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  1. the only thing left on Tesla Model S Floats Well Enough To Act As a Boat, According To Elon Musk · · Score: 1

    is for it to fly

  2. why does everyone have "enough evidence"? on Assange: Wikileaks Will Publish 'Enough Evidence' To Indict Hillary Clinton (rt.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The proof is in the pudding, princess. and my spoon is clean.

  3. p-value .25 on Study Suggests Free Will Is An Illusion (iflscience.com) · · Score: 2

    Nothing to see here folks.

  4. "and create 4,500 jobs."

    yeah for about 2 years before it folds

  5. Here's the fast version of the 4 paragraph article on Rare "Healthy" Smokers Lungs Explained · · Score: 4, Funny

    "By comparing smokers and non-smokers as well as those with the disease and without they discovered sections of our DNA that reduce the risk of COPD.
    So smokers with "good genes" had a lower risk of COPD than those with "bad genes"."

    Top notch reporting, everyone. Solid work.

  6. Major disconnect from layers on Why Do So Many Tech Workers Dislike Their Jobs? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The grunts know how things work and what's possible in the infrastructure.

    Managers have an idea how things.

    Directors don't know how things work.

    C level has no idea what they even have.

    --

    Essentially if you're not on the front lines for long, you have no idea what is actually going on.

  7. Re:It' called COTS on Oakland Changes License Plate Reader Policy After Filling 80GB Hard Drive · · Score: 4, Interesting

    but but but how can CIOs and Directors get free stuff if they don't allow private companies to power fist a publically funded organization?

    In the past these were discounts. Now they're licenses to steal.

  8. Critical look at bullshit on University of Toronto: Anti-vaccine Homeopathy Course Is Fine · · Score: 2

    This is a university. Not a career training institute. There maybe some controversial shit and this course is examining that phenomena. It's probably a good course. Now if the professor is dictating this and slapping down students for writing against the psychobabel doctrine then yeah that's a problem.

    Besides, if alternative medicine worked, it would be called medicine.

  9. Re:The only goddam thing American IT ... on Chinese Hackers Mess With Texas By Attacking Fracking Firms · · Score: 1

    Everything is hackable. If someone wants in anywhere... they'll get there.

    Shitty planning is putting industry secrets on a public network and it happens all of the time.

  10. It's not annoying on Daimler's Solution For Annoying Out-of-office Email: Delete It · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Out Of Office = "I'm not going to get a timely reply"

  11. Microsoft still can't get the UI right on Microsoft Research Brings Kinect-Style Depth Perception to Ordinary Cameras · · Score: 1

    Why isn't this a split screen of without and with?

  12. Not to be that guy but... on Netflix Is Looking To Pay Someone To Watch Netflix All Day · · Score: 1

    ..why not crawl all these movie review sites and use some super algorithm to sort these things.

  13. We aren't sure what happened on Estonia Urged To Drop Internet Voting Over Security Fears · · Score: 3, Funny

    Even though it's not on the ballot, Estonia overwhelmingly voted to join Russia.

  14. Some sour lemons on Ask Slashdot: How Do You Tell a Compelling Story About IT Infrastructure? · · Score: 2, Informative

    Don't listen to all these bitter pricks.

    Execs know the job of IT is to maintain systems and to increase work-efficiency through collaborative technology.

    Instead of being boring "yeah everything fine, piss off" announce internal initiatives and goals that even a commoner can understand. Talk about important milestones or stories of exceptional (and actual) personal achievement. If you track your hours, announce how many man-hours were placed into a particular project. Show me the numbers.

    If you fall into that "we work hard" crying bullshit, fuck you. My cat works trying to get that god damn dot with no results. I want to see results that people OUTSIDE OF IT actually like. If you did something that took 5,000 hours and everything sucks and the users don't like it... why did you do it in the first place? That's when the inquisitions start.

  15. Reddit, of course on Ask Slashdot: College Club Fundraising On the Fly? · · Score: 1

    Involves cats doing cute things, Nikola Tesla, and kickstarter.

    Infinity money.

  16. Makes sense on Valve Open Sources Their DirectX To OpenGL Layer · · Score: 2

    Valve makes money with Steam.

    Valve has hammered out a useful content delivery platform for Linux and OS X.

    Valve makes it easier to translate DX to OGL.

    Collect profit... eventually.

  17. CIA's next move on Snowden Granted One-Year Asylum In Russia · · Score: 4, Funny

    Since the CIA can't outright shoot him, they'll just alter a few videos to make it look like he's gay in Russia.

  18. Re:does shatner ever tire? on New Moons of Pluto Named Kerberos and Styx; Popular Choice 'Vulcan' Snubbed · · Score: 1

    If anything it should be called Andoria.

  19. Re:This just in on Most IT Admins Have Considered Quitting Due To Stress · · Score: 1

    See. No one really knows how insurance or insurance companies work.

  20. This just in on Most IT Admins Have Considered Quitting Due To Stress · · Score: 1

    This just in "Do more with less and stay longer" causes emotional and psychological distress.

    Film at 6 but it will actually take until like 11:30.

  21. You and me both on Ask Slashdot: Mac To Linux Return Flow? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Linux is a great kernel. Linux has never had a good or stable GUI environment. Ever.

    OS X and iOS QA has gone to shit. They're toys from China that break a lot now.

    Windows 8 is a LSD trip. Windows 7 is the new Windows XP. However the Microsoft people will say Windows "next version" will be super better!!!! (since about Windows 3.11) like a broken record.

    What's wrong with paper again?

  22. If you are in IT on Citizenville: Newsom Argues Against Bureaucracy, Swipes At IT Departments · · Score: 1

    Get. The. Fuck. Out. while you still can.

    The cloud is coming. It is going to destroy your industry unless you work for a cloud startup. Box is looking at your SAN with big HTML 5 hard on.

    Just saying.... the accountants will make this happen.

  23. The problem is the non-STEM on Does US Owe the World an Education At Its Expense? · · Score: 1

    STEM should be a huge priority.

    There should be lesser government support of underwater basket weaving degrees. They're useless.

  24. Re:Devil in the Details on OpenStreetMap Hits One Million Registered Users · · Score: 1

    It's a proposed feature that isn't implemented and requires crawling through documentation.

    I'll pass. Bad UI, lazy user.

  25. Devil in the Details on OpenStreetMap Hits One Million Registered Users · · Score: 0

    The problem is in details. I can mark power lines but I can't mark dentist / doctors office.
    Also can't fix typos for street names without having to redraw the street.

    Cute but I'll pass.