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  1. Re:Too bad his name wasn't Clinton on Ex-NSA Employee Gets 5 Years In Prison For Taking Home Top Secret Files (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Do you know how much money her handlers spent?

    How much do you figure each of the other, possibly electable, Ds took to bow out?

    How much do you figure each of the other Rs took to bow out or get 'put out' (to get her chosen opponent)?

    She wasn't 'owed the job', but her owners had fucking well paid for it. You know they are PISSED.

  2. Re:One rule for the rank and file... on Ex-NSA Employee Gets 5 Years In Prison For Taking Home Top Secret Files (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD). If Hillary goes down, the DNC dumps it's dirt, then the RNC dumps it's dirt.

    Why isn't Cheney is prison? Same answer.

    Think of it as a reboot of American politics. We can hope.

    If you don't get this, you don't get the internal R stress. Why Sessions is there, just to start.

    Also expect Trump's behavior to change if the DNC ever gets actual dirt on him.

  3. Re:Seriously? on Do You Know Cobol? If So, There Might Be a Job for You. (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    That's just self modifying code.

    If you've never written self modifying code, turn in your nerd card.

  4. Re:Seriously? on Do You Know Cobol? If So, There Might Be a Job for You. (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    May a Fortran program with calculated goto* land in your support bucket.

    That's Goto intvar, where intvar contains a line number.

  5. Re: Seriously? on Do You Know Cobol? If So, There Might Be a Job for You. (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    Cobol is more or less married to CICS. DB2 would be great, but no, your going to be using a database engine/middleware server from 1968.

  6. Re:Oh, no! on Alcohol Causes One In 20 Deaths Worldwide, Says WHO (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    I dug into the methodology of that study.

    It's bullshit. It measures the number of languages spoken as a proxy for 'diversity'. Two dot indians from neighboring villages are diverse because they can't communicate, except in english.

    I guarantee it doesn't distinguish between ebonics and standard english.

    Canada is lily white, quebecies and casino indians are about as diverse as Canada gets.

  7. Re:Good News on Alcohol Causes One In 20 Deaths Worldwide, Says WHO (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    People that like stagger drugs aren't going to switch to acid. Rather another stagger. The most stagger/dollar is toluene (often in the form of paint).

  8. Re:Slashdot, are you turning into a Puritan? on Alcohol Causes One In 20 Deaths Worldwide, Says WHO (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    You were just blackout drunk.

  9. Re:Remember when... on Mitsubishi Recalls 68,000 SUVs Over Bad Software (consumerreports.org) · · Score: 1

    No. But I've always considered stopping a priority.

  10. Re:Intel blew their credibility on How Qualcomm Tried and Failed To Steal Intel's Crown Jewel · · Score: 1

    Your just stringing words together, aren't you?

    6502 processor didn't use 'DMA'? DMA is when a peripheral accesses main memory. Apple 2s used DMA, pretty sure C-64 did also.

  11. Re:what about we just build more homes? on MIT's Elegant Schoolbus Algorithm Was No Match For Angry Parents (bostonglobe.com) · · Score: 1

    In CA 'homeschooling' is what they call it when the student is truant to the point the schools are losing federal money on the deal.

    The kid gets designated 'homeschooled' and stops going to school. The 'teachers' call once per week to bitch about 'no homework', give him/her a joke of a test once in a while. The sweet federal money flows.

  12. Re:Optimal Busses on MIT's Elegant Schoolbus Algorithm Was No Match For Angry Parents (bostonglobe.com) · · Score: 1

    A 14 year old is old enough to start feeling consequences. For little things like not getting up on time and making it to school.

    It's once he figures out how much fun an hour of completely unsupervised time can be that you will need to do something like early morning jail. Let him run until he gets caught blowing something up or building a still.

  13. Re: Do the math if you have three kids on MIT's Elegant Schoolbus Algorithm Was No Match For Angry Parents (bostonglobe.com) · · Score: 1

    WTF?

    You really think a 'hookers and blow' will have more impact than education?

    Sure, give them a voucher, let them pick a school. But cash? You must be joking.

  14. Re:Ah on The New Yorker on Linus Torvalds (newyorker.com) · · Score: 1

    They discovered that 'stupid, newbie assholes' are treated differently from 'respected, greybeard assholes that know where all the skeletons are buried'!

  15. Re:Cult? on The New Yorker on Linus Torvalds (newyorker.com) · · Score: 1

    BSD had a legal cloud hanging over it early.

  16. Re:I'm actually a bit envious on The New Yorker on Linus Torvalds (newyorker.com) · · Score: 1

    I doubt he knew they are the same for a normal distribution, being a comedian.

    You on the other hand, should know that.

  17. Re:Why do tech-bros love antisocial behavior? on The New Yorker on Linus Torvalds (newyorker.com) · · Score: 1

    Those people are assholes.

    Anybody that forces you to be an asshole, is an asshole. Just fire them.

  18. Re:Psychology on The New Yorker on Linus Torvalds (newyorker.com) · · Score: 1

    The 'slamdunk' phone hangup method is effective.

  19. Re:Depends on who you ask on The New Yorker on Linus Torvalds (newyorker.com) · · Score: 1

    Sometimes the best your going to get out of someone is getting them to just go away.

    Sometimes they don't want to hear it and you have to be blunt.

    Effective teams are just hard to build, feelings are going to get hurt. Suck it up.

  20. Re:Depends on who you ask on The New Yorker on Linus Torvalds (newyorker.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Why would you step into such a minefield anywhere near work in the first place?

    Don't discuss religion or politics in 'polite society'. If someone starts the discussion, I'll tell them what I think, outside work.

    A 'soul soliciting pigfucker' tried to bend my ear on a flight to Salt Lake City. I think half the plane was offended by what I said about Mormonism. That was all on the soul solicitor and I told her that.

  21. Re:Depends on who you ask on The New Yorker on Linus Torvalds (newyorker.com) · · Score: 1

    People that actually play games have pretty much been ignoring the name-callers for years now.

    Sure, non gamers will stop watching your streams, but how many were they watching in the first place? They were all in their echo chamber, where they remain.

  22. Re:AC On Linus Torvalds on The New Yorker on Linus Torvalds (newyorker.com) · · Score: 1

    If some asshole kept trying to check in 'steaming piles of code', I'd resort to whatever it took to get him/her to just leave and not come back.

    Good teams are though.

    People that force you to be an asshole, or they'll fuck things up, are the king assholes. The only way to keep an 'asshole' free team is to get rid of them ASAP.

    Everybody can be an asshole, rule of 3s. If your last 3 bosses have all been assholes, you are most likely the asshole.

  23. Re:What about the Brazil model? on AI Could Devastate the Developing World (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    It was rum, pretty good rum.

    The lefties crashed the Brazilian currency when they were the ones 'fighting corruption'. There was a brief period where exporters got Brazilian products for almost nothing.

  24. Re: Progressive Snapshot Hacks on John Hancock Will Include Fitness Tracking In All Life Insurance Policies (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    LOL, you think that's different in Europe?

    It's worse, they aren't scofflaws, like Americans, and still commit 3 felonies/day without knowing it.

  25. Re:Progressive Snapshot Hacks on John Hancock Will Include Fitness Tracking In All Life Insurance Policies (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    3 felonies/day. Every goddamn one of us.

    Accept it.