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Comment Public transit pollutes a lot (Score 1) 153

When people say public transit, the vast majority of the time it's referring to buses. The vast majority of buses are dirty diesel guzzling pollution spewers. Buses are extremely wasteful unless they're packed to the gills. Most of the time I see buses they're less than 1/4 full. They don't save any emissions compared to automobiles in those cases.

While I'm no fan of e-scooters, they do help reduce emissions to some degree. They're not zero-emissions, but neither are cars or buses. The whole manufacturing cost is a wash. Cars and buses take a helluva lot of resources to manufacture AND maintain.

There are certainly cases where people could just walk instead of using a scooter. People pay for convenience, just like some people hop in the car to go 5 blocks to a store. Comparatively, scooters are better than automobiles.

There are many cases where the ride is longer than a comfortable walk. Ever tried walking 15 mi in the summer heat for a lunch break? Come back to the office wreaking of sweaty BO. Scooters are much better than cars, and probably significantly better than buses in most cases.

Comment because employers want tech workers to be robots (Score 1) 274

The tech field (engineering, science, etc) is a rather tedious, often dry profession. Employers want workers to churn out product, with little regard to whether the workers fully understand the product or are valued.
Add to that the common asshat manager who, maybe bullied at youth and now empowered to control others, feels it's their duty to control and terrorize their underlings. You might scoff at such exaggeration, but exaggerate I do not. I've seen it so many times it's simply pathetic.

Comment Re:Drones (Score 1) 157

Someone wanting to take over an autonomous army wouldn't be hacking individual drones (unless maybe they're all in the same spot). The lowest barrier to takeover is to hack central command. This could be done from the inside or out. Protecting against all avenues of attack is incredibly difficult.

Your rationale is exactly how companies get into trouble with security. Consider only the hardest avenues of attack and claim it's secure. Hackers don't go after the the hardest vectors, they go after the most vulnerable.

Comment wow (Score 1) 95

What hubris Dell has to think it can turn around a relic like Wyse. This will magically put them at the forefront of cloud computing, the next iCloud!

This will be fun to watch. Any wagers on how long before they sell this off on their way down the death spiral?

Comment Re:Boom & Bust (Score 1) 113

I certainly agree that their growth will first fall off and be flatter. And yes, predicting the bust isn't easy (or more of us would be rich). Generally from what I've observed, the faster a business grows, the faster it can fall if things don't go as planned. Netflix is a recent poster child. Apple's a different company of course, but their insane market share can only go down from here due to competition making inroads. Android is no small potatoes in this game.

The most telling thing in the near term is what their next break-through product will be (what Jobs would deem "magical"). I don't see anything very promising. AppleTV or siblings? Watch out if they pour their resources into that as all I see is a big money pit. They've proved me wrong before so we'll just have to see. I honestly wouldn't be surprised to see their stock plummet into the 200's or less in the not-too-distant future.

Comment great use of our tax money (Score 5, Insightful) 198

I mean, because counterfeit NFL gear is incredibly detrimental to society. Unlike drugs, murder, and other violence. And why spend money on education when money can be thrown towards law enforcement to satisfy the corporate overlords. Another way of looking at it... thousands of jobs have been destroyed so that the uber-rich NFL owners can snatch even more money from the commoners.

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