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  1. Re:Wrong Expectations on Ask Slashdot: How To Fix an Outdated College Tech Curriculum? · · Score: 1

    > And then, you'll only make $55k, if that!

    There are people in the mid-west making way more than that.

  2. Re:Ban all cars on Congressman Steve Scalise Among 5 Shot at Baseball Field (nytimes.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    2015 vehicle deaths: 35,092.

    2015 gun deaths: 13,485 ( Not including suicides. )

    Your data seems inaccurate.

    Including suicides puts them just about event.

  3. Very short certs. on Let's Encrypt Is Now In Public Beta (eff.org) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    They really want you to automate this. From the web site:

    Let’s Encrypt CA issues short lived certificates (90 days). Make sure you renew the certificates at least once in 3 months.

  4. Re:Like Tomato? on New FCC Rules Could Ban WiFi Router Firmware Modification · · Score: 1

    Wild Ass Guess.

  5. Re:Ring finger dangles? on Ask Slashdot: Where Can You Get a Good 3-Button Mouse Today? · · Score: 1

    It has never occurred to me that people use three fingers on a mouse. I'm using a Logitech M705 at the moment. If I put three fingers on this thing they just don't fit. The finger in the middle covers the scroll wheel and at least 1/3 of each of the other two buttons.

    The side fingers naturally land on the side of the mouse on the seam between the mouse body and the buttons.

    When holding this mouse normally with two fingers the scroll wheel disappears in my hand.

    I haven't found anybody we makes mice big enough for my hands.

    I suspect there are a lot of people who have the same issues.

  6. Re:After 42 yrs programming I say... on Ask Slashdot: Do Coding Standards Make a Difference? · · Score: 1

    Well, there are a lot of people that shouldn't be in the business.

  7. Re:Eclipse on Ask Slashdot: Do Coding Standards Make a Difference? · · Score: 2

    I don't think you know what a "coding standard" is. It's not just formatting.

  8. Re:After 42 yrs programming I say... on Ask Slashdot: Do Coding Standards Make a Difference? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Can't agree with "not very much at all".

    I don't really care what coding standard you use, pick one any one. But here's the rub, pick one and stick with it.

    I get really exhausted and tired having to jump between 4 or 5 completely different coding styles in the same project. And I'm not just talking about indentation and formatting. I'm talking about how problems are solved.

    For example: If you're coding in Java and the "style" is to Using Apache StringUtils for what it does, then use that. Don't go create your own monster mess that does the same thing, then force me to take 15 minutes to figure out you re-wrote StringUtils for no damn good reason.

    I've watched developers struggle with this and waste hours upon hours tracking down bugs because of stuff like this. And, you know what? They never want to admit it's because the code is a typographical mess that puts your eyes into unending calisthenics.

  9. Re:The privacy/security scale tips again. on National Opt-Out Day Against Virtual Strip Searches · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I'm willing to bet that list is smaller than the list of terrorists who didn't get on a plain for fear of having their ass kicked by Joe Public when they attempt something.

  10. Re:RTFA on 3rd-Grader Busted For Jolly Rancher Possession · · Score: 4, Insightful

    > Instead of banning hard candies, ban making messes and punish those who do.
    Nope, can't do that, see the gun control debate...

  11. Re:Brave New World, 1984 on Citizens Demand To See Secret ACTA Treaty · · Score: 4, Informative

    Yes it is. It's a democratic republic.

    Actually it's a constitutional republic.

    But nobody seem to bother with that old piece of paper these days.

  12. Re:Glad they got things back up on Reactor Shutdown Darkens South Florida · · Score: 1

    If I remember correctly reactor start up isn't to bad. But synchronizing the generator to the grid is a different issue.

  13. Re:bias on Former Anti-Nuclear Activist Does A 180 · · Score: 1

    and unnecessarily generates highly radioactive waste that nobody has figured out how to dispose of safely.

    At least that waste is contained as opposed to say coal which spews small amounts of radioactive particles into the atmosphere.

  14. Re:one example of too many on Why Software Sucks, And Can Something Be Done About It? · · Score: 1

    It also has "bagel" and "frozen" buttons, that lights up a little LED for each...

