can virtualize and abstract out to your heart's content. What TWX said was simple; at some point at the end of the day, all that data has to be stored on physical media. That takes physical rack space.

  11. Re:Positive pressure? on Why ATM Bombs May Be Coming Soon To the United States · · Score: 1

    Not a bad idea actually. Using precision cutting, you could make numerous thin slits. Enough to vent the pressure while simultaneously keeping the box secure.

    Another option maybe to create separate long ported vent chambers.

  12. It's not Exchange on Amazon Takes On Microsoft, Google With WorkMail For Businesses · · Score: -1, Troll

    If it's not Exchange based (Outlook anywhere), it's fucking useless to me.

    Microsoft owns corporate e-mail; and for a damn good reason. Well, only because Lotus Notes sucks balls.

    Oh, and Zimbra can suck my balls too. It's a worthless pile of shit that either munges e-mail and contacts, or is dicey at best on iPhones and Droids via IMAP.

    Office365 hosted e-mail dominates going forward!

  13. Re:Oblig. on Spider Spins Electrically Charged Silk · · Score: 1

    No, not the Ilwrath you won't.

  14. Re:627,000 jobs, are they real? on The American App Economy Is Now "Bigger Than Hollywood" · · Score: 1

    It's a filter. When a developer says they can make an iDevice app, Apple basically says "oh yeah, ok, pay up or shut up". Meaning, suffer the consequences for creating another me-too far app.

  15. Re:Headline is flat out wrong on Apple Posts $18B Quarterly Profit, the Highest By Any Company, Ever · · Score: 1

    And yet, the entire GDP of Saudi Arabia is about 750 Billion. Or put it another way, if Saudi Aramco was its own nation, its GDP would sit between Ukraine and Kuwait; and that's just in the top 56 of 194 nations on the list.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L...

  16. Re:And all this without Jobs on Apple Posts $18B Quarterly Profit, the Highest By Any Company, Ever · · Score: 1

    Inertia.

    Jobs had many products and ideas already in the pipeline prior to his death. To my knowledge, the only thing new is iPhone+. There's nothing magical about that decision. By the numbers, the market was clear in that people wanted a phablet. So they took an iPhone and increased the size; BFD.

    I'm convinced the Apple Watch will be a flop. But then again, the R&D spent can be applicable in other future products. That's part of the cost of doing business; absorbing and learning from failures and moving on.

  17. Re: Why would they want to colonize the galaxy? on Gamma-ray Bursts May Explain Fermi's Paradox · · Score: 1

    Nobody ever expects the extraterrestrial inquisition!

  18. Re: Or maybe it's because on Gamma-ray Bursts May Explain Fermi's Paradox · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Interestingly, I oftened wondered if it was in the interests of intelligent life to focus their "expansion" inward to cyberspace vs. outerspace; transcending their evolution via forgoing the flesh bodies to machines of silicon based computers (or some such). Meaning, we're looking in the wrong places.

  19. Re:Escaping only helps you until a war. on Davos 2015: Less Innovation, More Regulation, More Unrest. Run Away! · · Score: 1

    Doesn't matter. Look at Mexico (and rest of South America). Noticed how the rich live in gated communities with 24h guards? Real power is in wealth disparity, and fuck the entire population and its future to get to the top. It's a parasitic mindset from, well, a parasite. Why have two maids when four can be had for the same price? As for that "price"?? Just a number, and numbers are meaning less if you can jet half-way around the world to purchase your luxuries when in necessary; perceived or otherwise.

  20. Re:Will this scale? on Secret Service Investigating Small Drone On White House Grounds · · Score: 1

    Chainmail burkas!

  21. Re: I use Kaspersky on Ask Slashdot: Best Anti-Virus Software In 2015? Free Or Paid? · · Score: 1

    Kaspersky is good, but I'm not sure that I would trust them to be state sponsored free these days; if you know what mean.

    Vipre Antivirus has been real good these last few years (will be using for personal use once my Kaspersky subscription runs out). Norton has also improved vastly too (lighter engine). Can't go wrong with either.

    http://www.vipreantivirus.com/

  22. Re:But then don't some have to go FASTER than ligh on Scientists Slow the Speed of Light · · Score: 1

    So um, is the speed of light 299,792,458 m / s - (minus) infinity? Meaning, at C, both the creation and discretion of the universe is instantaneous. C, being a reference for all things happening/happened simultaneously?. Thus, Time being an illusion in the disparity between the two??

  23. NHTSA Safety standards cock-blocks the idea on Local Motors Looks To Disrupt the Auto Industry With 3D-Printed Car Bodies · · Score: 3, Informative
  24. Re:Just give the option to turn it off... on Fake Engine Noise Is the Auto Industry's Dirty Little Secret · · Score: 1

    Velocity stack intake is sweet on a roadster too.

  25. Re:Noise on Fake Engine Noise Is the Auto Industry's Dirty Little Secret · · Score: 1

    The worst offenders are those that use blue headlight bulbs. It started out as a cheap imitation of incandescence bulbs to looks like HID lights, but then took on a culture of el-cheap-o to make them as Smurf blue as possible. And bright! All very fucking annoying.

    I'll stick with my stock Sylvania bulbs. They last longer, and the human eye sees better in warmer lighting (yellows) conditions anyways; it's more safe for all drivers on the road.