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  1. Re:She really does have criminal level stalkers on Taylor Swift Used Facial Recognition Tech At Concerts To Spy On Stalkers (boingboing.net) · · Score: 1

    To be fair, becoming a celebrity comes with a price.

    Harassing / stalking isn't part of the price. Nothing justifies that.

    If you're unwilling or unable to deal with this, you might want to consider a different career.

    Seems like she's dealing with it just fine.

  2. Non sequitur much?

    If you can't make a connection between a low-paying job, and going around life with a "you can't make me do that" and "I don't have to do that" and "I'm not contracted for that" attitude, I feel sorry for you.

    It's clear simply from the way you speak about employment that you are dissatisfied. Folks that I actually like their employment, employer and colleagues aren't put off by the idea of helping them, even if they didn't sign a contract to do it.

    There's also this little proverb that says something about fire and bridges. Maybe you are right though, it's better to leave your employment having everyone think you are an ass than to spend 10 minutes talking.

  3. Unless you're not getting paid

    Your suggestion is that employers are asking ex-employers to come in after their employment ends to provide feedback? Yeah, no.

    or not getting paid fairly

    If you accepted the position that's on you. You can walk away any time you want. Hard to understand what's not fair about that.

    If you tell them how to fix their company, then your pay should be commensurate with the value of that information. Personally, if I thought a company could and would fix shit based on my advice, I'd want a large amount of stock or perpetual royalties out of it.

    If you aren't getting paid well, or treated well, perhaps you aren't the shining gem you think. It might explain your lack of compensation.

  4. Then these companies want to do an exit interview to figure out why you're leaving and make you feel guilty for leaving because you're not showing showing dedication to company and team spirit. Fuck them.

    Because getting paid to sit there and give your opinion about what could be better in the company is a terrible, awful thing.

  5. Re: There are things to say about Apples closed ga on Android Trojan Steals Money From PayPal Accounts Even With 2FA On (welivesecurity.com) · · Score: 1

    Sounds a lot like " She was asking for it by wearing that short skirt."

    Sounds like your mind is wandering to other topics.

  6. Re:There are things to say about Apples closed gat on Android Trojan Steals Money From PayPal Accounts Even With 2FA On (welivesecurity.com) · · Score: 1

    And your point? Is it "If you try really hard, you can make your own iPhone stop working well"?

    That refers to an Android phone. If you do all that and get malware on your Android phone, you deserve it.

  7. Re:When surveyed, people lie! on What Student Developers Want in a Job (techrepublic.com) · · Score: 1

    Do Millennials really care that that much about work-life balance out of school?

    According to the survey, 52% of them did.

  8. Re:When surveyed, people lie! on What Student Developers Want in a Job (techrepublic.com) · · Score: 1

    There's certainly a whole lot more to choosing a company than $3k in salary difference.
    - Are you going to be able to work on cool stuff and grow in your abilities/marketability?
    - Is the management cool - #1 reason people hate their jobs is because they work for dicks
    - Do they have flexible hours, can you work from home, etc?
    - Is your commute gonna suck at one, more than the other?
    - What does the 401k matching look like?

    And 3 of the 5 of those you don't know until you work there for a month.

  9. Re:When surveyed, people lie! on What Student Developers Want in a Job (techrepublic.com) · · Score: 1

    but paying above expectation does not yield a lot of extra satisfaction

    Speak for yourself.

  10. Re:There are things to say about Apples closed gat on Android Trojan Steals Money From PayPal Accounts Even With 2FA On (welivesecurity.com) · · Score: 1

    Now it really sucks that I cannot use my iDevice to play game ROMs emulate PC's or have my own programming language so I can use my phone as a personal computer with a tiny screen. However the apps for the device, I download for the most part usually work well, and are not malware.

    Then don't start Settings apps, select System, select About phone, scroll down, tap the build number 5x, go back, select Developer Options, toggle it on, scroll down and check "Allow from unknown source", read the scary warning dialog that warns you about malware, and select "okay" in spite of that.

  11. Re:Only Approved Conspiracy Theories Are Allowed on Google CEO Admits Company Must Better Address the Spread of Conspiracy Theories on YouTube (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    Only Approved Conspiracy theories, like Hillary clinton would have won 100% of the vote

    Funny, I get a lot of political news and I've never even heard that. Maybe you ought to check your subscriptions.

  12. Re:Decrypt This Blockchain! on Australia Passes Anti-Encryption Laws [Update] (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Going to wikipedia for factual information, is like taking your car to a cobbler to have an engine overhaul.

    Absolutely, go make up your own reality that conforms to your narrative. The rest of the civilized world is going to move along with facts and references. You aren't going to drag us down into retard-land.

  13. Re:Decrypt This Blockchain! on Australia Passes Anti-Encryption Laws [Update] (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    I've heard one report that claimed employees may be forced to secretly implement backdoors in their employer's software, and go to prison if they tell their employer what they're working on in company time.

    Oh my what happened to common sense. How exactly could that work? The government is going to have secrety design meetings with employees, while the employees claim to be out sick. Then somehow come back to work and write code that no one else at the company can see?

  14. Re:Decrypt This Blockchain! on Australia Passes Anti-Encryption Laws [Update] (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Sorry, all those cases aren't authoritarianism. Those groups aren't right-wing either. "Fascism" isn't just far-right authoritarianism, amazing to see just how much word redefinition shit as gone through in the last 80 years and how many people have bought into the bullshit.

    If anyone wants to know about Fascism, head over to Wikipedia and read about it. You'll be surprised that the article is longer than a few sentences.

