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  1. Learn a "legacy" skill on Ask Slashdot: IT Career Path After 35? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I'm beginning to think the "eventualy move into management" when you get to your mid to late 30's is just the normal development path in IT. I'm desperately trying to avoid it, myself, but as I get older I constantly find management jobs being thrust in my direction.

    That's working the private sector, of course. In the public sector, there was nothing to worry about, since nobody ever seemed to retire -- I could've stayed a programmer well into my 50's.

    The alternative is to learn some skill that never seems to be fall out of use -- I see tons of graybeards in my company that do nothing but maintain aging AS400 and larger mainframe systems all day.

    Honestly, they seem to be the happiest of the bunch...

  2. Re:Power Waste on Haier Plans To Embed Area Wireless Chargers In Home Appliances · · Score: 1

    It does speak about the handshake that goes on in the video, before charging takes place: http://www.computerworld.com/a...

  3. Re:"Shortage" on Large Corporations Displacing Aging IT Workers With H-1B Visa Workers · · Score: 1

    The fact that those being handed industrial expertise are "foreign nationals" isn't important any more -- you're forgetting that many, many large companies doing this sort of outsourcing are all multinationals. They don't have national allegiances anymore.

  4. Re:Swirly flat pancake thing... on Ask The Bad Astronomer · · Score: 1

    *Looks at name*

    Yeah, I guess you'd know.

  5. Re:heh on US Student Loans Exceed $1 Trillion · · Score: 1

    Well, we know what percentage you're in, eh?

  6. Re:Any good alternatives? on Microsoft Finalizes Skype Acquisition · · Score: 1

    I think you'll find most mac users today are Intel ones, if Apple's numbers are trustworthy.

  7. Re:Any good alternatives? on Microsoft Finalizes Skype Acquisition · · Score: 1

    If it's under 10 people (or over, as long as only 10 members need to speak out of the group, and the rest just listen) you can use Google Hangouts. Recently started using them for everything, and it's amazing just how well they work. You can broadcast the hangout so more than just the 10 initial members can listen in.

  8. Re:Passcode on Calif. Appeals Court Approves Cell Phone Searches · · Score: 1

    I wonder how something like this would stand up to a fully encrypted phone with something like this, though: http://www.whispersys.com/whispercore.html

  9. Re:This ruling does not last long. on Calif. Appeals Court Approves Cell Phone Searches · · Score: 1

    The devices police have access to bypass any security locks or pins you have on your phone, as one poster above me stated: http://www.cellebrite.com/forensic-products/forensic-products.html?loc=seg

  10. Anyone else... on China Launches Space Station Laboratory Module · · Score: 1

    ...thinking of the Chinese space station in World War Z?

  11. Re:Weightlessness is a Bitch on Vision Problems For Some Returning Astronauts · · Score: 1

    I was thinking more "flip a switch" artificial gravity than "big spinny ring" artificial gravity.

  12. Re:Weightlessness is a Bitch on Vision Problems For Some Returning Astronauts · · Score: 1, Insightful

    We'll get right on that -- do you want it before or after we make the FTL drive?

  13. Re:One of many? on Vision Problems For Some Returning Astronauts · · Score: 3, Funny

    Like Space Herpes, for one.

  14. Re:Seriously, who cares? on Google To Honor "Don't-Track-Me-Bro" Requests · · Score: 1

    You're actually assuming that I would leave any default credentials in place in a router? :\

  15. Re:Seriously, who cares? on Google To Honor "Don't-Track-Me-Bro" Requests · · Score: 1

    I use an Android phone. They know this anyway. :P

  16. Seriously, who cares? on Google To Honor "Don't-Track-Me-Bro" Requests · · Score: 1

    I'm all about privacy -- I always turn off every checkbox about "anonymous results will be submitted," etc., etc., but even I know my router's SSID is public. I don't care what happens to those on the outside of my network. :\

  17. Re:No names? on Mobile Carriers Impose Handicaps On Smartphones · · Score: 1

    AT&T

    There you go

  18. Ha! on WebAPI: Mozilla Proposes Open App Interface For Smartphones · · Score: 1

    Man, Mozilla, as a mobile web developer, I wish the best for you, but get ready for disappointment.

  19. Re:Science and Christianity can't mix... on Evangelical Scientists Debate Creation Story · · Score: 1

    What you propose wouldn't work -- it doesn't make Christ a _necessity_. Believing absolutely in "The Fall" means you _have_ to believe in Christ, and, frankly, can be free to believe in a heaven solely comprised of members from your own religious group.

  20. Re:Fall off of a Harley on iPhone 4 Survives Fall From Skydiver's Pocket · · Score: 1

    Either it was in a strong case, or the "busy road" was made of marshmallows, because that story reeks of bs. Or by "fine" you mean "was still working, but was cracked to hell and back." There's a reason why Apple made the back of the iPhone 4 glass -- it's so they have a fragile, yet easily replaceable part you have to buy from them when it inevitably breaks.

  21. Re:Please don't do this on Bruce Campbell Confirms New Evil Dead Movie · · Score: 1

    Man, I know it. As much as I love ya, Bruce, you're too fat today. Take it easy and enjoy your retirement. :\

  22. Re:Dangerous mercury vapor does not belong near ki on Congress Voting To Repeal Incandescent Bulb Ban · · Score: 1

    Don't know if this is a troll or not, but I'm pretty sure a tiny bit of mercury exposure one time, no matter what the form, is going to hurt anyone. The people who landed men on the moon probably played with mercury as children, many times. Einstein probably played with it. Many of us did the same.

  23. Re:ban hammers from one hardware store on Google Boots Transdroid From Android Market · · Score: 1

    If I owned a hardware store and advertised hammers by displaying the use of the hammer in breaking into a house/safe whatever

    I know you're trying to make a serious point, but that is one hilarious mental image.

  24. Re:hello webmaster on US Senate Votes For Repeal of Ethanol Subsidies · · Score: 1

    I don't know, CmdrTaco -- I think you should go in for this. This guy seems legit.

  25. Re:Android phones pictures? on Open Source Alternative To Dropbox? · · Score: 1

    He might be talking about PicPlz -- a service very similiar to Instagram. It has the feature of also storing a copy of your photos in Dropbox.