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  1. Re:Segregation By Choice on Tech Workforce Diversity At Facebook Similar To Google And Yahoo · · Score: 1

    Perhaps it is because people don't find those companies do anything worth note. Google and Facebook try to recruit me once a year and I simply have no interest in working for them - I don't find anything compelling that they do for me personally. Perhaps females want to work somewhere that has a better mission than what they offer?

    Everyone is looking for the discrimination angle but I think it is simpler than that.

  2. Re:This means nothing without context on Tech Workforce Diversity At Facebook Similar To Google And Yahoo · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I went to a local Google office yesterday to watch the IO keynote.

    Number of people in the room? 40

    Number of women in the room? 2, 1 was from corporate.

    Free to sign up, free to attend, so where were the ladies? I think this is just another made up issue people are looking to find a solution for.

  3. Everyone loves car dealers! on NADA Is Terrified of Tesla · · Score: 5, Funny

    They are great, they protect the consumer, ensure fair prices, charge fair prices for repairs, ensure you don't get ripped off, the list goes on! Good for them, Tesla deserves a beat down for trying to get rid of these middle men.

    Oh, jk.

  4. Now you can blow through your 2GB of data at $30 on EU, South Korea Collaborate On Superfast 5G Standards · · Score: 4, Insightful

    In 30 seconds!

  5. Re:Most people don't care on New Permission System Could Make Android Much Less Secure · · Score: 1

    No, I get it why it is good to have detailed information. But, I bet you can ask 99 other people at random and you are the only one that cares. It is simply where the market is - people don't give a shit. Which, I agree - is bad.

  6. Not really a hack on TweetDeck Hacked · · Score: 2

    More like exploited. Failure to escape content, which you should have been doing for the last 15 years, is hardly hacking.

  7. Most people don't care on New Permission System Could Make Android Much Less Secure · · Score: 2

    So what does it matter? How many people read the finely grained permission pages when installing apps as is? Perhaps this approach will be better because it will condense it into something people will be less likely to "ok" without reading.

    Doubtful.

  8. Monopolies upset on Virginia DMV Cracks Down On Uber, Lyft · · Score: 1

    That their monopolies are threatened and leverage government to protect them.

    Way it is and way it will be.

  9. Doubtful on GM Names and Fires Engineers Involved In Faulty Ignition Switch · · Score: 2

    Having worked in large organizations before, even surfacing problems to management in meetings the issues get ignored. Perhaps the guy wasn't smart enough to create a paper trail saying there was an issue. Seems like too nice a scape goat. Where is the QA? Anyone that designs makes mistakes, but the point is you have a team helping verify what you produce is up to spec. Telling me none of the other thousands of people involved in the vehicles didn't catch the issue either?

  10. It is all pretty obvious on The Sudden Policy Change In Truecrypt Explained · · Score: 2, Interesting

    U.S. changed to "United States" - "use bitlocker," "use any crypto package in Linux," when setting up an OS X disk image no encryption...

    The message is clear what happened.

  11. Re:AWS is too expensive on Amazon Wants To Run Your High-Performance Databases · · Score: 1

    We are using AWS for our startup. Our bills are around $2200 a month. $1700 of that is a charge to have dedicated instances instead of shared. this gets us 6 servers - 4 small 2GB RAM web servers and 2 4GB ram DB servers (in reality what we need at the moment, we can scale the DB later when we bottle neck).

    We've done the math ourselves and in reality we could probably save some money (face value) or buying servers ourselves and colocating them. But, then you have to add in the maintenance costs, a part time infrastructure support person, downtime, replication, etc. Plus, things like good firewalls, load balancers, are terribly expensive which we didn't factor into the equation.

    In reality, it boils down to convenience for us to stick with AWS, though it maybe a slight premium in the end. It simply cuts out a lot of costs having to deal with infrastructure.

    Is AWS perfect? No, not really. Any big storm you pray to baby Jesus US-EAST stays up. But, we've been happy so far with it. I'd say all in all it isn't even a premium, factoring in all the costs it is probably break even at this point. But for us we were able to scale from $200 in server costs a month to $2000 a month easily and we can scale to $10000 a month easily. it has its value.

