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  1. Re:propaganda alert on Two US Marines Foil Terrorist Attack On Train In France · · Score: 1

    Great point to bring up. Thank you. The headlines about this in the last few days have really pissed me off. The guys didnt do anything that heroic, and it sounds like the shooter himself had some issues with the weapon. Im not saying it couldnt be worse but 'foiled' would indicate stopping the shooter BEFORE he shoots.

  2. Re:Good for the HOA. on HOA Orders TARDIS Removed From In Front of Parrish Home · · Score: 1

    Yet, you choose to sound like an uptight douchecanoe by railing on about the 'investment' that your house is, like its some kind of piggy bank. If you want that, then go live in an HOA because that is what you apparently really want. Otherwise you wouldn't expect your neighbors to follow some arbitrary idea of what the 'rules' are. Investing in a house is about as dumb as investing in a car or a Rolex. It's already worth less than you think it should be before you are a week in.

  3. Re:Sounds good to me on US Army May Relax Physical Requirements To Recruit Cyber Warriors · · Score: 1

    Reminds me of the recruitment trip in "Starship Troopers". You may not qualify for much, but they will find SOMETHING for you to do to serve and eventually gain franchise, if you so desire.

  4. Re:sport? on Sapphire Glass Didn't Pass iPhone Drop Test According to Reports · · Score: 1

    Sapphire is used on watch faces for scratch resistance, not breakage protection. Sapphire shatters easier that scratches-it is not as impact resistant as regular glass.

  5. Re:Prison == New Free Cinema? on Ohio Prison Shows Pirated Movies To Inmates · · Score: 1

    Having worked in a maximum security prison for a year, as a housing unit officer, yard officer, and adseg officer, I don't have a problem with most of this. The demoralizing dehumanizing factor of prison is the incarceration itself. Inmates are put there to segragate them from society, and to attempt rehabilitation. They don't go to prison to then be punished-prison IS the punishment. Its a subtle difference, and one lost on most anyone that has never had any aspect of their life under total control. The closest thing I can come up with as a civilian equivalent is BCT- years and years of BCT with no graduation, no promotion, and no relaxation of the structure, that you normally would get as a trainee.

  6. Re:That's totally how it works on Ask Slashdot: Does Your Job Need To Exist? · · Score: 1

    Sounds like what my brother does as a large accounts manager for Viking Electric. *lol*

  7. Water movement on Graphene Could Be Dangerous To Humans and the Environment · · Score: 1

    I dont have a chemistry background, can someone translate some of this for me, or at least link me to something that tries? The excerpt talked about ground water movement, but not really about WHY that is a bad thing.

  8. Re:OMFG on Doctors Say New Pain Pill Is "Genuinely Frightening" · · Score: 1

    No, you don't. The associated baggage isn' t worth it.

  9. Re: Malice? I think not. on Study Shows Agent Orange Still Taints Aging C-123s · · Score: 1

    Ugh.I know how that selective frequency hearing loss goes.

  10. Re:Malice? I think not. on Study Shows Agent Orange Still Taints Aging C-123s · · Score: 1

    You may have, at least, a claim for tinnitus-if, of course, you have that. That is 10% and at least is something.

  11. Re: Certainly on Should Everybody Learn To Code? · · Score: 1

    Why is it relevant? You already know the answer.

  12. Re:Certainly on Should Everybody Learn To Code? · · Score: 1

    It wasn't censored, except by me.

  13. Re:Certainly on Should Everybody Learn To Code? · · Score: 2

    THIS. I learned VB.net, C++, C# and a little bit of Python in my Mgt Info Systems courseload as electives because it wasn't offered as required at the time (2008) I have checked back and it is, now. I may not 'be' a coder, but in my current position knowing the basics of it helps me describe bug errors in our software testing to the people that can fix it in a manner that they understand better than "I clicked this button in the web app and it didnt' work....". I talk to my kids freely about my job and my 14 yr old son has an interest in Legos and game level design, and I stress the importance of knowing how to program, along with math, art, and basic graphic design elements so that he has some idea of what goes into making a program and interface work, rather than thinking its all magic smoke. I feel that knowing the use of basic Windows applications like Office, Excel, knowing a bit about Macros, and for g*ds sake knowing how to type are almost essential for most any entry level job now. Many of the managers older than me by about 10 years that I know (im 37) wouldnt be able to re-interview for my job as a mid level support tech with their demonstrated lack of knowledge of basic computing.

  14. Re:Congratulations! on Ask Slashdot: What To Do With Misdirected Email? · · Score: 1

    Why should my wife and I, very early Gmail adopters, sacrifice our emails that we have for 8 years because Gmail can't fix it? I don't understand how if my wife had her email in 2005, someone else that got it in 2011, who was child in 2005, could get it in the first place.

