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  1. Re: Hi, I'm ageism personified. I hate peers. on Ask Slashdot: What's the Best Way to Retrain Old IT Workers? · · Score: 1

    At the 30 year mark someone "sold them" on this idea to switch to Linux/MAC.

    Meanwhile 28 years ago things were chugging along in the windows world
    like it is at MOST companies.

    So maybe 1 year ago there was rumors this was coming.

    At the time of the change they had little to no warning and it side swiped them.

    I think they will find most of the non-IT workers are also unfamiliar with MAC/Linux.

    I think they will have to go thru a transitional period in this scenario.

    The fact that the gender of the manager changed midstream in this anonymous post
    makes me think a troll needs to polish his trolling a bit.

  2. Re:Fire them. on Ask Slashdot: What's the Best Way to Retrain Old IT Workers? · · Score: 1

    Sending a message to others by using a sharp and hungry axe as management tool.

    The rest of the employees will think "who is next ?"

    Some will think I need to work harder and learn more to maximize the billionaires billions.

    Others will think "The grass is greener on the other side." and prepare for their "transistion".

    I have gotten to the point when the "blame the workers" crowd goes ballistic I get happy,
    because I might get the chance to work with good people instead of "hatchet men".

  3. Re:For crying out loud on Ask Slashdot: What's the Best Way to Retrain Old IT Workers? · · Score: 1

    Good catch.

  4. Re:For crying out loud on Ask Slashdot: What's the Best Way to Retrain Old IT Workers? · · Score: 1

    Often the people in charge of the IT department have a lot of management experience,
    but not much IT experience. Some companies even take pride that their team managers
    know zero about IT, and think its a benefit.

    I won't name names for obvious reasons.

    But If the ppl running the machine don't understand it, the results are predictable
    when they tell the ppl that do to only do what the uninformed say.

  5. Re:What's the point? on Ask Slashdot: What's the Best Way to Retrain Old IT Workers? · · Score: 2

    You don't want it anonymous so you can chase someone down ?

    You need to "punish" the poster ?

    The issue can be addressed without knee jerking into the blame game.

  6. Re: What's the point? Here's the point on Ask Slashdot: What's the Best Way to Retrain Old IT Workers? · · Score: 2

    I call that a project manager. He may not have the PMP, but he has been doing that job.

    Might see if he'd night class it and make it happen, and offer a pay bump for doing it.

    "real" project managers can keep projects from failing, thou there are a lot of paper ones out there.

  7. Re:So... on Bitcoin Nears $17,000 After Climbing About $4,000 in Less Than a Day · · Score: 1

    It is not overbought if it is the most common method of exchange for the dark web,
    and the dark web happens to be the largest and fastest growing segment of
    the unregulated economy.

    The dark web and bit coin are linked, and this is capitalism without government meddling for now.

    I expect a crackdown when they realize the "FULL" implications of what I said above.

    The rigged economy is being bypassed.

  8. Re:So... on Bitcoin Nears $17,000 After Climbing About $4,000 in Less Than a Day · · Score: 1

    Not just drugs, but also many other illegal things.

    Its allows privacy or the illusion of it where as credit cards transactions are all tracked.

    The dark web is full of different "products" that are illegal in some countries and not others.

    That is the new market place, BTC is the currency for now, and this will continue even
    after they try their futures scam like they do with fake paper gold dumping on the markets
    at a ratio that exceeds real physical gold on the planet by 500 to 1.

  9. Re:So... on Bitcoin Nears $17,000 After Climbing About $4,000 in Less Than a Day · · Score: 1

    Paper dollars are printed out of thin air backed by housing and wall street fraud.

    Gold backing and silver backing are long gone.

    The petro dollar scheme is linked to oil which is being phased out albeit slowly.

    The game is not exactly the same, but they have a lot in common.

    In the end printing $65 billion a month of US dollars backed by nothing is a bigger racket.

  10. Re:More important quote from Krebs on Bitcoin Nears $17,000 After Climbing About $4,000 in Less Than a Day · · Score: 1

    The inherent value of fiat currency was shown in Zimbabwe.

    I think toilet paper was worth more "in the end" because it did its job better.

    Pun intended.

  11. Re:Is there a way to do real work? on 'Bitcoin Could Cost Us Our Clean-Energy Future' (grist.org) · · Score: 1

    Also some ppl are connecting their bitcoin rigs to low cost wind power and solar power, etc.

    Could see a livestock farmer using a methane digester setup.

    Going to be setting up a low cost wind generator here to do it.

