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  1. Re:Can I just stand? on Redesigned Seats Let Airlines Squeeze In More Passengers · · Score: 1

    Not if but you would have to cram enough people in there for safety reasons. If there weren't enough people in the cabin you might get hurt so they must fill it up. It's for your own good.

  2. Re:Stop carrying life jackets? on Redesigned Seats Let Airlines Squeeze In More Passengers · · Score: 1

    Way ahead of you. From 2008.

    "Air Canada's Jazz tosses life jackets"
    http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2008/08/23/air_canadas_jazz_tosses_life_jackets.html

  3. Using new technologies on How To Develop Unmaintainable Software · · Score: 1

    I once was working on a project that included a bunch of dependencies because the original developers wanted to learn the technologies like an expert system. The program didn't need one but they threw one in anyways because it would look good on the resume.

  4. Misleading on Samsung Creates Phone With Curved Display · · Score: 1

    Samsung Round? Still looks rectangular to me.

  5. Re:October 17th Conspiracy Theorists Welcome! on 90% of Nuclear Regulators Sent Home Due To Shutdown · · Score: 1

    I doubt that the outbreak was caused by the shutdown in the government. There have been salmonella outbreaks before when the inspectors were working.

  6. Re:I'm getting tired of this industry on Alcatel-Lucent To Cut 10,000 Workers, Calls It "Shift Plan" · · Score: 1

    It's not just the tech industry it's every industry now. The stock market demands an easy solution to slowing revenue growth and all too often the "easy" solution is to chop some staff because everyone only looks at the short term. Even the government is doing this in order to reduce our taxes in order to try and get re-elected. We are going to get into trouble with all of this short term thinking.

  7. Re:I'm getting tired of this industry on Alcatel-Lucent To Cut 10,000 Workers, Calls It "Shift Plan" · · Score: 1

    I have absolutely no problem with school boards requiring teachers being trained in how to teach. I wish universities had the same requirement. I was in university in the early to mid 1990s and had very little respect for my professors. Sure they may have known about their specific sub-field of study but that doesn't mean they are familiar anymore with the broad subject matter or even know how to teach. For many of them teaching was something that they only did because it was a requirement. They were at the university to do research. Just because someone knows a subject matter does not mean they know how to convey that knowledge to others in an understandable manner.

  8. Re:RIP Bell Labs on Alcatel-Lucent To Cut 10,000 Workers, Calls It "Shift Plan" · · Score: 1

    I remember when Nortel was at it largest I had a job and part of my responsibilities involved going around to install software. One of the problems Nortel had was that the level of a manager was determined by the number of people reporting to them. So if a manager wanted to go up a level they either got another project or hired more people for their existing projects. Some of the new people that they were hiring in 1999 were only there to boost numbers because they had trouble turning on the computer.

  9. Slippery slope on Google Cracks Down On Mugshot Blackmail Sites · · Score: 1

    So now Google is modifying their algorithm to change the rankings based on how a business runs. Are we going to have to know the business ethics of companies in order choose which search engine will bring up the best results for us? I think that search results should be neutral at least as far as ethics of the people running the search company. Is Google going to slow down the response time to these sites for it's fibre customers too?

    I don't agree with what these sites are doing but I think Google setting a dangerous precedent with this action.

  10. Re:Isn't it empty? on Shots Fired At US Capitol · · Score: 1

    It's only terrorism if the government can benefit from it being called terrorism.

  11. Re:Sour grapes on Popular Science Is Getting Rid of Comments · · Score: 1

    I think the logic puzzles will weed out a fair chunk of the humans based on some of the comments.

  12. Re:Sour grapes on Popular Science Is Getting Rid of Comments · · Score: 2

    That's 10 minutes more consideration than most people put towards their opinions that they post.

  13. Re:NSA aint helping either on Poor US Infrastructure Threatens the Cloud · · Score: 1

    Then make your browser bring this to the attention of the user. Say to them that the site is using a server that ignores the Do No Track setting. If enough users see this and stop going to the site then the site owner will be forced with the choice to keep tracking the remaining users or to change their server.

  14. Re:Unrealistic expectations on US, Russia Agree On Plan To Dispose of Syria's Chemical Weapons · · Score: 1

    Hey you are forgetting the stealth snowmobiles!

