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  1. Re:Ublock = inferior & inefficient vs. hosts on Mozilla Sets Out Its Proposed Principles For Content Blocking (mozilla.org) · · Score: 1

    >an ublock do 16 things hosts do for speed, security, & reliability:

    Yes.

  2. > Those bonuses might sound like a lot,

    The only people for whom a US$25K is a lot, are people whose annual salary is US$25K.

    >and has only been able to find a single qualified candidate in the past year,

    That sounds like the company is refusing to train people for the job. As such, there is no sympathy for your inability to hire people.

  3. > I would love it if we could find more developers. We have plenty of money to pay them, but there aren't any out there without a job.

    So what you do is go to the local college, and hire the next 250 people that passed a programming course. Then train them in-house.

    If you aren't willing to do that, then your problem is that you point blank refuse to train people to do the job you need. And all your complaints are about your organizations stupidity, and unwillingness to do what it needs to do, in order to have a full core of developers.

  4. Re:Yeah not gonna happen... on Epic Mega Bridge To Connect America With Russia Gets Closer To Reality · · Score: 1

    Both the United States Armed Forces, and Russian Armed forces do heavy patrolling of the Bering Strait in winter, because so many people currently walk across the strait to visit friends and relatives in the other country, without bothering to go through a border post.

    Spetsnaz used to walk from Kamchatka to Alaska as a training exercise.

    The People's Army used to, and maybe still has plans for the troops to walk from Beijing to Washington DC, when the United States goes to war with the People's Republic of China.

    The current ability to walk across the strait, is just one of the major obstacles of building a bridge across the strait.

  5. Re:Not going to happen on Epic Mega Bridge To Connect America With Russia Gets Closer To Reality · · Score: 1

    What I don't understand, is why any Russian that has even a cursory knowledge of the history of Asian Russia would even give this proposal a second chance.

    Back in Stalin's day, I'm fairly confident that anybody that proposed this would be cremated that day, and their relatives notified that s/he had suffered an unfortunate accident.

    Or do the Russians really not learn from history?

  6. Re:Tattoos - "only" 1 in 5? on NIST Workshop Explores Automated Tattoo Identification · · Score: 1

    >It also seems to be a requirement to work in food service or graphic design.

    In a recent interview with the press, a local pizza owner said that there were some people he hadn't hired, because they had too many tattoos, visible body rings, and the like. The interviewer said that she didn't believe that was possible, given the average number of visible tattoos on the employees of that pizza parlor -- four ear rings, a nose ring, and at least one arm covered with tattoos. The pizza owner responded that it was, unfortunately, true. He felt sorry for those people he couldn't hire due to their appearance, because his business was usually their last chance of getting a job anywhere.

  7. Re:This is going to take a lot of testing on NIST Workshop Explores Automated Tattoo Identification · · Score: 1

    > I have never seen a human with a tattoo on their antennae, for example.

    You don't get out much, do you.

    If a needle can be placed on the skin, ink has been placed on that piece of skin.

  8. Re:This is going to take a lot of testing on NIST Workshop Explores Automated Tattoo Identification · · Score: 1

    >My issue with it would be how do you tell who it's on when there are places tracing and pumping out the same tattoo stencils on thousands of people.

    Some of us can go look at the same tattoo stencil on 100 different people, and tell you which of those people went to the same artist for their tattoo. Given 100 random photographs of the same tattoo stencil, determining which photos are from the same person is trivial.

  9. Re:It really doesn't matter on Political Polls Become Less Reliable As We Head Into 2016 Presidential Election · · Score: 1

    If you dig deep enough into the financial history books, you'll find that in the sixties and seventies, individuals were getting re-reimbursed by the company they worked for. I wouldn't be at all surprised if some companies still followed that practice, albeit using a more sophisticated means of "hiding" the connection between the political campaign, and the reimbursement.

  10. Re:Oh no... you mean... on Political Polls Become Less Reliable As We Head Into 2016 Presidential Election · · Score: 1

    5.5 time zones?
    Canada: Atlantic Time, Eastern Time, Central Time, Mountain Time, Pacific Time.

    United States:
    Eastern Time, Central Time, Mountain Time, Pacific Time, Alaska Time, Bering Time, Hawaii Time, and if you want to push things, that island with +14 GMT standard time zone, and the island with Caribbean Time.

  11. Re:Why use ISP email? on Ask Slashdot: How Effective Is Your ISP's Spam Filter? · · Score: 1

    On average, 10% of the email in my Gmail Spam filter is legitimate email.
    Were things slightly different, then at least 70% of the email in the GMail spam folder would be legally defined as "legitimate email", and I'd have to keep them.
    And were I a government employee, 100% of the email in that folder would have to be retained, due to public record laws.

  12. Re:quotation marks on Ask Slashdot: Are There Any Search Engines Left That Don't Try To Think For Me? · · Score: 1

    Google honours those rules by the breach thereof.

    I suspect the OP, and I know I do, want the rules that Google really adheres to, when trying to search for something specific, especially when the search string contains bizarre punctuation.

  13. Re:It's not the adverts in themselves on Adblock Plus Can Now Be Rolled Out To Every Single Employee In a Company · · Score: 1

    Take a look at the adds that fans have uploaded to YouTube sometime.

    I seriously doubt that the only clicks those videos are getting, are from people who want to see what commercials in other countries are like.

