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  1. Re: Strange first sentence on Reuters Bans RAW Photo Format (petapixel.com) · · Score: 1

    Neither. You pull out your cell phone or train radio, call dispatch, and tell them to stop the d**n train.

    Except you're in Belgium, and they don't understand what you're saying.

  2. Re:You did Something vs. You didn't do Anything on Reuters Bans RAW Photo Format (petapixel.com) · · Score: 1

    I forget where (it may have been something to do with superglue) but the thing I read/saw was that medics were taught that loss of blood pressure was bad, and so they prioritised giving transfusions. The resulting increase in pressure tended to pop partially formed clots, thus slightly sabotaging the body's own repair mechanism.

  3. Re:Go Work for the Competition on Ask Slashdot: Convincing a Team To Undertake UX Enhancements On a Large Codebase? · · Score: 1

    He said ERP, SAP and SalesForce in the[sic] once[sic] sentence.

    Not sure why you think that's a problem.

    One of those things isn't like the other two combined.

    On my table there is a teapot, some butter, and a book. Are the things in that sentence all the same kind of thing?

    So, do you have anything intelligent and relevant to say?

  4. Re:Go Work for the Competition on Ask Slashdot: Convincing a Team To Undertake UX Enhancements On a Large Codebase? · · Score: 1

    It is. The underlying product is not as bad as some people make out, but the UI is horrible (early versions were even worse).

    Having said that, the architecture makes it relatively easy to change.

  5. Re:Go Work for the Competition on Ask Slashdot: Convincing a Team To Undertake UX Enhancements On a Large Codebase? · · Score: 1

    Your customers hate your product because of the bad UI.

    No they don't. We're talking enterprise stuff here.

    His customers are C-level types. The users are the minions.

    Until such time as it's driving people to quit & hitting the bottom line through recruitment & training nobody will give a tinker's cuss.

  6. Re:Go Work for the Competition on Ask Slashdot: Convincing a Team To Undertake UX Enhancements On a Large Codebase? · · Score: 1

    Right. And feng-shui practitioners are architects.

  7. Ob: homeopathy on ISIS's Hunt For a Bogus Superweapon · · Score: 4, Funny

    And just as available is its organic (and thus far more potent) analog, hydrogen hydroxide.

    It's much more effective if you dilute in one to a million with water.

  8. Re:GM producers are shooting themselves in the foo on FDA Signs Off On Genetically Modified Salmon Without Labeling (consumerist.com) · · Score: 2

    Lets look at how an average person might look at a GMO label.
    What's this new label? Contains GMO food. I have heard there is a lot of controversy about this but I don't really have time to do the research. Maybe I'll just be on the safe side and skip it.

    I'm not seeing a problem here. You give them the information and *they* make the choice about what *they* want to eat.

    Hide the information, you're making the choice for them. I guess that's OK though because you're soooo much smarter than them. Or so your mom says when she brings your pizza down.

  9. Shitarama on The War On Campus Sexual Assault Goes Digital · · Score: 1

    Shitarama! Did I sleep right through Thursday again?

  10. Re:Crowd Funded = Scam Artist on Another Crowd-funded Drone Project Collapses (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    The difference is that a startup usually gets a grownup in charge at some point.

  11. Re:Get rid of the H1B's / have maternity leave on Could a Change In Wording Attract More Women To Infosec? (csoonline.com) · · Score: 1

    I often wonder what happens when, say, Cheryl Fergison gets a call from her agent.

    CF: So, tell me about the character.

    A: She's a complex person. Highly capable, but not really recognized as such by her male colleagues. Has a tough exterior, but deep down ...

    CF: [interrupting] She's fat and ugly, isn't she?

    Still, I suppose it puts bread on the table. And a not insignificant number of cakes, by the look of it.

  12. Could we attract more Yorkshire people? on Could a Change In Wording Attract More Women To Infosec? (csoonline.com) · · Score: 1

    Could we attract more Yorkshire people by changing the name of everything to "whippet" or "Tetley's"?

  13. Standing in for serviscope_minor on Could a Change In Wording Attract More Women To Infosec? (csoonline.com) · · Score: 1

    Pay them the same as guys and crush any attempt to harass them with an iron first.

    But be sure to let them define harassment.

    Ignoring them or paying attention to them is a good start. As is anything in between. Or anything at all, in fact.

  14. Ahmad Nassri on Slashdot Asks: Is Scrum Still Relevant? (opensource.com) · · Score: 1

    I have no idea who this Ahmad Nassri is, but what's he trying to sell?

  15. Re:Scrum Was Never Alive on Slashdot Asks: Is Scrum Still Relevant? (opensource.com) · · Score: 2

    Only good management with a gun can cure bad management.

    FTFY.

  16. Part of WHERE? on Fire Takes Azerbaijan Offline (datacenterdynamics.com) · · Score: 1

    Let's move on from the cold war and call it what it is: part of Europe.

    Azerbaijan
    Ukraine
    Belarus
    Estonia.

    One of those is not like the others.

    (Hint: it borders Iran).

  17. I don't think so on Microsoft Brings Its Embrace-Extend-Extinguish Game To K-12 Schools? · · Score: 2

    "Compared to what you would otherwise be doing for school, this is, like, the best thing ever."

    Better than giving nerds wedgies? I don't think so.

  18. Re: Back in the old days on Value of University Degree Continues To Decline (www.cbc.ca) · · Score: 1

    So it's totally impossible to keep serving just a subset of the menu. You can do stuff on the gas grill that you'd normally do on the gas grill.

  19. Re:Ahem on Snowden Says It's Your Duty To Use an Ad Blocker (for Security) · · Score: 1, Troll

    Assuming the author is male constitutes a microagression. Please report to your local re-education center.

  20. Re: Back in the old days on Value of University Degree Continues To Decline (www.cbc.ca) · · Score: 1

    Yeah. It's not like there are power sources other than electricity. Combustible vapours delivered via pipes? No way!

  21. Re:This on Value of University Degree Continues To Decline (www.cbc.ca) · · Score: 2

    If journalism schools capped their enrolment even more tightly then they already do, then the cost of tuition would have to go up, or costs would have to be cut.

    Or there could just be fewer courses. Why not have three good ones rather than two good, ten mediocre and four crap?

  22. Re:Back in the old days on Value of University Degree Continues To Decline (www.cbc.ca) · · Score: 1

    Some people might call that "self confidence", and yes it is directly proportional to success.

    It can also get you into trouble. Yeah, of course I can fly this thing!

  23. serviscope_minor us up on blocks today on Value of University Degree Continues To Decline (www.cbc.ca) · · Score: 1

    One is one too many!

  24. Re:The obvious answer on Value of University Degree Continues To Decline (www.cbc.ca) · · Score: 1

    Of course you count, just like Italy counted in WW2.

  25. Re:"We want to make the best Mac in the world" on Tim Cook: Apple Won't Create 'Converged' MacBook and iPad (independent.ie) · · Score: 1

    A terrestrial ethernet cable? My arse.

    Get a lunar one. They're nurtured in a vacuum, which means they're organically oxygen free, enhancing the chromaticity of transients and giving a more voluptuous keyboard feel when fagcasting on the basefooks.