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  1. Re:For these reasons and more on Tech To Blame For Ever-Growing Car Repair Costs, AAA Says (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Neons of all kinds are still limping around.

  2. Bet it's still better and more cost effective than government employees could build for their own use.

    Think about how bad that is...The DOD certainly has many data centers of its own, but they know MS profit is less than federal employee featherbedding, likely by an order of magnitude or more.

  3. And accepting it would be whoring.

  4. Coerced/rape is 'fuck me or I'll fire you.'

    Whoring about on company funds is 'fuck me and I'll promote you.'

    We don't know which this was. Only that she was butthurt about it after.

  5. You don't fire them, you have your buddy from the chamber of commerce hire them away from you (hopefully with a decent raise). Then you START the relationship in ernest.

    If you find out that two employees are fucking, you arrange an opportunity for the less valuable one. Before it blows up in your face.

  6. Jobs are easy (for typical /.ers), relationships aren't (for anybody).

    Date that person (outside your report chain) from work, go ahead. But find a new job when you _start_ (or don't do it).

    Keep your inner dog in check, if it isn't worth changing jobs for, just don't do it.

    If you own the business, talk to someone you know that runs another. Arrange a good opportunity for your prospect, before you start sweating up the sheets with her.

  7. For everyone other than Bill Clinton (and Harvey Weinstein) it was already as you describe in the 90s.

  8. Re:They just noticed? on Tech To Blame For Ever-Growing Car Repair Costs, AAA Says (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Water cooled VWs have _always_ sucked. But they reached amazing new levels of suck about 20 years ago with the new beetle.

  9. Re:No, Inexpensive on Tech To Blame For Ever-Growing Car Repair Costs, AAA Says (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Those bumpers are effectively banned by CAFE requirements in the USA.

  10. Re:Yeah, it's tech's fault. on Tech To Blame For Ever-Growing Car Repair Costs, AAA Says (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    IIRC Ford sold Rover to a chinese company. Joke would have been funnier a few years ago.

    Again IIRC Jaguars are still Fords.

  11. Re: Of Printers and Cars on Tech To Blame For Ever-Growing Car Repair Costs, AAA Says (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Anybody taking a car to a stealership for anything other than warranty work has already self identified as a sucker.

    The Dealership knows knows they are chumps when they pull the car up and financially sodomize them. Suckers are the fat of the land!

  12. Re:The days of the $5.00 headlamp replacement on Tech To Blame For Ever-Growing Car Repair Costs, AAA Says (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Devil is in the details.

    LEDs are usually hooked up in series as they most commonly fail to shorted. That lasts until one fails to open.

  13. Re:Changing headlight is a major operation on Tech To Blame For Ever-Growing Car Repair Costs, AAA Says (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Better than an old English car. To replace the headlights on one of those you start by removing the _rear_ bumper and disassemble forward until you reach the headlight.

  14. Re: Current VR is awesome on 'We Expected VR To Be Two To Three Times as Big', Says CCP Games CEO (roadtovr.com) · · Score: 1

    There is nothing like the sensations of expensive bad things happening! No faking that sinking feeling.

  15. TFA claimed that court had authority all around the world.

    Of course they don't, but it's worth mocking.

  16. Re: History repeats itself on 'We Expected VR To Be Two To Three Times as Big', Says CCP Games CEO (roadtovr.com) · · Score: 1

    It varied. Some games had native support, some had support hacked in, some used the headset to emulate a mouse.

    Pretty sure Duke was the last category.

  17. You get bragging rights for your water cooled, overclocked 2080 ti SLI setup.

    Telling a girl your computer has so much GPU power you need a 1600 Watt power supply is instant panty remover! (do I need an explicit /sarc?)

  18. Re:History repeats itself on 'We Expected VR To Be Two To Three Times as Big', Says CCP Games CEO (roadtovr.com) · · Score: 1

    VFX1 as well. Street price was under 1k$. Stereo resolution was halved, but how much resolution was a 486 going to generate anyhow?

  19. You, for one, welcome our new Portuguese bendajo judge overlords!

  20. Re: Current VR is awesome on 'We Expected VR To Be Two To Three Times as Big', Says CCP Games CEO (roadtovr.com) · · Score: 1

    Never is a long time. If they can trick your inner ears, it will be a breakthrough.

    I wouldn't go so far as 'feels like track time'. But It's pretty good. Better than sims on flat screen (with exceptions, short tracks exceed my tolerance for yaw rate).

  21. Every VR headset maker has VR video players on their store.

    The porn is on Piratebay. Beware female POV, there are no warnings.

    There are VR porn 'games', mostly Japanese, but uncanny valley.

    Phones based VR is good enough for playing a video. VR porn isn't going anywhere.

  22. Brexit is sounding better and better.

  23. Re:Waiting for Dave's rant on this on A Device That Can Pull Drinking Water From the Air Just Won the Latest XPrize (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1

    Lots of things are feasible but uneconomical. You have things exactly backwards.

  24. Re:Another win for China on World's Longest Sea Bridge Opens After 9 Years of Construction (go.com) · · Score: 1

    Over salt water, no.

    Taking the 'American Association of Civil Engineers' word on needed infrastructure investment is like asking your barber if you need a haircut. I know it's politically convenient right now, but get a clue.

  25. Re:banning The Daily Stormer is bad as they are po on Facebook's Ex Security Boss: Asking Big Tech To Police Hate Speech is 'a Dangerous Path' (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 2

    True, but we had to take the worse one (Stalin) on second.

    The GP is right but doesn't take it far enough, it is possible to be anti-Nazi and be _worse_ than a Nazi.