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  1. Re:Lie on your resume on Why Bad Jobs (or No Jobs) Happen To Good Workers · · Score: 1

    HR only looks at the people who get selected by the program. That program looks for keywords. If you have enough of the keywords you get picked. The human interaction is going away.

    What I loved the ads where you need 10 years experience in abc123 when abc123 has only been around for 3-5 years. Seen things like that at least a dozen times.

    If you lie on your resume, and the company has people who know what they are doing. You will get caught and rightfully fired. But if the company has people who do not know what they are doing, your golden. Your working with a bunch of other people who lied to get there.

  2. Re:I don't think you understand how this works. on Why Bad Jobs (or No Jobs) Happen To Good Workers · · Score: 1

    Liberal != Libertarian.

    Please stop. True libertarians do not want a government take over of their lives. The right and left (actually far right and far left there seems to be no middle these days) are both wrong. The vocal people are in the far groups. While hopefully the silent majority is in the center. Problem is the people runing for election are not part of the center group.

  3. Re:Patent good in this case on Time Warner Cable Patents Method For Disabling Fast-Forward Function On DVRs · · Score: 2

    Unless Time Warner licenses this tech to other providers for really cheap or free. If that is done many more are screwed.

    I wonder if they will stop people from having their own DVR? Many people got the DVR for free from their provider. People may go out and get their own DVR if this happens or will the new DVR have to accept this no FF rule by default?

  4. Re:When all you have is a hammer... on Microsoft Announces 'Surface' Tablet · · Score: 1

    How many people do you know who want to use their ipad for everything? Or at least try to use it for everything? It the finished product is closer to (hopefully better) then 'pro' version it might work. That version should be able to do most regular desktop work. No high end number crunching or big graphics work. Regular email document writing it looks like it might work. As everyone else has said, I'll believe it when I see it. I still think the keyboard will be too small for those with bigger hands. We larger handed people are out of luck no matter what.

  5. Re:Neat cover ... on Microsoft Announces 'Surface' Tablet · · Score: 1

    Check out your favorite computer parts place newegg has like 4-5 different models to choose from. This one even says it is machine washable http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16823336012 and it comes rolled up in a can. There are others as well. I have used similar keyboards in the past. These are great for younger kids who often forget to wash their hands. When you have BPnJ on your keyboard you can wash it off.

    I have some friends who are grade school (1st -6th grade) teachers. Letting them know about this keyboard saved their school a lot of cash in the long run. I lent them mine to use for proof of concept. They were replacing a few keyboards a month in a small school. Now the only time they replace a keyboard is when some kid takes scissors to the keyboard.

  6. Re:Neat cover ... on Microsoft Announces 'Surface' Tablet · · Score: 1

    I still have people that want these. They do not like the ipad or other 'pad' devices. They want the laptop that can flip the screen to be a touch screen laptop. They are sort of out of luck. The numbers of those touch screen laptops are dwindling.

  7. Re:Zune or Xbox? on Microsoft Announces 'Surface' Tablet · · Score: 1

    But for $50-$70 more you could change the video card to one that is more modern.
    It is one of the reasons why I have a PC as a media box behind the TV. Some fan-less video cards are really good for movie watching and medium game playing. Put in some 120mm or 140mm low RMP fans and you have a silent or near silent PC that runs cool. Plus you can change the part(s) if they break or you want to upgrade.

  8. Re:So Apple on Apple Patents Polluting Facebook, Google Profiles · · Score: 1

    That is the same thing I was thinking. I 9and most of the IT people I know) have a few throw away email accounts. Those accounts have totally made up names, addresses, phone numbers, etc. So now can Apple sue every non real online ID?

    Could anonymous be made null and void next?

  9. Re:Let the guy fucking rest already... on How Steve Jobs Changed Google Plus · · Score: 1

    Telling the board that they will have to wait is one thing. Telling the board tough shit I am going to do it my way is something totally different. Jobs was booted out of Apple for doing the latter. Jobs got lucky in many ways. His Next OS model worked (that is OSX, a Next front end on top of BSD). Apple fell apart before he came back. You can bet the farm that part of Jobs coming back to Apple was that he could do what ever he wanted to and the board could not fire him. Apple was in such sad shape that the time they agreed. As others have said Apple was not the first to bring out a product. People seem to think they did.

  10. Re:Did MyCleanPC... on Intel Dismisses 'x86 Tax', Sees No Future For ARM · · Score: 1

    Okay, once your computer got cleaned w/ MyCleanPC, then what happened? Did you stop abusing your daughter - both physically, verbally and mentally? Did your insurance company restore your coverage? Did your cancer get magically cured? Did your wife come back to you?

    No, that happens when you play country music songs backwards.

  11. Re:It's from Microsoft and this is Slashdot... on Ask Slashdot: What's Your Beef With Windows Phone? · · Score: 1

    Ninjas and giant robots would be a reason to buy the phone.

  12. Re:it's time to start subsidizing chip makers on US Defense Contractors and Universities Targeted In Cyberattacks · · Score: 1

    IBM.

    If IBM had been allowed to make CPUs for desktops/laptops there would never had been Intel. Well Intel would have been a lot smaller due to IBM ruling the market.

    I am guessing that if the shit does hit the fan, IBM may be allowed to do something. At least for government systems.

