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  1. Re:Short-sighted view on New Diesel and Petrol Vehicles To Be Banned From 2040 In UK (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    There's the GM factor, though -- it's still going to be designed goofy.

  2. So you support cutting off military coverage of Viagra and Cialis, which cost far more than TG services do and unlike the latter are NOT medically necessary?

  3. Re:After consultation with "my Generals"... on Donald Trump Says US Military Will Not Allow Transgender People To Serve (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    They haven't expanded the number of justices *yet*. But why would they need to, when they've already packed it with their candidate after having stonewalled on the reasonable candidate that Obama nominated.

  4. PLEASE stop spreading the Weston A Price bullshit re soy.

    Diet is a factor, including meat consumption and preservatives

    http://www.nationalchickencoun...

  5. Re:Capacity planning on Disastrous 'Pokemon Go' Event Leads To Mass Refunds (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    You'd need multiple towers for multiple carriers. I also wonder if you'd need for phones' OTA data to be updated to talk to them.

  6. I've known a Siri, short for Serena.

  7. Re:The good old days on The New Firefox and Ridiculous Numbers of Tabs (metafluff.com) · · Score: 1

    The irony is that Firefox started out as the lean+mean alternative to Netscape. Full circle.

  8. Re:No unicode on Slashdot. on Ask Slashdot: What Software (Or Hardware) Glitch Makes You Angry? · · Score: 1

    1) I have a non-alphanumeric char in my name, so many DB misses because it randomly gets stripped out, so many cases of it being converted to an HTML escape.

    2) I have several 8TB drives in my Mac Pro. They randomly go invisible; a power cycle recovers them. Doesn't happen with smaller drives.

  9. Why would a manager need to go into some office? When his/her peers and execs are also scattered around the continent?

    Only for 3 out of the last 18 years has my manager lived in the same state as "the office".

    Telecommuting isn't just about saving a half hour drive. It's also about not spending tens of thousands every few years to move to whatever crappy place HQ insists on being in

  10. At Cisco three meetings is a *light* day.

  11. This.

  12. Re: Don't joke about Disney on Amazon Prime Is a Blessing and a Curse For Remote Towns (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Amen to that

  13. He might start with how he runs Facebook.

    1) Stop forcing cramming everyone into one huge crowded neurodiversity-hostile room

    2) Stop forcing employees to live in the silly valley

  14. I've never known the Space Needle to not have a healthy visitor stream.

    The summary above is misleading in that it implies that Amazon and other tech employees would be taxed even if $250k.

    By any measure King County is rife with rich people. Years ago I heard a list of the top counties in the country by millionaire population. King was fourth, with 68,000. That was before Amazon got huge, so it's no doubt more now. Microsoft's compensation and personnel policies had already created a haves vs have-nots scenario twenty years ago, and it's only getting worse. As in, Seattle really has become San Francisco.

    Amazon will not be harmed by this tax if it goes through. They are rife with cash. The rich will still be rich, their rank & file will still be slaves who are accustomed to being abused. Nobody will go anywhere, Amazon is staunchly Facebook-like in their insistence on employee locality. Even 15-20 years ago they turned me away because I didn't live downtown, within 5 minutes of their DC.

  15. Re:need more STEM grads on Short of IT Workers At Home, Israeli Startups Recruit Elsewhere (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    You're making incorrect assumptions.

    I have a degree in math because the college I attended did not deign to offer an undergrad CS degree until years after I left. This is far from unique.

  16. Re:Almost correct... on Facebook Has a New Mission: Bring the World Closer Together (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Facebook for years has practiced discrimination by forcing employees to live in the silly valley and work in one big huge noisy room. This discriminates against those with families and the neurodiverse.

  17. Re:My problem with AMD on AMD Looks To 'Crush' Intel's Xeon With New Epyc Server Chips (extremetech.com) · · Score: 1

    Among them having CEO who printed posters with himself styled as Indiana Jones protecting his trophy wife.

    Yes, these were posted around the Austin campus.

  18. Goofy unpronounceable names dissuade me from buying a product.

  19. In other words, Microsoft closes its eyes, puts hands over ears and repeats "LALALALALALALALALALA" to avoid hearing stuff.

  20. Re:"The US Government Wants..." on The US Government Wants To Permanently Legalize the Right To Repair (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    The bullshit anachronism of the electoral college prevents that.

  21. Voters in George recently proved otherwise.

  22. Re:Mod parent up! on A Colorado Group Wants To Ban Smartphones For Kids (apnews.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm guessing you don't have an autistic kid.

  23. Re:Take Marissa's advice on Ask Slashdot: Advice For a Yahoo Mail Refugee · · Score: 1

    If you want to use OSX Mail.app, then Gmail is a crapshoot.

  24. Re: a matter of kettle on Delays In Unlocking Cellphones Seized In Inauguration Day Protests? (buzzfeed.com) · · Score: 1

    Absolutely. How dare the media report what's actually going on? They should stick to attacking poor people for having coffee pots.

  25. Lemme guess -- you consider yourself a developer and look down your nose at "ops"?

    What's stupid is segregating "A&E" and "ops". The former fiddle while Rome burns, like they're working on a thesis, pisisng away person-months on deadends, LLD' s that defy the laws of physics, and wheel reinvention. The latter are left to get the service to actually run, so they do their own dev in a vacuum.

    What's also stupid is dedicated scrum masters who enforce dogma despite reality, counterproductive stuff like planning poker and droning on about how everyone on the team should be able to do any job.

    What works is having a variety of complementary people in each team, providing perspectives and cross-pollination. May of us were doing this years before anyone invented the term DevOps.