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  1. Re:take a hike on Microsoft Seeks Trump Order Exemption for Workers With Visas (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    depends on quals. for example, virtually anyone with a PhD in a related field could easily work there, and most people with Masters in a close field. And anyone with a decent Bachelors. But MSFT is ageist, so ...

    (yes, I turned down five job offers to work directly for them, I know the lifestyle)

  2. This is insane FTA just hacked drones! on The FAA Gave the First Ever Go-Ahead For a Drone To Fly at an Airport (recode.net) · · Score: 1

    This is literally insane, the FTA just did hacking tests on commercial drones (it's in a mil gov newsletter) and successfully hacked all of them.

    Not safe.

    Not wise.

    In sane.

  3. Technically any email over 180 days or any SM on Secret Rules Make It Pretty Easy For the FBI To Spy On Journalists (theintercept.com) · · Score: 1

    Technically, all the intel agencies, including the mil ones, can access and hack any email you have older than 180 days and any social media posts on any platform.

    Welcome to East Germany.

    Grats, dudes!

  4. Nope on It's Time To Admit Apple Watch Is a Success (imore.com) · · Score: 1

    Watches and watch devices for "health" info are dying.

    You're confusing exposure to the Asian market, where jewelry for men and women is limited, but things like Apple Watch are permissable, with market growth in the core sectors.

    It is a fad.

    And it is dying.

    Anyone with a decent marketing degree in business could tell you that.

    (Capilano U, N Vancouver, grad)

  5. Our States has a Constitutional Right of Privacy on US Judge Rejects Suit Over Face Scanning for Video Game (newyorklawjournal.com) · · Score: 1

    If they lived in Washington State, they could sue.

    And win.

  6. If you have access to tools, which you can either rent or find at tool libraries at most community colleges, it usually takes about 12-16 weeks to build a fully functional top of the line house.

    Land is the primary expense in housing in most urban areas.

  7. Re:Trust the Cloud on Microsoft Reports New Subscribers For Office 365 Plunged 62% (itworld.com) · · Score: 1

    oops, sorry, Russian hackers took down the cloud again.

    yeah, like SAAS is such a good idea

    not.

  8. Trust the Cloud on Microsoft Reports New Subscribers For Office 365 Plunged 62% (itworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Trust the Cloud, the cloud is your

  9. Fitness devices as useful as MSFT at NFL on Fitness Wearable Maker Fitbit To Cut Six-Percent of Its Staff Following a Disappointing Q4 (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 2

    Nobody except n00bZ use either

    Studies have even shown that devices like Fit bit discourage you from exercise, by setting limits on what you do.

    Real exercise is a matter of just adding a little more each day, and realizing pain is there to tell you to cut back or stop.

  10. Re: the project still needs to complete on New York Approves Largest US Offshore Wind Farm Off Long Island (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    its permitting process, because the all bribes haven't been paid.

    No, the bribes are for the New Jersey wind project

  11. Makes far more sense than importing liquefied dead dinosaurs for energy.

    Plus, bonus, no long supply chain to defend and make up excuses to invade other countries to get it!

  12. Re:Best feature they could get on Twitter Scrambles For Next Big Feature, Bets On Merging Tweets, Hashtags, Moments (adweek.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Agreed, need more punching of nazis

  13. Those are hosted by providers. Rural folks don't get pokestops unless they buy a lot at the pokestore.

  14. It's a free unicorn. Ponies cost more.

  15. Access does not imply cost on Trump's FCC Chairman Pick Ajit Pai Vows To Close Broadband 'Digital Divide' (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 0

    So, it will be available in more areas, at greater costs and in more limited uses.

    See, I "expanded access".

    Now, fork over the $300 a month.

  16. Conversely, usage drops after the first 90 days on More Than 8M People Own an Amazon Echo As Customer Awareness Increases 'Dramatically' (geekwire.com) · · Score: 1

    The existence of a device does not mean the usage of a device.

  17. ... lots of present stuff, like the keyboard I'm typing on, laptop cases, tablets, chairs, clothes etc?

    Well, here at the US advanced research universities, we literally make those. Without petroleum.

    We even make all-electric F1 racers.

    Wake up, sheeple, it's 2017, not 1967.

  18. Took you long enough on Researchers Discover Massive Networks of Fake Twitter Accounts (bbc.com) · · Score: 2, Funny

    And I'll bet you thought Russia was doing this with real accounts?

  19. We live in Soviet Amerika on Ask Slashdot: Can US Citizens Trust Government Data? (msn.com) · · Score: 1

    There are lies, damned lies, and Trump alternative facts, comrade!

    (don't worry, there are backups, amazing what you can fit on 1TB flash drives you gave to colleagues in other countries)

  20. If they say "jobs" they mean outsourcing.

    If they say "fewer regulations" they mean fewer regulations protecting Americans and making it easier to pollute and outsource.

    Always. Remember. They. Lie.

  21. But renewables are cheaper than fossil fuels on Two-Thirds of Americans Give Priority To Developing Alternative Energy Over Fossil Fuels (pewresearch.org) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    How much business sense does it make to invest in cheaper and cleaner energy instead of expensive tax-subsidized pollution-heavy energy that can't exist without taxpayer subsidized mining leases on public lands and non-accounting of pollution costs?

    I mean Big Government demands we do the worst possible most expensive fossil fuel version!

    If we don't Fill The Swamp with massive tax subsidies for old Soviet-style fossil fuels, we might become independent of the Middle East!

    And then what excuse will we have to start foreign wars to make billionaires richer at the cost of American blood and treasure?

  22. Don't care. Never did. on 3D TV Is Dead (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    The future is not 3D TV.

    The future is not Virtual Reality.

    The future is near field power devices.

    (caveat: I was one of the IPO participants in startups for both 3D TV and Virtual Reality companies in Hong Kong)

  23. LOL, we can still geolocate him on Trump Trades in Android Phone For Secret Service-Approved Device (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    You forget who wrote the code.

  24. Seriously, it's self-powered wireless clothing devices and other integrated circuits you wear that have their own AI, and which will report you to the Ministry of Truth for deviating from the "norm" that are the 5th Industrial Revolution.

  25. As an example of the difference on How the Human Brain Decides What Is Important and What's Not (neurosciencenews.com) · · Score: 1

    One thing to consider is the existence of what SF calls "bullet time", or when time appears to slow.

    This is what it feels like when, in addition to your heart racing, you literally are recording everything you perceive. We get rid of almost everything we see, hear, feel, touch, and taste, but in bullet time, or emergency time, we turn the recorders on full, so that we can analyze how we escaped the dingoes trying to eat us, or the event that might have killed us.

    If we did that all the time, we'd run out of storage. So we toss most of it away.

    On a personal level, it is kind of cool. But it's there for a reason, to help you learn to avoid things that might get you killed, or almost did.