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  1. Need to replace CEO CFO with robots first on Former McDonald's USA CEO: $35K Robots Cheaper Than Hiring at $15 Per Hour (foxbusiness.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Talk about wasted money. Overpaid senior execs actually reduce the ROI of any business, as numerous studies have shown.

  2. Still just Security Theatre on TSA Replaces Security Chief As Tension Grows At Airports · · Score: 1

    The methods they use actually increase risk factors, by bunching up large numbers of people, as Brussels Airport shows.

    End the ineffective security theatre entirely, it's a waste of time.

    And screen anyone who goes to/from the following: Saudi Arabia, UAE, Pakistan, and Afghanistan.

    All the rest are a total waste of time. And make everyone in those lines VERY UNSAFE.

    Did nobody else get proper Counter-Terrorism training?

  3. You just crossed the Red Line.

    Morons

  4. Technically correct, but obviates fatal H2 flaw on Tesla Co-Founder Says Hydrogen Fuel Cells Are a 'Scam' (electrek.co) · · Score: 1

    The main problem with hydrogen fuel cells is that they, for the most part, are not true H2 and O2 fuel cells, but actually a methane air fuel mixture. If we were to set up solar cracking stations along rail lines and used them to crack water (H2O) into constituent H2 and O2, then we would have true hydrogen fuel cells, but more than 80 percent of all "hydrogen" fuel cells use various methane and other more complex (and far more polluting and damaging) storage.

    It's not like it's hard to create H2 and O2, it's just hard to store it that way. Most methods involve either complex chemical mixes, which create inefficient pollution, or cooling, or mixing in additives to make it more stable.

  5. Re:I guess there's one sensible solution to this on Employers Struggle To Find Workers Who Can Pass A Drug Test · · Score: 1

    Just a reminder, a single poppy seed muffin or bagel will make you test positive.

    That said, there is a serious H problem nationwide, mostly due to prescribed opiode painkillers

  6. It's Legal in the West on Employers Struggle To Find Workers Who Can Pass A Drug Test · · Score: 0

    Seriously, move on.

    Freedom, it's what's for dinner.

  7. As a Canadian veteran on Campaign Demands Telecoms Unlock the FM Radio Found in Many Smartphones (www.cbc.ca) · · Score: 1

    As a Canadian veteran, I support this additional freedom that only Canadians have, while America promises much and delivers little.

    FM means Freedom March!

    Corporations aren't people in Canada, btw.

  8. Re:How about replacing the CEO with a machine on Wendy's Plans To Automate 6,000 Restaurants With Self-Service Ordering Kiosks (investors.com) · · Score: 1

    If they replaced the CEO with a machine, who would loot the company?

  9. And I'll be boycotting them the next time I don't go to Wendy's.

    Which I don't.

    So, feel my squirrelly wrath!

  10. Saudi Wahhabi Terrorist ring on Second Bank Hit By 'Sophisticated' Malware Attack, Says Swift (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    It's obvious.

    Duh.

  11. Depends on the source of electricity. In the 12 advanced US states and 4 advanced Canadian provinces with green energy for 50-100 percent of their electricity mix, this is a false analogy.

    Only if you live in a deadender state or province that still uses coal to make electricity is this true.

    If you live in the West, this is definitely NOT THE CASE.

  12. Violation of Canadian and Washington St on Parents Could Be Sued By Their Kids For Posting Pictures of Them On Facebook (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Leaking information, without express permission, of kids, is a violation of their rights to Privacy under the Canadian Bill of Rights.

    It's also illegal in Washington State, where our State Constitution has a specific right of Privacy.

    Period.

    So stop posting those baby pics and tagging your kids.

  13. Nobody believes your lies.

  14. Next to drop out: Hils on John Kasich To Drop Out, Leaving Trump as GOP Nominee (vox.com) · · Score: 1

    She has no path to victory vs Trump.

    Bernie does.

  15. Re:Easy: If Skinny Puppy likes it, don't read it on Ask Slashdot: How Could You Statistically Identify The Best Sci-Fi Books? · · Score: 1

    I'm just saying what my fellow SF&F authors say. Including some who were SP noms.

    You can do with that what you will.

  16. Re: Yeey, less than 90% to go on Windows Desktop Market Share Drops Below 90% (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    Different AC. The Windows 8 UI is annoying, yes. But the system is decent. Windows 10 might be okay without the telemetry and without it being forced on users.

    That's like saying Westeros might be okay without Jon Snow saving it.

  17. What's a desktop? on Windows Desktop Market Share Drops Below 90% (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    Is that like one of the blade servers we run Linux on? Or do you mean an iPad? Or maybe a notebook or laptop?

  18. Um, radiation? on Scientists Discover Three Potentially Habitable Planets (mit.edu) · · Score: 1

    At that visible spectra, are you sure those are "habitable"?

    By what?

    Your eyes would burn out.

  19. Easy: If Skinny Puppy likes it, don't read it on Ask Slashdot: How Could You Statistically Identify The Best Sci-Fi Books? · · Score: 1

    As all my author friends say (we have a monthly party in Seattle), if Skinny Puppy likes it, don't read it.

    There, problem solved.

  20. Not just AI the way you think on Google CEO Predicts AI-Fueled Future (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    I was discussing this with some of my colleagues, and pointing out that the software-driven homework websites will become AI bots that can handle a wider range of inputs, as the current artificial limitations of how one expresses formulae are due to back compatibility, and not what "should" exist by 2020.

    The main thing is to limit their ability to adjust personality to match people, as that is how people drive them crazy, but to allow for different input templates that aren't as limited as the current ones.

    Tomorrow will not resemble today, except it will be a lot hotter and with more temperature extremes.

  21. Re:Sad truth: No Jail Time or RICO confiscation on There Will Be A Huge New 'Panama Papers' Data Dump (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 2

    This is why we use drones until it happens

    Legal is only legal until it stops happening

  22. Sad that only half realize we're serfs on Half Of Americans Think Presidential Nominating System 'Rigged' (huffingtonpost.com) · · Score: 2

    And very sad the other 49 percent revel in their serfdom.

    Wait.

    Serfs had rights.

    Americans don't.

    Strike that.

  23. Sad truth: No Jail Time or RICO confiscation on There Will Be A Huge New 'Panama Papers' Data Dump (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The sad truth is those "punished" for tax avoidance so far in the UK (the PM), Canada (a number of families using UK offshore tax havens), and Africa have mostly ...

    Not ... Gone to jail.

    Or suffered any real penalty other than paying, without excess interest owing, the taxes they avoided.

    What we need here, other than a few quick drone strikes until they all pay up, are RICO triple damage confiscations, including trust funds for kids and houses and yachts, and JAIL TIME.

    Which has not happened so far.

  24. Re:Waiting for vendors to get real on Smartphone Shipments Flat For the First Time, Says IDC · · Score: 1

    Um, they make them in China or S Korea. Why not just buy them for $99 from those countries, if Apple and other firms won't pay US taxes on said earnings?

    Fair is Fair.

  25. Waiting for vendors to get real on Smartphone Shipments Flat For the First Time, Says IDC · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Why should I shell out $500 every year when I can just wait until they have something that is a real improvement in three years?

    And that fits in my fricking pocketses!