Journal Journal: After 19 years I have come to the conclusion that LinkedIn was a waste of time. 1
I had my suspicions, but I didn't want to jump to any conclusions. So for any of you out there wondering how this journal worked out, Web 2.0 is garbage.
https://slashdot.org/journal/161630/web-20-business-networking-is-it-useful-at-all
Comment Just fix the damn transcoding nightmare (Score 1) 108
Submission + - Slashdot Alum Samzenpus's Fractured Veil Hits Kickstarter
Comment Re:Portland, OR, too (Score 1) 352
insurrectionists
Amazing how quickly morons adopt the terminology propagandized by their party's political officers. "Insurrectionists" indeed.
Though I did enjoy your Beautiful Mind-level tapestry of innuendo, projection, and theorizing utilized to support it.
Comment Is Waymo for real? (Score 1) 185
Comment Remote driver != "no driver" (Score 1) 185
Comment Came from Amateur Observers first. (Score 3, Insightful) 31
Comment Re: Radioactive soil (Score 4, Informative) 180
Comment Re:Radioactive soil (Score 2, Informative) 180
Comment Re:Corporate Welfare (Score 1) 191
Gotta love these welfare queens leaching off the American tax payers.
Here is an idea - pay your fucking taxes and then we can talk about bailouts or 'incentives' or whatever you hypocrites call your corporate welfare.
Gotta love these welfare queens leaching off the American tax payers
I'm no fan of corporate welfare, but $50B is cheap.
Half of the federal budget is actual welfare, about $2T, which doesn't exactly go into the pockets of Americans either. It's a big trough where lots of other corporations feed, and millions of middlemen wet their beak.
Returning the silicon to Silicon Valley (or, more likely, Texas) is a good thing all around for America and Americans. If we can keep our chips from even having a whiff of NSA fingers, that's a competitive advantage to the rest of the world. And it makes a home for the technically inclined so they have a career path that doesn't end in yak shaving in the bowels of some high-frequency trading company to gain an extra nanosecond. Offshoring our manufacturing is 100% the worst thing our leaders, both corporate and government, has done to the country.
Comment Re:Radiation? (Score 2) 71
Comment Re:What's with the inflammatory clickbait headline (Score 1) 127
Trump Ban on Poisoned Chinese Dog Food Causes Rise in Coyote Attacks on Infants
What is the endgame of these transparently partisan articles? Do they really think that people are so gullible they'll read the headline and say, "I guess Trump is the worst thing in the entire world. Literally Hitler."?
It's all so tiresome.
Comment Re:Dystopian Nightmare (Score 1) 87
We could have REAL ZOMBIES! YEAH!
:-)
I hear you. Going to be an interesting future, if we live.
Comment Re:Dystopian Nightmare (Score 5, Insightful) 87
Someone who broke their neck and was suffering from paralysis. You can control a chair or exoskeleton. People who can not hear today have cochlear implants, this is not all that different and might (eventually) work better. Or speak, or see. Other people who are disabled in various ways.