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  1. Re:I'll take your open office, on Apple is About To Do Something Their Programmers Definitely Don't Want (medium.com) · · Score: 2

    I work in an open office in Atlanta. It's so damn loud that some days I just send my developers home to work.

    You are in a position where you can send developers home, but you don't have an office with a door?

  2. Misconduct? on Drupal Developers Still Rebelling Against Drupal Leadership · · Score: 1

    You call it misconduct, I call it living. It's just symantecs. What's considered inappropriate today is leaning way to the left and takes attention away from the real culprits.

  3. Re: That's nothing! on Colombian Airline Wants To Make Passengers Stand (yahoo.com) · · Score: 1

    Capitalism means competition

    No, it doesn't! I like how you can just say something that seems intelligent and get a 5 insightful. Capitalism is the idea that rather than you working hard to earn a living, you should let your capital (your wealth) do the work for you. You invest your capital in operations with the sole purpose of increasing your capital.

    BTW: I agree with your the rest of your post.

  4. Re:Hasn't this already been decided? on Supreme Court Agrees To Decide Major Privacy Case On Cellphone Data (reuters.com) · · Score: 2

    I was going to mod you down, and then decided I'd respond instead since I haven't modded this discussion yet.

    It's not the carrier's job to ensure the police are following the law.

    Are you demented? It is the carrier's job, as custodian of my data, to follow proper procedures of the law and require the police to produce a warrant for the said information. What's next? Police can get my call records without a warrant? Police can walk into a hospital and get my medical records without a warrant?

  5. Re: musings on PE, EIT, and unlicensed designatio on Oregon Man Fined For Writing 'I Am An Engineer' Temporarily Wins Right To Call Himself An 'Engineer' (vice.com) · · Score: 2

    In this case, the law says he can't call himself that.

    Bzzzzt. WRONG! Obviously YOU don't understand the difference between an engineer and a professional engineer. Oregon Administrative Rule 820-010-0730 states that no unregistered persons may hold themselves out as an engineer in Oregon by use of the title “professional engineer,” “registered professional engineer,” or any of their abbreviations or derivatives. You see that? They specifically say "professional engineer" and "registered professional engineer", neither of which he claimed. He merely stated that he had an EE degree.

    Now get off my lawn.

  6. Getting an electrical engineering degree does make you an engineer, just like getting a phd makes you a doctor whether you are in a medical field or not. There is a difference between being an engineer and being a licensed engineer recognized by a particular state.

    This. I really don't understand why this is so hard for people to understand. I work at a medical school. Once a medical student graduates, she is called a doctor and can put the initials M.D. (or D.O. if it's from an osteopathic school) after her name. That doesn't mean she can practice. She still has to go through residency (internship, 3-4 years) before she can do general practice, and then through a fellowship (2-4 years) before she can have a specialty, such as cardiovascular, pulmonary, and so on. But at all times after graduating from medical school, she is a doctor or physician.

    Circling back to the EE degree, of course a person who graduates with an EE degree is an engineer. Others on this thread have said "You're not an engineer if you haven't taken the two exams." Bullshit. Surely they're referring to a PE, since a licensed EE would never have to take the two exams they're referring to, which are meant for PEs. And EE does not have to take an exam and know how to calculate the thickness of the concrete at the base of a dam, but surely he's still an engineer.

  7. Obviously you do not understand the purpose of the modern seat belt and airbag systems. They work in conjunction with each other. The seat belt actually does not lock immediately after a crash. It engages (2 stage seat belt) to slow you down because it is trying to minimize your deceleration while the airbag cushions and decelerates you further. That way in a collision, instead of you going from 60mph to 0 in 0.1 seconds (a locked seatbelt) you go in 0.5 seconds. The difference can save your organs from going into mish-mashed inside your body. When they say "internal injuries", that's what they're referring do. Say what you will, but airbags inside the cabin are actually a very, very good thing.

  8. Re:But, but... on America's Cars Are Suddenly Getting Faster and More Efficient (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Efficiency is un-American? Really? You believe you're own BS?

