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  1. Re:"...the same as trespassing." on Kentucky Man Arrested After Shooting Down Drone · · Score: 1

    Regarding the type of firearm used in this case. It's a shotgun, not anything firing a "bullet".

  2. Re:"...the same as trespassing." on Kentucky Man Arrested After Shooting Down Drone · · Score: 1

    You're a dumbass. When you don't know what you're talking about just shut up.

  3. Stubborn Man on Neil Young Says His Music Is Too Good For Streaming Services · · Score: 3, Funny

    Stubborn man
    better keep your head
    Don't forget
    what your pocketbook said

  4. Re:McLoving Mickey on After Uproar, Disney Cancels Tech Worker Layoffs · · Score: 4, Funny

    Not only that, think of what kind of effect it has on morale......

  5. Re:Thunder on Cloud Boom Drives Sales Boom For Physical Servers · · Score: 1

    You guys talk as though they're be hail to pay.

  6. Re:One of two things on What Happens To Our Musical Taste As We Age? · · Score: 1

    Deadheads narrow? You must not know of their affection for LSD.

  7. Re:Cigars, Scotch, and Sinatra on What Happens To Our Musical Taste As We Age? · · Score: 2

    I hope I never age past this state. The very idea of Lawrence Welk, pre-chewed food, and bingo every week makes me ill.

  8. Re:give up implies it has potential. on What Happens To Our Musical Taste As We Age? · · Score: 1

    Hmm. Where does that leave western?

  9. Re:I know that happened to me. on What Happens To Our Musical Taste As We Age? · · Score: 1

    Exactly. You can't even see Townshend's guitar windmills on tape. Lame.

  10. It can't fail on Is Agile Development a Failing Concept? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    It can't fail cause all of the critics are doing it wrong.

  11. Re:Short Answer on Ask Slashdot: What's the Future of Desktop Applications? · · Score: 1

    Field worker: mobile phone, tablet, or laptop (applications can be native, web-based, or hybrid)
    On-site worker: a combination of several in many cases (native, web-based, or hybrid)

  12. Re:Money for nothing, chicks for free.... on Ask Slashdot: How To Own the Rights To Software Developed At Work? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Indeed. Sounds to me like OP is asking to get fired or blacklisted as soon as management gets wind of the plans. I wouldn't even broach the subject with them. The downsides far outweigh any benefits and if nothing else it's highly unethical.

  13. Re:Plumber on Ask Slashdot: Moving To an Offshore-Proof Career? · · Score: 2

    Barbers will also always be in demand, but at this point that's just splitting hairs.

  14. Re:Plumber on Ask Slashdot: Moving To an Offshore-Proof Career? · · Score: 4, Funny

    Or an electrician, as shocking as that may sound.

  15. Re:MS giving up on mobile development on Windows 10 Can Run Reworked Android and iOS Apps · · Score: 1

    My memory is also failing! You're correct - it was limited to Win16 and Win32S. However, at the time OS/2 2.0 was released all (or nearly all) Windows software was 16 bit. Those 16-bit Windows apps didn't need any SDK, recompile, or anything. They ran as-is.

  16. Re:MS giving up on mobile development on Windows 10 Can Run Reworked Android and iOS Apps · · Score: 1

    Incorrect. IBM provided run-time support for existing Win32 software. No porting, no recompile. Windows was essentially a full-fledged subsystem of OS/2.

  17. Re:Why not do something simple... on Ask Slashdot: What Are the Most Stable Smartphones These Days? · · Score: 1

    I agree about tried and true.

    I don't know if you're serious about radio transceiver as a substitute for a phone. They (radio transceivers) do allow people to communicate, but for the average person it would be a different set of problems for them.

  18. Re:New thinking! on Ask Slashdot: What Are the Most Stable Smartphones These Days? · · Score: 1

    Interesting. Not even for OS upgrades?

  19. Re:Blackberry. on Ask Slashdot: What Are the Most Stable Smartphones These Days? · · Score: 1

    How does the battery life compare to whatever smartphone you had previously (if your previous phone was a smartphone)?

  20. Re:Solution looking for a problem? on Apple Watch Launches · · Score: 1

    I think more likely it'll be iPullMyFinger and will be sound activated by an accelerometer. The scratch-n-sniff model won't be out for another year or two.

  21. Gives new meaning on Swallowing Your Password · · Score: 5, Funny

    Gives new meaning to "I can't find my password in all this shit"

  22. Re:pfsense on Ask Slashdot: Migrating a Router From Linux To *BSD? · · Score: 1

    *nix might not be a good fit for you. Right or wrong, *nix has been this way forever. I doubt there'll be an overnight conversion to something different (even if deemed 'better').

  23. Re:Only for organizations that need a dozen of tho on The Mainframe Is Dead! Long Live the Mainframe! · · Score: 1

    > swallowed by a sinkhole

    Or cratered by an asteroid!

  24. Re:I didn't think they called them that these days on The Mainframe Is Dead! Long Live the Mainframe! · · Score: 1

    My focus had nothing to do with cost -- it was regarding the topic of flexibility.

  25. Re:I didn't think they called them that these days on The Mainframe Is Dead! Long Live the Mainframe! · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I disagree that they're inflexible. Capacity On Demand (COD) gives customers ability to pay for additional capacity (engine/CPU) only while that additional capacity is turned on. A mainframe is typically partitioned into LPARs at bare metal using PR/SM. You can add/remove/rearrange LPAR configurations. Then there is z/VM -- this is IBM's software crown jewel of mainframe software. This is where most shops run virtualized Linux servers. Create, start, stop, reconfigure guests as needed. You can reallocate storage among guests very easily. You can create software-only (virtual) networks for the guests. IBM's latest version of z/VM supports OpenStack. Many other features, these are just the main ones that come to mind. I don't call this inflexible.