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  1. Re:Like foreign aid on Obama Wants $1 Billion For "Master Teachers Corps" · · Score: 1

    Must be that HOT or OBE Math.

  2. Re:Reward good behavior? on Obama Wants $1 Billion For "Master Teachers Corps" · · Score: 1

    And anyone who even a little bit honest with themselves have to admit they have seen both types of teachers when they were in school.

    But...this program won't work. It is doomed from the start simply by virtue of it being sponsored by the very same people who destroyed the current system.

  3. Re:Reward good behavior? on Obama Wants $1 Billion For "Master Teachers Corps" · · Score: 0

    It is ironic that the Democrats/Leftists/Progressives want to try to fix the educational system now when they have owned it lock, stock, and barrel since the sixties.

    EVERYTHING that is wrong with it now is the result of THEIR policies.

  4. Re:critical thinking on Obama Wants $1 Billion For "Master Teachers Corps" · · Score: 2, Insightful

    The only people who don't understand that the document is expressing opposition to fake methodologies that focus on making the students feel good and are ineffective at teaching, are those who evidently went to a school teaching these methodologies.

  5. Re:Criminal background check on Washington State To Allow Voter Registration Over Facebook · · Score: 1

    Convicted criminals should not be able to get guns.

    Ineligible voters should not be able to vote.

    Any questions?

  6. Re:Getting people out to vote in the US is a good. on Washington State To Allow Voter Registration Over Facebook · · Score: 1

    You want people with Alzheimer's to vote?

  7. Re:Getting people out to vote in the US is a good. on Washington State To Allow Voter Registration Over Facebook · · Score: 1

    As far as I'm concerned, if you can't be bothered to register to vote in a timely manner then we don't need you voting.

    Voting is a responsibility and it requires a bit more effort than sucking down a soda and munching on Cheetos on your front porch.

  8. Re:Lovely on Washington State To Allow Voter Registration Over Facebook · · Score: 1

    They never really look for voter fraud. Even if they did, you can only infer it unless someone actually tries to vote and can't because the log shows they already have. Or, you can infer fraud by looking at the number of people who voted using "provisional" ballots or just look at the vote totals that exceed registered voters. So, their assertions are meaningless.

    Photo ID is the only way to have an impact.

    But as BMO points out, the real problem is corrupted (*Cough*Chicago*) officials and determined organizations (*cough*Unions).

  9. Re:Executive Branch sidestepping Legislative Branc on How NY Gov. Cuomo Sidesteps Freedom of Information Requests With His Blackberry · · Score: 2

    All Cuomo really had to do was sign an executive order. Everybody knows those overrule legislation now.

  10. Re:Agreed on Modest Proposal For Stopping Hackers: Get Them Girlfriends · · Score: 5, Funny

    For a teenager, a couple of minutes is stretching it a bit.

  11. Re:When did this happen? on NBC Purchases MSNBC Rights From Microsoft · · Score: 1

    I wonder if they'll edit the tapes to make it look like people who lost, won and people who won, lost. Then they'll claim some controversy based on that.

  12. Old School Method on New Analyst Report Calls Agile a Scam, Says It's An Easy Out For Lazy Devs · · Score: 1

    The way I was taught is old school but has always served me much better that all these fancy new approaches...which are actually cherry picked and corrupted versions of parts of the old school...

    1. Walk in their shoes. How can you hope to provide a solution for their needs unless you really understand their needs...hint, their needs are usually only part of what they tell you.

    2. Know where they are going. You have to understand the direction the organization wants to go, because you have to build into your solution the flexibility to get there.

    3.Know your self. Don't promise what you can't deliver. Ten years ago, someone might have said having a "Siri" interface is what they want. Some things are not timeline and budget feasible.

    4.Live up to your title. Being an "Analyst" does not mean document what they are doing and automate it. Understand what they are doing and why (see #1) but then go the extra step and recognize ways to improve the business process, eliminate unnecessary steps, redirect resources to more productive goals.

    5.Analysts are developers and developers are analysts. Good people can do both jobs and can do them at the same time. Monkeys are for writing novels. Every question you have about what needs to be done should be accompanied by "why" it needs to be done.

