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Comment Re:2017 (Score 2) 314

Nickel and dimed? easier to keep Cable? I have been in Texas for 19 years. I got DirecTV when I moved here and I had the top package. Every premium channel they offered, once the deal wore off I was paying about $100 and there was no DVR back then. Then they let you BUY a DirecTivo, you owned it, no rental and they charged $5 a month for the privilege of using that thing you own. Then came the yearly increases. Package wasn't changing, hardware wasn't changing but soon I was paying over $150 for the exact same channels. I have since got rid of all the premium content and shaved back the service and I am STILL paying $100 for less than I had. Netflix has gone up what, $3 for the streaming service over the years?

Once you sign up for the content you never have to deal with it again. Get a device that attaches to them all (there are several) and you have a much better choice to cost ratio and that is what cord cutting is all about.

Comment Re:So to solve the health care crisis... (Score 1) 316

So they certify what they know at the time they initially manufacture the drugs.

There is no requirement for them to go back and do more testing, and no financial incentive (in fact, the incentive is to not do any testing, if they find the drugs loose potency faster, they open themselves up to liabilities, if they find they last longer they loose money on sales)

Those damn pesky Ethics getting in the way again.

Comment Re:For once (Score 3, Interesting) 175

Speed limits are arbitrary and are in place to make money.
https://safety.fhwa.dot.gov/sp...
"Despite the general acceptance and wide-spread use of speed limits throughout the world, there has been no consensus among practitioners concerning the methods and techniques that should be used to select the most appropriate speed limit for a particular facility. At the current time, it appears unlikely that any consensus will be achieved in the near future. This leaves practitioners without definitive guidance on this important issue, and in search of information to assist them. This report provides the information necessary for practitioners to make informed decisions in selecting a method for setting speed limits in their jurisdiction."

Comment If you have a better idea, I'd like to hear it. (Score 1) 189

We use JIRA. All items that are believed to require a DEV ticket must get past a team of gatekeepers (Triage Team.)

Tickets are reviewed for completeness, reproduction details, any logs that may be required and sample user(s) that can be used to reproduce the issue.
The Triage team searches for duplicates and attempts to replicate and then either promotes the ticket to DEV, sends it back to the requester for more detail or closes it as a dupe and links the original.

Any support tickets that come in with the same issue are linked to the DEV and once the DEV is closed, tickets are set to Pending Rollout.

The process sucks. Support hates it because it is often a struggle to get through the obvious bugs and DEV likes it because they get less duplication.

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