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  1. While this is only partially damning to the US

    Not much point naming the country either - a wildcard could have been used because everywhere is more racist and selfish than advertised especially when as you suggested it's a self-selected group skewing the results.

  2. Re:Condensation would happen on Ask Slashdot: What Would Happen If You Were To Put a Computer Inside a Fridge? · · Score: 1

    Only if you haven't taken pains to remove interior moisture before cooling it,

    Hence one of the reasons why it's rarely done. Looking up today's weather it's 80% humidity where I am - higher than normal but there's typically a fair bit of moisture in air in a lot of places where people live and not a lot of cooling below ambient to hit the dew point.

  3. Re:The question at hand: on Researchers Reveal Malware Designed To 'Power Down' Electric Grid (securityledger.com) · · Score: 1

    The EPRI stuff and Engineers Australia were the ones I remember but IEEE are likely to have had something.
    It was all completely obvious stuff anyway.

  4. Re: When religion makes laws on Man Sentenced to Death For Blasphemous Facebook Comments In Pakistan (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 5, Informative

    They do it because American Evangelists encouraged them to do so.
    http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/africa/how-uganda-was-seduced-by-anti-gay-conservative-evangelicals-9193593.html
    Things get hard when "soft power" is used in the wrong way.

    Of cause Saudi Arabian Muslim evangelists are doing far worse and probably inspired the problem in the article.

  5. It's called an example of hiring from a shallow pool and getting a tiny fish when a whale is required, and it's an example that everyone has heard of.
    I even wrote "on all sides of politics" in an attempt to avoid such replies.
    Please just take it as an example to show that I think you have been fed utter trash that led you to getting your point above so spectacularly wrong. A nice little club where everyone cheers for the same football team may be great in social situations, but when getting a job done it's a rather stupid exclusion of talent. Monocultures can also be called single points of failure. If nobody in the org understands the people you are selling to or otherwise dealing with then what appears to be an utter newbie mistake is bound to happen some day.

  6. Re: Drug delivery device on E-cigarettes 'Potentially As Harmful As Tobacco Cigarettes' (uconn.edu) · · Score: 1

    If you're just looking at it from that perspective, then literally everything causes cancer

    Everything that does a lot of cellular damage.
    The thing with repeated smoking is that you are going from rare amounts of cellar damage to quite a lot per day. That's why smoking results in more cancer than just living in Denver.

    As I'm sure you are aware, your link is nothing but distraction since it's about patches doing not a lot to skin instead of vaping damaging a large number of cells in lungs. You should have the guts to be honest about your dangerous hobby.

  7. Condensation would happen on Ask Slashdot: What Would Happen If You Were To Put a Computer Inside a Fridge? · · Score: 1

    Condensation would happen.
    It's why putting a PC in a fridge is rarely done.

  8. Fair enough. I know for some work -- especially detailed architecting/design work -- even a 15-minute meeting can spoil a whole day.

    It's not about that.
    In some professions or projects a team can be expected to get things done and daily feedback is pointless. Three weeks of reporting daily "still going and don't need any help" gets nothing done.

    For those employees having a hard time staying on task,

    It just creates tension treating everyone like those.

  9. 1) Don't hire them if they don't fit your culture. All workplaces should do this, regardless of what constitutes the work culture. It fosters a better working environment in general.

    That's the road to failure as an org. The organisation is going to have to interact with external people who do not fit your culture and those "difficult" people are what gets you ready for those interactions and/or the people that handle them. Clients sometimes don't pay, and a nice guy who is just happy to let it all go in not the sort of person you want resolving the situation.
    If you have a bunch of people as similar as a high school tennis club you end up having a bunch as ineffective as a high school tennis club while your competitors are employing world class talent.
    See political fuckups from employing cronies on all sides of politics for examples. "Heck of a job Brownie" is a good example of fitting the culture instead of employing for competence.

  10. Do you have a daily interaction with your staff, such as a daily scrum? If not, that's your problem

    Some places have staff that are professional enough that daily meetings are not required to properly supervise their work.
    The "daily scrum" fad is good for some situations but pointless for others.

  11. Re: Drug delivery device on E-cigarettes 'Potentially As Harmful As Tobacco Cigarettes' (uconn.edu) · · Score: 1

    It damages cells and sometimes you get cancer when they repair. That's the mechanism.
    It's a kind of obvious result of repeatedly taking small doses of poison with a tiny risk of that happening with every dose, no matter what the delivery system, keep on doing it and eventually it's going to happen unless something else kills you first.

  12. Re:The question at hand: on Researchers Reveal Malware Designed To 'Power Down' Electric Grid (securityledger.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    At the time, the engineers were cocky and thought nobody would be able to fuck with it. Maybe at the time they were correct.

    You are incorrect.
    Back in the day we wanted either a total air gap (which we used to have) or dedicated secure networks like the banks were using. Management just about everywhere didn't like that and went shopping for consultants that gave them a cheap answer and they didn't care if the consultants knew what they were talking about or not. Various trade magazines at the time had a lot about the fuss and potential consequences but were ignored.
    Don't blame the engineers for a policy decision that they argued against.
    As for "Current engineers see the problem" - have you SEEN the IoT security clusterfucks in progress? Over the weekend there was an article about one here, poor defaults on the Raspberry Pi causing problems. There is definitely no reason to be smug and certainly no reason to feel superior.

