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  1. Re:Cuban Norway . . . on Norway Agrees On Banning New Sales Of Gas-Powered Cars By 2025: Report (electrek.co) · · Score: 1

    My old car is a 1960, it has factory paint.

    My daily driver is a 94, the clear is gone, but it doesn't have a spot of rust, anywhere.

    My project is a 1970, it's floor is gone. But it's a VW powered Fiat 650, so what do you expect? It would be a red stain if it had been exposed to road salt. Going to put it on a Suzuki frame, Toyota driveline, and take it to the Rubicon trail.

  2. Re:Coding, or programming? on Slashdot Asks: How Did You Learn How To Code? · · Score: 1

    It's called 'code' for a reason. Have you ever tried to read a code monkeys 'code'? They all think the same way...they're all special...rules and conventions are for other people. Anything that unreadable is 'code'.

  3. 2 week FORTRAN short course at JC. Lied about age. on Slashdot Asks: How Did You Learn How To Code? · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I was off and running. Self taught basic, 6502 and Z-80 assembler. Worked two summers to buy my first microcomputer.

    Learned a bunch translating various basic dialects. Typing games in from Creative Computing etc.

    Backfilled informal programming education with EE and CompE degrees.

    I can spot the potential future programmer among 10 year olds playing. The future programmer is working puzzles requiring thought.

  4. Re:They'll Do It, Too on Norway Agrees On Banning New Sales Of Gas-Powered Cars By 2025: Report (electrek.co) · · Score: 1

    They have big problems with rabid trolls. Saw a documentary on netfilx.

  5. Re:Cuban Norway . . . on Norway Agrees On Banning New Sales Of Gas-Powered Cars By 2025: Report (electrek.co) · · Score: 1

    You never see old cars in rust country. Once they pass their value minimum, people keep them out of the crap. Especially if they had to pay for rust repair.

    Come to California, cars just don't rust here, unless you live in a beach house. Even then, it's nothing like salted roads rust.

  6. You 'sound' sober, must be the crack of dawn there. Get to it.

  7. Re:Trump Quote on H1Bs on IT Layoffs At Insurance Firm Are A 'Never-Ending Funeral' (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    All the Indian colleges, including IIT, are very questionable. Cheating is endemic, acceptable and Brahmen consider it 'not cheating' to have a lower caste assistant to do assignments and take tests for them.

    Work with a few for some years, you'll see. Some are good, but there is a large percentage that are just useless air thieves.

  8. Re:Muslims did celebrate 9/11 on IT Layoffs At Insurance Firm Are A 'Never-Ending Funeral' (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    There is no doubt. The debate is about the numbers that were celebrating.

    Ask yourself: If there had been thousands, would the press say it? Hell no.

  9. Re:Opening of Japan, The Shah, Banana Republics. on IT Layoffs At Insurance Firm Are A 'Never-Ending Funeral' (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Iceland claims they have exclusive fishing rights in Irish coastal waters. Idiotic claims are common, Argentina has no exclusive.

    EEZ are irrelevant unless they have power to enforce them.

    In practice when claimed EEZs overlap the line is drawn halfway between coasts.

  10. Re: One-issue voter (re: Trump) on IT Layoffs At Insurance Firm Are A 'Never-Ending Funeral' (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Would the Russian communists have allowed themselves to be drawn into a brutal civil war?

    No? Sound like the crazy religious nuts are actually less of a threat. So long as we can keep the Sunni/Shia wars in stalemate anyhow.

  11. Re:This sort of thing is why people like Trump on IT Layoffs At Insurance Firm Are A 'Never-Ending Funeral' (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Ha ha ha...you can't be serious. Countries with 'Free college' also have 'strict admission standards'. Far fewer Bernie supporters would be in college if they had to compete for the spot vs. have mom and dad pay for 4 years of babysitting (aka a modern liberal arts degree).

  12. Re: This sort of thing is why people like Trump on IT Layoffs At Insurance Firm Are A 'Never-Ending Funeral' (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    It's already illegal to run a construction site with 100% illegal immigrant workers.

    But at least 50% are and there is no way to get any enforcement.

    H1B are just displacing better paid Americans, but it's the same deal.

