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  1. Re:If she really wanted to rescue the company... on Yahoo To Fire Another 15% As Mayer Attempts To Hang On (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Lets face it Yahoo has been in a persistent vegetative state for over a decade! Someone should do the decent thing and pull the plug!

  2. Locked room and 1 sandwich on Julian Assange May Surrender To British Police On Friday (twitter.com) · · Score: 0

    He should be locked in a room with the people who posted his bail (All of whom lost their money) and one sandwich

  3. Re:What could go wrong on France To Pave 1000km of Road With Solar Panels (solarcrunch.org) · · Score: 1

    If they tried this in the UK the sunlight would be obscured by plastic cones.

  4. Re:I guess on Israeli Vulture Suspected of Spying Returned · · Score: 2

    Must've been the Hartlepool Liberation Front https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

  5. Re:Windows Phone? on Microsoft's Windows Phone Platform Is Dead (windows10update.com) · · Score: 1

    I can remember having a windows based phone long before apple even started making MP3 players.

  6. CLIPY HERE on Microsoft's Windows Phone Platform Is Dead (windows10update.com) · · Score: 1
    I SEE YOU'RE TRYING TO READ A SLASHDOT SUMMARY

    WOULD YOU LIKE ME TO?

    1 FIRST POST!

    2 FILL YOUR TIMELINE WITH SHIT FROM DICE

    3 COMPLAIN ABOUT SEEING THIS ON GIZMAG YESTERDAY AND HOW SLASHDOT ISN'T THE SAME SITE IT USED TO BE

    4 FUCK OFF AND DIE!!!

  7. Re:Business Process Outsourcing on Xerox Splits Into Two Companies, Icahn Not Behind Move (thestack.com) · · Score: 1

    Just a bunch of copycats

  8. Re:Nope on DeLoreans To Go Back To Production (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    I bought one yesterday :)

  9. Re:No way this is even possible on University of Helsinki To Lay Off a Thousand People (yle.fi) · · Score: 1

    Isn't Finland a former Soviet state? Certainly was in their thrall during the cold war

  10. Re:Refugees on University of Helsinki To Lay Off a Thousand People (yle.fi) · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    This bigoted shite is moded up as insightful? Who's running this place Trump???

  11. Re:Preview Mode on Pakistan Orders ISPs To Block Over 400k Porn Websites (independent.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    You masturbate in the restaurant? What the hell kind of pervert are you?? :D

  12. Re:What about the Manhattan conspiracy? on Math Says Conspiracies Are Prone To Unravel (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Bletchley park remained secret right up to the Mid 70's

  13. But what about... on Math Says Conspiracies Are Prone To Unravel (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Cars that run on beer

  14. Re:Horrible Summary: Some clarifications on The US Government and Open Standards: a Tale of Personal Woe (thevarguy.com) · · Score: 1

    Government did insufficient platform testing

  15. Re:A relic from the past on France Says AZERTY Keyboards Fail French Typists (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Which were added to existing keyboard layouts which were already designed with the sole purpose of slowing typists down to a speed the then mechanical hardware could cope with

  16. In their defense it got higher than Alan Shepard got when he became the first American in space

  17. Re:A relic from the past on France Says AZERTY Keyboards Fail French Typists (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    ISO646??? You do realize the keyboard layouts being discussed date back to the 19th century way before the first serious computers (Babbage aside) were around ISO646 tried to make sense of these for early computing but basically I think we're talking code pages here

  18. Re:The more you tighten your grip... on France Says AZERTY Keyboards Fail French Typists (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    All old typewriter keyboards were designed specifically to be awkward to use deliberately to slow them down stop people typing too fast for the underlying mechanics. It's time we ditched them en mass in favor of ergonomic keyboards. Judging from all the Who Har the AZERTY keyboard has been tremendously successful for its intended purpose.

  19. IBM Sales Reps on How Robotaxis Might Mitigate Electric Car Depreciation (robohub.org) · · Score: 1

    Give them to IBM Sales Reps that way you cut out the only section of their working life where they are required to think. Also the car will be thrashed in six months (As long as the autonomous car can emulate a sales rep's driving technique)

  20. Re:Nine years of pair programming? on Code Reviews vs. Pair Programming (mavenhive.in) · · Score: 1

    FFS just include the various coding standards in your "Definition of Done" and provide white boxing tools for verification. To police it grab some sample checkins and run the whitebox tool against them. Kick arse if any fail. Why waste time Pair Programming unless you're mentoring someone and reviews generally turn into a pissing contest about shit that's just not important.

  21. I write music in my spare time and I can guarantee I plagarise everyone who ever inspired my pretty much like every other composer/artist

  22. I always thought the game developers at TSR were a bit of a Rogues Gallery

  23. If the money was stolen by someone in the finance department then surely it's embezzlement not fraud

  24. Re:Creating money on Bank Consortium Successfully Tests Bitcoin Tech (thestack.com) · · Score: 1

    I suspect the main purpose of this is so that they can track where the moneys been (The whole purpose of Block Chain) so there goes yet another piece of privacy

  25. Re:Not that hard to figure out... on More Air Force Drones Are Crashing Than Ever As Mysterious New Problems Emerge (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    American components, Russian components; All made in Taiwan!!