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  1. MS engineer: "Yup, yet another very satisfied customer. Man are we good!"

  2. Apple? on Elizabeth Warren Calls To Break Up Facebook, Google, and Amazon · · Score: 4, Insightful

    No complaints about Apple and their walled-garden?

  3. Lease! on Ask Slashdot: Which Laptop Should I Buy For My First Employee? · · Score: 1

    Look into the cost of leasing a computer rather than buying. This may allow you to change makes/models sooner than if you bought outright, If also less money upfront for your business to spend.

  4. There's always Superuser on F-Droid on SuperSU, a Popular Root App For Android, Disappears From Google Play Store (androidpolice.com) · · Score: 3, Informative
  5. Re:Laid off after corporate merger/acquisition on Ask Slashdot: Why Did You Quit Your Last Job? · · Score: 1

    So not so much conscious quitting as unconsciously quitting.

  6. Laid off after corporate merger/acquisition on Ask Slashdot: Why Did You Quit Your Last Job? · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Twice. Also laid off once after 3rd round of lay offs due to mismanagement. 30+ years in IT

  7. better-than-milk on Should the Word 'Milk' Be Used To Describe Nondairy Milk-Alternative Products? (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    If they can't call it milk, they should call it "better-than-milk". That should keep the dairy folks happy.

  8. Free Market at Work on Amazon is Raising the Price of Prime Monthly Memberships by Nearly 20 Percent (recode.net) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    No one is forcing you to use Prime. What is this even a story?

  9. Follow the money..... on Google Starts Certificate Program To Fill Empty IT Jobs (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    Google is charging money for the courses while sitting on a huge fortune of cash? If they are serious about helping people, why not make the courses free (as in beer)?

  10. Really? on Apple's Indirect Presence Fades from CES (techpinions.com) · · Score: 2

    CES presence != Market share. Follow the money

  11. What about Chinese hardware? on 'US Intelligence Agencies Should Put Up Or Shut Up With Kaspersky Rumors' (csoonline.com) · · Score: 1

    They're worried about Made-in-Russia software running on Made-in-China hardware/firmware? HAHAHAHAHAHA.....

  12. If you want RFID on your hand rather than a badge, what about using a ring instead? You just slip it on as you get ready for work and slip it off when you get home. Why doesn't anyone come up with this?

  13. And it's not the gun that's the problem... on Push Notifications From Popular Apps Are Becoming Increasingly Useless And Annoying (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    And it's not the gun that's the problem...It's all those bullets whizzing every which way.

  14. In & out on Ask Slashdot: Ubuntu 18.04 LTS Desktop Default Application Survey · · Score: 5, Insightful

    In with MATE and out the systemd, Otherwise all my new boxes get Devuan!

  15. If you consider what you are doing is "hard work", then you are doing it wrong.

  16. Germany = East Germany? on Germany Plans To Fingerprint Children and Spy On Personal Messages (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    Well, at least half the country should be used to this environment.

  17. Because on Many Colleges Fail to Improve Critical-Thinking Skills: WSJ (wsj.com) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Critical thinking is not a part of STEM. Be careful what you try to cram down everyone's throat.

  18. Cabs without drivers = no one to ensure passengers don't vomit, urinate or defecate in them. Drunks will LOVE it!

  19. Re:Good on Trump Is Pulling US Out of Paris Climate Deal: Sources (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    Because plutonium is safer than carbon?

  20. #firstworldproblems on Gamers in Hawaii Can't Compete... Because of Latency (theoutline.com) · · Score: 1

    If I'm living in Hawaii the absolute last thing I'm doing is playing video games. I'd be more concerned about rising ocean levels thanks to global climate change.

  21. This shows that prison makes criminals more effective. Bad criminals get caught and jailed. Good criminals go about their business unnoticed. So, they've been honing their craft in the stir. Should we really be surprised?

  22. GE layoffs happening now on Fear of Robots Taking Jobs in the Short Term is Overblown, Says General Electric CEO (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    He should tell that to the people being laid off at GE Power Systems in Schenectady (home of the zip code 12345)

  23. Radio diss'ed by artists on a streaming station? on Radio Is the Worst Place To Listen To Music, Says Jay Z (qz.com) · · Score: 3, Funny

    I'm shocked, I tell you. Shocked!

  24. Anyone remember assembler? on Microsoft Research Developing An AI To Put Coders Out of a Job (mspoweruser.com) · · Score: 1

    Nothing new or unexpected here. This is just another abstraction from machine language. Expect bigger, less efficient & less secure code.... same as we have each time we add another abstraction layer on.

  25. Once upon a time in the US, people learned their trade on the job. It was expected that the company would train the worker to do the job. What happened?