  13. Circular reasoning.

    How about cheering for the home team instead of getting into some of that Russian backchannel action?

  14. Been asleep? It'a 2017 now on Former FBI Director Predicts Russian Hackers Will Interfere With More Elections (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    If you really think Russia isn't playing both sides, you are truly an idiot.

    Seriously? Have you heard what Putin has been saying since Bill Clinton was President? Have you heard of what he was saying about Hillary when she was Secretary of State? With autocrats (as you will start to learn with Trump) the personal is political, and Putin has been extremely pissed off with Bill and Hillary since Bill gave the order to bomb bits of the former Yugoslavia without telling Russia first. Putin built his political career on making a fuss about Bill Clinton trying to take over "Russia's backyard" based on those events.

  15. Re:“Better to collapse a country from within on Former FBI Director Predicts Russian Hackers Will Interfere With More Elections (nytimes.com) · · Score: 2

    I think your post has reached peak partisan stupidity.
    This is all just fallout from Trump doing anything he could to win an election and Putin taking advantage of the chaos. Discussing the issue improves the situation and does not "damage" anything other than deservedly damage the election prospects of a few people in a few years time.

    Did your earlier discussion of Hillary's email server create damage? No? Then why should this? Why one rule for your party and another for everyone outside it? Do you really want to push that Russian sort of approach?

  16. I'd like to see some evidence of this. How exactly did they interfere? What did they do? Did they buy electors? Did they leave some kind of paper trail? Swiss bank accounts? WTF are you talking about?

    Good questions - an investigation could answer those if it isn't shut down.
    Getting the point yet?

  17. Re:Insert "collapse from its own contradictions" h on Former FBI Director Predicts Russian Hackers Will Interfere With More Elections (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    That's a mighty fine strawman you've built there stranger.
    How about we saddle up and search for the Jackolope that looks like it.

  18. I think China is a hundred times more of a threat than Russia. Russia grandstands. They want attention. China doesn't want attention. ... Because they're an actual threat.

    While you have a point about China there is a great deal more to worry about with Russia since it's happening more in a military sphere than an economic one.

    Also that's the second link to "Business Insider" I've seen here today as if it's a credible source on something other than it's core topic - if even that. Did Idiocracy happen over the weekend or something and I didn't notice? National Enquirer links next?

    Maybe if you read something else you'll get a clue as to why people are seeing Russia as threat - especially pay attention to what Putin has been saying about the USA since the 1990s.

  19. Astroturfing has definitely been a thing here with some obvious MS funded posts and some political stuff from obvious clueless interns or campaign workers so it's possible this site may have been one of many targeted by a different bunch of "social media workers".
    It's not an expensive thing to do after all.

  20. Re:There is no 'AI' on Ask Slashdot: What Types of Jobs Are Opening Up In the New Field of AI? · · Score: 1

    Which is why the portion you quoted matters so much. Working on something with the objective of fooling people into thinking that it's human is not a job that's going to last long outside of the video games industry.

    It's the stuff that solves problems, and is not closer to what A.I. used to be called than a "hoverboard" is that's where the jobs are. "Neural network" is an extremely misleading name for what the things actually do - kind of like calling a database an Oracle.

  21. Perhaps it will make more sense this way on Developer Accidentally Deletes Production Database On Their First Day On The Job (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    It's not about good or bad, it's priorities and a lack of understanding of what the implications of disturbing a production environment are. They are not going to get that understanding by magic, they only get by looking at how a system is used over time, and if that's not related to what they are supposed to be doing for a living it's hard to put in the time.
    Like the above problem it is a management issue. If you want a dev to act like a sysadmin you have to schedule time for it to happen.

  22. Re: Just arrest Trump and be done with it. on Delays In Unlocking Cellphones Seized In Inauguration Day Protests? (buzzfeed.com) · · Score: 1

    but she took down with her a whole system of corruption, greed and moral complacency

    You are clearly nowhere near stupid enough to believe that, so what is your game here? Why are you insulting the intelligence of all readers here no matter what their political views?

    I'm no fan of Hillary and some things from the Manning leaks showed she was unfit for office, but what's with the delusionary shit above?

  23. Re:a matter of kettle on Delays In Unlocking Cellphones Seized In Inauguration Day Protests? (buzzfeed.com) · · Score: 1

    Bill Clinton gave a speech to promote Uranium

    Oh yes, exactly the same as Trump's Russian backchannel action. Seriously? WTF is wrong with you people?
    A fucking cuckoo laid it's egg inside the Republican party - you don't have to keep on supporting the Manchurian Candidate just because he's in the party you love. He doesn't have the same values and aims as the party you love.
    Clinton is yesterdays news. Putin is the one to worry about today.

  24. Re:Sounds like a poorly run IT system on Developer Accidentally Deletes Production Database On Their First Day On The Job (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    Hell, any dev has direct production access

    I agree with that - different mindset. Devs want to get stuff done ASAP and usually don't seem to get the concept of multiuser systems. Even very experienced devs do shit like reboot servers in working hours leaving dozens of staff twiddling their thumbs and unable to work unless months of effort has been put into changing their attitude to production.

  25. Re:How the fuck on Developer Accidentally Deletes Production Database On Their First Day On The Job (qz.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The article said the business had a couple hundred people at most and 40+ developers.

    Not exactly a small business deluded sig guy.