  15. Re:silicon valley looking for cheaper IT workers on San Quentin Inmates Learn Technology From Silicon Valley Pros · · Score: 1

    Same thing happened to me when I discharged out of the Army in 2002. I applied to the TSA and was not hired. One of the guys hired that day raped a teenage girl a few months later and then killed her. He was a Marine, too. We had the same clearance and the same screening, and my scores were a little better than his. *shrug*

  16. Re:This is so exciting, my leg is tingling... on San Quentin Inmates Learn Technology From Silicon Valley Pros · · Score: 1

    You really don' t know much about the current state of corrections and criminal arrest, do you? In Nebraska, the maximum security prison has 2 entire housing units full of check kiters and people with non-injury DUIs serving time alongside murderers and rapists.

  17. Re:Why not grow IT drones in Axlotl tanks? on San Quentin Inmates Learn Technology From Silicon Valley Pros · · Score: 1

    Who else better to spearhead the employment phase? They trained them, they can hire them. Thats the way that mentorship/apprenticeship is supposed to work.

  18. Re:I want a burning Tesla! on Man In Tesla Model S Fire Explains What Happened · · Score: 2

    Three is not 'a number of.....' except in the most hyperbolic sense of the phrase. Yes, its a number. No it is not an accurate description of the number of Tesla fires relative to any other car fire. The car itself is designed around the possibility of a battery breach-what more do people want? They built the car, designed failsafes around known possible risks that they could not engineer out. Guy walks out of burning car, that had the courtesy to warn him first. What more do people want?

  19. Re:Full of BS on OCZ May Be On Its Last Legs · · Score: 1

    We rarely use them. As to the supply chain/RMA process, the owner of the business requires the RMA to handled by the OEM and maintained barely enough JIT inventory to keep systems going out. He makes money in volume, thus I would spend many hours a week dealing with irate customers that did not want to wait weeks for their replacement hardware while OCZ pulled their head out. Incidentally, their RMA process was the same no matter what the supplier, so I was always fighting with the customer, the owner, and the OEM at the same time. Since the owner was the sole person in charge of the supply chain, I was in an untenable position, and left the job after 9 months for one much better, with a much larger established company-not one that is a primarily internet based reseller with a skeleton crew of actual employees.

  20. Re:Full of BS on OCZ May Be On Its Last Legs · · Score: 4, Informative

    As a former service manager to a laptop ODM/Integrator, their RMA process sucks, and our MTBF with their devices in custom laptops was drastically lower on every model. When you are dealing with gamers and power users that want to spend 2000-3000 dollars on a laptop, the last thing you need is faulty hardware weeks out of the box AND a 2-3 week + turnaround with OEM direct RMA's.

  21. Re:EBT on Xerox "Routine Backup Test" Leave 17 States Without Food Stamps · · Score: 1

    Most food in a grocery store is processed or manufactured. Most farmers type markets lack the ability or motivation to processes these types of payments. Where else would have have these people shop?

  22. Re:more like on Google Breaks ChromeCast's Ability To Play Local Content · · Score: 1

    You can with PlayOn, as well.

  23. Re:Regular students pissed? on Big MOOC On Campus: Georgia Tech's $6,600 MS In CS · · Score: 1

    Which is it, 6000/year or 6000/semester? Big difference between those, and even your estimate is short. UNL charges more than that for tuition, and then books/parking, room and board, etc etc jack it up to 17,000. Most freshman have to live on campus for at least the first year, so that number is a guaranteed cost for the first year.

  24. Arrested for what? on Lavabit.com Owner: 'I Could Be Arrested' For Resisting Surveillance Order · · Score: 1

    Why arrested? There is no longer an email service, thus the provisions under which the action was drafted are no longer relevant. He's not operating a clandestine email server, so there is no longer any reason to prosecute him, unless, I suppose, there is evidence of his personal wrongdoing-the activities of his clients are not his concern as the operator of a service.

  25. Re:Weekly/Monthly Salary on Employers Switching From Payroll Checks To Prepaid Cards With Fees · · Score: 1

    That explains. it. Thanks for clarifying. A friend of mine here in the US has his set up similar, but what he and his wife did with their first home is that their Dad mortgaged it (tax deduction) and my friend and his wife pay their dad every month the mortgage, the average for the utilities/etc, and a little extra to cushion the account. Their credit looks pretty good after several years of student loans, they have a nice but adequate house, and all their normal bill expenses are paid in one payment. No regular mortgage will operate that way here, though, unfortunately. Basically they 'rent' their home to 'own' from their dad. I thought your approach sounded so simple I wondered how you did it. Cheers! CAS