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  1. I just noticed that the worker is "21-year old". Let's forget for now that this worker was actually fired as a result of the automation. What is the real shame for this country in this case that teenagers do not have a fair chance on college education.

    Two fundamental principles that any civilized country should have vis-a-vis education should be:

    - Only the merits matter in acceptance (passing entrance exams, specific to each institution)
    - Instead of students paying the universities, the government should pay all A and B students a stipend, so they concentrate on studies instead of getting tired flipping burgers.

  2. >Yes, people can be retrained. Really depending on age and openmindedness though. But robots can also retrained and in less time for certain things.

    Sure. More options for business. They will choose whatever is cheaper option.

    The only answer to technological progress vis-a-vis employment problem is 2000 years old: "bread and circuses". Free bread and free circuses for fired. In our days this must include shelter.

  3. >Beautiful Soup, which is a terrible library, but popular

    Love the straight face humor in this sentence.

  4. Re:US Court - Russian Site on Sci-Hub Faces $4.8 Million Piracy Damages and ISP Blocking (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 1

    That actually changes things significantly. Russia is not Kazakhstan.

  5. Pre-Code Internet on EU Presidency Calls For Massive Internet Filtering, Leaked Document Shows (edri.org) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    That's what they will call a brief period of 15 years.

  6. i was going to... on Ask Slashdot: How Did You Experience The Solar Eclipse? · · Score: 1

    ... but right at the moment of eclipse stupid moon came up and prevented me from witnessing this magnificent event by passing right in front of the sun, that stupid bitch.

  7. Re: Small scale experiment. on Germany Tests Facial-Recognition Surveillance On 300 Citizens (dw.com) · · Score: 1

    Yes. I wish had points. I can't stand slashdot interface on a mobile. The only way to read your comment was to lower the filter to +1.

    It's as if developers have never heard of collapsible elements

  8. stop inventing new names for practically unchnged on Burger King Now Has Its Own Cryptocurrency - the 'Whoppercoin' - in Russia (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    Stop inventing new names for practically unchanged old concepts. I am tired of this shit.

  9. what is racial, gender, age breakdown of these vic on Tasers Implicated In Far More Deaths Than We Previously Thought (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 0

    I want to see how many of the victims were old, how many of different races, how many women and children

  10. Re:We have the opposite problem in the US on Germany, in a First, Shuts Down Left-Wing Extremist Website (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    I confirm this indirectly. I tried to gather statistics on popularity of neonazism in Europe and all I got is Golden Heart (or whatever it called) winning 7% in Greece in parliamentary election.

    Rise of right-wing xenophobia is a real thing though. Denmark is flooding propaganda waves with shows like Gidseltagningen, for example.

  11. Re: Aircraft yes, automobile no on Many People Still Don't Want To Ride in Self-driving Cars, Survey Finds (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    slashdot is populated by pitecanthrops in terms of seld driving cars.

  12. i do not care what you want on Many People Still Don't Want To Ride in Self-driving Cars, Survey Finds (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    You gonna

  13. wow that was fast on IBM To Trace Food Contamination With Blockchain (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    How quickly technology used to conceal transactions by criminals became a technology to trace bad stuff.

  14. Money is power, and there is nothing you can do... on Let Consumers Sue Companies (nytimes.com) · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    ... except revolution.

    Before doing so, you need an ideology and you got none.

    You know who got ideology? Muslims.

    Either eat shit from the real power: degenerate bankers or accept Islamic State, where capitalists will be subordinate to people, not vice versa.

    No "Free market" bullshit. There is no free market. There are monopolies and there are piece of shit scumbags who exploit human sweat, tears and blood - legalized organized crime in the form tobacco companies, alcohol production, and newly allowed by piece of shit liberals ganja industry.

  15. there is no hate on People Start Hating Their Jobs at Age 35, Study Says (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    People keep statistically recording nebulous " facts" about feelings. There is always one feeling: "mixed".

    Something tells me they do not had this answer in the list of multiple choices

  16. so you cut the cord just to plug in another? on Cord-Cutting Still Doesn't Beat the Cable Bundle (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    Real cutting the cord means ISP fee only. That's the only way to get away from the main problem of cable - ads.

    ISP should pay content owners, like youtube, per view. ISP knows already what you are watching. It's new Nielsen system with 300M unwilling participants instead of 1000 willing.

    I am in bewilderment, why people who just cut the cord, are gleefully gasping about Netflix, Amazon Prime and Hulu.

    It's the same yoke.

  17. Everything could be abused on After 15 Years, Maine's Laptops-in-Schools Initiative Fails To Raise Test Scores (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    You introduced pens, some pupils will be writing with them, some will poke the eyes of other pupils. You introduced books, some will read, some will draw penises in them. You introduced iPads: some will be browsing Wikipedia and Pubmed and some will be playing Angry Hippos.

    The only way to shift the balance between these two activities: productive and chaotic is enforcement. Enforcement with something that works:

    Corporal punishment.

  18. The jobs requiring pancreas knowledge pay much better. Your comparison is stupid and you are an idiot.

  19. How about a canes to schools? on After 15 Years, Maine's Laptops-in-Schools Initiative Fails To Raise Test Scores (npr.org) · · Score: 0

    How about re-introduction of corporal punishment?

    Interrupted a teacher: X hits by a cane. Bullied a student: Y hits by a cane. Making fun of A-student: Z hits by a cane.

    Put a cane on the wall, hanging prominently in front of the class.

    Stop seeing male teachers as potential child molesters.

  20. i am getting tired of bloody sleight of hand on Google and ProPublica Team Up To Build a National Hate Crime Database (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    surely, "hate news database" is much less menacing and Orwellian than "hate crime database"

  21. Re: Because they've abandoned their claimed princi on Google Explains Why It Banned the App For Gab, a Right-Wing Twitter Rival (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Its not, if Barnes and Nobles is the only non shady book store in town

  22. Re: Because they've abandoned their claimed princi on Google Explains Why It Banned the App For Gab, a Right-Wing Twitter Rival (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    http://www.berkeleyside.com/20...

    Aren't you a bit exaggersting implying that he got away with his violence scot free?

  23. The only drop test you will find is... on The Verge's Essential Phone Review: An Arcane Artifact From an Unrealized Future (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    ... provided by the maker.

    Nuff said.

    #$%^ this advertisement piece and #$% you, Slashdot.

  24. top-flight materials such as ceramic on The Verge's Essential Phone Review: An Arcane Artifact From an Unrealized Future (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Top-flight. RIght. Not when it comes to actual flight from the height of 4 feet to a pavement.

    I am done with this thread. Bye-bye

  25. tiny billion dollar startup? on The Verge's Essential Phone Review: An Arcane Artifact From an Unrealized Future (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Get a grip on your English, Dieter.