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  1. Re:Job Loyalty? How about orker loyalty? on Gen Y Workers Reinventing IT for the Better · · Score: 1

    I agree with your arguments with the following exception.

    they disrespect older employees,

    Give respect, receive respect. It's a two-way street.

    The old folks are cold and distant because they expect the company will be replacing them with you. ie. new, lower salary, employee's.

    I'd like to add a comment about Y gens being better at purchasing equipment. They appear to be better because they are being compared to Baby Boomers. It is a well know fact that Babies funnel money to their own projects or purchase goods that satisfy "their" needs and not the employers. Gen X'rs, as usually, are as invisible as possible.

  2. C++, Java first? on What Programming Languages Should You Learn Next? · · Score: 1

    I went with pascal, fortran, cobol, c, and asm. Was I supposed to learn c++ and java? I mean, I can see Perl but Java?

  3. Re:There's just a lot of features on Visualizing the .NET Framework · · Score: 1

    .NET papers over all the crap.

    Thanks for the adding those words to the thread. Visualize, .NET, Paper, and crap all fit perfectly in the sentence I would use to describe the vision I get when describing .NET.

  4. tank-burning laser on How The Latest in High Tech Works · · Score: 1

    And what about the tank-burning laser that can be fired from an airplane? Well, we haven't discussed that but I'm at a loss as to explain why.

    If everyone had tank-burning lasers what could CmdrTaco drive to work?

  5. Re:Hmm on Most Spam Comes From Just Six Botnets · · Score: 1

    I'm liking the zen.spamhaus.org myself. I have never seen a false positive from spamhaus. I also use amavisd-new, spamassasin, et el. My favorite tool still remains postfix' header and body checks. /^X-Mailer: .*Microsoft Outlook Express 6/ DISCARD

  6. Re:Viral License? on Open Source Growing At an Exponential Rate · · Score: 1

    As in "Silly Rabbits" or "No! Not the killer rabbit!"

  7. Re:Hire a housekeeper on Open Source Robot for Household Tasks · · Score: 1

    and are actually available right now.

    To men that read and post on Slashdot? Please post the price list sir. My place is a mess.

  8. perfectly political on Student Faces Expulsion for Facebook Study Group · · Score: 1

    While Neale admits the professor stipulated the online homework questions were to be done independently, she said it has long been a tradition for students to brainstorm homework in groups, particularly in heavy programs such as law, engineering and medicine.

    So the students were supposed to do the work by themselves "independently"; but, the school has a tradition of ignoring independent work? Is this class part of a degree in political ethics?

  9. don't tell anyone on Government Report Examines Alternative Energy Research · · Score: 2, Informative

    For better or worse the GAO said the DOE's recent R&D focus in renewable energy has been in biomass-derived ethanol; hydrogen-powered fuel cells; wind technologies; and solar technologies.

    But Willie Nelson had the biggest effect by making biodiesel popular http://www.biowillieusa.com/

  10. Re:Stability? on Microsoft Singularity Now "Open" Source · · Score: 1

    those ideas might find their way into the Windows code base in the future

    Interesting. Do you think any of the things learned will be allowed to make it in other products? Better yet. Do you think things believed to be learned from it might be at risk because it would give Microsoft the ability to claim something was evolved from Singularity?

  11. Re:Stability? on Microsoft Singularity Now "Open" Source · · Score: 4, Insightful

    what is the attraction of Singularity

    IMHO it has a company behind it with enough money to market it. The reason to market it is so the technology gained from the people "learning from it" can be usurped by the marketer. btw. thanks for the link.

  12. shroomz on Encyclopedia of Life Launches First 30,000 Pages · · Score: 1

    From the AP "The most popular of the species for Web searches is the poisonous death cap mushroom, which may say something about people's homicidal intentions, joked Ausubel."

    I think Mr. Ausubel underestimates the popularity of shroomz.

  13. OpenSatelite on Open US GPS Data? · · Score: 1

    As soon as I can get access to the OpenSatelite project I'll help out.

  14. all that for sftp? on Chroot in OpenSSH · · Score: 3, Interesting

    It is cool tech but not the way I would do things. WebDav with ApacheSSL properly installed is lots safer. IMHO there should never be user accounts on a machine, other than root and the person administrating the box.

  15. I love the title on Hydrogen-Powered cars with Zero-Carbon-Emission? · · Score: 1

    Hydrogen-Powered cars with Zero-Carbon-Emission?

    And next in the news, "Water and Oxygen combine to make water?"

  16. ban a note? on UK Commissioner Seeks To Ban Ultrasonic Anti-Teen Device · · Score: 2, Funny

    If your going to ban a note ban C#

  17. Re:PS3! on Major Advance In Understanding Cell Reprogramming · · Score: 1

    Add me to the list. Oh while I'm at it. Don't post to the cell hacking news group. The biology girls flame the hell out of you even though they don't have any posts.

  18. easy fraud for you on The Knol Hypothesis · · Score: 0, Troll

    Slashdot:

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  19. Re:What happens... on Microsoft Had Doubts About the 'Vista Capable' Label · · Score: 1

    In most cases it is cheaper to buy it and wipe it clean. Vista CD's make great coasters. If you break them up just right you can stack them up to level out wobbly tables too.

  20. Re:Sounds crazy until... on Men Willing to Give up Sex for a 50in TV · · Score: 1

    You might be having sex in REAL LIFE but with a 50' TV and no woman your having British sex by yourself.

  21. Re:Misleading on First Organic Molecules Found on Alien World · · Score: 1

    I'd like to know how he thinks my anus is considered a gas giant!

  22. KVM_AMD and SKAS_UML on Ubuntu Picks Upstart, KVM · · Score: 1

    If UML gets SKAS support on AMD working there wouldn't be any argument about what is the best VM on Linux. It works great on Intel hardware.

  23. Re:Misleading on First Organic Molecules Found on Alien World · · Score: 1

    The surprising thing here isn't that the astronomers discovered methane on a planet. Heck, Uranus is full of the stuff and other gas giants have it as well.

    Was this a pun?

  24. Re:sooo... on First Organic Molecules Found on Alien World · · Score: 3, Funny

    aliens can fart...?

    Worse. We don't detect them unless they do. This explains why the fat guy in the room is the easiest to detect.

  25. Kali 1994? on EFF Attacks Online Gaming Patent · · Score: 1

    I'm pretty sure Kali came out before WarcraftII (1994'ish). If that isn't prior art I don't know what is. Jay Cotton could confirm it.

    http://www.kali.net/