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  1. Re:I will never belong to a union on Does Silicon Valley Need More Labor Unions? (salon.com) · · Score: 1

    You only have a say if the loafers - er, lifers - don't outnumber you and outrank you.

  2. Re:I will never belong to a union on Does Silicon Valley Need More Labor Unions? (salon.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    As someone who was a union member about a decade ago, you sure couldn't tell it by my union's actions.

  3. The requirements are right there in the question: would you support creating a database to track people of a given religion? There's no tweak to the requirements that could make that a palatable task.

  4. Depends on the company. I've been with my current company for about five and a half years; we came in through an acquisition, where the old company had been lowballing everyone. I got a 10% raise at the time of the acquisition, and over the last five years I've gotten about a 115% raise beyond that. (No, that's not a typo, I'm making more than double what I was when we were acquired.)

  5. Re:They just promised to cut XP support... on Dropbox Cuts Several Employee Perks as Silicon Valley Startups Brace For Cold (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 1

    Those XP machines shouldn't be connected to the Internet anyways.

  6. Re:$10/month plus on Google Announces Fiber Phone, a $10/Month Home Telephone Service · · Score: 1

    It depends on the state. In Michigan, for example, items intended for resale aren't taxed. And certain entities are exempt from paying sales taxes (schools, for example). That wouldn't be possible if our sales taxes were set up as you describe.

  7. Re:this is likely due to the AT&T shutdown on Old Kindles Will Be Disconnected Unless You Update By Tuesday (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    The very oldest models will be USB-only; wi-fi wasn't added until the third generation (aka Kindle Keyboard).

  8. Re:Only if they've been offline for a while on Old Kindles Will Be Disconnected Unless You Update By Tuesday (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    The problem isn't on the server end, it's on the device end. The root certificates saying "yes, this is Amazon, all is good" are expiring. If the device doesn't trust the server's identity (because it was signed with a new root cert), there's no way for it to download the updates.

  9. Re:Unless you had it's wireless disabled.... on Old Kindles Will Be Disconnected Unless You Update By Tuesday (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Amazon sent emails out about this over a month ago...

  10. Re:Yeah, don't care either. on Old Kindles Will Be Disconnected Unless You Update By Tuesday (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    You won't even be able to buy from Amazon when you connect to wifi; you'd have to download a new book from your computer then copy that to your Kindle via USB.

  11. Re:Do People Still Watch DVDs? on Hollywood Escalates "DVD Ripping" Case To International Incident (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 1

    You can't have both - if you want to be able to download stuff you're paying a monthly fee for to use offline, it's going to have DRM. Otherwise, you could download everything, then cancel it, and keep watching it indefinitely.

  12. Re:Keep mouth shut. Get another job. on Most IT Pros Have Seen Embarrassing Information About Their Colleagues · · Score: 1

    So she's now only able to be employed in a completely different field. Sounds to me like it did a lot of harm, then.

  13. Re: They are not U.S. profits. on Tim Cook Calls Apple's Tax Questions 'Political Crap' (cbsnews.com) · · Score: 2

    The bullshit there is the IRS trying to tax you on that foreign income, not that corporations aren't.

    As far as I know the US is pretty much the only country that tries to double dip on its citizens' income like that.

  14. The problem isn't the NSA having offensive weapons. The problem is the NSA knowing that some installations are built on quicksand but not informing the owners.

    That's not helping national security, that's degrading it.

  15. Re:A list of missing episodes on Dr Who Detective Philip Morris Hints At More Rediscovered Episodes · · Score: 1

    Yes it is. Everywhere else he's just "the Doctor".

  16. Re:Not going to work out for them on JetBrains Moving Its Dev Tools To Subscription Model · · Score: 1

    Then you must be the first coming of our new robot overlords. HAIL CALVIN!

  17. Re: History repeats. on Amazon Developing TV Series Based On Galaxy Quest · · Score: 2

    A show shouldn't need 40 episodes to hit its stride. Don't blame the network, blame the writers for taking so long to get to the point.

  18. Re:Done to _gouge_ the customer better on Regionally Encoded Toner Cartridges 'to Serve Customers Better' · · Score: 1

    Xerox, Canon, HP, Epson, Samsung, Lexmark, Brother, Ricoh, Dell... there's lots of companies in the market.

  19. Re:Mickey Mouse copyright extenstions... on "Happy Birthday" Public Domain After All? · · Score: 1

    Extending it won't encourage the dead author to produce more work, but it can (theoretically) encourage people who are alive now to create works they wouldn't otherwise have done because they'll be able to better provide for their descendants.

  20. Re:Why Not Java? on AP CS Test Takers and Pass Rates Up, Half of Kids Don't Get Sparse Arrays At All · · Score: 1

    When I took it in 2002, it was C++ at the time. I think they switched to Java a year or two later.

  21. Re:Backdoors for truth and justice! on How 1990s Encryption Backdoors Put Today's Internet In Jeopardy · · Score: 1

    They are allowed to break into your hours when you're not home and search your stuff. They just have to get a judge to rubber-stamp a piece of paper first, which doesn't take any great amount of effort.

  22. Re:the winter dragon is coming, on Something Resembling 'The Wheel of Time' Aired Last Night On FXX · · Score: 3, Informative

    Obsidian's rights were sublicensed from Red Eagle.

  23. Re:Convenience vs. Security on TurboTax Halts E-filing of State Tax Returns Because of Potential Fraud · · Score: 1

    If you hold back refunds until the first of May, people won't bother to file until April 14th; there's no incentive to file sooner like there is now. So then you're trying to do more work in that tight window.

  24. Re:Double Irish on Obama Proposes One-Time Tax On $2 Trillion US Companies Hold Overseas · · Score: 1

    Roads: funded by the gas taxes they pay for their vehicles.
    Medical facilities: not used by corporations, only by individuals.
    Police: funded by the property taxes on their facilities.

    I'll grant you the legal system, but that doesn't require a 19%, or even 1.9%, tax on corporate income to fund.

  25. Re:my lightbulbs are on the internet! on Nest Will Now Work With Your Door Locks, Light Bulbs and More · · Score: 1

    Nest has a dumb mode like that, but no motion sensor override. (You can use the sensor instead of the schedule, with the Auto Away feature, but not in addition to.)

    That doesn't help your other objections, of course. I just wanted to clarify that point. :)