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  1. Re: I get my news from slashdot on More People Get Their News From Social Media Than Newspapers, Study Finds (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    a lot of tongue wagging on the media to do a 180

    Personally, I'm going to turn around 360 degrees and walk away.

  2. Re:Good Deal, If You're Ready on Verizon Announces 10,400 Employees Will Voluntarily Leave the Company (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    Sounds familiar.

    Push toward 5G

    I'm just trying to figure out how moving to 5G (upgrading equipment, etc.) is going to need fewer employees than Verizon needs to maintain the existing infrastructure. If it's anything like our aerospace buddy, some managers have gone off on the side to offer contracting services to the old company. They will pick up the 'retired' employees and put them on the job to do the 5G upgrades. Profits for the new contracting firms, more money for the employees that get out. And Vestberg will have to explain where all the money went when their 5G rollout goes over budget.

    On second thought, it's nothing like the aerospace outfit. Because there, heads roll uphill.

  3. Re:How is it still legal? on Freshwater is Getting Saltier, Threatening People and Wildlife (scientificamerican.com) · · Score: 1

    4 million miles of roads in the US

    And it's snowing on all of them at once?

    You can use highway maintenance vehicles for the rolling roadblocks. Laws regarding obeying their instructions applies just as it does for police. I know this. I used to have state traffic control certification when I worked for the local power company.

  4. Re:"Billions of Micro-organisms" ?! FFS :-D on Scientists Identify Vast Underground Ecosystem Containing Billions of Micro-organisms (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    There are more errors in this summary than there are stars in the universe.

  5. Re:All I want on What is the Future of Office Spaces? (weforum.org) · · Score: 2

    Be careful what you wish for.

  6. Re: How is it still legal? on Freshwater is Getting Saltier, Threatening People and Wildlife (scientificamerican.com) · · Score: 1

    The speed of the pilot car. Pass him and go directly to jail. This is already codified into most state laws for construction zones and other hazardous traffic situations.

  7. Re:Programmers don't die, on 22-Year-Old Google Engineer Dies At His Work Terminal (nypost.com) · · Score: 1

    systemd failed to respawn a process that died.

  8. Re:How is it still legal? on Freshwater is Getting Saltier, Threatening People and Wildlife (scientificamerican.com) · · Score: 1

    If you want to prevent people from dying in road accidents,

    You slow down. If drivers won't slow down, you use rolling roadblocks. If they try to pass the patrol cars, they get a night in a comfy jail cell.

  9. Re:Self driving cars should fix this on Freshwater is Getting Saltier, Threatening People and Wildlife (scientificamerican.com) · · Score: 2

    until sometime in the 1960's
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    too much work to remove sand from the storm sewers

    This.

    But in the 1960s, that meant sending someone into each storm sewer grate with a shovel and bucket. Now they use Vactor trucks.

  10. Re:Elon Musk is insane on Elon Musk: Tesla 'Would Be Interested' in Taking Over GM's Closed Factories (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    rockets

    Maybe he can pick up some old Boeing plants.

  11. Programmers don't die, on 22-Year-Old Google Engineer Dies At His Work Terminal (nypost.com) · · Score: 1

    they just GOSUB without RETURN.

  12. Total Inability To Support Users Phones on Millions of Smartphones in 11 Countries Were Taken Offline Yesterday by an Expired Certificate (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    n/t

  13. In related news ... on California Gives Final OK To Require Solar Panels On New Houses (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    ... the price of pre-regulation existing homes just jumped by $20,000.

  14. Re:Need to stop stealing from bike lanes on UPS Tries Delivery Tricycles As Seattle's Traffic Doom Looms (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    wasted public space used for private car storage on our surface streets

    Then you'd better have a word with Seattle's new policy allowing zero parking condominium and apartment development. Street parking in places like Freemont (for example) is turning into a real shit-show with all the residents chasing after fewer available parking spaces.

  15. Time to switch to Huawei.

  16. Re: Any day now we are all going to drown! on Sea Levels May Rise More Rapidly Due To Greenland Ice Melt · · Score: 1

    Try buying booze in the US if you lack ID.

    Alcohol kills more people per year than guns, let alone AR-15s.

    Five day waiting period on that bottle of Scotch when?

  17. A photon has mass.

    A photon has momentum.

  18. They are shipping US origin products to Iran.

    This.

    But this (and the ZTE embargo) will just motivate China to roll their own version of 5G and fab their own chips. Back when 3G was on the drawing board, China was considering developing their own protocols. US chip makers went to our government and begged them not to. It doesn't look like they (China) got strong enough concessions in return for giving up their own R&D. This time may be different.

  19. Re:I for one welcome... on 24 Amazon Workers Sent To Hospital After Robot Accidentally Unleashes Bear Spray · · Score: 1
  20. Re:Crime against humanity on Sea Levels May Rise More Rapidly Due To Greenland Ice Melt · · Score: 3, Insightful

    But we have a zero carbon alternative. Build nukes.

    What I'd like to see is all the hippies and foot draggers who run around with their hair on fire about global warming, but then stall technical solutions, to be hauled before a court and accused of crimes against humanity.

  21. Re: Any day now we are all going to drown! on Sea Levels May Rise More Rapidly Due To Greenland Ice Melt · · Score: 0

    Europe has freedom you could only dream of.

    Great. I'll just pop into my local Aldi and pick up an AR-15.

  22. Re:MILLIONS ARE GONNA DIE!!! on Sea Levels May Rise More Rapidly Due To Greenland Ice Melt · · Score: 1

    Are they just going to wade into water and drown themselves?

    Millions of people in places like Bangladesh live within a meter or two of the current sea level. During storms they already experience serious flooding. Now you might think that they could just migrate inland. But there are already people living there. Who will kill them.

  23. FJ-40

  24. Re:Could vs. Should on First Baby Born After Deceased Womb Transplant (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    You die without the function of a kidney. It boils down to the economics of lifetime of dialysis vs a transplant. To save a life.

  25. Re:Could vs. Should on First Baby Born After Deceased Womb Transplant (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    It is none of your business.

    Perhaps not. It was Brazil and they can do what they want with their public healthcare funds.