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  1. Re: The desktop is dying! on Tech Shoppers in the UK Ditch Desktop PCs and DVD Players (ofcom.org.uk) · · Score: 2

    You also will notbuy your PC at that store or Best Buy and spend mire than average on it.

  2. Re: Tech Bubble is over on YouTube is Testing Having Two Skippable Ads Back-To-Back (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    I knew it was over when the first ads showed up. When Google raped Dejanews. Call it the King-Midas-Complex. Everybody tries to turn things into gold. Well, that brraks a lot. You see this in many other things, like books, movies, music, sports, ...
    It works, because people like shiney things.

  3. Re: Does Youtube still have ads? on YouTube is Testing Having Two Skippable Ads Back-To-Back (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    I think that google is so smart that it shows ads that people are interested in. That is what they keep saying. They just know that I am not interested in them. That must be it.

  4. Re: They could still make components in Shenzhen on Apple iPhone Supplier Foxconn Planning Deep Cost Cuts (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    There is a difference between an order and delivery. Last minute delivery is a thing, as it keeps cost low. This both in space for stock and the capital the atock represents.
    Many manufactoring places have hours of stock, not days or even weeks.

  5. Re: Could this be a sign of Apple moving productio on Apple iPhone Supplier Foxconn Planning Deep Cost Cuts (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    The transport of an individual item will be cheaper than the individual items. Everything else is also made in China.
    So there would be no gain for them. On top of that, the US is not the only place they sell to. By increasing taxes for import to the world, the rest will increase theirs as well. That would lower the demand even more.
    And even the few people that arre needed would be cheaper in e.g. Mexico or, er, China.

  6. Re:Sounds like what every company should do on Apple iPhone Supplier Foxconn Planning Deep Cost Cuts (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Reminds me of a company I worked. They said that they needed to cut cost and would fire 50% of the staffing.
    On department that normally needed 6 people was already down to 4. 2 people where gone, so there where 2 left. So they fired 1. As this is in Belgium she got several months pay. They nodiced that the staffing was way to low, so they needed to hire one.
    Who did they hire? The person they fired and gave a years pay. Well, that was free money for that person.

    Firering people just because the number 10% sounds good is an issue of and by itself.

  7. Re: Whats all this European ineptness with interne on Google News May Shut in Some Countries Over EU Plans To Charge Tax For Links (theguardian.com) · · Score: 2

    The reason you only hear that us because that type of news sells better.

  8. Re: Pensions & union contracts don't help. on NYC Subway, Bus Services Have Entered 'Death Spiral,' Experts Say (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    That is why the European public transport works so well: the lack of Unions. /s

  9. Re: No intrinsic value on Bitcoin Falls Below $5,000 For First Time Since October 2017 (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    So it is basically like anything else on the stockmarket these days.

  10. Just because somebody voted for Trump does not mean they agree or disagree with everything that happens. Same for the people who did not vote for him

    The issue is thatt many people, you included, think that there are two sides and you must be one or the other. Even astrology is more precise.

  11. Re: shit company that pays peanuts on GitLab's Secret To Success? All Its 350 Employees Work Remotely (inc.com) · · Score: 1

    Misleading others is not the best basis for a relationship.

  12. Re: Virtual coffee break??? on GitLab's Secret To Success? All Its 350 Employees Work Remotely (inc.com) · · Score: 1

    I have, by lae, 15 minutes in the morning and in the afternoon. Many collegues sttay at their PC and surf. I take a personal Laptop and go sit somewhere else. Getting away helps me to concentrate better.

    I aksi do not eat lunch at my desk. Just doing some /.

  13. Re: Telecom world is (kinda) remote on GitLab's Secret To Success? All Its 350 Employees Work Remotely (inc.com) · · Score: 1

    I am glad I am not homeworking. I know I woukd not be productive. I alsoo like to keep home and work 100% separated.

    My comute is 50 minutes door to door and company pays the train and bus. I have friends who love it. To each their own.

  14. Re: Don't believe the hype on GitLab's Secret To Success? All Its 350 Employees Work Remotely (inc.com) · · Score: 1

    There is a difference between FTE and headcount. For all we know they work 2 day per week. There us also a lot of correlation is not causation.

    They write it as if the sole success is thanks to homeworking.

  15. The reason I use google is for video search. DDG shows only a few. Youtube search is not good enough.

  16. Since when did they start with ads on Youtube?

  17. Drunk? on How I Got Locked Out of the Chip Implanted In My Hand (vice.com) · · Score: 2

    I am all for doing anything to your body. You just have to be not drunk. This is coming from someone who, with a couple of friends, confinced a mate to get a tattoo a 05:00 during a night of heavy drinking. This was at a time when almost nobody had visible tattoos.

    The only thing that saved him was that the parlor was closing, not that the artist was refusing it.

    I am glad it did not work out and upset it was because of the wrong reason. I am sure there are enough who would refuse it, but apparently not enough.

  18. Re: Permission to listen to a radio signal? on FCC Paves the Way For Improved GPS Accuracy (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    These kind of things never happened under Gengus Kahn and he killed a hoigher percenntage of people.

  19. Re: Permission to listen to a radio signal? on FCC Paves the Way For Improved GPS Accuracy (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    I knkw they are blowing smoke,but for the saje of argument, what potential danger could receiving such a signal do to their systems? Not talking about getting the location wrong. Talking about their systems..

  20. Re: excitement on Kilogram Gets a New Definition (bbc.com) · · Score: 1, Funny

    For those in the field, yes. It is like sex, eciting for me, not so much for her. (At I hope it will be. First talk to a female human.)

  21. Sure the request will increase, so they must keep increasing thei bandwith. The time you put in a copperline and it is good fot 100 years is gone.

    Perhaps competition could help.

  22. Re: unlike music? on Food Taste 'Not Protected By Copyright,' EU Court Rules (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Reminds me of when I was in culinairy sxhool. A chef that does not share his knowledge has something bad to hide. Tgere are hundreds of tv shows where you see cooks make food. Good luck making the same food. It will not be the same.

  23. Re:This just in: science is messy on Scientists Acknowledge Key Errors in Study of How Fast the Oceans Are Warming (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    So if I decide to NOT publish around US election dates, that would be better?

  24. Re:Workers opposing unethical projects is bullying on 'Jeff Bezos is Wrong, Tech Workers Are Not Bullies' (ft.com) · · Score: -1, Troll

    As Unethical means morally wrong and evil I would say that the laws are pretty clear on that.
    So the answer to your question is: the laws.

    Nice try to divert from the real issue.

  25. I do have sympathy. Many people ate told that a copy is a backup and raid is backup. It is not the peoples fault they where sold the wrong solution.
    I am sure there are things you or me believe that are true and are not.