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  1. Re:Perhaps a better method... on Programmers Are Confessing Their Coding Sins To Protest a Broken Job Interview Process (theoutline.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    And obviously watch HOW they get to their solution, ie. not by connecting to a chatroom where they have a bunch of friends waiting to help out. Looking up snippets, checking parameters and syntax etc. would obviously be fine, that's what you'll be doing in daily work anyway.

  2. Re: Per Capita Numbers? on Americans Have Fewer TVs On Average Than They Did In 2009 (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    And all that convenience for the low, low price of squinting at a tiny screen, head tilted forward to cause neck pains.

  3. Re: Per Capita Numbers? on Americans Have Fewer TVs On Average Than They Did In 2009 (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    What I don't get is why people WANT to watch movies on their phones or tablets instead of reclined in a sofa, looking at a 50" screen or bigger.

    Ignoring the question of OTA, Cable, Satellite or streaming, wouldn't YOU prefer looking at a big screen while eating popcorn or other snacks?

  4. Re:Got you on FCC Chairman Calls Net Neutrality a 'Mistake' (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    So paying the digital equivalent of protection money is your solution to not having regulation?

  5. Re:Companies doing fine; not comsumers on FCC Chairman Calls Net Neutrality a 'Mistake' (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Telekom in Germany for one. They don't really BAN servers, but at least in my case on their residential connection the router is hardwired to desync and resync every 24 hours, pulling a new IP each time, which at best makes hosting a server very, very annoying.

  6. Re:being player? on Twitch Will Begin Selling Games You're Watching Later This Year (kotaku.com) · · Score: 1

    It's called AI. Watch games being (the) player - no humans needed!

  7. Re:Partnered Streamers on Twitch Will Begin Selling Games You're Watching Later This Year (kotaku.com) · · Score: 2

    Considering the tendency to buy games you're never gonna play during Steam's sales, this is likely to turn a lot of profit on impulse purchases alone.

  8. Re: Bloggers on 'Uber Is Doomed', Argues Transportation Reporter (jalopnik.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Yes, they had a damned good product idea.

    Then they ABANDONED that idea in favor of seeing just how much shit they could get away with before the collective governments of the planet came down on them like a bag of bricks.

    Seriously, it's been years since you could call Uber "ride-sharing" with a straight face.

  9. Re:Lease model work around? on The Videogame Industry Is Fighting 'Right To Repair' Laws (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    I would honestly be happy to trade able-to-repair for free-repair rules on a lot of things that I am just not competent or equipped to repair with or without a manual.

  10. But the difference is that you buy certainty - you check that you have the money now, today, and you pay it, and no nasty surprises get sprung on you in five years when you've already dug into your savings for other reasons.

    Peace of mind is very, very valuable.

  11. Then your job is essentially comparing two lists:

    List A is 'Skills and abilities required for job'
    List B is 'Skills and abilities available on robots'

    Can you compare those two lists faster than a robot can?

  12. Have you ever heard the expression that Rome wasn't built in a day?

    Change doesn't come in leaps and bounds, it comes a single step at a time.

  13. Re:so non dealer service or not paying for softwar on Self-Driving Cars Should Be Liable For Accidents, Not the Passengers: UK Government (arstechnica.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    I don't see servicing mentioned in the exemptions. I see unauthorized SOFTWARE changes, which basically means you don't get to jailbreak your car without paying up if the jailbreaking causes your car to plow into a group of kids. Does your car drive better with the jailbreak? No one will find out about it if there's no accident.

  14. Re:Suing the governments for interfering in my lif on Self-Driving Cars Should Be Liable For Accidents, Not the Passengers: UK Government (arstechnica.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Please stop taking advantage directly or indirectly from roads, hospitals, education, electricity not generated by yourself, water and food also not generated by yourself (to the full extent, no buying supplies for a well or seeds for planting that has in any way had contact with government) and so on.

    Internet too, you don't get to use that anymore because it was originally started by the military which falls under government.

  15. Re:Isn't it the victim's Echo they want info from? on Amazon Argues That Alexa Is Protected By the First Amendment in a Murder Trial (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    I'll kill you like I killed Electronic Arts for their Spore bullshit.

    So not at all, then. EA is doing fine.

  16. Re:Then 38,928 Incorporated Cities in US are "Smal on FCC Votes To Lift Net Neutrality Transparency Rules For Smaller Internet Providers (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    The third largest city in Denmark has 175k citizens. So if that rule applied there, well. Two cities total would have a chance at getting net neutrality.

  17. Yeah, that's only a(nother) reason to NOT go looking in the workplace.

  18. Re:Cheating at Tournaments on 'Counter-Strike' Gets Invaded By An Unblockable Chat-Bot (kotaku.com) · · Score: 1

    Chess can be played in 500 years same as we play it today. So can football, baseball, any sport you can think of.

    How long do you think it will be until CS:GO just can't really run on modern computers, or no one wants to because the graphics are too dated? That is going to be the curse of any kind of e-sports, the crazy pace at which the medium itself moves.

  19. Re:I'm not surprised. on Former Engineer Says Uber Is a Nightmare of Sexism; CEO Orders Urgent Investigation (susanjfowler.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    clear sexual advances like these without invitation are a clear case of sexual harassment.

    So you want to ban any kind of sexual advances? I mean, do you want that people first ask before they ask about starting a relationship?

    I must be incredibly old-fashioned to think that getting to know someone, talking, finding common interests etc. should precede "Hey, wanna fuck me? My girlfriend is okay with it."

  20. It was so okay the news went around the world and sparked some of the first online memes.

  21. Re:Caring on 'Counter-Strike' Gets Invaded By An Unblockable Chat-Bot (kotaku.com) · · Score: 1

    His amusement.

  22. Re:Caring on 'Counter-Strike' Gets Invaded By An Unblockable Chat-Bot (kotaku.com) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    So his argument is more like, "I picked the lock on his front door and painted graffiti on all his walls (the spamming) because I care about him and want him to get a better lock on his door!"

  23. Re:Cheating at Tournaments on 'Counter-Strike' Gets Invaded By An Unblockable Chat-Bot (kotaku.com) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    No, the worst part about this is that there are professional tournaments with prizes ranging in the thousands and millions for a computer game.

  24. Caring on 'Counter-Strike' Gets Invaded By An Unblockable Chat-Bot (kotaku.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    "I hack and exploit the game because I care about it and want it fixed!"

    "I rob banks because I care about them and want them to have better security!"

  25. Re: That's why I pay to recycle monitors on Some Recyclers Give Up On Recycling Old Monitors And TVs (vice.com) · · Score: 2

    And that makes it less of an environmental hazard how, exactly?

    This isn't about pointing blame at the people who bought and later got rid of CRT TVs. This is about revealing that things aren't getting recycled as they're supposed to.