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  1. more on researching and administering this than all the benefits they will pay to end workers combined, guaranteed. Until companies don't receive the benefit of "contracting" employees, this won't change.

  2. Your favorite thepiratebay domain.

  3. Ask Galileo how that worked out. Sounds like desperate actions of cult who's way past expiration date.

  4. Sorry, have to call BS on this one on All-Electric 'Flying Car' Takes Its First Test Flight In Germany (theverge.com) · · Score: 2

    Whereas there may be a prototype somewhere, this looks 100% CGI. Does anyone actually believe this video demonstrated anything that happened in real life?

  5. Do you mean that dialogue and not violence is a better way to solve problems? Most intelligent people know this. The problem is that most people aren't, intelligent.

  6. Why isn't that obtainable for you today? If you create bookmarks, users don't have to know the location of the source. I've never used the Netflix plugin, there's one that functions and there are Hulu, Amazon and YouTube plugins that function perfectly. Kodi has a pretty simple front end and allows for a significant amount of tinkering on the back end.

    By creating a user account for Mom with items bookmarked for your daughter (or whoever), you'll make an dead-end users interface that is pretty and easy. Should Mom care to watch other items, they can be easily added. I'd recommend it. I've used it for years and it's matured into a quite well developed application and front end.

  7. #3 manufactures get funded directly upon delivery to the dealers and have the ability to force them to carry unwanted / overpriced product.

  8. Updated to 2107 with a little ransomware flair.

  9. It won't be using New tech file system, it will be using the betterer HighPerfomance file system (hpfs).

  10. Re:Given that Venezuela's economy is tanking on Venezuelan Developers Are Using Bitcoin, Rare Pepe Trading Cards To Fight Against a Dismal Economy (cryptoinsider.com) · · Score: 1

    It's beyond pricing. Their production is down to just over 2m barrels a day, lowest in 13 years. That combined with the facts that oil is basically the only thing they export, they can't produce a sufficient food supply, an inflation rate of 1500% and at least 1/3 of the population's occupation is thief makes it a little tough to overcome.

  11. Re:Note to self on Why You Should Care About the Supreme Court Case On Toner Cartridges (consumerist.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I think HP is just as sleazy. Sending firmware updates to invalidate 3rd party cartridges, programing cartridges not to function beyond X impressions (regardless of ink/toner content). Razer blade sales tricks.

  12. Not exactly sufficient amount of time to have earned any assumptive rights. Without a written contract, there's no case here.

  13. The defects you seem to think exist are a normally engineered design to enhance our users experience. Besides, we don't have sufficient inventory to supply the current demand. As soon as our supply is greater than our customer demand, we may consider some type of compensation. Please keep complaining and we'll contract you in 6 months or so (if you're loud enough).

      Thanks and enjoy your experience!

  14. Americans?? on Self-Driving Car Speed Race Ends With A Crash (electrek.co) · · Score: 0

    "..how the fans are going to feel about watching a speed race between cars with no drivers?"

      They watch NASCAR don't they? It's pretty obvious the American race
    audience doesn't have that high of an expectation.

  15. Re:I'll never understand on Your Personal Facebook Live Videos Can Legally End Up on TV (thememo.com) · · Score: 1

    "So the common law marriage is just for the fuddy duddies, eh?"

          Here let me fix that typo for ya...

    So the common law marriage is just for the fuck buddies, eh?

  16. Re:Higher profit margins? on HTC To Stop Making Budget Android Phones This Year (neowin.net) · · Score: 1

    Ah.. HTC already manufacturers a premium phone, Pixel. As a brand they devalued themselves years ago with sloppy engineering.

      So, it might be too late for them to market under their brand, but they have no problem manufacturing a quality high-end product.

  17. Re:How about making your content easily available? on 70 Percent of Young Swedish Men Are Video Pirates, Study Says (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 0

    Please.. Torrents are so 2000's. In this country there's deadend users interfaces for media centers that allow anyone to watch basically ANY US network show (without commercials) normally no longer than 20 minutes following air time. It's just hitting Mom & Pop level of development, but this has been available for at least the past 5 years for TV and movie.

      I haven't had a cable connection for 20 years.

  18. "That doesn't, however, bind private actors like citizens or corporations from disassociating themselves from people who make anti-Semitic statements."

    Especially when an exceptionally large proportion of the controlling entities of the entertainment business are by birth or marriage, Jewish. Not only could it be seen as offensive to some, but it's just a plain stupid business decision.

  19. Download resumes on Ask Slashdot: What Are Some Things That Every Hacker Once Knew? (ibiblio.org) · · Score: 2

    Only had a chance with Zmodem.

  20. That the only way to on Ask Slashdot: What Are Some Things That Every Hacker Once Knew? (ibiblio.org) · · Score: 2

    repetitively assure a V.32bis connection was to use a US Robotics modem and all the cloned softmodems were garbage.

  21. "That is not a "Muslim" thing, it's a thing where people lack respect for the country they live in and even actively work to subvert the Government in the same Country. We have a good number of Mexican immigrants in the US who want California and Texas to be parts of Mexico and they don't respect or care about the US."

    The main difference is that radical muslims believe its their duty and obligation to jihad. Radical Mexicans just had too much tequila and following siesta, they're fine.

  22. Being "cleared" doesn't mean you are authorized on The US Border Patrol Is Checking Detainees' Facebook Profiles (cnet.com) · · Score: 5, Interesting

    The Visa Waiver Program was improved in 2015.

    "Nationals of VWP countries who have traveled to or been present in Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, or Yemen on or after March 1, 2011 (with limited exceptions for travel for diplomatic or military purposes in the service of a VWP country)."

    Just because it has been ignored by our previous administration, doesn't make entry lawful. It's far past time for enforcement agencies to follow legal mandates. Right or wrong, law is legislated. Instructing agencies not to follow laws created by legislature by defunding or other political means circumvents mandates created by legislature.

      We are a democracy. If the law doesn't fit what the majority of the citizens want, change it. Effecting change without legislature is just wrong.

  23. Its not just corn.. on All-Corn Diet Turns Hamsters Into Cannibals · · Score: 1

    Everyone knows, babies are are just tastier! Beef and pork are best when young!

  24. Bloated interface process on Ask Slashdot: A Point of Contention - Modern User Interfaces · · Score: 1

    Requiring a user to input unnecessary and unrelated data in order for the user to access their primary intent. A perfect example is the way Uber requires a rating from a previous ride before requesting an additional ride, without an obvious (or any) method to bypass. Nothing pisses me off more than in an RF challenged environment, all necessary telemetry is obtained and exchanged, the application/server requires the user to rate the previous ride. Whereas I don't have a problem with providing ratings, and agree they can improve services, holding me hostage before accepting a ride request creates a bad user experience, over and over again. Fix it Uber, provide a bypass and if necessary pop-over a nag for unrated rides.

  25. "That point is when the ratings become targets" on Customer Feedback Surveys Could Be Considered Harmful (easydns.org) · · Score: 0

    Or when a company (Uber) forces a rating on a previous transaction (Uber) before allowing additional transactions (Uber). It's especially
    annoying when you're in a bandwidth challenged location and all you want to do is use the service without being forced (Uber).

        It's invasive and a waste of bandwidth and time(Uber).