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  1. Re:What happened to backup generators? on Power Outage Strands Thousands at US Airport. 600 Flights Cancelled (cnn.com) · · Score: 1
  2. Re:Oddly unprepared on Power Outage Strands Thousands at US Airport. 600 Flights Cancelled (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    US domestic airlines don't know the meaning of the phrase "contingency planning". All of their operations immediately go to shit at the slightest hiccup.

    Delta won't recover from this until early 2018, with the holiday travel rush coming just after they get this mess sorted out.

  3. In all seriousness, a crash that actually happened like that would be reported as an alcohol-involved accident. That's largely why the stats are so high.

  4. Re:"No. 1: Vendor lock-in" like buying Microsoft? on Ask Slashdot: Biggest IT Management Mistakes? · · Score: 1

    It's way cheaper to run it on Azure. Gee I wonder why?

  5. Re:How did we get here on Google Can Tell if Someone Is Looking at Your Phone Over Your Shoulder (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    You sacrifice a lot, and gain very little.

  6. Re:Bad product manager / bad product on In Defense of Project Management For Software Teams (techbeacon.com) · · Score: 1

    A competent PM with good people and management skills is worth their weight in gold. A bad PM is like a boat anchor dragging the project down.

  7. Re:Just a free Pandora user here. on Pandora Loses 7 Million Listeners (siliconvalley.com) · · Score: 1

    The reason for ads on Pandora isn't so much for them to make money from ads. It's to annoy free users into subscribing. This is why the ads are as grating and repetitive as possible.

  8. Re:Opening themselves up to trouble on Governments Turn Tables By Suing Public Records Requesters (apnews.com) · · Score: -1, Troll

    You mean the American Criminal Liberties Union?

    If you aren't a criminal minority they don't give a shit about you and your rights.

  9. Re:One thing hasn't changed this year: on Slashdot Asks: Which IT Hiring Trends Are Hot, and Which Ones Are Going Cold? · · Score: 1

    that's your problem

  10. Re: With Seattle Hundreds plus... on Sedentary Lifestyle Study Called 'A Raging Dumpster Fire' (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 2

    So quit working for startups then. Or at least work for some better ones. You couldn't figure that out in 23 years?

  11. Re:The pricing is not helping on Hundreds of AT&T Wireless Workers and Supporters Plan To Protest at iPhone 8 Launch at Apple HQ · · Score: 1

    Apple is successful, and unions hate success hence they hate Apple.

  12. Re: The pricing is not helping on Hundreds of AT&T Wireless Workers and Supporters Plan To Protest at iPhone 8 Launch at Apple HQ · · Score: 1

    24/3 DSL? LOL, try 3/1. But at least it's only $40 a month.

  13. Re:Of course they will on Will Millennials Be Forced Out of Tech Jobs When They Turn 40? (ieeeusa.org) · · Score: 1

    Very true. Look at the clothing market for a great example of this.

  14. Re:Horribly inefficient on Publishers Are Making More Video -- Whether You Want It or Not (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    You have that exactly backwards.

  15. Re:How does the city know I use Netflix on A 'Netflix Tax'? Yes, and It's Already a Thing in Some States (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    However, States can gain access to your credit card and your bank statements

    How? Without a warrant or subpoena? I seriously want to know. Asking for a friend...

  16. Re:slashvertisement on 'Surkus' App Pays Users To Line Up Outside New Restaurants (chicagotribune.com) · · Score: 3, Funny

    Shouldn't it be spelled Sukurs?

  17. Re:And so Facebook can push its own agenda on Facebook Fights Fake News With Links To Other Angles (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Exactly right. Liberal Facebook's definition of "fake news" is anything that differs from the official liberal media position on some issue.

  18. Re:April Fools Was 4 Months Ago on Millennials Unearth an Amazing Hack to Get Free TV: the Antenna (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    LOL. Entertaining Superbowl ads are a thing of the past, judging by the last few years.

  19. Re:Do the needfull... on The US Is Becoming a Hot Spot For Outsourcing (bendbulletin.com) · · Score: 1

    Please do the needful, and revert the same.

  20. Re:Wrong order, and then some... on College Students Are Flocking To Computer Science Majors (ieeeusa.org) · · Score: 1

    cool story bro

  21. Re:Software that you see at a trade show is fake on Ask Slashdot: What Are Some Developer Secrets That Could Sink Your Business? · · Score: 1

    Along those lines, "it will be included in the next version" is the software salesman's default answer whenever a customer or prospect asks about some feature that doesn't exist or work. More likely than not, it will in fact not be included in the next version.

  22. I can't think of a single thing in our code base, our practices, etc that I wouldn't happily tell my CEO if he came over and asked me. He's an engineer after all.

    And there is the huge difference. Your boss gets it because he understands technology. Many people can't say the same. A whole LOT of the shady practices in use today are largely a result of the whole "build it like I said so and ship it to the customer by the end of the month no matter what because I already sold it to them" way of management.

  23. Re:Hillary Clinton Murders Another One! on Is Homeland Security's Face-Scanning At Airports An Unreasonable Search? (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 1

    Just like Vince Foster

  24. Re: So... he was charged with reading? on Insider Trader Arrested After He Googled 'Insider Trading,' Authorities Allege · · Score: 1

    Straight from the CNBC article: "Prosecutors say Yan searched "how sec detect unusual trade" before he bought numerous stocks and options that netted him around $120,000 in illicit profits."

    Fucking "Spy Handler" and BeauHD left that important bit out of the clickbait summary just to make things sound a whole lot more inflammatory than they really are and get some views and outraged comments onto this once-popular but now dying former tech news site.

  25. Re:Affordable housing does not make it a company t on Facebook Envisions New Campus With Affordable Housing Units (sfgate.com) · · Score: 2

    Affordable housing is easy - live somewhere you can afford.

    Quit asking the taxpayers to give you welfare in the form of a housing subsidy.