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Comment Re:Vehicle Weight (Score 1) 837

In Oregon, four-wheel drive is your friend.

Yes, weight plays a factor, but chains play a huge role too.

If nothing else, they should increase the gas tax during the winter time when roads get damaged the most, but then again people might start storing gas tanks in their bathtubs or in their garages, so I don't know.

Comment Re:You're God damn right I wouldn't (Score 1) 150

It's too bad I wasn't included in this survey. Because I do report all my security breaches.

Nothing beats a 6pt dark Papyrus font at the end of a boring 400 slides powerpoint presentation. I also email that powerpoint presentation to everyone using the "To:" field. In my experience, the more people I include in an email, the less likely anyone is going to read what I have to say. I may get a few hate emails as a result, but that's good. I print those out, and I keep them just in case I need corroborating evidence that my presentation was actually received by some of my coworkers.

Comment Re:Pizza shop worker loves Seattle’s new $15 (Score 1) 1094

Thanks for posting propaganda as "news".

Yes, it's propaganda, but it doesn't mean there isn't a grain of truth somewhere in there.

As a young French person who had the option to work in either France, or the United States, I can tell you that it's damn difficult for young people to find jobs in France (precisely because it's so expensive to hire workers, or even fire them). I can't tell you how humiliating it can be to look for a job in France for a young person. It's like they're doing you a favor (the risk is so high to them, so they might as well make you grovel for the opportunity).

So then, since there are so many jobless because of the high minimum wages (and other government programs), the government invents government internship programs to get around the minimum wage. So you end up getting paid less than the minimum wage, you still end up working for a private company, but this way the pay check comes from the government and the money you receive is called a stipend which is technically not a wage since you're in an internship (never mind that 40 years olds and 50 years olds can still be stuck in rotating internships all their lives of course).

Comment Re:This is good (Score 1) 1094

Australia has a minimum wage of around $17USD/hour (around $20AUD) which increases 20% if you are a casual.

What's a casual? In the US, we use that word for sex, as in "casual sex".

Do you have casual sex workers? Are those like Uber sex workers? Where they work a regular job full time at some company, but do sex work during their lunch break? or do sex work during smoke breaks to round out their income?

Comment Re:Fuck you dice (Score 1) 443

Are you sure? I thought this was a pretty lame attempt at getting traffic to hit dice.com (from a writer who's non-technical).

It's not like C# developers on Windows don't know which IDE to use already.

Comment Re:BYOD in the NAVY??? (Score 4, Funny) 68

Are they insane? that BYOD better not be any where near any nuke launcher systems

No, I don't think Apple can sue.

The iTunes app store terms and conditions only says:

You also agree that you will not use these products for any purposes prohibited by United States law, including, without limitation, the development, design, manufacture or production of nuclear, missiles, or chemical or biological weapons.

No development, no design, no manufacture, no production.

But no where does it say "launching". Launching should be fine.

Comment Re:not the real question (Score 1) 200

Frankly, it's complete bullshit. The systems are completely, physically separate. There is no way to hack the thrust from the in-flight entertainment system because they are not connected to each other.

Let's go to the actual claim he made which was recorded by the tech media, long before he was arrested for his tweet.

He claims he was able to hack the simulator of a plane to access the thrust (not a real plane mind you, the simulator of a plane). Is the simulator as good and as realistic as he claims it to be? or not?

Since you seem to be an expert yourself on this subject, please tell us. Are the electronics of the simulator he used a good replica of the electronics found on an actual plane? Or did the guy just play Microsoft SimFlight and found a way to hack Windows XP?
 

Comment Re:ADA headache (Score 1) 124

"Regular" people usually don't know the difference, in my experience. Web designers pay more attention to the source of such images than most readers because it's their job. Maybe if your org is Gucci or BMW it matters more because such customers hone into style issues more.

I think you misunderstood what I said, and that we're in agreement on some level.

Assuming you're not working for BMW or Gucci, I believe that having no graphics at all can be much better than purchasing a bunch of royalty-free perfect-looking insincere photographs from some stock photography web site.

The same goes for special animations and perfect-looking videos. Barring a few exceptions, I don't believe those effects are necessary to make a web site useful and valuable to users.

And throwing out all those stock photographs and those unnecessary effects may actually improve the usability of a web site, not just for disabled people, but may be even for everyone (and at very little cost, since it's the effects that usually cost money, and it's the more basic web sites that usually cost less money).

Comment Re:ADA headache (Score 1) 124

We are starting to toss images altogether so that we don't have that risk. But our web content is growing bland, making us "look" bad to normal readers.

Are those images you're tossing out stock photography images? Because believe me, those may look super cool and super useful to web site designers, but stock photos are not only bland and cliche, they actually look super insincere to the user who is inundated by them on every company web site.

Comment Double-speak (Score 0, Flamebait) 119

users can enjoy a custom and connected Web experience and take their favorite content (apps, videos, photos, websites) across devices without being locked into one proprietary ecosystem or brand.

Except for the newly-introduced Firefox DRM from Adobe that is.

Don't you love the new double-speak.

Comment Re:imagine that. (Score 4, Insightful) 113

A few smart kids screwing around to find workarounds isn't the same thing as all of the kids being able to get to anything at any time.

That's not the point I was making.

All it takes is one smart kid to screw around. Then, he'll be so proud of himself if he finds something, that he'll find ways to show off his trick to as many other kids as possible (especially to the other kids with Chromebooks).

The same goes for a kid that finds the workaround online, or stumbles onto it through social media. He'll brag to other kids as if he invented the workaround himself.

Comment Re:imagine that. (Score 3, Interesting) 113

...we need computing platforms that are restricted in the use of the computer, to make it function better as an educational platform.

Cheap Chromebooks the sim card explicitly removed and without the wifi password used to fill that niche, but now most new Chromebooks are touch-enabled and they'll be able to run Android soon. In other words, Google is about to mess it all up for parents.

And it won't be long until one kid figures out how he can download an apk to a usb stick or a memory card, and can play it on a friend's Chromebook. By the time 5th period rolls around, everyone in his school will have seen it done. And within a week or two, all kids who use Chromebooks in the entire United States will have seen it done (even if they themselves do not have direct internet access).

At that point, parents will just have resell their Chromebooks on Ebay and trade them in, for either paper notepads or old-fashioned electric type-writers. Or they'll be forced to just place the Chromebooks under lock and key like they've been forced to do with the wifi hub, the router, and everything else.

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