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  1. Re:reflects well on Torvalds Uses Profanity To Lambaste Romney Remarks · · Score: 1

    So, being drunk at 4 PM daily is called hard work when you are president?

  2. Re:Fortunately, Romney isn't a Democrat on Torvalds Uses Profanity To Lambaste Romney Remarks · · Score: 0

    Lots of scientist are perpetual childs

  3. Re:Unity's pretty good on Ubuntu Will Now Have Amazon Ads Pre-Installed · · Score: 1

    I am the sysadmin kind of power user, my desktop icons are useless since anything I would want is available much faster from CLI or with shortcuts and autocompletion (with tab), so, for non power users I can understand relying on dektop icons to overcome memory limitations, but that's about it, as soon as yor desktop env. keeps you off from getting more efficient it is time to search for a new one.

  4. Re:"a number of user interface designers" on Designers Criticize Apple's User Interface For OS X and iOS · · Score: 1

    Man, I am a linux guy for more than a decade and I cannot find a damn thing in gnome! They did a great job making dificult to do the most basic tasks, as changing desktops or finding a particular opened terminal between desktops

  5. Re:Not like most linux users! on Ask Slashdot: Where To Report Script Kiddies and Other System Attacks? · · Score: 1

    This method will slowdown stupid attacks, those that would failbecause of password policies, etc. It is trivial to detect ssh service over any port, so dont foolyourself thinking that you are safer being uncnfortable, you will be hacked in no time if a real cracker is interested in your info.

  6. Re:some places have the walmart attitude of no OT on Workers Working An Extra 20 Hours a Week Thanks To BYOD · · Score: 1

    I started to work late, at 30, Im about to be 38 and starting my 5 job using that very same technique, but I dont plan to keep going like that much longer.

    And my point stands, I do my best to keep being competitive, but a lot of people does not have the education or the opportunities, and they risk a lot by refusing to do after hours and stuff.

  7. Re:Cry me a river... on Workers Working An Extra 20 Hours a Week Thanks To BYOD · · Score: 1

    Also you can work for a wage that covers any extra work you would normally do, that way you are always being overpaid :)

  8. Re:some places have the walmart attitude of no OT on Workers Working An Extra 20 Hours a Week Thanks To BYOD · · Score: 1

    As fool as it sounds, unemployment rates are high enough that a lot of us have to worry about being laid off just to check if our "lack of commitment" can be improved by getting a new "half the paycheck" guy into the team.

    Also, I work for the largest university in Mexico, it is public, and does not actually contemplate extra hours, so there is no way I can ask them for it, and still there are (few) cases when there is no way to avoid working a little offtime, so I would have to trade getting my time a value against not actually working in one of the best places I could work in my country

    On the good side, I have a somewhat flexible work time, I can say I will be offsite a couple of days in a course Im interested on without much trouble.

  9. Re:Mars on Ask Slashdot: What's the Best Place To Relocate? · · Score: 1

    Damn hell, it will burn us no matter what!

  10. Re:Hackerspace != Political Correct on Is Sexual Harassment Part of Hacker Culture? · · Score: 1

    You are full of crap.

    A hacker is telling you that :)

  11. Re:iTunes is great on Google To Start Punishing Pirate Sites In Search Results · · Score: 1

    I havent used amarok for years, never have used rithmbox and still keep on seeing movies and listening music on linux all the time without any trouble

    Linux sucks, I know

  12. Re:They Didn't Pull This Kind of Muscle on Kim Dotcom Raid - What Really Happened · · Score: 1

    No wonder the world is in the current conditions

  13. Re:They Didn't Pull This Kind of Muscle on Kim Dotcom Raid - What Really Happened · · Score: 1

    Wish i had mod points

  14. Re:8 years ago... on Ask Slashdot: Best Way To Take Notes In the Modern Classroom? · · Score: 1

    I studied chemistry, what worked for me was to actually concentrate on what was being told by teachers, if I needed to recap from notes, I would copy the ones my girlfriend or any other classmate took and be done.

    I have always thought that taking notes keeps you from actually learning while the best opportunity is happening, the actual class.

  15. Re:Forced Upgrades? on Why We Love Firefox, and Why We Hate It · · Score: 1

    Even isng debian full time, in my past job (4months ago) I had to install a grease monkey script that broke an ITS system we use there somewhere around FF 4 IIRC.

    I stoped using FF a couple of years ago, even when chrome is not what I would expect, it is way much better... Sad

  16. Re:Top 5 Reasons Not to Outsource to US on Mexican Hotel Chain Outsources IT To US · · Score: 1

    0. They will outsource IT jobs to third world countries anyway

  17. Re:The most used ten chords on Study Finds New Pop Music Does All Sound the Same · · Score: 1

    Music and poetry are not plain data, so diversity plays an important role, and even taking into account all variations outside pure notes, there is no doubt that music is getting more repetitive by the ... Decade?, still, people likes it so it must not be a great tragedy

  18. Re:The most used ten chords on Study Finds New Pop Music Does All Sound the Same · · Score: 1

    So, pop music will converge to morse code...

  19. Re:The most used ten chords on Study Finds New Pop Music Does All Sound the Same · · Score: 1

    4! Vs. 26!

  20. Re:The first rule of controlling a market... on Author Claims Apple Won't Carry Her ebook Because It Mentions Amazon · · Score: 1

    You are mostly right, except for the fact that apple is being using unfair rules to affect amazon and in the mean time is also affecting the author of the book, that is exactly as bad as a religious store selling debbie does dallas, not the opposite

  21. Re:Location, Location, Location. on Fighting the iCrime Wave · · Score: 1

    Ipad/iphone earphones are at most ok, I dont perfect hearing and can notice that, buy any brand of earphones and make a double win

  22. Re:Not me! on The Nation Is Losing Its Toolbox · · Score: 1

    There are quite a few reasons for it, specially if you handle more than a few boxes, you dont want to keep a big stock of idle servers just to avoid fixing simple failures or you wont wait 1 week for a new broughtserver to arrive while your mailserver is down

  23. Not me! on The Nation Is Losing Its Toolbox · · Score: 1, Funny

    I can build a computer !

    Of course, Im 38

  24. Re:Both Sides on Finding Fault With Anti-Fracking Science Claims · · Score: 1

    I rather invest in steel than in medics and drugs for cancer and weird kinds of poisoning... Just commenting... Any corporation will prefer the later since it wont be their money being invested on medics and drugs

  25. Re:Both Sides on Finding Fault With Anti-Fracking Science Claims · · Score: 1

    I dont know much about the current actual mix used for fracking, but they used to use some very harmless polysacharides that couldnt hurt much our healt besides being very good food for bacteria and fungus. I can see the common sense of oil companies migrating from that to anything toxic in a heartbeat just to squeeze one or two more percent points on "productivity" though...