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  1. Re:In other words... on How Bill Nye Insulted NASCAR Fans About the Sport Being the "Anti-NASA" (examiner.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    Oh boy, here we go...

  2. Re:SO... on This October Was the Hottest Ever Measured (scienceblogs.com) · · Score: 1

    It's clear that somebody wants energy to be more expensive

    And this is Slashdot, where calls to increase the gas tax are ubiquitous.

  3. Listen Up Geek Managers... on Could a Change In Wording Attract More Women To Infosec? (csoonline.com) · · Score: 1

    ...You have to go out to meet hot women. You can't count on hiring them.

  4. Re:The leftist agenda on Grow Your Daily Protein At Home With an Edible Insect Desktop Hive · · Score: 1

    I'm thinking stroke or partial seizure.

  5. Re:It's even worse than that now. on 737 'Tailstrike' Caused By Typo On a Tablet (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Umm...Tail Strikes on take off are caused by over rotation.

    Regardless, seems to me that pilots calculating the take off weight is anachronistic. Manufacturers can easily incorporate weight sensing devices into the gear. Or, weight sensors could be incorporated into a Wheel Chock device. There is no reason for guesstimates.

  6. The NRA opposes the very concept of needing a license to license to own a weapon. Which makes sense, because you don't need a license to post on Slashdot or publish a news paper.

  7. ...The can just fucking upgrade their networks.

  8. Re:National level? on Bill Confirming Property Rights For Asteroid Miners Passes the Senate (examiner.com) · · Score: 2

    One of the methods of mining them are to bring them back to earth orbit for processing. If a bunch of PhDs can crash a satellite into Mars, company engineers can crash an asteroid into the earth.

  9. Re:National level? on Bill Confirming Property Rights For Asteroid Miners Passes the Senate (examiner.com) · · Score: 1

    If you fetched them, you own them.

  10. Re:National level? on Bill Confirming Property Rights For Asteroid Miners Passes the Senate (examiner.com) · · Score: 2

    What government entity can possibly claim jurisdiction over asteroids or any other object in space?

    What they SHOULD be doing is making it clear that if you mine an asteroid, and then accidentally drop it on a city, you are going to jail.

  11. Re:Truly. on Dorms For Grownups: a Solution For Lonely Millennials? · · Score: 1

    And then pay off their student loans.

  12. Re:2015 Passat tdi owner on VW Engineers Have Admitted Manipulating CO2 Emissions Data (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    I wonder.

    If you purchased the vehicle in good faith and the state says you can't use it anymore, is that an illegal taking, requiring compensation? What if a fridge or AC manufacturer did something similar? Can the State force you to purchase a new fridge or new AC for your home? What if the manufacturer is no longer in business or is bankrupted so you can't get compensated from them?

    Is it tough shit for you? Is that how you treat people who probably paid, on average, to get cleaner burning car? Does CA get to say "Fuck you, go spend another $60?"

  13. Re:Something something question in headline equals on Should Programmers Be Called Engineers? (theatlantic.com) · · Score: 1

    Only when they have to take a test to be certified as a Software Engineer and then are held legally liable for their mistakes.

  14. Re:He's an Idiot. on GE CTO On Moving 9,000 Apps To the Public Cloud · · Score: 1

    The advantage to being an old man is that you've gone through bullshit like this before and know how it turns out. Idiot executives who do these kinds of things NEVER think it through past the next quarter. When things go sideways they look for other people to blame and WE get to pick up the pieces.

    Hell, right out of college I worked for an Aerospace company made up of several divisions. Just as I got there, they decided to combine all the divisional databases into one. Then a year later, they wanted to split them back up. Two years after that, combine them again. Luckily, we only commented out code so the second time was easy. But what drove it each time was a new moron executive.

  15. He's an Idiot. on GE CTO On Moving 9,000 Apps To the Public Cloud · · Score: 1, Troll

    First, any executive that utters the word "Cloud" is a moron. A CTO, CIO, etc who utters the word "cloud" is a fucking moron. "Cloud" is a marketing word for other people's servers.

    Second moving Enterprise applications off of the company's servers is stupid and reckless. Security, accessibility, up time, backups, integrity, etc. are in the control of a company that makes its living by cutting corners and economizing. And if any of them are defense related, probably illegal.

    Third, this moron "executive" is probably just trying to reduce head count and infrastructure costs, looking toward the next fucking quarterly results and doesn't intend on being around a year or two from now when it all comes crashing down.

  16. Re:First salvo! on New Star Trek TV Series Coming In 2017 (hollywoodreporter.com) · · Score: 1

    I bet that's on Pornhub.

  17. Re:10 years was a decent rest on New Star Trek TV Series Coming In 2017 (hollywoodreporter.com) · · Score: 2

    Kinda like the opposite of Waterboarding.

  18. Re:10 years was a decent rest on New Star Trek TV Series Coming In 2017 (hollywoodreporter.com) · · Score: 1

    No, I mean like a TV show

  19. Re:Who is to say that this "list" is legit at all? on Anonymous Begins Publishing Ku Klux Klan Member Details Online · · Score: 2

    I have documents that show you are not only a member of the KKK, but also a pedophile.

    What controls do you think should have been applied to that statement?

  20. Re:First salvo! on New Star Trek TV Series Coming In 2017 (hollywoodreporter.com) · · Score: 1

    Kaylee - Your friend's little sister you want to do.

  21. Re:Social Justice Warrioring on New Star Trek TV Series Coming In 2017 (hollywoodreporter.com) · · Score: 0

    75% chance there will be an outwardly Gay character or maybe an alien who is all three sexes at once.

  22. Re:First salvo! on New Star Trek TV Series Coming In 2017 (hollywoodreporter.com) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    You two must be Gay.

    T'Pol was HOT. So was Hoshi Sato

  23. Re:10 years was a decent rest on New Star Trek TV Series Coming In 2017 (hollywoodreporter.com) · · Score: 1

    I did tire of them always getting their asses kicked.

  24. No Shit Sherlock on US Government IT Outsourcing Is Poorly Managed (cio.com) · · Score: 1

    I didn't see THAT coming!

  25. Re:One interesting thing he can do on Revisiting Why Johnny Can't Code: Have We "Made the Print Too Small"? · · Score: 4, Informative

    Actually, he can't edit a fucking comment once posted.