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  1. Re:No on Should Workplaces Be Re-Defined To Retain Older Tech Workers? (wired.com) · · Score: 2, Funny

    Eating them, and maybe even spelling a few correctly.

  2. Re:Make being bad unlawful... on UK Wants To Criminalize Re-Identification of Anonymized User Data (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    Worse than that, it inspires cynicism and disrespect for government as a whole.

  3. Re:Old technology on London is Using Optical Illusions To Make Cars Slow Down (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1

    I wonder if fake speed bumps are as effective.

    As long as there are a few real ones in the area. Otherwise, not for very long.

  4. It's not the radioactivity... on Tests Show Workers At Hanford Nuclear Facility Inhaled Radioactive Plutonium (king5.com) · · Score: 2

    ...but the toxicity of Pu itself that'll getcha.

  5. If he means dying of incurable cancer, then I'm all for it. Proceed!

  6. Hey, Apple: on Apple Discontinues iPod Nano and iPod Shuffle (macrumors.com) · · Score: 1

    "You don't have to do this." --various dead, to Anton Chigurh

  7. Re:Take Off And Landing on Colombian Airline Wants To Make Passengers Stand (yahoo.com) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Take Off and Landing sound like adventures.

    Probably not as compared to the adventure of being a working-class Columbian.

  8. They left out one "fundamental" on New Windows Look and Feel, Neon, Is Officially the 'Microsoft Fluent Design System' (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    "advertisement"

  9. That Slashdot is still worth reading. on Ask Slashdot: What Are Some Lies Programmers Tell Themselves? · · Score: 1

    See subject line.

  10. So it's highly dependent on what you think could happen, and what satisfies your sense of sufficiency. Of course, your time needs to be weighed against the cost of failure from the bug manifesting itself. Despite all that's been invested in development methodology, this is remains a black art.

  11. It's a myth of the cult of unit-testing that all tests passed == no bugs. Correctness bugs outlive all executed tests, and are a worse form of dark matter because they give no outward signs.

  12. You don't have to be a psychopath... on Psychopathic CEOs Are Rife In Silicon Valley, Experts Say (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    ...to start a real company with a real idea for creating value. But helps to be one if you're just a SV grifter looking to enter and exit with someone else's investment.

  13. "Rape, murder, arson, and rape." on Inside Uber's Aggressive, Unrestrained Workplace Culture (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    The four unwritten core values.

  14. We're living in a zero-tolerance punitive culture now. It's a substitute for have to actually think about offenders and weigh crime vs. punishment. You are either Good or Evil, and your sentence must reflect this.

  15. Re:White space on Ask Slashdot: A Point of Contention - Modern User Interfaces · · Score: 1

    Well you know, a cluttered web page is the product of a cluttered mind, and an empty web page is...

  16. They also require a level of privacy that your finger does not.

  17. Re:Threshold on Half the Work People Do Can Be Automated, Says McKinsey (techinasia.com) · · Score: 1

    What is the unemployment threshold going to be? When unemployment caused by automation, robotics, etc reaches 10%? 15%... 20%..?

    In the coming decades more and more people worldwide will become unemployable, and they will have nothing to do or any way to make a living?

    How are governments and communities going to respond?

    They will respond, out of perceived necessity, with further militarization of the police and surveillance of the activities of the unemployed. The revolution will be drone-struck before it can strike the first blow.

  18. This just demonstrates the function equivalence of management to burger-flipping.

  19. That must make them twice as valuable!

  20. Re:First or second part? on 'Stranger In a Strange Land' Coming To TV (ew.com) · · Score: 1

    I completely agree. The religious stuff got so bizarre and obsessed towards the end that I simply could not force myself to finish it. It's like the author had a minor stroke while writing it.

  21. 38 is DOD-speak for 1.

  22. That's just common sense for crime organizations. on On Wall Street, a High-Ranking Few Still Avoid Email (reuters.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The feds are watching.

  23. There is no bad code. on Bad Code May Have Crashed Schiaparelli Mars Lander (nature.com) · · Score: 2

    Only bad testing.

  24. There is so much more to ML than a code library. on Is Microsoft Mainstreaming Machine Learning? (networkworld.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    It's like thinking that having a compiler means that I can program.

  25. Re:In related news on Twitter Will Extend Its 140 Character Limit On September 19th (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    "Honey, does this phone make me look fat?"