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  1. Re:Company pays you for off-time ideas too on Ask Slashdot: How To Own the Rights To Software Developed At Work? · · Score: 1

    1) State dependent, contract or not.

  2. Re:Get it in writing on Ask Slashdot: How To Own the Rights To Software Developed At Work? · · Score: 1

    Depends on if his employer is in the business of creating construction tools instead of just supplying construction workers. And as I pointed out elsewhere, many construction workers bring their own tools for work and just the simple ones like hammers.

  3. Re:Get it in writing on Ask Slashdot: How To Own the Rights To Software Developed At Work? · · Score: 1

    No. Your 'smurfhammer' is not part of the construction. It's just a tool used to do said construction. The contract for would be for the construction, not the tools. Construction workers quite frequently bring their own tools to use at the site from hammers to air compressors. What they *cannot* take home (without it being theft) would be the nails and excess wiring purchased for the project.

    And no, 'spare time' is relevant. The work this guy is doing is directly tied in with the software being constructed, to use your analogy. Only by doing it in his spare time could it become his.

  4. Re:Millennials will have a very rough landing on Is IT Work Getting More Stressful, Or Is It the Millennials? · · Score: 1

    You're describing an entirely different kind of parent than he did.

  5. Comments are subjective on C Code On GitHub Has the Most "Ugly Hacks" · · Score: 1

    Which makes this all subjective. There are already comments by people who say that anything not done in C is ugly, so how to tell that these same people didn't pepper other's code with that statement? Many people think code is an ugly hack merely because it wasn't done the way they would code it.

    I've seen code written with procedures named for Alice in Wonderland characters and activities. Yet, I've seen that kind of thing defended here as 'creative'. 'Ugly hack' in a comment is a worthless indicator.

  6. Re:Suicide mission on Two Gunman Killed Outside "Draw the Prophet" Event In Texas · · Score: 1

    Holy shit, did you actually misunderstand what I wrote that badly?!

    BR Now, reread - The message is murder. Don't let the bullshit about cartoons fool you.

  7. Re:The 30 and 40-somethings wrote the code... on Recruiters Use 'Digital Native' As Code For 'No Old Folks' · · Score: 1

    For you to be a synonym to his example, you would have to purchase a new camera every year just to have the latest headsup in the eyepiece.

  8. Re:The Perfect Bait on Two Gunman Killed Outside "Draw the Prophet" Event In Texas · · Score: 1

    It's the percentage of those 'someones' and the response of the rest that is revealing.

  9. Re:misrepresentation of Islam on Two Gunman Killed Outside "Draw the Prophet" Event In Texas · · Score: 1

    Muslims are prohibited from drawing Mohammed

    Aside from a fatwah issued by a cleric, perhaps you could provide a cite. As I stated elsewhere, Mohammed has been portrayed by Islamic artists for centuries.

  10. Re:Don't Have to Try Very Hard at All on Two Gunman Killed Outside "Draw the Prophet" Event In Texas · · Score: 1

    Only these extremist assholes. Mohammed has been depicted many, many times in Islamic works through the ages.

  11. Re:Suicide mission on Two Gunman Killed Outside "Draw the Prophet" Event In Texas · · Score: 2

    The message is murder. Don't let the bullshit about cartoons fool you.

  12. Do I? on Want 30 Job Offers a Month? It's Not As Great As You Think · · Score: 1

    Hell, I've been retired for over eight years and I still get spammed.

  13. Re:Never a good idea on Climatologist Speaks On the Effects of Geoengineering · · Score: 2

    Follow the money. There's a book behind this. He may not be a nut, but he has a personal agenda.

  14. Re:SAVE US AND THE WEB FROM MOZILLA! on Mozilla Begins To Move Towards HTTPS-Only Web · · Score: 1

    None of which matters to the persecutor.

  15. Re:Rooting against on IBM CIO Thinks Agile Development Might Save Company · · Score: 1

    And if one takes the rhetorical "everyone" and translates it literally, then formulating a reasonable response can be problematic as well.

  16. Re:Blame it all on our ancestors... on How To Increase the Number of Female Engineers · · Score: 1

    If you're actually ignorant as to that, you probably shouldn't be commenting on how to alter study for the sexes. But, to give you a small push, male and female brains are structurally and hormonally different.

    But, I suspect you already know this as "brains and" were the only words you elided. Unless, of course, you don't understand that emotions are based in the brain.

  17. Re:Ok.... Here's the thing, though ..... on Utilities Battle Homeowners Over Solar Power · · Score: 2

    Have to agree, as the home owner is becoming what is essentially a competing power company. If not the entire meter, then at least the difference in cost from a typical one to the bi-directional variety.

  18. Re:Simple on Ask Slashdot: What Features Would You Like In a Search Engine? · · Score: 2

    False analogy. There's a huge difference between a personal assistant, who by definition *I* know personally, and a faceless business entity who I know not at all (read adversarial entity) scraping 'enough' information about me to presume it knows me sufficiently to second guess what I want and give me that instead of what I requested. Truthfully, why on earth would I trust such an entity?

    That's the problem with hypotheticals. They don't reflect the reality we live in.

  19. Re:The third factor on Can High Intelligence Be a Burden Rather Than a Boon? · · Score: 2

    People frequently mistake not giving a shit for ADHD. Two very different things.

  20. Re:What the fuck are you talking about? on Can High Intelligence Be a Burden Rather Than a Boon? · · Score: 1

    "We hate the most in others that which we see in ourselves"

    Reflect on that last sentence as pertains to yourself and your initial diatribe.

  21. Re:Sexes ARE different, thankfully on LAUSD OKs Girls-Only STEM School, Plans Boys-Only English Language Arts School · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Sweden, arguably the most gender equal country in the world has found that their men and women *still* gravitate to what are called traditional jobs.

  22. Re:Hurrah for sex-segregation! on LAUSD OKs Girls-Only STEM School, Plans Boys-Only English Language Arts School · · Score: 1

    That's not the presence of girls, that's the bias of the teachers. So no, it's not -because of- the girls being there.

  23. Re:Only in america on LAUSD OKs Girls-Only STEM School, Plans Boys-Only English Language Arts School · · Score: 1

    He didn't say he felt bad. Can you explain where you got that impression?

  24. Re:How can anyone think this is possibly a good id on Can Online Reporting System Help Prevent Sexual Assaults On Campus? · · Score: 1

    "Even worse, many police and judges buy into this image too." This would fall under the category of false accusation.

  25. Re:Students + Anonimity on Can Online Reporting System Help Prevent Sexual Assaults On Campus? · · Score: 1

    "even well meaning officers usually end up" You know this how? My anecdotal evidence from a friend who went through the experience is the the police were very considerate and concerned with her well-being and treated her in an utmost professional manner.