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  1. Re:Nothing is ever that simple on Bill Gates's Plan To Improve Our World · · Score: 0

    The needs belief fulfilled don't exist anymore. We don';t need to grasp blindly and any reason for something, we have science.

    " Absence of religion would not simply make the world a better place on it's own, something else would take the place, both good and bad, that religion serves .
    No, that's not true at all.

    Tenants of religion underlines and enhances most of societies ill on the global level.

    " "If god did not exist it would be necessary to invent him"
    We did invent him, but we don't live in caves fearfull of lightning. We don't need to have one leader in order to survive.

  2. Re:Most of the problems listed have a single cause on Bill Gates's Plan To Improve Our World · · Score: 1

    True. Your point?

  3. Re:What took so long? on Apple II DOS Source Code Released · · Score: 4, Insightful

    ", I just wish there was a popular 8-bit machine out there for the young'ns to get them started.
    That's like saying people need to learn to drive on a model T.

    My kids had no problem getting started on modern hardware.

  4. Re:5 minutes a day on Ask Slashdot: Communication Skills For Programmers? · · Score: 1

    Daily scrums are invaluable for any team greater then 5.

  5. Re:Default ding. on Ask Slashdot: Communication Skills For Programmers? · · Score: 1

    " If there is, how do you think he'll react to being spammed daily by someone he can walk over to and scream at?"

    Hopefully professionally and not like an unprofessional passive aggressive asshole like you.

  6. Re:Default ding. on Ask Slashdot: Communication Skills For Programmers? · · Score: 1

    By definition, poor communication means he doesn't play well with others.

    Playing well depends on good communication

  7. Re:Default ding. on Ask Slashdot: Communication Skills For Programmers? · · Score: 1

    Are you kidding? A good morning stand up if extremely helpful and productive.

  8. Re:Default ding. on Ask Slashdot: Communication Skills For Programmers? · · Score: 1

    I started doing it as well. Walking into a review and being able to list specifically what I worked on tended to blow the manager way and resulted in a higher than average raise/bonus.

  9. Re:Hold on on Judge: No Privacy Expectations For Data On P2P Networks · · Score: 1

    They probably didn't argue that because that wasn't the case. Weev had to do spoofing to get the data.

  10. Re:"Available for public download" - AT&T and on Judge: No Privacy Expectations For Data On P2P Networks · · Score: 1

    It doesn't require mind reading to know they don't want to having the files when you have to lie about who you are to get to them.

  11. Re:"Available for public download" - AT&T and on Judge: No Privacy Expectations For Data On P2P Networks · · Score: 1

    WeeV's script was a spoof to gain access.

    "If you fail to put any authentication on it, then yes. How else is the web supposed to function?"
    AT&Ts site DID have authentication. WeeV wrote a script to lie about who he was. i.e. spoof.

    "If you post your credit card number on a public website, then yes it's totally fair game for me to download that information. Using that information to commit fraud is still illegal of course."

    Only if by public you mean anyone can openly connect by design, then you are correct. Just being on a webserver that is used by the public is different.

  12. Re:"Available for public download" - AT&T and on Judge: No Privacy Expectations For Data On P2P Networks · · Score: 2

    WeeV had to lie in order to gain access to the information.,
    That's the difference.

  13. Re:"Available for public download" - AT&T and on Judge: No Privacy Expectations For Data On P2P Networks · · Score: 1

    You know they had to do spoofing to get that information, right?
    In other words, they had to trick(lie to) the server into thinking they where the iPad owner.

    If AT&T had simple left a file with all the info in it on a public site that any person could get to it, there would have been no legal consequences for WeeV

  14. Re:Communication is my #1 skill when hiring debs on Ask Slashdot: Communication Skills For Programmers? · · Score: 1

    "Communication skills"
    if you can't teach communication skills, I doubt your ability to actually teach anything .

  15. Re:hold your tongue on Ask Slashdot: Communication Skills For Programmers? · · Score: 1

    "Best thing I can say is be a good servant. "
    Fuck you.

    ". The time you spend at work belongs to your employer,"
    No, it's my time. Time I sell to the employer in exchange for providing services for my employer. at exactly no point it is their time.

    You mentality is a master/slave mentality.

  16. You are talking about two things on Ask Slashdot: Communication Skills For Programmers? · · Score: 1

    Communication. The is how you word things, posture, presentation, clarity. For this, take some classes. Usually local community classes offer something, and since you manager says it needs work, I feel the company should pay for the class and give you time off.
    Good communication is critical to your career, long term. While coders live in a meritocracy, business does not.

    The other is keeping people informed of your project - This could be as simple as a blog you update every day.

  17. Re:Lead on Sweden Is Closing Many Prisons Due to Lack of Prisoners · · Score: 1

    That would only be clever and have a point if you followed it up with something the counters the dozens of studies that link lead to violent crime.

    Just post that makes you a tosser.

    Start here and maybe you will learn something
    http://www.ricknevin.com/uploads/Nevin_2000_Env_Res_Author_Manuscript.pdf

  18. Re:Lead on Sweden Is Closing Many Prisons Due to Lack of Prisoners · · Score: 1
  19. Re:Lead on Sweden Is Closing Many Prisons Due to Lack of Prisoners · · Score: 1

    Another being the availability of 24/7 TV with a lots of options and computers.
    People have things to do in the home instead of of being bored and roaming the streets.

  20. Re:Debate over on US FDA Moves To Ban Trans Fat · · Score: 1

    Yes, I love my 'choice' when walking down the street breathing 2nd hand smoke

  21. Re:Amazing on Monkeys Use Minds To Control Avatar Arms · · Score: 1

    "using my mind!"
    doubtful...

  22. Get your virtual hands off me on Monkeys Use Minds To Control Avatar Arms · · Score: 1

    you damn dirty ape!

  23. Re:Why San Francisco? on Internet Archive's San Francisco Home Badly Damaged By Fire · · Score: 3, Informative

    overdue as in, past the statistical average point.
    It's not like a clock.

    And they back up out of state.

    The Rocky Mountains have storms, floods, and a lack of talent.

  24. Re:Donations? on Internet Archive's San Francisco Home Badly Damaged By Fire · · Score: 2

    Insurance doesn't cover the man time to get everything working again, as well as other ancillary costs.

  25. Re:visible from space on Scientists Says Jellyfish Are Taking Over the Oceans · · Score: 2

    explain to be how the plane isn't occupying a space...