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  1. I've seen several folks from engineering ranks get promoted into a managerial role. All of them were subsequently laid off during the downturn, except for one who grabbed a chance to go back to his original job. Another was re-hired later, after he lost his seniority.

  2. Re:there's the Stephen Elop factor on Which Fading Smartphone Company Is More Valuable To Microsoft, RIM Or Nokia? · · Score: 1

    Inertial Fusion.
    As in, collapse under external momentum and then blow up.

  3. Re:Note to submitter on The Venus Transit and Hunting For Alien Worlds · · Score: 1

    But that's not all: For just another $9.98 you can get your very own slashdot blurb! Order now, operators are standing by!

  4. Re:Didn't they fire that scientist? on CERN: Neutrinos Respect Cosmic Speed Limit · · Score: 1

    Yup, firmly in the way they're told by whoever pays for what indoctrinated them.

  5. Re:So, I suspect that a good strong cup of tea ... on Coffee Consumption Strongly Linked To Preventing Alzheimer's · · Score: 1

    I don't know. Blood lipids have an effect on Alzheimer's (how much isn't quite sure) and taking in lots of sugar increases blood lipids quite a bit becasue the liver converts fructose to saturated fatty acids.

  6. R.I.P. on Ray Bradbury Has Died · · Score: 1
  7. Re:Physical Media Please on Canada No Pirate Nation: Global Leader In Music Download Sales · · Score: 1

    Ha, at 33 I still bought CDs too. Now I'm past that

  8. Re:The Venitian? on China Secretly Clones Austrian Village · · Score: 2

    Because that sign would be stolen immediately.

  9. Re:Oh God, yes, rockets not tests ... on Why Kids Should Be Building Rockets Instead of Taking Tests · · Score: 1

    I built rockets, including making the fuel and I burned myself more than once. That's how you learn chemistry. These days I'd probably qualify as a potential terrorist.
    In 10th and 11th grade we had a chem lab right after noon and cooked lunch on bunsen burners before that. Good fun.

  10. Re:Giant Ball "Chair" on Ask Slashdot: What Is the Future of Standing/Walking Workstations? · · Score: 1

    This. Just replace your chair with a gym ball. It's compatible with your desk yet keeps you from slouching. In the end you'll exercise your back all day long.

  11. Re:Hang on on Flame Malware Hijacks Windows Update · · Score: 1

    You assume that the patch is effective.

  12. Re:whoops on Flame Malware Hijacks Windows Update · · Score: 1

    There is one fundamental difference though: With FOSS, you have no scruples downloading and installing a new version from scratch (assuming /home is on a separate partition.) And the proliferation of platforms, variants and distros makes for a resilient ecosystem with even less target cross section for each version.

  13. Re:not sure this is a good strategy on Ask Slashdot. Best Online Science Course? · · Score: 1

    As much as I despised getting up for the 8:30 math lectures, I found that following the scribbling on the blackboard and getting an explanation of what it means and how you get there helps a lot - exactly like Khan does. Being able to pause a video to think about it would have been a big plus back then.

  14. Re:Science should never be dogmatic on When Continental Drift Was Considered Pseudoscience · · Score: 1

    Of course. But there is always a core of older scientists who don't get it, which keeps any new theory from being universally accepted until those folks die. In the meantime the nonscientific folks say "See, it's controversial!" or worse.

  15. Re:Science should never be dogmatic on When Continental Drift Was Considered Pseudoscience · · Score: 1

    That happens all the time. Remember Einstein's resistance against quantum physics, even though his paper on the photoelectric effect was what started it.
    Scientific revolutions don't happen by convincing people but when the old guard dies.

  16. Re:SoC datasheet? on First Steps With the Raspberry Pi · · Score: 1

    But the GPU is still very closed, right? I want to have a look at the graphic driver blob as soon as I get mine.

  17. Re:As night follows day on US Warns Users of Child-Porn Blackmail Ransomware · · Score: 1

    What we need next is a version than downloads some Al Qaeda manuals to your drive. Pay a ransom or you'll be locked away without trial.

  18. Re:Who would fall for a fee? on US Warns Users of Child-Porn Blackmail Ransomware · · Score: 1

    "I think of children all the time," said the pedophile.
    Corollary: Anybody who thinks of children might be a pedophile.

  19. Re:Who would fall for a fee? on US Warns Users of Child-Porn Blackmail Ransomware · · Score: 1

    It shouldn't be too hard to scan through the files on their machine and do some simple word statistics on things that they wrote. I have a feeling that you can find the political persuasion of the author with good accuracy.

  20. Re:aka Idiot tax on US Warns Users of Child-Porn Blackmail Ransomware · · Score: 1

    Aha! Japanese comics. He's obviously a pervert. Lock him up!

  21. Re:Scummy yet brilliant. on US Warns Users of Child-Porn Blackmail Ransomware · · Score: 2

    delete your caches regularly.

    Which would also require you to wipe the free space on your disk because LEA scanners look for sectors with specific content.

  22. Re:this woman is an attorney? on Copyright Infringer Tries To Shut Down Reporting On Her Infringement · · Score: 1

    Right around the corner from me we have Orly Taitz I am embarrassed to say.
    Oh and Reagan wasn't a douche, he just had Alzheimer's, proving forever that you don't need all your marbles to be POTUS.

  23. Re:Arrogant to presume no life. on No Intelligent Aliens Detected In Gliese 581 · · Score: 1

    Yeah there's only a short time between the telegraph and neutrino beams.

  24. Re:Party loyalty means you can be ignored ... on Whose Cameras Are Watching New York Roads? · · Score: 1

    Cut your nose off out of spite?

  25. Re:Whatever happened to transparency? on Whose Cameras Are Watching New York Roads? · · Score: 2

    And voting for Romney with the expectation that he wouldn't be any better, i.e. worse, would be what?