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  1. It's a no-brainer on The Case Against Non-technical Managers · · Score: 1

    ...but that's the one that gets hired.

    Proving yet again: Don't you just hate using the subject line as part of anything?

  2. Re:1% of a huge number is still pretty large on BlackBerry Launches Android Smartphone · · Score: 1

    that's just life support is okay with us. We won't be chasing those figures that seem all-too-important to bean counters and Wall Street. Go ahead and say, Too late the hero You probably use a gadget that does the job. And we'll be fine too...over here.

  3. Re:1% of a huge number is still pretty large on BlackBerry Launches Android Smartphone · · Score: 1

    don't worry, stick to your whatever-gadget.

  4. Re:Why? on BlackBerry Launches Android Smartphone · · Score: 1

    Because you don't want one; which explains a lot.

  5. In an attempt? Look again on BlackBerry Launches Android Smartphone · · Score: 0

    (Had to repost. For some silly stupid reason the new slashdot logs you in, but posts your comments as ac. stupid untested beta creeps)

    You think it is too late? Late for poseurs and wannabees. Too late for them.

    I have been surrounded by iphoneatics and people with bigger and larger tablets you need two pairs of cargo pants to wear them, the second one for your brain in case it ever needs to multitask. Sure it'll fit, if you don't drop it on the floor.

    You'll be like the rest of the phoneatics, mesmerized by the glow, which you will need since it's too dark where the sun don't shine. And guess where your head is at.

    So please BB, make a phone for the rest of us that aren't thrown by the shiny shiny or the price. Or the long lines. Because WE know who Big Brother really is. He's up there in the icloud.

    Go ahead and buy the new model, with the gorilla glass and chinese-made parts. But don't forget to sign up and have an account. You know resistance is futile. But not smexi.

  6. Financial decision? I think not on VW Fiasco Puts Ethics In Engineering Under the Spotlight, CEO Steps Down · · Score: 2

    It was a German decision

    germane Stupid spellchecker...

  7. Original title rejected on Barbie Gets a Brain · · Score: 1

    Barbie Gets a Brain, Dumps Ken

  8. Re:makes no sense to me on Robotics Researcher Starts Campaign To Ban Development of Sexbots · · Score: 1

    Bingo

  9. There are other things wrong with her argument on Robotics Researcher Starts Campaign To Ban Development of Sexbots · · Score: 1

    Sure let's make a million of them. For testing. Now drop them in the Middle East, the terrorist training areas. Before they are taught how to have sex with their camels. Or make homemade bombs out of fertilizer, and other household goods. Hey guys, the virgins we were promised are here, early delivery! Everybody would be trying to get these bots in unusual contortions before the bots suddenly explode, nuking the desert back to the stone age.

  10. Re:makes no sense to me on Robotics Researcher Starts Campaign To Ban Development of Sexbots · · Score: 1

    ...she left her e-bible this time

  11. Re:makes no sense to me on Robotics Researcher Starts Campaign To Ban Development of Sexbots · · Score: 2

    Do Androids dream of electric sheep
    Will I dream
    How does choosing to have sex with a robot reinforce stereotypes about women? ...and other unanswered questions were racing through my sci-fi addled mind, as I slowly undressed the Kardashian sexbot I had recharged for the weekend. Only 46 hours of pleasure till Monday, beer stocked in the fridge, pizza to be delivered soon...life is good.

  12. I tend to avoid using that word on Man Receives a Prosthetic Hand That Allows Him To Feel · · Score: 0

    Seamless

    The word tends to resurface in those critical review meetings. You know which ones: the disaster recovery meeting, the war room meetings, congressional hearings, investigative meetings--in short, those blamestorming meetings, and you know you've reached a certain milestone in your career when you are always kept in the loop. In fact, you know you're approaching that red zone when you happen to be wearing the beeper that causes those ripples that are felt by Everyone That Matters at 2 in the morning. And the One In the Hot Seat will make a statement that would sound something like this:

    Well we made that choice because it seamless trouble at the time.

  13. Re:Another day, another corrupt Indian scumbag! on University Employees Suspended Due To Guest Worker Scandal · · Score: 1

    Use third world people, get third world morality

    and third world technical support, please press 4.

