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  1. Re:mod parent up on Ask Slashdot: No-Install Programming At Work? · · Score: 1

    No. You're being paid to get a set of tasks or jobs done and be available to handle more as they come up. If they are completed and there's nothing pending, then what? Of course, this is assuming you're an exempt employe. Hourly employees are little more than indentured servants these days.

  2. Re:Uhh on Ask Slashdot: No-Install Programming At Work? · · Score: 1

    Bunch of hyperbole. That level of enforcement is, well, nonenforcable. Just go. If they lawyer up, lawyer up back and get those nice little contracts they wrote up turned into trash.

  3. Re:Uhh on Ask Slashdot: No-Install Programming At Work? · · Score: 1

    Yeah then they'll explicitly forbid you to write any program whatsoever on or off company equipment and time.

    Yea, and how would that be enforceable or even legal?

  4. Re:Uhh on Ask Slashdot: No-Install Programming At Work? · · Score: 2

    Unless you are hired to learn new things to expand job responsibilities then you are stealing.

    Interestingly my job description and my annual reviews reflect upon the fact that they want us to do such learning. Also, stealing? What the fuck? What are you stealing? If you get your job done, then you earned your pay. Sure, if you put in overtime to cover then it's wrong, but even then "stealing" is the wrong word. Fraud perhaps, since you are in effect falsifying records. If you don't get your actual job done, then you are failing to do your job and should be disciplined for that. You don't get paid in advance, so failing to do your job isn't "stealing" - it's just failing to do your job (whatever the reason).

  5. Re:Uhh on Ask Slashdot: No-Install Programming At Work? · · Score: 1

    Call centers want seat-warming script readers, not thinking people. That's the nature of a "cheap as it can be" call center. If you show initiative, three things can happen:

    1. You're suppressed until you're a drooling robot like everyone else, or you leave.
    2. You're axed, because you're upsetting the statu quo.
    3. You're advanced, because somehow you managed to show your brain without falling victim to #1 or #2.

  6. Re:yeah, except for the true part on Cyanide-Producing GM Grass Linked To Texas Cattle Deaths · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I'd say GM is less likely to cause such things. Why?

    Well, when you hybridize you're "patching in" shitloads of other genes in an attempt to get the trait you want. GM is much more targeted, therefore much less chances of something you didn't want coming over.

    Of course, in both cases you'll still have the problems that might come up because of a lack of understanding in the trait you are after. If a gene that makes wheat grow faster makes it build up toxins, it doesn't really matter how you got the trait in there, because it's the trait itself that is at fault!

  7. Re:That's a lot of information on Intel Releases Ivy Bridge Programming Docs Under CC License · · Score: 1

    That might explain why we need 600M device drivers these days.

    The more likely explanation is a combination of third-party bloatware attachments, feature creep, and lazy programmers who don't bother with (or don't care about) proper optimization.

  8. Re:Take that you morons at nVidia! on Intel Releases Ivy Bridge Programming Docs Under CC License · · Score: 1

    Sort of what Bert64 says, this has nothing to do with OpenGL implementations.

    It's stuff like "poke an 0x1f into memory offset 0xWhatever then peek at offset 0xSomewhere to see the state of SOME_COOL_FUNCTIONALITY"

  9. Re:Captain Obvious Here on Intel Releases Ivy Bridge Programming Docs Under CC License · · Score: 1

    Those broadcom chips are SDR I'm pretty sure. Just leaving the code open like that and handing the hardware out might cost them somewhat. Things like FCC certifications.

  10. Re:LOL slashdot on Nvidia Engineer Asks How the Company Can Improve Linux Support · · Score: 1, Insightful

    News for nerds, random bullshit posts by anonymous assholes.

  11. Re:Ugh, this makes me mad. on Nvidia Engineer Asks How the Company Can Improve Linux Support · · Score: 5, Insightful

    We're asking for specs, not driver code. There's no reason they would have to give us any of those simulation hooks, or any information about them.

  12. Re:Do they actually own a copyright? on PadMapper Gets C&D From Craigslist Over Apartment Listing Maps · · Score: 3, Informative

    TERMS. OF. USE. VIOLATION.

    Nowhere in that statement is anything to do with copyright, trademark, or patents.

    "If you want to use our service, you will not do the following..." - "Oh, you violated our agreement. Stop it."

  13. Re:Good! on PadMapper Gets C&D From Craigslist Over Apartment Listing Maps · · Score: 2

    Well, had you bothered to read before posting you'd notice that they would pay, if they were allowed to.

  14. Re:$25 Raspberry Pi + $27 GPS reciever? on The NTP Pool Needs More Servers — Yours, If Available · · Score: 1

    Something like this, with a proper run down to the receiver. With a RF Amplifier if needed.

  15. Re:Do you need a clock? on The NTP Pool Needs More Servers — Yours, If Available · · Score: 1

    Almost nothing.

    But your system's timing, being a VPS, isn't going to be stable enough to be useful as an NNTP server.

  16. Re:Test this on Android App Lets You Steal Contactless Credit Card Data · · Score: 1

    Keep in mind Visa and MC are going to start riding your ass for that. They will still authorize, but do it enough and they will start to bitch. (recent mandate)

  17. Re:Anyone surprised? on Android App Lets You Steal Contactless Credit Card Data · · Score: 1

    Granted: the front-end software can reject it, but if it's allowed, the merchant will be downgraded (pay a higher fee for the transaction).

    Not that a card thief would care...

  18. That would matter, if you had been under standing orders to hit the other car. Like the pilots would be under orders to land the plane.

  19. Re:It is funny, but.. on NSA Claims It Would Violate Americans' Privacy To Say How Many of Us It Spied On · · Score: 1

    LOL, better ignorant and fracked, than (you guess what).

    I think we respectfully disagree.

  20. Re:Nice doublethink and opposite day there. on NSA Claims It Would Violate Americans' Privacy To Say How Many of Us It Spied On · · Score: 1

    Sure.

    "Pretty rare" does not mean "does not exist/happen."

  21. Re:how is he going to leave the UK? on Assange Requests Asylum In Ecuador · · Score: 1

    The fact that they are diplomatic bags! The vehicle they are transported in means approximately nothing.

  22. Re:how is he going to leave the UK? on Assange Requests Asylum In Ecuador · · Score: 1

    Zip him up in a bodybag and have the ambassador claim it as a diplomatic bag. They can't touch it.

  23. Re:Radio on Young Listeners Opt For Streaming Over Owning · · Score: 1

    That list looks pretty good. Very close match to (search will take about 15 seconds or so, be patient).

    Just because you don't like what they broadcast doesn't mean there's no radio in the area. Less hyperbole please. As well, your use of "narrowcasting" I think threw me off. I think you're using buzzwords (or the FM radio equivalent of things like "M$").

  24. Re:Radio on Young Listeners Opt For Streaming Over Owning · · Score: 1

    There are no broadcasting stations where I live

    I call BS. Give me a city name or some coordinates and I'll go pull up the broadcasting licenses for that area...

  25. Re:Easier to just plug the phone into the car... on Young Listeners Opt For Streaming Over Owning · · Score: 1

    It works real well, but my chief complaint is that if your buffer runs out, instead of pausing and refilling, it just aborts and starts the next song.