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  1. Re: END THE FED! I saw this coming 30 years ago. on US Bureau of Labor Statistics: Programmer Jobs Will Decline 8% (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    $200,000 a year and you can get anybody you need. If you cannot pay that, you have want, not need.

  2. Re:15 years old? on Young Climate Activists Sue Obama Over Climate Change Inaction (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Luckily, your average McMansion has 5-8 bedrooms, and thus, can easily house a small assistd living center.

  3. Re:How about? on Meet the Drone Registration Task Force (roboticstrends.com) · · Score: 1

    That's only step 2. Step 3 is load it with dynamite and fly it into the White House.

  4. Basic is a lot older than 2006! on Revisiting Why Johnny Can't Code: Have We "Made the Print Too Small"? · · Score: 1

    Dang kids, get off the lawn.

    I was coding in Basic in 1978.

    And it was a well-established language even then- about 15-20 years old at that point I think.

  5. Re: Isn't the current mouse protection rule ... on Lawsuit Claims Buck Rogers Is In the Public Domain · · Score: 1

    Might it be the insistence on a monotheistic objective value system?

  6. Re: Isn't the current mouse protection rule ... on Lawsuit Claims Buck Rogers Is In the Public Domain · · Score: 1

    Finally. I was wondering when Open Source Geekry was going to grow up.

  7. Re:TPP is just yet another nail in the peons' coff on Man Licenses His Video Footage To Sony, Sony Issues Copyright Claim Against Him (petapixel.com) · · Score: 1

    That's why I've learned to hum in Gregorian Chant. It is the only music I can be sure is free of copyright.

  8. Re:You think it's bad now? on Man Licenses His Video Footage To Sony, Sony Issues Copyright Claim Against Him (petapixel.com) · · Score: 1

    When has a treaty ever been deemed unconstitutional?

  9. Afford a Tesla on Coding Academies -- Useful Or Nonsense? (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    Only if you live in it.

  10. Re:improve the world by gutting jobs? on Sensor Network Makes Life Easier For Japan's Aging Rice Farmers · · Score: 1

    That's what you get for an engineered demographic collapse.

  11. Re: Stupid people are stupid on 9th-Grader May Face Charges After Homemade Clock Mistaken For Bomb · · Score: 1

    Ok, I'm not usually this, well, liberal. But I'm a lumberjack and I'm OK, I work all night and I sleep all day.

  12. Re:Excellent! on NYU Study: America's Voting Machines Are Rapidly Aging Out · · Score: 1

    I don't understand why. I was recently asked to interface with a 30 year old DOS based system. It's running just fine in its intended environment. Why should there be a risk of either crash or failure on a single tasking, single use machine?

  13. Did they remember to on Intel Establishes Automotive Security Review Board · · Score: 1

    Only hire women and other URMs?

  14. Re:That was easy on Microsoft Is Downloading Windows 10 Without Asking · · Score: 1

    Given this article, he may be on Windows 10 next Wednesday.....

  15. Re:Salvage computers on Ask Slashdot: Cheapest Functional Computer For Students? · · Score: 1

    You're paying $7 for 128MB? I just paid $7 for 16GB sticks in packs of 10.

  16. Re:Toilet paper and timber? on Earth Home To 3 Trillion Trees, Half As Many As When Human Civilization Arose · · Score: 1

    Doesn't matter to the motivation of the people who are anti-GMO. Most of what they're afraid of can't happen, but economics is not what they are worried about.

  17. Re:Toilet paper and timber? on Earth Home To 3 Trillion Trees, Half As Many As When Human Civilization Arose · · Score: 1

    experiments with genetics have a tendency to get loose and crossbreed with other stocks.

  18. Re:Toilet paper and timber? on Earth Home To 3 Trillion Trees, Half As Many As When Human Civilization Arose · · Score: 1

    "Most anti-GMO people are against it because they view it as a quick way to save a buck"

    Have you ever read a Michael Chriton novel at all? I'd have to say most people against GMO are really against using the wild for laboratory accidents.

  19. Re:Three Seashells on Earth Home To 3 Trillion Trees, Half As Many As When Human Civilization Arose · · Score: 2

    The most common replanted tree clone, Weyerhouser Supertrees, take 30 years to mature. You're also an idiot to plant monocultures of any tree, even Bamboo, which takes a few short months to mature. The reason is evolution and disease. Your chance of having those trees reach maturity is very low.

    Oregon's done a lot since the "plant three for every one you take" rule came into effect; we now have forest fires instead of clear cuts. I am assuming the ecoterrorists like Tre Arrow actually prefer fires.

  20. Re:Three Seashells on Earth Home To 3 Trillion Trees, Half As Many As When Human Civilization Arose · · Score: 1

    Or better yet, just institute the Oregon Protocol as international law: plant three trees for every one you cut down.

  21. Re:Douchebag Editors on 3 Category 4 Hurricanes Develop In the Pacific At Once For the First Time · · Score: 1

    Not quite the same argument- the ship's captains records from 1750 can only track storms their ships observed. My argument is that until *very* recently, there were many areas of the remote ocean that were simply not monitored, thus the claim of "3 major hurricanes at once for the first time on record" means very little given the fact that we don't know what was happening in remote parts of the globe in 1750, only what was happening in the shipping lanes. And even then, the type of instruments used to detect global warming today are many orders of magnitude more accurate than those from 1750.

    Spotty recordkeeping existed before the 1890s, true, but complete recordkeeping had to wait for satellite data.

  22. Re:Douchebag Editors on 3 Category 4 Hurricanes Develop In the Pacific At Once For the First Time · · Score: 1

    " "Historic central/eastern Pacific outbreak- 3 major hurricanes at once for the first time on record!""

    Yep, ON RECORD. But since the records barely go back more than 120 years, and the sats needed to spot storms that form so far from any habitable area have only been in geostationary orbit for about 50 years, the record is extremely short and says NOTHING about global warming.

  23. Re:From the 2nd article on Do Old Programmers Need To Keep Leaping Through New Hoops? · · Score: 1

    Possibly- which is why I'm generally against free trade.

  24. Re:From the 2nd article on Do Old Programmers Need To Keep Leaping Through New Hoops? · · Score: 1

    A long time ago, when I was a RCG (recent college graduate) I worked for a small software company that actually changed from using Borland Delphi to Visual Basic 3 for that reason. Plenty of people in different skillsets, but not enough at the price we could afford for Borland Delphi.

    I came in having coded in neither, that was a steep learning curve.

  25. From the 2nd article on Do Old Programmers Need To Keep Leaping Through New Hoops? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    "Companies say they can't find enough qualified candidates. "

    Law of supply and demand affects salaries. Companies that have not learned this, can't find qualified candidates, because they're not paying enough.