  12. Re:Is there a way to do real work? on 'Bitcoin Could Cost Us Our Clean-Energy Future' (grist.org) · · Score: 1

    Clean power is there, its just not being utilized.

    Ocean current based:

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
    http://www.smh.com.au/articles...

    binary geothermal:

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

    1% of jet stream could replace all forms of power on earth:

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

    1960's LFTR nuclear reactor design that fails safe passively via a freeze plug and doesn't use rods:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

    It also will take 90% of the worlds nuclear waste and turn it into energy and produce
    P-238 for space programs that need it and its running low.

    The current energy "racket" is about making a small number of ppl insanely wealthy.

    Some of the reason there is push back against ppl going "off grid".

  13. Re:Wait for better robots on How To Take Apart Fukushima's 3 Melted-Down Reactors · · Score: 1

    Also RT covered the Europium:

    http://rt.com/op-edge/chernoby...

    Now you can say they are no better, but do you really want to tell us to
    trust the "operation mockingbird" media ?

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O...

  14. Re:Wait for better robots on How To Take Apart Fukushima's 3 Melted-Down Reactors · · Score: 1

    But I think Japan's best bet for stable power is likely something like the Aquanator,
    and Geothermal.

    http://atlantisresourcesltd.co...

  15. Re:Will this be cheaper? on How To Take Apart Fukushima's 3 Melted-Down Reactors · · Score: 1

    Agreed, they can learn from what they went thru at Chernobyl.

    No need to reinvent the wheel except in a case where it can be proven as viable.

    I think one thing that might make it cheaper for them would be hybrid concrete called
    papercrete.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

  16. Re:UnStAbLe on How To Take Apart Fukushima's 3 Melted-Down Reactors · · Score: 0

    Printing $65 billion a month is the only reason the US hasn't had a Economic collapse.

    The US is technically bankrupt if it was run as a business.

    Back in 2010 the FDIC even had a negative balance sheet.

    The US in financial terms can't rescue a little girl's lemonade stand except
    by printing more funny money.

    The only reason it is working now is due to the faith of all the ppl on the treadmill.

  17. Re:Wait for better robots on How To Take Apart Fukushima's 3 Melted-Down Reactors · · Score: 1

    Fresnel CSP is cheap, and has a denser area coverage.

    It can be built for half as much as parabolic trough, and the price is
    continuing to drop. Once most of it can be 3d printed it will drop
    even faster.

    http://social.csptoday.com/tec...

  18. Re:Wait for better robots on How To Take Apart Fukushima's 3 Melted-Down Reactors · · Score: 2

    They may not be perfect, but they have posted information the Japanese government
    lied about then it later came out to be true.

    So at a minimum they are often forcing the corrupt government and corrupt Tepco to
    tell the truth sometimes, I think its impossible to get them to tell the truth all the time.

  19. Re:Why haven't they deployed on How To Take Apart Fukushima's 3 Melted-Down Reactors · · Score: 1

    Is that copy what they did at Chernobyl ?

  20. Re:I have a plan on How To Take Apart Fukushima's 3 Melted-Down Reactors · · Score: 1

    Nuclear power can be done as was shown with the US navy, but it requires
    spending lots of money, and the problem with it as a utility is the bean
    counters start bypassing safety.

    But in the case of Fukushima stuxnet also got involved...

    http://www.nuc.berkeley.edu/no...

  21. Re:Wait for better robots on How To Take Apart Fukushima's 3 Melted-Down Reactors · · Score: 1

    Well said, one of the moderate surprises was Europium.

    http://enenews.com/japan-exper...

    Some are saying the exclusion zone should be a bit bigger based on this info.

  22. Re:Take That, Capitalists! on Water Filtration With a Tree Branch · · Score: 1

    In the case of Purell, its Triclosan that is an issue.

    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...

    Maybe they have removed it, maybe not.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

    On its own its not the worst threat in the environment, but when you add it along with
    others the combined threat is pretty bad and would explain the reduction of quality of
    health compared to some other nations.

  23. Re:Most common pathogens on Water Filtration With a Tree Branch · · Score: 1

    Access to the sky for water is free in most states though a few totalitarian
    nut job states like Colorado make it illegal to collect water that falls on your roof....

  24. Re:First time? on Water Filtration With a Tree Branch · · Score: 1

    Maybe it was shunned in the pursuit of making money ? LOL

  25. Re:First time? on Water Filtration With a Tree Branch · · Score: 2

    There are other methods like slow sand filter, bio sand filter, and solar disinfection.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

    Thou with SODIS use glass if you can do to the endocrine disruptors BPA and BPS
    being in most plastic bottles.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...