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  1. Enforcing US law overseas on President Trump To Use Huawei CFO As a Bargaining Chip (politico.com) · · Score: 1

    Let's invade Britain and arrest the Queen for driving on the wrong side of the road.

  2. OSHA where are you on 24 Amazon Workers Sent To Hospital After Robot Accidentally Unleashes Bear Spray · · Score: 1

    Where the hell is OSHA? Amazon is worse than the Springfield nuke plant.

  3. Amazon is uniquely vulnerable to strikes on Amazon Workers in Europe Stage 'We Are Not Robots' Protests on One of Its Busiest Shopping Days (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 2

    Amazon runs so close to the edge that it is uniquely vulnerable. A two-day strike would fill their warehouses with unfiled received merchandise.

  4. Re:Good. on Most Organizations Are Not Fully Embracing DevOps (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    Why would I embrace getting paged at 2 in the morning? What an idiotic idea.

  5. Re:Wisdom, pay attention! on Norway Will Make All Short-Haul Flights Electric By 2040 (independent.co.uk) · · Score: 1
  6. Re:Wisdom, pay attention! on Norway Will Make All Short-Haul Flights Electric By 2040 (independent.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    FAA requires commercial flights to be able to fly to the destination, then to an alternate and then for 45 minutes more. That's going to take a big chunk out of 1.5 hours.

  7. Science advances with every funeral on 'There's No Good Way To Kill a Bad Idea' (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    Science advances with every funeral.

  8. overbooking is old new on Are Airlines Intentionally Overbooking Their Flights? (popularmechanics.com) · · Score: 1

    The policy of rewarding people for getting bumped was instituted by Alfred Kahn under the Carter administration. After airlines were deregulated, they had no established policy for overbooking and they would either just hold the plane indefinitely until someone volunteered to get off for free, or they would just bump random people. Kahn established the policy of requiring them to first ask for volunteers and offering rewards.

  9. Nevada on Will Tesla Install Home Solar Panels To Charge Cars? (buffalonews.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    This is a great move but I don't understand why Tesla built its huge battery factory in Nevada, after the wholly-owned utility commission basically killed home solar in Nevada with fees paid to the power companies. Surely that factory could have been used as leverage.

  10. Cutting positions across the board on HP Plans To Cut Up To 4,000 Jobs Over Next 3 Years Amid PC Slump (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Note that "across the board" does not refer to the board of directors.

  11. .0000370967 of comcast annual sales on Comcast Fined $2.3 Million by FCC For 'Negative Option Billing' Practices (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    .0000370967 of comcast annual sales.

  12. python-like syntax complicates error detection. on A New Programming Language Expands on Google's Go (infoworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Coffeescript has got rid of so many syntactic markers and declarations that it has almost no error detection. For example, the sentence 'mares eat oats and goats eat oats and little lambs eat ivy' generates no errors in coffeescript. Nor will the obvious error 'return if ab then'

  13. Re:Epinephrine cost per dose in about 50 cents on US Patients Battle EpiPen Prices And Regulations By Shopping Online (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    According to divine doctrine of capitalism, the company's first duty it to its shareholders and the company takes care of its customers and employees only to the extent that a lawsuit or lost sales might hurt its bottom line. Fortunately for this company, it has the FDA and the customs service as its enforcers.

  14. chump change on Verizon To Pay $1.35 Million Fine To Settle US Privacy Probe (reuters.com) · · Score: 2

    This is an awesome result for Verizon because it immunizes them against future class action suits for change that they might find under couch cushions.

  15. What about all the buyers? on US Government's Pirate Movie Bootlegger Gets 24 Months Probation · · Score: 2

    They had to know what was going on and no-one complained to a manager for 7 years. In addition to file-sharing they are all abusing government computers and networks.

  16. Re:Kill the researcher on How to Maintain Lab Safety While Making Viruses Deadlier · · Score: 1

    Absolutely agree. This is just bio weapons research under a different name and I'll bet you anything it's funded by DARPA.

  17. This call may be recorded on Comcast Drops Spurious Fees When Customer Reveals Recording · · Score: 1

    I don't think Comcast wants to pile on more bad publicity by suing a customer for recording a call that they said was being recorded anyhow.

  18. stealth radar on Long-Wave Radar Can Take the Stealth From Stealth Technology · · Score: 1

    I think stealth just arranges for reflections not to be bounced back at the transmitters. If you have a lot of receivers located in other places you'll still see the bounce. Sweden has a system like this.

  19. Re:Flying Car on Has the Rate of Technical Progress Slowed? · · Score: 1

    A broken control cable will kill you really quick.

  20. Re:LaTeX is a Crappy. LuaTex is the Future on Modern LaTeX Replacement? · · Score: 1

    That's a really mean thing to say about brainfuck. \advance\x by\y? It's sort of a cross between Cobol and Etruscan.

  21. Cross between a military base and an insane asylum on HP Seals the Deal, Buys EDS For $14B · · Score: 1

    EDS is an infamously bad place at which to work; check out http://www.indeed.com/forum/cmp/EDS/05390c183c137e1e747b46 Typical (pre-merger) quote: "My spouse was RIF'd at the end of January after 8 years of putting in overtime and everything. He hopes they go down the tubes, to be quite honest."

  22. Re:No mater how secure on Hushmail Passing PGP Keys to the US Government · · Score: 1

    History is full of flagrantly unjust court orders. Many reporters have gone to jail
    in defiance of court orders to reveal their sources. When I encrypt something, I
    expect it to stay encrypted.

  23. Re:Good grief on Man Hacks 911 System, Sends SWAT on Bogus Raid · · Score: 1

    See http://www.dpft.org/dwvictims.htm for a list of innocents shot in their bedrooms and living rooms by SWAT teams.

  24. Around 1972 on WordLogic Patented the Predictive Interface · · Score: 1

    Someone at Bell labs wrote a paper about CATS, a Computer-Assisted Typing System,
    around 1972. I can't find it at the moment.

  25. Re:don't repeat, get a graduate degree on Graduate with Bad Grades or Repeat a Year? · · Score: 1

    I took a grad level compilers course at MIT and at U of Arizona the one at UA was much better; for one thing, we had real computers to program on. And the professor specialized in compiler research. Anyway, my recommendation is to avoid simply re-taking the same courses with the same faculty. If you don't understand basic algorithms and data structures, you need to pick that up. Transfer, take higher- level courses, get a grad degree, or get another undergrad degree. Simply re-taking the same course won't teach you as much and will look bad. If you can get into a foreign exchange program and take a year overseas, that would look great on your resume. Anything that's unusual, shows initiative, and grabs the attention of the recruiters will serve you well. You want to be "that kid who went to Edinburgh for a year" rather than "that kid who repeated all those courses".