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  1. Re: I think it's fair on When Your Boss Is An Algorithm (ft.com) · · Score: 1

    People don't work a second job to survive, they do it to improve their life and afford extra things. That's not always true. I am stuck paying child support, and buying the family healthcare plan at work, evean though i have a plan that is nearly free with the VA, and dependant has medicaid because mother is super poor. SO, yeah, i need uber $$ just to pay bills. Didn't want to depend on it, but has come to that. Oh, so get a better job.... yeah let go pluck one from the job tree.

  2. Re:Boosting latency? on In Major Cloud Expansion, Google To Open 12 More Data Centers · · Score: 1

    Brought to you by Carls JR.

  3. Re:This will only help the wealthy... on NASA Wants To Get Supersonic With New Passenger Jet (networkworld.com) · · Score: 1

    wow AC, way to be Overly pedantic.

  4. Re: Fools think this is horrible. on EFF: License Plate Scanner Deal Turns Texas Cops Into Debt Collectors (eff.org) · · Score: 1

    for criminal stuff, stuff you can go to jail for. NOT civil stuff, where its just money they want.

  5. Re:Why does every story need a villian and a victm on Senior Citizens Hit the Road For Uber · · Score: 1

    you only get Tricare after you retire from doing 20+ years, or maybe medically discharged with a disability. Yes, if you make 35k a year or less you can sign up for reduced cost care from the VA, but it not the same thing. just simply finishing your first term and getting out does not qualify you for free healthcare for life.

  6. Re:No Monopoly There... on DOJ Could Nix Comcast-Time Warner Merger · · Score: 1

    see here is the fallacy. the vast majority of people have 1 or maybe 2 providers where they live. if it is 2 it's usually dsl vs cable. so in all practivle terms for maybe 90% of America only 1 isp serves any given location. yes there are more than 1 providers across the land. and more to the point, the map provided by Time warner/comcast showed they only overlapped service by a very small percentage.

  7. Re:But not to Nestle. on California Looks To the Sea For a Drink of Water · · Score: 1

    sell it to the east coast for winter road salting?

  8. Re:The future is here on W. Virginia Bans Direct Tesla Sales, With Urging of Car-Dealer Senate President · · Score: 1

    or yuou know .. have shell corps for each model. tesla1 sells coups. right next door tesla2 sells roadsters, and so on. all legal trickery to fulfil the essence of the ruling ( which is asinine).

  9. Re:This is great! on Former HP CEO Carly Fiorina Near Launching Presidential Bid · · Score: 2

    and.... Bingo. thanks folks, turn in your cards to the right as you exit.

  10. Re:hard to sell a career path these days on Government, Military and Private Sector Fighting Over Next-Gen Cyber-Warriors · · Score: 2

    About the first part, Basically every Nation-State that is in on the game has a better pool to draw from. About your last comment. have you actually tried to Enlist in the last few years? i have, well re-enlist anyway. No one was hiring, i tried them all even Coast Guard. What i got over and over, no one was getting out, they were shining the total numbers, and with the down economy, the recruiters were basically not needed.

  11. Re:Cover locations. on How "Omnipotent" Hackers Tied To NSA Hid For 14 Years and Were Found At Last · · Score: 1

    here in Charlotte, the large collection of building in the same plaza as Microsoft is the CIA building, but with no external markings as such.

  12. Corp's Don't pay taxes... on Obama Proposes One-Time Tax On $2 Trillion US Companies Hold Overseas · · Score: 1

    just came here to say ... undergrad macroecon was several years ago. but one of the things i remember him lecturing on was, that companies don't pay tax. sure you can levy a tax on them, but in the end it somehow just gets passed on to the consumer. sure it sounds nice, using big numbers, lets hit up big corp.'s. but it will just raise the cost of goods, and make bigger businesses not want to do business here.

  13. Re:He'll win in a landslide on Fark's Drew Curtis Running For Governor of Kentucky · · Score: 2

    so the same ID that the majority of the population already has, because you already need it for so many things, like: voting driving id to get a job id to buy alcohol id to buy firearms id to verify age for other things etc... costs $10 and a stand in line at the DMV. heck, here you can schedule an appointment. Oh, they cant be bothered to go spend the $10, and spend time at the dmv, for something you might use atleast once a week for the rest of your life... and you want them voting?...

