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  1. Re:The Issue With Small Town Mindset on Its Nuclear Plant Closed, Maine Town Is Full of Regret · · Score: 1

    Same thing with the local
    Paper Mill
    Coal Plant
    Steel Mill
    Car Manufacturing
    Military bases

    If your income is tied to one industry then you need to evalute your future the day you start working there and prepare for the day when it isn't.

  2. Que The Yomiuri Shimbun formally The Daily Yomiuri on NYT Publisher Says Not Focusing on Engineering Was A Serious Mistake · · Score: 1

    Now here was a paper who was forward thinking. Just like Japanese car makers never make excuses they just execute.
    Japan knew the Internet was going to make a lot of content obsolete and so they started to release CD's of their news archives.
    Shortly after that they started to produce an online version of their newspaper. WOW how novel!
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yomiuri_Shimbun

    The NewYork Times failed to Execute now they will be Executed.

  3. Hire me! on Amazon Hiring More Than a 100 Who Can Get Top Secret Clearances · · Score: 1

    I can pass the TOP SECRECT clearance exam! whats the job pay? it would have to be in the $250K range to be worth my while.

  4. Re:I don't know about the 'cluster' mailboxes. on Door-To-Door Mail Delivery To End Under New Plan · · Score: 1

    How many "Fucking's" does it take to make your point? the USPS was hemmoraging money for years. no bill was going to save them, no ammount of money was going to save them. It's a goverment agency run amok just like the other beaucratic agencys.

  5. The question is do you want to be a DBA? on Ask Slashdot: Getting Exchange and SQL Experience? · · Score: 1

    You have a CCNA and you are only getting paid 30k? UH I hate to tell you this but you should be in the 60k Range. If you are not MOVE to where the jobs are.
    You are exactly right you are getting paid peanuts. Let me impart my IT wisdom upon you. You work 40 hours a week and they pay you for 40 hours a week.
    That is called an even. You worked you got paid.

    Don't waste your life at a company who doesn't value your talents. Sure money isn't everything but make sure you are getting maximum benefit for your output.
    Don't work at companies who don't upgrade their equipment. You will fall behind and your skills will be less marketable.
    Don't work for companies who don't value IT. That's most of them
    Don't work for companies who have old tired equipment. You don't want the 2:00am phone calls.
    Don't work for companies where you are the entire IT dept. You become the angry IT guy who is still doing Desktop support work for dumb users.

    You sir need to move now!

  6. Re:The unwritten story on Military Dolphins Discover 1800s Torpedo · · Score: 2

    So long and thanks for all the fish! If I had just one last wish, I would like a tasty fish. :)

  7. LOL old systems? on No New S-300 Air-Defense System To Syria Says Russia — But Maybe Old Ones · · Score: 1

    How about once the Syrians and that's a big if they ever get them up and running, they don't want Stealth fighters making mincemeat out of their so called technological advantage or the newest systems falling into CIA hands to be dissected and a new generation jamming pod being developed.

  8. Obligatory on United States Begins Flying Stealth Bombers Over South Korea · · Score: 1

    I'm So Ronery
      So ronery
      So ronery and sadry arone

    There's no one
      Just me onry
      Sitting on my rittle throne
    I work rearry hard and make up great prans
      But nobody ristens, no one understands
      Seems like no one takes me serirousry

    And so I'm ronery
      A rittle ronery
      Poor rittle me

    There's nobody
      I can rerate to
      Feel rike a bird in a cage
    It's kinda sihry
      But not rearry
      Because it's fihring my body with rage

    I'm the smartest most crever most physicarry fit
      But nobody else seems to rearize it
      When I change the world maybe they'll notice me
    But until then I'rr just be ronery
      Rittle ronery, poor rittle me

    I'm so ronery

  9. Total BS on US Cyber Command Discloses Offensive Cyberwarfare Capabilities · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    What kind of subtrifuge bullshit is this?

    Does this go along the same lines of "the dangerous Satellite could leak hydrazine if it hit the Earth and we need to shoot it down with a Destroyer mounted Sea to space missle?
    I guess it will now be OK if the U.S. openly tells the world to prepare for the U.S. to strike by cyber attack.

  10. Same old crap on President Obama Calls For New 'Space Race' Funding · · Score: 1

    Blah blah blah Jobs. Blah blah blah LGBT, blah blah blah Gun Control, blah blah Education, blah blah......

    Hit all the talking points so nobody is left out. Still nothing is being done except to spend us into oblivion.

  11. Learn how to code yourself on Ask Slashdot: How To Convince a Team To Write Good Code? · · Score: 1

    You will never convince your team to write better code if you cannot review thier code and throw it back in their face.

    Also your QA person should be slapping thier dick in the dirt.

  12. It's a dick in a box! on Ask Slashdot: How Do I Get My Spouse To Start Gaming With Me? · · Score: 1

    First! You get a Box
    Two Cut a hole in it
    Three but your dick in a box.

  13. Al Jazeera English on Al Jazeera Gets a US Voice · · Score: 1

    I was very impressed with their news coverage and their specials. I managed to catch a lot of their shows.

    In fact it reminded me of CNN of old, Now CNN broadcasts lots of YouTube videos and uses that as news.

  14. Welcome to the 21st century on FCC Smooths the Path For Airlines' In-Flight Internet · · Score: 1

    The FAA, they always seem to be on that leading edge of change.

  15. Ethanol and corn on The New Ethanol Blend May Damage Your Vehicle · · Score: 1

    Did yah ever think farmers were going to stop producing corn for food and instead make themselves rich selling thier food to make fuel?
    Food prices would of course go up since so much of our food contains corn.
    The shortage of corn for food would make the farmers rich on both ends.
    What is the cost to make 1 gallon of Ethanol? Time+materials+ labor = 2 gallons of Diesel to make 1 gallon of Ethanol?

