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  1. Re:Whatever games they chose?? on Swedish Dad Takes Gamer Kids To Warzone · · Score: 1

    I wish I had mod points!!!!

  2. Re:Gettin All Up In Yo Biznis on Swedish Dad Takes Gamer Kids To Warzone · · Score: 2

    While this is sarcasm, lots of kids today are soft and don't equate hard work to earning something. They don't value half of what they have. Heck, they have little concept of why education is important. Too much instant gratification over trivial things.

  3. Re:Contact Us on Ask Slashdot: Why Are Online Job Applications So Badly Designed? · · Score: 1

    Or worse, designed by the HR department using FrontPage or Word. Or asking the intern or PFY to do it using WordPress or some other painful environment

  4. Great article!!! on TEPCO: Nearly All Nuclear Fuel Melted At Fukushima No. 3 Reactor · · Score: 1

    This needs mod points!!!!

  5. Re:So.. what? on TEPCO: Nearly All Nuclear Fuel Melted At Fukushima No. 3 Reactor · · Score: 1

    I think that's the syndrome where all of USA imports contain lead or other toxic chemicals.

    In other random thoughts, this would a great way for Japan to get rid of their waste.... just export it super cheat to USA in all their products. Maybe in that generations PlayStation and call it the PS-235.

  6. Re:So.. what? on TEPCO: Nearly All Nuclear Fuel Melted At Fukushima No. 3 Reactor · · Score: 1

    in USA there was an uptick in something called a Lebron. I haven't figured out what it was, and frankly since the world didn't melt down, I figure it was irrelephant.

  7. Re:Geography of panama vs nicaragua on With Chinese Investment, Nicaraguan Passage Could Dwarf Panama Canal · · Score: 1

    But if the lake drains out as ships pass through, wouldn't there need to be a fresh water intake? At some point there has to be a balancing.

    Heck, species invasions alone should have environmentalists up in arms.

  8. wouldn't these have to be weatherproofed? on NFL Players To Use Tablet Computers During Games · · Score: 1

    I'm just pondering a waterproof case and or something to keep them warm in the cold snowy climate games

  9. Re:Good Thing on Inside BitFury's 20 Megawatt Bitcoin Mine · · Score: 1

    Good gravy, these people would flip out if they can't cash out at the end.

    With the amount of money poured into bitcoins no one wants to be left holding the bag if the bottom were to fall out. So people will argue to keep it alive.

    I'm not saying that is a good or bad thing. All forms of currency and devaluations are like that.

  10. Re:20 megawatts on Inside BitFury's 20 Megawatt Bitcoin Mine · · Score: 2

    Am wondering if this is a broken window argument

  11. Re:Hire More Devs on Ask Slashdot: When Is It Better To Modify the ERP vs. Interfacing It? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    EXACTLY THIS!

    For the love of all that is sane, make external interfaces.

    This has the added benefit of providing an easy to find definition of your non ERP standardized business practices.

    If the data belongs in the ERP, it should be managed in the ERP. If it is not, that means your ERP configuration is missing important business workflows and practices. The more the ERP breaks, the less people trust it, and the more they try to do outside of it. Your ERP should not have several feeders of business rules data.

    It is one thing for the external interfaces to have good data, and send good data. It is another to bury all the source data in separate apps. I'm just imaging 100 little spreadsheets and Access databases propagating bad information across each other. This value means this is Billy Bob's spreadsheet but in Peggy Sue it should be this value.

    AHHHHHHH

  12. Re:Recent purchases/downloads on Is the App Store Broken? · · Score: 1

    How about a date range option. Something like Monthly, Yearly, All Time.

    It'd be great if there was an option to see best apps from year to year.

  13. Re:Neither on Which Is Better, Adblock Or Adblock Plus? · · Score: 1

    At some point open source code needs revenue. Otherwise things like Heartbleed happen and then everyone complains that the biggest users of the open source aren't contributing back to the program to support it.

    I'd rather have a couple of ads than have to remember to pay an annual fee to /., xda, and a bazillion other sites I visit.

  14. Re:Southwest Boarding Policies on Man Booted From Southwest Flight and Threatened With Arrest After Critical Tweet · · Score: 1

    The proper response the flight attendant should have made was tweeting back: We apologize for inconveniencing the other 200 people who followed proper boarding procedure. Have a nice day.

  15. Re:Tell me how... on Man Booted From Southwest Flight and Threatened With Arrest After Critical Tweet · · Score: 1

    Apparently anything involving twitter is (checks top again) transportation related??? Huh?

  16. Re:Execute everyone responsible on Man Booted From Southwest Flight and Threatened With Arrest After Critical Tweet · · Score: 2

    depends. Are they backseat chair kickers?

  17. Re:SW Should Pay! on Man Booted From Southwest Flight and Threatened With Arrest After Critical Tweet · · Score: 1

    So are you talking about the passenger or the attendant? Cause that works both ways.

    And at that rate everything will start being video taped for court records, etc.

    Big brother every where because two individuals can't act like mature adults.

    And if the father turns out to be the bigger a-hole in the issue, who ultimately loses?

    Heck, overall, the only people who win are the lawyers. The rest of us end up paying higher airline tickets to cover the costs of stupid lawsuits.

  18. Re:Obligatory Slashdot knee jerk on Man Booted From Southwest Flight and Threatened With Arrest After Critical Tweet · · Score: 1

    The less people who fly SWA, especially with kids, the more attractive it becomes to those who don't care or don't have kids.

    hee hee...

  19. Re:RUDEST PASSENGER EVER on Man Booted From Southwest Flight and Threatened With Arrest After Critical Tweet · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Not disagreeing, but clarifying

    The way I read it, he had a 1st class ticket, but his kids were traveling economy. So he was trying to board them at the same time as first class, even though they were not.

    On his other leg, the boarding agent allowed it. But on this portion the boarding agents disagreed.

    So, rather than recognizing that the other agent had been extra nice granting him a privilege, he disparaged the one who followed the rules.

    I'm sure there is more to the story, but the whole thing won't come out cause SW and the agent won't say anything else.

    I also don't doubt that someone went a little excessive, but I suspect both sides overreacted.

  20. Re:Customer service? on Man Booted From Southwest Flight and Threatened With Arrest After Critical Tweet · · Score: 0

    THIS!!!!!

  21. Re:Streams will run dry on Western US States Using Up Ground Water At an Alarming Rate · · Score: 1

    I don't want to live in a world without bacon...

  22. Re:Colorado has California over a barrel on Western US States Using Up Ground Water At an Alarming Rate · · Score: 0

    No problem. Just give them another NHL hockey team. They'll be too distracted to notice the water disappearing.

  23. Re:Bugs... on "Magic Helmet" For F-35 Ready For Delivery · · Score: 1

    Another flying bus!!! So much for Col John Boyd and the E-M modeling...

    History, we don't need to learn no history!

  24. Re:Biden is talking coding?? on VP Biden Briefs US Governors On H-1B Visas, IT, and Coding · · Score: 1

    Biden: What does this big shiny red button do? I guess I'll push it and find out. Hmm... Nothing is happening. I'll just keep pushing it.

  25. No kidding on Buying New Commercial IT Hardware Isn't Always Worthwhile (Video) · · Score: 2

    And the sad part is some CFO will see the video clip, override the CIO's IT Plan for updating their hardware infrastructure and then complain about a lack of 110% uptime