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  1. Numbers Seem Low on How the H-1B Visa Program Impacts America's Tech Workers (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    I know a lot of people here in Silicon Valley who are not naturalization seeking, and working on a visa.

  2. I Like to Drive! on Eleven Reasons To Be Excited About The Future of Technology (medium.com) · · Score: 1

    What, someone likes to drive?
    I shouldn't jinx myself, but I've been driving since 1981, and haven't caused an accident.

  3. An impact study for something like that would take hundreds of years, perhaps thousands of years, to determine what effect it would have.

    There are still people so naive that they believe that we could do no harm so great that it would make the human race's survival difficult and worthless.

  4. Re:What about Poor People on T-Mobile Brings Back Unlimited Data For All (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Do you work for T-Mobile?

  5. Re:What about Poor People on T-Mobile Brings Back Unlimited Data For All (cnet.com) · · Score: 0

    My article is news and newsworthy.

  6. What about Poor People on T-Mobile Brings Back Unlimited Data For All (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Slashdot didn't run my article about the fact that T-Moble does not offer Lifeline credit in California.
    https://slashdot.org/submissio...

    And not, T-Mobile does this crap.

  7. Directx was a good thing for Microsoft, but when they started making game consoles, Windows suffered.

    It's been bad for PC gamers too. Many PC games looked no better than their Xbox counterparts because everyone dumbed down the games to run on the Xbox.

    I don't think that MS has the will to do two platforms.

  8. Electric motors are generally more efficient than internal combustion engines. We can create power with a stationary generator, and control the environmental emissions better than we do with a gas motor, but.

    We need smaller and lighter vehicles. We need better laws protecting lighter vehicles, bicycles, strollers, scooters, motorcycles, pedestrians, personal mobility vehicles, vehicles for the physically challenged, and even commuter skateboards.

    Have you ever heard of someone being arrested for stealing a bicycle, ever? In your how life time?

    I've even witnessed auto-pedestrian accident, where the police tried to minimize the lawsuit, all to keep the system going.

    But who is it serving?

    Electric vehicles are in many cases great, but we still need to reduce our energy consumption, but first we need to create an infrastructure to let it happen.

  9. MS Windows Is a Mess on Microsoft Starts Testing Windows 10's Next Major Update (theverge.com) · · Score: 0

    Windows 10: They didn't even paint over all of the rust.

  10. In America, we've designed our cities so they cannot be used without money. There are few sources of water and public restrooms. Cities are barren. There's no food growing in trees, no game animals to hunt, not nuts and berries to find. To a homeless person, our cities are dirty, surprisingly loud, and dangerous.

    Our politicians create social programs, but they aren't monitored for results. There are effectively no social workers, because you cannot attend to the best interests of the client--and be a gatekeeper for the system. Those who work with poor people often have no concept of what it's like to be poor--much less homeless. As a requirement, a "social worker" should have to live on no more than welfare for a month, with no financial help from their saving or anyone.

    The homeless are not the problem; homelessness is the problem. We need to let people sleep in their cars--even if it lowers our property value for a day. We need to stop breaking down park camps. We need to stop "upscaling" people into homelessness. We need to stop outsourcing jobs. We need to stop wanting to control the lives of poor people, because our entire legal system is undeniably slanted against the poor.

    Poverty and homelessness is not a crime.

  11. Um, Glued In Batteries and Nonstandard Drive? on Apple Said To Plan First Pro Laptop Overhaul in Four Years (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    That will make it disposable--err professional.

  12. We Will Sell Bullshit Thing to Feed Your Paranoia on 'Faceless Recognition System' Can Identify You Even When You Hide Your Face (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    From Robocop: "I had a guaranteed military sale with ED 209 - renovation program, spare parts for twenty-five years... Who cares if it worked or not."

  13. I just Subitted an Artical About Windows 10 on Ask Slashdot: Share Your Experiences With Windows 10 · · Score: 1

    ...and of course it wasn't posted.

    When will I learn that Slashdot won't post my articles?

  14. Better Hide Because it Can't Fight. on The New F-35 Is So Stealthy, It's Harder To Train Pilots (airforcetimes.com) · · Score: 1

    What we are not hearing about is the pilots had said it can't dogfight, just like the F4 Phantom.

  15. Introducing Semen and Vaginal Fluid Unlock on Galaxy Note 7 Iris Scanner Explained (androidauthority.com) · · Score: 3, Funny

    New Brief: New technology developments from FoneLock allows uses to unlock their phones with their body fluids. For the first time you can use a very personal way of securing your cellphone. Note: fluid test results may be uploaded and shared with our advertising partners on unpatched insecure servers and notebook computers left at drinking establishments.

  16. Wanted: Computer Entrepreneur on Microsoft To Disable Policies In Windows 10 Pro With Anniversary Update (ghacks.net) · · Score: 1

    Job description: create a fair open commerce operating system to replace Microsoft.

  17. Gaming VS Workstation is Marketing Bullshit on AMD Unveils Radeon Pro WX and Pro SSG Professional Graphics Cards (hothardware.com) · · Score: 1

    They take a gaming chip, sometimes put ECC memory on it, don't bottleneck the 2D in the drivers, strip the cooler to the bare minimum, now costs 3 times as much.
    Fuck you marketing people, fuck you very much!

  18. Vote Against This With Your Dollars on Phones Without Headphone Jacks Are Here... and They're Extremely Annoying (mashable.com) · · Score: 1

    Just because they want a kickback from the MPAA and RIAA, doesn't mean that you have to buy it.

  19. Your Penis Size to Boot Windows? on Microsoft Responds To Allegations That Windows 10 Collects 'Excessive Personal Data' (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    Where do you draw the line?

  20. All You Can Eat... on Verizon To Disconnect Unlimited Data Customers Who Use Over 100GB/Month · · Score: 1

    All you can eat, should be all you can eat.
    Yet, another failure of the federal trade commission.

  21. That's Insane! on China Bans Ad Blocking (adexchanger.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Why would a communist country ban a program defeats a device of capitalism?

  22. The U.S. Federal Trade Commission all about being on its hands and knees, blowing Microsoft. The concerns, security, and well-being of American. citizens just doesn't matter to them.

  23. The Federal Trade Commission should have addressed MS as a monopoly a long time ago, when they stole its encryption, stole it media player code, stole its networking, and stabbed IBM in the back...a second time.

    Of course MS is warning about competitive browsers, they are above the law.

  24. Even the Robots Don't Want to Be There on BuzzFeed and Washington Post To Use Robots For RNC Coverage (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    Would you?

  25. Pot Probably Safer than Benzodiazepines on New Study Shows Why Big Pharma Hates Medical Marijuana (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Having tried both, I feel that pot is less addictive than Atavian.

    When my mother had cancer, they gave her Benzodiazepines for stress. The withdraw she went thought was like nothing I have ever seen anyone go through from pot.

    Perhaps in a perfect world there would be no pot, but there wouldn't big drug and beer companies telling you and your government what to do.