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  1. Re:I've had worse questions... on Ask Slashdot: How Have You Handled Illegal Interview Topics? · · Score: 1

    "Do you pack?" Having a concealed carry will help you get a job at some places because it means that you already went through some criminal screening.

    See, personally, I would deliberately not hire somebody who carries a concealed weapon. There's a chance they may bring it to work, and that is a bad thing.

    I'm licensed for private security in ontario. Seems like a legitimate question, in the right industry. Also, someone who went through the process of obtaining the legal right to carry is more likely to be an upstanding citizen than someone who hasn't, but does anyway.

    Sounds more to me like they're cheap, and don't want to pay for you to get the clearance when they can get somebody else to pay for it instead. It costs money and time for them to have you do the paperwork and submit it.

    I think this more sidesteps questions like "Do you have recent experience dealing with this kind of information, were you ever cleared to deal with this kind of information, why did you lose your clearance?"
    If they have it already, you know they can receive it again, later. Employees are a long-term investment.

  2. Re:As a business owner on Ask Slashdot: How Have You Handled Illegal Interview Topics? · · Score: 1

    Maybe, but what are the chances someone like that is actually qualified for the position they are applying? KKK/social service or westburough baptist church/medical degree don't exactly have a whole lot of overlap.

  3. Re:Maybe you need a longer time sample on Ask Slashdot: How Have You Handled Illegal Interview Topics? · · Score: 3, Informative

    The US has double the landmass and a slightly higher GDP/capita, which is probably because the population is less dense.

  4. Re:Python != web on Parlez-vous Python? · · Score: 1

    Why is that a bad thing? Also, he's incorrect, as there are two types of errors, syntax errors and exceptions.

  5. Re:HTML on Parlez-vous Python? · · Score: 1

    For some inexplicable reason I feel the need to haze some pre-froshes.

    Delete your System32 folder. Speeds things up immensely.

  6. I was expecting an article about Python. on Parlez-vous Python? · · Score: 1

    How is this about Python again?

  7. Re:what bothered me about that article on Parlez-vous Python? · · Score: 1

    Eh, knowing how to change a tire doesn't mean you never need a mechanic.

    Specialists will always be needed no matter how much having some basic skill becomes a given.

  8. Re:Voice on Ask Slashdot: How To Give IT Presentations That Aren't Boring? · · Score: 1

    I can usually capture the interest of an audience without needing PowerPoint.

    I can usually perform complicated heart surgery without needing a jackhammer.

  9. Re:usually? on Van Rossum: Python Not Too Slow · · Score: 1

    No one cares about quality. But just like the quality of roads, the electrical grid, water, customer service, hospitals, ambulances, fire fighting, police, banking, automotive repair, plumbers, construction contractors, food and wine, safety equipment, drugs, corrective lenses, shoes and erotic literature, people will notice when the quality isn't there.

    And they will bitch. Probably even at the CEO.

  10. Re:Kinda digging Python on Van Rossum: Python Not Too Slow · · Score: 1

    The point is, working code wouldn't need to be cleaned up.

  11. Re:What about the parents? on School District Sued By ACLU Over Student's Free Speech Rights · · Score: 1

    If it was in Ontario, the laws are such that if she was interrogated by a police officer in that manner, it would constitute an arrest and she would be informed of her rights, foremost of which is the right to legal council.

    Failure to do so would mean that the arrest was unlawful and that the officer would be penalized, probably heavily.

    But, you are right, there was no crime in the first place, and If you or I was the deputy we would probably tell the school officials to sod off and save our number for real criminal activity or emergencies.

  12. Re:Maybe on LED's Efficiency Exceeds 100% · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I think this could be applied as an interesting method to cool an object by applying a voltage to it... if it consumes both the energy of the voltage and the ambient temperature of the device.

  13. Re:Despicable on School Sends Child's Lunch Home After Determining it Unhealthy · · Score: 1

    It's not the school's place to decide what someone else's small child eats, I think is the point to all of this.
    What was packed could only really be viewed as a minimal lunch, if that, but not inadequate.

  14. Re:Despicable on School Sends Child's Lunch Home After Determining it Unhealthy · · Score: 2

    "Probably" isn't any basis to refute a theory, as it's just another theory.

  15. Re:Btrfs on Linux 3.2 Has Been Released · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Windows may not be a filesystem, but it only ships with one sane choice of general-purpose filesystem, and that choice is NTFS.

    In your opinion it's a sane FS.

    ... does not represent my opinion on anything. It simply is.. ..how things are.

    Wait, what?

    NTFS and windows are a pain in _my_ ass. That's an opinion.

  16. Re:Really nice looking and interesting phone for 1 on Before the iPhone, Apple's Stunning Phone From 1983 · · Score: 2

    Most people are pretty lazy unless they're paid not to be, or they care for some other reason.

    Corollary: Most people don't care unless they're getting paid.

  17. Re:Oh man.. on Vanity Fair On the TSA and Security Theater · · Score: 0

    It isn't so impressive if he's Canadian.

    It is impressive because he's on /.

  18. Re:EULAs on Sony Sued Over PSN 'No Suing' Provision · · Score: 2

    It was thrown out not because the action was deemed legal, but because the plaintiff didn't make a cohesive claim that could have been argued.

    Sony got off scott free because the people running the class action suit fucked up.

  19. This kind of thing should never have been an issue on TSA Facing Death By a Thousand Cuts · · Score: 1

    This kind of thing should never have been an issue in the first place.

    Your government has successfully given "terrorists" a great victory, in dividing your country against itself.

    Looking at the old definition of rape, it is quite outdated. It's a shame the change didn't come about on it's own or earlier.

  20. Re:Perfect american corporate business practice on Cnet Apologizes For Nmap Adware Mess · · Score: 1

    No one was talking about music or movies.

  21. Happy! on Latest Humble Bundle Comes With Uplink Source Code · · Score: 1

    Bought.

  22. Re:Seems fair... on In Australia, Immunize Or Lose Benefits · · Score: 1

    Now, that's just unfair.

    The world was regarded as flat by a large portion of the population at some point in history, you're lending too much credibility to people who are against vaccines.

  23. Yo dawg, on JavaScript JVM Runs Java · · Score: 0

    I wrote a runtime in a scripting language so you can code while you script and I can debug while I debug.

  24. Re:Not needed any more on The Political Assault On Los Alamos National Laboratory · · Score: 1

    If the US became militaristic toward Canada, I think most of the rest of the world would be fairly up in arms about that.

    Not to mention the fairly large demographic of Canadians living in the US, and US citizens living in Canada.

  25. Re:EHRs are inherently untrustworthy on SAIC Loses Data of 4.9 Million Patients · · Score: 1

    This wasn't about computer security... there were no measures implemented here in the first place.