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  1. Re:Part of me says, "Good!" on Employee Outsourced Programming Job To China, Spent Days Websurfing · · Score: 4, Insightful

    If you're only doing it at one place then you might be an idiot, but if as reported with this guy you're doing it at several jobs...? Suddenly you're taking home a lot more than you'd do if you were doing a real job yourself, and you're watching cat videos while doing it. If you have multiple clients who are all satisfied enough with the work your team does that they want to keep hiring you, what more do you need in a manager?

  2. Re:Part of me says, "Good!" on Employee Outsourced Programming Job To China, Spent Days Websurfing · · Score: 5, Funny

    Maybe the Indian programmer hired a laid off American programmer who figured it was better than nothing.

  3. Re:two choices on Ask Slashdot: Keeping Your Media Library Safe From Kids? · · Score: 3

    Yeah I think we all know this has nothing to do with hiding Terminator from the kids but hiding the porn from the girlfriend.

    Or from mum, since this is Slashdot.

  4. Re:Spanish on Ask Slashdot: 2nd Spoken/Written Language For Software Developer? · · Score: 1

    Why on earth would you suggest finnish? It only has about 5 million native speakers, it's pretty tricky compared to english, and any finn in this industry you'll come across will be fluent in english.

    For some values of fluent anyway, depending on accent...

  5. Re:Doesn't the Tolkien estate... on Tolkien Estate Sues Over Lord of the Rings Slot Machines · · Score: 1

    The family can make slot machines too if they want. The books were written over 55 years ago by a guy who has been dead for 39 years. It should be ok for everyone to do whatever they want with it by now. The actual creator of the work can't profit from it anymore even if you think he still should. If someone thinks these machines or whatever else people come up with are distasteful they they can just not use them.

  6. Re:Hey Guys on Ask Slashdot: How To Make a DVD-Rental Store More Relevant? · · Score: 2

    Maybe the DVD store guy can start catering to perverts as well. You just don't get the same thrill when you anonymously download your stuff from the Internet. The disapproving looks and terse conversation from the person behind the counter when you go rent it really add to the overall experience. Or so I've been told.

  7. Re:EA vs Zynga on Zynga Sues EA For 'Anti-competitive' Practices · · Score: 1

    In this case, are not the lawyers for once the lesser of three evils?

  8. Useful to criminals on Subject To a "Stop and Frisk"? There's an App For That · · Score: 3, Interesting

    "The app was thoroughly criticized by the New York Police Department, which said that the tool might prove useful for criminals."

    Food and water might prove useful to criminals as well, let's ban that as well.

  9. Re:Another nail in the coffin on 'Legitimized' Cyberwar Opens Pandora's Box of Dirty Tricks · · Score: 1

    Iraq started the Iran-Iraq war. Apparently/allegedly.

  10. Re:Anything Else? on Dungeons & Dragons Next Playtest Released · · Score: 2

    If you like those, great. If you don't, who cares? No one is taking YOUR game away.

    An interesting advantage for tabletop games compared to fancy new MMORPG games. If someone would rather keep playing WoW with the 1.0 rules they're shit out of luck. At least if they want to be legal.

  11. Re:"top bioethicist "? on Bioethicist Jonathan Moreno Talks Jacked-In Soldiers And Military Neuroscience · · Score: 3, Funny

    He's the guy with the highest karma on the bioethicist equivalent of Slashdot.

  12. Re:Ridiculous, Impossible, Etc. on Legislation In New York To Ban Anonymous Speech Online · · Score: 3, Insightful

    So where is Slashdot based? There wouldn't be many comments left on here if anonymous ones are banned. The cowards aren't the only ones, obviously.

  13. Re:Orwillian? on UK Proposing Real-Time Monitoring of All Communications · · Score: 3, Funny

    I am gonna right a new book called 2084

    Please extend my sympathies to your future editor.

  14. Re:Bottom line: never cooperate with the authoriti on Man Barred From Being Alone With Daughter After Informing Police of Porn On PC · · Score: 1

    Well if (and that's if) she bought it in order to get it off the streets and give it to the police, shouldn't she be commended instead of arrested? There was a case in Sweden lately where some reporters investigating street gang crimes bought a gun from someone to see how easy it was to get hold of weapons and then went straight to a police station to hand it in. Most people would see getting a gun out of the hands of criminals as a good thing but a prosecutor there thought it was a better idea to charge them for it.

  15. Re:4Chan *shiver on The Worst Job In the Digital World · · Score: 4, Insightful

    You've never browsed Slashdot at -1, I see. The mods on here who keep the depravity out of honest, law abiding peoples sight don't even get paid minimum wage, it's an outrage.

  16. Re:CmdrTaco is a hip arbiter of tech trends? on Rob Malda (CmdrTaco) Joins the Washington Post · · Score: 1

    There's one guy in the first few posts of that old thread that says "This is v0.8 of Apple's PDA folks.". Not too bad.

  17. Re:Adobe complaining about bloat? on A Rant Against Splash Screens · · Score: 1

    Aah, but what should the default setting be for that preference setting..? We're back at square one.

  18. Re:They should have worked out... on NRC Emails Reveal Confusion In Aftermath of Fukushima · · Score: 2

    You'd think that if anyone would know the importance of planning for a Godzilla level event it would be the japanese.

  19. Re:srsly on Ask Slashdot: Transitioning From 'Hacker' To 'Engineer'? · · Score: 4, Informative

    I must admit I've never debugged on paper before (is that what you meant by "prints"?). I usually just get a feature to a stage where I think it should work, and then I compile/test the crap out of it, finding/fixing bugs as I go. Its much more fun and practical than looking for bugs that might not exist on paper. Maybe its just because I'm not that old, but I couldn't even imagine debugging on paper.

    He means running it and seeing what happens by adding lots of System.out.println();s or whatever the language of choice equivalent is instead of using a debugger. Well, I assume that's what he means.

  20. Re:Custom Flash Drives.... on Ask Slashdot: Techie Wedding Invitation Ideas? · · Score: 1

    I don't know this guys friends and relatives of course but if I tried that it'd only result in a phone call from my mom asking for help with this strange computer thingymajig that came in the mail. Merely telling her to insert it into the computer would probably result in injury to computer, mom or both.

  21. Re:Change of format != change of price on Apple Intends To 'Digitally Destroy' Textbook Publishing · · Score: 1

    Hmmmmmm, how long will it be before the publishers start suing professors for doing this?

  22. Re:If you enjoy your job, then why not? on Do Companies Punish Workers Who Take Vacations? · · Score: 2
    Effect:

    high blood pressure and a TIA.

    Cause:

    I work 18 hours a day, because if I don't, the others will screw up any tasks I let them do. I spend 16 hours a day fixing their mistakes so the customers don't find them. Within 5 minutes of walking out of the hospital, my phone was ringing off the hook. Within 10 minutes of getting out of the hospital, I was on my laptop trying to fix the problem, and fielding back to back phone calls.

  23. Good luck on Ask Slashdot: Which Web Platform Would You Use? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    You might as well ask which religion is the best one.

  24. Re:Good Luck on Ask Slashdot: Re-Entering the Job Market As a Software Engineer? · · Score: 1

    So, if you just went through it, what happened other than'it was tough? Did you get where you wanted to go and how or, if not, why not? I'd expect a bit more from +5 informative, to be honest.

  25. Re:Been there, done that on Justifications For Creating an IT Department? · · Score: 1

    I'm pretty sure - if I wanted to - I could log into and read, anyone's email who works for those TV stations today.

    And now everyone who reads Slashdot can as well.