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  1. Re:The president should do an address on North Korea Threatens US With Preemptive Nuclear Strike · · Score: 1

    Too bad you are wrong.

    Look into it.

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

    and call your relatives tonight and ask them. They can tell you all about the Ossie.

  2. Re:good idea on The Data That Drove Yahoo's Telecommuting Ban · · Score: 2

    No, my view expects the boss to check up on his workers and if need be keep them on task. Which is exactly what I do.

    I also recognize that no one works all the time like that mythical best employee. If you want that kind of devotion you have to give a little to get a little. That means allowing some slacking off.

    You might not like it but I would rather hire Gallant every time. I need work done, not busy workers.

  3. Re:More stupid victim-blaming on RSA: Phish Me If You Can (Video) · · Score: 1

    You show him a better way.

    All he is going to do is end up with an email that can't be sent since it is 100MB and even if you change your mail server setting to allow it no other mail server will ever accept it.

  4. Re:The president should do an address on North Korea Threatens US With Preemptive Nuclear Strike · · Score: 1

    I said their government. They have done the analysis and the costs are not worth it. Go read nkeconwatch.

    Germany was not that excited about unification, it cost a lot and there are still people who are not happy about paying for it. I know I lived there and have half my family still there. Many view the East Germans as still nothing but a bunch of welfare bums. A popular east german T shirt read "put the wall back and make it two meters higher". While those from the West hate/hated paying for their welfare those from the East hate to be taking the money. They want to work, but have no marketable skills. This is getting much better in the past two decades, but it will probably take another two before they catch up.

    Wow two topics you covered and dead wrong on both.

  5. Re:Performance Metrics on Former MySQL CEO Mårten Mickos Talks About Managing Remote Workers (Video) · · Score: 2

    Which is exactly the same thing you need with in office workers. It changes nothing.

  6. Re:good idea on The Data That Drove Yahoo's Telecommuting Ban · · Score: 2

    If they get the work done to meet our goals, yes. If the goals are not set properly that is my fault, not theirs.Assigning the correct amount of work is my job, not theirs.

    Yahoo's culture was that things were not getting done at all.

    Who is the better employee; Gallant who does all his work in an hour and then plays on slashdot all day or Goofus who works his full 8 hours 6 days a week and still does not have his work done before the deadline?

  7. Re:good idea on The Data That Drove Yahoo's Telecommuting Ban · · Score: 2

    Where is this problem?

    Why would I care if only took two hours? If the work was done who cares?

    Sure they are not working as efficiently as they in theory could, but shooting for maximum efficiency all the time is only a way to burn out employees and not get them to work for you that way when the time comes.

    I assign X tasks done by Y date. If X is done by Y I DO NOT give a single fuck if it they spend 99% of their day slacking off. No reason to punish a productive worker by assigning him more work than a slower colleague. All that does is encourage better hidden slacking and resentment.

  8. Re:Potential applications on Kinect Can Detect Clenched Fist · · Score: 1

    You think most domestic violence is done by people who can afford a brand new console and peripherals?

    If it ever was possible, people would just leave the room to do that sort of thing.

  9. Re:internet-connected plane on Boeing 787s To Create Half a Terabyte of Data Per Flight · · Score: 1

    If you are reading syslogs like that you deserve to be fired.

    Use the right tool for the job.

  10. Re:good idea on The Data That Drove Yahoo's Telecommuting Ban · · Score: 1

    How do you figure.

    It is 11:48 Eastern right now and I bet most posters are Americans sitting in their cubes or offices.

  11. Re:The president should do an address on North Korea Threatens US With Preemptive Nuclear Strike · · Score: 1

    Sounds like you have no idea about why those troops are there. The South Korean government wants to avoid the kind of reunification that Germany wants to go through. That cost West Germany a ridiculous amount of money, it would be worse for South Korea.

  12. Re:Wow on Android In Space: STRaND-1 Satellite To Activate Nexus One · · Score: 1

    I watched it. I liked it quite a bit. Easier better than some movies I saw in theaters last year. Not the best movie of the year either.

