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Comment Re:You don't hear about the failures (Score 1) 390

A country the size of the US should not have any shortage of highly talented, skilled and educated people. Yet it has.

No it hasn't. Employers just aren't willing to pay market rates for talent and not work them into the ground, so they found a loophole in the system that allows them to hire foreign workers for less than market rate and work them into the ground.

Let's eliminate the various loopholes in overtime laws and H1-B laws and put some teeth into enforcement and see how many jobs open up overnight.

Comment Re:Panasonic (Score 1) 151

In 15 to 20 years time when "worn out" Model S battery packs start to become available I expect one of the main applications will be storage for domestic solar installations that can tolerate having only 70% capacity remaining.

Or even just regular UPS systems. A battery pack that a Tesla owner throws away because it's down to 15kWh will power my server room for 90 minutes.

Comment Re:That's a whopper. think for 60 seconds. (Score 1) 330

Do you really think that oil producers pay retail, or even light commercial rates? The residential end user rates for electricity were 5.4 cents in 1980 and 7.8 cents in 1990. Refineries paid a fraction of that.

Here is the study where that figure was calculated from. Refineries are, at best, 90.1% efficient, considering all inputs and outputs. If you exclude less desirable outputs like road oil and asphalt, efficiency is more like 86.4%, with refineries purchasing 39.3 TWh of electricity and 34,000 short tons of coal to produce even more.

Comment Re:Impossible job (Score 1) 111

Norton supposedly is MUCH improved and was re-engineered from the ground up in 2011. It has a good detection rate and fast performance according to av-total and other AV certification firms which release test results to the public.

Yeah, awesome. Symantec Client Security can detect "ZBot-like network activity" on a workstation, but it can neither detect nor remove the actual ZBot infection. Garbage.

Comment Re:To be fair? (Score 2) 95

The breach started two days before Black Friday. What incentive would management have to do anything that would jeopardize their ability to sell all the way until Christmas?

Levy a fine against them equivalent to their entire profit from November 27 until December 19 when they finally admitted the breach. Maybe companies will think twice before trying to sweep these things under the rug.

Comment Re:Diversification isn't always a good idea (Score 1) 99

Love them or hate them, their software is what keeps people buying from Apple as opposed to Dell or Sony.

Actually, the EULA for their software is what keeps people buying from Apple. If they sold their OS for use on commodity hardware instead of tying it to Apple hardware, it would see a lot more market share.

Comment Re:Your task: explain how Net Neutrality stops thi (Score 1) 298

(Perhaps this displays why using Netflix as the quintessential argument FOR net neutrality is a poor idea, since it is easy to dismiss it as just selfish people who want their movies to run without interruption even if it means everyone else's network experience suffers.)

Yeah, stupid selfish customers actually wanting to use the 6 Mbps they paid for.

Comment Re:I drive more. (Score 1) 635

That is a scooter, it actually has a completely different category with insurance companies as a proper motorcycle does. At least my experience shopping for my daughter when she was 18 it was that way, I was told point blank, "if you bought her a scooter instead of a 250cc ninja the insurance would be dramatically lower."

Good to know, thanks. I thought it was based strictly on engine size.

Comment Re:Well Duh. (Score 1) 635

I see that you edited out the part where I said it likely made the price of the seat cheaper for someone else. In other words, the seat is unlikely to go empty.

To a point. A 737 seats about 137 passengers, so the number of people who can affect whether the entire flight happens or is cancelled is relatively small.

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