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  1. He might, but he also has a way of appearing *smug* in photos.

  2. Re:Ah yes.. The reason the FDA does reviews on FDA Worried Drug Was Risky; Now Reports of Deaths Spark Concern (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    The FDA approved aspartame, thanks to Rumsfeld pushing it. This is by no means a generally safe product.

  3. Re:Because greed. on Ask Slashdot: Are Companies Under-Investing in IT? · · Score: 1

    The Cheeto would ignore him even if he did, unless his advice was to exempt the NRA and the Klan (wonder how much overlap they have) from all taxes.

  4. Re:Because greed. on Ask Slashdot: Are Companies Under-Investing in IT? · · Score: 1

    I'd vote for that, though might adjusting the vesting schedule accomplish something similar? The SEC already does restrict executive stock transactions.

  5. Re:Crocodiles are dinosaurs - since when? on New Theory Suggests Dinosaurs Were Already Dying When Asteroid Hit (phys.org) · · Score: 1

    It is however ridiculous to make claims about herbivorous animals based on carnivorous ones.

  6. Re:Crocodiles are dinosaurs - since when? on New Theory Suggests Dinosaurs Were Already Dying When Asteroid Hit (phys.org) · · Score: 1

    Thank you, beat me to it. Such a clueless blunder. The later reference to dinosaurs as a singular "species" also made me cringe.

  7. Re:survived for millions of years after on New Theory Suggests Dinosaurs Were Already Dying When Asteroid Hit (phys.org) · · Score: 1

    There's plenty of evidence that they existed after Chicxulub: notably the fact that they still exist today. I see them flying around every day.

  8. Re:Apple has been lost for a while, hardware-wise. on Apple's Redesigned Mac Pro is Coming in 2019 (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm using a 2009 Mac Pro at home in part because of having effectively 6 drive bays. OS support stopped a while back, so far for my limited purposes that hasn't been a problem. Yet.

    A new-gen grater would skip the optical drives and use LFF or M.2, so it'd be a lot smaller.

  9. Re:Use our Postal System as their Delivery Boy? on President Trump Slams Amazon For 'Causing Tremendous Loss To the United States' (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    The irony here is that the Cheeto *himself* has bragged about not paying his own taxes, and he's personally put lots of small businesses out of business.

  10. Re:Wouldn't call without reason. Others break thin on Most Tech Workers Would Ignore a Call From Their Boss Outside Work Hours (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Agreed. I'd also rather address something sooner, vs. later after it's had time to get worse and piss off more customers.

    Which also might mean getting an escalation at 7pm when I'm awake already, vs 3am which disrupts me and my family.

  11. Re:I would pick up on Most Tech Workers Would Ignore a Call From Their Boss Outside Work Hours (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Off hours duty/call in US tech *is* paid for:

    * A salary that works out to higher than someone might make make hourly
    * All manner of flexibility. I can cut out in the middle of the day for a school thing, to take my car in for work, to catch a matinee, even something wild like having lunch with my wife.
    * At my previous company, on-call duty and on-call hours worked were additionally compensated. At my current job they aren't, but I'm also making $31k more/year than I was at the old job.

  12. Re:"Most tech workers aren't working when off work on Most Tech Workers Would Ignore a Call From Their Boss Outside Work Hours (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    This is simplistic.

    Most people, especially those with families, prefer to work during local daylight hours. 24x7 coverage means local off-hours shifts (which most people don't like), or having people around the world. Finding qualified people in appropriate timezones is difficult; the paperwork to be able to employ and pay them is also considerable.

    Then you have the challenge of keeping everyone in sync when you rarely if ever have everyone in a single conversation. Sure you can set up NOC-type teams this way, and document routine situations for them to execute unilaterally, but there are always going to exceptional situations.

    On-call rotations aren't going anywhere.

  13. Re:just run the 2nd OS in a VM and call it a day on Ask Slashdot: Why Are There No True Dual-System Laptops Or Tablet Computers? · · Score: 1

    In 2018, that dedicated machine is called a cell phone.

  14. Proper cover would mean people working after 5pm. Canâ(TM)t have your cake and eat it too.

  15. "Conservatives" generally are hateful. And they never seem to actually want to conserve anything.

  16. Like the one where they won't export the rare-earth metals needed to manufacture these goods?

    Can't build stuff in the US if we can't get the materials.

  17. Moreover, *apartments*. To trap people into the self-perpetuating recenter cycle.
    Facebook's office environment more closely resembles a CAFO than a community. A better answer would be stop forcing employees to live in the silly valley.

  18. "legal" != "good idea"

  19. Gun safety is an oxymoron.

    And even if it weren't, in-person training would be markedly better.

  20. Re:They may be considered as free advertising on Hackathons Are Dystopian Events That Dupe People Into Working For Free, Say Sociologists (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1

    Color me confused. My company's hackathons are attended by internal salaried employees. Nobody's working for free.

  21. If they want better lives, then they need to stop having 5 kids. Or even 3. Or really even 2.

  22. Two dynamics that are rarely mentioned yet contribute substantially to the problem because they are politically unpopular:

    1) Animal agriculture. Watch Cowspiracy.

    2) Population. One result of technology is modern medicine, which has extended lifetimes and reduced the infant mortality rate even in the third world. Pregnancy rates for the most part have not declined to match, so we find that modern medicine is a direct contributor to overpopulation. Any real solution has to deal with population growth across the entire planet.

  23. Re:It's not a completely unreasonable change on Microsoft Wants To Force Windows 10 Mail Users To Use Edge For Email Links (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Reading between the lines: "The Cheeto DoJ will let us flout the previous browser rulings"

  24. Re:No soup for you, comrade on China To Bar People With Bad 'Social Credit' From Planes, Trains (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    In the PRC practicing Qigong gets you imprisoned and your organs harvested, so "break the rules" and "punished" are very much relative and in context.

  25. Re:A loss for children. Adults, not so much. on Toys R Us To Close All 800 of Its US Stores (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    The spring/summer catalog was better -- the models were wearing less ;)