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  1. Re:LESSON NUMBER #1 on Lessons From a Decade of IT Failures (ieee.org) · · Score: 1

    No.
    Lesson number one is untested code doesn't work.

    Lesson number two is to always document what you're thinking in the code. Don't read more into this than I intended - brief, to the point notes that anyone that codes would understand what you're up to. Don't write a book. Don't go into too much detail.

    Lesson number three is the toughest. Your code, sometimes code you spent a year or more developing may be thrown away at a later date. Don't take it personally. I had something I maintained for about 10 years thrown away. To this date, the replacement isn't as good. In fact, it's only about half as good. Happens.

    Lesson four - Nobody is as awesome as you are. They just aren't. So don't expect them to have any clue what's on your mind. You must tell them, document it and watch them as a project progresses. Otherwise you'll fall back into lesson #1.

  2. Re:Do you know how far bullets fly? on Judge: Defendant 'Had a Right' To Shoot Down Drone (wdrb.com) · · Score: 1

    ... I visit there are some ex German Army folks who could shoot the ears off a fly. They would not be able to do this to a drone with a 9mm.

    Don't bet your drone on it. I have a 9mm and I've been shooting for over 40 years. I'm a very good marksman. I bet I could hit it. I can make a tin can dance around at 20 yards. Even with just a 22. I know I'm not alone. I bet those Army guys could do it too. Of course, I wouldn't do that. I'd use the 12 ga with probably #8 shot.

    Yea, you an be a badass like me too. It takes a lot of time and ammo. Plinking. You'd be surprised at how good you can get with even just hip shooting.

  3. Re:Fukushima was WORTH IT on Should Japan Restart More Nuclear Power Plants? (thebulletin.org) · · Score: 1

    Ok, Chernobyl was from an old soviet system that doesn't even exist anymore and by scientists that couldn't wait because of that system using a bad design. Fukushima was a bad design considering where it was and allowing some dipshit to put the generators in the basement!?!? He should have been prosecuted, so should the company for not passing it by a say a U.S. Nuclear firm, some European nuclear firm, or even a engineering student. I mean that was like one of those engineering exam questions where you flunk the whole year by not realizing it could be flooded and a disaster WOULD happen. No doubt about it. The professor wouldn't even discuss it with you, you just flunked. Better luck next time.

    The point is, why penalize the whole industry over a couple of idiots. I know the Japanese can do better as long as they get their egos out of the way and realize they really don't know more than the entire human race. They're just like everyone else. Imagine that.

  4. Re:Wow, slashdot editors can not RTFA on Landfall Nears For Strongest Hurricane In Recorded History (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Mild side of some in the past. There was one that removed Hogg island off of New York City back in the last Century... er rather the 1800s. You know, before industrialization took over...well after water started rising in Venice due to GW - back in the 1300s.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

  5. Re:Weather of Climate? on Landfall Nears For Strongest Hurricane In Recorded History (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    You know, when the facts don't line up, change them. Just like they keep telling us we aren't in a run away inflation right now. Look at a bill lately? I had a $30 I-Hop bill with my wife a couple of weeks ago. I was floored. Used to be less than $10 just 10 years ago. Go to any other place to eat? Go shopping? Heck, send a frickin Fedex out lately? Yet they keep saying no inflation, everything is hunky dory, or you're a racist... or some other name calling thing to get away from discussing the facts.

    Seems people are getting very stupid.

  6. Re:HP = Printers on HP To Shut Down Its OpenStack Based Public Cloud (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    What was so odd is they ruined some industries that they owned. Like the health care market. Used to be any hospital in the country it was highly likely they had HP - everything! Temperature probes, heart monitors, you name it, it had an HP logo on it. Then they stopped supporting it entirely. Today it's like it never existed. Now it's Siemens mostly. Frequency counter industry - owned that too. Gave it away... and so on, and so on, and so on. "The Filth and Rot Compaq brought into HP instead of firing them was debilitating." Not my words, words from more than one person I knew at HP that has worked for HP since the 1970s. Some of them worked for Dec back then, even knew Ken.

    Lot of friends I know worked for them, they were all disgusted with them over the years.

    Run off the road onto the rocky beach 500' below. The HP I knew and loved died years ago. Someone can rebuild it though I doubt it'll ever be the same again.

  7. Re:I didn't think of it means... on Criminals Hacked Chip-and-PIN System By Perfecting Point-of-Sale Attack (net-security.org) · · Score: 1

    It's because they didn't want to invest the money to fix it. They didn't have someone that they trusted giving them the stats that this could be performed in the next 5 years. With just engineering grade stats, I put it at 97% with a 5% confidence interval. That is, you can take it to the bank that it'll happen.

    Now, the question is - are their heads still firmly in the sand or not?

  8. Re:As a 70 year old still in the industry on The Diversity Issue Silicon Valley Isn't Trying To Fix: Age Discrimination (medium.com) · · Score: 1

    I call bullshit. If you're in your 70s, you wouldn't be publishing under AC. I also don't believe you've never had a day of unemployment. Doesn't pass the smell test.

  9. I'm 50, know what you mean. There's a fix, it's called just for men. Fortunately my gray is very small and it's not a factor yet. I also appear to be in my 30s. A real gift. Seriously, consider the just for men. A lot of my classmates have and it works.

  10. Nice things on The Problem With Mandatory Drone Registration (roboticstrends.com) · · Score: 1

    Someone needs to figure it out because there are a lot of people out there that feel entitled to do any damn thing they want and care not even a little bit about anyone else. Problem is they teach that in schools today. Just let the state take care of you.

