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  1. So, no UBI!

  2. And revocation of voting rights!

  3. Re: Welcome to the future of capitalism on When Their Shifts End, Uber Drivers Set Up Camp in Parking Lots Across the US (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Or he's lying.

  4. Re:I don't even like Uber but on When Their Shifts End, Uber Drivers Set Up Camp in Parking Lots Across the US (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Did anybody force him to sign it? No; Not a problem than. People make bad decisions all the time.

    $575 for payment plus commercial insurance isn't unreasonable. Depends on his driving record. If he's totalled a car or two, it is cheap.

    If he had any brains he would shift off the car, like cab drivers do. Perhaps share a cheap apartment with the same person(s).

  5. Re:As a tech worker with kids... on Is The Tech Industry Driving Families Out of San Francisco? (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    If your kid wants to do meth, (s)he will find it, no matter where you live.

    The reason those stats aren't published is you are cherry picking.

  6. Re:Grey market. on Ask Slashdot: Should Commercial Software Prices Be Pegged To a Country's GDP? · · Score: 1

    You can find chinese Fluke meters on ebay and Amazon.

    You need instructions to use a DMM? How much bench time do you have?

    The real problem is the meters aren't really any better than the good cheapies.

  7. If developers are routinely attaching to live servers, you have deeper problems.

    Many places, more or less, require you to run a development DB copy local, just to escape the 'preventers of information services' from bogging you down.

  8. Some people would say having your DB server running the same OS as your web server is equally insecure/stupid.

    Granted it's usually DB2/AS400 (or some other half dead ecosystem) people saying it. But fundamentally, they have a point.

  9. Back in the day, I could get grey market Novell packages for less than the local Netmare distributor's wholesale price.

    The world is a global market. You can get a genuine Chinese Fluke DMM for the price of a cheapy. They are blowing their peckers off to serve a market that mostly ignores brands in any case.

  10. Re: It's Squirrel Appreciation Day. on Are Squirrels A Bigger Threat To Our Critical Infrastructure? (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    My cat brought me a 'complete' headless squirrel. I considered it a magnificent gift.

  11. Re:NoSQL DBs make MySQL look good on Database Attacks Spread To CouchDB, Hadoop, and ElasticSearch Servers (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    Do you know how I know you have never installed MS SQL server?

  12. Re: My public school system is great on Is The Tech Industry Driving Families Out of San Francisco? (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Any other 'facts' you want to pull from a dark place?

  13. Re:More features. on C++ Creator Wants To Solve 35-Year-Old Generic Programming Issues With Concepts (cio.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Templates are like 600+ hp engines. At least you know your limitations.

    Embedded programmers mostly write C, Forth or assembler. If they are using a C++ compiler, they are likely using it to code in C (or FORTRAN).

  14. Re:It may have been humans on Humans, Not Climate Change, Wiped Out Australian Megafauna (phys.org) · · Score: 1

    Australia wildlife now being entirely care (bears/spiders/snakes)?

  15. Re:Their fault on Humans, Not Climate Change, Wiped Out Australian Megafauna (phys.org) · · Score: 1

    I bet someone in Antarctica has raised a crop (of weed) in a closet. That should qualify as colonization.

    McMurdo thunderfuck?

  16. Re:Their fault on Humans, Not Climate Change, Wiped Out Australian Megafauna (phys.org) · · Score: 1

    Emu is certainly nasty.

    Kangaroo isn't bad, as long as it's young. Croc tastes, more or less, like chicken.

  17. Barbara Bach. on Humans, Not Climate Change, Wiped Out Australian Megafauna (phys.org) · · Score: 1

    Huge hootered cavewomen! At least Ringo was a better actor than he was a drummer.

    Zugzug you.

  18. Re:News for Nazis on Donald Trump Is Sworn In As the 45th US President (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    The 'wolves' in the current world are non-working parasites, voting themselves benes.

  19. In my experience, at least half of working DBAs are just vastly overpaid backup monkeys.

    Even among the 'good ones' you'll find a lot more competent SQL programmers then competent security specialists.

    Of course 'security specialists' aren't, as a group, all that useful either.

    The real problem is hiring and HR. It is a critical role and is almost always filled by someone who wouldn't know a competent computer geek if he was chewing her.

  20. An example will have to be made.

    Yahoo was/is looking like a good one. They have already lost a cool billion in valuation due to lack of security, ignoring the real payday they passed on a decade or so ago.

    Verizon should slowly rake them over the coals, drag it out as long as possible while _punishing_ the shareholders and employees.

  21. Re:Take a stand! on Is The Tech Industry Driving Families Out of San Francisco? (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Punchline: Yes the limit on computer nerds is 2, but you can't bait them.

  22. Re:Short answer: Yes. Long answer: Yes on Is The Tech Industry Driving Families Out of San Francisco? (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Those lofts were/are in the worst part of Oakland, not SF.

    Likely a few like it in South SF. Right under the airplane noise.

  23. Re:Mixing two stories on Is The Tech Industry Driving Families Out of San Francisco? (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    You can't just throw numbers around with no regard for reality.

    You must be new here.

  24. Re:My public school system is great on Is The Tech Industry Driving Families Out of San Francisco? (nytimes.com) · · Score: 2

    Because houses never get bought and sold?

    The effect of prop 13 is done. Average length of home ownership is about 10 years. New home owners pay full taxes.

  25. Re:As a tech worker with kids... on Is The Tech Industry Driving Families Out of San Francisco? (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Of course there are absolutely no twinks in SF. None at all.

    Meth is everywhere.