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  1. Re:How much is an AG these days? on Plan To Run Anti-Google Smear Campaign Revealed In MPAA Emails · · Score: 1

    The price is power, not money.

  2. Re:Shocking on Plan To Run Anti-Google Smear Campaign Revealed In MPAA Emails · · Score: 1

    These google smear campaigns have been going on for years...is this the first conspiracy exposed?

  3. Re:Fred? on Tortoise Gets a new 3D Printed Shell After Forest Fire · · Score: 0

    We are revered globally and nearly every person on the planet dreams of crawling out of their current culture to strap on ours. What are you talking about? It is only in America where it is popular to hate America.

  4. Is this supposed to be a newsworthy innovation? Sounds like a basic requirement to me.

  5. Re:Sounds like the perfect cover... on Help Save Endangered Rhinos by Making Artificial Horns (Video) · · Score: 1

    I'll make you a horn....come sit on daddy's lap.

  6. Re:Yes and No on Are Certifications Worth the Time and Money? · · Score: 1

    Program something.

  7. Re:HR/Recruiting Drones on Are Certifications Worth the Time and Money? · · Score: 1

    HR has lost us some awesome candidates. They did not understand or respect the level of demand in the market for the skills these people offered and I guess blindly assumed that they were just like them...dime-a-dozen useless sacks of shit. Took their sweet merry time (seeing to their paperwork and other various rote minutia) and lost the opportunity to hire.

  8. Re:certs are like college degrees on Are Certifications Worth the Time and Money? · · Score: 1

    Happens all the time.

  9. Re:certs are like college degrees on Are Certifications Worth the Time and Money? · · Score: 1

    I hate that name....Contoso.

  10. Re:certs are like college degrees on Are Certifications Worth the Time and Money? · · Score: 1

    They are just brown Americans. They act shy and reserved as hell until they get to know you or start fitting in. Then just like anyone else their true asshole shows. Just people.

  11. Re:certs are like college degrees on Are Certifications Worth the Time and Money? · · Score: 1

    they hire from their own culture

    Seen that...totally fucked. As the culture flat-lines the quality degrades...no matter what culture. Diversity is awesome.

  12. Re:rip-off on Are Certifications Worth the Time and Money? · · Score: 1

    You don't get to pay less because you are a small company. You get to have less.

  13. Re:rip-off on Are Certifications Worth the Time and Money? · · Score: 1

    Certifications can be good if someone has obtained them from a combination of experience and intense study. This process will make them familiar with all of the features of the specific technology and will make them better qualified--all else being equal. Unfortunately, in the case of Microsoft certifications, and I know this is going on with others as well, you can buy all of the questions with answers and the "Gold Partner" training companies are buying them and giving them to their "students" during the bootcamp/training "class." Students still fail of course because they go in with zero knowledge expecting to obtain certification in something they are not qualified to touch--unfortunately a lot pass though, even those with no experience. I have studied for, and obtained certifications on my own, and I have happened upon these "bootcamps" not knowing what was actually going on. When I settled in and realized the game I became sickened--especially when I saw people passing who had no experience. Never again. The certs I gained from my own experience and study helped me become better at my job...and the bootcamp helped me because I had a lot of experience and was there to prove it and could focus on my weaknesses...but you should know that the certification system is corrupt as hell. Corrupt on a level where I will never seek another certification unless I'm "forced" to (you must be certified to work for consulting firms). I would venture to say that all of the Microsoft Certified Masters are cramming brain dumps (not even brain dumps, they are the exact questions/answers). Microsoft's tests are very tough/rigorous if approached honestly and ethically however.

  14. Re:If there are patent issues on Reasons To Use Mono For Linux Development · · Score: 1

    My first time seeing the share button where the comment count used to be. Oddly...it has caused me to stop reading the comments. Slashdot will always be an awesome memory for me...sad to see it go....really sad.

  15. Re: Not donating to private charities is easy on How the Red Cross Raised Half a Billion Dollars For Haiti and Built 6 Homes · · Score: 1

    roads, which benefit almost everyone

    Everyone benefits from the roads.

  16. Re:Not donating to private charities is easy on How the Red Cross Raised Half a Billion Dollars For Haiti and Built 6 Homes · · Score: 1

    Now, I'm not necessarily in favor direct wealth or income redistribution (taking tax money from rich people and giving it directly to poor people to spend however they like)

    Then shut up because there is nothing left to say.

  17. Re:Fabricating an assualt rifle in California... on Making an AR-15 In the Wired San Francisco Office · · Score: 1

    Just goes to show the inanity of banning anything. People who cant handle having something in their possession are too stupid to afford having such things anyway...and the people who want them are going to get them. When the wack-jobs in government ban something it is only to assert their power...there is no other purpose. They are telling average people they cannot have something by making it difficult to obtain because they FEEL they should not have it for some reason. Childish.

  18. Re:LMAO on How an Open Standard API Could Revolutionize Banking · · Score: 1

    "DirectDebits (a system to allow bills to be paid directly electronically from bank accounts, without cheques) between different banks"

    Damn that sounds yummy...the US banking system is a troglodite as are the "regulators."

  19. Re:LMAO on How an Open Standard API Could Revolutionize Banking · · Score: 1

    Are you new to earth? Banks have a dominance that you simply do not understand. There are always loopholes that they are very good at ensuring and exploiting. Banks love having big scary, complex, dirty systems and regulation in place becasue it keeps them in control of moving money...they make money by moving it and clearing transactions. Of course...I saw one just lose 2MM because they did it wrong....hehehehe....passed on to customers....doh!

  20. Re: We need More Pork! More! on How the Pentagon Wasted $10 Billion On Military Projects · · Score: 1

    Defense capability requires employing people on highly technical if not impractical projects to enhance, preserve, or maintain skill sets required to build practical projects. The press either doesn't get it or they do and are looking to create a story out of nothing. The post is naive.

  21. Re:Oh For Crying Out Loud on Europol Chief Warns About Computer Encryption · · Score: 1

    That, and people (terrorists?) generally trusted that their SSL/TLS certs were protecting their communications. I have to assume the NSA got hold of those and forged a man-in-the-middle relationship. Even if they didn't I still have to assume they did and go through extra measures to protect my communications.

  22. Re:Ummmm ... duh? on Modern Cockpits: Harder To Invade But Easier To Lock Up · · Score: 1

    Why does the jet allow you to steer it into the earth, or a mountain, or perform any unsafe operation? Hell, they should damn near be able to land themselves if need be.

  23. Re:We should lobby to break the cable companies on Comcast's Incompetence, Lack of Broadband May Force Developer To Sell Home · · Score: 1

    I think the lying is intentional. The ISPs help create the broadband maps and increase/fudge the coverage area so the government doesnt give them shit....and yes they do include 4G which they should not because it royally sucks and is very expensive (high price and capped).

  24. Re:We should lobby to break the cable companies on Comcast's Incompetence, Lack of Broadband May Force Developer To Sell Home · · Score: 1

    It's more like $10 per GB...bare minimum.

  25. Re: May you choke on your own words on First Lawsuits Challenging FCC's New Net Neutrality Rules Arrive · · Score: 1

    Enhanced infrastructure is the grease that allows the wheels to turn easily for the benefit of all. Enterprise will continue without infrastructure. Everyone has derived their benefit from government created infrastructure allowing us to spend our time arguing about it instead of toiling away wasting time on braving the terrain to trade goods. Obama's statements were absolutely insane and inane. Enterprise built the infrastructure...period. Without enterprise the government is weak and ineffectual. Government is a system...it produces nothing.