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  1. Simpsons is right on New Radioactive Water Leak At Fukushima: 300 Tons and Growing · · Score: 1

    ...because with all that radioactive water dumping into the Pacific, any fish from that ocean will start absorbing radioactive elements. Bart's three-eyed fish will seem tame in comparison, because at least you can see the problem.

    Even better? Radiation is cumulative, so propensity for tissue damage rises with each exposure and the radioactive elements build up in the animal's body. There is no safe level of radiation exposure (source: Hellen Cadicott)

    Still even better? Expect the higher-order fish (the ones that eat other fish) to end up will even more radiation exposure. Guess what's at the top of the food chain? That's right: those hairless chimps are flocked.

    Try the fish!

  2. Re:xp still works on China Has a Massive Windows XP Problem · · Score: 1

    On the other hand SSH can't be compromised,

    Do tell! So some malware/virus couldn't snatch the SSH keys from an infected box and then ssh into another? Or simply ssh into an improperly-secured box (say, with easy-to-guess passwords for easy-to-guess accounts)?

    Please sign me up for your newsletter, The Dunning-Kruger Daily. I hope it has a good crossword puzzle!

  3. Re:Windows 8 woohoo! on Write Windows Phone Apps, No Code Required · · Score: 1

    So, it has come to this.

    No, they're missing the boat, as usual. They need to port PHP to their craptaculous phone, then they'll have all the apps they could ever dream of.

    The market will become flooded with Windows Phone "Developers" just as the Web space now is, then the inherent technical debt will increase past the point of breaking and millions, nay BILLIONS will be spent trying to maintain and extend all the in-house apps clueless businesses have written.

    And that means more money for me when I come in and fix their problem with clean, maintainable (and noob-proof) code. *cackle*

  4. There's always one on Bradley Manning Convicted of Espionage, Acquitted of 'Aiding the Enemy' · · Score: 1

    Someone will always uphold "the rule of law" as something that must be blindly followed and obeyed no matter how immoral or unjustified that law may be. How will they be judged in the future? Like the Fascist POSes they are. (See what I did there?)

  5. Re:How is this legal? on Employers Switching From Payroll Checks To Prepaid Cards With Fees · · Score: 5, Insightful

    This is idealized and only a few unions ever truly seemed to work for the employees.

    Personal Anecdote FTFail!

    Here are a few things you can "blame" on Unions:

    • Weekends
    • 40-hr work weeks
    • Sick days
    • Being able to live wherever you want, not just a company house
    • No more child labor
    • Benefits
    • Fair hiring practices
    • Fair promotion practices

    Now, please regale up with more tales of flight and fancy and how the unions are to blame!

  6. Re:How is this legal? on Employers Switching From Payroll Checks To Prepaid Cards With Fees · · Score: 1

    Incorrect. The cities/states with higher union presence have a higher standard of living, due to the increased wages and benefits, which fuels the economy when those workers pay for goods and services.

  7. Re:How is this legal? on Employers Switching From Payroll Checks To Prepaid Cards With Fees · · Score: 2

    Would you like help writing a letter?

    Shame on you for crushing him with facts!

    Please think of the Tr0lls and don't crush them. They're really quite squishy and drippy and make a mess that SOMEONE is going to have to clean up.

  8. Re:Weekly/Monthly Salary on Employers Switching From Payroll Checks To Prepaid Cards With Fees · · Score: 1

    I was under the impression that they pretty much all include some basic "personal finance" in the required curriculum these days.

    That skill was taught in the class known as "Home Economics," which was one of the first ones cut after the 'Reagan Revolution', along with Art, Music and PE.

  9. Re:Weekly/Monthly Salary on Employers Switching From Payroll Checks To Prepaid Cards With Fees · · Score: 2

    My point is that at some point, people are responsible for their own decisions and their own positions in life.

    Let 'em burn, eh?

    No penny for the guy, eh?

    I hope you find your Ayn Randian paradise soon (but make sure it is far, far away, please!)

    Man becomes great exactly in the degree in which he works for the welfare of his fellow-men. — Mahatma Gandhi

  10. Re: Weekly/Monthly Salary on Employers Switching From Payroll Checks To Prepaid Cards With Fees · · Score: 2

    It depends on the shop. I've worked many places that paid weekly. Some shops paid me bi-weekly or on the 15th and the 30th.

  11. Re:Stupofascism on Boston Marathon Bomber Charged With Using 'Weapon of Mass Destruction' · · Score: 2

    Seems to be how most companies are run, too.

    ...except without the blackjack, hookers or even a modicum of efficiency.

  12. WTF am I reading? on Teenage League of Legends Player Jailed For Months For Facebook Joke · · Score: 1

    But in a world where school shootings are an extremely rare event—even to the point of being statistically non-existant ~.

    FIFY.

    You know how I know you watch a lot of TeeVee news and/or read Fox.com? Because you're all worked up over a non-existent crisis.

