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  1. Re:GOV'T NEEDS MORE MONEY!!! Pay your fair share! on Yahoo Secretly Scanned Customer Emails For US Intelligence (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Why would anyone (besides the doctor) be in charge of whether you can see a doctor?

    I had a health insurance provider that told me that a local clinic was in network — except none of the doctors at the clinic were in network. Every time I went to the clinic, I got a big bill because the insurance provider determined that I went outside the network. That kind of nonsense was routine before Obamacare.

  2. Re:GOV'T NEEDS MORE MONEY!!! Pay your fair share! on Yahoo Secretly Scanned Customer Emails For US Intelligence (reuters.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Because everyone wants the government to swallow 1/8th of the economy, and then make all of our healthcare become just as efficient and safe as the VA Medical system!

    You're comparing apples and oranges. Extending Medicare for everyone is the public option. The problem with the VA system is that the country went to war without allocating resources for all the damaged bodies that got chewed up and spit out on the battlefield.

  3. Re:GOV'T NEEDS MORE MONEY!!! Pay your fair share! on Yahoo Secretly Scanned Customer Emails For US Intelligence (reuters.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    That's correct. When the baby boomers are retired, retirees outnumbers workers, and two-thirds of the federal budget goes to Social Security and Medicare in 2030, taxes will have to go way up to pay for everything else.

  4. Re:Upgrade now for 25% less battery life! on Apple To Make macOS Sierra Available As Automatic Download Beginning Today (loopinsight.com) · · Score: 1

    Well why did you do a damn fool thing like buy a piece of shit Windoze machine then?

    My 2006 Black MacBook died after eight years. I shifted everything over to my gaming PC for a while, and then over to a $250 Dell laptop. I haven't found a worthy successor to my MacBook yet. I don't find Apple's Quest for Thinness to be appealing.

  5. Re:It's a bit expensive...And for what? on Sandpoint Town Square Home To First Public Solar Roadways Panel Installation (newatlas.com) · · Score: 0

    When the sound walls were built along the freeways in Silicon Valley, the company my father worked for got the contract at $1M per mile. Dangerous work. There was only 18" of clearance between the scaffolding and the passing cars. The sound walls reduced the noise level for the neighborhood next to the freeway while bouncing sounds into the neighborhood further way that never had a problem with freeway noise. Win some, lose some.

  6. Re:Upgrade now for 25% less battery life! on Apple To Make macOS Sierra Available As Automatic Download Beginning Today (loopinsight.com) · · Score: 2, Interesting

    At least you can upgrade your Mac. Microsoft pushed out the Windows 10 Anniversary Update over the weekend and it wouldn't install because the installer thinks my SSD was a USB memory stick.

    I miss my Mac. *sigh*

  7. Everyone is missing the point... on Salesforce Pushes Regulators To Block Microsoft's LinkedIn Deal (cnn.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Microsoft, Salesforce and Oracle are competing for the next artificial intelligence (AI) system, which requires large data sets to train properly. LinkedIn and Twitter have large data sets.

    http://www.wsj.com/articles/salesforce-joins-race-for-artificially-intelligent-business-software-1474241982

  8. I thought that we were the normal ones?

    I know that. You know that. But they don't know. Shh...

  9. My wife is hardly a techie, so I don't understand why both parties need to be techies. Or even one.

    This is Slashdot. We don't talk about normal people. You must be new around here.

  10. We had the cable modem and router on UPS.

    My friend recently got a brand new cable modem to replace an older one that didn't have 11AC wireless. We were surprised to discover that a rechargeable battery could be installed to provide backup power.

  11. Re:Sorry online is all I've got right now on Author Says Going Offline For 24 Hours a Week Has Significantly Improved His Health, Sanity and Happiness (businessinsider.com) · · Score: -1, Troll
  12. The odds of two techies being the opposite sex, in the same room with a sofa or bed, and during an extended power outage is astronomical. Most techies I know carry an extra battery pack or two to avoid being disconnected from the internet for any extended period of time.

