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  1. Trades... on Ask Slashdot: Future-Proof Jobs? · · Score: 1

    PROFOUNDLY DISCONNECTED®?

    * A trillion dollars in student loans.

    * Record high unemployment.

    * Three million good jobs that no one seems to want.

    The goal of Profoundly Disconnected® is to challenge the absurd belief that a four-year degree is the only path to success. The Skills Gap is here, and if we don't close it, it'll swallow us all. Which is a long way of saying, we could use your help...

    http://profoundlydisconnected....

  2. Can you hear it? on Making an Autonomous Car On a Budget · · Score: 1

    The sounds of US lawyers smacking their lips with anticipation upon the first accident with a self-driving car and a human.

  3. Actually it's good news since... on Great White Sharks Making Comeback Off Atlantic Coast · · Score: 1

    The seal population has been running unchecked for decades now. I just hope that people don't go all anti-shark when more people are mistaken for seals and get attacked. Sorry but you are swimming in their habitat, expect you might get confused for food.

  4. Re: ...if impurity levels grow with time. on Greenland Is Getting Darker · · Score: 4, Informative

    Scientists have generally attributed that darkening to larger, slightly less white snow grains caused by warmer temperatures.

    Actually I cannot believe that scientists are that stupid. Maybe they should visit here in Winnipeg Canada where we see this every year from the tonnes of sand they put on our streets in the winter. As warmer temps rise the snow banks go from white piles to brown/grey mud piles and as more snow melts the darker it gets and the faster it melts.

    No wonder people doubt climate change when scientists say things like this.

    The only thing that can reduce it is if the melt water floats/washes the impurities way.

    Actual in 90% of the time this is not the case, we get rain in the spring with the piles of mud and all it does is causes the snow pack to compress more (unless the snow pack is already compressed).

  5. Re:Never use the wifi at an airport on Free Wi-Fi Coming To Atlanta's Airport · · Score: 5, Insightful

    You realize that there are private companies that collect *way* more information about you than the NSA does and they sell it to whomever wants to buy it.

    Oh wait I forgot this is /.

    Sorry move along...

  6. Coding in a closet at a fashion company on Ask Slashdot: Where's the Most Unusual Place You've Written a Program From? · · Score: 1

    This was over 15 years ago now but the company didn't have any place to put me so it ended up being an unused closet with no air conditioning (but heat) a small desk/chair and a LAN cable. It also happened to be beside the fitting room where they test wear prototype garments. Suffice to say they eventually forgot that I was working in there a couple of times and I had a pretty good view of a couple of models changing clothes, no nudity (just down to underwear). Because I was around the company so much I guess they figured that I was an employee or something and not a contractor so the models would always shrug it off and never complain.

  7. Considering the recent recalls... on Ford's Bringing Adaptive Steering To the Masses · · Score: 2

    Ford recall affects Ford Escape and Mercury models from 2008 through 2011 model years and some 2011-2013 Ford Explorer models. The Ford recall was made due to issues with electric power steering systems.

    http://www.csmonitor.com/Business/In-Gear/2014/0530/Ford-recall-includes-914-000-Escape-Explorer-SUVs-with-power-steering-issue

    Really Ford?

  8. I can see the first player/owner now.... on Former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer Buys the LA Clippers For $2 Billion · · Score: 1

    "Players" "Players" "Players" "Players" "Players"

  9. Re: Uh oh on The Andromeda Galaxy Just Had a Bright Gamma Ray Event · · Score: 1

    Unless it was some kind of alien weapon of mass destruction and they are performing a mass genocide. I can't help think that if we are not the only life form in the universe some would be just as or more perverse than we are and have been in our history.

  10. Re: Good. on China Looks To Linux As Windows Alternative · · Score: -1

    The problem is it is unlikely that their version will ever be useful outside of China and it's not like they will be honoring the GPL at all.

  11. Re:The bigger picture on A Look at Smart Gun Technology · · Score: 1

    While not the several times a week (for toddlers) here are some not so recent stats...

    http://nyagv.org/wp-content/up...

