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  1. Re:ebay interview on Blowing Up a Pointless Job Interview · · Score: 1

    Dickheads. You are very patient.

  2. Re:Be Careful on Blowing Up a Pointless Job Interview · · Score: 1

    The fact that you ask me vague and pointless questions tell me a lot of work ethics and subjective evaluation of people. It also tells me I dont want to work with you. Life is too short. To elaborate, read the answer above...

  3. Re:Be Careful on Blowing Up a Pointless Job Interview · · Score: 3, Insightful

    It depends. In my 20s maybe, just maybe I wouldnt have problems with those questions. In my 40s I am negotiating a business proposition with you, I am something very solid and palpable to offer you, my vast years of experience. You are not doing my any favour at all, let me stress this, we are conducting a business. Our time is valuable too, as we already have to juggle family, work, and leisure. I also have quite a surprising war chest, and am not desperate for work. Heck, I have a good job actually, convince me it would be fantastic to work with you. Would you have issues answering my stupid questions? I believe you would have. After all, it is also in my interest not to work with dicks. Life is too short for me too. No sir, we are adults, we are conducting business, respect this, respect me and leave the stupid questions at the door. If you want respect, you have to respect.

  4. Re:Unprofessional all around on Blowing Up a Pointless Job Interview · · Score: 2

    This such important reply should not be an AC. Those HR drones have to understand they have to respect the people across the table and a job interview is essentially the negotiation to a transaction where the other side is evaluating them too. Sadly, many seem to forget this.

  5. Re:eh, it's not that bad on Stop Trying To 'Innovate' Keyboards, You're Just Making Them Worse · · Score: 1

    Same pains here with portuguese keyboards. Officially the only thing it needs to be bought is the ç. There are slight variations too. I suspect, no better, I am quite sure, the ç and specially the ñ were just due to laws to protect national distributors, and make sure you cannot brought directly machines from abroad and sell them without getting noticed. (i.e. mandatory to sell machines with manual in the local language and national keyboards. I remember slightly in the old Spectrum days, the passing of the law about the ñ mandated the need for local factories and prevented small electronic shops from importing directly).

  6. Re:And the NSA Missed All Of This? on Target Credit Card Data Was Sent To a Server In Russia · · Score: 4, Funny

    NSA is too busy reading their ex emails...

  7. Re:Quietly moved ??? on Target Credit Card Data Was Sent To a Server In Russia · · Score: 2

    Any connection that doesnt need an Internet presence, or doesnt have DNS sites should cut Chinas IP address space. Less SPAM and specially less cyber attacks. Even when they are not really targeted, they have simply the bigger concentration of all of old unpatched machines, and their mentally of if it works dont touch it, instead of more consumerist views of USA, it is slow, lets bin it and buy a new one, doesnt help too into being a hive of zombie machines.

  8. Re:Quietly moved ??? on Target Credit Card Data Was Sent To a Server In Russia · · Score: 1

    I think they lately invented something obscure called ethernet, or in more layman terms, Internet, that apparently doesn't make mechanical noises.

  9. Re:I really wanted to move to iOS on Apple Devices To Reach Parity With Windows PCs In 2014 · · Score: 0

    You may complain as much as the closed garden ecosystem of the iPads, however there are no viruses, and it is *actually* the only platform I would trust for Internet banking, mind you. I wont even trust my Macbook. I think Apple is really missing a marketing opportunity here.

  10. Re:Billions of Androids on Apple Devices To Reach Parity With Windows PCs In 2014 · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    I send that, I "own" a crapdroid. I only Internet in the first couple of months, then gave up on it and start only using it for voice calls. Anyway, I hated the damn thing, and bought myself I 5s. So while technically I count as a Android and iPhone user, I only use my iPhone.

  11. Re:Oh man ... on DNA Detectives Count Thousands of Fish Using a Glass of Water · · Score: 1

    Actually it have been proved by consumer bodies factors above 35 dont work any better and they are just a scam to rip you off.

  12. Re:They should require refund window on Apple Will Refund $32.5M To Settle In-App Purchase Complaints With FTC · · Score: 2

    There is an option to disable in-app purchases, and is disabled both in my ipad and my iphone as protection from my kid, from myself and from potentially malicious apps.

