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  1. Re:No popcorn yet on Gov't Puts Witness On No Fly List, Then Denies Having Done So · · Score: 1

    Fly to Cuba, Cuba to Canada. Not hard.

  2. Re:Just drive there on Gov't Puts Witness On No Fly List, Then Denies Having Done So · · Score: 2

    this is agent 5443117 You have lost over 40 loyalty points in this month and are dangerously close to being selected for reeducation. Be careful or you may enjoy a visit from some friendly adjustment specalists.

    Oh, your milk is going to spoil in 2 days, go buy a new gallon tonight.

  3. Re:Just drive there on Gov't Puts Witness On No Fly List, Then Denies Having Done So · · Score: 1

    You are just not going fast enough when you hit the docks.

  4. Re: Southwest.. on Gov't Puts Witness On No Fly List, Then Denies Having Done So · · Score: 1

    Yes, They are called primates that like throwing poo at others and each other.

  5. Re:Wrong problem? on Two Million Passwords Compromised By Keylogger Virus · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Like running insecure Operating systems?

  6. Re:I have some bad news and some good news on Two Million Passwords Compromised By Keylogger Virus · · Score: 2

    You like my posts about lunch.... DONT YOU!!!!

  7. "I was raised to be a civil human being."

    Police departments refuse to hire people with such an affliction anymore.

  8. Re:Spin that door on EV Owner Arrested Over 5 Cents Worth of Electricity From School's Outlet · · Score: 1

    No it's not. enforcing the law means you do it properly acting like a public servant, not frigging Judge Dredd style.

  9. Re:Before we get a OMG about this on EV Owner Arrested Over 5 Cents Worth of Electricity From School's Outlet · · Score: 1

    An informal warning of, "dude that is not right, stop that and don't let me catch you doing that again." Is all that is needed to be done, it's the honest response.. Instead the cops decided to be the scumbags and take the nuclear option.

    Which reinforces the image that cops should never ever be trusted as they will not be reasonable or honest.

  10. Typical scumbag cop response on EV Owner Arrested Over 5 Cents Worth of Electricity From School's Outlet · · Score: 1

    That Cop in the video is a scumbag and should be fired. He is a SERVANT of the people not the fricking terminator.
    His attitude is disgusting and he is the perfect example of the absolute worst type of cop out there. Zero compassion, zero respect to the OATH he took.

    Although I will bet $$$ that the asshole speeds when off duty and breaks a lot of laws. Cops dont have to obey laws.

  11. Re:No company can build well with a bad spec on How Much Is Oracle To Blame For Healthcare IT Woes? · · Score: 1

    " I'm no expert, but my understanding is that hooking up pre-existing databases in this way is very, very hard."

    no it's not. you stream out a common and documented data format and tell all those others to "here is your data, parse it and get it into your system.

    You dictate the data and it's up to the other parties to deal with it. If anyone ever said, "we will meet their needs" they need to be beaten with a very large stick in the parking lot near the dumpsters until they die.

    you define your data format and send it. ALL the insurance companies have staff on hand that would easily make interface logic to get their data in/out.

  12. Re:No company can build well with a bad spec on How Much Is Oracle To Blame For Healthcare IT Woes? · · Score: 3, Informative

    How to deal with managers....

    Step 1 hire a really really big guy 6'5" tall and 3'5" wide at the shoulders. give him a paddle.
    Step 2 introduce him to the managers as your enforcer, "he is who you will deal with when you make stupid demands"
    Step 3, if the managers forget that, go back to step 2 but say to the big guy, " just dont break any bones, or get too much blood on the carpet.".

    All solved. Managers stop acting like middle school brats and will actually start acting like adults.

    And that is the problem, Managers like to act like middle school teenage girls, beating them solves this issue.

  13. Re:No company can build well with a bad spec on How Much Is Oracle To Blame For Healthcare IT Woes? · · Score: 1

    Actually perfect point. Who was the project manager? It is their fault. and if they made someone the project manager that has ZERO clue how to build a huge capacity website, then that person is the failure.

