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  1. Re:Ban of outside laptops on Ask Slashdot: Should Employers Ban Smartphones? · · Score: 1

    This is a non-issue 99% of the time. Your company's competitors don't care about seeing your TPS reports. Besides, an unauthorized person could just print that report and take it out the door with them. I've never seen a company with restricted printing. I hate to disappoint you, but nobody cares about your data besides you.

  2. Re:Device administration software on Ask Slashdot: Should Employers Ban Smartphones? · · Score: 1

    This is the biggest problem with IT people. They put up with whatever shit gets shoveled onto them, and then wonder why management does not respect them. Try asking any other department to be on call 24/7, regularly work 60+ hours per week, never do personal stuff at the office, and be super-expendable whenever quarterly numbers fall a bit. It would not fly.

  3. Re:Assault Rifles on Newspaper That Published Gun-Owners List Hires Armed Guards · · Score: 1

    'Assault weapon" is a term invented by the liberal media to make ordinary guns sound more dangerous than they really are. As recent history shows, its pretty effective. Ever notice that most gun-banner proponents are completely ignorant on the subject of firearms?

  4. Re:Simple solution, more government! on Facebook Paid 0.3% Taxes On $1.34 Billion Profits · · Score: 1

    Liberals are OK with this, since Facebook is a liberal corporation. Tax breaks are only bad when used by conservative companies such as oil producers. This is the same reason you never hear liberals demonizing pro athletes or actors/singers for making a lot of money, but they will absolutely rip into wall streeters, many of which make less.

  5. Re:Freedom of Speech protects you from the governm on Anonymous Hacks Westboro Baptist Church · · Score: 3, Interesting

    The IRS should however relentlessly audit the books of this organization. To make sure they are compliant, you know. If they end up costing the "church" a lot of money and frustration in the process, too bad so sad. If the Obama administration has no problem using government agencies to harass non-union companies, they should have no problem doing it to the Westboro terrorists.

  6. Re:Title is misleading on Automation Is Making Unions Irrelevant · · Score: 1

    Sure they can - if they want their facilities to be vandalized, their employees and customers harassed by union goons, and other unionized workers like UPS to refuse to deliver to them. Quite some choice there.

  7. Re:Kind of silly on California Sues Delta Air Lines Over Mobile Privacy · · Score: 1

    California officials have no desire to confront their fiscal problems. They would rather add to them by doing things such as building high-speed rail to nowhere and a football stadium in LA for a team they don't have using money they don't have. But it keeps the unions happy, which keeps Democrat politicians elected. That is how California (and Illinois) work in a nutshell.

  8. Re:Extraterritoriality in law is strange on California Sues Delta Air Lines Over Mobile Privacy · · Score: 1

    Yep. Like the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act. The only real reason it exists is to shake down U.S. businesses for violating laws in OTHER countries which may or may not even be provable. But most companies find it not worth the effort to fight, and pay the government a few thousand in protection money to leave them alone. Obama loves using this against anti-union companies or those that aren't "green" enough.

  9. Re:Truly a 1st world problem on FCC Chief Urges FAA To Ease Airplane Electronics Ban · · Score: 1

    Well if its on the internets, then I guess it must be true...

  10. Re:Unauthorized export resale? on New Hampshire Cops Use Taser On Woman Buying Too Many iPhones · · Score: 1

    A nightstick generally causes more severe and longer lasting injuries than a Tazer. The only people who die from being Tazered are crackheads with a heart condition.

  11. Re:Unauthorized export resale? on New Hampshire Cops Use Taser On Woman Buying Too Many iPhones · · Score: 0

    Actually she likely would have been injured more seriously if they had not Tazed her and had instead tried to brute-force restrain her. Not to mention, a little zapping can be good for people like this. I bet she won't try that shit again.

    Jail is not really punitive for many people, but zapping their ass can be. The Tazer is a perfect compliance tool. And no, I don't support a police state. I support an orderly society, which I know is not a popular opinion on this website.

