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  1. Sounds like a WRT54G Successor to Me on WRT54G Successor Falls Flat On Promises · · Score: 1

    A (?possibly?) decent router with such bad firmware you will be forced to go to extraordinary lengths to fix it.

  2. Re:The term "Sexual Harassment" is very misleading on GitHub Founder Resigns Following Harassment Investigation · · Score: 1

    It would depend on the structure of the organization/project. But yes, most private corporate projects are not similar to Wikipedia in that way (but all additions have the possibility to include bugs that make revisions simply the best thing to do).

    But that is what makes it such a simple situation. You have the original code, you have her changes, and you know what revisions/additions the accused did. Have a third party scan the changes, than ask the accused employee to justify his revisions. It would take like 3 hours of time to come to the bottom the the situation and figure out what exactly happened and dispense disciplinary action.

    But lets make this clear. It is possible that the accused acted in way that hurt the company, but I cannot see how he possible hurt the "victim" here. And at the very least the company is better off with her gone.

  3. Re:How flammable is it? on The Science Behind Powdered Alcohol · · Score: 1

    Just because you can put powder in anything, while a liquid needs special liquid containers that might leak or shatter and for the most part will be solid instead of flexible.

    A bottle takes up a lot of room, is often going to be an inconvenient shape, and there is the whole breakage concern. Liquid would be easier to use, but powder would be easier to pack.

  4. Re:How flammable is it? on The Science Behind Powdered Alcohol · · Score: 1

    But it is easier to carry a box of powder than a bottle of liquid.

  5. Re:The term "Sexual Harassment" is very misleading on GitHub Founder Resigns Following Harassment Investigation · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Some of her patches were reverted by a co-worker? How traumatic for her.

    Who could take anything seriously from someone would quit the moment the quality of their work was even slightly put into question by a single co-worker?

  6. Balanced Equipment on Reinventing the Axe · · Score: 0

    There is a reason we like balanced knives, axes, etc.

    Unbalanced axes are dangerous, hard to use, and hard on the person using them.

    There is no way this is actually anything but a defective axe.

  7. Well Duh on Google: Better To Be a 'B' CS Grad Than an 'A+' English Grad · · Score: 1

    Its English, there are no jobs for English grads. In many instances it would be better to be a CS drop out than an A+ English grad.

  8. Re:Unregulatable! on Cody Wilson Interview at Reason: Happiness Is a 3D Printed Gun · · Score: 1

    How is it unregulated? Making a gun is actually quite easy, therefore guns are somewhat unregulatable.

    As far as I am aware you pretty much have no chance of making a working 3D printer/3D toner in your garage. So if you are forced to buy them from one of the 12 factories in the world who make them then they are easily regrettable.

  9. Re:Never forget where you came from on Ask Slashdot: Hungry Students, How Common? · · Score: 1

    My university food memories mostly involve dipping fried meats in peanut butter. So delicious, but I do not think my metabolism could handle that any longer.

  10. Re:Militia, then vs now on Retired SCOTUS Justice Wants To 'Fix' the Second Amendment · · Score: 1

    It is entirely reasonable to assume they they did not want Donald Trump to own a nuclear missile, or for some random person to stockpile Mustard gas.

    But they very clearly wanted the average citizen to be able to legally own guns that would be compatible to a normal military footsoldier.

  11. Re:Militia, then vs now on Retired SCOTUS Justice Wants To 'Fix' the Second Amendment · · Score: 1

    And to pretend that they intended this ability to legally amend the constitution would mean that they would agree with removing rights is just silly.
    They rightly thought that it would need to be updated from time to time, not for basic constitutional rights to be trimmed from it.

  12. Re:Militia, then vs now on Retired SCOTUS Justice Wants To 'Fix' the Second Amendment · · Score: 1

    Yes and no.

    Yes, Joe Nobody cannot own a tank simply for financial reasons, but AK47s are still far more important to warfare than any other single thing.
    Joe Nobody can still own the most integral part of any personal and societal defence.

