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  1. Re:Good on Indiana Nurses Fired After Refusing Flu Shots On Religious Grounds · · Score: 1

    I don't wanna get a drug screen before I can work at a new employer, but if I want that job, I have to do it.

    Perhaps I should quote my own governing religious text - 12 Spaghetti Chapter 26: Thou shalt not subject thine body to the scrutiny of drug investigations, for that way lies asparagus.

  2. Re:Never underestimate familiarity on Petition For Metric In US Halfway To Requiring Response From the White House · · Score: 2

    The part that will blow people's minds that relatively new, high tech industries (like PCB design) also still use imperial. We use mils here (1/1000th of an inch) for specifying PCB geometry. Then you merge silicon and package substrate geometry which is always in um, and nobody knows what the hell the other guy is talking about.

  3. Re:Never underestimate familiarity on Petition For Metric In US Halfway To Requiring Response From the White House · · Score: 1

    As if we don't already have two sets and scream and yell "Fucking metric" or "Fucking imperial" when we guess incorrectly.

  4. Re:US metric system? on Petition For Metric In US Halfway To Requiring Response From the White House · · Score: 1

    We've disliked France far longer than we've been fighting Iraq. I don't know why, I think it has to do with two countries who insist on doing things their own way, and not worrying about what other people do.

    Generally speaking, I like the attitude honestly. The other way lies committees and madness.

  5. Or you can say pint and get a half-liter, the customer won't complain!

  6. Re:School targets girls on Why Girls Do Better At School · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I agree, although I've never done a formal study. Girls may exhibit all the symptoms in TFA, but to me that shows true interest. Boys weren't interested because it was mostly a social playground, and most of the boys I know couldn't have cared less about all that. But most of the girls seemed drawn to school like flies and spent their free time thinking about it.

    Certainly all the group work and social circle jerk that went on when I was in school was a huge turn off and a major cause for most of my class cutting. My sister went just for that, and I really think that's why she got disinterested in math and science where the mostly male teachers (laid off from defense companies back in the day) didn't have much use for that.

    Certainly that's how my own kids are trending too. It concerns me because in spite of TFA, girls don't do as well in math and science later on (when it actually matters) and I don't really want my daughter falling in to the trap that most girls in HS seem to get in to and ending up with a BA in English Lit because "i'm dumb at math".

  7. Re:You don't on Ask Slashdot: How Can I Explain To a Coworker That He Writes Bad Code? · · Score: 5, Funny

    if his attitude is like some of my coworkers, he's no doubt asking his management why the junior engineers aren't rewriting his code to make it efficient while he tackles the big problems more suitable to his seniority.

  8. Re:Mommy... on Newspaper That Published Gun-Owners List Hires Armed Guards · · Score: 4, Informative

    In a black and white world, true. But I tend to vote democrat because on the whole, they are more useful to me, but on guns I totally agree with republicans. Because no party represents my interests uniformly, I sometimes have to vote for the guy who will screw me on gun laws.

    But not having to register property that I legally purchased strikes me as an important part, in particular, of gun ownership. For exactly the reasons the "victims" in this article highlight (not that I support threats, if they are indeed real). Someone just compiled a list of law abiding gun owners, and published it for everyone to see, in spite of it not being anyone else's business.

    I fully support people who break laws in which there is no victim. From marijuana, to gun ownership, to speeding on the highway. Let the government bear the significant financial burden of policing this nonsense and paying for the necessary discipline.

  9. Re:Possibility on Ask Slashdot: Undoing an Internet Smear Campaign? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I agree, this sounds like "I don't like what he's saying about me, and I can't do anything about it legally". The answer is man-up (or woman-up) and ignore it, or as others have said, or create a website to refute his claims, etc.

    One step away from a personal army request...

  10. Re:And this too shall pass away. on The U.S. Careens Over the Fiscal Cliff, Reaching Only Half of a Deal · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Why are you against voting for a Democrat when a Republican held the country hostage?

    NO. The republicans and the ~50% of the people who voted republican are "holding the country hostage". Of course they would say that the democrats and a bunch of crack mothers are holding the country hostage and leading us to financial ruin. That's really the problem.

    Blame the other guy all you want, but the numbers are right there for us all to see. As a nation, we do not agree, we do not agree in approximately equal numbers, and haven't changed our positions after several elections. There is no way for Obama nor Boehner to keep their constituents happy, so they must drag this out until we are all pissed off enough to accept concessions. While I agree it is baffling with the election over, why they couldn't come out with a plan that pisses off both sides equally now, rather than drag it on another month, that is going to be the ultimate conclusion. Everyone is going to walk away from this mad, having lost something and gained nothing. It's the only way this ends, and as long as we continue to blame the other guy, it will drag on and on.

  11. Re:Fuck the US on The U.S. Careens Over the Fiscal Cliff, Reaching Only Half of a Deal · · Score: 1

    Surely you're not paying attention. We'll tell you we don't like that, Jesus wouldn't approve, while a few would meet you in a bathroom stall with a bottle of relish. In response to your public offering, we may decide to invade your country to give you democracy (and Jesus), wherein an unmanned predator drone may choose to eat your dick too.

