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  1. Re:Keep good records of dubious orders from mgmt on How Did Volkswagen Cheat Emissions Tests, and Who Authorized It? · · Score: 1

    Nothing prevents you from printing emails of instructions to implement dubious decisions

    One thing does - the same thing that stops you putting mithril buckles on your unicorn saddle.

  2. Re:Shopping for cowards on How Did Volkswagen Cheat Emissions Tests, and Who Authorized It? · · Score: 1

    Been there, seen that. For the record, I was first coder.

  3. Thing on a cable, with pins, that goes in a socket on How Did Volkswagen Cheat Emissions Tests, and Who Authorized It? · · Score: 1

    said Nikhil Kaul

    Who?

    a product manager at test/dev software maker SmartBear Software.

    Who?

    This wouldn't be a plug, would it?

  4. Re:Finally on Phone Passwords Protected By 5th Amendment, Says Federal Court · · Score: -1, Troll

    It's no more testifying than handing over the key to a door, which you can be obliged to do with a warrant.

    The difference is that the dudes in wigs didn't conceive of a door that couldn't be forced.

  5. Re:Nail everyone? on How Did Volkswagen Cheat Emissions Tests, and Who Authorized It? · · Score: 1

    You'll get a roof over your head, three meals a day and medical care.

    Which is three things more than you'll get if you're terminated for not being a good personality fit, or whatever they call it.

  6. Re:I am 34 and what is this. on 1000-key Emoji Keyboard Is As Crazy As It Sounds · · Score: 1

    How long are you here, and is there anything [DRADDADADDATISH] (too slow!) you'd recommend on the menu?

  7. Re:I am 34 and what is this. on 1000-key Emoji Keyboard Is As Crazy As It Sounds · · Score: 1

    Same reason a dog licks his balls. Doesn't mean you should copy him.

  8. Re:What's crazy on 1000-key Emoji Keyboard Is As Crazy As It Sounds · · Score: 1

    Or that you catted a binary file.

  9. Re:Nail everyone? on How Did Volkswagen Cheat Emissions Tests, and Who Authorized It? · · Score: 1

    if you're a dev and PHB asks you to do this then you make sure you get it in email form

    We're supposed to be eliminating bureaucracy and adopting a service oriented attitude and a can-do mindset in order to leverage agile synergies at the speed of trust, otherwise we'll be Uberallesed.

  10. Re: How is this relevant? on IBM's Watson Is Now Analyzing Your Vacation Photos · · Score: 1

    It's a long shot I know, but he might be being sarcastic.

  11. Re:The Obvious Question on What's New In GNOME 3.18 · · Score: 1

    Nice try, but that's clearly a trick question - there weren't any left.

  12. Re:It's called Natural Selection on Selfies Kill More People Than Shark Attacks · · Score: 1

    ProTip: Use either the indefinite article or [the number] "one" - not both

    . Bonus ProTip: Don't post when a toddler is having a tantrum right behind you.

  13. Re:It's called Natural Selection on Selfies Kill More People Than Shark Attacks · · Score: 1

    ProTip: Prescriptivism is one a primary indicator of a prick.

    ProTip: Use either the indefinite article or the "one" - not both.

  14. Re:Despite the hysteria on Selfies Kill More People Than Shark Attacks · · Score: 1

    Nobody has ever died from taking a selfie. They died from a related or unrelated accident while taking or as a result from a selfie.

    Nobody ever died while drunk driving. They died while slamming into a bridge pillar.

  15. Re:Looks like death by being gored.. on Selfies Kill More People Than Shark Attacks · · Score: 1

    causal action

    Perhaps that phrase means something different where you come from.

    Here, you're completely wrong.

  16. Re:Looks like death by being gored.. on Selfies Kill More People Than Shark Attacks · · Score: 2

    Either way, it's got to be good for the gene pool.

  17. Re:This wasn't an engineering decision... on VW Fiasco Puts Ethics In Engineering Under the Spotlight, CEO Steps Down · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Given VW's relatively small market share in the US they could run on coal and their pollution would be a rounding error compared to what trucks (both the kind that actually deliver things and the kind with 27 lamps on the roof) spew out.

    And you know it.

  18. Re:This wasn't an engineering decision... on VW Fiasco Puts Ethics In Engineering Under the Spotlight, CEO Steps Down · · Score: 1

    To be fair, the "proper engineering" fixes available all are some combination of reducing performance and increasing cost.

    That's always the case, except where there's a third option - take more time. Iron triangle and all that.

    Did you have anything original to say, for once?

  19. Re:Running power through wires shock!! on Misusing Ethernet To Kill Computer Infrastructure Dead · · Score: 1

    There is no way in hell IT peons are going to be popping in and out of dark, secured areas every time someone wants to move a printer from one jack to another.

    Or when someone works from home for an afternoon. Or a consultant comes in. Or when someone goes to an offsite meeting and takes his laptop. Or goes to an onsite meeting and takes his laptop to the meeting room. Or when a meeting in the meeting room ends and they all take their laptops out...

  20. Re:Running power through wires shock!! on Misusing Ethernet To Kill Computer Infrastructure Dead · · Score: 1

    Information Security best practice you shouldn't have any unconnected sockets in the parking lot or the toilet off the reception area

    FTFY.

  21. Re:Ah, no lessons learned from Windows 8 on What's New In GNOME 3.18 · · Score: 2, Insightful

    There's already a way to get an overview of the apps that are installed - a properly structured custom menu.

  22. Re:Shop elsewhere if you need this drug on Another Pharma Company Recaptures a Generic Medication · · Score: 2

    It was only recently that I found out that this whole "self-made man" thing was a myth. The real estate company was his originally mom's, IIRC. He's about as self-made as Prince Charles.

    Why haven't the American people cottoned on yet?

  23. Re:That's what Nokia, Moto, and Microsoft said on Former GM and BMW Executive Warns Apple: Your Car Will Be a "Gigantic Money Pit" · · Score: 1

    With the amount of capitol they have currently

    I thought it was Halliburton that owned the government.

  24. Re:Presuming this means "replaced by a new guy" on IT Departments Try To Avoid Getting "Ubered" · · Score: 1

    Well, same shit with IT work. If you are "Mordoc the Preventer" then ya, you could well be subject to getting replaced with a service (or person) that better meets their needs.

    Sometimes preventing things is the right thing to do. I'm not saying the end users (referred to us "customers" by people who don't have to deal with them) never have good ideas, but they're outnumbered ten to one by the impossible, unworkable, dangerous and downright impossible.

    I haven't been doing IT all that long, about 15 years now

    You don't appear to learn very fast.

  25. Re:That'll teach you... on Volkswagen CEO Issues Apology Over Emission-Cheating Software · · Score: 1

    Wall that's fine then, we all know the Chinese would never pull a stunt like this. Plastic in baby milk is one thing, but there's a line even they won't cross.