  13. Re:China on US Defense Contractors and Universities Targeted In Cyberattacks · · Score: 1

    How many Chinese people come to the US as students and do not want to go back?

    Odd thing is out of the Chinese students that I know about 99% of the women want to stay. It is a little over 50% for the men. Small sample about 140 (90 men 50 women) people but still odd to me.

  14. Re:no user-replaceable parts on Analyzing the New MacBook Pro · · Score: 1

    But is the RAM still in a socket? Or is is soldered onto the motherboard? If Apple really wants no user replaceable parts they can do that. Having the RAM soldered in is not new. Many of the netbooks did just that.

  15. Re:Christ... on Analyzing the New MacBook Pro · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Are they replacing your battery? Or giving you a refurb laptop? The last 5 people I know that had the battery replaced also needed to restore their data. Never knew that changing a battery required data to be restored in a laptop.

    I know the apple store people also re-imaged the laptop. No need to, but that is part of their procedure. That was on 3 of them. The other 2 actually got a different laptops back.

  16. Re:Thank God. on 2013 H-1B Visa Supply Nearly Exhausted · · Score: 1

    Our laws are our biggest problem. The US allows foreign people to come here and get jobs, an education, etc. Can the same be said of other countries? If the US applied the foreign country's laws to the foreign people from that country, things might be different. For example: Some countries do not allow foreigners to buy ocean front property. Would you come to the US if you were told that you cannot buy a place near the ocean? Or that you could only buy a place in this area?

    And sorry to say but poor people do not travel around the world to go to school or to get a job. Moving to a country right next door, totally doable. But traveling across an ocean or two? No. Your claim that your family is less fortunate is BS. Out of the 108 foreign grad students (both masters and Ph D) who I have talked to where I work, the lowest family income was a little over $200,000 USD. The same answer was said over and over. The poor people do not get to travel.

  17. Re:Both Ways on Search Tracking Purports To Show Effect of Racism On '08 Election · · Score: 1

    Sorry but people saying I voted for him because he is black is racist. Period.

  18. Re:Article covers that on Search Tracking Purports To Show Effect of Racism On '08 Election · · Score: 1

    If that was totally true, and there are many more people who voted against him because he was black, why did he win? According to you there are many more people who voted against him then for him.

    Could it be that this study is there to try to go against the fact that most black people voted for Obama.

  19. Get off your high horse already on Ask Slashdot: Ambitious Yet Ethical Software Jobs? · · Score: 1

    If your ethics are going to run your life, then drop the hole working for anyone and work for your self. The person says that the banking/finance places are out, the defense places are out, the medical places are out. Probably any other high paying industry would also be out due to this person's ethics. So either grow up and realize that not every company is going to do things the way you like or start your company and run it the way you like.

  20. Re:Fuck women on Why Young Males Are No Longer the Most Important Tech Demographic · · Score: 0

    *points at the subject* Why yes. As often as possible. Hoping to have as many orgasms (women win with the multiple orgasm thing) as possible too.

  21. Re:This is hardly news on Why Young Males Are No Longer the Most Important Tech Demographic · · Score: 0

    So you can't pat you head, rub your stomach, and hold a conservation at the same time?

  22. Re:MBTI oh no on Ask Slashdot: How Best To Teach Programming To Salespeople? · · Score: 2

    Most of the people I know who quote or use the Myers-Briggs for job placement cheated or gamed the system in the first place. They read up on how to answer the questions to get the result they wanted. They they said see, I am a natural leader. We did this where I work. It was very odd. All the 'natural leaders' types sucked at getting anyone to do things. Work sucked, people hated going to work. Not many people would openly say they liked the bosses. Over time those people left and were replaced with the team player people in leader positions. Now everyone gets along. Work is a good place to be. We get more things done.

    Yes we could have just left, but not everyone can or wants to pack up the family and move. The other job offers were for less money or required a move. The Mrs. (aka the Boss) did not like the areas where we would have moved too. Being a weekend father is not my thing.

  23. my fav password on How Many Seconds Would It Take To Crack Your Password? · · Score: 1

    is: "What 1s Th3 p4ssw0rd Tod@y"

    The spaces are in there. And no it is not on any important system or account. I use it if I set up a test system for a while (a week or two at most) that I have to share with other people. Everyone can remember that password. The funny thing was we had a company come in to test out security. They did not get that password after trying for a 24/7 for a week.

  24. and CA wonders why people are leaving on California City May Tax Sugary Drinks Like Cigarettes · · Score: 1

    There has been a large exodus from CA. Granted this tax on soda is not the main cause, but all the taxes one everything are. CA really needs to get its own house in order. Look at what is going on. Taxing the people of the state more is not going to fix it. All the millionaires in the state have their funds elsewhere. They have a home in a lower tax state that is their primary residence so they do not have to pay income tax in CA. Look at why CA is massively in the red. Where are the funds going? It is not that hard to see. The people running that state need to stop worrying about getting votes and fix the issue. If they did fix the issue, there would be no need to worry about getting votes. The people would vote for those who did the fixing.

  25. Re:I haven't on "Oil Strider" Device Mimics Water Strider Insects · · Score: 1

    The lizard that 'walks' on water impressed me more.