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  1. Yes, for some definition of programmer on Can Anyone Become a Programmer? · · Score: 1

    Does this question really has to be asked. Yes, everyone can be taught to program a VCR given enough patience. No, ultimate achievement potential in the field will not be the same from person to person.

  2. Does it have to be one or the other? on The Danger In Exempting Wireless From Net Neutrality · · Score: 1

    Why not allocate half of available wireless network capacity to strictly nondiscriminatory use and half to unrestricted commercial trading? Pretty soon, we will have the answer as to which approach is more beneficial. My guess is both, and that the largest users of commercial spectrum wouldn't be able to initially grow and succeed without nondiscriminatory spectrum.

  3. Sensationalism on What Happens To Google Employees When They Die? · · Score: 1

    Everyone's life insurance/AD&D/long term disability benefits provide the same thing for around $10/paycheck and there is usually a base level provided at no extra cost. The biggest news here is that Google is apparently developing its own reality distortion field.

  4. If you are the kind of person... on Being Honest In Exit Interviews Is Pointless · · Score: 2

    Who can not be honest even when people are willing to listen and the chance of personal consequences is far-fetched, I have to say that your current employer is not losing anything by you living.

    Just speak your mind. The company may not put much weight on any one opinion, but they most probably do care about a statistical picture of people leaving the whole company or a specific department.

  5. Forget ADA, this is common business sense on ADA May Force Netflix To Provide Closed Captioning On Content · · Score: 1

    Movies without caption are useless for foreign language speakers, parents, parties, people who talk on the phone while watching TV. They most probably were already close captioned on DVD, so no need to pay for new original work.

    What really pisses me off is that Netflix doesn't provide close captioning on any integrated apps on TVs and Blu Ray players. So I have to drag Apple TV - the one device where they decided to get it right - from room to room any time I want to watch a movie other than in complete silence and isolation.

  6. Re:Best news ever for open software/hardware on Ubuntu Lays Plans For Getting Past UEFI SecureBoot · · Score: 1

    I didn't know you could play 1080p video on an $25 board a decade ago. But the whole point is that there will be a market for many diverse kinds of computing devices now that Windows PCs are in a walled garden and not suitable for a significant minority of customers that are still a huge market.

  7. Re:People must be blind.. on U.S. Judge Grants Apple Injunction Against Samsung Galaxy Tab · · Score: 1

    Are you telling me LG is completely disinterested in getting a small part of 100B Apple has in the bank? I find it more likely that the underlying concepts were not patentable, LG botched the patent process or the patents were in fact duly licensed.

  8. Re:People must be blind.. on U.S. Judge Grants Apple Injunction Against Samsung Galaxy Tab · · Score: 0

    You have to in fact be legally blind to equate Galaxy Tab to innovation. Samsung is a major established company. I bet they can afford some R&D to come up with a non-copycat product.

  9. Best news ever for open software/hardware on Ubuntu Lays Plans For Getting Past UEFI SecureBoot · · Score: 2

    All of a sudden, a genuine reason to buy Raspberry Pi! Sparc/PowerPC workstations and laptops back in demand as being "better for business/medicine/science" when consumer x86 hardware is restricted to tablet touchscreen OS! PC vendors pissed off by Surface offer custom desktops/laptops for running Linux and FreeBSD and without Windows 8 support!

    I for one welcome our new diverse hardware overlords.

  10. Quite the opposite on Locked-Down Tablets Endanger FLOSS For End Users · · Score: 1

    Major vendors locking down their systems open an unprecedented opportunity for commercially successful open systems. So what if 90% of users are satisfied with walled garden? 10% or even 1% of *all computer users* *worldwide* is an enormous market. Now that Microsoft doesn't support pr0n apps, every young male (and many others) will be looking for a desktop/laptop that does. And scientific/business uses of open, inexpensive hardware are endless.

  11. Re:Not Bill on History Will Revere Bill Gates and Forget Steve Jobs, Says Author · · Score: 1

    Since when do people not deserve a credit for good taste in marriage? Bill is being loyal to his family unlike his polititian namesake.

  12. Re:Bag? on RMS Robbed of Passport and Other Belongings In Argentina · · Score: 1

    No one should travel to 2nd or 3rd world godless countries. Fix your frigging country or say good bye to tourist dollars.

  13. Re:Map out a real plan on Ask Slashdot: Best Training To Rekindle a Long Tech Career? · · Score: 1

    Nobody in a big company cares (or is legally allowed to care) about size of the benefits package. They do care about a. Lack of current skills b. Demanding too high a salary relative to skills. If you can control these factors, you are gold. I would guess Java and iOS development would be great places to start.

  14. Re:Another weakness on MorphOS 3.0 Released: Refusing To Let the PPC Desktop OS Die Gracefully · · Score: 1

    Man your compiler sucks if it can't figure onethird thing out on it's own.

  15. Re:Google is doing a good thing - mostly on Google Warning Gmail Users About State-Sponsored Attacks · · Score: 1

    OUR state sponsored hacking is very hard to detect. If you lock people up just for sending tweets, don't expect them to be great hackers.

  16. .bomb on Startup Applies For 307 GTLDs · · Score: 1

    I would never give my credit card to any site outside .com hierarchy. Other TLDs reek of location in a 3rd word country with dubious law enforcement, not being able to comply with security policies of mainstream registrars or spoofing a better known company. Establish your own trademark and people will have no trouble finding you.

  17. Didn't that loser run on job creation platform? on HP To Cut 30,000 Jobs · · Score: 1

    Great job on walking the walk

  18. Planet of the Rats on Did a Genome Copying Mistake Lead To Human Intelligence? · · Score: 1

    Careful now! Maybe we should have kept these evolutionary success genes. To ourselves.

  19. Re:I'd rather swim on Australian Billionaire Plans To Build Titanic II · · Score: 2

    Have wear my hoodie crowd stay in the 3rd class. Problem solved!

  20. Practice makes perfect on Organics Can't Match Conventional Farm Yields · · Score: 1

    This is only a starting number. If we were somehow left without conventional farming as an option, we would find a way to raise yields through artificial selection of crops and other means.

  21. Why isn't venture capital given in bitcoins? on Bitcoin Mining Startup Gets $500k In Venture Capital · · Score: 1

    They should demonstrate they can use their own currency before others trust it.

  22. "Causing autism" on Do Tablets Help Children Learn? · · Score: 1

    Godness gracious, the authors of this article just single-handedly solved one of the most urgent mysteries in modern medical science! And to think of it, we were blaming vaccines the whole time!

  23. Stay away from it until we are a lot smarter on What To Do About an Asteroid That Has a 1 In 625 Chance of Hitting Us In 2040? · · Score: 1

    I hate to think where a well-intentioned mission will direct the asteroid in 624/625 cases that it's not already headed there.

  24. Re:no thanks on Ask Slashdot: Using Company Laptop For Personal Use · · Score: 1

    Believe me or not, but there are people for whom $400 or dragging two laptops in airport in addition to all other travel gear is not a trivial matter. An $10 Ubuntu USB drive is a decent compromise, and any employer who objects has a serious problem. Most will be happy with people strictly separating work and non-work use.

  25. Re:Sounds to me they are relying on fuses on Intel Offers Protection Plan For Overclockers · · Score: 1

    You are forgetting the possibility of soft fuses that can be reset or rerouted without opening the package.