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  1. Slashdot Effect on Safercar.gov Overwhelmed By Recall For Deadly Airbags · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Is a website buckling under load? Let's publish more articles about it and drive more traffic to their site!

  2. Sandpeople on Why Bhutan Might Get Drone Delivery Copters Before Seattle Does · · Score: 1

    Yes but what happens when the Sandpeople of Bhutan start shooting the $5000 aircraft out of the sky with .20 cent bullets?

  3. Two Geniuses... on Match.com, Mensa Create Dating Site For Geniuses · · Score: 2, Interesting

    When two geniuses mate, the result is often an autistic child: http://archive.wired.com/wired...

  4. "Emotional Contagion" on Emotional Contagion Spread Through Facebook · · Score: 1

    I've decided that it's the best band name I've heard all hour.

  5. In other news... on Organic Cat Litter May Have Caused Nuclear Waste Accident · · Score: 5, Funny

    The nuclear accident is now known by the operation handle: Katpiss Evergreen

  6. For $3.99 a month, Facebook would allow you to see who is looking at your profile. You could also control how you display when looking at other people's profiles (name, area, or anon). LinkedIn is doing this and I think it's a great service.

  7. Re:Metro UI on Microsoft Stock Drops 11% In a Day · · Score: 1

    Quicksilver is superior to launchpad. Launchpad is a binner immediately.

  8. Re:When you ride at night, on Lead Developer of Yum Killed In Hit-and-run · · Score: 3, Informative

    He was a black guy with a suspended licence.

  9. Re:How did this happen? on Thousands of Publicly Accessible Printers Searchable On Google · · Score: 2, Insightful

    The number of small companies dwarf big companies. While a big company could potentially have a few of these in the open, they're much more likely to have the resources to have someone competent running the network. A typical small business (under 20 employees) will not have the resources to secure their network and will likely be oblivious to the exposure.

  10. Re-Categorize on Ask Slashdot: How Do You Deal With Priorities Inflation In IT Projects? · · Score: 0

    When working for a military contractor, our client (the Army), would constantly rate every project of theirs as a 10 (on a 1-10 scale). Because we couldn't distinguish which project was more important to them, we had to create a secondary rating scale just for them. We would then ask them if the project was a 10 - A, a 10 - B, or a 10 - C... (rolleyes)

  11. Re:You call 40 old?!? on Ask Slashdot: Am I Too Old To Learn New Programming Languages? · · Score: 0

    This is right on the money. Looking at his skillset, it seems like an outdated skillset 10 years ago. If he's got to ask if he should learn a new language at this point, he's not the type that actually will with any success (definitely not the type I'd hire).

  12. Re:Not the inventor on Segway UK Boss Dies After Driving Off Cliff · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Ok, cool - that makes the death easier to handle.

  13. You Know? on Given Truth, the Misinformed Believe Lies More · · Score: 0

    I found the interview impossible to read because the interviewee kept using the words "you know" as commas.

  14. Re:Where Have I Seen This Before? on Russian Hopes To Cash In On Emoticons · · Score: 0

    Let me guess... Would you could you with a goat?

  15. Re:Ears.. on Quantum Cloaking Makes Molecules Invisible · · Score: 0

    I find no solace in that bond.

  16. Fast Charge on Toshiba Battery Charges In 10 Minutes · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    That's about how long it takes me to recharge.

  17. Re:Sigh on Blizzard Unveils Wrath of the Lich King Cinematic · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Grow a spine. People who are sucked into WoW are glorified poop machines.

  18. Re:Makes me wish I had a bumper on Road Rage Linked To Automobile Bumper Stickers · · Score: 1

    And how about mine: Frequently riding bikes causes ED.

  19. Re:The why not the how on How to Write Comments · · Score: 1

    public bool CheckSmsValue(Account smsAccount)
    {

    // Check tarriff is null
    if (Account.Tarrif == null)
    return;
    ...
    }

    I can see why you shouldn't do that... Account is a class and not an object.

    It should read:

    public bool CheckSmsValue(Account smsAccount)
    {

    // Check tarriff is null
    if (smsAccount.Tarrif == null)
    return;
    ...
    }

  20. Re:How? on Company to Settle and Mine Mars · · Score: 1

    They will arrive to colonize the planet and find that Wal-Mart is already there.

  21. Re:I Take "Retention Calls at an AOL Call Center on AOL Fined for Making it Hard to Cancel Service · · Score: 1

    uncleroot is right, there's a lot of pressure put on "retention" to make what's called a "save". I don't know how it is now, but guys in the past would make the token effort of a few free months, and if you still wanted to cancel, they would say you were cancelled, but not cancel you and they'd get $5 a save. So when the person called up next time (after they realized they weren't cancelled) another rep had a chance to pull the $5 save trick again. Upper management has plausable deniability and reps (that come and go all the time) get their reward.

    I really think it's worth the feds looking into AOL, one of the biggest ISPs and cracking down on this practice. 1.25 million is a laughable sum in comparison to the length of time this has been going on (almost 10 years).