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  1. AngularJS + VHDL on Do Tech Companies Ask For Way Too Much From Job Candidates? · · Score: 1

    I was recently presented with a job description that included a lot of web dev. stuff like Angular as well as niche EE dev. experience in the VHDL language. This was a former DJIA listed company. It was completely baffled but let the recruiter submit me for the job just for kicks (I'm an EE). Needless to say I "wasn't qualified" for the job.

    When I see this crap it's a signal to run away fast. It's clear that the the person who wrote the job description is a clueless moron and the person who approved it is too. One of them probably works in HR and such confusion would be partially understandable but the other must be the manager you'd be working under.

  2. Re:What about military satellites on MH370 Beacon Battery May Have Been Expired · · Score: 1

    The SIGINT satellites with the sensitivity to pick up the sort of transmissions from the plane's transponders have steerable antennas that must be pointed in the vicinity of the target to get a usable signal. Unless you come up with an elaborate conspiracy theory where the US planned this whole thing, that couldn't have happened.

  3. The irony is that it is patently un-American to ban things that do no harm to others and yet these politicians have all taken an oath to uphold the constitution and will claim to be the most diligent patriots ever.

  4. Re:Crosshatch? on Classic Mac Icons Archive Bought By MOMA · · Score: 1

    The Lisa's rectangular pixels would have made the design process problematic.

  5. Re:In Karachi? on Pakistan Builds Nuclear Reactors In Karachi, Sparking Fears of Disaster · · Score: 1

    20 miles out is still dense and urban

    Depending on what direction you go.

  6. Re:It be 12m above sea - max Tsunami: 7m on Pakistan Builds Nuclear Reactors In Karachi, Sparking Fears of Disaster · · Score: 1

    Westinghouse, not GE.

  7. Use Logo on Ask Slashdot: Best Strategies For Teaching Kids CS Skills With Basic? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Implement a turtle-based drawing API and build a curriculum that introduces programming concepts with turtle graphics.

  8. Re:Dial *666 on FTC Announces $50k In Prizes For Robocaller Trap Software · · Score: 4, Insightful

    It would also help to have mandatory, accurate caller ID that can't be spoofed or monkeyed with.

  9. 18-month sentence on How Activists Tried To Destroy GPS With Axes · · Score: 1

    If anyone did this nowadays they'd be facing 20 years minimum.

  10. Google Maps on The Abandoned Google Project Memorial Page · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I miss Google Maps. The laggy pile of trash they have now makes me go to Bing when I want to map things out now.

  11. It already exists on In 10 Years, Every Human Connected To the Internet Will Have a Timeline · · Score: 1

    We all have a timeline already. Acxiom has been tracking electronic spending and any other records they can get a hold of since 1969. Every adult in a first world country who isn't living off grid is tracked. Your profile is meticulously maintained and sold off to whoever wants it. They can infer women's menstrual cycles and let marketers know the best time to send targeted ads when they are most likely to have success. That is just the tip of the iceberg of the way these big data companies can influence your life.

  12. Re:Two things on Facebook Rant Lands US Man In UAE Jail · · Score: 0

    The Middle East doesn't want or even understand the idea of absolute freedom. They want absolute control and will pay lip service to "Democracy" to maintain the illusion of freedom. Sort of like what the clowns running the US have done.

  13. Re:Seriously? on Star Trek Fans Told To Stop "Spocking" Canadian $5 Bill · · Score: 1

    Looks fit to be Neelixed or Quarked though.

  14. Re:Why not run with it? on Star Trek Fans Told To Stop "Spocking" Canadian $5 Bill · · Score: 1

    Because you need standardized bills that change infrequently to minimize hassles with automatic validators. The validation steps for coins don't require imaging their surface.

  15. Claim 14 on SpaceX's Challenge Against Blue Origins' Patent Fails To Take Off · · Score: 1

    How can a dodgy subordinate claim invalidate the rest of the patent? If it was that easy there'd be a ton of software patents that could be tossed out en masse.

  16. Re:Better get the service manual, then on Mars Curiosity Rover Experiences Short Circuit, Will Be Stationary For Days · · Score: 1

    No. This is all export controlled technology.

  17. Re:So let's give a number scail so we can't self t on Treadmill Performance Predicts Mortality · · Score: 1

    It still seems awfully suspicious that their carefully constrained +/-200 range has an age multiplier of precisely 4. This smells like the use of BMI to gauge individuals when it was only ever meant to be an expedient way to measure populations.

  18. Where do you draw the line on Deutsche Telecom Calls For Google and Facebook To Be Regulated Like Telcos · · Score: 2

    Does Grandma's blog have to be regulated too?

  19. Re:Better idea on Why We Should Stop Hiding File-Name Extensions · · Score: 1

    You can't possibly remember what each and every file type icon is on a typical computer these days. It is also subject to change if you have multiple applications fighting for control of the same types of files. A text extension can give a language parseable hint of what it is without requiring memorization of all possible file types. We are also no longer limited to three characters. Longer extensions are perfectly usable and silly anachronisms like .htm should just be phased out.

  20. Re:New mobile mail on Marissa Mayer On Turning Around Yahoo · · Score: 1

    The Gmail app supports POP and IMAP accounts now. Just use that and evict the Yahoo app.

  21. Re: Well, I guess now we know... on 20-Year-Old Military Weather Satellite Explodes In Orbit · · Score: 1

    All the conic-section fuels are unstable.

    Except for the circle of course.

  22. Ripe for snake oil salesman on Google Wants To Rank Websites Based On Facts Not Links · · Score: 1

    The PBS snake oil salesmen that come out during the periodic beg-athons manage to lie while spewing out facts as half-truths that don't support their entire argument. A machine is unlikely to be able to distinguish these sort of lies never mind the hordes of gullible people that fall for them.

  23. Re:The law makes no allowances for irony. on Craig Brittain (Revenge Porn King) Sues For Use of Image · · Score: 1

    He's not a public figure as his only exposure is through media reporting on his activities. He is, however, a topic of newsworthy reporting and an image is part of that reporting.

  24. Re:White balance and contrast in camera. on Is That Dress White and Gold Or Blue and Black? · · Score: 1

    It's definitely that. I first saw it on the news in a hotel lobby and it was clearly blue and black there. Now, viewing the original stills on my monitor it is blue-tinged white (bad white-balance) and gold. I can get it to shift toward darker blue and gold by changing my viewing angle to the LCD.

  25. Re:IMO, as a beekeeper... on Inventors Revolutionize Beekeeping · · Score: 1

    So I've got to bust my ass to drive to your location and inspect your hives a couple of times a year for $50? No thanks.