    The bagel button only heats up the inner elements allowing one to toast the "insides" of a split bagel

    Now that seems obvious!

  15. Re:no common sense case on No Business Case for HDTV? · · Score: 5, Funny

    > Which is a shame, they used to be quite good yet affordable.

    History of Radio Shack:

    Early Years:

    Q: Do you have any 2N222s?
    A: Fourth panel, third from the top, second from the left.

    Now :
    Q: Do you have any 2N222s?
    A: Is that the new Razor?

    Like all trips, it was good while it lasted.

  16. Re:Finally! we can really complain about the commi on Indian State Encourages Microsoft Removal · · Score: 1

    I wish that some of the west's politicians would start considering budgets and futures.

    They do consider the future. But to them the future stops at the next election.

  17. Re:One problem solved, an infinite amount remains on Old Methods Used to Detect Liquid Explosives · · Score: 1

    As a self proclaimed "redneck", I'll take a stab at this.

    A redneck is: Someone who sees the world as it is with all its glory and all its faults. Your typical urbanite when presented with an intruder will immediately think to call 911, that's what they have been 'trained' to do. Your typical redneck will immediately think "shoot the dumb bastard", and (if you're lucky) will call 911 to come out and clean the mess up afterwards.

    It's not that we aren't sophisticated, it's that sometimes we don't see the point. I really don't understand drinking something that costs $100 a bottle. If you do enjoy that, to each his own. I also think people get uncomfortable around rednecks because we tend to say-it-like-it is, which really destroys that entire politically correct thing they have going on.

    So, when asking why "especially a redneck", because we're ready to do what needs to be done, and that includes eliminating immediate threats.

    Hope that helps.

  18. Re:Audacity and Ignorance. on Terror Plot, NASA, DHS Patch Alert · · Score: 1

    Certainly no argument from me on that assesment. I was only wishing to point out that the line of people worthy of collecting blame for the Middle East is very long and winding. President Bush may have started a war, but he certainly didn't start the conflict. And if my Kurdish friends are reading, may you once again raise your flag over a free Kurdistan some day!

  19. Re:Audacity and Ignorance. on Terror Plot, NASA, DHS Patch Alert · · Score: 1

    The truth is that Bush (and his dad) created this enemy. Because of personal and family interest.

    It all depends on your perspective, many would blame the Ottoman empire.

  20. Re:The bottom line is this on Citizen Photographers v. The Police? · · Score: 1

    > This is lousy advice.

    I believe your best bet is to utter nothing but phrases similiar to the following:

    1) Under the advice of counsel I can not answer any questions without an attorney present.
    2) Am I free to go?

    If at some point the answer to #2 becomes yes, CALMLY and QUIETLY, WALK away.

    If you go from being detained to being arrested, go with the flow, get an attorney and eventually see the judge. Argue in front of a judge not some street cop with an attitude.

  21. Re:Budget Priortites on The Pentagon's Supersonic, Shape-Shifting Assassin · · Score: 1

    When he dropped gas on his own people were you not supplying him (among countless other foul dictators) with weaponry?

    no weapons of mass destruction...whoops

    If he didn't have weapons of mass destruction, how exactly did he gas his own people?

  22. Re:10 years? on Amit Singh's Challenge: Find a Decade-Old Bug · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Would you care to submit an example of a similar or worse M$ (note clever use of $) bug that they couldn't find or fix for 10 years?

    Does c:\con\con count?

  23. Re:This shouldn't be surprising... on U.S. Kids Don't Understand First Amendment · · Score: 1

    I knew people that said that the 2nd amendment meant they had the right to bring guns to work.

    You have the right to carry a gun to work. But, your employer may not grant you the priviledge to carry on his property.

  24. Re:Yes, they really could be dangerous on Flash Mobs a Threat to Security? · · Score: 1

    I agree completely. Killing anyone becomes real easy when you can find someone willing to commit suicide to perform the act. The suicide attacker is very hard to defend against, especially if you don't see it coming

  25. Re:Encryption Circumvention Devices? on Longhorn's Copy Protection Standard · · Score: 1

    Wow, that's awesome. How long did it take you to come up with that one? Did you get your little friends to help to?
    Some day the shit just might hit the fan. Don't be surprised if nobody comes running when you cry "help".