  12. Re:Unauthorized export resale? on New Hampshire Cops Use Taser On Woman Buying Too Many iPhones · · Score: 0

    Right, because they Tazed her as soon as they showed up. I'm sure it wasn't after she resisted NUMEROUS times and refused to cooperate in any way. Why do fucking retards like yourself always IMMEDIATELY assume the cops are in the wrong without bothering to find out a few minimal facts about the incident being discussed?

  13. Re:Ah, so there we go.... on UN Summit Strikes Climate Deal Promising "Damage Aid" To Poor Nations · · Score: 1

    The UN will stop at nothing to achieve its true goal of wealth redistribution. Environmental programs could be the most effective ways to achieve this, which is why they are hell-bent on hyping up "climate change" at every opportunity. It has nothing to do with the environment, and everything to do with social justice.

  14. Re:Ah, so there we go.... on UN Summit Strikes Climate Deal Promising "Damage Aid" To Poor Nations · · Score: 4, Funny

    And by what standard do you judge corruption?

    As a Chicago resident, by the number of Democrats involved.

  15. Re:Serenity's Core Planets on Russia, China, and Others Seek Greater Control Over Internet · · Score: 1

    Such as Mexico, where private gun ownership is banned? Very safe country, I hear.

  16. Re:Truly a 1st world problem on FCC Chief Urges FAA To Ease Airplane Electronics Ban · · Score: 1

    Post a link or it didn't happen.

  17. Re:oh boy ! on How Corruption Is Strangling US Innovation · · Score: 1

    Every society that has ever existed has had a class system of some sort. To think that everyone can be equal is naive idealistic bullshit.

  18. Re:The Daily did not understand the web on News Corp's The Daily iPad App Shutting Down On December 15 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Too many news websites, like this Daily bullshit, have way too many stupid fucking videos. If I wanted to watch TV I'd watch TV. Yet another sign of the continued dumbing down of America (possibly the entire world).

  19. Re:Wow, don't have opinions online.. on How Free Speech Died On Campus · · Score: 1

    It also falls under the Big Lie theory - tell it often enough and people start to believe it.

  20. Re:Does *any* industry start a new union anymore? on Ask Slashdot: What Would It Take For Developers To Start Their Own Union? · · Score: 1

    Why don't we try to strengthen laws for individuals....and make things easier for people to self employ, self incorporate and contract themselves.

    Because collectivism is what keeps politicians in power. Empowered individuals don't need some pandering politician to pretend to solve their problems, hence politicians will not allow the individual to become empowered and thus lose their stranglehold on power. Democrats come straight out and advocate socialist policies, but Republicans lie and claim to favor individual rights while working against the individual behind our backs.

  21. Re:seriously? not this again on Hounded By Recruiters, Coders Put Themselves Up For Auction · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Also, if your company wants to hire "top 5% talent" then you need to be a top 5% employer. Top talent does not want to piss away their career in the IT department of Bank of America, for instance. If you're trying to hire top talent but are an average company, then you are the equivalent of an old fat bald dude trying to date young supermodels. It ONLY works if there's a lot of money involved.

  22. Re:Ouch. on US Air Force Scraps ERP Project After $1 Billion Spent · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Seriously, has there EVER been an ERP implementation that was anything other than a colossal fuckup? Way behind schedule, overbudget, and not functioning properly are the general themes of ERP. And businesses continue to fall for this scam.

  23. Re:3 strikes and he's out on In Mississippi: 15-Year Jail Sentence For Selling Pirated Movies and Music · · Score: 1

    And you were found not guilty, and then sued for false arrest? No? Because the entire thing is bullshit.

  24. Re:This is good for the US on Foxconn Sees New Source of Cheap Labor: The United States · · Score: 1

    Americans would rather suck dick at a truck stop than work for FoxCon

  25. Re:Changes incoming on Court Rules Website Terms of Service Agreement Completely Invalid · · Score: 0

    Its a private business; you don't have to go there and they don't have to serve you. Boo hoo, life is unfair.