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  1. Taking the Human out of Human Resources on Big Data Knows When You Are About To Quit Your Job · · Score: 2

    So now we can let machines do the hiring, firing, promoting & fluffing of employees.

    Nothing will go wrong with this.

  2. Re:News For Nerds? on US Midterm Elections Discussion · · Score: 5, Informative

    Because we are about to regain some freedom by telling the Democrat party to STFU and sit down?!

    Wow. If it was up to me, I'd bitch slap both parties. The problem isn't Democrats or Republicans, the problem is Democrats AND Republicans. Both parties are very incompetent. Instead of trying to help the people, both parties are more worried about the agenda's the superpac's are paying them for.

  3. Fear Mongering, does it ever go out of style? on Imagining the Future History of Climate Change · · Score: 2

    I love Fear Mongering, mainly in the Halloween season.

    But seriously, wtf? 2093 is the future, and based on past predictions of the future, I think we have no idea what life is going to be like, good or bad. Science hasn't failed us, like always, human arrogance fails us.

  4. Re:CP/M needs to buried ... on Check Out the Source Code For the Xerox Alto · · Score: 0

    CP/M needs to die in a fire, and be buried, never to be remembered where it belongs.

    That stupid piece-of-shit OS couldn't have more then 8.3 characters in filenames when Apple DOS 3.3 had 30 characters (including spaces!); Apple ProDOS had 15 characters the latter which even had sub-directories!

    Good bye and good riddance to CP/M -- the OS that held Microsoft, MSDOS, and Windows back for decades. Even _today_ you _still_ see Windows using 8.3 filenames in Windows\System32 !?

    I'm a bit lost on how CP/M held back MS, since MSDOS was never compatible with CP/M, and MS choose to stay with the 8.3 filename for as long as they did. If you want to get mad, get mad at MS for not forward thinking when they bought QDos from Seattle Computing and not changing the filename limitation. Shit, get mad at Seattle Computing for putting a 8.3 limitation in QDos, since by your statement it isn't MS's fault that they left things as they are.

  5. Re:Someone doesn't know PR on Tech Giants Donate $750 Million In Goods and Services To Underprivileged Schools · · Score: 2

    Apple is sending out $100 million worth of iPads, MacBooks, and other products. O'Reilly Media is making $100 million worth of educational content available for free. Microsoft and Autodesk are discounting software.

    Apple is giving away HARDWARE and Microsoft is offering a discount on software.

    I'd be ashamed to work for Microsoft right now.

    I'd be ashamed to work for MS at any time in it's history tbh.

  6. Re:What do you mean? on Jedi-ism Becomes a Serious Religion · · Score: 1

    Praise BOB!

    Kill Bob!

  7. Re:replacing line feeds with terminators is not a on Tetris Is Hard To Test · · Score: 2

    In BBC BASIC, a colon is a statement terminator, much like a semicolon in languages with C-style syntax. The linked code is therefore not a one-liner by any meaningful definition of the term. One could replace all of the linefeeds in Linux kernel source with semicolons and other appropriate terminators. That wouldn't make the kernel a one-liner.

    If it's a one-line program, why is it more than one line?

    A line of code is not the same as a line on a screen. The program won't fit on one line on most screens, but it will fit on one line of BBC BASIC, which fortunately has a well defined, but short maximum length of 256 characters. The whole program is 257 bytes as there is an extra byte to mark the end of the program.

    from: http://survex.com/~olly/rheoli...

  8. about time on New Oculus SDK Adds Experimental Linux Support and Unity Free For Rift Headset · · Score: 4, Funny

    this is the year of the linux VR.

  9. Re:Ugh! on Days After Shooting, Canada Proposes New Restrictions On and Offline · · Score: 2, Insightful

    So, they've said that they knew something like this was going to happen eventually.. If they knew it was going to happen eventually, they should have planned for it. And, if they were happy with the security measures before, why do they need to change them now?

    Let's keep this in context.. One guy, seemingly acting alone, shot a few people. Unfortunately he did it on government land, so the instant response is 'Terrorism'.

    One guy (well, two if you count our PM), screwing with our freedoms.

    Sounds to me like this was planned. Push a crazy psycho into doing something really dumb on Government property, or to a soldier/government worker. Then push thru agenda you want.

  10. WTF, the antarctic gets FO before me? on Fiber Optics In Antarctica Will Monitor Ice Sheet Melting · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Nice, here I live in Seattle, just off of downtown, can't get fiber optics, but hey, whatever. fuckers.

  11. Encrytped App can't be checked? No shit. on Delivering Malicious Android Apps Hidden In Image Files · · Score: 1, Insightful

    So what I really gather from this is encrypted apps can't be check, scan or searched for what the contents hold? Really?

    And seriously, hiding a payload inside something else isn't new, that's been around for decades at least.

    So in other words, don't install apps I have no idea where they come from? Sounds good to me.

  12. Re:Constitutions CAN be useful, if honored. on Manga Images Depicting Children Lead to Conviction in UK · · Score: 1

    No. In the U.S. cartoon images ARE protected by the First Amendment. This was decided by the U.S. Supreme Court in 2002. (Ashcroft v. Free Speech Coalition, 535 U.S. 234 (2002)). Sometimes our Supreme court DOES get it right!

    Just don't take them over the border to Canada...

    http://comicsalliance.com/u-s-...

  13. Re:Smackdowns? on Robot SmackDowns Wants To Bring Robot Death Matches To an Arena Near You · · Score: 1

    That's a terrible name. What are they, fourteen?

    Seems like they are just stealing it from Friday Night Smackdown, a WWE show.

