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  1. Re:Is there an SWA Twitter police? on Man Booted From Southwest Flight and Threatened With Arrest After Critical Tweet · · Score: 0

    At least one asshat can and should be let go.

  2. Re:Customer service? on Man Booted From Southwest Flight and Threatened With Arrest After Critical Tweet · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I would fire the agent for starters, and whoever was involved.

  3. Re:Control issues? on Empathy For Virtual Characters Studied With FMRI Brain Imaging · · Score: 1

    I can relate that I would not push a darn button 41 (!) times.

  4. Some phishing campaigns are quite elaborate on The Psychology of Phishing · · Score: 1

    I have received a couple of years ago a dozen emails with messages of account terminations-or-you-have-to-click here to review from "Apple" that looked like the real deal, and only at looking to the headers you would notice they were coming from someplace else, and where using strange URLs. If you were looking at the emails, they looked like the real deal.

  5. Re:If you can get a devkit, that is on 'Just Let Me Code!' · · Score: 1

    If I could operate, I would do brain surgery because it looks fun and only takes a couple of minutes. If could flight a plance, I would like to do intercontinental flights because it looks fun and it might only take 15 minutes. And builds houses only takes a couple of days. meh

  6. Re:How do you on The Daily Harassment of Women In the Game Industry · · Score: 1

    No, the problem is not being constructively criticised by women. The problem is their making it the plot of a movie, being melodramatic, snarky, more prone to playing mind games, and thinking they are smarter. And not liking when people cuts the crap and calls their bullshit directly.

  7. Re:Pft on The Daily Harassment of Women In the Game Industry · · Score: 1

    Shit, what neighbourhood do you live to have people show at your door with batS?

  8. Re:slashdot worthy? on Netflix Reduces Physical-Disc Processing, Keeps Prices the Same · · Score: 1

    Better yet, I would prefer to have a ticking box to not see complaint and rant articles than blocking out advertisement...adblock works wonder for the later, but not the former, which is far more annoying.

  9. Re:Look at *why* people are pirating on For Now, UK Online Pirates Will Get 4 Warnings -- And That's It · · Score: 1

    Amen to that. I am buying Apple apps because they are convenient, far more apps then I have bought all my life. If Apple/the film industry wanted to put music and films at reasonable prices, with the infra-structure they have already in place, they would take the market by storm. There is a lost opportunity here.

  10. Re:Don't buy cheap android on Why My LG Optimus Cellphone Is Worse Than It's Supposed To Be · · Score: 1

    You got it wrong. Manufacturers are taking undue advantage of Low end models to do beta testing for the higher ones.

  11. Re:I crashed a Marriott's network with 150 iPads on How One School District Handled Rolling Out 20,000 iPads · · Score: 1

    No need to "wonder" about such uses, there are plenty of applications to monitor bandwidth usage, or then you bring your own proxy. But then again, when needing more resources it would be useful to check for capacity *beforehand*. We also have this problem here, the bureaucratic process for booking rooms is very well organised, however people take for granted Internet access and forget it is also a resource that has to be managed.

  12. Re:cloud based systems suck bandwidth big time on How One School District Handled Rolling Out 20,000 iPads · · Score: 1

    How about blocking youtube during regular office hours, opening it up only in the morning lunch time and at the end of the time? It is probably more due to streaming movies than apps.

  13. Re:IBM on Microsoft CEO To Slash 18,000 Jobs, 12,500 From Nokia To Go · · Score: 1

    The problem is not them taking the jobs, they are brought to reduce costs, bring down the power of unions and bring the nacional salary means down.

  14. Re:Walled garden? on Is the Software Renaissance Ending? · · Score: 1

    There are some obvious rules - avoid black and dark blue it is connoted with work. Do not buy them on the cheap. Unless on a tropical climate, avoid light colours. Black shoes go with almost everything, not so much with brown shoes. A couple of months ago, after a work meeting, I went shopping with a suit and a matching overcoat a present for my wife, and the amount of attention I got from the store attendants was ridiculous. I use to wear suits almost everyday, nowadays less than 10 days a year.

