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  1. Re: That's what is supposed to happen on Mayors of 7,400 Cities Vow To Meet Obama's Climate Commitments (theguardian.com) · · Score: 2

    Except both India and China are going gangbusters in moving towards renewables and if the US was still part they would be getting the monies soon.

  2. Re:Your kids won't get jobs on Mayors of 7,400 Cities Vow To Meet Obama's Climate Commitments (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Probably by then a lot of those jobs will be starting to be handed over to machines and automated.

  3. I have seen some humans that fall into that category as well

  4. Re: I love my 11 year old wrangler on Electric Vehicles Have Another Record Year, Reaching 2 Million Cars In 2016 (iea.org) · · Score: 1

    True Jeep aficionado wouldn't call it a Wrangler they would have called it a TJ as it is the more accepted name. The TJ was the last model with the inline 6 and there was some IP issues with calling it the Wrangler back in the day due to Ford (I think) had a Wrangler edition of one of their small trucks. Once the JK came out they switched to the V6 and it was called a Wrangler again everywhere. The only other Wrangler was the YJ but that was square eyed and we don't talk about it...

  5. Re:Power of the almighty dollar on British Airways Says IT Collapse Came After Servers Damaged By Power Problem (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    This is what happens when you outsource, you lose control of what is outside your grasp and you take them at face value.
    CEO who did the right thing would have been pushed out because he was costing the shareholders too much money before that

  6. Re: if i didnt have to work on Ontario Launches Universal Basic Income Pilot (www.cbc.ca) · · Score: 1

    Some reason I doubt that the landlords will get their way for a couple reasons. The ones that are doing it legally would be growing a maximum of 4 plants at one time per household and that ain't no growop and the ones doing it illegally could give two shits what the law says

  7. Re: Ontario, largest subnational debtor on the pla on Ontario Launches Universal Basic Income Pilot (www.cbc.ca) · · Score: 1

    Not really. Wife knows someone on welfare who has two kids. Yeah she made some bad choices earlier in life. She can go get a min wage job but then she can't afford daycare for the two kids. What does she do with her time? Volunteers with a local victim services. Hopefully by the time her kids are old enough for full day school she may be able to look at a job that her years of volunteering will help. That's the plan anyways. One if the things not mentioned here is that with UBI you reduce the amount of money spent on making sure people are honest and not abusing the system

  8. Re: minwage $11.40-$9.90 on Ontario Launches Universal Basic Income Pilot (www.cbc.ca) · · Score: 1

    I assume someone was too lazy and doesn't check their work

  9. This will probably be their undoing. They don't understand that the pointyhaired bosses that they are trying to woo are not going to stand to have their products support a system that open because it is a gateway to the illegal stuff.

    Sure Joe Public may buy a Kodi box to get legit access but shortly after they will discover Genesis and its ilk and get everything for free.

    That's how they think

  10. Re:Not about the free market on PewDiePie Calls Out the 'Old-School Media' For Spiteful Dishonesty · · Score: 1

    Free speech has always been about ensuring the government does not have control of the person to be critical of the existing power structure, that should never be infringed BUT when it comes to a corporation censuring someone on their infrastructure, that is their right. Corporations having the ability to pressure the govt to do something is a whole different kettle of fish.

    That said, he can use the tools available for him just like Hulk Hogan did with Gawker and sue the living crap out of the newspapers for defamation of character and potential lost income (although HH was a different and probably more embarrassing situation). If they modified the videos to make it sound like he is anti-Semitic than the unaltered videos which he has access to will exonerate him. There should be lawyers banging down his door right now.

  11. Re:Only the most gullible think... on The Brief, Bumbling Tech Careers of Lady Gaga, Alicia Keys, and Will.i.am (backchannel.com) · · Score: 1

    Said employees and directors get compensated through pay and other methods for their contributions.
    When they have as many followers as the celebrities do that may result in the company some more sales , they can be called anything they want as well. Until then they can shut up and get back to work

  12. That's ok, just like guns, you won't need to have an ICE car so they will just introduce more hoops to jump through to keep any existing models and probably a special license involved because you know fuel is highly flammable and all that..

  13. Re:Why wasn't this caught in peer review? on Cervical Cancer Just Got Much Deadlier -- Because Scientists Fixed a Math Error (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Except that the guy that headed the development of the vaccine stated:
    1. the link between HPV and cancer is tenuous at best as the sampling was done with high-risk women (aka hookers) and how it affects less at-risk women was not studied
    2. The vaccine was rushed to market with inadequate testing to meet external pressures .

    (looking for article but can't find anymore)

  14. Re:No on Facebook No Longer Clearly Labels Edited Posts (mashable.com) · · Score: 0

    No but you are quick enough to point it out (almost like a sense of pride), guess what no one cares...

  15. Re:Misleading Article, Basically Lies on Streaming TV is Beginning To Look a Lot Like Cable (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Canadian content providers have started implementing alacarte channels.
    Guess what, you get less channels for the same amount of money

  16. Re:The Average Viewer on Ask Slashdot: Why Did 3D TVs and Stereoscopic 3D Television Broadcasting Fail? · · Score: 1

    You haven't supposed to sit across the room since the first HD (720p) tv came out if watching HD content. I believe it was something like 50" tv you should be max of 6ft, watching a smaller tv you should be even closer. It was a specific field of view (like 33% or something close to that) .

  17. Re:Outsource jobs, blame AI, bring 3rd world on White House: US Needs a Stronger Social Safety Net To Help Workers Displaced by Robots (recode.net) · · Score: 1

    I rarely go to McDs but I was there last week, they were training customers to use big touchscreens to put in their order. Next step is an app you can have on your phone to put in your order remotely (similar to Starbucks app now) and ready when you come in. It could get to the point the only person working there is the maintenance guy who doubles as janitor.

  18. Re:In other news... on South Carolina Bill Wants To Put Porn Blocks On New Computers (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    And yet people think that banning guns would have the same effect...

  19. Re:Make it cheaper on Grand Tour 'Most Illegally Downloaded TV Show In History' (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Get a free VPN for 1 month, register and then don't use the VPN anymore.

  20. Re:Make it cheaper on Grand Tour 'Most Illegally Downloaded TV Show In History' (theguardian.com) · · Score: 2

    I actually found the last season of Top Gear with Clarkeson was almost phoned in.

  21. Re:Not availiable in most of the world on Grand Tour 'Most Illegally Downloaded TV Show In History' (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    I live in Canada and get it through Prime Video.
    You have to jump through hoops the first time but seems like they aren't like Netflix and doing regional checking at least on their Roku App.

  22. Re:The human fund on Alphabet Donated Its Employees' Holiday Gifts To Charity (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    Learned early on, perks are fleeting. Salary is for suckers. You want to know how much you are worth? Bill by the hour.

  23. Imagine that, stop using peripherals that naturally consume power, your battery lasts longer.
    ITS A CONSPIRACY!!

  24. Re:Imaginary benefits of social media advertising on Facebook Discloses New Measurement Errors, Continues To Hone Its Math (marketingland.com) · · Score: 1

    My wife got better results with her business using Facebook advertising than Google's adwords.
    That said my biggest annoyance with FB is the sale groups. Once I see them, if I don't add them and X them out, I don't want to see them again, same with suggested pages. The first I am pretty confident there is no monetary gain for FB other than potentially more use of their app (IOW no direct money for access), latter not so sure.

  25. Re: Please - no mainline stories with classified i on NSA, GCHQ Have Been Intercepting In-Flight Mobile Calls For Years (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    I think the argument could be made in this case about intent. The OP was not intending to come across that material, if he actively went out looking for it that is a different matter.