  15. Good point it was Bush, and that parasite Hank P. Obama just doubled down, on the stupid and made them build cars people would want even less.

    No, it was primarily Bush.

    The only problem with Biden’s history lesson is that the “man with steel in his spine” he referred to should have been George W. Bush, not Barack Obama. Lest we forget, it was Bush rather than Obama who initiated the government rescue of the auto companies.

    https://www.newyorker.com/news...

    The only thing Obama didn't do is step and and completely quash the bailout. Obama publicly supported the plan before he was elected, but the plan itself was the brainchild of the previous administration. An incoming president isn't going to kill a plan that's saving tens of thousands of American jobs. If you really blame Obama for that you aren't being honest with yourself.

    Note the perspective of that article is that Biden is trying to give Obama undeserved credit for the bailout. It's actually an anti-Biden/Obama article.

    Also, the bailout was a loan.
    https://www.thebalance.com/aut...

    You can see the fed invested ~$80B, and got back ~$70B... they lost ~$10B. Sure they lost, but it's not like this was some massive handout to GM with no strings attached. Honestly it seems like a pretty good gamble at the time considering what would be the impact to the US economy.

  16. In any case GM was done - no money to retool to build stuff people wanted. Obama gave them a pile of money but insisted basically they pay Union workers to do something. It was either sit on their hand and do nothing or build products that might not sell in the existing plants. Bascially it was failing business before and its failing business now.

    No factual documentation backs up anything you've said.

    On December 19, 2008, President Bush agreed to a $24.9 billion bailout using TARP: $13.4 billion for GM, $5.5 billion for Chrysler, and $5 billion for GMAC.

    In response, the companies promised to fast-track development of energy-efficient vehicles and consolidate operations. GM and Ford agreed to streamline the number of brands they produced. The United Automobile Workers union agreed to accept delayed contributions to a health trust fund for retirees. It also agreed to reduce payments to laid-off workers. The three CEOs agreed to work for $1 a year and sell their corporate jets.

    and

    The Obama administration used the take-over to set new auto efficiency standards. That improved air quality and forced U.S. automakers to be more competitive against Japanese and German firms.

    In other words, the plan was set in motion by Bush, not Obama. And Obama added terms to the deal that required the automakers to up their game, not "pay union workers to do something".

    https://www.thebalance.com/aut...

  17. My TOTAL expenditures on mortgage/insurance/taxes for my condo is still 1000 less per month than the guy living next to me renting the same place.

    Yet, that guy is supposed to save $140k (in CA, $700k for a starter home, required 20% down) paying out whatever you do plus $1,000 a month. You have to be in a position to save that money in the first place, or get a payout in some other way (inheritance, options, loan from parents, etc).

  18. Re:Drowning? Here have an anvil. on 'General Motors, Sears and Toys R Us: Layoffs Across America Highlight Our Shredding Financial Safety Net' (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Both of those companies would be on the ropes no matter who is POTUS.

    That's not what the POTUS says. He is happy to take credit, personally, for anything positive that happens in our economy.

  19. Re: Sensors on NASA's InSight Successfully Lands on Mars (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    For excellence in trolling, you have earned your extra ration of Vodka today.

  20. Re:Sensors on NASA's InSight Successfully Lands on Mars (theverge.com) · · Score: 2

    Doesn't matter. No one is fucking going to Mars in the lifetime of anyone around today. Or, if they do, it'll be a one-way suicide mission, and radiation will be the least of their worries.

    Comrade, this is why we beat you to the moon (and we'll beat you to Mars as well).

  21. Re:FYI: Net Neutrality is racist on Ajit Pai Isn't Saying Whether ISPs Deliver the Broadband Speeds You Pay For (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Excellent comrade. You have earned an extra 1.5oz of Vodka this shift.

  22. This is probably also passed by politicians that have never used a computer or don't understand what the impact of the legislation is? Every time I think there is a chance for the EU we get news of some old school thinking screwing with the road forward.

    It feels like Europe sees non-European companies harvesting profits from their population and wants a piece.

  23. Re:Only relevant if the pie is something on Why Some Open-Source Companies Are Considering a More Closed Approach (geekwire.com) · · Score: 1

    P&G could do that, but they've at least made the claim that the middling quality market is not where they want to sell.

    Sure, and that's clear from brands like Tampax, Scope (aka mint flavored alcohol), and Pepto Bismol (aka liquid chalk).

  24. 3. The user assumed that because the first app came from said Authority, and had said Authority's blessing, that anything subsequent apps did was "safe" and "approved" as well.

    For the trojan to get installed the user had to explicitly bypass security settings and ignore many security warnings. So your claim is that in spite of the authority telling the user to explicitly not do something, they did it anyway, and that's the authority's fault. Well I am sorry, but that's not how reality works.

  25. By that do you mean that it would be perfectly fair for Ivanka to argue "what, at this point, does it matter?" Or maybe that it would be fair of the FBI to recommend against charges (despite admitting that a crime was committed) like they did with Hillary?

    Every Trump rally erupts in a chorus of LOCK HER UP. Sort of seems like it does still matter, at least to the president and his base. Or, maybe T is just using a candidate, that lost 2 years ago and holds no political office and isn't running for a political office, as a boogeyman. I dunno. Maybe I'm overthinking this.

    But anyway, assuming you voted Trump / Republican, aren't you upset that a R controlled house, senate and exec failed to indict CROOKED HILARY? For 2 years they controlled every branch of government, including the justice dept. Yet they didn't indict. Strange isn't it? I'd suggest you really think how you place your vote in upcoming elections. Find someone that's actually going to follow through and LOCK HER UP not these hollow promises.