  12. Re:I believe it because.. on Parenting Rewires the Male Brain · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Insane. We flew within 2 months of our daughter being born and will be taking her to Japan next year.

    It is an excuse for the lazy.

  13. Re:Celebrity journalism at it's finest. on Chelsea Clinton At NCWIT: More PE, Less Zuckerberg · · Score: 1

    Why? She has done absolutely nothing of note in her entire life besides going to school.

  14. Google will abandon glass itself on Why I'm Sending Back Google Glass · · Score: 1

    But, the SDK and UX they are developing they will license.

    I've had a set since december and worn them maybe 2 hours total. The video is cool, but in reality it is nothing more than a toy.

  15. Re:Could be worse. on The 69 Words GM Employees Can Never Say · · Score: 1

    Could be worse? How many people died in fires from Tesla? GM covered this up for years. Their solution? Fire two engineers - no one in management who acted like it wasn't an issue.

  16. Re:The GOP are going to have a meltdown on Cisco Complains To Obama About NSA Adding Spyware To Routers · · Score: 1, Informative

    I am unsure if you realize this, but for the last 6 years Obama has been President, with the democrats owning the Senate since well before that.

    The biggest people complaining about this seem to be Rand Paul and sadly only a few others. Meanwhile the stupid and annoying cunts Barbara Boxer and Nancy Pelosi circle jerk around how we need this surveillance state.

  17. Oh just perfect on Measles Virus Puts Woman's Cancer Into Remission · · Score: 5, Funny

    How we are going to give adults autism too.

  18. Re:They've been pushing this angle for a while on Should Tesla Make Batteries Instead of Electric Cars? · · Score: 5, Informative

    Or he could just do both, build cars and sell batteries. Plenty of car manufactures sell tech and parts to other car manufactures. So many car parts are outsourced in a vehicle it is absurd.

    He is doing all right pushing his cars so far and advancing his tech, why stop doing something that is working?

  19. Hugh Pickens DOT Com on Brazilian Kids Learning English By Video Chatting With Elderly Americans · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    The reddit reposting service.

  20. Big problems ahead on Percentage of Elderly In Japan Continues to Grow as Number of Children Drops · · Score: 4, Interesting

    The aging population relies on the tax base of the young to sustain any old age benefit program.

    What happens when you don't have enough young people to sustain the program the old people depend on?

    Will the young revolt? Will the old vote heavier taxes on the young so they can live their lifestyle?

    There are massive socioeconomic problems that will not only impact Japan but America and other western countries.

    The young will be piggy banks for so long before getting tired of it.

  21. Just think of all the damage on Drone Camera Tornado Coverage Raises Press Freedom Questions · · Score: 5, Funny

    The drone could have done if it crashed while filming a tornado. The deviation would be catastrophic

  22. GOV drones scare me on Americans Uncomfortable With Possibility of Ubiquitous Drones, Designer Babies · · Score: 1

    I don't give a fuck about personal ones - but the government use of drones will lead to more intrusion on our lives, more spying, more death and destruction.

  23. "Web 2.0" is a decade old now on The Internet of Things and Humans · · Score: 4, Insightful

    And websites can't even communicate with one another efficiently or at all.

    Yet, IoT advocates imagine within a few short years this magical IoT will create a system of intercommunicating hardware that will somehow work perfectly.

    Yeah ok.

  24. Yeah, maybe not now on Jenny McCarthy: "I Am Not Anti-Vaccine'" · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    But she wouldn't shut her cock holster for awhile about it. Now she is trying to rewrite history about how stupid she was so she doesn't appear to be a total fuckwit.

    I assume her limited acting engagements got even smaller when film studios realized how badly most people didn't like her because of her anti-vaccine views, putting everyone at risk because she is a moron. So, now that money isn't coming in, time to reframe your argument.

  25. Re:Low even for Slashdot on Double Take: Condoleezza Rice As Dropbox's Newest Board Member · · Score: 0

    Everyone would be falling over their dicks if it were Hillary and not Rice to support her as a good idea.