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  1. Signing a contract doesn't mean they got the data on The FBI Got Its Hands on Data That Twitter Wouldn't Give the CIA (theverge.com) · · Score: 2

    "The FBI signed a contract" is not the same as "The FBI got the data". You must be new to government contracting.

  2. It must be true..all of it...

  3. iTunes purchase? on How Apple and Facebook Helped To Take Down KickassTorrents (pcworld.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    The guy running the torrent site is buying stuff on iTunes?

  4. I'd like to see a Venn diagram of "people who think there is no bias against black people" and "people who think there is bias against programmers who are over 40".

  5. and was deemed 'a great candidate' by a recruiter. on Age-Discrimination Suit Against Google Seeks Class Action For Engineers (dailymail.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    I'm sure every candidate who was interviewed and rejected can make this claim..

  6. Re:Stop laying people off at 45 on Microsoft President Brad Smith: Computer Science Is Space Race of Today · · Score: 1

    I am rather well-known for a long history of being at the leading edge of technology and often even serving as a guru for emerging technologies.

    Sounds legit...

  7. Re:Stop laying people off at 45 on Microsoft President Brad Smith: Computer Science Is Space Race of Today · · Score: 1

    Could it possibly be that those 45 year olds that got laid off had become complacent and hadn't kept their skills current?

    This is heresy on slashdot.

  8. It was illegal but did it cause the flash crash? on 'Flash Crash' Trader Navinder Sarao Faces US Extradition · · Score: 1

    How does one guy placing orders cause a flash crash?

  9. OPM was hacked, not DoD on John McAfee: NSA's Back Door Has Given Every US Secret To Enemies (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 1

    Is it too much to get the basic facts right?

  10. Re:Age needs to be reported moving forward on IBM Added 70,000 People To Its Ranks In 2015, And Lost That Many, Too (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 0

    If a 25 year old can do my job and for less $$, why shouldn't the company replace me? We do the same when we buy consumer products..

  11. what happens to theodp? on Slashdot and SourceForge Sold, Now Under New Management (bizx.info) · · Score: 1

    What happens to his daily rants against code.org?

  12. Re:You're seriously asking Slashdot? on Ask Slashdot: Convincing a Team To Undertake UX Enhancements On a Large Codebase? · · Score: 1

    Waiting for the inevitable "I don't want to learn new technologies because some of us have other responsibilities" and a lot of yelling at the kids to get off their lawn. slashdot used to be a good website. Now it's just a bunch of over the hill powerbuilder programmers who can't be bothered to keep up with the times.

  13. Re:I'm beginning to see a pattern here. on US Spends $1bn Over a Decade Trying To Digitize Immigration Forms, Just 1 Is Online (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    Govt contracts are paid to work, not to deliver products. The more they "work", the more they get paid.

  14. Re:The old talent doesn't understand the new stuff on CIOs Say New Talent and Old Tech Don't Mix · · Score: 1

    You see that on slashdot all the time. Every story about a cloud outage has a lot of "LOL!! kids and their cloud" comments moderated insightful.

  15. It was amazing how fast the younger guys got jobs even though they had less skills than we did.

    Is there an objective measure for that? Or is that your opinion? Maybe their skills were more relevant.

  16. Re:White House Welcomes Corporate-Influenced K-12 on Massachusetts Embraces Philanthropy-Funded K-12 CS Education · · Score: 1

    Ok. We get it. It's all a google/MS/FB conspiracy to steal your jobs.

  17. Re:Does indeed happen. on Woman Recruited By Google Four Times and Rejected Now Joins Age Discrimination Suit · · Score: 1

    they never make an offer after multiple interviews, he says its because hes almost 60.

    I guess that settles it...

  18. Billionaire backed? on Khan Academy Seeks Patents On Learning Computer Programming, Social Programming · · Score: 1

    You mean like slashdot?

  19. Re:And it's not even an election year on Ten US Senators Seek Investigation Into the Replacement of US Tech Workers · · Score: 1

    the toys that our very companies are making

    Toys that were made overseas. Toys that used to be made by Americans.

  20. Re:Helping Castro on Cubans Allowed To Export Software and Software Services To the US · · Score: 2

    Thus doing what little they can to help finance Castro's regime. Good job!

    You're probably typing this from a PC made in China. Financing the Chinese regime... the biggest threat to America. Why do you hate America?

  21. Civil disobedience on School Defied Google and US Government, Let Boys Program White House Xmas Trees · · Score: 1

    Yeah....this is just like Selma...

  22. Re:Silly argument on US Senator Blasts Microsoft's H-1B Push As It Lays 18,000 Off Workers · · Score: 4, Funny

    There's a false comparison being made here... who says the Nokia engineer or the Xbox content maker being laid off has the same skills as the programmer they are wanting to hire?

    Facts don't matter when THEY'RE TAKING OUR JOBS!!!

  23. Romney was right on Massachusetts SWAT Teams Claim They're Private Corporations, Immune To Oversight · · Score: 1
    corporations are people, my friend....

    people with guns and flashbang grenades.

  24. Re:I used to be an engineer. I worked for Motorola on Age Discrimination In the Tech Industry · · Score: 0

    When I turned 42...

    Now I am a dentist

    How is this remotely plausible? How the heck this get moderated insightful?

  25. Re:And this is just fine. on Amazon Embodies the Gender Gap in Tech · · Score: 1

    In the slashdot universe, age bias is a thing that absolutely exists....but gender bias...meh...