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  1. We should bomb the dam ourselves on New US Airstrikes In Iraq Intended to Protect Important Dam · · Score: 2

    Drown a few hundred thousand. What's the worst that happens? The liberals blame the Jews?

  2. President Randall Flagg on Obama Administration Seeks $58M To Put (Partly) Toward Fighting Ebola · · Score: 0

    Obama will call for a complete dismantling of all laws regarding border control. There's no better to destroy us all than right now.

  3. IT is a dying field in the US on IT Job Hiring Slumps · · Score: 1

    I don't care what any lobbyist/shil/journalist tells you. IT is dying in the US. We've run out of 'bottom' to chase. The jobs can't be any lower skilled unless they descend literally to the level of button pushing zombie on par with a janitor. No hiring manager has the least interest in skills or what you accomplished before or what you think you can accomplish for them this time. The hiring manager's sole concern is to manage upward to his or her boss who grudgingly told them after two years they could back fill one slot out of 4 that went vacant and it has to be no higher than 75% of 'market rate'. So the hiring manager gets a contract drone who's out the door in 9-12 months. Sure quality suffers, but that's only relevant where quality mattered in the first place. Which is almost nowhere. Fixing that will be some other drone's assignment and they won't be able to get it done either. But again, who gives a shit?

  4. Most of her career is in acquisitions on White House Names Google's Megan Smith As CTO · · Score: 1

    Basically an M&A due diligence apparatchik. After all MOST patent lawyers also have technical degrees. Doesn't make them scientists though.

  5. It's easier to hand out free everything on Oregon Suing Oracle Over Obamacare Site, But Still Needs Oracle's Help · · Score: 1

    And just forgo the messiness of charging filthy lucre for anything at all. In Oregon you should be able to walk into any hospital or doctor's office and get whatever you need, instantly for no charge, Just double or triple everyone's taxes to pay for it. What's the big deal.

  6. Put game cops in games on Combating Recent, Ugly Incidents of Misogyny In Gamer Culture · · Score: 0

    Monitor all males in real time and if they break the rules, either they get 10 years in prison or they lose an eye. Either one.

  7. They need to do this for sexual behavior on New Usage-Based Insurance Software Can Track Drivers Using Smartphones · · Score: 1

    Your health insurance provider should have direct real time insight into your sexual behavior so they can tweak your premiums accordingly. If you don't suck dicks in the club every night then you have nothing to hide.

  8. What is support? on The Frustrations of Supporting Users In Remote Offices · · Score: 1

    This is the NEW economy, pal. There's no support. But no one cares either because all executives are compensated according to how LITTLE they spend even if, especially if, the job done is shit.

  9. Blame? on Facebook Blamed For Driving Up Cellphone Bills, But It's Not Alone · · Score: 0

    Duuurrrrrrrrrppppppp. Don't be a tard tard.

  10. Hopefully Calistan will lick its wounds on Reno Selected For Tesla Motors Battery Factory · · Score: 1, Troll

    And decide no Teslas can be sold there unless they pay a million dollar tax per vehicle.

  11. Let's uninvent the spear while we're at it on The Argument For a Hypersonic Missile Testing Ban · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Because nothing works like wagging your finger and pretending something doesn't exist.

  12. But remember people on Islamic State "Laptop of Doom" Hints At Plots Including Bubonic Plague · · Score: 1

    Serious criticism of the administration over its treatment of ISIS will be downmodded as flamebait.

  13. A clock with hands on Ask Slashdot: What Old Technology Can't You Give Up? · · Score: 1

    Because however you learn to tell time that's it. Much like you can tell what a person's native language is by asking them what they count in.

  14. REAL RISC? on Research Shows RISC vs. CISC Doesn't Matter · · Score: 1

    Because years and years ago it was obvious that what manufacturers were calling RISC wasn't really that. It was typically some middle ground between REAL RISC and something else. Back in the day x86 had about 374 instructions and a SUN or analogous IBM chip had about 150-175 instructions. But according to the actual science, a RISC chip should only have 30-45 instructions. So for the sake of flexibility manufacturers split the difference and built chips that were neither fish nor fowl. If someone to actually have a real high power chip that ran only 40 instructions I wonder if the benchmarks would come out differently. Or maybe they wouldn't because the benchmarks themselves make some attempt to model the complexity of real world scenarios. And if that's the case then the REAL RISC chips would be stumbling trying to execute most things in software not the instruction set.

  15. Good News! on Climate Damage 'Irreversible' According Leaked Climate Report · · Score: 1

    We a rock solid apocalypse. Hopefully 6/7ths of the world will die out.

  16. I can't really listen on Slashdot Talks WIth IBM Power Systems GM Doug Balog (Video) · · Score: 1

    Almost everything IBM says is bullshit. Sorry but it is.

  17. The biggest risk to Netflix on Netflix Open Sources Internal Threat Monitoring Tools · · Score: 1

    Is Netflix, Amazon AWS and Xbox. Taken together any fucking thing you can imagine will or won't happen.

  18. Re: Or as we call it, Wednesday on Time Warner Cable Experiences Nationwide Internet Outage · · Score: 1

    Really? Moderated as flamebait. Really? Fuck you.

  19. 29 cords out of 6 million on HP Recalls 6 Million Power Cables Over Fire Hazard · · Score: 1

    Seems a tad hysterical.

  20. Or as we call it, Wednesday on Time Warner Cable Experiences Nationwide Internet Outage · · Score: 0

    This year I've experienced 31 TW outages of 2 hrs or more. Including one period of 6 straight days where TW sent 5 different bucket trucks out to 'fix' something, couldn't and left. The next to last guy was the best. He had the curbside box apart in his hands and when I went outside he said, and I quote "I didn't do anything" unquote. I live IN Raleigh, the capital city of the 9th largest state in the US. Service is a crapshoot most of the time. Maybe it works maybe it doesn't. Rajiv Ahmed Gonzales or whoever you reach on the phone will never tell you there's a problem. NEVER.

    The only TW 'office' here is a building where the line is out the door EVERY DAY ALL DAY where the wait could be 2-3 hours. Even if all you're doing is returning a DVR or modem to them. When I went there to swap out my BROKEN modem, Kwanisha or whatever shrugged to told me "We ain't got any, NEXT!"

    I've escalated calls to them so many times I have personal cell phone #s of TW managers. I call them at home. It's the only way to get anything done at all.

    Here's what you do. Every day, every single day, you snatch up one TW exec and you cruify them on fire, on YouTube.

  21. So don't subpoena a state official on California Passes Law Mandating Smartphone Kill Switch · · Score: 1

    Because all those devices will be wiped.

  22. Good thing we got the IRS on A Horrifying Interactive Map of Global Internet Censorship · · Score: 0

    They're protecting privacy by 'losing' all those emails.

  23. But the cloudy cloudy cloudy cloud on IBM Gearing Up Mega Power 8 Servers For October Launch · · Score: 1

    Roll out a machine with 128 of these and tell prospective customers they can implement 20,000 virtual instances IN THE CLOUD.

  24. They will require drivers too on California DMV Told Google Cars Still Need Steering Wheels · · Score: 1

    And they will be taxed twice as much.

  25. I have a rule and so do most people on Sources Say Amazon Will Soon Be Targeting Ads, a la Google AdWords · · Score: 1

    To NEVER EVER EVER EVER consider any product or service that advertises. For example, Pandora runs the same local car dealer ad for every other ad, every day. Not only am I not buying a car, I will never use that dealer. Ever. Never Ever. Ever.