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  1. Popeye... on Navy Tests Unpowered Exoskeleton · · Score: 1

    Hardest hit.

  2. Re:Your OWN air quality on Antiperspirants Could Contribute to Particulate Pollution · · Score: 1

    Better than ME evaporating off into the air!

  3. Re:What was automated? on Outsourced Tech Jobs Are Increasingly Being Automated · · Score: 1

    IBM cuts are about shifting technologies and not needing staff in those areas. Those like my self that have taken on new job roles and not let myself be stagnant are keeping ahead of the curve.

      OTOH, I do work on some of the job costing. We put modifiers in to account for the difference in productivity for each of the Geo regions. Once you do that, there is only about a 20% savings over US labor.

    Used to be much higher, say 50%, but rising wages in many areas are closing the gap. The GDF initiative has kept jobs in the US as the savings from putting service centers in lower wage areas of the US (Think Dubuque Iowa) has closed that gap significantly.

  4. Re:If they are automating tech support, then good. on Outsourced Tech Jobs Are Increasingly Being Automated · · Score: 1

    You mean IBM Watson?

    It will wipe your hard drive if you ask it to open the pod bay doors.

  5. Re:You realize that revision is just slightly high on Emails Cast Unflattering Light On Internal Politics of Healthcare.gov Rollout · · Score: 1

    Few trillion here, few trillion there... starts to add up to real money.

  6. Re:This is supposed to be the *WAY* they do their on Emails Cast Unflattering Light On Internal Politics of Healthcare.gov Rollout · · Score: 1

    My point is that Government doesn't put competent people in charge most of the time. That's just the nature of the beast.

    FTFY

  7. Re:Garbage Disposal on Australian Police Arrest 15, Charge 2, For Alleged Islamic State Beheading Plot · · Score: 1

    I got a better idea:

    Let's get off oil, then they will have no power, no funding, and thus, no threat.

    They can go back to pounding sand like they were 100 years ago.

  8. Re:why does the CRTC need this list? on Canadian Regulator Threatens To Impose New Netflix Regulation · · Score: 1

    if not, we will staple his eyes open and make him watch Hockey, Strange Brew, and drink Canadian beer until he can only say "Eh" and "Hoser".

  9. Re:why does the CRTC need this list? on Canadian Regulator Threatens To Impose New Netflix Regulation · · Score: 1

    Except this appears to be case of using regulatory power grab to do something that is probably not within the regulatory statute i.e. having to identify users. Does any other regulated service have to do so? cable? Broadcast?

    Since they can't just order it via a judge or some other method apparently, they are trying to strong arm by threatening with an unrelated to the issue regulation they CAN control.

  10. Re:Garbage Disposal on Australian Police Arrest 15, Charge 2, For Alleged Islamic State Beheading Plot · · Score: 1

    Why would you think that they could not twist being treated like "normal" criminals as something special? In the US, Muslim recruiting is prisons is very effective.

    Liars are gonna lie, nothing you do is going stop that.

  11. Re:Statists gonna State on The Case For a Federal Robotics Commission · · Score: 1

    You statement does not apply to the OP context, the US and the US Federal Government.

    Nice try tho. Maybe next time?

  12. Re:Statists gonna State on The Case For a Federal Robotics Commission · · Score: 1

    "The most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the government and I'm here to help.”

  13. Re:So...what's the news? on A DC-10 Passenger Plane Is Perfect At Fighting Wildfires · · Score: 1

    Fool me 16384 times, shame on you, fool me 0 times, shame on me.

  14. Re:Offsite. on Ask Slashdot: What To Do After Digitizing VHS Tapes? · · Score: 1

    and at the reasonable rates they offer for backups, split the cost of a backup license and backup to their cloud.

  15. Re:Ads on Microsoft To Buy Minecraft Maker Mojang For $2.5 Billion · · Score: 1

    Even Lego sets.

  16. Not with a bang.. on The Future According To Stanislaw Lem · · Score: 1

    but with a whimper.

  17. Re:Wooo! on X-Class Solar Flare Coming Friday · · Score: 1

    How do you know they are not on a boat and unlicensed radio is often referred to as pirate radio.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P...

    in case you are just uninformed and not being an anonymous ass.

  18. Re:Wooo! on X-Class Solar Flare Coming Friday · · Score: 1

    I can't tune to 666Mhz.

  19. Re:Wooo! on X-Class Solar Flare Coming Friday · · Score: 1

    Yep. HAM is not anonymous, so people tend to behave themselves.

    20m has some issues with radio pirates spewing hate speech, but mostly it is very civil.

  20. Re:Wooo! on X-Class Solar Flare Coming Friday · · Score: 1

    For HAM, 10m is edge of VHF

  21. Wooo! on X-Class Solar Flare Coming Friday · · Score: 5, Insightful

    HAM bands in the VHF range will be opening up! I am going to rig for 10m and 15 and see what happens.

    I might a QSO from Europe with a little luck.

  22. Re:Fire with the other hand? on Using Wearable Tech To Track Gun Use · · Score: 1

    My aim is much better when I have a script saying I will hit something/someone.

  23. Re:The reason on Text While Driving In Long Island and Have Your Phone Disabled · · Score: 1

    They build the victor's economy if they loot everything that is nailed down...

    somehow we have forgotten that lesson: Pillage, THEN burn.

  24. Re:difference between driver and passenger? on Text While Driving In Long Island and Have Your Phone Disabled · · Score: 2

    Dude,

    use nipple clamps.

  25. Re:difference between driver and passenger? on Text While Driving In Long Island and Have Your Phone Disabled · · Score: 2

    I cover the motorcycle horn with my thumb. If I don't think of pushing it, a sudden move by a car will make me grip the handlebars tighter, triggering the horn.

    The High beam is also a finger trigger on this bike, sometimes I cover that too, which means I flash the driver as well; think of someone inching forward to make a right turn on a light, I tense a little and the high beam comes on.

    Seeing how I don't subscribe to loud pipes save lives, most people cut me slack if I hit the horn.