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  1. Re:The privatization fetish on Trump Wants To Modernize Air Travel By Turning Over Control To the Big Airlines (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    But is that what the government actually wants? Why would I want more parking inside the city? I could well want that people park outside of town and move into town with public transport to increase the quality of life for people living inside. I could even want shops inside the city to close and move to the outskirts where it's easier to build shopping centers with parking spaces.

    If you insist in running your town like a company, at least run it like a large one. Just because service A is more expensive doesn't mean that it's bad management, it can well be that this way they can save more than the "squandered" money on service B.

  2. How long have you been following politics that you still wonder whether they're drunk?

  3. Portugal also has no private prison system.

  4. How many days in the "war on terror" is that?

  5. Re: "Feel uncomfortable"? on Why Women Devs Are Hard To Recruit and Even Harder To Keep (windowsitpro.com) · · Score: 1

    The solution for this is easy: Boss, this person, or us. You can make the choice, but you'll make it NOW.

    The fun part about working in ITsec is that there is nobody here who can't get a new job by snapping their fingers.

  6. Re:/., pls fck off already on Why Women Devs Are Hard To Recruit and Even Harder To Keep (windowsitpro.com) · · Score: 1

    In my experience, if someone wants to be offended by something you say to play the victim card, they will find something. So trying to tapdance around it and not "offend" is fruitless.

    Appeasement never works.

  7. I'll just wait on Price-gouging Maker of EpiPen Literally Said That Critics Can Go Fuck Themselves (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    At some point, this orifice at the negative end of the esophagus will be responsible for the untimely demise of a person who is mourned by someone with a rather low tolerance for bullshit of this kind, and this person of limited longanimity will rip said orifice a suitable replacement for the aforementioned orifice.

    Preferably slowly, painfully and streamed via a service that many people can enjoy.

    And nothing of value will be lost. Except maybe the YouTube video of it.

  8. Re:"Feel uncomfortable"? on Why Women Devs Are Hard To Recruit and Even Harder To Keep (windowsitpro.com) · · Score: 1

    The very need of having a written code of conduct usually means that the work environment is SO toxic that the non-written laws of common courtesy have left the building ages ago.

    THIS is why I wouldn't want to have something like that anywhere near what I'm working on.

  9. Re:Now that's interesting, and maybe the answer on Why Women Devs Are Hard To Recruit and Even Harder To Keep (windowsitpro.com) · · Score: 1

    Hmm... I had female project managers and male programmers working for them. Those projects usually went pretty well...

    I think you're onto something here.

  10. Re:I think it more on Why Women Devs Are Hard To Recruit and Even Harder To Keep (windowsitpro.com) · · Score: 1

    Question for 100: When I try to get a project done, would I want someone who feels he has to prove himself or someone who wants to get into a social group?

  11. Re:Now that's interesting, and maybe the answer on Why Women Devs Are Hard To Recruit and Even Harder To Keep (windowsitpro.com) · · Score: 1

    Yes, it looks like men prefer to see their work being used, the only times the "male" dots are located outside the error margins of the "female" ones (due to a low sample size, I'd assume) is the "feel good" reasons, though.

    And, bluntly, while I can't really say I don't give a fuck how my coworkers feel about working together, I also can't say that I feel it should be a major issue. We're here to get a project off the ground, not to rub our shoulders and tell each other our lifetime stories.

  12. Now that's interesting, and maybe the answer on Why Women Devs Are Hard To Recruit and Even Harder To Keep (windowsitpro.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    The answer to the question why people might prefer men to women when it comes to working on a code project.

    May I refer you to figure 3 of the article. Yes, I know, RTFA is not very Slashdott-y, but bear with me. Could you? Thank you. We see the differences in men and women when it comes to what's important to them in a project they want to participate in. What we can see in the figure is that values like Responsive Maintainers, License or Development progress are pretty much on par with both sexes when it comes to importance.

    Looking at values like "welcoming community", "contribution guide" or "code of conduct", you will see a distinct difference in the value men and women attribute to them, with women putting considerably more emphasis on these things.

    In other words, at least this is my interpretation and please, I would very much enjoy hearing yours, women want to "feel good" while working on a project, while men don't give a fuck about that and just want to get shit done.

  13. Without reading the "study": Because they keep wasting time doing surveys nobody gives a fuck about instead of writing code?

  14. Re:/., pls fck off already on Why Women Devs Are Hard To Recruit and Even Harder To Keep (windowsitpro.com) · · Score: 1

    Really? You did care at some point?

    Mind if I ask why?

  15. Re:"Feel uncomfortable"? on Why Women Devs Are Hard To Recruit and Even Harder To Keep (windowsitpro.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    If a project needs a Code of Conduct, I don't want to be part of that project.

  16. Re:Another way to put it? on Why Women Devs Are Hard To Recruit and Even Harder To Keep (windowsitpro.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    Linus could've fooled me...

  17. Re:Will this help or hurt? on Hackers Leak Eight Episodes of An Unreleased ABC Show (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm mostly arguing that a conspiracy is more likely than anyone giving enough of a fuck about a show starring someone nobody wants to see to go out of their way to steal it.

  18. Re:Are the hackers trying to hurt ABC or us? on Hackers Leak Eight Episodes of An Unreleased ABC Show (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 1

    Yup. Mostly because pretty much everything he tried to do was shot down by Congress, Senate or some upper level court, but if you only look at the results and now how they came into existence, nobody can deny that: Trump doesn't know enough about politics to fuck the system up. Obama knew too much and was unfortunately very good at it, and we can only imagine what Clinton could have done with her knowledge of the political process.

    Still... I somehow can't say I'm happy that the best feature of the current administration is its lack of ability to fuck the system up.

  19. Re:Are the hackers trying to hurt ABC or us? on Hackers Leak Eight Episodes of An Unreleased ABC Show (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 1

    Why do you think nobody paid to stop them? They knew what the show is like.

  20. TRUMP to the rescue! on Cable TV 'Failing' As a Business, Cable Industry Lobbyist Says (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    He's opening up those coal mines again and should fuel your steam engine for the foreseeable future!

    (yeah, now mod this into oblivion, but how could I let such a cue go unused?)

  21. Re:The cord-cutting problem on Cable TV 'Failing' As a Business, Cable Industry Lobbyist Says (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    So because you can't be assed to come out of your safe space and cut the umbilical cord, too, I should be required to suffer with you?

  22. Re: Stop buying the expensive sport then on Cable TV 'Failing' As a Business, Cable Industry Lobbyist Says (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Besides, it's blatant false advertising and a total rip off. I watched that channel for a whole week, how can you call it Black Entertainment and not run a single Minstrel Show?

  23. Re:Google needs to be broken up on Wall Street Journal's Google Traffic Drops 44% After Pulling Out of First Click Free (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    you mean, like, say, the way it was before the dot.com bubble? When there was way less content but pretty much all of it was what you were looking for, instead of having to weed out paywalled crap, blinky-ad crap and crap that will BLOW YOUR MIND?

  24. Re:Google needs to be broken up on Wall Street Journal's Google Traffic Drops 44% After Pulling Out of First Click Free (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    How about letting the one doing the searching decide?

  25. So ... nothing changed since I was in college?