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  1. Re:The 111th explanation... on Harvard Study Links Neonicotinoid Pesticide To Colony Collapse Disorder · · Score: 0

    When did I ever say insecticides were good for bees? The myriad previous explanations for colony collapse have always prominently included various insecticides as part of the reason. Which is what you should learn to do: reason (and learn to read what is actually written while you are at it.)

  2. Re:The 111th explanation... on Harvard Study Links Neonicotinoid Pesticide To Colony Collapse Disorder · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Then how did we end up with 45 million African-Americans?

  3. The 111th explanation... on Harvard Study Links Neonicotinoid Pesticide To Colony Collapse Disorder · · Score: 2, Funny

    for colony collapse. Stay tuned next week for the 112th.

  4. Re:The only thing is... on Ask Slashdot: How Do You Tell a Compelling Story About IT Infrastructure? · · Score: 1

    Give that man a raise!

  5. The only thing is... on Ask Slashdot: How Do You Tell a Compelling Story About IT Infrastructure? · · Score: 1

    to do it for less money.

  6. Re:I love start ups but they're not for everyone on Ask Slashdot: Joining a Startup As an Older Programmer? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Yes, and the warning is that you will be respected for your technical expertise and not for any foolish attempt to "fit in" bar hopping with super-annuated adolescent co-workers.

  7. Re:others about you on Opting Out of Big Data Snooping: Harder Than It Looks · · Score: 2

    Who cares? Block all tracking javascripts and use ad and pop-up/animated gif blockers and you will never see their advertisements when you browse.

    It's easy enough to throw all junk mail away without even reading it when it comes to snail mail in your mailbox.

  8. Re:555Cal?! on Places Where the Silicon Valley Bubble Could Pop · · Score: 1

    You don't know WTF you are talking about. 1455 Market was one of the three data centers. All the executive, marketing, financial accounting and planning, and securities trading offices were at 555 California.

  9. Rolex isn't "high end." on Japanese and Swiss Watchmakers Scoff At Smartwatches · · Score: 1

    This is high end. You guys aren't adding enough zeroes to your estimates of prices either.

    http://upload.wikimedia.org/wi...

    http://upload.wikimedia.org/wi...

  10. I like Motif. on Lumina: PC-BSD's Own Desktop Environment · · Score: 1

    nt

  11. The State of Oregon has failed at many IT projects on Oracle Deflects Blame For Troubled Oregon Health Care Site · · Score: 2

    I've worked on several fiascoes that the State of Oregon has tried to build over the last 30 years and they always end up as fiascoes. Motor vehicles, child support system, a consolidated database of Oregon state welfare recipients. They all failed for one reason. Oregon State workers are a bunch of lazy, incompetent, featherbedding incompetents.

    They take off on sick leave for days at a a time without even notifying their bosses. Are promoted based on minority or gender status instead of competence, sit at their desks all day doing nothing but go to meetings coffee breaks and lunch, and have such a strong union that they can't be fired no matter how bad they are.

    I don't bother working for them any more as every big project turns to shit because the workers don't care. They are FAR, FAR worse than federal workers who at least know how to effectively hand off the real work to competent contractors. Oregon State employees can't even manage that trick.

  12. There will be an inevitable reaction against this. on The Internet of Things and Humans · · Score: 1

    And no, it will not be mindless Luddite sentiment. I enjoy the entirely visceral feel of driving a car or motorcycle equipped with a manual transmission. And the idea of internet enabled toasters and refrigerators are absurd.

  13. Re:Militia, then vs now on Retired SCOTUS Justice Wants To 'Fix' the Second Amendment · · Score: 1

    You are a fucking gun grabbing asswipe.

  14. Nonsense on Toward Better Programming · · Score: 1

    HTML5 has all sorts of client side processing and XML is sent back and forth between servers and clients in a blizzard of unnecessary tags.

    If REST is so fucking obvious why were so many web apps written that weren't RESTful?

  15. Libel has been around as long as the written word. on Chinese Man On Trial For Spreading False Rumors Online · · Score: 1

    Why is this news?

  16. Re:If you make this a proof of God... on Mathematical Proof That the Cosmos Could Have Formed Spontaneously From Nothing · · Score: 0

    These guys certainly have a strange definition of the word "nothing." How pray tell does nothing fluctuate?

  17. Re:You think programming's bad? on Toward Better Programming · · Score: 1

    On the contrary, sometimes a bottom up approach to a problem is the best method to discover all of the little nooks and crannies of incompleteness inherent in the specification. And believe me, ALL specifications are incomplete.

    You critics are nothing but idiot rookies.

  18. Re:falling behind on Why There Are So Few ISP Start-Ups In the U.S. · · Score: 1

    Hoe Comcast Bought The Democratic Party

    http://www.nationalreview.com/...

  19. Re:Please correct me! on Vint Cerf: CS Programs Must Change To Adapt To Internet of Things · · Score: 1

    XML is based on the SGML printer control tag markup "language."

    No $170,000 for you (which is low anyways if you are any good.)

  20. Re:Please correct me! on Vint Cerf: CS Programs Must Change To Adapt To Internet of Things · · Score: 1

    Use of stored procedures should be enforced at all times. Nothing is worse than letting web hackers to attempt to use SQL. That they were stupid enough to use some overly complex klidge based in an old printer control codes is proof enough of they and their managements unsuitability for building systems.

  21. Re:But why do we need the internet of things on Vint Cerf: CS Programs Must Change To Adapt To Internet of Things · · Score: 1

    Kill your television.

  22. Re:But why do we need the internet of things on Vint Cerf: CS Programs Must Change To Adapt To Internet of Things · · Score: 1

    None. and having your oven or stove turned on while you are not at home is downright dangerous.

    I expect a wave of neo-Luddism to occur (at least as far as the internet is concerned) in response to these stupid idea that my alarm clock needs to be hooked into the internet. It may make adjusting clocks for daylight savings automatic (although this could be implemented with a ROM chip that included a future calendar although that could become obsolete if they change the dates yet again for daylight savings and is anyway not geared to individual jurisdictions that have unique or absent daylight savings calculations) but to be perfectly honest most folks on the heat when I am cold and turn it off when it gets warm enough.

    Who wants a car that can be tracked by the insurance companies and authorities and also will have a heads up display with no spare parts and ability to be fixed in ten years time,

    This brave new world of universal connectivity is going to be rejected by consumers who just want basic functionality at a cheap price.

  23. Re:You think programming's bad? on Toward Better Programming · · Score: 1

    Let's see, he tried, made an error, and then corrected it. Looks like you are the actual retard.

  24. Re:You think programming's bad? on Toward Better Programming · · Score: 1

    How would you know? There has never been a programmer in all of history that never had a program fail to compile or never had a logic error in one of his modules.

    That makes you a liar and a moron.

  25. Re:Proverb on Toward Better Programming · · Score: 1

    Everyone uses i,j,k,and l as pinko-liberal loop counters!