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  1. There's also a lot of value in bringing the team together - collaboration can be much faster. Perhaps you come up with a cool idea, but then instead of just walking down the hall and presenting it, you have to type it up in an email or worse yet, the company IRC-like chat room (slack, whatever) and everyone misunderstands you so you spend another hour re-describing it. And heaven forbid you need to draw something...

    Someone should invent group audio/video calls, shared online whiteboards.

  2. Imagine being surrounded by angry crowds armed with knives, chains, broken bottles and bars...

    It sounds like a visit to a bar on Friday night.

  3. Re: throws spears at helicopters on Apple and Google Are Rerouting Their Employee Buses as Attacks Resume (mashable.com) · · Score: 2

    The alternative is to have everyone live in small villages dozens of miles away from work and commute hours by train or car.

    Or, you know, people using their computers to work remotely.

    For those fond of the way things were, you could leave a heavy weight with built-in heat-pad on a chair at their office and work remotely.

  4. They have their own judges on staff?

  5. Re:What? on Pedestrian Attacks Self-driving Car in the Mission (curbed.com) · · Score: 2

    In other news, a black teenager ran backwards into a bullet leaving a police officer's gun. No sandwich was found at the scene.

  6. Sorry, but they actually do a worse job, not the least because they are not going to engage in careful deliberation, let alone serve the people.

    ==

    Sorry, <my opinion, presented as fact> but it must be fact otherwise I wouldn't be apologising for hurting your feelings with an inconvenient fact, isn't it?

  7. Re: Question on Text Message Scammer Gets Five Years in Prison (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Yeap and hosts files.

  8. \o/ on The Tech Failings of Hawaii's Missile Alert · · Score: 1

    You need a mechanical physical switch with a switch guard. The very fact that an actual alert would be triggered by a menu item, indicates a completely incompetent design. I seldom call for people's jobs, but I'll make an exception in this case..

    For all we know this menu-option-no-confirmation approach was dictated during a 'pair programming' session with an over-the-shoulder manager.

  9. Re: Question on Text Message Scammer Gets Five Years in Prison (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    No, he actually signed up people WITHOUT asking them. No interaction from them at all.

    Pretty much the way every ordinary human is signed up for a boot on the neck from the government/associated cronies unless we jump through whatever hoop they're being paid to direct us to this month.

  10. Re:Don't let Sony off the hook on Studios Sue Dragon Box in Latest Crackdown on Streaming Devices (variety.com) · · Score: 1

    I'd pay to download movies using pigeons as a transmission medium; if the price is right.

  11. I read this as on Studios Sue Dragon Box in Latest Crackdown on Streaming Devices (variety.com) · · Score: 1

    Studios use their considerable influence to inform everyone that DragonBox are a thing.

    Thanks very much for the heads-up.

  12. The sex of green sea turtles, along with some other species of turtles, crocodiles, and alligators, is not regulated by the introduction of sex chromosomes at key points during early development, as seen in humans and other mammals. Their sex is actually influenced by the temperature at which the eggs are incubated, with warmer temperatures more likely to lead to females. The difference between predominately male and predominately female hatchlings is only a few degrees,...

    Interesting; what evolutionary benefit does this confer?

  13. That's a shame as I'd really rather hoped for more than 10% of the costs of my Intel-based computer refunded.

    Intel *will* be offering partial refund for fault goods, right?

  14. Re:This is good for bitcoin because... on Microsoft Halts Bitcoin Transactions Because It's An 'Unstable Currency' (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    It won't be stable until the people that matter control it xx

  15. Maybe a warning on the box, iPwn addiction causes cancer? It worked pretty well for cigarettes.

  16. I thank you for your implicit validation. You clearly want to disagree but could find nothing within the post to disagree with. Validated!

  17. Nope... it's like he was just randomly chucking bricks off an overpass, and was unlucky enough to have gravity kill somebody with one.

    Nope right back at ya... it's more like he ordered pizza for someone else's house and the pizza guy murdered the guy opening the door for no reason. Really just like that as that exactly what happened.

  18. Re:Dumber on Kansas 'Swat' Perpetrator Had Already Been To Prison For Fake Bomb Threats (go.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Perhaps the police and swat should be forced to dogfood their service.

    Once per day, the home of the relative of a police/swat-team member should be swatted randomly. Pretty soon, procedures would change.

  19. I think the gp was operating from an assumption that not all swat involvement results in murder.

  20. I've not watched the body-cam video on the page linked above but wow. How far away were they? It looks as if they got the wrong address and once the mistake was discovered, couldn't be bothered to drive even vaguely near the correct address!

    Unless the murdered householder had a sniper rifle, what possible danger could he pose?

  21. Q) Why hasn't this project been completed to deadline?
    A) Because you pulled the deadline out of your ass, without considering the amount or complexity of work required to deliver, ignored feedback that the deadline was unreasonable and inserted more tasks after the project started.

  22. we are headed to a corrupt government running a police / security state if we do not stand up soon.

    Thanks for posting a snippet from your twenty-year-old diary entry.

  23. Re:Because they are waffling on own standards on Why Twitter Hasn't Banned President Trump (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Probably true.

    In that same spirit, your SUV will look great in my driveway.

  24. -o- on Why Twitter Hasn't Banned President Trump (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Self-serving duplicitous nonsense at its finest.

  25. I foresee a serious impediment to US infrastructure due to a shortage of bridges ^_^