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  1. Re:True innovation on 'Google Buses' Are Bad For Cities, Says New York MTA Official · · Score: 1

    The real world is far more beneficial than what you're intending to create.

    In your virtual world, do I have to go to the restroom, which in turn forces me past a random person in the hallway that I stop and talk to ... sparking the idea that ends up being the solution to the problem I've been working on?

    Whats that?

    No? All you'll do is interact with people in a fairly ridged environment that does far more to prevent collaboration than actually help it?

    Yea, thats what I thought.

    Electronic communications can help people who already work well together, but taking away the office is a stupid idea, universally. It ranks right up there with 'taking everyones desktop away and replacing them with iPads' ... which has been the latest and greatest management moron fad I've noticed (though its dead too I think).

  2. Re:Missing the point on 'Google Buses' Are Bad For Cities, Says New York MTA Official · · Score: 1

    Because a smart business wants its focused teams to intermingle and work together to create something greater and better than any one team could do alone.

    Isolation is not good for workers.

  3. Re:Great idea! on 'Google Buses' Are Bad For Cities, Says New York MTA Official · · Score: 1

    10 acres? Googles bathrooms are larger than that.

  4. Re:Yokel, much? on 'Google Buses' Are Bad For Cities, Says New York MTA Official · · Score: 1

    Perhaps instead of blowing smoke out of your ass you could counter one of those comments? No, you can't, you can only respond with a silly combination of letters that someone is supposed to find insulting.

    Sadly, the only reason you said it is because of your own absolute ignorance of the meaning of yokel. Should have used red neck too, you would have gotten the trifecta of ignorance.

    You just showed all of slashdot that you're a douche, good job.

  5. Re:Problem Solved. on 'Google Buses' Are Bad For Cities, Says New York MTA Official · · Score: 1

    Says someone who has no idea how businesses and PEOPLE work.

    Telecommuting is almost (not always, but pretty fucking close) always a stupid idea in ever possible way. It rarely ends up cheaper overall and you loose all collaboration that happens when people accidentally run into each other rather than having only planned interactions (AKA Meetings and conference calls).

    Any advantage you think it gives ... actually isn't an advantage when you look at what it costs you in the big picture.

  6. City Planners on 'Google Buses' Are Bad For Cities, Says New York MTA Official · · Score: 1

    Yes, I want to move my company and all of its resources (i.e. employes) to your shitty city center which is plagued by over crowding due to idiots who think stacking people on top of each other is a good idea.

    You can keep your transportation, supply, environmental and crime problems for yourself. The rest of us don't need to move to your shithole just to make it not as bad for you.

    Its your fault you live in an over crowded concrete desert, not mine. You don't like your city, get a clue and move like everyone else.

  7. Re:No on Does Relying On an IDE Make You a Bad Programmer? · · Score: 1

    Even 10 years ago AVR studio (which is free) had a built in simulator to do AVR simulation and you could have easily used JTAG on pretty much any AVR ever made except the TINYs which just don't have enough pins.

    Sounds like you were working on an STK500 dev board and just didn't have any idea what you were doing :/

  8. Re:No on Does Relying On an IDE Make You a Bad Programmer? · · Score: 0

    Your first sentence makes you unqualified to continue speaking on the subject.

    Sorry, but everyone on all sides of the fence who isn't just a biased fanboy recognize that VS is one of if not THE best IDE in existence.

    I say this as someone who doesn't have a single Windows machine anywhere in his home or business.

    If it took you 5 minutes to turn on line numbers, you're a moron. Even if it was that hard to find (it isn't), you should have googled for the answer before you ended the first minute.

    Click on the file, look at its properties, where it shows the full path, and has since visual studio 6 (15 fucking years ago at least)

    Add a new library to compile? As in a project? You add the library to your solution and make it a dependency of the project that depends on it. Done. It'll be built when changed and linked in. Or you could do it the old way and just manually link the library instead.

    Your problem isn't the IDE, its you.

  9. Re:Are you talking about just softening it with he on Fishing Line As Artificial "Muscle" · · Score: 1

    Heat monofiliment, it shrinks, twisted or not. Twisting it just means you can make more of it shrink in a smaller space. When wrapping a fly, you get it nice and tight, then heat it to get it to shrink and be even tighter. I pinch it at this point as it seems to hold its shape better.