  13. Re:Unused ports are a wasteful problem on New iPhone 7 Case Brings Back the Headphone Jack (thenextweb.com) · · Score: 2

    From the beginning Apple phones have low battery life, and Apple makes it difficult to replace the battery, which means you'll be forced to buy a new phone once the battery decays (which all batteries do).

    The battery for my iPod Touch (1st gen) lasted eight years. It will be interesting to see how long the battery in my iPhone 6s will last.

  14. Re:Makes perfect sense on New iPhone 7 Case Brings Back the Headphone Jack (thenextweb.com) · · Score: 1

    They will get no satisfaction from me. I'm keeping my iPhone 6s for another few years.

  15. Re:Why wait until now? on Four States Sue To Stop Internet Transition (thehill.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    The latest push to transition oversight began with a 2009 agreement between NTIA and ICANN. The agency, though, noted that the goal of completely privatizing the domain name system dates back to 1997, and that the U.S. government reiterated that goal when it partnered with ICANN a year later.

    http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2014/03/18/us-transfer-internet-control-years-in-making-fueled-by-foreign-pressure.html

  16. Re:Why wait until now? on Four States Sue To Stop Internet Transition (thehill.com) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    It's an election year. And another lawsuit for Republicans to fundraise money off of.

  17. Re:What we know so far on Comey Denies Clinton Email 'Reddit' Cover-Up (politico.com) · · Score: 1

    [citation needed], you partisan useless piece of shit fuckwit

    Citation for what?

  18. Re:What we know so far on Comey Denies Clinton Email 'Reddit' Cover-Up (politico.com) · · Score: 0

    The point is they were given immunity and still plead the fifth, or failed to appear after being subpoenaed.

    Would you cooperate at a Republican hearing for a manufactured scandal? I wouldn't.

  19. What a waste of time... on Facebook at Work To Report For Duty Next Month (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    If I don't use Facebook personally, why would I use Facebook for business?

  20. Re:Poorly config'd server's existence is proof on Comey Denies Clinton Email 'Reddit' Cover-Up (politico.com) · · Score: 2

    So... am I to believe that Hillary Clinton is so woefully incapable of finding a competent IT engineer/admin?

    When a recruiter called me to do IT work in the Palo Alto campaign office of Meg Whitman for California Governor campaign in 2010, I rejected the job out of hand. Never mind that I've been out of work for a year-and-a-half at that time. That job wasn't worth the trouble. The recruiter was astonished that I would reject it out hand. Although I previously worked at eBay, Meg Whitman wasn't well loved by most employees — and I voted for her opponent, Tom Campbell, a moderate Republican, in the primary.

  21. Re:What we know so far on Comey Denies Clinton Email 'Reddit' Cover-Up (politico.com) · · Score: 2

    In any circumstances, the FBI giving Combetta immunity makes no sense at all.

    As someone currently working in government IT, I would plead the fifth until I've gotten immunity from the government. If I'm going to be thrown underneath the bus, I'm going to make it as difficult as possible.

  22. The real store behind the one-way ticket... on Elon Musk: First Humans Who Journey To Mars Must 'Be Prepared To Die' (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Liability insurance will be a bitch if the company has to guarantee bringing someone back alive.

  23. Re:Everything under the sun at Amazon on 55 Percent Of Online Shoppers Start Their Product Searches On Amazon (recode.net) · · Score: 1

    $8 shipping on a $9 part. Hurray.

    I usually order a minimum of ten to get the volume discount. The first chip will inevitably go up in smoke as I test the limits of what it can do. Or I connect the V+ and GND pins backwards.

  24. Re:Everything under the sun at Amazon on 55 Percent Of Online Shoppers Start Their Product Searches On Amazon (recode.net) · · Score: 1

    Well to the point Amazon means you are not having to hunt and peck specialty stores.

    Amazon doesn't provide a link to the datasheet. If you're designing a circuit and don't know which component you need, datasheets are quite valuable.

  25. Prime or minimum $25 spend. In most cases that's not too hard.

    The $25 minimum applies only to books. Anything else is $49 minimum.