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  1. I think you spelled laid off senior execs wrong on Etsy Slashes Almost a Quarter Of Its Staff In Attempt To Refocus (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    Laying off artisans won't help.

    Laying off senior execs will.

  2. North Korea thanks you for your payment on South Korean Web Hosting Provider Pays $1 Million In Ransomware Demand (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    What, you thought it was the Chinese?

    Lol.

  3. Re:Tech employee here on Tim Cook Told Trump Tech Employees Are 'Nervous' About Immigration (cnbc.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    This.

    Look, anyone with a computer science degree has probably learned between six and forty computing languages and mastered them in his or her lifetime.

    Stop bringing in foreign experts - who rarely are - and start investing in our own human capital.

    Reminds me of the days, two years after Java was released, where job postings asked for five years of Java programming experience.

    Oh, and start actually hiring women. They can code. And, no, they don't want to be your work girlfriend. It's a job.

  4. Trump says a lot on Tim Cook Told Trump Tech Employees Are 'Nervous' About Immigration (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Almost entirely lies.

    So, don't believe him.

    Verify. Don't trust.

    Think of him as the Russian Liar-in-Chief.

  5. I love the GOT ST:D crossover episodes on 'Star Trek: Discovery' Gets September Premiere Date On CBS & CBS All Access, Season 1 Split In Two (deadline.com) · · Score: 1

    They're the best!

  6. Strange on Fidget Spinners Are Over (fivethirtyeight.com) · · Score: 1

    Just heard from five friends who got one this weekend.

  7. Sweet: registering Punching Nazis as a band on Offensive Trademarks Must Be Allowed, Rules Supreme Court (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    About time!

  8. More to do with retail space and automated on 'The Unwillingness To Foresee The Future' (stratechery.com) · · Score: 1

    The purchase of Whole Foods has more to do with buying distributed retail space and converting even more to automated checkout.

    It won't affect people like me who don't buy Amazon stuff and who go to the local PCC or QFC for groceries and never use automated checkout.

    Think of it as a distribution game changer and a launch point for drone delivery.

  9. Re:Planned obsolescence on The Size of iPhone's Top Apps Has Increased by 1,000% in Four Years (sensortower.com) · · Score: 1

    You can ask them to unlock them on Canada Day. I'll be there.

  10. In my state spying on people is illegal on Amazon Granted a Patent That Prevents In-Store Shoppers From Online Price Checking (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    So just use your cell service to pull up the data.

    If they "change it", they get to go to jail. Prison. Real prison.

  11. Re:Amazon's no checkout will be stopped by liquor on Amazon To Buy Whole Foods Market For $13.7 Billion (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    This is trivially solved by flagging liquor as special items that need a human ID checker. Target and other stores already do that already for self-checkout. Or just have customers' IDs/licenses tied to their Amazon account. It's all in their profile anyway.

    Oh, you naive fool. I've worked checkout. I know people who've done that. Kids will always try to steal it. Always. Flag away. Won't stop them. They put a lot of time and effort into trying to get it.

  12. Re:Oh just great on Amazon To Buy Whole Foods Market For $13.7 Billion (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    There's an H Mart in the U Dist in Seattle. They have good stuff. Cheaper than Uwajimaya's. Only losers go to Whole Foods.

  13. Even more reasons to avoid Whole Foods on Amazon To Buy Whole Foods Market For $13.7 Billion (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    Great, now I have even more reasons to avoid Whole Foods.

    Which is sad, cause it's on the bus route that goes past my house.

  14. Putin Lies. And so do his puppets. on Putin Claims Russia Proposed a Cyber War Treaty In 2015 But the Obama Admin Ignored Them (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    This is what we in the trade call "Fake News".

    And, no, Putin's puppet does not actually have all those "followers". They're bots.

  15. Re:Planned obsolescence on The Size of iPhone's Top Apps Has Increased by 1,000% in Four Years (sensortower.com) · · Score: 5, Informative

    In Canada all phones are unlocked.

    Only in third world countries like the US do you have locked phones.

  16. This is why I kill apps on The Size of iPhone's Top Apps Has Increased by 1,000% in Four Years (sensortower.com) · · Score: 1

    I used to have more apps on my iPhone 5 SE 64GB.

    I just delete them and let them live in the cloud now.

    FB - gone.

    Look, I don't pay for apps. I already paid for the phone. I don't care why you want me to have an app. I'm not installing it.

    Bloat that!

  17. Re:None on Ask Slashdot: Advice For a Yahoo Mail Refugee · · Score: 1

    This is a correct statement. Even non-networked airgap isn't secure.

    But we have to work for it then.

  18. Any relay server harvests your info on Ask Slashdot: Advice For a Yahoo Mail Refugee · · Score: 1

    It really doesn't matter what you do for privacy, since all the relay servers in the email chain are harvesting your information anyway.

    And then giving the metadata (or meaning) to all the intel services. Which also are hosted at the connection points.

    However, if you fully encrypt your email at the source, host your own ISP. We'll still get the info, either from the recipient or other things you aren't aware we use, but it makes us work harder to get it.

    Free? Nothing is free.

  19. LOL, I use em dashes! on Developers Who Use Spaces Make More Money Than Those Who Use Tabs (stackoverflow.blog) · · Score: 1

    That's why I get the big money!

  20. Re:Fake News on More Than 80% of US Adults Get News On Their Phones (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    I stand by my statement.

  21. Re:Fake News on More Than 80% of US Adults Get News On Their Phones (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    Agreed, NPR is definitely right of center. But the Scots and Welsh and Irish would say the same about the BBC.

  22. If I wanted to live in Nazi Russia I would on Google Drive Will Soon Back Up Your Entire Computer (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Google that.

    I'll settle for my Linux blade servers and 1000 Gbps port, thanks.

  23. Re:KEXP KUOW NPR BBC CBC on Ask Slashdot: Your Favorite Subscription Services? · · Score: 1

    One word: grow up.

    Rich people don't pay taxes.

  24. Re:This is not AI on Robots Are Coming For Our Ms. Pac-Man High Scores (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1

    It's also like Data Scientists. I work with Data Scientists. Technically, I have a postgrad in data science. Most of what they call Data Science, isn't.

  25. This is not AI on Robots Are Coming For Our Ms. Pac-Man High Scores (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 2

    Seriously, it's just a pattern matching algorithm.

    It's not able to do other things.

    AI can both walk and chew gum at the same time.

    Oh, wait, ok, maybe it's smarter than the Comrade-in-Chief, but that's still not AI.