    I'm not claiming I'm doing something special, its just sad to see that this was 'discovered' by someone, when humans already KNEW about it, its just the information wasn't transferred from the people who know about it to the people who wanted to use those properties, so the people who wanted to use those properties had to rediscover them, essentially ... or as someone else pointed out in a post above, somebody probably pointed out the same thing I do on my flies to the researchers who then documented the discovery.

    I just wish we could pool our knowledge in a more usable way, so we (as a species) don't waste so much time rediscovering what we already knew.

  10. Re:Not exactly a bargain on Why Is US Broadband So Slow? · · Score: 1

    WTF dialup were you using that got close to 2mb/s?

    Last I checked, 56.7k was roughly 35.5 times slower than 2mb/s.

    I generally don't consider something off by a full order of magnitude to be 'close'.

  11. Re: How can the situation be improved? on Why Is US Broadband So Slow? · · Score: 0

    Because just going to their web page is hard ...

    http://ny-offer.aiprx.timewarn...

    You're such a lazy fuck.

  12. Re:Malice? I think not. on Study Shows Agent Orange Still Taints Aging C-123s · · Score: 2

    Yep, my father used the VA medical system for pretty much everything major that happened to him after 65 or so due to very little income during his retirement years. They not only took care of his service related injuries (a land mind went off about 3 feet away from him, killing his buddy and throwing shrapnel into his leg and feet, destroying some of his toe joints) but they also performed cataract surgery, took care of several bits of cancer he had in his lungs, bladder and a couple other places, and then took care of him during his final days when we really couldn't afford to take care of him properly.

    The VA took care of my father, and they take care of EVERY former member of the armed services (well, except some dishonorable discharged people). You might have to wait in line, but they will take care of you.

    In my personal experience, which has been a lot of time in VA hospitals (At one point, I knew the name of every cafeteria worker working in the Gainsville Florida hospital, and where a couple of them lived thanks to them just being friendly to me in my time there.) its a shitty job they have, but they do it, and they take care of our service men.

    And lets be clear, they damn well should take care of all of our service men and women, how we treat our soldiers when they return home says a lot about how we treat people in general.

    We take care of our warriors. I'm proud of that fact, even if I'm not always proud of what we send our warriors off to do.

    I never served in the military, I'm too much of a coward. Thank you for your service sir, regardless of what your duties entailed, I appreciate your time and dedication to our country.

  13. Re:Serving in the Military on Study Shows Agent Orange Still Taints Aging C-123s · · Score: 1

    Nope, you're still just a fucking coward who expects someone else to protect your ass when you don't deserve it.

    Fortunately for you, the military protects all its citizens, even the ignorant cowards such as yourself.

  14. Re:For the want of editors on Study Shows Agent Orange Still Taints Aging C-123s · · Score: 1

    Look they changed the title to something equally as fraudulent.

    God slashdot, you guys fucking suck now. You have become what most of us fucking hate about the Internet. A bunch of sensationalist morons who don't have the slightest clue what you're talking about, and lie out your ass to get page views.

    Fuck the slashdot beta boycott, I'm not participating in that, I'm just done with slashdot in general. You guys (slashdot/dice) ruined your own cash cow, fucking idiots.

  15. Re:Blowback on Study Shows Agent Orange Still Taints Aging C-123s · · Score: 1

    Guns and fighter jets (most of the time) attack the enemy target.

    Chemical warfare attacks everyone, indiscriminately. The Enemy, the civilians, your own armies, everyone. Its an act of total desperation when you've lost the war and you're just trying to inflict as much pain and suffering as possible rather than working to stop the fighting.

    Guns and aircraft are typically used to win the war. They shoot at specific people (for the most part).

    Chemical weapons are used to slaughter EVERYONE, regardless of side when the losing side realizes its not going to win. They don't target, they cause damage and death to anyone within range, even the solders of the guy who launched them.

    Its kind of disturbing that you don't realize theres a difference between killing soldiers who are part of an enemy army, versus killing men, women, and children regardless of affiliation.

    Chemical weapons use is the act of a coward.

  16. Re:Herbicides!? on Study Shows Agent Orange Still Taints Aging C-123s · · Score: 2

    There is a slight difference between dropping chemicals on open jungle and dropping chemicals in the middle of the town square ... where there isn't a jungle for 4500km in any direction.

  17. Fraud on Study Shows Agent Orange Still Taints Aging C-123s · · Score: 1

    To show that such exposures happened, her research team had to be 'very clever.'"

    So they lied about it then?

