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  1. It's Me Not You on Reddit Subpoenaed In Wrongful Death Lawsuit · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Suicide is a personal choice, not anyone else's. I don't see why everyone always tries to blame bullies, commenters, family, etc.

    Regardless of if it's a rational decision or not it's my own choice, just like robbing a bank is my fault.

    Do I get to blame commenters urging me to commit other crimes too?

  2. Re:Too long on Software-Defined Radio For $11 · · Score: 0

    As accustomed to ultra-consumption as we are 20 minutes to learn something new in an area you're (at least I was) totally unfamiliar with isn't all that much time.

    Plus the video is rather well done and informative.

  3. Easy Screening on Facebook: Legal Action Against Employers Asking For Your Password · · Score: 5, Funny

    I'd just use this as a screening question for potential employees.

    If you willingly give me your login credentials I should just assume you're a moron and not hire you.

  4. Re:Male companion on New Doctor Who Companion Announced · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Yea younger than Captain Jack please. He's getting too old to be the hot boy on the block; it's getting a little unbelievable.

  5. Re:Barring? on Microsoft Barring Certain Staff From Buying Macs, iPads? · · Score: 1

    So let me ask then: are you still on the Exchange team?

  6. Years Behind on Sweden Moving Towards Cashless Economy · · Score: 1

    Let's be like the auto industry and play "catch up". This stuff should have happend years ago.

    Sure the government could track my spendings, but guess what I want to track my spending, see trends, create budgets, etc...all without having to deal with 17 different companies (thank god for Mint.com; oh wait I'm sure they're datamining my transactions too).

    Once we all go digital credits we just need to make sure we don't have monopolistic companies controlling the digital dollars and that there isn't some nonsensically high bar to get into that market for new companies.

    But that's probably a laughable dream for this US citizen (with papers).

  7. Looks pretty slick, but... on Berkeley HTML5 Timeline Tool Can Show a Day, Or the Lifetime of the Universe · · Score: 1

    Does anyone else hate the phrase "deep dive"?

    Seems only 50+ year old salesmen use it to try and sound worthwhile.

  8. Re:Some people are good citizens on 'Honey Stick' Project Tracks Fate of Lost Smartphones · · Score: 4, Funny

    If you were truly a "good" citizen you would have dropped the BlackBerry off in the nearest trash can.

  9. Don't Need? on Publishers Warned On Ebook Prices · · Score: 1, Redundant

    Could someone explain exactly why an author (which I am not) of a written work is unable to release his/her content to the masses without the need of a publisher?

    I imagine I can publish a document to an ebook store (which I am assuming is not considered a "publisher" since it is a "store") or even a website for purchase and bypass the need for these publishing companies.

    Of course my imagination can be rather wild so maybe this ease is out of the scope of reality.

  10. Re:Uploads? on IBM Optical Chip Moves Data At 1Tbps · · Score: 1, Insightful

    10 years in jail seems extreamly low for 500 HD movies.

  11. Everytime we keep getting articles about this I wonder how accurate LEXX was in saying how M class planets always end up destroying themselves when attempting to find the mass of the Higgs Boson.

  12. Re:Chris Welsh is 14 years old? on The Inside Story of Virgin Oceanic's Mission To the Mariana Trench · · Score: 1

    Yea the sub might be pretty cool, but I'd hardly call it "sexy".

  13. 1995 Called on A Rant Against Splash Screens · · Score: 0

    And it would like it's "news" article back.

  14. Iterate Faster on Ask Slashdot: How Do You Deal With Priorities Inflation In IT Projects? · · Score: 2

    Get a scrum master (not a project manager, those are worthless). Train people in Agile or at least some form of iterative process if you decide against an Agile environment.

    Since your delivery rates are slipping start estimating time for projects and see which give the most value; complete those first.

    This whole idea that things can wait a year to be looked at was ridiculous in 1990. If you're not interative already you're decades behind.

  15. Ah PMs on IBM Seeks Patent On Judging Programmers By Commits · · Score: 1

    Maybe one day they'll be able to patent managers that actually manage and get to know their programmers.

    But really I mean by then there will be no such thing as managers and they'll all be Scrum Masters and power will go to the development team itself.

  16. Web Development on Ask Slashdot: Where Are the Open Source Jobs? · · Score: 2

    I've seen tons of Drupal, HTML 5, jQuery and jQuery Mobile job openings (those are all "open source" if you will).

    It also seems that at least in the past few weeks the number of job hunters that have been contacting myself and co-workers has increased, which is hopefully a good sign for my unemployed brother and sister college grads...

  17. Re:"Censorship" on Delayed Outrage Over A Censored Site; What's a Better Way To Spread News? · · Score: 1

    Are you paying your workplace $15-$40k a year to teach/educate/house you?

  18. Re:Not *totally* drug resistant on Totally Drug-Resistant TB Emerges In India · · Score: 1

    Is that because all the pharmaceutical companies are using Waterfall instead of Agile/Scrum?

    I'd be curious how their development works because it's probably 20 years outdated as well.

  19. Farscape Time on US Government Seeks Extradition of UK Student For File-Sharing · · Score: 1

    ICE the new Peacekeepers of the planet.

    With the same type of public perception and welcome.

  20. Re:Is it age? on New Research Shows Cognitive Decline Begins At 45 · · Score: 1

    You have to be careful what we try and warn people about though.

    The fluoride mineral found in water itself isn't carcinogenic, it's been in water sources for eons and we've grown up/evolved while being exposed to it (much like UV radiation everyone is in a huff about).

    Just as when we add man-made substances to what we ingest we shouldn't be so quick to remove them either don't you think?

    I agree man-made artifices are ridiculous, but not all fluoride is intrinsically harmful, in fact it's essential for our dental health.

    If people really cared they could use reverse-osmosis to remove the fluoride; but those of us with well water (albeit a small %) don't have much to worry about.

  21. Re:Is it age? on New Research Shows Cognitive Decline Begins At 45 · · Score: 1

    Link to shoddy looking site and ambiguous/pompous "educate yourself".? lol

    Refute the actual question instead of some link you aren't able to elucidate: Are you denying fluoride occurs naturally in streams and underground water sources?

    I'd find more recent sources than 2000 on some shoddy website to support my claims as well.

  22. Re:This is good news. on Carbon Emissions 'Will Defer Ice Age' · · Score: 4, Insightful

    What about the ones that live in areas that are going to be covered in water?

  23. Re:exponential version growth on 5th Edition of Dungeons & Dragons Announced · · Score: 1

    Indeed ;)

  24. Re:exponential version growth on 5th Edition of Dungeons & Dragons Announced · · Score: 1

    1970 - Waterfall
    2000 - Iterative

  25. Re:Is it age? on New Research Shows Cognitive Decline Begins At 45 · · Score: 0

    or perhaps its from years of flouride in the drinking water

    You know fluoride has and still does occur naturally within nature right? It's found naturally within streams and underground sources? Like my well water for instance?

    Maybe people are just lazy and uneducated; thinking everything is man made and carcinogenic. For example UV radiation.