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  1. Re:Rubber Duck Programming on Why Some Developers Are Live-Streaming Their Coding Sessions · · Score: 2

    Precisely. Rubber Duck is now video camera.

  2. or The Matrix... Speaking of which I need to practice hiding from Agent Smith and HR.
    So what other good "Take this job and shove it" movies are there? List begins here:

  3. Re:Not always clever. on Ask Slashdot: What Happened To Semantic Publishing? · · Score: 1

    What's that a big problem with semantic ads when they first came out?
    People would go look at a news article for a someone that had been burned to death and get ads for BBQs.
    If it's the same thing that is.

  4. Looked it over very thoroughly on The First Billion-Pixel Mosaic of Mars · · Score: 4, Funny

    and I've already found 3 signs of alien intelligence and a rare Martian Sasquatch footprint.

  5. Re:Synopsis on Bill Nye Disses "Regular" Software Writers' Science Knowledge · · Score: 1

    Maybe conoviator is practicing for an exciting career in creating clickbait articles for Upworthy and Buzzfeed?

  6. Re:Tsk. And they wonder where employee loyalty wen on Massive Layoff Underway At IBM · · Score: 1

    Our company bought their shitting dev stack. RAD, WID, WAS... Somebody is going on golfing vacations to Scotland and it's not me.

  7. Re:Perhaps at last an affordable mini PC? on Tiny Fanless Mini-PC Runs Linux Or Windows On Quad-core AMD SoC · · Score: 1

    Sinofsky?

  8. Re:Not too bad on Titan's Dunes Took Tens of Thousands of Years To Form · · Score: 1

    If all we had was millions of people with shovels it would be cheaper to produce as well.

  9. Re:These idiots are going to ruin it for everyone on Drone Sightings Near Other Aircraft Up Dramatically · · Score: 1

    They need to keep that excuse in place to explain their UFO sightings.

  10. Re:Overreach... on Undersized Grouper Case Lands In Supreme Court · · Score: 1

    Pretty sure this crime is already covered under Obstruction of Justice. Why do prosecutors do this? Do they get extra money, a career boost, what?
    Worse, overreach by prosecutors results in criminals not being held accountable for their actions.

  11. Re:Wrong headline on Steve Ballmer Gets Billion-Dollar Tax Write-Off For Being Basketball Baron · · Score: 1

    It's not jealousy, it's a fear of plutocracy.
    People with money understand that if someone else has money, their money becomes less valuable, so they change the laws and lobby government to keep other people from getting rich.
    Example: copyright laws being stretched over and over again to keep corporate cash cows from falling into public domain. Disney and their mouse. Submarine patents. Net Anti-neutrality.
    I remember a story of how Apple successfully sued an ex-employee for starting a new business because he had obviously thought of the idea for the business while working at Apple.
    *Thought of*, they sued him over his thoughts, not that he left with a pile of paper or a floppy disk.
    Hey, if you can hire an army of lawyers for millions of dollars, you to can win every court battle.

  12. Why I think this is hooey. on Automation Coming To Restaurants, But Not Because of Minimum Wage Hikes · · Score: 1

    The idea of the Automat has been around since the start of the 1900's. It did little to affect the employment landscape for fast food workers.
    So I'll worry about those grease stained robot overlords when they can figure out how to load their own ingredient bins, until then, cough up the $15/hr McD's.

  13. Re:This was predicted ages ago. on Europol Predicts First Online Murder By End of This Year · · Score: 1

    Datamining...... Ok, a dump truck load of German scheisse porn is on it's way to you now.

  14. Worse is Better doesn't mean that. on Fighting the Culture of 'Worse Is Better' · · Score: 1

    I never heard the term before, had to wiki it, then realized it was a fundamental of software engineering that I was taught decades ... ago :( so old
    Don't create app functionality that the user won't use. More bells and whistles mean more dev time, test time and more to maintain, it's a simple concept.
    That's why apps now have functionality metrics (Firefox seems really big on it for example).

  15. Re:This was predicted ages ago. on Europol Predicts First Online Murder By End of This Year · · Score: 1

    My plan, I would data mine you to figure out what fast food outlets you like and if you have any addictions.
    Then send you free bacon cheeseburgers, cigarettes, venti coffee that's pure espresso shots. Whatever you have trouble saying no to the most.
    It would kill you, eventually, unless you started exercising, eating right, and maybe a trip to a detox clinic.

  16. Re:Apparently the trolls are out here, too on Anita Sarkeesian, Creator of "Tropes vs. Women," Driven From Home By Trolls · · Score: 1

    Wow... I totally had the demographics wrong for SlashDot.

  17. This is just like that movie on DARPA Uses Preteen Gamers To Beta Test Tomorrow's Military Software · · Score: 1

    where children fight wars for adults like it was some kind of video game..... I think it was called Star Wars - Episode I.

  18. Re:The Last Starfighter on DARPA Uses Preteen Gamers To Beta Test Tomorrow's Military Software · · Score: 2

    You deserve extra points for not saying Ender's Game.

  19. Re:What's a reboot? on Babylon 5 May Finally Get a Big-Screen Debut · · Score: 1

    From Lost I learned to fear the name Damon Lindelof. Anything he "writes" is just a trail mix of tropes with Christian mythos on top.
    Examples: Lost; plot elements get introduced but then never explained or removed if they interfere with the new ones. The entire show ends in a church because the island is Heaven see... The smoke monster was Satan and the polar bear was John the Baptist..... No it's just shit. He re-wrote the script for Prometheus and by that I mean he changed a few hings so it didn't make any sense. Remember the nerd rage because they could of had that alien base on the same planet that Ripley landed on because that would of made sense and connected the two movies visually. Nope, fuck that, this is a new type of alien it's not even related to those Giger ones. Or is it? Nope it's not. HA HA suck it loyal fans of the original movie. Also it goes by fast but the scientist says the alien on the floor has been dead for 2000 years. So something happened on Earth ~2000 years ago that made them want to kill all live on Earth.... Jebus was an Engineer?

  20. Re:Go figure. on LinkedIn Busted In Wage Theft Investigation · · Score: 1

    Agreed and I'm guessing the talented people that left weren't responsible for this screw-up: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2...

  21. Re:Finally! on Judge: US Search Warrants Apply To Overseas Computers · · Score: 1

    Microsoft is not a Chinese company nor is it Irish. Your straw man needs a little more padding.

  22. Re:No matter how common you think it is... on Ask Slashdot: When Is It Better To Modify the ERP vs. Interfacing It? · · Score: 1

    So they don't have anything to do with central vacuum systems?

  23. Re:As someone who played D&D in the 1980s, on How Gygax Lost Control of TSR and D&D · · Score: 4, Funny

    Wives: Gail Carpenter Gygax (m. 1987–2008), Mary Jo Powell (m. 1958–1983) ... If the stories of how marriage works are true, then you are correct.

  24. Re:It happened before on How a Solar Storm Two Years Ago Nearly Caused a Catastrophe On Earth · · Score: 2

    It was serendipitous that Quebec did get hit by that to. Afterwards they put in a lot of newer systems in case of a repeat event,
    which occurred on 2003 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northeast_blackout_of_2003) caused by a software bug. Anyone in Quebec and to the east of them weren't affected.

  25. Dr. Theopolis to interview room 3 on Researchers Design Bot To Conduct National Security Clearance Interviews · · Score: 1

    Hurry up Twinkie! http://propaholics.wolfchasers...
    *biddy biddy*