    Science and real research doesn't need you to be clever to suit your agenda. If you have to 'be clever', you're aren't doing science properly, you're just pushing your own politics and science has nothing to do with it.

  18. Re: Looking for a job on company equipment? on Microsoft Lync Server Gathers Employee Data Just Like NSA · · Score: 1

    In America, your law suit wouldn't be touched by a lawyer.

    Just because think your entitled to do whatever you want at work using their resources doesn't mean the rest of the world shares your ignorant, spoiled view.

    Legal precedent says you have no right to privacy at wok outside of the bathroom or if your contract states some level of privacy.

    By default, no court is going to give a shit that your company reads your emails and logs your activity at work. In MANY cases, employers are REQUIRED to do some of these things ... And the requirement came from lawyers ... Dealing with people like you.

    Nevada for instance requires emails be archived and scanned for personally identifiable information that isn't encrypted before being delivered to the destination.

    It's really sad that people like you can be so selfish when your using someone else's resources. Use your own fuckinig connection to hunt for jobs or spank it while streaming pornhub.

  19. Re: Looking for a job on company equipment? on Microsoft Lync Server Gathers Employee Data Just Like NSA · · Score: 1

    You do realize Lync will be happy to auto expire that data if you want it to ... Right? What's that? No, you didn't know that? What's that? You didn't realize that every comms system on the planet DOES THE SAME FUCKING LOGGING. If you or Timothy or the poster had a clue about this subject matter you'd not have posted the story or act like MS does something evil here.

    Perhaps you shouldn't talk out your ass about things you know absolutely nothing about.

    No one is going to throw out log data because you don't want to get caught wasting company resources dicking at work on some else's time, money, network, hardware and other infrastructure.

    Your spoiled ass needs to get a good dose of reality and grow the fuck up.

  20. Re:Call Detail Records are an "attractive nuisance on Microsoft Lync Server Gathers Employee Data Just Like NSA · · Score: 1

    As I recall, you write your name on a card that doesn't get thrown away until its full. when the book is returned, the card is put back in it for anyone to see. You can go to the library, grab the book off the shelf, copy down the names and dates on the card and return the card to the book, likely without anyone realizing your doing it for small numbers of books.

    Deleting the info when the book is returned even today sounds unlikely unless they are inspecting every page in the book on return, otherwise when the next guy checks it out and finds missing pages or that someones kid thought it was coloring book, they wouldn't know who to charge for the damage.

  21. Re:lots of products already do this on Microsoft Lync Server Gathers Employee Data Just Like NSA · · Score: 5, Insightful

    ALL PBX type software does this.

    Anyone who wants to be able to bill internally HAS to keep this metadata to do internal billing.

    Its also something that has been collected for the entire 30 years I've dealt with phone systems, and its not like it was new when I first started in telephony.

    You're pretty fucking stupid if this is news to you.

  22. Re:Getting started? on Riecoin: A Cryptocurrency With a Scientific Proof of Work · · Score: 1

    If I tell you how to make something worth value with little effort, then you don't have to buy it from me.

    The fewer 'miners' (thats a stupid fucking name for the process) the more profit each one can get.

  23. Re:What would happen if they just let it meltdown? on Safety Measures Fail To Stop Fukushima Plant Leaks · · Score: 1

    ...

    They know where the cores are, they haven't left the reactor containment vessels ...

    What the fuck kind of bullshit are you spewing? Common ground fog is now steam from a core meltdown thats deep underground somewhere?

    Ignorant bullshit from people like you are why we have so many fucking morons who are so afraid of nuclear power. Please shut the fuck up and stop making up random bullshit to get peoples attention.

  24. Re:What would happen if they just let it meltdown? on Safety Measures Fail To Stop Fukushima Plant Leaks · · Score: 1

    The proper response would be to stop giving it attention.

    Instead of sending a message, all you did was made it MORE popular. Good job, I'm fairly certain thats the opposite of what you should have done.

  25. Re:380 million becquerels isn't a whole lot on Safety Measures Fail To Stop Fukushima Plant Leaks · · Score: 1

    A) Its illegal to throw your smoke detector in the trash. Its got a fair amount of dangerous material in it jackass, don't throw it in the fucking trash. Its fine when its in its housing, its not okay when you throw that housing in the trash and then it gets crushed in the trash truck and exposure starts.

    B) The land fill domes aren't magical, they're plastic, and the form a barrier both above and below the trash in the landfill.