  14. Re:Who gives a FUCK what a court says? on Adblock Plus Can Now Be Rolled Out To Every Single Employee In a Company · · Score: 1

    >When an ad looks like editorial content, it becomes hard to impossible to have an automatic script that identifies ad content

    There is/was an extension for Firefox that identified opinion pieces as third party advertising masquerading as an opinion piece.

    The surprising thing was how much content on "news" sites was third party advertising, masquerading as a "reliable news source".

  15. Re:Not Listening to Mike Rowe on Writer: "Why I Defaulted On My Student Loans" · · Score: 1

    >Taking out huge loans that you don't have a way to repay, to get a degree that has no potential for income, show a serious lack of judgement.

    Offering loans to people who have neither the means to repay them, nor the potential to repay them, shows an even greater lack of judgment. As such, the company offering the loan should learn from its mistake, by the person defaulting on the loan.

  16. Re: Why? on Writer: "Why I Defaulted On My Student Loans" · · Score: 1

    >Let's go ahead and shut out the vast majority of people seeking higher education,

    By eliminating government funding of education, you eliminate the scam-schools, of which there have been thousands, that have sucked money out of people seeking a higher education, and didn't realize before they were scammed, that government approval of the school has nothing to do with the quality of service provided.

    Or, if you insist of government funding, then the only schools that are allowed to receive funding, are those which can demonstrate that within 90 days of graduation, 50% of the graduates have a paying job in the field in which their degree is relevant, and within 180 days, 90% of the graduates have a paying job in the field in which their degree is relevant, and within 360 days, 100% of the graduates have a paying job in the field that their degree is in, that they would not have had, had they not had the degree.

  17. Re:Be smart on Writer: "Why I Defaulted On My Student Loans" · · Score: 4, Insightful

    > Don't go to college if your career doesn't need it.

    The first data-point that HR uses to screen applicants, is the presence/absence of a college degree. It doesn't matter if the position is for a night porter, or the company CFO.

  18. Re:SFLC's brief explains parts of this well on Supreme Court May Decide the Fate of APIs (But Also Klingonese and Dothraki) · · Score: 1

    > but rather copying tens of thousands of words scattered throughout the Java Standard Library implementation.

    Which, in turn, are copied from other standard library implementations, at least as far back as The C Standard Library, and and The C Programming Language.

  19. >However they are stories written by Greeks about non-contemporaneous events in a part of the world that did not speak Greek and did not have Greek customs

    And yet another ignoramus proves their complete, utter, and absolute lack of knowledge about the Roman Empire in general, and the Middle East in specific, between 100 BCE and 100 CE.

  20. Re:You don't stop terrorists by patting people dow on US Airport Screeners Missed 95% of Weapons, Explosives In Undercover Tests · · Score: 1

    >If you're a suspicious person then the system might just say "take a bus".

    You obviously have taken an interstate bus trip recently. TSA does security checks at a number of bus and train stations throughout the country

    >and subjecting people to additional security if they're on a list.

    We know that people are placed on the current lists for any reason, or no reason at all. (One TSA employee put women who refused to go on a date with him, on the non-fly list.)

  21. Re:On a positive note on US Airport Screeners Missed 95% of Weapons, Explosives In Undercover Tests · · Score: 1

    >One could argue that current airport screening techniques are reasonable and justified.

    The number of stowaways on commercial airlines _increased_ after 9/11. A datapoint that pretty much proves that current screening techniques are not even close in achieving the alleged goals.

    In conclusion, TSA should be abolished, with no replacement agency,k procedures, or screening that is undertaking by any organization other than the airline, bus line, railroad company, or passenger cruise line that owns and operates the means of transportation.

  22. Re:Wait a second guys! on US Airport Screeners Missed 95% of Weapons, Explosives In Undercover Tests · · Score: 1

    >and dogs to sniff out anything explosive.

    In 2001, there were digital sniffers that performed better than dogs. These digital sniffers could not only could detect more items than dogs, but do so at a lower concentration.

    The biggest problem with that solution, is that it outperformed every thing else. Its high price was a secondary issue.

  23. Re:Jesus on Scientists Discover Sawfish Escape Extinction Through "Virgin Births" · · Score: 1

    >Yes, they did slaughter some Christians at some point. but only after realizing how they were creeping for influence and power. nobody had invited them, after all.

    a) That massacre happened after Catholic missionaries went to Japan. Something that happened between ten and fifteen centuries after Christianity was established in Japan. (The most plausible theory has Christianity established circa 300 AD. A second theory has that date at circa 600 AD. A third theory has that date as circa AD 70.)

    b) At its peak, (14th century AD) seventy percent of the
    population of Japan were practicing Christians. A figure that declined rapidly after the Catholic missionaries went in, setting up a religion of hypocrites looking for material goods and political power, whilst rejecting the teachings of Jesus the Christ of Nazareth.

  24. 1) we have no idea if Matthew actually wrote it or not

    The idea that it wasn't written by Matthew started almost two millennia after it was written, by a person whose publicly announced aim was to completely discredit the Bible.

    2) If he did, would Matthew actually have written it in Greek? I suspect not, because ... well, he wasn't Greek.

    And if you knew anything about NT history, you'd know that Matthew was originally written in Hebrew, and then translated into Greek. Something even the staunchest Greek Supremacists admit to.

  25. Re:Seems reasonable on Insurer Won't Pay Out For Security Breach Because of Lax Security · · Score: 1

    Those security breachers will be fixed, once courts start ordering companies whose data was breached, to pay each individual whose data was taken, a minimum US$1,000,000. IOW, 250 people affected, the payout is US$250,000,000. 10,000 people's data is removed, the payout is US$10,000,000,000.