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  1. Re: this kid is fucked on 14-Year-Old Earned $200,000 Playing Fortnite on YouTube (dailyherald.com) · · Score: 1

    "Rich Dad" owned multiple companies. Ask the kids what is the purpose of a business. If their answer isn't something like "to provide useful products and services to customers at a profit", they are in trouble.
    College is simply overpriced for the value given, *at this time*. This can change. The author of "Rich Dad, Poor Dad" himself graduated from the merchant marines. That is not "uneducated".

  2. I've seen this idea before, it's called The Ark.

  3. Re:Why do people hate LED lights on Trump Administration Dims Rule On Energy Efficient Lightbulbs (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    My house only has a 100A service and I was concerned that with my additional computers.

    Good news: newer computers are more energy efficient.

    As for your service size, you need to know your square footage as well as: a/c?(minimum amperage), air handler + heat strips?(min amps), electric water heater?, electric range/oven/cooktop?, electric dryer?, any other fixed appliances?

    With gas heat, dryer, range, and water heater, 100 amps might be overkill, yet be the smallest service allowed to be installed.

  4. Menu Size is the bigger problem on McDonald's Bites on Big Data With $300 Million Acquisition (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    Money for analytics, but not one dime to make the menu smaller.

  5. C is the worst high-level language security-wise

    If you're using C as a high-level language, you're using it wrong.
    It's portable assembly--two small steps above machine code.

  6. Re:You mean on Jury Finds Bayer's Roundup Weedkiller Caused Man's Cancer (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Well, if a person genuinely believed the idiots claiming it is "proven safe," why would they need to worry?

    Proven safe?
    Glyphosate is a calcium uptake inhibitor. It will stop your heart, not cause cancer. Round-up is not for amateurs.

  7. Re:Welcome sham voting season on House Democrats Plan April Vote On Net Neutrality Bill (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    You want government to Do Something(tm), you'll get stuff like the Patriot Act.

    Also remember: the Patriot Act was written in 1999 and was sitting in committee until 2001.

  8. Re:Welcome sham voting season on House Democrats Plan April Vote On Net Neutrality Bill (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    The real fix, that is opening the local markets to allow actual competition (that naturally generates net neutrality in the process), this no one wanna touch.

    Do you mean: eliminating state granted monopolies to the landline phone companies, eliminating gross revenue taxes levied on cable companies by local governments (aka "the franchise fee"), or both?

  9. The best use of this technology might be lower cost carbon-black dye.

  10. Re:Joel was incorrect.. on Lessons From Six Software Rewrite Stories (medium.com) · · Score: 1

    "Coders at Work" lays out the problems with Netscape. Netscape had a usable product written in C. Then they bought a company that never had a successful product, and whose programmers used C++. The C++ programmers did the (horrible) rewrite.

  11. Re:A Favorite T-Shirt Slogan nails it... on Programming Interview Questions Are Too Hard and Too Short (triplebyte.com) · · Score: 1

    I'll admit it:
    My plate screws at home are not lined up vertically.

  12. Google deploys sed on Google Docs Gets an API For Task Automation (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    ... but changes all the options

  13. Re:This is not a problem to most users, it's an pe on More Than Half of PC Applications Installed Worldwide Are Out-of-Date (helpnetsecurity.com) · · Score: 1

    Forced me to switch to Mail.app. Support couldn't offer any rollback options to something that worked for me. I did try to switch to IMAP, but this took four days to download my mail and 3x the SSD space.

    The trick to IMAP is to have a separate server, then connect to it remotely. This works best on a LAN, but still works as long as you have an internet connection back to your server. My server allows users to read mail with Outlook, Seamonkey, Mutt, etc.

  14. Re:How to fix bugs on Bug Bounties Aren't Silver Bullet for Better Security (infosecurity-magazine.com) · · Score: 1

    Also reject programemrs who won't or cant comprehend other programmers code, and insist on their rewrite.

    Well, that excludes most C++ programmers.

    Just kidding.

    Maybe...

  15. Their landline division has state granted monopolies in most of the USA. They legally have no landline competition within these areas, and they are losing most of these customers to death by old age.

       

  16. No offense, but if it's mission critical application... Locking yourself up in a specific OS (whatever it is) doesn't seem like a good idea/design.

    Finally, a truly insightful comment!

  17. Re:Not a surprise, really on Microsoft Briefly Overtakes Apple as Most Valuable US Company (khaleejtimes.com) · · Score: 1, Informative
  18. Renowned British naturalist David Attenborough is still alive! He's 92 and doing voice work.

  19. Corrected Title on Scientists Push For Government Research Program Focused On Sucking Carbon From Air · · Score: -1, Troll

    Scientists Push for More Money

  20. Download Windows source. The BSD notice is at the top of most of the network source code.

  21. Re:Major difference, Cement doesn't need compactin on Spheres Can Make Concrete Leaner, Greener (phys.org) · · Score: 1

    Since you are an electrician, what do you think about the low conductivity this new material is supposed to have. Normally concrete is considered (for workspace clearance) as grounded.

  22. Re:That's what a datacenter used to look like on The 'Post-PC Era' Never Really Happened... and Likely Won't (techpinions.com) · · Score: 1

    Ultra modern, portable computers, emulating . . . a CRT terminal device from decades ago.

    ... which emulates a teletype.

  23. Re:What glitch? on Amazon.com Suffers Search Glitch, Users Say · · Score: 1

    If I get better (more useful) results on google with "site:[web address]" than with a website's built-in search, the search function needs to be re-done.

  24. A neutral conductor carries the unbalanced current of the ungrounded conductors. A typical British branch circuit has no neutral. It has an ungrounded conductor and a grounded conductor. On British or American equipment, bonding the chassis to either conductor is both dangerous and expressly forbidden. You might be referring to the old American practice that allowed using the neutral of 240V 3-wire as a grounding conductor. However, that is a real neutral and should have little to no current on it.

  25. Re:It's great.... on Is Python the Future of Programming? (economist.com) · · Score: 1

    #include <stdio.h>
    int main()
    {
                    char a[1];
                    printf("%d\n",sizeof(a));
                    printf("%d\n",sizeof(&a));
                    return 0;
    }