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  1. Re:What about Save As PDF on Firefox 19 Launches With Built-In PDF Viewer · · Score: 1

    I'm not sure why this is Chrome's fault. Aren't you supposed to include fonts when saving a PDF? Isn't that the person's fault who created the PDF?

  2. Re:Salesforce? on Ask Slashdot: Making Side-Money As a Programmer? · · Score: 2

    Indeed. I've only worked with Saleforce for about 10 minutes, but quite a few of the projects I deal with at work involve developing costly integrations between e-commerce and some random ERP.

    Basically, pick any two random platforms, integrate them however you like, and sell the software on the side.

  3. Re:Web development will always be far ahead of cla on Ask Slashdot: Best Alternative To the Canonical Computer Science Degree? · · Score: 1

    The valuable web developers that are "inventing what's next" are the ones who are figuring out how to send tasks to India without completely screwing a project up.

  4. Re:How bizarre... on Should the Start of Chinese New Year Be a Federal Holiday? · · Score: 2

    So what you're saying, is that teachers have been doing it wrong this whole time? I always suspected this.

  5. Re:How bizarre... on Should the Start of Chinese New Year Be a Federal Holiday? · · Score: 1

    You should stop hunting then.

  6. Re:But what if Java is the next WAIS? on LibreOffice 4 Released · · Score: 1

    Maybe something to do with using Base to connect to a MySQL database?

    Everyone rags on PHP and that makes me sad. =(

  7. Re:Man, oh man! on US Postal Service Discontinuing Saturday Mail Delivery · · Score: 1

    As an e-commerce developer that tests transactional emails fairly regularly, I can tell you that a majority of the emails I generate to send to myself for testing purposes get flagged as spam initially. Once I label them otherwise, nearly all are correctly delivered.

  8. Re:Man, oh man! on US Postal Service Discontinuing Saturday Mail Delivery · · Score: 1

    I rather like the idea of delivery only one day a week. Makes my life simpler, and would effectively impose limits on all the fuckasses that send all the crap that comes in the mail.

    Deliver it once a week, preferably before trash day, and watch out quickly your physical mail box will see a reduction of spam.

    Seriously, why do we have things like CANSPAM when there are still businesses out there wasting real, physical resources on things that people don't even want?

  9. Re:Not surprising on Life After MS-DOS: FreeDOS Keeps On Kicking · · Score: 1

    PCI-DSS compliant environments are a pretty good candidate for an upgrade.

    "We don't want to upgrade because this one just works" goes right out of the window when you tell a business owner that they could lose their livelihood because of an unfortunately timed audit.

  10. Re:Obama effect on California's Surreal Retroactive Tax On Tech Startup Investors · · Score: 1

    "Everyone who is able may have a gun."

    Definition of "able" is ambiguous. Does this consider moral character?

  11. Re:Obama effect on California's Surreal Retroactive Tax On Tech Startup Investors · · Score: 1

    ...may have Arms for their Defence suitable to their Conditions and as allowed by Law.

    Does that mean anything to you? Note the 'c' in 'Defence'.

    2013 != 1689

    If we defined "arms" as those tools available at the time, then we could define the "arms" of today as something completely different and not valid under the 2nd Amendment. Do you need a trebuchet? Maybe a large vat of hot oil? Where does "firearm" end and "mass death machine" begin?

    Point stands... the weapons of today are mass death machines that completely nullify any archaic definition of arms from the past.

  12. Re:Obama effect on California's Surreal Retroactive Tax On Tech Startup Investors · · Score: 1

    ...what the 2nd Amendment really means.

    Easy there soldier. You can look at the literal meaning of the 2nd Amendment, or you can look at the literal meaning while considering its context.

    I fully support a right to arms, provided those arms are reasonable for the modern context. A good pistol in capable hands is more than sufficient for 99.9% of dire situations where a firearm is required. The weapons being sold nowadays, however, are extreme overkill for what is supposedly their intended use... at least according to the 2nd Amendment.

    Why do hunters need assault rifles? Seriously... why the FUCK do hunters need assault rifles? Is this some kind of 1+1=3 scenario? I need a weapon to protect myself against burglars, and I need a weapon to go hunting with... might as well make it one badass weapon to do both and so much more, right?!?

    You vocalists need to stop fucking polarizing the issue to such extents. Of course hunters need firearms (well, need is subjective). Of course Joe and Jane Doh need a firearm in the closet so that they feel safe. What they don't need are the assault rifles and assault rifle accessories being sold on websites thousands of times a day.

    I get that these weapons are ultimately really badass toys, for the most part. I've shot my share even. I don't hunt, but I support it. I don't fear for my safety at home, but I support those who do. What I do not support are the reckless and weak who spout nothing but "It's Unconstitutional" in regards to over-arming themselves under the banner of the 2nd Amendment. If you are really that scared for your safety that you are defending the right to own mass death machines, maybe you should instead invest in some kevlar armor along with a cape and some martial arts training, and go fucking roam the streets and whoop the shit out of people committing violent crimes. I know for damn well I would feel 1000% safer with folks like that in my neighborhood than with any random individual having the right to purchase assault rifles.