  13. Re:Unable to memorize times tables - a real proble on Ask Slashdot: How Can I Improve My Memory For Study? · · Score: 1

    If it is politics, he is on the right place.

  14. Re:What I have done for this on Ask Slashdot: How Can I Improve My Memory For Study? · · Score: 1

    Studying/remembering things takes a lot of training and most of it, the right mindset and attitude. Be careful with the distractions, though: give up facebook, and come only one time per day to slashdot. Read only email a fixed x times per day; if you have it in your smartphone, disable notifications, unless you are a doctor or work in IT. The two non-IT subjects I had better grades in faculty, the professor followed a book, and I for the whole semester read 2 or 3 pages of it before I went to bed. At the end of the semester, it turns out I remembered the book. I actually enjoy a lot to read and learn stuff, but at my pace. Took already some linux certs, next will be CCNA. However I hate being spoon fed, the extreme slowness of data feeding in a Uni setting, and the mediocracy, where the lowest common denominator sets the pace. And at 40, I dont see myself going back to for an MBA any time soon. And I am at ease with it. Not everyone thinks like me obviously, however I am much happier doing what I like best. I concur also that reading helps.

  15. Re:Ouch on Japan To Tax Online Sales Of Foreign-Made Content · · Score: 1

    Well, from a fellow Iberia hermano, there are several ways to avoid the stupidity of the custom tax. Either you buy it online and download it, or a friend in the US buys it and forwards it as a gift. Some chinese stores also bend rules and send it for you with a receipt of a much lower cost to rid you of taxes, already happened to someone I used to know. Normally here if you have just a DVD or a book, it also goes bellow radar, or used to be that way. When you start buying more than 3 or 4 in one go, they inspect it. Another alternative is buying from amazon uk, or bookpool for books, which are inside the EU and dont pay taxes.

  16. ho boy on Man Shot To Death For Texting During Movie · · Score: 1

    If it were here with Brazilian people routinely having lengthy conversations with a very loud voice in the middle of the movies, I guess the guy would bring a bazooka, hire a bomb man, or Steven Seagal...

  17. Mathematical Models? on Mathematical Model Helps Estimate Optimal Timing of Cyber Attack · · Score: 1

    Captain obvious called. Extended weekends, Xmas and summer holidays.

  18. Re:Job limit. on If I Had a Hammer · · Score: 1

    Easy answering about immigrants, cheaper labor force. About people cheering for other people, I thought you were taking about cushion jobs like HR or the Quality department.

  19. Re:Good on them! on India Frees Itself of Polio · · Score: 1

    Do you realize their inefficiency is just a show to rob us blind, right?

  20. Re:9.1 on Windows 9 Already? Apparently, Yes. · · Score: 1

    I was using SCO V at the time...

  21. Re:Good on them! on India Frees Itself of Polio · · Score: 1

    If you think governments dont plan many things many decades ahead, you are naive.

  22. Re:What I tell kids. on Tech's Gender and Race Gap Starts In High School · · Score: 1

    The thing is IT workers are seen as white collar jobs/glorified secretaries and firms resent having to paying them wages as very qualified workers.

  23. Re:Redhat/CentOS is no substitute for Ubuntu deskt on Red Hat To Help Develop CentOS · · Score: 1

    Even Debian that is quite conservative and slow at adapting packages, has been using kernel 3 in production for quite some time. (2 years?). I suspect rather more RH being behind in kernel releases to protect their code investment in heavy customisations to the kernel, which initially was one of the reasons, between many others, that I moved to Debian.

  24. Re:Cost? on Linksys Resurrects WRT54G In a New Router · · Score: 1

    For that kind of money, I prefer to buy an Apple Time Capsule, and get a 3T hard disk also. And I find it not good commercial strategy to price things on par to Apple prices exactly because of that.

  25. Sea urchins exist in the atlantic and in the pacific too. The thing is that only in the mediterranean people eat them; although I remember picking them up in the beach in my childhood to use them as bait for fishing.