    So someone will do something really stupid with one and then none of us will be able to have them again. That's how they think, just take the toys away. Don't even think about the person behind it. Nope, not their fault. Just look at Guns. Nope, it's the gun's fault, not that guy behind it.

    Enjoy it while you have them.

  11. Re:Jury competence? on Apple Loses Patent Suit To University of Wisconsin, Faces Huge Damages (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Standard legal system BS.

    This is why you never want to be a defendant. People, supposedly piers are supposed to decide if you're guilty or not. Piers to me (by me I mean you reading this)? Yea, right. Only on a perfect day, perfect circumstances - you might get that. You end up with usually people too dumb to be able to get out of jury duty. Not very bright at all.

  12. No one is asking? on Kilogram Conflict Resolved At Last (nature.com) · · Score: 1

    So how far off are our "standard" metric unit Kilogram?

    Standards are great. There are so many of them to chose from.

  13. Re:Your laws ignore my rights on EFF: the Final Leaked TPP Text Is All That We Feared (eff.org) · · Score: 1

    Yea, brother, and the guides shall be lubricated with the blood of the .1% when the time comes.

    Right before they separate your head from the rest of you.

  14. If we all use it, they'll be overruled. That'll teach them. They need to not be offended. Especially just to act offended. We need to stop that crazyness. Get people to grow up.

  15. Re:Academia is willing to protect total dicks on How Academia Still Struggles With Sexual Harassment (buzzfeed.com) · · Score: 2

    Try reading the comment before posting a reply.

    He did, you didn't, obviously. Stop being an AC. Get an account.

    I've been accused a few times myself. One time it was really definitive. I supposedly had sex with this woman one evening. That evening I was with my to be wife and a lot of other people. She was really sure until we told her about that, then it was the day before, which I was also photographed at another event, then it was last week, also I was photographed at another event. Then she admitted she was full of shit.

    Now suppose I didn't have that? Today I'd be in trouble. I've seen it in many other cases.

    Here's a clue people - women sometimes lie. Some of them lie all the time. They can be just like men. Imagine that.

    BTW, the more attractive they are, the more likely they are liars. Not always, however I found that to very often be the case. Once again, sex doesn't matter. The attractive men can be real good liars just like the real attractive women.

  16. Re:What he should have done ... on DHS Detains Mayor of Stockton, CA, Forces Him To Hand Over His Passwords · · Score: 1

    No. You don't check your Constitutional rights at the door. He's still an American citizen. Just because you're coming back, it doesn't somehow erase that. Heck, they're trying to apply US Constitutional rights to illegal aliens. People that clearly have no Constitutional rights. They're not citizens to have those rights. Of course as always - if you're ignorant of the laws, they can do whatever they want.

    The real joke here - Wonder what kind of porn he had on his laptop.

  17. Re:Unionize on American IT Workers Increasingly Alleging Discrimination · · Score: 1

    Only stupid people unionize today. Even then, unions are largely unsuccessful. Dirty little secret is we don't need them anymore. That stuff was all put into law. Now they just plunder their rank and file and don't do squat. A union boss lives across the street from me. Larger house, money to burn.

    Smart people use professional organizations like the IEEE.

  18. Re:Unauthorized teardown on Apple Bans iFixit Repair App From App Store After Apple TV Teardown · · Score: 1

    Heh... ever watch fast and loud, what they did to a Dodge loaner? They hysted the motor and drive train.

  19. Re:Obvious. on Scientists Discover How To Get Kids To Eat Their Vegetables · · Score: 1

    If it's so obvious, how come it took them so long to figure it out? Not to mention, how much longer until the actual schools figure it out?

    What's old is new again. I knew a sup from the Boston school system. He said the same thing, this was 40 years ago.

    I remember we used to wonder why our burgers were like cardboard. Other stuff was so bad... to get us to eat the veggies. Resistance wasn't futile. We could also buy other things like oatmeal and chocolate cookies, even ice cream.

    Besides, cube carrots, peas made great projectiles to the other table via spoon.

  20. Re:24 years a Sysadmin on 30 Years a Sysadmin · · Score: 1

    I think I know a guy that is still looking for the token. We told him it fell on the floor.

  21. Re:Oh boy never thought I would post this on 30 Years a Sysadmin · · Score: 1

    Dude, why in the world are you an AC? Get a userid!

  22. One thing comes to mind - Ready, Set on Ditch Linux For Windows 10 On Your Raspberry Pi With Microsoft's IoT Kit · · Score: 1

    Garbage!

  23. Re:Let's face it... on Scientists Have Spotted the Signs of Flowing Water On Mars · · Score: 1

    Nope - https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
    Seriously, some people are fine until something isn't in their norm. Then they get very uncomfortable... and sometimes - Crazy!

    Then there are people like me that fully expected it to begin with.

  24. Re: there is no on Study: Man-Made Global Warming First Became Evident In the Mid 20th Century · · Score: 1

    The Italians were trying to keep the Adriatic out of Venice way back in the 1300s. I suppose they had the very first indications of warming (as if, goes way back beyond that). So obviously it's not man. It's weather.

    Still they overlook the villages they're finding as the ice retreats in Greenland and Iceland.

  25. Re:House loses most staunch Democrat on Speaker of the House Boehner Announces Resignation · · Score: 0

    You need to look into history and admit your error. In the 1990s the Republicans took over congress and for the first time since the Dems controlled the Congress in the 1950s, they started to pay off the debt. So much so that we taxpayers actually got a rebate in the early 1990s. Look at what happened in 2009 with the new Obama and Dem controlled congress. Skyrocketing debt. More than 10 T so far.

    As I said, admit your error.