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  1. Re:Your staff on Ask Slashdot: Is There a Professional Geek Dress Code? · · Score: 1

    Real people also suffer from subconscious cues. Granted, the appropriate dress code is highly dependent on industry and geographic location. But there is a sliding scale everywhere for "respectability" that people subconsciously respond to. The day I started wearing a sport coat every day to work was the day that it inexplicably became easier to get people to listen to me in meetings. And the more a person responds to that kind of irrational behavior cue, the more you need to appeal to a less rational side of that person to give them effective direction.

  2. Re:Does it really matter on Ask Slashdot: Is There a Professional Geek Dress Code? · · Score: 1

    Easy solution. Wear braces. Then you don't have to worry about what to do with your ox blood monkstraps or camel wingtips.

  3. Re:I've said it before... on ACLU Questions Privacy of License Plate Scanners · · Score: 1

    That should be a civil matter regarding the use of photographs of people for profit without consent. If you have a problem with someone managing to snap a photo without intentionally trying to circumvent your wardrobe with something like a camera in a bag trick, then maybe you should consider wearing cloths that do not permit that (pants or longer skirts). If they used that picture for profit, then you should consider suing them (IANAL).

  4. Re:Privacy is dead on ACLU Questions Privacy of License Plate Scanners · · Score: 1

    the best question to ask in this case is what are you doing that you require such privacy?

    Quite simply, we are all breaking the law. Every day. Maybe every hour. With thousands of laws on the books with countless things you can be arrested for, we can all be thrown in jail for a long time or fined into bankruptcy. I for one do not trust the government to not abuse this any further than I can throw them.

  5. Re:Avoid Unity on Ask Slashdot: the Best Linux Setup To Transition Windows Users? · · Score: 1

    I'm not convinced that Unity is the best option for people that just want to run apps. Half the time I can't even figure out what programs I have installed because it's so clunky. Say what you want about the Windows Start menu, but at least I can browse to find programs that I installed a year ago and forgot that I had. My other beef is that the application bar is on the left over where the file menu is. I'm always accidentally clicking on the application bar, causing endless frustration. If you auto hide the application bar, it's even worse!

  6. Re:It's called "Get A Grip!" on Ask Slashdot: Preempting Sexual Harassment In the Workplace? · · Score: 2

    What benefit is being enjoyed, and by whom? What costs are created?

    Are you being serious here? The one engaging in sexually offensive is enjoying the benefit of saying things that they find amusing or empowering while others provide positive feedback for those words. The person at the butt end is paying a price through their demoralized person who is now less effective than they otherwise would be and is experiencing a drain on the achievements reflected in their resume.

    We all have a responsibility, if not a legal one, to positively promote society. However, unlike individuals, companies only exist at the whims of government. So we hold companies to a slightly higher standard through force of law.

  7. Re:Loophole on Washington, D.C. Police Affirm Citizens' Right To Record Police Officers · · Score: 1

    They have a book down town several inches thick with tiny font filled with things they can arrest you for. All they really need to do is put their mind to it and they will find something that they can arrest you and convict you for.

  8. Re:Stop Travelling on TSA's mm-Wave Body Scanner Breaks Diabetic Teen's $10K Insulin Pump · · Score: 1

    They also subsidize train transit, including sleeper cars.

  9. Re:avoid them thar rays! on TSA's mm-Wave Body Scanner Breaks Diabetic Teen's $10K Insulin Pump · · Score: 1

    How exactly do you expect our 16 year olds to stand up to an intimidating authority figure when we raise them all to be blindly obedient to authority figures? The appropriate solution is for those of us who do have the gumption to stand up for the rest. Refuse to vote for anyone who has ever supported the TSA. Better yet, vote for their rival, no matter how much you dislike their rival.

  10. Re:EMC compliance on TSA's mm-Wave Body Scanner Breaks Diabetic Teen's $10K Insulin Pump · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Maybe it's time for the TSA to have their imaging equipment evaluated by the FDA like every other piece of human imaging equipment out there. Or better yet, stop using it.

  11. Re:Is it possible to just leave? on TSA's mm-Wave Body Scanner Breaks Diabetic Teen's $10K Insulin Pump · · Score: 1

    So they kidnap you instead.

