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  1. Re:Follow the Good Eats mantra on Here Comes the Keurig of Everything · · Score: 3, Informative

    A good rice cooker can cook lots more than just rice and is worth its weight in jade.

  2. Not Open on MenuetOS, an Operating System Written Entirely In Assembly, Hits 1.0 · · Score: 3, Insightful

    http://www.menuetos.net/m64l.t...

    I might play with it, but if I can't use it for work, play is all it'll be.

  3. And this, kids, is a prime example of what what's known as "wishful thinking".

  4. Re:OOOooo, "subtle threats", lol... apk on John Urschel: The 300 Pound Mathematician Who Hits People For a Living · · Score: 1

    That wasn't me, but it is nice to see you finally admitting that you got the card--it only took you a year or so.

  5. Re:HTML - this is sort of the point of HTML.. on Ask Slashdot: What Is the Best Open Document Format? · · Score: 1

    HTML is primarily a layout language. It does diddley-squat for semantics. You need DocBook XML, or something like it, if you're going to go that route... and good luck with converting to it from something like Word.

  6. Re:Docbook? on Ask Slashdot: What Is the Best Open Document Format? · · Score: 1

    But in practice, there's still no tools to convert all those formats to it, and most anything you do is going to be custom code.

    I love DocBook. But I've also spent a fair portion of my lifespan persuading other formats to turn into it. Not the most fun I've ever had, to say the least.

  7. Re:Fuck atheists on Third Bangladeshi Blogger Murdered In As Many Months · · Score: 1

    Osiris is a black god.

  8. Re:CO2 now causes volcanoes on Ice Loss In West Antarctica Is Speeding Up · · Score: 1

    Anybody who posts a link to livescience.com and purports it to be science is a shill, a fool, or both.

    (It's not hard to follow the money trail, folks.)

  9. Re:It was an app on a WORK-Issued Phone! on Worker Fired For Disabling GPS App That Tracked Her 24 Hours a Day · · Score: 1

    Thanks. I was looking for a clever way to express this, but yours will do nicely.

  10. Re:first, don't let them put their shit on YOUR ph on Worker Fired For Disabling GPS App That Tracked Her 24 Hours a Day · · Score: 3, Informative

    Don't you mean, "She should have left the work phone at the office"?

  11. Re:Privacy? on Worker Fired For Disabling GPS App That Tracked Her 24 Hours a Day · · Score: 1, Funny

    True, true. We'd be much better off if we sent them all to camps in Honduras where they could be trained to perform useful labour such as fruit-picking.

    (You were speaking of greedy, corrupt, and self-serving businesspeople, bureaucrats, and politicians, right?)

  12. Re:Fuck this bullshit. on Australia: Your Digital Games (and Movies!) Could Be About to Jump In Price · · Score: 0

    "Latter" compares two things. Perhaps you meant "last"?

  13. Re:Um.. Why? on Prison Messaging System JPay Withdraws Copyright Claims · · Score: 1

    What, you object to a Buddhist who can quote the Christian scriptures? When in Rome... ;)

  14. Re:More than $100 on Examining Costs and Prices For California's High-Speed Rail Project · · Score: 1

    If you're going to Guangzhou or Shenzhen but landing in Hong Kong, it's actually heaps faster to take the Metro to Hung Hom station then take the direct train from there. Security and customs/border checks are very quick/efficient compared to the direct bus from HK airport, plus you don't have to put up with bus drivers having an apparent death wish.

  15. Re:Australian here with wishful thinking on Australia: Your Digital Games (and Movies!) Could Be About to Jump In Price · · Score: 2

    Abbott is actually making John Howard start to look pretty good.

  16. Re:More than $100 on Examining Costs and Prices For California's High-Speed Rail Project · · Score: 1

    You left out Skavsta (Stockholm). Visitors think they're getting a real bargain until they discover it's an hour and a half by bus to the city.

  17. Re:$70 max on Examining Costs and Prices For California's High-Speed Rail Project · · Score: 1

    My employer doesn't care whether I log an hour's work time between 2 and 3 PM or between 2 and 3 AM, nor do they care (90% of the time) whether it's at home, in the office, in a café, on the can, or on a train--just as long as I can show that I did something related to work.

  18. Re:overturn murder conviction? on Prison Messaging System JPay Withdraws Copyright Claims · · Score: 1

    Kids, can you say, "False dichotomy"?

  19. Re:Um.. Why? on Prison Messaging System JPay Withdraws Copyright Claims · · Score: 1

    Vengeance to the criminal from society on behalf of the victim or his family so he/they not revenge him, as it's their right but may do it excessively.

    Vengeance is no-one's "right".

    "Avenge not yourselves, beloved, but give place unto the wrath of God: for it is written, Vengeance belongeth unto me; I will recompense, saith the Lord." Romans 12:19.

  20. Re:Fired! on Ask Slashdot: How To Own the Rights To Software Developed At Work? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Indeed, my first reaction to reading this was, "TRANSLATION: How do I get away with selling something my employer's already paid me for?"

  21. Re:physical presence on Ask Slashdot: Moving To an Offshore-Proof Career? · · Score: 1

    Thanks. You've no idea how much I enjoyed that. Alas, I've already posted in this discussion or I'd mod you up.

  22. Re:Offshore timothy on Ask Slashdot: Moving To an Offshore-Proof Career? · · Score: 1

    I've a standing offer of some years to offshore that job to me.

    I've been forced to conclude they don't actually want a real editor.

  23. Re:Hardware/Software Systems on Ask Slashdot: Moving To an Offshore-Proof Career? · · Score: 1

    Right on.

    Being a native English speaker with excellent language skills and an experienced writer/editor with considerable domain-specific knowledge and experience has worked wonders for me. (Admittedly, I was lucky, and got in more or less on the ground floor with regard to a technology that's turned out to be fairly lucrative for my employer.) I may not be on the fast track for promotion or pay increases, but I do my job at least reliably, and my employer and I both know that it would take at least a year for adequate training of a replacement.

  24. Re:offshore yourself on Ask Slashdot: Moving To an Offshore-Proof Career? · · Score: 1

    you are creating a fake conflict based on ignorant prejudices about me and what i think, then injecting the ignorant position into the thread as if i said any of the position you are opposing. then you want me to support the contrarian position you made up in your head, as if it has anything to do with what i actually think...

    Bingo. Just as I mentioned above.

  25. Re:offshore yourself on Ask Slashdot: Moving To an Offshore-Proof Career? · · Score: 1

    Is this you? We already know this is.

    You give yourself away through habitual projection of your ideology onto others.