  13. Grasshopper, you must learn from your elders! on Why Your Sysadmin Hates You · · Score: 1

    I have a simple solution: Follow me around for a day (and a night).

    Watch when the new guy gets ignored by his team members and forgets that Google exists so he comes to us expecting days of basic training on how to do his job.

    Never answer a question directly. Require your Padawan to ALWAYS ASK THE DUCK before they bother you. If the duck can't answer the question, then it is okay to ask you. If you don't know the answer, then YOU need to ask the duck. Learn this lesson, you must.

  14. Wrong on UK ISPs Secretly Start Blocking Torrent Site Proxies · · Score: 1

    If something is too expensive then "DON'T BUY IT". by pirating it you only give them an excuse to provide more lockdowns and inflate the price more.

    Game of Thrones pirated; HBO doesn't mind.

    Also, those media companies are run by Techno-Luddites who couldn't manage their way out of a wet paper sack with a flashlight and a jackhammer, so no wonder they don't understand how to watch shows on teh intertubes without a cable subscription.

    People pirate because it is easier than being legit. If it was easier to pay, many would.

  15. Not anymore on Seeking Fifth Amendment Defenders · · Score: 1

    The Freedom-hating Scumbags on the SCOTUS continue to chip away at Miranda.

    Give 'em enough time, they'll do away with it entirely.

  16. Were you born under a rock? on Seeking Fifth Amendment Defenders · · Score: 1

    The reason for the Fifth is known by everyone with the barest minimum of Google Skills and self-awareness.

    Go watch Dont Talk to Police and try to pay attention for at least the first five minutes. You can do it.

  17. Propose that copyright be eliminated. Call it the "Freedom of Knowledge Amendment", and in this document revoke copyright and patents.

    I like the cut of your jib!

  18. Re:RIAA tried this on US Entertainment Industry To Congress: Make It Legal For Us To Deploy Rootkits · · Score: 1

    The RIAA and Patriot Act are domestic terrorism.

    Those are little fish compared to the DHS/TSA. Those guys are not only domestic terrorists, but so incompetent that they don't really do anything except "look tough."

  19. Re:Hardly on Adobe Creative Suite Going Subscription-Only · · Score: 1

    ~ if you want to work with someone who uses InDesign CS7 you need CS7 too.

    [expletive deleted]

  20. Re:Efficient? Never in a LBO. on BMC Going Private In $6.9 Billion Deal · · Score: 1

    I applied to BMG a few years ago. Thank dog I didn't get the job (they weren't "ready" to hire, but were "ready" to interview)...

    And now all those people will be on the street in a few-18 months.

    *cackle*

    Better check my 401k and make sure none of it holds NASDAQ:BMC. That thing is going to drop like a rock.

  21. Hardly on Adobe Creative Suite Going Subscription-Only · · Score: 1

    Your (and Adobe's) scheme rests upon the misconception that everyone wants the latest and greatest everything.

    I have CS6. If they came out with CS7, I'd probably wait a year (or longer) before buying it, because CS6 does everything I need.

    Another thing companies like Adobe forget (Microsoft STILL hasn't learned) is that UI changes SUCK for the end user. I am at maximum productivity and you want to mess up my nuts-n-bolts memory (of how to use the software)? Fark you.

    I used to use GIMP exclusively. I could probably switch back and get 90% of everything I need. That last 10% would be painful to give up, but I suppose I could learn to do without. So, I'll keep running CS6 until I can't install it anymore (Hello, Poser!) and then move to Gimp.

  22. Black Powder comes in 50 gallon drums now?! on New Device Sniffs Out Black Powder Explosives · · Score: 1

    Get Jerry on the line!

    Tell him to dump my entire warehouse--300 hogsheads--of the powder in the river and go out and buy replacement drums right away!

    (rubs hands together)

    I'm going to make...(extreme closeup)...a killing!

  23. But on Windows: Not Doomed Yet · · Score: 1

    I find his (her?) repeated harassment, stalking and teabagging to be quite funny! Don't stop!!

  24. Re: first on SkyDrive 3.0: Microsoft Gave Up Fighting Apple's 30% Cut · · Score: 1

    In tights?

  25. Yeah on Ask Slashdot: How To Convince a Team To Write Good Code? · · Score: 2

    I used to work for a company that produced avionics software. Obviously, we had to write solid code.

    The On-Board Shuttle group is (was) even more bad-ass than that. For them, 5 9s (99.999% failure rate) was unacceptably lax.

    FTFA:

    But how much work the software does is not what makes it remarkable. What makes it remarkable is how well the software works. This software never crashes. It never needs to be re-booted. This software is bug-free. It is perfect, as perfect as human beings have achieved. Consider these stats : the last three versions of the program -- each 420,000 lines long-had just one error each. The last 11 versions of this software had a total of 17 errors. Commercial programs of equivalent complexity would have 5,000 errors.