    Woosssshhhh!!! And "You believe your own BS?" There. FTFY.

  9. Yeah they save 700lbs by using aluminium instead of steel, but then they go and add about 1000 lbs of crap you don't need like heated cupwarmers, 56 airbags and and a shitload pointless tech that keeps phoning home and basically means you can drive like a clueless distracted retard and the car will just sort it out for you.

    Let me guess, you're one of the idiots who doesn't want to wear a seatbelt either because "the government forces you to wear one." Adding 50 lbs (and it's not even that much, I'm being generous here) for airbags is a no brainer if it means the difference between me being in a vegetative state because of head trauma from an accident I didn't cause or being able to walk away from the car. Heated cupwarmers, okay. I get that one, but trust me. That adds maybe, maybe one pound to the car. All the amenities you don't clarify on, but reference, do not weigh more than 20-30 lbs to the weight of the car. Overall, you're wrong. Even TFA says that today's cars are lighter than their older counterparts, so I doubt they add 1000 lbs back in after replacing the steel.

  10. Re:An unfortunate use of technology on America's Cars Are Suddenly Getting Faster and More Efficient (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Right on. Except I know what his answer to some of your questions would be

    • You have 5 kids? Chances are you need a minivan. You have 3 too many. You need enough to just replace yourself and your wife. Preferably, just your wife
    • You have a boat/ATV/RV or frequently haul building/farm supplies? Chances are you need a pickup truck/SUV. Use a truck sharing program so one truck will suffice for 5 families
    • You live in a small ancient town in Europe? You need something the size of a fiat 500. You don't need a car. You can walk from one end of the town to the other end in 10 minutes.
    • You have a daily commute on the autobahn? You need something with horsepower. Get a job in your own town so you don't have to commute except by public transportation
    • Are you over 65? Chances are you want something easy to get in/out of. Wrong! You should not be driving, but instead taking public transportation.
    • Do you have a cottage with an dirt access road that looks like it was recently cleared of landmines? You want an off-road capable vehicle.Wrong again. You need a mountain bike.

    Seriously, why can't we just let everyone enjoy life the way they want to? What's next? All music is banned except classical music?

  11. Re:h8 crymes on 'U Can't Talk to Ur Professor Like This' (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    If you want to dictate everything about this relationship, then become like Google and provide your service for free, take it or leave it.

    What a dumbass you are! By that rationale, why don't you save yourself some money and get a degree by searching Google? Remember, it was YOU who chose the professor, not the other way around. YOU get to do what the professor says, his/her way, and if you don't like it, too bad. You already paid the university. Grow up and act like an adult.

  12. Re: No!!!! on Should You Leave Google Chrome For the Opera Browser? (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    I just got into SMP last year and haven't been able to get enough of it. I've watched pretty much every rendition of Erbarme Dich on YouTube and watched the full SMPs they have on YouTube as well. I even got the 3 disc Richter 2 set on EBay so that I could listen to it on my hifi set.

    So, what are the 5 and which one's your favorite?

    More so on the subject, I do have to say that Bach is perhaps the greatest composer I have listened to and Glenn Gould's rendition of Bach's works are some of the greatest recordings of the last century. The partita in E minor is so chilling. Anyone who says Bach doesn't deserve a place in the top 3 admired classical/baroque composers of all time is at best clueless. Having said that, I do have to say that I don't care much for Mozart's works (his requiem, PC in D minor, and many arias excepted). And Beethoven and Chopin also have their special place in my collection. The only contemporary composer I cared for was Shostakovich.

  13. Even if it's true that Russians hacked and changed the outcome of the election, I can't believe the audacity of this fucker for taking credit for having recognized this after "the fact". By that standard, if a bomb went off in "x" city in November, the NSA may come back in January and say "Oh, yeah, our records show it was "y" who did it." The surveillance doesn't do much good if it doesn't preempt events. Even if it does, it's not worth it. Let the stupid law expire.