    If Ehtanol is so great how come it's not used in the Aviation industry?

    Hooray!

  16. Why? on Datagram Recovers From 'Apocalyptic' Flooding During Sandy · · Score: 5, Insightful

    If you questioned why and you still placed your companies life in that data center you should be fired for stupidity.

    It's the same reason I won't place my companies data at a DC in a crowded downtown area. Sporting events, politcial events, terrorist events.

    If you say you don't have a choice then you haven't thought of alternative means. Cloud, managed hosting, or a more weather stable state.

    Lower Manhattan is pretty much land filled area and 911 showed how vulnerable the WTC was below ground. They were extremely concenred about the Hudson flooding lower Manhattan.

    Again if you placed your companies data at a DC in lower Manhattan you should be fired.

  17. Access? on Ask Slashdot: Management Software For Small Independent ISP? · · Score: 1

    Why are you using access?

    I suggest you get either MySQL or MSSQL to manage your contacts before you find yourself wishing you had put all that data on a real database. Oh wait you are starting to see that already.

    Solarwinds?
    What are you copying and pasting? You must be looking for some sort of CRM.
    http://www.insidecrm.com/articles/crm-blog/the-top-10-opensource-crm-solutions-53507/

    You say you are wroking for this small ISP? That means they are also paying you small. If they haven't figured out how they are going to support a larger customer base then leave before the ship sinks. Don't stay loyal to stupid people. The promise of stocks went out during the dot bomb era.

  18. Auction? on Hounded By Recruiters, Coders Put Themselves Up For Auction · · Score: 3, Insightful

    What is happening is you are running into the sales game. Don't think just because someone is caling you that they have a job for you.
    I am not going to go into percentages here but a good number of these so called offers are B.S.

    They are sales people. They are doing what they are suposed to quote un quote do what sales people do in a cold calling envrionemnt. It's the numbers game.
    They get paid if they get some sort of information from you. Even a referal get's them a stale Twinkee of the week award.
    They don't read your resume, because if they did they would offer you a interview appointment right then and there.
    Or if they do ofer you an interview appointment it's to come to thier boiler room operation where all you hear are noisy phone calls and no privacy. it's like walking into an H&R tax office so that people who are waiting arround can hear what you make and what deductions you can't take.

    Don't waste your time. Don't even give them more than 1 min on the phone.

    Here is how a successful phone call should work.

    Ring ring.
    Hello?
    Hello Mr. so and so. I was looking over you resume and I am interested in your skills. We have a position open at a company _______ fill in the blank.
    Starting Salary $$ benefits and whatever else they have to offer.
    What would be the best time for you to come in for the interview?

    If they don't have that down just hang up.

    People love to waste your time. In fact there would be more millionares per capita if people were paid on the sole premise to waste your freaking time.

    This is a bogus article because if you put yourself up for auction you arent going to get any offers and in fact I don't think people have the time to play let's see who we can get for X ammount of dollars. You better be a well known superstar if you think you can offer yourself to the highest bidder.

    Most large organizations have outsourced your so called superstar programming experience to India anyway. These companies don't care if they get a workable product that serves the customer, all they care about is how quick thier project gets launched and how much money they saved up front. It's the same stupid shortsighted bullshit that American cars manufactures use. get the product out at all costs and when the recall happens fire the head of the engineering division because we decided to go with the low ball 20 cent micro switch over the $1.00 one that causes parking brakes to disenguage.

  19. Another Moron on Man Arrested At Oakland Airport For Ornate Watch · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Gee let me wear this contraption that will garner all sorts of attention.

    I can understand someones desire to express his art but to do it in an airport with TSA screeners who are basically highschool push outs is just fucking stupid.
    I guess he can express his creativity in a public holding cell, see if they give a fuck about your expressionism.

  20. Poor security standards on Hacker Grabs 150k Adobe User Accounts Via SQL Injection · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Poor network security standards.

    A simple Web Application Firewall would have prevented that.

    If they can't do something as simple as secure thier own website, thier products are even worse.

  21. Re:Celebrity CEOs on Elon Musk Will Usher In the Era of Electric Cars · · Score: 1

    Uh you have a choice. Don't work there. seems like a fairly obvious solution to the issue. Start your own company and see if it survives on hopes and dreams, a kinder, gentler company.

  22. Re:Google Police on Google Nexus 4 Prototype Lost In a Bar · · Score: 1

    It's all about how cool I look with a phone nobody else has. Like it's going to help them pick up chicks. Here is a tip for all those Apple nubs and now Google nubs who think taking a prototype phone to a bar is going to get you laid.

    Open your mouth and say. Hello, my name is _________.
    Take it from there.

  23. Another skill we will only get underpaid for on System Admins Should Know How To Code · · Score: 2, Funny

    The ammount of skills Network admins should know and still get paid a 10th of what we are worth is ridiculous.

    I should be making close to 300k a year, Do you think any company would pay that?

    So now I need to add codder to the resume which will effectively fall on my shoulders to maintain code? Bad idea.

    I guess I should be happy and count my lucky stars that I have a job?

    The one thing I have noticed in companies that Sales weasels get paid a lot more money than I and the responsibility lies on the network admin to keep it all running.

  24. How about another planet? on Next Mars Mission Selected For Funding · · Score: 1

    Time to start looking for another planet. Great success there on Mars time to take another leap for mankind and land on something more interesting.

  25. WTS 1982 C-64 on Commodore 64 turns 30 · · Score: 1

    I still have my 1982 commodore 64 in it's original box.

    Anyone want to buy it?