  13. Re:You get what you pay/wait for on New Analyst Report Calls Agile a Scam, Says It's An Easy Out For Lazy Devs · · Score: 1

    AT&T DSL service.

    AT&T Data services (for phones).

  14. Re:Can Mars ever hope to be self-sustaining? on Ask Joseph Palaia About Building Lunar Machines and Living On Mars · · Score: 1

    Right...

    Companies can't even mine deposits off the ocean floor without scads of people getting their panties in a twist about who "owns" the resources or environmental impacts. Just think what the cluster fuck of jurisdictions would be saying about mining something on mars and bringing it back.

    The paperwork would outweigh, literally, whatever ore or refined products you brought back.

  15. Re:Reminds me of a riddle on ISP 'Six Strikes' Plan Delayed · · Score: 1

    Six Strikes

    There comes a time when baseball analogies cease to make sense.

  16. Re:Facebook is a public place on Facebook Scans Chats and Posts For Criminal Activity · · Score: 2, Informative

    1. It reflects the mentality of a once 13 year old girl's father.
    2. If you had, you should be prosecuted for statutory rape and then experience the flip side of the relationship with a large man named Tyrone while serving 10-20 years.
    3. If you were so lucky, then she should also be sent to jail.

    And if she were my daughter, then yes, I would condemn you to castration and death by hanging. But that's just a Dad speaking.

  17. Re:Facebook is a public place on Facebook Scans Chats and Posts For Criminal Activity · · Score: 1

    True Dat.

  18. Re:Facebook is a public place on Facebook Scans Chats and Posts For Criminal Activity · · Score: 1

    I think the ability to read posts and chats are required simply from a support perspective. How can any of their guys troubleshoot problems without seeing customer data?

    Perhaps the issue is if they are held to some kind of confidentiality agreement lick Doctors and Lawyers.

    Interesting.

  19. Re:Facebook is a public place on Facebook Scans Chats and Posts For Criminal Activity · · Score: 5, Interesting

    So AT&T can listen to your phone conversations and read your text messages? It all goes through their "Servers" (infrastructure in this case).

    Saying FaceBook is a public place means that their Privacy settings are irrelevant. Or does Private not mean Private anymore?

    As much as men who molest 13 year girls should be castrated and hung, Facebook shouldn't be doing this unless they make clear in the Terms (and I'd say in big notifications when you sign up) that they will watch what you do and if anything looks suspicious, they'll report you.

  20. Re:Why do they even need the cloud? on Feds: We Need Priority Access To Cloud Resources · · Score: 2

    Exactly. Any moron who puts critical government functions in "the cloud" ( a stupid marketing term for someone else's servers) should be fired.

  21. Re:Oh grow up on Melinda Gates Pledges $560 Million For Contraception · · Score: 1

    Slashdot is humor impaired this morning.

  22. Re:Buying Windows does some good in the world! on Melinda Gates Pledges $560 Million For Contraception · · Score: 0

    Bill Gates has mod points! Look out!

  23. Re:Buying Windows does some good in the world! on Melinda Gates Pledges $560 Million For Contraception · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    BIll had tens of billions of dollars and she was the best he could find??

    He should be married to some Sports Illustrated swimsuit model or a Victoria's Secret model.

  24. Re:It's only a flesh wound on Nature: Global Temperatures Are a Falling Trend · · Score: 0

    Hey, Your sister called. She's going to be with me tonight. I won't be thinking of you when I'm boning her.

    Your mama wanted some but she's too ugly. I hear you take after her.

  25. Re:Headline should say... on Nature: Global Temperatures Are a Falling Trend · · Score: 1

    It's really very simple.

    The data shows it has happened in the past. Yes?

    During those times, CO2 was low Yes?

    It happening now and CO2 is high. Yes?

    Warming happened without high CO2 levels it's happening with high CO2 levels.

    What does that tell you? That maybe CO2 has little to do with it?

    Go ahead, take you ball and run home to mamma. While you are there, try to think about this some.