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  1. Re:Something feels off about this. on Congress Will Consider Proposal To Raise H-1B Minimum Wage To $100,000 (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 2

    I suspect the writer meant both H and T suck, but not necessarily in the same ways.

    There are many paths to suckhood.

  2. How many companies will see this as the tipping point to it making more sense to move the company to where the H-1B workers are instead of continuing to do the work inside the USA?

    They'll find India is too regulated for their tastes.

  3. Re:Welcome to globalization on Millennials Earn 20 Percent Less Than Boomers Did At Same Stage of Life (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    don't want to bust their ass for meager wagers so that Americans can enjoy a standard of living higher than they deserve

    They don't have a choice, they have an authoritarian gov't

  4. Re:Why does this come as a surprise? on Millennials Earn 20 Percent Less Than Boomers Did At Same Stage of Life (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    Meanwhile we have a "recovery" that's not actually a recovery but a bubble fueled by low interest rates and the Fed printing more and more money.

    I see no evidence of "money printing". Inflation has been sub-par. Perhaps we should try it.

    Automation and the Internet seem to be the main culprit of job loss. The economy can make and ship more stuff, but there are no consumers to buy it because their jobs shrank. Printing money may fill in the new capacity. We have sluggish inflation because the GDP, at least potential GDP, is growing faster than the money supply.

  5. Re: And what's the point? on Amazon To Add 100,000 Full-Time US Jobs in Next 18 Months (geekwire.com) · · Score: 1

    Americans are genetically pioneers: we set out into the unknown, taking big risk to perhaps find a better place/way. USA collectively rolled the dice and headed into yonder.

    Of course, we could end up with a back full of arrows or with Donner sandwiches.

  6. Re:And what's the point? on Amazon To Add 100,000 Full-Time US Jobs in Next 18 Months (geekwire.com) · · Score: 1

    He's a very very skilled buffoon. The GOP debates were classic entertainment; people couldn't help but watch and want more.

  7. Re:The DOM model strikes again on Fingerprinting Methods Identify Users Across Different Browsers On the Same PC (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    DOM = DUM

  8. You: "I don't like this TV show from the Apple network."

    S. Jobs: "You're watching it wrong!"

  9. Re:Can we stop adding GATE to every scandal? on FBI Arrests Volkswagen Executive On Charges Related To Dieselgate (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    human language is not a static construct, that words and even morphemes and other elements of speech evolve over time, old words taking on new meanings

    Yip, 300 years from now people will say, "I think that planet just trumped their government all up."

  10. Yabba Dabba Doo! on The End of Yahoo: Marissa Mayer To Resign; Yahoo To Change Its Name To Altaba (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    If they paid branding consultants millions to come up with "Altaba", somebody deserves to be beaten black and blue with a briefcase, including the consultants.

  11. Re:About letting us choose everything? on Windows 10 Will Soon Let You Opt-Out of Automatic Driver Updates (pcworld.com) · · Score: 1

    What about letting us choose everything we want to update?

    What if they later add that option to the updater, but you marked not to update the updater?

    (Yes, programmers think like this.)

  12. "Automatic Driver" on Windows 10 Will Soon Let You Opt-Out of Automatic Driver Updates (pcworld.com) · · Score: 1

    At first I thought this was a self-driving-car-AI story. Windows 10 driving cars, what could possibly go wrong?

    "Officer, um, Windows crashed, and I with it."

  13. What's with the dated /. suggestions? on US Military Seeks Biodegradable Bullets That Sprout Plants (newatlas.com) · · Score: 1

    "You may like to read: ... Donald Trump Wins US Presidency"

    No. Don't remind me.

  14. Re:Here's a crazy idea on US Military Seeks Biodegradable Bullets That Sprout Plants (newatlas.com) · · Score: 1

    couldn't we just not shoot people?

    That's asking too much of mankind. Green Evil is better than Metallic Evil ... I think

  15. WTF? Don't tell me... on US Military Seeks Biodegradable Bullets That Sprout Plants (newatlas.com) · · Score: 1

    they sprout Onions

  16. Re:Un limited on Verizon Purges Unlimited Data Customers, Targets Those Using 200GB (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 0, Troll

    The terms of the deal have been Trumped.

  17. Smart executives don't leave a written trail. They call in a couple blokes just below their rank and tell them in person what they "must do" do to either get a raise, and/or to not get fired. The boss has "that stare".

    In court it's then word against word, which is rarely enough to convict by itself.

    I've been asked to do slimy stuff multiple times in the work world, unfortunately, and the boss(es) never use email. It seems to happen more often during slumps when people have fewer employment options.

  18. Re:Can we stop adding GATE to every scandal? on FBI Arrests Volkswagen Executive On Charges Related To Dieselgate (cnet.com) · · Score: 3, Funny

    If Bill G. breaks through a fence gate using gate-array circuity, then the scandal is called "GatesGateGateGate". Or, G4.

  19. just don't let them know you sent it on Ask Slashdot: What Is the Best Way To Thank Users For Reporting Security Issues? · · Score: 2

    Hack directly to their screen and display, "Thanks for reporting the security issue. -Anonymous Coward"

  20. That's how it goes 300 miles. It's tech licensed from ACME.

  21. Correction, it's not a data-center itself, but electronic manufacturing is still an energy-intensive industry.

  22. Isn't AZ too hot? Do you really want a data center where the temperature quite often approaches 110 degrees? You'll need "turbo" A/C. Doesn't seem economical.

    Why not Idaho? Cooler weather, low taxes, and cheap real-estate.

  23. Re:C is slowly being replaced by C++ on Is The C Programming Language Declining In Popularity? (dice.com) · · Score: 1

    It seems there are insufficient alternatives around: Something that runs close to the metal, scales up to larger code-bases abstraction-wise, yet has enough high-level protections to avoid easily shooting yourself in the foot through bad pointers or bad type conversions that get past the compiler.

    One probably wants access to the "guts" when actually needed, but otherwise that access is not the default. One has to explicitly tell the compiler, "Yes, I really want to do risky low-level stuff in this block. Please allow".

  24. Fine, as long as off by default on LG Threatens To Put Wi-Fi in Every Appliance it Introduces in 2017 (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    As long as it's off by default and requires a physical switch to turn it on, I'd have no problem with that.

    I personally wouldn't want to pay extra for it, but when weighing brands, sometimes you have to accept features you don't want to get the best deal. After all, we cannot pick the features like a buffet meal, but must live with whatever the manufacture bundles into a given product. It was that way before wi-fi also.