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Comment Re:About time for an Tech union now other big ones (Score 1) 200

The modding of this comment is ridiculous. You may not like the conclusion but this is how we should hope people engage on a community forum. You know, by explaining themselves in detail. Obviously it's debatable, but 100% unassailability should not be the threshold for being modded up or down.

Comment Re:So the Assange extradition from the UK... (Score 3, Interesting) 200

I think endless copyright and the advent of more server-side applications are somewhat related but mostly different things.

Also, I suspect (hope? dream?) the days of extending copyright indefinitely are over. One of the big excuses with the Bono act was that it put us in line with the rest of the world (read: Europe), I don't think there have been any extensions to Copyright beyond the status quo globally to support that. I also think the 98 fight woke a lot of people up to this racket and there will be major push back.

We live in an age where the ability to create new works is more democratic than ever and my guess is people will be more enthused about leveraging that to reimagine and elaborate on older works than ever. I'm looking forward to seeing what people do with The Great Gatsby and The Trial.

Having said all of that, maybe I am naive. I certainly expect Big IP to put forward some nonsense nakedly self-serving argument to extend again but I think a lot of the consolidation we've seen on media production side indicates they know the jig is probably up.

Comment Let her pick (Score 1) 304

I've been doing this for 30+ years professionally. If she's comfortable with Windows then stick with it. I tell people that ask me to go up to the store and find one that's comfortable for them. By that I mean, does the keyboard fit your hands, do you want a full numeric keypad, make sure the screen is the size that work for their eyes, pick it up and figure out if the weight is good, etc. Have her do that then, as her employer, find the one that best fits HER needs. You're not buying 800 laptops, just one.Then go configure the best make and model that fits those requirements. It sounds cheesy but an employee happy with the tool that they're going to spend most of their time on is a productive employee.

Comment Re:Solution (Score 1) 185

Man, I have been farting all day. An average of 8 seconds per fart. There are are 7.7 billion people in the world. Let's say 35% of those people fart 8 seconds per fart. That is 2.695 billion people farting for an average of 8 seconds per fart. That is roughly a little less than 22 billion fart seconds per day. Or 366666666.667 farts per hours. The average volume of a fart is 0.264172 gallons. That equals 366666666.667 gallons of farts per hour. Talk about man made global warming. We should tax farts.

Comment Re:Detecting trolls and sock puppets on Slashdot (Score 2, Insightful) 778

Trump won 2600 counties to Clinton's 500. That's 84%. How is that razor thin? You can blame the Electoral College but it is there for a reason so that voters in the middle of Kansas or Montana or Nevada or Illinois have just as a loud a voice as everyone else.

Comment Re:Digg? (Score 1) 107

The tech industry works in waves. I lost a lot of money in 1999 when VA Linux went public at $324 a share. I'm older now (obviously) and am more conservative in my investments. I should have invested in the online Porn industry, I'd own an island by now. https://www.cnet.com/news/10-y... Waves. Everything comes and goes.

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