  14. You're not a parent (or a good one), are you?

  15. Re:Pascal not "clean"? on Slashdot Asks: What Was Your First Programming Language? (stanforddaily.com) · · Score: 1

    While I did write keyloggers, this wasn't done via keyboard capture. It intercepted the call to NetWare's interrupt for changing password and made the same call to all the other servers we needed to sync the password on. True that the program was in possession of a plain-text password, but it technically wasn't a keylogger.

  16. Pascal not "clean"? on Slashdot Asks: What Was Your First Programming Language? (stanforddaily.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    WTF? Pascal is not clean? Pascal was DESIGNED to be clean. It is very clean. It has strict type checking and is extremely sensitive to syntax. It doesn't allow any hanky panky to take place with any of its variables. You can't modify any variable without its assignment operator. Variables have to be declared, or else you get a runtime error. How is that not clean? Tell me one thing Pascal (Not Turbo Pascal and other flavors, but the language as it was created) does that is not clean?

    Now, don't get me wrong. Pascal was a great language to learn straight programming, but was very limiting for every-day programming. Come Turbo Pascal. I must have written dozens, if not hundreds, of TSR programs that created ISRs, from sitting in the background and capturing keyboard input to recognizing that you changed your password on a NetWare server and sync it up to other servers. I even wrote a visual Connect 4 game that you could play over the network with your buddies, when the only LAN game I was aware of was "ncsnipes". Now those are things Pascal wasn't meant for, but Turbo Pascal extended the language very successfully and created a world where there was no end to what you could develop.

  17. Wooooooooossshhhhhhh!

  18. Surprised nobody modded the parent funny.

  19. Not buying it on Cisco Blamed A Router Bug On 'Cosmic Radiation' (networkworld.com) · · Score: 2

    If it's cosmic radiation, wouldn't it affect more than the ASR 9000? Or is that the only model without a lead case?

  20. Let me know how calling for help using an FM receiver works for you, will you?

    You actually CAN! Every FM radio (that I've dealt with) is also a transmitter. Don't believe me? Try putting two FM radios near each other. Tune one to the middle of the band on static, and then run across the band on the other one. At some point the static on the first one cuts out. Connect a line level output to the right place on the second radio and voila! You have your own radio station. I did this at my dorm in college. Freaked the shit out of everyone on the floor!

  21. Re:I really wish to try it, but .. on Fedora 25 Alpha Linux Distro Now Available (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    I took one of these at work when they were throwing them away. Sat in my basement for a while and I finally decided I wasn't going to mess with it. Took it apart and junked it. I still have the fan from that thing.

  22. Re:This is news? on Fedora 25 Alpha Linux Distro Now Available (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    Until then, people would be happily using Fedora 24.

    I, for one, am not a happy Fedora 24 user. Having used Fedora since Fedora 3 on my desktop, I'm about to switch to CentOS. Too much playing in Fedora has broken many things. Take DNF, for instance. Not sure why we changed away from Yum. I haven't had this many dependency failures in a very very long time. I said this before on SD, but the last good version of Fedora was FC18 or FC19.

  23. I am a very impatient driver, but ... on Audi's Traffic Light Information System Tells You When The Lights Are Going To Turn Green (pcworld.com) · · Score: 1

    ... am pretty skeptic about this working properly or at all in some of the convoluted intersections around. Plus, what's wrong with using the old noodle to determine when my light's gonna turn green? What? So that I can be texting on my phone until the last second?

  24. Cut that wire and route it back into your recording device.

    It occurred to me, what if they use a special speaker which will provide an encrypted signal back to the circuit before the amp, via a third wire, and if the signal to +/- is tampered with (cut, sees difference impedance, etc) then it sends the message to stop playing?

  25. Re: TMobile.... on Verizon To Hike Prices On Plans But Offer More Data (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Absolutely correct. I can vouch for this. Having been to Canada, China and Mexico this year so far, I can tell you that the free data plan pretty much sucks and is completely useless. Texting worked great, as did calling for $.20/min.