    I hope they have deep pockets, because I don't think WWE will let Smackdown be used without a fight.

  14. Re:One crap audio brand battling with another on Despite Patent Settlement, Apple Pulls Bose Merchandise From Its Stores · · Score: 1

    You consider $230 a considerable amount of money? Do you live in Sub-Saharan Africa or some shit? Try something by Audeze next time, mister big spender.

    I'm an American and I think $230 is a considerable amount of money to spend on stuff. Mainly on crappy headphones.

  15. Don't trust any app these days on The Guardian Reveals That Whisper App Tracks "Anonymous" Users · · Score: 5, Insightful

    It's getting to the point where you can't trust anything these days, because the NSA or other criminals seem to have access to your data.

    And remember, the FBI head dude doesn't want you to use encryption.

    Is this the America we are supposed to be proud of?

  16. Re:Telsa's lobbiest crashes on Michigan About To Ban Tesla Sales · · Score: 1

    I was saying that "lobbying" and "bribery" have actual definitions as words.

    So do you just ignore all facts that conflict with your narrative and make up word definitions as needed?

    ya, watch it bud, that sort of talk gets you voted into office, or made the head of a big corporation...

  17. Re:Eltern haften für Ihre Kinder on Court Rules Parents May Be Liable For What Their Kids Post On Facebook · · Score: 1

    "Eltern haften für Ihre Kinder" => "Parents are liable for their Children"

    Is a sign that is used around construction sites in Germany. I have seen it all my life but it basically is complete bullshit.
    There are a LOT of cases where children may damage the property of others but the parents will not have to pay.
    I don't know who makes these retarded laws.

    http://www.focus.de/finanzen/r...

    * 2014 and Slashdot has problems with Umlauts - why do I still come here? .... keep focusing on your fucking Beta UI!

    Not here in the USA, parent's are financially responsible for their children until they are 18. I know because I got emancipated when I was 17 because I had left home at 16 and my parents didn't want to be responsible for anything I did.

       

  18. This won't stop until we are in chains on Trans-Pacific Partnership May Endanger World Health, Newly Leaked Chapter Shows · · Score: 1

    As much as I hate violence, it's time to get physical baby!

    We won't be safe until the people who keep trying to make this laws are dead. You think I'm kidding? They will keep pushing these laws until someone either they get accepted. They know eventually they will wear us down. Well, is this what you want? Every time you pay Netflix, you pay for cable TV, every movie you go see/rent/buy, or music you buy, you are telling these people it's okay to walk on our rights.

    Your money is seen as a yes vote to these people!

    You want to be slaves to the copyright/corporation government we are producing? Remember what it took to get rid of the slaves in the USA last time? Big ass war. Let's avoid the war by killing the anti-freedom corporations.

  19. Sounds like a movie plot. on How an FBI Informant Led the Hack of British Tabloid "The Sun" · · Score: 0

    Here we have a corrupt FBI forcing the charming hipster hacker into doing their nefarious deeds.

    or

    Here we have a young FBI rookie, whom goes undercover and poses at a hacker, just to get in close with the mysterious "Sabu" to stop the Evil News corp from turning Skynet on!

    I could go on, but I'm stoned and keep getting distracted.

  20. You are good until MS buddies up with you on Microsoft Partners With Docker · · Score: 0

    Well, whatever Docker did that was good, MS is going to ruin it.

  21. Re:I am not alone when I say.... on HBO To Offer Online Streaming Without TV Subscription · · Score: 1

    IF they will give me episodes...
    1) On their TV release date.
    2) Of quality at least as good as cable feeds
    3) In a usable non-DRM container which doesn't require a web browser
    4) Charge no more than $5 per episode (even that is steep).

    Then, HBO will get my five bucks. Otherwise they get zero. It's just that simple and I still suspect people fail at both math and psychology if they can't get this right.

    It won't be $5 a month. Places like UFC & WWE charge $10 a month. My guess is,that will be the norm. Though I wouldn't put it past HBO to go for $15 a month.

  22. Re:I hate hardware on If Your Cloud Vendor Goes Out of Business, Are You Ready? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I hate hardware and for all intents and purposes it can go shove itself up its own ass. As a result I very much love the cloud, no matter how much of a buzzword it is. Let someone else worry about the tedious busywork it is to get one piece of hardware to talk to another. Oh what's that? A disk died? I don't give a damn because I don't have to drive 30 minutes each direction just to change it. Ha!

    You missed the point of the article then.

    What if your cloud service provider goes down? How you going to get all your data if you get only 1 day, or a week notice? How about if you get no notice, the shit just stops working? The company goes poof! So does all your data.

    And you think that won't happen? Please, it is going to happen, sooner or later. Why do you think it's named The Cloud? Because clouds evaporate and disappear.

  23. Re:For everything there is a season on Pentagon Unveils Plan For Military's Response To Climate Change · · Score: 1

    Well, obviously she messed up. It can't be the system, or the leaders. Nope. It must be the peons who just don't get it. They are at fault for everything.

    Obviously she held the gear wrong.

  24. Ironically, those Star Wars character candidates are more adequate than most politicians...

    You put a few extra words in there, so I fixed it for ya.

  25. Re: Friends on Test Version Windows 10 Includes Keylogger · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Windows is a great OS. What they're whining about is what a pre-alpha test version of the software collects. Test versions always deliver far more telemetry than would a retail release, as they should. Windows 10 right now is not for regular daily use or for consumers. It's purely about evaluation and helping designers test the new OS and improve it.

    How much do you get paid to do these posts?