    If you are talking state militia, sure they would be outspent by the US military, but there is no solution to this. And any State militia would still theoretically have enough money to get necessary stuff, like ground to air missiles, and talk busting rocket launchers/C4.
    And if you are talking personal protection, a handgun and a knife is as good at it ever gets. It is not like person would walk around dragging a mortar for personal defence.

  13. You Don't Understand on Study Finds US Is an Oligarchy, Not a Democracy · · Score: 1

    American citizens don't want to stop the exploitation. We want to find a way to become the exploiters.

  14. Democracy? Hypocrisy! on Study Finds US Is an Oligarchy, Not a Democracy · · Score: 1

    "Democracy? Hypocrisy!" - (Aristotle, The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles)

  15. Re:Bloody Idiot on Jenny McCarthy: "I Am Not Anti-Vaccine'" · · Score: 1

    But most don't... Walking across the street can cause death or brain injury, but like measles that is a very small risk.

    I think the medical community would agree, if the measles vaccine caused a high rate of autism, it would be far worse than .001% of people who contacted measles suffering permanent damage. They simply would not allow you to make that damaging decision and would label it child abuse.

    Hell, at least some studies into autism would have us believe that actually more people would die in scenario one (from autism related deaths [which have been measured as ten times the national average]) than in scenario two.

  16. Re:Sounds like Microsoft is making a pretty penny. on IRS Misses XP Deadline, Pays Microsoft Millions For Patches · · Score: 1

    And you would expect hundreds of QA engineers to be employed for this task? (lets not forget they already have everything in place to continue patching and testing)

  17. Sounds like Microsoft is making a pretty penny. on IRS Misses XP Deadline, Pays Microsoft Millions For Patches · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Every corporation and agency is independently paying millions and millions to have them continue to patch their computers. I would not wager a guess at how much it costs to continue producing patches, but I cannot imagine it is more than a handful of full time devs.

  18. Re:Ability to design and write software... on Michael Bloomberg: You Can't Teach a Coal Miner To Code · · Score: 1

    Zuckersberg just wants the government to train a bunch of coders, flooding the market and lowering the average pay (even the no noticeable percentage of the new coders ever being decent coders).

  19. Re:Ability to design and write software... on Michael Bloomberg: You Can't Teach a Coal Miner To Code · · Score: 1

    By some we are of course talking less than 1% of the coal miner population with enough fundamentals to even have a chance at a quick re-training (a year or two), and the right desirers, personality, and intelligence.

    And lets remember, these people ?picked? or at least have been doing for decades a physical trade. Going in and saying to them they all need to become intellectual desk jockeys not only won't work but is just cruel. If you are going to offer opportunities to coal miners, offer them trades retraining.

    Governments and corporations might like to think of people as interchangeable cogs, but that is not the reality.

  20. Completely over Engineered on NYC Considers Google Glass For Restaurant Inspections · · Score: 1

    For the simple task of a portable recorder, GG is a ridiculous choice.

  21. Up the the Employees? on New French Law Prohibits After-Hours Work Emails · · Score: 1

    So basically what this is saying is that it is not illegal for your boss to send you an email, it is not illegal for him to ask you to work from home after work hours, it is just illegal for you to agree, and you will be the one fined? At least that is how the summery reads.

  22. Re:Geocentrism does not necessarily imply on Scientists/Actress Say They Were 'Tricked' Into Geocentric Universe Movie · · Score: 1

    Well this would agree with Star Trek labelling Earth as in sector 001.

  23. Re:Mulgrew is an airhead on Scientists/Actress Say They Were 'Tricked' Into Geocentric Universe Movie · · Score: 0

    Janeway was one horrible Captain that went from one genocide to another, ignoring any directive that was inconvenient.
    But she was still far better than The Emissary, who was willing to abandon any post, and ignore any order, if the his faith told him to.

  24. Re:Mulgrew is an airhead on Scientists/Actress Say They Were 'Tricked' Into Geocentric Universe Movie · · Score: 1

    Star Trek is all technobabble. There is no science in Star Trek you airhead.

  25. Re:where is the controversy? on Scientists/Actress Say They Were 'Tricked' Into Geocentric Universe Movie · · Score: 1

    All humans can track their lineage back to a common single ancestor.....