  14. Re:Windows 10 on DirectX 12 Lies Dormant Within Microsoft's Recent Windows 10 Update · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    yeah, they have already stated that this will be a rent-to-own copy, good for a year.

  15. Re:Uber's in a completely different market on Uber Must Submit CEO Emails · · Score: 1

    just fyi : i don't know what city you are in, but if Lyft is there .... give the ma try some time. bot yeah, thats what alot of my Lyft passengers say, they all hate taxis for these reasons.

  16. Re:Supreme Leader on Hackers Used Nasty "SMB Worm" Attack Toolkit Against Sony · · Score: 1

    make it so, number1!

  17. Re:Fucking Hell, Harper needs to go! on Canada Waives Own Rules, Helps Microsoft Avoid US Visa Problems · · Score: 1

    yes, exactly. in places where the min wages is over the federal, it is almost always because the cost of living is so much. like DC, or San Fransisco. try to find somewhere to stay in DC for less than $900/month, i dare you. or how about this... im hourly, $18/hr, about 36-38 hours per week. now take out taxes (i usually figure it at about 25% for all of it), child support $440/mo, and the company health plan im forced to get ( due to custody and paperwork from the state) at $220/mo, im left with what someone making $10/hour would get. conversely, it costs me more than minimum wage in my area just to cover taxes, child support and health insurance for my son. Don't leave much left over.

  18. Re:SQUIRREL! on Why CurrentC Will Beat Out Apple Pay · · Score: 2

    no but wal-mart is to payments what porn was to video 20 years ago. what porn wants porn gets. so all hail CurrrenC

  19. cooling on Ask Slashdot: How Do I Make a High-Spec PC Waterproof? · · Score: 1

    you have 3 types of cooling all 3 present different problems. -passive cooling. typical of embedded and low poer, pretty much precludes your fancy GPU. -active, usually fans. suck air in, breath hot out. obvious any rain or spray would get sucked in to, and damage the insides. -liquid cooling. would essentially seal your gear in, and prevent water damage, but is unlikely to fit in your space constraints. so either figure out how to live without the GPU, or see if you can get a small enough container for your oil ( still will have to worry about the pump and radiator parts but that can be made water - resistant). or have the number crunching done remotely, and just live with a raspberry pi encased in something.

  20. Re:Telsa's lobbiest crashes on Michigan About To Ban Tesla Sales · · Score: 1

    And if they had just one, or maybe even no warranty repair facilities ( not a dealership cause sell direct) in your state? would you be willing to drive 400 miles just to get a part changed/fixed under warranty? But i digress, selling the car, and getting it fixed are 2 separate things. they should be allowed to sell direct, so many examples both ways of direct/dealerships there seems to be no clear cut line. thinking about expensive things, most things have repair close by, notable exemption, computers. i would hate to think of shipping off a tesla to a repair depot.

  21. Re:And worse on Encryption Keys For Kim Dotcom's Data Can't Be Given To FBI, Court Rules · · Score: 1

    Simpsons did it! Simpsons did it .. i mean xkcd of course ...

  22. Re:Ultimately business pays for everything... on Facebook To Pay City $200K-a-Year For a Neighborhood Cop · · Score: 1

    im drunk so pardon the rudeness, but .. off the top of my head, is NC State, Cisco, and Redhat , then the rest of Research triangle. Charlotte is a banking hub plus the international airport. there is an apple data center, Duke energy, plus several major Military installations ... i don't know much about the Dakota's but there is plenty going on here on the coast.

  23. Re:Troll on Ask Slashdot: How Do I Change Tech Careers At 30? · · Score: 1

    my first "intro to programming" class was with python using this book http://www.lulu.com/shop/j-bur...

  24. Re:BUCK FETA on Military Electronics That Shatter Into Dust On Command · · Score: 2

    target practice.. has to be worth somehting greater than 0 ?

  25. Re:So, whom to H8? on The Whole Story Behind Low AP CS Exam Stats · · Score: 1

    this 1000x this. who in thier right mind want to jump through the AP hoops, when a CC is right down the road... and less headache transferring the credits.