  12. Re:2010 was the end on Does 2012 Mark the End of the Netbook? · · Score: 1

    Not to mention razor thin margins since this was something chipzilla enabled ODMs with almost from day 1. Who'd want to get in that market, and who'd want something that worked so poorly?

  13. Re:Boo hoo on Pakistan Lifts YouTube Ban For 3 Minutes, Finds More Blasphemy · · Score: 2

    If so, he could hardly blame us for not believing in him, as he hasn't exactly left an abundance of evidence proving that he exists. Free will still exists, I frequently disobey almost everything I'm told, sometimes for no reason at all. I'm fairly sure if God proved himself and said "thou shalt sex for procreation only", I, and quite a lot of others, would go straight to hell.

  14. Re:Arsehole on Linus Chews Up Kernel Maintainer For Introducing Userspace Bug · · Score: 5, Insightful

    His attitude is bullshit, his intent is not.

    That said, it's really not clear why this was on a kernel dev mailing list and not in 1:1 emails. One would hope this sort of public thrashing is the last result of frustrated people.

  15. Re:Hmmmm on Researcher Says the Hawaiian Islands Are Dissolving · · Score: 1

    Yeah I don't think we'll need millions of years for that...

  16. Re:Ignoring the problem. on GNU Hands Out Trisquel At a Microsoft Store · · Score: 1, Troll

    Then you need to give up on the Microsoft store, and focus on corporate consumers and IT admins, because those are the people who keep MS alive. MS at the consumer level is a joke, no one WANTS their product, it's just the path of least resistance. Get it out of the corporation and your task is complete, but IT admins are well and truly sold on ActiveDirectory and their ability to micromanage settings on user machines at an individual basis. Sometimes I can't argue with them either, as users really are retarded sometimes.

  17. Re:Captain Obvious? on Real World Code Sucks · · Score: 1

    Not at all, most of the real world problems are problems you see solved in academia, very well. The code quality is a direct result of the "coding to the business need" principle, where everything is done based on a business identified function/schedule.

    The persistent problem with purely competitive environments is that there will always be an incentive to beat the other guy, at any cost.

  18. Re:Seeing how most companies won't migrate... on Microsoft Has Been Watching, and It Says You're Getting Used To Windows 8 · · Score: 2

    The only people I know who used the search option are IT admins and the helpdesk. I use the start menu in Win7, I use it in Ubuntu Gnome Classic. I have never seen anyone use the search bar from the start menu unless following directions from the helpdesk.

    The only thing that I use more than the start menu is the quick launch bar, but I can't fit ALL my applications down there, just the ones I use all the time (browsers, cygwin terminal, notepad++). Honestly I don't even know how to invoke half the applications on my machine, many of them have separate launchers and application programs, some have built in command line options passed via the start menu shortcut.

     

  19. Re:MOD PARENT UP on Ask Slashdot: What To Tell Non-Tech Savvy Family About Malware? · · Score: 1

    There is no spoon.

  20. Re:Nothing on Ask Slashdot: What To Tell Non-Tech Savvy Family About Malware? · · Score: 5, Informative

    What he's getting at is that any OS on any computer is vulnerable to this sort of attack. Any OS at all that has a web browser: Windows, OSX, Linux, Android, iOS, *BSD, Solaris, whatever.

    Once you click that link and enter your credentials, you are hacked. No resident virus required that has to hook your system via known attack vectors. Of course once you are hacked, it is much easier to get to that next step, if that's important to the attacker. But usually it's not, they're perfectly happy with your accounts.

  21. Re:disney hasn't created new characters? really on How Corruption Is Strangling US Innovation · · Score: 1

    I think the fear that one day Mickey Mouse WILL enter the public domain is spurring that revolution. Imagine how much more would exist if it wasn't renewed. THey'd need a steady stream of new characters

  22. Re:Thank You Captain Obvious on How Corruption Is Strangling US Innovation · · Score: 5, Funny

    How did we get in such dire straits.

  23. Re:It's very possible on Steve Jobs Was Wrong About Touchscreen Laptops · · Score: 4, Insightful

    You must not have young kids. I don't know what bizarre substances they form on their fingers, I do not WANT to know, all I know is that touchscreens preserve and backlight it for me.

  24. Re:End fiat currency! End THE FEDERAL RESERVE!!! on Is It Time For the US To Ditch the Dollar Bill? · · Score: 1

    I think it is incorrect to assume that gold will always retain a constant value with respect to other commodities. I also wonder what the cost burden will be for everyone to have to have scales and mass spectrometers to assess the purity and weight of the currency they receive.

  25. Re:alright, on 4 Microsoft Engineers Predicted DRM Would Fail 10 Years Ago · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The rest of their engineers.

    Basically they had 4 employees who realized what the rest of the free world already knew. This is why MS products are so lousy, only 4 people in the whole place figured this out!