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  1. Re:duh on Why Do So Many Tech Workers Dislike Their Jobs? · · Score: 1

    also because i went into doing all this full well knowing the wide range of incredible possibilities. but now im locked into the very limited range of little things i do at my job doing it for people who are complete dog shit. not imaginative pioneers in the industry, but money starved accountants desperate to just get their numbers good enough by end of year. year after year after year.

    Basically I have the power of a genie, and im granting wishes for idiots.

  2. duh on Why Do So Many Tech Workers Dislike Their Jobs? · · Score: 1

    i have no hookers on my desk.

    if i had hookers on my desk, i would feel different. very much different.

  3. Re:Books... on Physical Books Successfully Coexisting With Ebooks · · Score: 1

    as long as the sun is up and you are outside.

    ebooks on tablet benefit from being their own light source.

  4. Re:Am I the only guy here that likes G+? on Google+ Photos To Shut Down August 1 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    thinking the current bulk of users of facebook never heard of a myspace. they are the slow adopters forced into it through the social thing when they got their first ipod to keep up with their kids. parents and grandparents and teachers, they are not technology people, they just followed along and now they are stuck.

    the people who are real movers have already left facebook in concept and are on to other social systems entirely.

    google+ is the far better alternative to facebook in every way for the few of us who actually know, care, understand. Those few do not make much for a success story.

  5. Re:The entire tech industry can be offshored... on Ask Slashdot: Moving To an Offshore-Proof Career? · · Score: 1

    yeah great until all of the other jobs are gone and the locals are all poor and unemployed

  6. what grade is this from? on The Programming Talent Myth · · Score: 1

    in a paid professional environment, terms like 'rock star' and 'ninja' sound like giggly things our children might say about what they were learning in school today.

    Our team members have a skill level where they started at hire time, and then they learn and grow from there, both in the general languages and in our platform they work with. Nobody comes in as a 'ninja'. The longer they have been here working and learning this environment, the more we can trust them to lead projects. Everyone either improves with time or eventually moves on to other things.

    Is this myth thing about school then?

  7. Re:Yesterday's News on Russian Cargo Mission To ISS Spinning Out of Control · · Score: 1

    Honestly I did not see this particular story anywhere yesterday on any major national feeds and I am not seeing it running much today even though it is an ongoing situation. Everything is buried by baltimore. Who had this covered?

  8. Re:Because Grief is a harsh mistress on A 2-Year-Old Has Become the Youngest Person Ever To Be Cryonically Frozen · · Score: 1

    not even in the same realm of discussion. nice try though

  9. Re:Because Grief is a harsh mistress on A 2-Year-Old Has Become the Youngest Person Ever To Be Cryonically Frozen · · Score: 1

    your entire argument is "because superstition"

    there will come a time when people must move forward.

    new views, new ideas, new opinions based on new information.

    those people need leaders.

  10. Re:Hasn't this been proven to be junk science? on A 2-Year-Old Has Become the Youngest Person Ever To Be Cryonically Frozen · · Score: 1

    You have a negative impression of the company, you believe they are scammers. Thats fine but it is suspicion, not fact. They are doing exactly what they claim. What they are doing can result in a future restoration. The practice of already developed processes is still a form of research that furthers the field. The current demand and increasing demand creates capital that pushes research forward. Better procedures are less likely to get developed if there isnt a current pressure for it now and that is what this organization does contribute, a need and financial pressure for better processes to be developed. The idea that this is just throwing money away is your opinion only. There is absolutely NOBODY who is getting rich off of this, there are far better ways to go about ripping people off.

    One thing negative that is fair, these early adopters are highly unlikely to really experience resuscitation. But this path can only experience eventual success when there is a constant ongoing pressure of early adopters to push the field.

  11. Re:Because Grief is a harsh mistress on A 2-Year-Old Has Become the Youngest Person Ever To Be Cryonically Frozen · · Score: 1

    this makes absolutely no sense. her forefathers are not resting in peace they are non existing rot piles in boxes under the ground. "resting in peace" is a falsehood itself we just say it as a weak form of death acceptance.. There is no eternal undeadness in her situation that is any different from the corpse underground except for the remote possibility that someone might be able to revive her someday. And if not, she is just as equally dead as anybody else. Her tissues are simply not rotting away, thats the only difference, she is dead but her deterioration has been halted. Any disrespect is imagined or cultural based invention, but no actual perceivable trauma has occurred. The girl isnt sitting there crying about it and neither are the parents. Who is being harmed and how?

