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  1. Re:My company just fucked us on PTO on Do Companies Punish Workers Who Take Vacations? · · Score: 1

    I'd spend the time responding to this, but if you can't even put a nickname behind your words, you don't really stand behind them.

  2. Re:Kind of disturbing on Homeless Student Is Intel Talent Search Semifinalist · · Score: 1

    Setting up a permanent underclass dependent on the government is a bad idea.

    Maybe you should focus less on your feelings and more on using your brain.

  3. Re:My company just fucked us on PTO on Do Companies Punish Workers Who Take Vacations? · · Score: 1

    How in the world is the "Tea Party" in the way?

    Their platform is smaller government, lower taxes, back to the constitution, etc.

    I'm genuinely curious to see any statements by working politicians that they'd actually be fixing things if it wasn't for the Tea Party.

  4. Re:Only in America on Do Companies Punish Workers Who Take Vacations? · · Score: 1

    It prepares you to work for yourself.

  5. Re:Ok....Coding for Everyone on "Learn To Code, Get a Job" According To CNN · · Score: 1

    I've got a niche website that I threw together using PHP about 10 years ago. I've been thinking about tossing it all out and starting over from scratch.

    I see what programming languages you *don't* recommend, what *do* your recommend?

  6. Re:And even at a discovery rate of 1 every second. on Astronomers Estimate Milky Way May Have 100 Billion Alien Worlds · · Score: 1

    It's called "Mapping".

    And if that's too slow for you, discover them at a faster rate.

  7. Brilliant! on New CO2 Harvester Could Help Scrub the Air · · Score: 5, Funny

    I was going to just plant some trees, but covering my property in plastic seems like a much better idea!

  8. Re:40,000 over 10 years? on Chance To Snap Up Your Own Observatory · · Score: 1

    Really? You've done this before? That would be fascinating to read if you've posted the details anywhere.

  9. Re:The reason is simple... on Charlie Kindel On Why Windows Phone Still Hasn't Taken Off · · Score: 1

    No it is not.

    Because everyone has experience with MS already, with their computers.

    Now ask them if they also want that kind of experience on their phones.

  10. Re:Give it to them on Ask Slashdot: Handing Over Personal Work Without Compensation? · · Score: 1

    Drive can easily be crushed by corporate rules.

    You *could* work on something to make processes better. And since you're in the middle of the work it's perfectly suited for the job.

    And then it conflicts with the goals management has decided on (but not acted on).

  11. Re:This story is a waste of time... on Melting Glaciers Cutting Peru Water Supply · · Score: 1

    Yes. It's far better to not discuss these things, and leave it up to our betters and leaders to take care of it.

    Return to your tasks.

  12. Re:Okay, this is pretty simple IMO! on Prospects Darken For Solar Energy Companies · · Score: 1

    If you've been following the housing market at all you'd know what it meant.

    It means you owe more on your house than what it's worth. example: Bought a house for 200k, and now you can only sell it for 140k. You've paid off 30k of the loan, and now you can't sell it because you still owe the bank 170k.

  13. Re:Nothing can replace that human touch, nothing! on Do E-Readers Spell the Demise Of Traditional Schooling? · · Score: 1

    Nothing can replace that face to face human touch.

    We will be building Cylons to do that.

  14. Re:Whatever happened to invitation-only discussion on What Do We Do When the Internet Mob Is Wrong? · · Score: 1

    The problem with that in reality is that it's too easy to create sock puppets.

    For a good discussion forum, you'd need to use your real name, and proof that you are you.

  15. Re:You deserve what you get... on The Painkiller That Saves Money But Costs Lives · · Score: 1

    Everyone has to pay for others to provide Medical care. Always. No system can remove that fact.

  16. Re:Ho Hum on Is Jupiter Dissolving Its Rocky Core? · · Score: 1, Funny

    NASA does basic science?

    Your bar is set...ridiculously high.

  17. Re:I don't buy it on The Painkiller That Saves Money But Costs Lives · · Score: 1

    Wow, if any post deserves the "Informative" label, it's the one above.

  18. Re:Plans to Clone - don't make me laugh so hard! on Iran Wants To Clone Downed US Drone · · Score: 1

    You have ridiculously high expectations from the US government.

    Let's just assume they could copy it and make a functional fleet. Then what? It's just a pilotless aircraft. If you're going to use it to attack someone, you'll face the same consequences.

    No magic bullets here. Just another tool, which is an extension of the user.

  19. Re:I Love the Smell of Astroturf in the Morning! on Predator Drone Helps Nab Cattle Rustlers · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Dude, the tent is full of fucking camels already.

  20. Re:Why do I get the feeling.. on TSA Facing Death By a Thousand Cuts · · Score: 1

    Oh hell no. You're not going to turn this onto some kind of anti-obama thing.

    After the attacks, there were a lot of people that wanted us to "Do something". They trusted the Government to do it right.

    Well, they're not. And it's taken that long to spread out through the populace. AND we're facing a severe budget crunch.

    Here's an idea, when you start seeing a groundswell of people who are against something that you're against, go with it. Unless you're for the TSA? That's the only reason I can think of that you're complaining now.

    I want the screening in airports gone. Air test for explosives at the most.

  21. That doesn't sound right... on Earth's Core Made In Miniature · · Score: 1

    You can get molten sodium at 105C?

  22. Re:Example: those rentacoder websites on Does Outsourcing Programming Really Save Money? · · Score: 1

    I had to do this for a web store I was working on. The problem was no one knew the software except for some guy in Thailand.

    So, 300$. And I had to send it back so it had more than just "Full name" and "Card #" as input fields.

  23. Re:Isn't that kind of the point? on Iran's Military Claims To Have Downed US Surveillance Drone · · Score: 1

    If that's not how things work, then this Slashdot article wouldn't exist.

  24. Re:Isn't that kind of the point? on Iran's Military Claims To Have Downed US Surveillance Drone · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Forbidden? Really?

    It actually says "This is forbidden!"?

    Toss it under the "Aggressive acts" that countries do to each other all the time. For instance, Iran has been training and supplying people to fight in Iraq against US troops.

  25. Re:It's the software stupid on First Quad-Core Android Tablet Reviewed · · Score: 3, Funny

    Man, if only Google had money. They they could PAY developers to build apps for Android.