  14. Re:Sounds normal on University Employees Suspended Due To Guest Worker Scandal · · Score: 1

    You haven't been in the industry long enough. At some point Whats top dollar for the best of this breed of programmer wherein they decide let's outsource this, and there's a gajillion coders out there undercutting each other, and it winds up becoming staffed by poor quality coders, so the firms beef up their call centers with even more ridiculous low rent workers, cheapening the industry, and sending this breed to extinction, and into idiocracy.

    Rinse lather repeat with each flavor-of-the-month programming language. But don't ask why you're being put on hold one more time. It is no wonder that it is a male-dominated industry, because we think that we're the smart ones, when it seems that the opposite is true.

  15. Re:Not only spied upon on The First Talking, Artificially Intelligent Surveillance Camera · · Score: 1

    It was all fine and dandy, until this amazon knocked on our door, demanding to speak to the father of the house, but the pink heart shaped balloon tied to her wrist hinted vaguely at something unusual, and of a forgotten 60 minutes expose entitled "Something wicked this way comes"

  16. Re:Acer laptops are great on We'll Be the Last PC Company Standing, Acer CEO Says · · Score: 1

    Agreed, they had the balls to make a Ferrari laptop. So instead of the cliche pic of Ferrari on the laptop screen, just look at the thing. Sure it has an engine.wav file play at bootup; heck I'd still stick linux on it.

  17. Re:Too soon? on We'll Be the Last PC Company Standing, Acer CEO Says · · Score: 1

    Man more power to them! After all they've got the balls to do what pics have been trying for years: http://bigpicture.typepad.com/...

  18. so it has come down to this on Africa E-Waste Dump Continues Hyperbole War · · Score: 1

    highways, phone towers, and internet cable

    and all this time I thought it was food, clothing, and shelter. Serves me right for growing up "off the grid"

  19. Re:Decent on Seattle CEO Cuts $1 Million Salary To $70K, Raises Employee Salaries · · Score: 2

    I hope he has recovered; I was listening to the radio one time and this is the reason athletes who just turned pro in the NFL usually are staffed with a financial advisor to work out the mess a sudden windfall that 6 figures creates.

  20. I've been waaiting for this! on NASA-ESA Project Will Shoot an Asteroid To See What Happens · · Score: 1

    When I was a kid, I would normally miss the blockbuster movies because they would be rated either PG or R. Then I would wait for the cheap Italian version featuring rather well known actors who looked like they could pull off the lead, and maybe make it a considerable hit in 3rd World countries. Up to know I still find myself commenting poor man's Jason Statham or poor man's Bruce Willis

    The hunt is on for Poor man's Ben Affleck!

  21. So this Wndows tech guy was selling me his PC on Google Just Made It Easier To Run Linux On Your Chromebook · · Score: 1

    but I put a linux live USB stick in. When he was startled as boot messages scrolled by, I asked him to relax, it's just getting your credit card info and your shoe size. No, you don't have to take them out of your wallet.

  22. Re:Degree of reality on Sony, Facebook, Google, Samsung, Apple, and Microsoft Now All Have a Hand In VR · · Score: 1

    Oculus made the first big pubic thrust

    that has got to be a freudian slip right there

  23. Re: Exactly this. on If the Programmer Won't Go To Silicon Valley, Should SV Go To the Programmer? · · Score: 1

    it's peak as in 'top of a mountain'. Point taken, nonetheless

  24. The ONLY manual I've read: Pay attention on Ask Slashdot: Are Progressive Glasses a Mistake For Computer Users? · · Score: 1

    The only manual that I've read from cover to cover when I decided to make a career of using computers was the one that came with the very first desktop PC I bought, how to set it up for daily use, and it had tips on ergonomic positioning and monitor height (angle maybe, and distance) to avoid RSA and vision problems later on.
    It was well worth the 15 minutes, because many career changes later on, with each new computer I've remembered those tips and the optimal setup. BTW, GOML!

  25. Re:So.... on Scientists Say the Future Looks Bleak For Our Bones · · Score: 1

    ...those 16oz wrist curls and refrigerator door pulls (to get 1 nacho at a time) I've described before will soon take effect. It's all about intensity.