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  1. Re:Make sure they know what they're supposed to do on Ask Slashdot: What Makes a Good Work Environment For Developers and IT? · · Score: 1

    > Make sure that everyone knows what they're supposed to do

    Easy. Just fix those 5 P1 bugs by tomorrow.

  2. Re:Offices. on Ask Slashdot: What Makes a Good Work Environment For Developers and IT? · · Score: 3, Funny

    Dude, have you never heard of synergy? All that noise around you is nothing but synergy and it'll improve your productivity !!1!

  3. Amen. Unfortunately cubicles are state of the art in corporate America. That's why I avoid the office like the plague.

  4. You eat lunch? That's bad for you and your peformance. You should snack all day.

  5. Re:The one thing I admired about the C64 on The 2015 Vintage Computer Festival East is April 17-19 (Video) · · Score: 1

    You can do that with any computer unless you assume BIOS or hard disk fuckery.

    It's called an install disk. Separate the storage media for your data and your OS and you can reinstall your OS (or restore from a backup) when needed.

  6. Re:They are paid to do this. on State Employees Say Rules Prevent Open "Climate Change" Discussion In Florida · · Score: 1

    Mod parent up!

  7. Re:Brain drain on Marissa Mayer On Turning Around Yahoo · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I'm sure it saved a lot on salaries and packages.

  8. This isn't about the addiction potential, only about the purity. And I wasn't exactly serious.

  9. I don't think so. In university some pharmacy or chemistry guys could scrounge pure ethanol. (98 or 99%.) Screwdrives with that were nasty.

  10. Re:I agree on Bill Nye Disses "Regular" Software Writers' Science Knowledge · · Score: 1

    There are several examples of formerly brilliant people who lost their marbles in old age.

  11. I agree on Bill Nye Disses "Regular" Software Writers' Science Knowledge · · Score: 1

    Lots of climate change deniers, cornucopians and similar delusional folks in software development.

  12. Re:The best trick on Ask Slashdot: Parental Content Control For Free OSs? · · Score: 2

    I wish I had mod points to upvote you. This whole discussion is so US centric with Puritan morals :(

  13. That's OK on L.A. School Superintendent Folds on Laptops-For-Kids Program · · Score: 1

    ...now that Apple and Pearson's got the money.

    Looks like they need a new project somewhere else.

  14. Re:Dark matter only interacts gravitationally? on Supermassive Diet: Black Holes Bulk-Up On Dark Matter · · Score: 3, Informative

    Dark matter might be amassed slower than ordinary matter though because it's not slowed down by the accretion disk and similar processes that get rid of momentum. IOW, a particle has to be headed directly into the event horizon, otherwise it'll miss and continue to orbit.

  15. Re:Thinking of keyloggers, on How "Omnipotent" Hackers Tied To NSA Hid For 14 Years and Were Found At Last · · Score: 1

    There are drive-by downloads from ad networks which you'll catch with a standard setup.

  16. Re:Thinking of keyloggers, on How "Omnipotent" Hackers Tied To NSA Hid For 14 Years and Were Found At Last · · Score: 1

    Running Linux and tightening up your browser should be good enough.

  17. I've been swatting almost all my life on Swatting 19-Year-Old Arrested in Las Vegas · · Score: 1

    And I'm good at it. Usually flies.

  18. What is more reliable? on Ask Slashdot: With Whom Do You Entrust Your Long Term Data? · · Score: 1

    A file server with a reliable disk subsystem and file system that is maintained well, or a company that probably won't be around any more in 20 years?

  19. Re:Bware of 'cleanups' on Ask Slashdot: What Tools To Clean Up a Large C/C++ Project? · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I still have some superfluous debugging code in a project that literally does nothing in the production version but without it the code crashes randomly after a week or so; a classic Heisenbug. It's clearly data trashed by a wild pointer but I could never find who did it since it's a large multithreaded program that depends on hardware behavior. Neither valgrind nor Coverity were of any help. It's too big to be rewritten so we just have to live with it.

  20. You're not supposed to ask that on Ask Slashdot: Gaining Control of My Mobile Browser? · · Score: 5, Funny

    Accept the walled garden. Even if you find a fix now Apple will probably break it with the next release.

  21. Re:Disk Speed on New Multi-Core Raspberry Pi 2 Launches · · Score: 1

    I bought a Banana Pi as a download/torrent box. Only slightly more expensive (especially if you include shipping) but with a SATA port that gives me about 60MB/s. And it runs Raspbian.

  22. Re:I think... on The Search For Starivores, Intelligent Life That Could Eat the Sun · · Score: 1

    And he doesn't know the singular of phenomena. Fail.

  23. Re:Sci-fi is not "Econo-fi?" on Why We're Not Going To See Sub-orbital Airliners · · Score: 1

    You could get past money in a command economy. You only need money if there is a maeket.

  24. Re:SF Economic Plausibility on Why We're Not Going To See Sub-orbital Airliners · · Score: 1

    There is SciFi with economic plausibility: dystopian.

  25. Re:"In 1966..." !! on Science Cannot Prove the Existence of God · · Score: 1

    Yup. The 70s (maybe late 60s too) were enlightened and progressive compared to today. Back to the Victorians, yay!