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  1. Re: Retire early on HP Hit With Age-Discrimination Suit Claiming Old Workers Purged (mercurynews.com) · · Score: 1

    Don't plan on kids, otherwise you'll be working until the day you keel over. As the other comment mentioned, what you gonna do about medical?

  2. Re:Fetal position on HP Hit With Age-Discrimination Suit Claiming Old Workers Purged (mercurynews.com) · · Score: 1

    No, EE. That was 5 years ago. He is out of ER now. It's a rat race.

  3. Hell, I know a guy in his 50s who went into fetal position, rocking back and forth in an empty conference room, after being canned. Excellent engineer, but they have stack ranking at my employer.

  4. Re:Gotta love the hypocrisy on How the H-1B Visa Program Impacts America's Tech Workers (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Funny, I was also in EE grad school 20 years ago, and a Buchanan supporter.

  5. Re:Impossible... on How the H-1B Visa Program Impacts America's Tech Workers (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Yep: HS > new BS BS > new MS MS > new PhD PhD > post-doc Is there a PhD is butt-wiping? You'll need that soon enough.

  6. Re:Not quite... on America's First Offshore Wind Farm In Pictures (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 2, Informative

    They are 4 miles off shore; who gives a shit.

  7. Re:Bad Choice of Location on America's First Offshore Wind Farm In Pictures (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 1, Funny

    Here I thought it was the north eastern liberals who want wind power, just not off THEIR coastline.

  8. Re:Odd... on How a 1967 Solar Storm Nearly Led To Nuclear War (space.com) · · Score: 1

    I suppose blocking (stealth, chaff, decoys) and jamming are different.

  9. Re:the scariest thing about Star Trek is on Star Trek Convention Celebrates The Show's 50th Anniversary (cnet.com) · · Score: 0

    I didn't even realize ST was in color until we got a color TV when I was 9 in 1980, even though I had been watching it since I was 2.

  10. Highly classified on 1,000+ US Spies Are Protecting Rio Olympics, Says Report (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Highly classified...my ass. So how does NBC know about it then, as do thousands of other people?

  11. Bathory on Peter Thiel Is Interested In Harvesting The Blood Of The Young (gawker.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Might as well go full on Elizabeth Bathory.

  12. Untouchable criminal on Clinton Campaign Breached By Hackers · · Score: 2, Insightful

    That criminal witch is untouchable, so I don't see the point of further hacks. She should be headed to prison instead of the White House.

  13. Sharia courts on UK Judge Calls For An Online Court Without Lawyers To Cut Costs · · Score: 0, Troll

    Just hand it over to Sharia courts; they'll do it for free. Gonna happen soon enough anyway. You Brits are fucked.

  14. Needs a refresh on Phones Without Headphone Jacks Are Here... and They're Extremely Annoying (mashable.com) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Yeah, but in 3.5 mm there is mono, stereo, passive microphone, active microphone, non-standard inline controls, impedance sensing, FM antenna. So 3.5 mm is far from standard.

  15. Hot wife on Man Builds $1.5 Million Star Trek-Themed Home Theater (cepro.com) · · Score: 1

    Proof you can be middle aged with a gut, Star Trek cave, and a hot wife. Of course he seems to be missing the Star Trek Stategic Operations Simulator arcade game.

  16. No, but as I mentioned, my dad was ticketed for accelerating through a light too fast. Went to court with him (9 YO) to fight it. Judge says "I know that (short) light" and tossed it out; less than one minute. Though sat through hours of listening to other cases; domestic violence over cereal boxes, brushing teeth with whiskey (DUI excuse), etc. Eye opening for a 9 YO to see dregs of humanity.

  17. Sure, but it's more about acceleration. There is no legal acceleration limit, although my dad was ticketed for it once, but that is a different story.

  18. Re:Lots of bad assumptions here. on The Case Against a Universal Basic Income (vox.com) · · Score: 1

    Like the garbage man, the cashier will be reduced. Home Depot and Walmart grocery stores are mostly self checkout now. Costco tried the self checkout but them removed them. So maybe not go away, but easily 90% reduction. I'd rather have a grocery cart full of RFID tagged goods, then just walk by a reader and checkout instantly. Then again, my usual grocery store offers free delivery for orders over $100, so that created a job for a picker and driver, and didn't cost me anything, actually saves me time.

  19. EM simulation on Slashdot Asks: What's Your Computer Set-Up Look Like? · · Score: 1

    2x 8 core Xeon, 128 GB, 2x Tesla K20, Windows 7, 2 TB RAID, 3x 24" On order: 2x 8 core, 512 GB, 4x Tesla K40, 9T B SSD RAID, 3x 28" 4k

  20. Millennials.......old age.

  21. Green screen........mellenials.

  22. Sorry, NOTHING beats the cat copter, well maybe the cat copter chasing the bird drone: https://youtu.be/uJfM23iChzs

  23. I don't know, but in a flight a few years ago, a guy in an isle seat had a porn mag open for everyone to see while boarding; I did a double-take.

  24. Re:Not a scam, just not a battery replacement on CleanSpace CO Sensor Runs On Freevolt RF Harvesting · · Score: 2

    Argh, me injuneer.

  25. Re:Stolen Power Radio - 1960s in Popular Electroni on CleanSpace CO Sensor Runs On Freevolt RF Harvesting · · Score: 2

    Sounds dubious. FM band wavelengths are pretty short, so the tall towers are to get you line of sight, not for antenna gain. 20% is very good efficiency, so he had to be doing near field coupling right next to the radiator (on the order of feet) or else a HUGE array surrounding the tower.