  13. Re:Sort of pointless on Android In Space: STRaND-1 Satellite To Activate Nexus One · · Score: 1

    Which has a CPU so many times slower.

    I like the RaspberryPi as much as many others, but where can I get faster version of it? As cheap as an old used smartphone. Which would be $100 tops.

    Plus by using a Nexus One you can likely get more publicity and quite possibly sponsorship.

  14. Re:good idea on The Data That Drove Yahoo's Telecommuting Ban · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I have several. Thanks for trying though.

    I know each of them very well and they know me. If they get their jobs done by the deadline they can be jerking it at their desks for all I care.

    I never said they were cogs, just that I expect them to get their work done in a timely fashion and if they can do that in two hours and spend the rest of the day on slashdot that is my fault not theirs. Even more likely it means everything is going well and their jobs are not the sort were hours are that predictable.

  15. Re:Not surprising on The Data That Drove Yahoo's Telecommuting Ban · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Having managed in office employees, how is that any different?

    If people do not answer their cell phones or email, fire them. No different than them being unfindable in the office or not aswering desk phones.

  16. Re:I can slack off anywhere on The Data That Drove Yahoo's Telecommuting Ban · · Score: 3, Interesting

    If you make managers do useful work how will they slack off?

  17. Re:good idea on The Data That Drove Yahoo's Telecommuting Ban · · Score: 5, Insightful

    That had nothing to do with being in the office or not.

    I bet most of the posters right now are in the office. People will slack off no matter what. Either you get your job done or you do not, how long it takes in the allotted time frame or what you do while doing it should not matter.

  18. Re:Sort of pointless on Android In Space: STRaND-1 Satellite To Activate Nexus One · · Score: 1

    Why would it need its battery? It can be removed to save mass and powered by the satellite. If not it can sit there and do nothing.

    Radiation below the van allen belts is not that bad. Works fine.

    If you are worried about the mass of the display remove it. Not exactly hard to do.

    Modifying android is simple, just download the sources and make your changes. Hell you can have the thing just boot linux without the android layers if you want.

  19. Re:Sort of pointless on Android In Space: STRaND-1 Satellite To Activate Nexus One · · Score: 2

    The cost is not the issue.

    With android modifying the OS is possible and since it runs linux very well known by the community at large. You can build your own custom version of android and boot that. This is not so with the other options you mention. Using a smartphone is likely cheaper than other off the shelf options since they are sold in such high numbers.

    The real cost they are controlling for is mass. Getting that mass to orbit is the most expensive part of this whole thing.

  20. Re:Attacks on bandwidth caps are shortsighted on ISP Trying Free (But Limited) Home Broadband Plan · · Score: 1

    Your mom has never heard of skype?

    When you have kids it is likely she will discover that if you live a suitable distance away.

  21. Re:The president should do an address on North Korea Threatens US With Preemptive Nuclear Strike · · Score: 1

    That would also work, I just meant any sort of silly comical reply. The idea here is just to mock the entire concept.

  22. Re:article says they used microsoft on Using Google To Help Predict Side Effects of Mixing Drugs · · Score: 1

    So then they are logging queries no matter the search engine?

    Yeah, that sounds really like they respect your privacy.

  23. Re:internet-connected plane on Boeing 787s To Create Half a Terabyte of Data Per Flight · · Score: 1

    There have been lots of SNMP security bugs over the years.

    Syslog is what you want. The plane exports syslog to a listening box and that is it.

  24. The president should do an address on North Korea Threatens US With Preemptive Nuclear Strike · · Score: 5, Funny

    The president should make an address and announce the following message for Kim jong Un "Come at me bro".

  25. Re:More stupid victim-blaming on RSA: Phish Me If You Can (Video) · · Score: 2

    1. See the other reply, it works
    2. DO NOT FUCKING DO THAT. Email is a text transfer mechanism. Attach documents to that, not attempt to put formatting in the email.