  15. Re:I still want... on US, Russia Agree On Plan To Dispose of Syria's Chemical Weapons · · Score: 1

    1) A shot in the right place will kill faster. Not all shots are in the right place.
    2) What does this have to do when civilians are the target in Syria?
    3) Citation please

  16. Re:I still want... on US, Russia Agree On Plan To Dispose of Syria's Chemical Weapons · · Score: 0

    While I don't disagree with your assessment of chemical and biological weapons I think that you are downplaying conventional weapons too much. Wounds from bullets or knives can take hours or even days to kill if left untreated. Don't forget there is no air ambulance to call in to rescue people in Syria. And land mines, bombs, and shells can last for decades in the environment. They are still pulling up shells from the first two world wars.

  17. I'd be more impressed on Microsoft and Google Challenge US Government Gag Orders · · Score: 1

    I'd be more impressed if they actually fought the demands for the customer data in the first place rather than wanting to disclose a few non-specific details about how they complied with them.

  18. Re:Short circuit on Ask Slashdot: Speeding Up Personal Anti-Spam Filters? · · Score: 2

    You might also want to look at how patterns are added to the file too. If they are added to the end then the latest spam of the day message will need to parse all of the patterns until it hits the latest pattern. Of course ideally you might want to set something up that looks at the hits each pattern gets so that you could parse the most likely patterns first followed by the latest patterns.

  19. Re:How? on New, Canon-Faithful Star Trek Series Is In Pre-Production · · Score: 1

    And Bester only knows that the Federation is weakened because he has the remnants of the Psy Corps working for him.

  20. Re:Grow the fuck up on US States Banned From Exporting Trash To China Are Drowning In Plastic · · Score: 1

    I'm still using plastic bags because they are useful. They are great when you have something cold on a warm day. They are much more convenient than paper when on the bus. You do take the bus instead of driving do you? They work great for keeping meat away from the produce. They are great for lining garbage cans (or else I'd have to buy special purpose bags). I take them back to the store to be reused and when they are damaged take them to be recycled.

    The problem isn't the plastic bags. It's the people that misuse them.

  21. Re:Yup, we're boned on International Climate Panel Cites Near Certainty On Warming · · Score: 1

    Yes but those were well defined problems that also had relatively easy solutions (in that a substitute could be found, lead taken out of paint, etc) and in relatively short time frames. People could easily see how fast the hole in the ozone layer was growing, what was causing it, and had a readily available substitute. Climate change isn't like that at all. There just isn't one source to the problem. There's burning fossil fuels for a large number of reasons, methane escaping from pipes and wells, farm animals creating methane, and a whole bunch of other sources for rising greenhouse gases. Therefore there isn't a simple solution. Heck, there's barely a simple solution to solve one of the sources! And the problems caused by climate change aren't easy to point to. Yes we may say that a particular storm might have been stronger due to the effects of climate change but the storm wasn't caused by it. For the most part oceans are rising but not that you can tell by looking at it. Damage due to climate change is talked about decades and centuries into the future and it isn't in the basic human nature to worry about such things. People want their easy and inexpensive lives today instead of worrying about things that might happen after they have passed away.

  22. Re:Well America isn't number 1 in being fat on What's Causing the Rise In Obesity? Everything. · · Score: 1

    The US is just taking the easy way to make itself look better. It much easier to maker your friends fatter than to lose the weight yourself. You look thinner relative to your friends but with less work.

  23. Polio Vaccine on Bill Gates Promotes Vaccine Projects, Swipes At Google · · Score: 1

    Hey Bill, when a kid has diarrhea what's your polio vaccine going to do for him? And btw, there are websites that instruct people on how to treat diarrhea so that it won't kill them.

  24. A poor example on Encrypted Email Provider Lavabit Shuts Down, Blames US Gov't · · Score: 0

    If the owner really feels so strongly that the government is committing crimes against the people and infringing on his Constitutional rights then he should grow a pair and show the world exactly what was going on. Yes it will mean sacrifices and will probably mean going to another country first before blowing the whistle. But I guess the big comfy house and fancy car are more important than doing the right thing. Because if people just meekly hide in the shadows and let the government get away with such things then the government will continue to take away your rights and freedoms. People have to start standing up and doing the right thing. But it doesn't require as much courage to sit back, say that the government won't allow you to talk about things, and hope that someone else steps up. I certainly hope that the owner doesn't have children because it's a poor example being set for them.

  25. Re:Fear mongering on NRA Launches Pro-Lead Website · · Score: 1

    It doesn't have to leach. Animals, especially birds, will eat the shot and the lead gets into their systems that way. I'm not saying that it contributes as much as leaded aviation fuel but it is a serious problem.