  15. Re:Walled garden? on Is the Software Renaissance Ending? · · Score: 1

    On a related vein, best lies in the industry, that work specially dealing with the young work force: - "I am giving you less than you asked, because I want to evaluate and give you a raise in 6 months" - "We will promote you accordingly to your skills" - "You are being promoted because you are an outstanding technical guy, but you dont write good reports, and do can not do the accounting and quality work in your projects" Face the reality, people who judge people by the way they look, by the way they bullshit their written deliveries to the customers, and by the way they screw their customers will never promote you to senior or to management. They have to bullshit just enough to keep you around while they need you. Run for the hills and change job ASAP if this scenario seems familiar.

  16. Re:Walled garden? on Is the Software Renaissance Ending? · · Score: 1

    Indeed. In Europe too, and the places where they still wear ties at work are the places I am quite sure I dont want to work there.

  17. Re:Walled garden? on Is the Software Renaissance Ending? · · Score: 1

    It is not. Let get straight, suit is a professional atire, much like a MacDonalds or an army uniform. Suits are only appropriate for weddings, formal occasions and not much more. Only people who really dont know how to fit in will select a suit as an elegant dressing. Furthermore, there are suits and suits, when I was a consultant 15 years ago I only used suits that cost more than 800 dollars, at least.

  18. Re:So... on French Blogger Fined For Negative Restaurant Review · · Score: 1

    Judges neither take lightly you not taking a lawyer, nor take you seriously. My father lost a very clear cut case because of this once, despite having worked as a paralegal a couple of decades before.

  19. Re:Too true... on French Blogger Fined For Negative Restaurant Review · · Score: 1

    Great story you have. Was she applying for HR?

  20. Re:I wanted to write about this place on French Blogger Fined For Negative Restaurant Review · · Score: 2

    He is being sarcastic. The road in front of their entrance is really tidy in comparison with "something else".

  21. Re:Walled garden? on Is the Software Renaissance Ending? · · Score: 2

    There are places to wear suits, and places not to wear them.As there are the places for bathing suits. It is a matter of common sense, you would not come in a bathing suit to a wedding or go to the pool with a suit. As for devs or sysadmins, when we see an office full of suits, it is an huge red flag. HUGE one. We know we wont be evaluated fairly, the standards of evaluation are just fluff, bullshit talk and keeping up the appearances because they do not know any better, and have also to promote and protect the inaptitude of their peers, and corporate politics are far worse there than in other places. As for suits, to go out, or even to the workplace, if I want to stand out from the crowd, I prefer to invest in slightly more expensive and fashionable clothes than suits. Lets face it, nowadays the suit is no more than a garment for formal situations, and a uniform for sleazy politicians and greasy salesmen. Your paragraph also shows a prejudice against your coworkers and that you are an idiot who likes to pretend to be something else. Nobody is forcing to work with stinking people, you can always change places and go work for suppliers of warm bodies in suits, like Gartner. Maybe if find the life there more akin to your aspirations, who knows. I did enjoy it, and will sure not exchange my work with "scruffy" people back to then again.

  22. Re:Slew of missing business applications on Is the Software Renaissance Ending? · · Score: 2

    No, it didnt. Word Perfect excellent, I actually used it in DOS to write technical manuals. What really happened is other players used their dominant position to effectively lock them out of the market. Microsoft worked with the Apple teams to produce Microsoft for Mac. Windows was also shipped with buggy and/or incomplete APIs and then only Microsoft Office brought the additional functionalities/patches bundled with the product to ensure the competition could not write a stable/faster competitor. This not taking in account hidden/barely documented APIs and the bundling of other software.

  23. Re:My old desktop... on How a Supercomputer Beat the Scrap Heap and Lived On To Retire In Africa · · Score: 1

    Power consumption, spare parts, administrating your infra-structure as a whole, dealing with malfunctions, supporting several operating systems, the ease of administration virtualisation technology has brought...Recycling older hardware is a waste of electricity, time and money.

  24. Re:Really now on How a Supercomputer Beat the Scrap Heap and Lived On To Retire In Africa · · Score: 1

    I also lived in Africa for years, and my thoughts are either this will rot in customs until someone higher up has his hands greased, or will be sold to the Russian mob or something similar at sales prices.

  25. Re:Fedora can be annoying.. on CentOS Linux Version 7 Released On x86_64 · · Score: 1

    We have had OpenSuse servers and whilst they are much more convenient to install Debian seems to be more manageable on the long run. Debian is also more of widespread use, and it is far easier to find material about more obscure administration.