  13. Re:This sort of thing is why people like Trump on IT Layoffs At Insurance Firm Are A 'Never-Ending Funeral' (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    there will still be people whose objective is to pay as little as they can, no matter what.

    These people are called 'sane'.

  14. Re:This sort of thing is why people like Trump on IT Layoffs At Insurance Firm Are A 'Never-Ending Funeral' (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    In other words. He want's to pay them with taxes he can't collect.

    Capital moves to where it gets the best rate of return. All he will do is send capital overseas. We already knew he was an idiot, so no surprises.

  15. Re: This sort of thing is why people like Trump on IT Layoffs At Insurance Firm Are A 'Never-Ending Funeral' (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Tax revenues did in fact raise after the Reagan tax cuts. But don't let facts get in the way of a good rant.

    Sanders? A loser reactionary (wanting to return to the politics of the 1930s) that isn't changing anything. He is just the millennial's youthful folly. They will look back on him like Boomers look back on their hippydom...'How could we have been so naive?' Of course there are the truly brainless, who still believe.

  16. Re: This sort of thing is why people like Trump on IT Layoffs At Insurance Firm Are A 'Never-Ending Funeral' (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    The Reagan prosperity lasted till the end of Clinton's second term. When Clinton's .com bubble ended it.

  17. Re:If you have a child... on At Least 33 US Cities Used Water Testing 'Cheats' Over Lead Concerns (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Those are federal ban dates. Both were out of common use _long_ earlier.

    I was taught to plumb with copper well before 1987; nobody would have considered using lead solder. Against all codes and standards; city, county, plumbers union. Never seen an actual lead pipe, perhaps in a museum.

    That was back when the federal government justified it's existence by banning things already banned, the good old days.

    It does appear some cities had two codes. One for them (their water departments more specifically), one for everybody else. It also appears the federal ban had no effect on them.

    Flint and Detroit were thriving in 1961. They could have fixed this, but blew it off.

  18. Re:If you believe in Panasonic then clap your hand on Panasonic To Stop Making LCD Panels For TVs (nhk.or.jp) · · Score: 2

    Panasonic is a DBA of Matsushita IIRC. Like half the Japanese 'name brands'.

  19. Never, ever buy a rent controlled apartment. Unless you have insider information that the renter is terminal.

  20. Re:Read less, code more. on Ask Slashdot: What Books Should An Aspiring Coder Read? · · Score: 1

    This kid has likely never written a sort before.

  21. Re:Man does not live by code alone on Ask Slashdot: What Books Should An Aspiring Coder Read? · · Score: 1

    'Completion' not completion. Lots of ways to be 'done' with something. But sooner or later, even 'aspiring coders' want something to show for their work.

    Screensavers and Unity Games are (or can be) fairly simple and visual. Unity store lets you avoid the whole asset tar baby for simple stuff.

  22. Re:You have to know how to secure a Windows 10 PC on Ask Slashdot: Would You Recommend Updating To Windows 10? · · Score: 3, Funny

    BOFH and PFY both recommend 'Squid' for their transparent proxy needs.

    You'll need to custom compile it. Once you do it you should post your mods, so the community can grow it. Who knows the number of unchecked buffer overflows microsoft has on the server side of the snooping...

  23. Re: Good? on Russian Online Trolls Resist The Light · · Score: 1

    They should talk to the Thai and Vietnamese, see how they handled the arrogant foreigners.

    If the French really wanted to kill McDonald's they should learn to cook a good hamburger. It's hard to make a burger as bad as McDonald's. I'm sure the French can do it (actually both, 'bad as' and 'good'), they invented 'French Fries' after all.

  24. Re: Good? on Russian Online Trolls Resist The Light · · Score: 1

    The longer it takes, the less time Clinton will have to hold her new, post pivot, centrist position.

    I'm comfortable with the gridlock that would come from any conceivable outcome of this election. Even if Clinton wins _and_ takes the Senate, she wouldn't hold it more than two years.

  25. Re:Samsung employs the footgun ! on Samsung To Roll Out In-TV Ads To Legacy Displays Via Software Update · · Score: 1

    Ad data could be broadcast. It would less targeted, but they could make it work, degraded video over HDMI, border for ads the TV finds itself. Edge would be more than fast enough, considering how repetitive ads are.

    It could still be targeted. TV knows what you are watching and can pick an ad or 20.