  12. Re:Hasn't this been proven to be junk science? on A 2-Year-Old Has Become the Youngest Person Ever To Be Cryonically Frozen · · Score: 2

    there is no coming back from that today.

    it is not impossible for a regenerative process to one day be capable of solving this issue. it is also not impossible that the cryo methods will improve over time to reduce the amount of damage done. in time the two points will meet along the way somewhere and we will have the first restored person.

    they may have the total iq of a pile of regurgitated watermelon, but they will have functioning neurons again in a way that resembles life.

    the alternative for most of these people would be a box in the ground or a tube of ashes, how is that fate any better then one that gives science a playground?

    i would do it. there are things that we can learn in this process. It might not be about eternal life but it could continue to help develop medical processes that further aid in combat medicine, traffic accident survival, advanced forms of cancer surgery or organ transplantation. If my body is dead anyways why not?

  13. Re:Hell No Hillary on Hillary Clinton Declares 2016 Democratic Presidential Bid · · Score: 1

    the fact that you called me a conservative means i completely misunderstood your post at least three different ways. I thought you said the google search proved republicans were nearly infinitely corrupt and i replied that the numbers seem completely accurate. who the fuck are you even?

  14. Re:Hell No Hillary on Hillary Clinton Declares 2016 Democratic Presidential Bid · · Score: 1

    im lost at what your point was, the numbers seem by coincidence to be completely accurate. Are you saying the opposite should be true?

  15. proper instruction on Ask Slashdot: How To Introduce a 7-Year-Old To Programming? · · Score: 1

    tell him to go build the biggest sand castle he has ever built before. But it has to be twice as big as the sandbox he has to work with. Tell him there must be an individual entry way and a window for every toy he has in his toy box. It must be ready and meet your expectations by next monday, so no time with family or friends during this hussle. Also you will be out of town on vacation for the rest of the week, so monday is the first review/LAUNCH. Offer him a quarter to get the work done. If he complains about the pay or time tell him the less fortunate neighbor kids would do it for a nickel.

  16. Re:still ? on Did Natural Selection Make the Dutch the Tallest People On the Planet? · · Score: 1

    Saying that evolution might no longer be applicable is failing to understand what it is in the big picture in terms of evolution.

    And why I was thinking the article has the tone that it does. It conflicts with the concept that somehow evolution no longer applies because of . You don't have to look very hard to find articles that talk about how the natural process has halted or been perverted by technology or government programs, or whatever. But that data reported here helps oppose this.

  17. Re:still ? on Did Natural Selection Make the Dutch the Tallest People On the Planet? · · Score: 1

    Right but i think the general message has been there though the last decade at least. Doesn't mean it makes sense, but regular articles talk about the woe of technology and the modernization of mankind ruins the normal process of things. So perhaps this assumption that evolution no longer applies stems from this, and hence the data to the contrary that gives us examples in action does get this much of a reaction.

  18. Re:still ? on Did Natural Selection Make the Dutch the Tallest People On the Planet? · · Score: 1

    maybe something about modern technology, medicine, government and religion all somehow interfere and render evolution no longer applicable?

  19. Re:Easy Solution on Broadband ISP Betrayal Forces Homeowner To Sell New House · · Score: 1

    Except that in some cases, like the one I am presently dealing with, the final connectivity cannot be established because of environmental laws protecting nearby state park land. So even though they say they can do it, when they show up there are things they just cannot legally do.

  20. Re:Wasn't this a movie? on Human DNA Enlarges Mouse Brains · · Score: 1

    i just came here to make sure this fact was given proper observance. thank you.

  21. Re:Should come free... on Smartphone Attachment Can Test For HIV In 15 Minutes · · Score: 1

    so with the humans off the table what were you looking to reproduce with?

  22. car spam. on Cyber Attacks Demonstrated On Autonomous Ground Vehicles · · Score: 2

    you will find your car pulling into the nearest walmart, telling you there is a sale on things you like to buy, that your friends are already there shopping, and you must sit in this parking lot for at least 10 minutes before going home or pay the unlock fee on various 3rd party apps your car installed for you at 2am this morning.

  23. Re: Makes sense. on Google Throws Microsoft Under Bus, Then Won't Patch Android Flaw · · Score: 1

    pft nobody bothers to tfh anymore, comments today just migrate their way from story to story based loosely on the little category icons.

  24. Re:This is not the problem on Economists Say Newest AI Technology Destroys More Jobs Than It Creates · · Score: 1

    This is ridiculous! As much effort as it takes to replace skilled labor with automation and we succeeded, now you think we cant accomplish something as simple as automating the poor? The consumers are the easiest part of this whole economic equation to replicate!

  25. explain to me on Apparent Islamic Terrorism Strikes Sydney · · Score: 1

    why every single major news organization is running garbage robo programming instead of covering this event?

    fox is talking about the cia
    cnn is talking about dinosaurs
    msnbc is talking about pot
    local news channels are talking about lions/vikings cowboys/eagles and who is tracking santa claus this year

    i found one station - cnbc world - that is bothering to cover this finally after a few hours went by.

    do we need half the planet to slide off into the sun before someone bothers to stop into the news station to push a live feed button?