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  1. Problem is when the more experienced workforce tries to provide guidance to the younger workforce. I'm seeing this in my company: the old guys tell the young guys "That's a good idea, but we tried that before and it didn't work." This doesn't go over well with the young folks and they become passive aggressive, productivity slides and the senior guys are seen as poor leaders. I'm in that younger workforce and while I respect the experience (they've gotten me this far), those old guys have an unwillingness to even consider new ideas - if it hasn't been tried before, they're reluctant to.

  2. Re:Isn't deregulation wonderful? on Uber Drivers Gang Up To Cause Surge Pricing, Research Says (telegraph.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Aye. If people aren't dicks, there's no behavior to regulate. Yet, people gotta be dicks.

  3. You mean "bomb the **** outta them?"

  4. I think we have a deal.

  5. Business accounts on Ask Slashdot: Best Option For a Touring Band With Mobile Data? · · Score: 1

    My company has me on a corporate plan with unlimited and I throttled data. My coworkers and I have burned through it on extensive travel (100s of gigs) and it just keeps chugging along. There are such things out there.

  6. What. The. Shit. In the amount of time it took Joe Blow to write this, he could've turned them all off. Here's a life tip: when a useless app asks to send you pushes, DENY IT. Fuck.

  7. Re: what would of a negative number done? on Company Gets 45,000 Bad Facebook Reviews After Teenaged Hacker's Unjust Arrest (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    No, you were being a dick. Studies show grammar nazis are dicks.

  8. 90 days on SoundCloud Halts Volunteer Archiving Project (vice.com) · · Score: 2

    She conveniently left out that typical interval. I'd say 90 days, sound cloud will be no more.

  9. Yay slack on Slackware, Oldest Linux Distro Still In Active Development, Turns 24 · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I went to Slackware out of frustration trying to get Linux to run on a laptop. It worked on the first boot. One thing I love about Slack compared to Ubuntu is Slack never tried to fuck up my config files when I updated software.

  10. Re:To bad apples hardware choice sucks on 'Windows 10 Is Failing Us' (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    You just like cheap hardware. Go find what components are in a Mac, then go to a Windows PC manufacturer (Dell, HP, whatever) and try to build something with the same hardware. You'll find while Apple does still cost more, it isn't much more.

  11. Switched to Apple on 'Windows 10 Is Failing Us' (betanews.com) · · Score: 2

    ...for everyday use. Needed to upgrade my laptop (dual boot Win10/ubuntu) which I used Linux on most of the time since Windows ate up the battery with background processes but had to use Windows for Office. Now I have office, a bash shell, and all day battery life in exchange for USB ports. Still worth it.

  12. If you can hear it... on Stream-ripping Is 'Fastest Growing' Music Piracy (bbc.com) · · Score: 2

    ...you can pirate it. So obviously they need to sell CDs and MP3s that won't play and music players without speakers or any audio outs.

  13. Let's fund it with Facebook. They seem to be doing well enough and should share their profits with the poor.

  14. What about the water landings? on Colombian Airline Wants To Make Passengers Stand (yahoo.com) · · Score: 1

    You're gonna go all Sully on the Hudson without all of those flotation devices? C'mom, man.

  15. Re: Take Off And Landing on Colombian Airline Wants To Make Passengers Stand (yahoo.com) · · Score: 1

    Before every landing, the pilot calls out "Hold on tight to those things!"

  16. That bullet was probably thicker than the fucking book. Not that it would've made them any smarter in my eyes, but did they even try this on a similar sized book to test their stunt? Apparently their family was trying to talk them out of the stunt. I feel really bad for the kid: your mommy is in prison for killing your daddy, but it's ok because it was an accident - yes sometimes it's ok when you kill someone.

  17. Look for the disclaimer on Researchers Create New Probiotic Beer That Boosts Immunity (upi.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    These statements have not been evaluated by the FDA. This product is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease.

  18. Re:Got mine! on Super Nintendo Classic Coming in September (hollywoodreporter.com) · · Score: 2

    I bought a $20-25 Logitech controller. Has two sticks, takes some playing around to get used to. I've seen USB N64 controller clones on Amazon, but they get mixed reviews. I can attest to some of them being cheap after having both a USB NES and SNES controller - shitty quality. Again, N64 games are hit and miss on it: Star Fox, Super Smash Bros work well; Golden Eye barely works; Star Wars Shadows of the Empire and Rogue Squadron do not work. If you really want N64, you can find decent N64 bundles on eBay for about what you could build the Raspi for.

  19. Got mine! on Super Nintendo Classic Coming in September (hollywoodreporter.com) · · Score: 1

    Raspberry Pi with NES, SNES, N64 (albeit hit or miss), Sega, etc.

  20. Don't forget about the children. Someone think of the children. No, not their safety, fuck those little proles. Don't forget about brainwashing them while they're young to grow up and disregard personal liberty and privacy. Scare the living shit out of them and some overrated boogie man that wants to kill them yet accounts for very little death in the grand scheme of things.

  21. While he's at it he could increase the speed of this system by splitting connections across multiple ports on the network interface. It's crazy enough to work!

  22. I was just looking at my mother-in-law's full iPhone yesterday and at the top of the list was Facebook at 650mb. I can't even download hardly any apps over cellular anymore because of the limit the appstore puts on them.

  23. Rockstar has made their cash. These whiners can kick rocks at this point.

  24. Re:Private Server on Ask Slashdot: Advice For a Yahoo Mail Refugee · · Score: 1

    That's a lot of work and a lot of room for error. Not worth it unless you really don't want to answer to anyone about email. You can get it done on AWS.

  25. Swift is working on that, too. All the cool languages do it.