    Seriously, stop defending evil. It makes you look like such a jackass.

  13. Re:Did you all learn you lesson? on Why Do You Want To Kill My Pet? Zynga Shuts Down PetVille, 10 Others · · Score: 1

    I pretty much agree, but would like to offer a single exception named Eve Online.

    Most games do not invest anywhere near the time, effort, and money into running such a beast of a server. I'm sure it will be gone one day, but possibly not. I would not be surprised if my account is able to be reactivated ten years from now.

  14. Re:Really? on 30 Days Is Too Long: Animated Rant About Windows 8 · · Score: 1

    What about the start search field? Does it replace that? Can I just push the windows key, start typing a couple of characters, and launch my app if it's not in the folder? Or do I need to find the calculator app, create a shortcut to it in this new 'start' folder, and then it will work? What about a cmd prompt?

    A couple folks at work have been using it, but I don't trust their judgment when they say "oh it's fine" since they tend to use stuff like Dreamweaver.

    My Win7 days at work are numbered, and it's looking more and more like I will be upgrading... to a machine that comes with simple tools like SSH already built in without having to downgrade my hardware by using keyboards without 'home' and 'end' keys or mice without left-middle-right mouse buttons.

  15. Re:LOve the game, hate the real money bullshit on Game Review: Planetside 2 (video) · · Score: 1

    Easy days of having a job lined up after graduation for most people are long gone.

    And yet, idiots the world over continue to enroll every Fall.

  16. Re:This changes nothing. . . on Marijuana Prosecution Not a High Priority, Says Obama · · Score: 4, Insightful

    This is how it works, though.

    Look at the inverse; where states pass new laws prohibiting some new type of behavior... texting and driving for example. Is that counter-productive? Of course it isn't.

    We need more states to be pioneers in repealing antiquated/obsolete laws otherwise those laws may never change. We can't just keep making new laws and more new laws and more new laws or we end up with the legal equivalent of spaghetti code.

    States stepping up and avowing intention to counter federal laws is exactly the opposite of counter-productive.

  17. Re:This changes nothing. . . on Marijuana Prosecution Not a High Priority, Says Obama · · Score: 5, Insightful

    o.O

    ...the vast majority of pot users are unable to make a living for themselves and thus depend on public assistance and petty crime to support themselves and their habit.

    You really have no idea who pot smokers are, do you?

  18. Re:Temporarily stranded? on Catfish Strands Itself To Kill Pigeons · · Score: 1

    Of course, there are a number of "fly" patterns devoted to mimicking a bird. It is fairly common for those sport-fishing for taimen to use a fly pattern resembling a bird with a broken wing, for example.

    There are plenty of bird-eating fish. At so many various points, fish are the ultimate opportunists. They eat what falls out of the shrubs and into the water, be it birds, rodents, insects, frogs... It's mostly the same to them.

  19. Re:Temporarily stranded? on Catfish Strands Itself To Kill Pigeons · · Score: 1

    Indeed. I see cats jumping out of the water to catch birds quite often!!! This must be the origin of the name, and absolutely nothing to do with the cat-like whiskers on their face!

  20. Re:Name Change on No More "Asperger's Syndrome" · · Score: 1

    This is education we're talking about. Where it's perfectly fine to give a child a Woodcock Johnson.

  21. Re:Need more sub-definitions on No More "Asperger's Syndrome" · · Score: 1

    Umbrella terms exist so that facilities that care for these folks can apply for Medicaid funding set aside for specific groups of folks.

    It has nothing to do with you and everything to do with how the big pile of money gets sorted.

  22. Re:Not a new problem on Half of GitHub Code Unsafe To Use (If You Want Open Source) · · Score: 1

    Does that make it the fault of the developers, though?

    If you are pressed by management to find a solution before you leave for the day, you'll probably spend some time looking at the problem yourself to discover what you need to Google to find an answer.

    Don't blame developers when they are so constrained.

  23. Re:Investor rule of thumb: on Silicon Valley's Dirty Little Secret: Age Bias · · Score: 0

    Seriously. Since they changed it to default to moderate all comments then submit mod votes at the bottom of the page, who actually does it anymore? I tend to use about 2-3 of my mod votes at most. I just assume the moderators are 1/2 shill, 1/4 'I think I'm a shill... oh wai.. why'd my paycheck bounce?', 1/4 actual readers.

  24. Re:Silicon Valley - as defined by age on Silicon Valley's Dirty Little Secret: Age Bias · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I look towards 40 as an age where I hope to just be getting started. The jobs that exist for the young all-nighter guy amount to being someone's bitch. Personally, I don't like to be anyone's bitch. I prefer to produce work that I am proud of. Alas, that's not always the case, since there are plenty of "I'm smart and I have a bunch of someone else's money and I need to be a part of everything because I'm the badass" type folks out there. Fortunately for me, this creates a nice niche where I get to clean up where others generally fail due to this approach.

  25. Re:Hmmm... on Datagram Recovers From 'Apocalyptic' Flooding During Sandy · · Score: 1

    Put it at the bottom of a Big-Gulp, and yes... yes it will.