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  1. Blue screen of death on Microsoft Wants To Power Self-Driving Cars With Software, Not Build One (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Would be a serious pain in the ass at 65mph.

  2. Exactly how much.... on IT Layoffs At Insurance Firm Are A 'Never-Ending Funeral' (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Does a company pay a worker to slit his own throat?

    Is the check post-dated?

  3. What are they going to do when.... on Former McDonald's USA CEO: $35K Robots Cheaper Than Hiring at $15 Per Hour (foxbusiness.com) · · Score: 1

    The CEO has 100,000 robotic employees and ZERO customers that can afford his products?

  4. Perhaps.... on Employers Struggle To Find Workers Who Can Pass A Drug Test · · Score: 1

    They could try looking for someone OVER 30!

    People OVER 30! Have the required 10+ years of work experience PLUS a good work ethic PLUS they've pretty much done all the drugs they're going to do until arthritis starts hitting their knees.

  5. The Security arm of the United States of Oil will invade to put down the Rebellion.

  6. God developed the universe on Researcher Writes A Machine Language For The Universe (typepad.com) · · Score: 1

    In LISP....with a couple of PERL scripts to tie it all together.

  7. 29 years of sound science on Cellphones Do Not Cause Brain Cancer, Says 29-Year Study (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    Can't possibly be right when compared to a few dozen real believers in an echo chamber.

  8. Gee! I wish someone would pay me $55M to go way. on Yahoo's Marissa Mayer In Line For $55M Severance If Fired Within A Year Of Sale (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Mostly, they just call the cops.

  9. Ageism on Slashdot Asks: Have You Experienced Ageism? (observer.com) · · Score: 1

    I guess you mean every time I find they want someone with 5 years current experience in a language that hasn't been taught in an American College in 30 years. Or put the term "energetic" in the job add. Or when I reply to a recruiter and he offers me a bounty on a COBOL programmer who has just a little less experience than me, because the client will say I am "over qualified". How about being told to train my replacement, so I can be freed for other projects, only to find out the other projects were a myth and "freed" was "allowed to seek other opportunities outside the organization*"

    *one company didn't layoff older workers, they cut off their accounts and access with the idea they should quit before they were fired for their sudden drop in productivity. Layoffs of older workers while hiring younger replacements had to be explained. But locking their accounts out and then firing them with cause because they hadn't written a line of code in weeks didn't.

    No...never seen ageism.

  10. Good luck with that on Senate Bill Draft Would Prohibit Unbreakable Encryption (ap.org) · · Score: 1

    Preventing unbreakable encryption on the Internet is about like passing laws against cockroaches.

  11. Hungry, homeless workers are always the best kind.

  12. Track everyone on Bill Introduced To Require ID When Purchasing "Burner Phones" (house.gov) · · Score: 1

    Because everyone is up to something

  13. Live in a world where he has no employees. So does every other CEO.

    Guess what happens when nobody has any employees.

    Nobody has any customers, either.

  14. No! My Feet aren't wet.... on Sea Rise Could Force Millions In Florida To Adapt Or Flee (miamiherald.com) · · Score: 1

    No! The foundation of my house isn't eroding into the ocean! That's just your imagination. Climate change isn't real! (What's this jellyfish doing in my yard?)

  15. Is it about Frigid Women? on Reason Excoriates Paper On "Glaciers, Gender, and Science" (reason.com) · · Score: 1

    Just askin'

  16. Take your lips off Ayn Rand's dead, but still thoroughly delusional ass. If, as an employer, your employees are not making a living wage, then you are stealing their time and my tax/charity money as we must make up the difference to prevent them fom starving or thieving.

    If, by and large, your employees are bordering on homelessness and starvation, your business is a burden on society.

  17. FIRE BAD!

  18. Yeah. That's gonna work. :-|

    For about 30 seconds. Then all the haters will change their key words and tricky phrases and go on hating at people.

    FOR EXAMPLE: I can say "YOU'RE AN IDIOT!" or I can say "You have the intellectual capacity of an atrophied amoeba."

  19. How to pronounce the big words, but doesn't know what they mean.

  20. This is enforceable under federal law

  21. And conversely, a huge number of people thought Apollo 13 was implausible. Wonder if there are any crossover idiots?

  22. Happened to me on American IT Workers Increasingly Alleging Discrimination · · Score: 1

    I applied at a company advertising for programmers at the State Unemployment Office--at a rate of $10/hr. I thought it was ridiculously low, but I was jobless at the time, and the place was less than a mile from my house in a small (grungy) industrial park, so I said, WTH.

    I applied. Heard nothing. Did some digging to find a phone number a few days latter to "Follow up" and was summarily dismissed with "We're not hiring any Americans".

    I relayed my "interview" outcome to the Unemployment office and was told They already KNEW! They just weren't allowed to use resources to deal with the problem. Said to wait to complain until we had a Democrat in the Governor's and State Attorney General's office.

  23. Beware of my Lawyer PEEPLE! on Yelp For People To Launch In November · · Score: 1

    I'll have the Law Guy on speed dial.

    The first negative (or less than 100% positive) review and I'll have him jump in the middle of you with both feet and a briefcase full of dirty legal briefs.

    I'll either end up fabulously wealthy at your expense, or you'll go out of business.

  24. Susceptible to baffling with bullshit on The Case Against Non-technical Managers · · Score: 1

    A few years ago, I worked at a company where a staffing shakeup sent the manager of the IT department (no, we didn't have a CIO) packing. The guy who was put in charge of herding us cats was a manager from Marketing who was called "Special Ed" by the MARKETING Department!

    The poor man was eaten alive.

  25. Warthog on F-35 To Face Off Against A-10 In CAS Test · · Score: 1

    The A-10 was designed to fly low and slow to provide CAS. It's not going to win a beauty prize or a dogfight in the air. Anything on the ground is in a world of hurt, however. The underside of the cockpit is specially armored to protect the pilot from ground based fire. It can effectively disassemble a tank from several hundred yards away and play hell with dug in ground targets.

    It has ONE JOB and it does it VERY WELL, thank you.