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  1. Better a kid than a 400 lb adult oozing into my seat.

  2. Ryanair uses air stairs. Board back-to-front. Deboard back-first from the rear door. That way, no one is excessively inconvenienced.

  3. Ever seen an intercity bus board at Port Authority terminal in NYC? Works just fine -- 40-50 people and one boarding door, they usually start boarding 4-5 minutes before the bus leaves. Even with something like a 100-person 737, this would still work fine, especially if they used air stairs on both the front and rear doors as some airports do (Burbank, CA is known for this). And yes, Ryanair usually boards on stairs because they're too cheap to pay for a proper gate.

  4. Rule #1 - bad translation? on Germany Proposes Router Security Guidelines (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm confused about this rule: "Only DNS, HTTP, HTTPS, DHCP, DHCPv6, and ICMPv6 services should be available on the LAN and WiFi interface"

    What about SSH, VPN, VPN-over-SSH, etc? Are they saying that other than those few services, no other services should be passed through to the Internet? Or that the router ITSELF shouldn't provide services other than those six?

  5. Breeder and their rugrats can show up early or go sod off.

  6. Make airline boarding more like the old Southwest system or like a commuter train. Board handicapped people first. Other than that, those who show up earlier get to board first and pick seats first.

  7. Re:New business opportunity on AI Mistakes Ad On a Bus For an Actual CEO, Then Publicly Shames Them For 'Jaywalking' (scmp.com) · · Score: 1

    Don't wear a Xi mask, a Mao mask or anything else. But surgical masks are pretty popular in China due to "air quality" and hide a face very nicely.

  8. Maybe your cousin didn't WANT to use the social media crap, and was basically saying: call me, text me, or fuck the fuck off.

  9. Re:Cashless society = Surveilance society on China's Cashless Economy Threatens To Leave Its Elderly -- and Their Money -- Behind (qz.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Exactly. The elderly still remember things like Mao's purges and Tiananmen Square. Maybe they're smart enough not to want their grandchildren to grow up in a society that the government scum have locked down airtight.

  10. Re:Skeptical on China's Cashless Economy Threatens To Leave Its Elderly -- and Their Money -- Behind (qz.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Maybe the "geezers" are pretending to complain because they're old, and really complaining because they remember the consequences of total government control (Mao's purges, etc). Maybe they don't want their grandchildren to grow up in a country where all of their purchases are sliced, diced, data-mined, and socially credited by Chinese government filth. Don't toe the line, good luck buying food next month...

  11. Not necessarily -- (at least in the US/Europe), you can have the app connected to a credit card, not a bank account. So it's still the banksters' money.

  12. Re: Seems like there's probably no need to change on Ask Slashdot: How Can You Find a Good IT Consultant? · · Score: 1

    That solution assumes that permanent IT staff exists and are competent.

  13. Freelancers! on Ask Slashdot: How Can You Find a Good IT Consultant? · · Score: 4, Interesting

    (1) Do it yourself ... or ...
    (2) Find a competent freelancer

    The problem is that most smart and competent freelancers get bored of doing network/IT support after a while and either go back to university and do something else, or move into a more interesting part of IT like programming or design.

    This brings me to a third idea -- put up ads that you need someone at a local university. You might end up with a career-changer or former freelancer who needs a few dinars on the side to pay for school. Even better if you can pay promptly without too much drama.

  14. Re:Probably not. on Can The Police Remotely Drive Your Stolen Car Into Custody? (thenextweb.com) · · Score: 1

    What self-respecting car thief doesn't carry "Ninja Rocks" -- aka pieces of spark plugs hard/sharp enough to break a tempered glass window?

  15. Amazon is punished. Access to businesses and goods made and distributed at the expense of working human beings is NOT a human right.

  16. Company automates. Use of robots starts being taxed to hell and back, at an appropriate rate to alleviate the social costs of such. Or maybe, just maybe, regulations are passed to shut this company out of the EU market...

  17. Look at European vs US incarceration rates. Who's the free world again? Most of Amazon's products are also made in China, one of the least "free" countries. Tax and ban away!

  18. Re:How to destabilize China... on Beijing To Judge Every Resident Based on Behavior by End of 2020 (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    The Russians have no love for China. Ideally, the US and EU would play one against one another, hopefully to the point of both regimes collapsing.

  19. How to destabilize China... on Beijing To Judge Every Resident Based on Behavior by End of 2020 (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Hack the thing. The hack could come from a government, or a private organization like WikiLeaks with an interest in causing chaos. Don't destroy it, just start slightly altering people's credit.

    Just start lowering the credit of people with military training and access to guns a fractional amount. Veterans, police, military, etc. Make them slightly more angry and frustrated. Then start fractionally increasing the credit of people with borderline anti-government views. Create an angry underclass with military training and access to weapons while helping some of the people who will radicalize them do their thing.

  20. For some reason, B-school types have adopted the word "spend" to mean "average spending." It's a butchery of the English language, but it is what it is.

  21. Re:I'm not spending anything... on Thanksgiving E-commerce Spend To Top $3.5B, Mobile Accounting For One-Third of Sales (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    As do I -- I want to do my part in provoking the next recession, nothing like buying a former Trumpy's home at foreclosure auction :)

  22. Re:Is it just me or do the deals suck this year on Thanksgiving E-commerce Spend To Top $3.5B, Mobile Accounting For One-Third of Sales (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    The real deals are on Craigslist in January after the sheeple's credit card bills from Black Friday and the Holy-daze season come due. Geez it up like Ebeneezer...

  23. Re:Zero plans to go to a physical store on Thanksgiving E-commerce Spend To Top $3.5B, Mobile Accounting For One-Third of Sales (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 2

    I like to see what I'm buying, so I just go to physical shops a few days before X-mess, after the lemmingfest has died out.

  24. I'm not spending anything on "black weekend." I usually holiday shop at the last minute, after crowds have died down, but buy cheap.

    The real deals come after x-mess in early January, when credit card bills some due and sheeple list their old stuff on Craigslist to help pay the loan sharks...

  25. Re:Fuck Ford... on Ford Eyes Use of Customers' Personal Data To Boost Profits (threatpost.com) · · Score: 0

    Because the average American voter has the IQ of a iodine-deficient lemming.