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  1. Obviously on Ask Slashdot: What Would You Pay To See Open Sourced? · · Score: 1

    The JVM

  2. Re:What's the difference? on Government Spy Truck Is Disguised As A Google Street View Car (vice.com) · · Score: 5, Informative

    The CIA's bogus vaccine incident is well documented

    http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07...

  3. an ethical obligation on How Responsible Are App Developers For Decisions Their Users Make? · · Score: 2

    In the real world "an ethical obligation" is no obligation at all. Nice circlejerk of an article, though.

  4. Surely they meant on Can Tracking Employees Improve Business? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Dehumanyze

  5. If your system really matters on Passwords: Too Much and Not Enough · · Score: 1

    Implement two factor authentication. It's not hard program nowadays and it makes your login system far more resilient to password related fuckups from your users.

  6. Re:I hate this strategy of justifying exploitation on For Game Developers, It's About the Labor of Love · · Score: 1

    A job is done correctly iff the guy in charge is happy with his job done correctly.

    This is a reliable way to fuck up a software project

  7. Re:Suckers on For Game Developers, It's About the Labor of Love · · Score: 4, Interesting

    You've got it all wrong. Programmers and artists get to keep all the love, while the owners of the company get to keep all the money. It's a win-win.

  8. Re:If they are automating tech support, then good. on Outsourced Tech Jobs Are Increasingly Being Automated · · Score: 1

    I need you to tell me something besides "reset the modem"

    "I'm afraid I can't do that"

  9. Re:Repeat after me... on Programming Languages You'll Need Next Year (and Beyond) · · Score: -1, Troll

    Sure, but a programmer that doesn't know CSS is pretty limited!

  10. Re:Not anonymously available on Thousands of Leaked KGB Files Are Now Open To the Public · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Surely you realize that scanning and creating a workable computer index of this material is a huge task

  11. Cue typical Slashdot response on Samsung Apologizes For Workers' Leukemia · · Score: 2, Interesting

    "If they don't like cancer, they're free to find another job!"

  12. Re:get rid of salary pay / make it have a high lev on New French Law Prohibits After-Hours Work Emails · · Score: 1

    If there's no money in fast food, where did such a quantity of restaurants come from? Why is so much spent on advertising and infrastructure? It's huge!

  13. Re:get rid of salary pay / make it have a high lev on New French Law Prohibits After-Hours Work Emails · · Score: 1

    Sorry, that was 1996. I don't think it "forced" anyone to become salaried on its own, but it did give employers the right to deny overtime.

    Between equal rights, force decides; unorganized workers have basically no force compared to the company.

    http://www.generalcounsellaw.c...

  14. Re:get rid of salary pay / make it have a high lev on New French Law Prohibits After-Hours Work Emails · · Score: 4, Insightful

    See what that gets you after a few years when your salary has effectively dropped 5% due to raises failing to keep pace with inflation. Where do you turn when all the jobs in town are shit and your pay is stagnating? There's not always an individual option available.

    At that point, the only option left will be collective action against the company. The only question remaining is how long it will take for tech workers to pull their heads out of their asses and realize that half of them will never afford retirement at the current pace of things.

  15. Re:get rid of salary pay / make it have a high lev on New French Law Prohibits After-Hours Work Emails · · Score: 4, Interesting

    In the 1980's, IBM (among others) invested lots of money to have legislation passed that makes programmers, engineers, and sysadmins into "salaried professionals" so that they wouldn't have to pay overtime.

    The only way that could possibly be reversed is a group larger and more powerful than the owners of tech companies fighting to reverse it; that is to say, the organized tech workers will have fight for our own standard of living. We won't be able to do that until we are actually organized, though. Perhaps the sporadically striking fast food workers who were previously thought to be powerless can set an example for us.

  16. If a computer is important enough to need SELinux on Portal 2 Incompatible With SELinux · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    ...it's probably not something you should use to play games

  17. Pizza place on What Are the Weirdest Places You've Spotted Linux? · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Like many others, I had several shitty jobs during college. One of those jobs was delivering pizzas for Papa John's. Running in the office of our store was a desktop computer with some really locked-down Linux on it that was limited to running some awful console program and a PDF viewer.

  18. the moral of the story on Developer Loses Single-Letter Twitter Handle Through Extortion · · Score: 5, Insightful

    like so many other articles, this just seems like another reminder to never ever use godaddy

  19. Re:Node.js on Real-Time Face Substitution in Javascript · · Score: 1

    How will you take a picture and send it to the server without JS in the browser? Not to mention how much bandwidth that would use...

  20. Re:Or properly learn C++, move to DC on If You Want To Code From Home, Learn JavaScript · · Score: 5, Insightful

    *turns entire countries into catastrophes

  21. Re:Or properly learn C++, move to DC on If You Want To Code From Home, Learn JavaScript · · Score: 4, Funny

    If I'm going to damn my soul, I'd rather find other ways

  22. Re:Stop with JavaScript on Microsoft Adds Node.js Support To Visual Studio · · Score: 3, Informative

    it's so great that it'll allow you to just decide to use some member variable somewhere without declaring it

    Undeclared variables are implicitly global. A code inspector will warn you about mistakes like that!

    there's no way to know the type of a variable

    It should be clear from the way it's used or by the documentation (if it exists). This is true of not only Javascript, but every dynamic language. If that's not good enough, use one of the readily-available and straightforward debuggers. Another quick approach is to just console.log(var)

  23. Re:Stop with JavaScript on Microsoft Adds Node.js Support To Visual Studio · · Score: 1

    "please don't make me learn how to use Javascript properly"

  24. Clicker on Skype Is Evaluating Adding Typing Suppression Feature · · Score: 4, Funny

    Let's see how it deals with my IBM model M keyboard

  25. Re:Cross browser? on Dart 1.0 Released · · Score: 1

    Maybe you don't "get" Google's Dart strategy. It's ActiveX all over again, but with more technical finesse.