    Honestly, all the failure lies at the feet of the management involved, if they did not have meetings with the experts asking their advice and listen to them, then the management all needs to be fired on the spot and replace them with competent management that will listen to the experts.

    Sadly this step should have been taken 2 years ago when it was obvious that the management was clueless and not following the advice of the experts hired. it should have been in full testing phases 1 year ago with simulation of at least 120,000 visits an hour and designed with a temporary scaleup to 1,000,000 capacity for the first 3 months of operation.

  14. Re:Why Bother? on Patent Battle May Loom Over 'Copenhagen Wheel' Electric Bike · · Score: 1

    This is for the waifs that can barely carry a 15" laptop. You expect them to actually pedal their bikes as well?

  15. Re:Electricity for computers on Ask Slashdot: Recommendations For Beautiful Network Cable Trays? · · Score: 1

    And gut the office while he does it. Poured concrete requires coreing and jackhammers to run the conduit and repatch.

    The fault lies at the feet of the contractor that did the job, why data conduit was not installed first is his fault and he should be docked money for missing it.

  16. Cable trays.... on Ask Slashdot: Recommendations For Beautiful Network Cable Trays? · · Score: 1

    Just have the contractor put a visual barrier around them to satisfy the "that looks icky" people. thin wood box painted the color of the wall it is near or the ceiling color.

  17. Mid engine... on Is the Porsche Carrera GT Too Dangerous? · · Score: 2

    All mid engine cars have another quirk, when you are in a hard turn and you are having under steer, you actually have to hot the gas and not slow down for the turn and then you have to know the car very VERY well, because the point of no return where the rear let's go is like a knife edge.... grip,grip,grip, slide and if you are not ready for it the car will spin out. so drifting in one is for 10,000hour driving experts only. I know this,as I own a 400hp RWD mid engine custom car that is set up very much like this car.

  18. Re:Holy Crap! on R2-D2: Mall Cop · · Score: 1

    Well you need to rent my 1983 Yugo for $980 a month becuase it's cheaper than a 2013 BMW M5.

    These robots should cost less than $1.00 an hour to operate, including purchase price and maintenance figuring a 5 year lifespan.

  19. Re:Holy Crap! on R2-D2: Mall Cop · · Score: 1

    "because it will have only programmed and computed prejudices,"

    Step 1 is the subject browish?
    Step 2 gauge the level of brown.
    Step 3 level of brown is the deciding factor.

    Who do you think will set these things to decide what is suspicious? Not the designer, but the owners or the renters.

    "I want these things to watch brown people more, oh and turbans are scary, watch those too..."

    never EVER assume a machine is not prejudiced, the person that controls it will add in their plus more in spades because it is an object.

  20. Re:forget the sun on Solar Pressure May Help Kepler Return To Planet-Hunting Duties · · Score: 1

    Correct, they are BETTER than your peers and you should listen to them instead of the morons you call friends.

    Now get back to mowing the lawn!

  21. Re:Why would much budget be needed, I wonder on Solar Pressure May Help Kepler Return To Planet-Hunting Duties · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Actually they did. Ceasar cut all funding on wheels and called them a failure. Luckily private chariot companies picked up where they left off and created the booming chariot industry that carried Rome from it's beginning, to burning and beyond.

  22. Reviving? on How the LHC Is Reviving Magnetic Tape · · Score: 1

    Magnetic tape has been alive and well. Most big companies and research labs use it daily.

    Sounds like the article writer knows nothing at all about corporate or industrial IT.

  23. Re:Doesn't really help much on Property Managers Use DNA To Sniff Out Dog Poop Offenders · · Score: 1

    Only really stupid people intentionally live in a HOA.

  24. Sounds like they ager getting paid to much... on Property Managers Use DNA To Sniff Out Dog Poop Offenders · · Score: 1

    Time for tennants to start demanding lower rent, if they have so much profit they can screw around doing DNA testing on poop, they can hire someone part time to pick up the poop.

    Some of these property managers are as bad as the old farts that police HOA's.

  25. Re:Oh that's why they can on NY Police Get Tall SUVs To Combat Texting While Driving · · Score: 1

    Police do not have to obey any laws. They can kill innocents without any recourse.