    Personally I am not a US citizen nor do I live in the US just wanted to throw some stats out there..

  12. Re:Nginx on Netcraft: Microsoft Closing In On Apache Web Server Lead · · Score: 1

    Funny most of the phishing links I tend to investigate are actually PHP running under Apache. You think that phishers are going to pay extra for MS hosting when Linux hosting is far less and for the most part scriptable?

  13. Over 100 million downloads... on Apache OpenOffice Reaches 100 Million Downloads. Now What? · · Score: 2

    Only 1 million actual users who use it on a daily basis (I am just guessing here to prove a point). Downloads mean absolutely nothing, unless they have stats on if people actually use it and or keep it installed.

  14. Re: It is an easy call for so many of us. on Commenters To Dropbox CEO: Houston, We Have a Problem · · Score: 1

    Well if you don't want her in this world and I doubt that she is going to leave; maybe you and your cronies can leave? I mean you are soooooo.... strict in your stance and all Yeah I thought so...

  15. Re:Re:well then! on UK Government Pays Microsoft £5.5M For Extended Support of Windows XP · · Score: 1

    No they will buy cheap ass tablets/phones to do that for them and keep a Windows desktop for business/enterprise. The bottom line is that the standard Linux distributions currently out there will never be *on the desktop* popular it's pretty much a moot point.

  16. Re:Infighting: Linux's biggest weakness on Canonical's Troubles With the Free Software Community · · Score: 1

    Mobile yes, Desktop not even close...

  17. Elegant code != Good code on Ask Slashdot: What Do You Consider Elegant Code? · · Score: 2

    Most of your so called *elegant code* I have seen is either difficult to maintain or performs poorly due to the original developer trying to be a fancy pants. I can count the times on one hand that I have ever said "whoa" when looking at a piece of code.

  18. Hold on a minute... on Google Tells Glass Users Not To Be 'Creepy Or Rude' · · Score: 1

    So a company is telling purchasers what they can and cannot do with the hardware after they purchased it? Are we talking about Apple here or Google?

  19. Which goes to show how much you know... on Nokia Turns To Android To Regain Share In Emerging Markets · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Sorry but if you think that Android is free I have some land on the moon I'd like to sell you. I doubt that Nokia can just build a device and throw Android on it and it works out of the box. Nothing is that easy...

  20. Re:So what else is new? on Edward Snowden Says NSA Engages In Industrial Espionage · · Score: 1

    I think if he "spilled" too much at once most people would be overwhelmed by it all.

    More like if he released everything at once in the beginning he would have been irrelevant by now and nobody would give a rats ass about him or what he had to say.

  21. Re:Chattanooga Too on Google Fiber Launches In Provo — and Here's What It Feels Like · · Score: 1
  22. Re:Their business ... on Actually, It's Google That's Eating the World · · Score: 1

    I can see it now, as you browse the internet Google is targeting you ads about insulation and energy efficiency because your wife likes to keep the temp at 25c/78f because she is constantly cold.

  23. Re:Current PCs are good enough. on PC Shipments In 2013 See the Worst Yearly Decline In History · · Score: 1

    I realize that you have not met me but I use Win 8.1 everyday at work and love it (took a while to get used too bout the same as Win7 did from XP). Having a 3 monitors is the only way to run it, one display for Modern UI and the other two in desktop mode. I open up Windows Store Apps only on the the Modern UI display and Win32/64 apps on the desktop displays.

  24. Re:Naturally on Google Launches Android Automotive Consortium · · Score: 1

    Actually I could see it benefiting it's autonomous vehicles greatly, with Google tech in all of our cars it could detect traffic flow more easily giving the autonomous vehicles that deliver or do repetitious driving an edge.

  25. Re:I'll tell you what I'm doing ... on "Clinical Trials" For Programming Languages? · · Score: 1

    You need a million dollars, for a guy like you anyway...