  12. Re:Stop Travelling on TSA's mm-Wave Body Scanner Breaks Diabetic Teen's $10K Insulin Pump · · Score: 1

    And this is exactly why I still fly in spite of my desire to take a train. The only reasonable option for that duration of a train ride, sleeper cars, cost a lot more than a plane ticket.

  13. Re:Whoever is responsible for this article on Analytic Thinking Can Decrease Religious Belief · · Score: 1

    You mean Hel? It's not so bad a place.

  14. Re:Whoever is responsible for this article on Analytic Thinking Can Decrease Religious Belief · · Score: 1

    The perspective can only be held by someone who has not actually examined each of the major faiths in depth. When you look deeper, one finds that they are strongly mutually exclusive (with the exception of Judaism and Christianity).

    On the contrary, pagans often recognize the validity of other religions. It makes more sense when you consider that Jehovah is the desert god of the Israelites. He has just been adopted into a much larger worshiper base.

  15. Re:Whoever is responsible for this article on Analytic Thinking Can Decrease Religious Belief · · Score: 4, Informative

    I think you are mistaken. It was Woden and his warriors who took out the giants.

  16. Re:Common knowledge? on Documentation As a Bug-Finding Tool · · Score: 1

    As the adage goes where I work, if you want software really bad, you'll get really bad software.

  17. Re:via Facebook only? on Congress Wants Your TSA Stories · · Score: 1

    You truly belong at a WalMart.

    Why? Because he believes that all citizens should be allowed to vote? I might think he's generally full of it, but he has a valid point here.

  18. Re:via Facebook only? on Congress Wants Your TSA Stories · · Score: 4, Informative

    "Members will solicit questions from the public via their Facebook pages to ask TSA officials at the hearing."

    RTFA. Facebook is the only option. There is no suggestion that letters submitted to your congressman via email or US Post will be considered. In fact, there is no suggestion that questions will even be solicited from the audience.

  19. Re:Context? on Apple to Buy Back $10bn of Its Shares and Pay Dividend · · Score: 1

    The buyback probably won't have significant impact on the share value since the market cap is over 500 billion. What it will do is provide Apple with a financing safety net should they run into hard times again. They will have those shares that they can sell to raise capital.

  20. Re:reasons are very clear on Science and Engineering Workforce Has Stalled In the US · · Score: 1

    Looking at the chart, the S&E work force has grown considerably since 1990. The article suggests that the workforce as a percentage of the population should be continuing to grow, but they don't offer any logic as to why. It makes sense to me that this number would be flat. Is there an ideal target for this workforce? Is it 100%?

  21. Re:Get a project manager on Ask Slashdot: How Do You Deal With Priorities Inflation In IT Projects? · · Score: 1

    This. And fire the executive management that refuses to seriously what a good project manager tells them about realistic time lines with given resources. They are the scourge that will either sink your company or cause it to never become a great company. It sounds like your company needs to either table some of the projects for now or hire more resources. Though that still won't help you if you don't have good project management.

  22. Re:Well, they're a good indicator of intelligence on Are Brain Teasers Good Hiring Criteria? · · Score: 1

    And you can tell them just that. That all you want in life is to do interesting work like this job is offering. That doesn't mean that you will be culled from the herd for it. It tells them that you're applying to the job because you want to do the work associated with the job. Telling them that you just want a job tells them that you don't give a shit about the work.

  23. Re:Well, they're a good indicator of intelligence on Are Brain Teasers Good Hiring Criteria? · · Score: 1

    The answer of "Because I need a paycheck" more often than not means that they will be generally dissatisfied in their job and have a high chance of either leaving early or general mediocre performance due to low moral that can't be fixed by the employer because the employee just doesn't like the job.

  24. Re:Well, they're a good indicator of intelligence on Are Brain Teasers Good Hiring Criteria? · · Score: 1

    If you're goal is just to get hired, I'm not going to be so keen on hiring you. The point of these questions is that everyone has career aspirations. Most people don't want to be in the same position with the same responsibilities forever. The purpose of the question is to determine if you're not a good fit for the kind of opportunities that are expected to be available at the company.

  25. Re:Not fear - disgust on Women Arrested For Refusing TSA Search of Children · · Score: 1

    Maybe African American people should have found another means of transportation if they didn't like standing. Injustice should not be tolerated, even when you could technically avoid it.