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  1. "Never bothered to read the form" on If You're Working For Stock, Read the Fine Print · · Score: 1

    Direct quote from the article.

    How is this "opaque?"

  2. "not air conditioning the gym from 9pm-3am" on Two More Google Software Dogs Go To Heaven · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The fact that people need software to tell them this would save money is sad indeed.

  3. I wonder how much their lawyers are egging them on on Winklevoss Twins To Continue Fighting Facebook · · Score: 1

    After all, their lawyers are the only ones with something to gain in this case.

  4. Isn't that why she became a stay at home mom? on More Users Are Shunning Facebook · · Score: 1

    To be come a part of something bigger and more grand than just my life at some job while someone else raises her kids?

  5. Not just Linux.... on The Ugly State of ARM Support On Linux · · Score: 2

    it is OSS in general with respect to ARM support.

    My God.... the state of Angstrom, BitBake, OpenEmbedded... while the maintainers are doing great work, they are not nearly as stable and mature as established architectures.

    Seriously, check out OpenEmbedded and try to roll that latest Gumstix omap-console-image. Count the number of things that are broken. It is a travesty!

    This kind of shite would NEVER be accepted in a mature x86 based project.

  6. This is what Google gets for using Java on Oracle Thinks Google Owes $6.1 Billion In Damages · · Score: 1, Insightful

    C++ is looking pretty good right about now.

  7. Re:14% increase of $1/hr = $1.14/hr on The End of Cheap Labor In China · · Score: 1

    >> Wow, a whole 14% increase in that per year?

    14% a year is huge.

    My question is how do they control inflation with such fast rising wages?

  8. Re:Fuck 'em both on The End of Cheap Labor In China · · Score: 1

    I am guessing you don't care much for Africa as well.

  9. China didn't last long on The End of Cheap Labor In China · · Score: 1

    Seems like everything was Made in Japan for the longest time... which was then replaced with Made in Taiwan which was the case for not quite so long a time... Made in China is going by the way side relatively quickly.

    After SE ASIA, there is Africa. After that who knows.

  10. Tree Planting? on Aussie Climate Scientists Receiving Death Threats · · Score: 4, Interesting

    FTA: "One researcher told of receiving threats of sexual assault and violence against her children after her photograph appeared in a newspaper article promoting a community tree-planting day as a local action to mitigate climate change."

    Death threats for planting trees? WTF?

  11. Re:In all seriousness on Turning Memories On/Off With the Flip of a Switch · · Score: 4, Informative

    The producers of Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind called. They want their plot back.

  12. Re:Sure they do on 'Dead Media' Never Really Die · · Score: 1

    That is now known as Vorbis you insensitive clod!

  13. Worse mileage, corn lobby on US Senate Votes For Repeal of Ethanol Subsidies · · Score: 1

    Thats all that needs to be said.

  14. Re:Easy Fix on Apple Patents Tech to Stop iPhones Filming in Venues · · Score: 1

    Nope. The IR sensor is integrated into the camera CCD.

  15. Re:AMP? on Microsoft Demos C++ AMP At AMD Developers Summit · · Score: 1

    >> * Only large-scale assembly coding I've ever had to do was for a compilers class, but there was obviously no way around it. Fascinating to learn and do, but I sure hope I'm done with it...

    That is odd. In my compilers class the approach taken was : 1) lex/yacc and 2) bootstrapping

  16. Re:Not that Shady on Wii U Faster Than 360 Or PS3, No Blu-ray Or DVD Support · · Score: 1

    After all, I WANT a shelf full of electronics sitting under my TV.

    That was cool in the 80's.... now, not so much.

  17. Doesn't look so seemless on Microsoft Demos C++ AMP At AMD Developers Summit · · Score: 1

    Based on the code example, it simply looks like they extended cl to include (a form of) nvcc syntax.

    I was hoping they meant a recompile of exiting code would leverage these resources.

    If I want to port all my stuff to CUDA or OpenCL I will do so, and I don't need to lock myself into MS's platform and syntax.

  18. I like engineering on Obama: 'We Don't Have Enough Engineers' · · Score: 1

    I make good money. I like what I do. I can find a job easily in this area. I work inside. I have decent benefits.

    There is a lot I don't like about work - yes engineering gets shit on - but that is life.

  19. Re:Of course you don't. on Obama: 'We Don't Have Enough Engineers' · · Score: 3, Insightful

    >> Why would you want to be an engineer?

    Because I love it.

  20. After a shitty day on EVE Online Targeted By LulzSec · · Score: 5, Funny

    of writing shitty code... for a shitty company... surrounded by shitty coworkers... who think I am just as shitty as they are (haha bitches you are wrong I am NOT as shitty!).... and getting in a shitty traffic jam....

    I just want to go home, take a shit, wipe, and play a dumb space game (that eerily reminds me of Microsoft Excel in some ways) and unwind.

    Is that so much to ask? But no, the cocks have to be themselves.

  21. mdsolar??? on Could the US Phase Out Nuclear Power? · · Score: 1

    THAT sounds pretty impartial to me.

    Not.

  22. I, for one, am so cool b/c I dont use FB on Facebook Facial Recognition Raises New Privacy Concerns · · Score: 1

    It had to be posted, at least 1000 times.

  23. "It's a feature" on Security Service Accidentally Makes Websites 60% Faster · · Score: 1

    Bring on the marketing creatures.

  24. Re:Somewhat Useless Stats on What Cities Want Your IT Skills? · · Score: 1

    Well, they all begin with C...

    Seriously, I mostly agree. C and C++ more easily can be lumped together, C# not so much.

  25. Only skill needed in Washington D.C.... on What Cities Want Your IT Skills? · · Score: 2

    ...your security clearance.

    Oh what's that? You've actually touched a keyboard in the past? That's nice, too.