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  1. Re:Let's clarify that one on Duke Energy Scraps Plans For Florida Nuclear Plant, Forced To Delay Others · · Score: 1

    "poor oversight" is not the same as "accidently having an accident."

    Do some reseach on Davis Bessie and all the alarms and best practices they ignored for costs. I'm betting the plant manager's kids don't live downwind like mine do. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Davis-BesseHole.png

  2. Re:Why is this on Slashdot? on George Zimmerman Acquitted In Death of Trayvon Martin · · Score: 1

    Your attention span has been harvested for the good of Dice marketing, don't struggle you knew it would come to this. All money corrupts, advertising money corrupts...

  3. Re:Bet the Whitehouse will reject the petition? on US Hacked Chinese University Network · · Score: 1

    Anyone with thoughts about how the petition might have been worded to avoid this loophole?

    They're lawyers, if you have to pin one down try a nail gun. The current age law slogan should be "We're assholes for loopholes." Politicians should serve only once using mandatory selection by random social security number, how could it be any worse than now?

    The oath of office would be, don't be a douche bag.

  4. Re:"UN Says: Why Not Eat More Insects?" on UN Says: Why Not Eat More Insects? · · Score: 1

    I've had moth larvae in chocolate candies, I made it through one or two but it tasted off a little. When I saw them wriggling about I had to tell the rest of the room, much hilarity ensued. The reactions were less than positive, no one wanted to finish the bag. It was cheap Tequila shots all around and that tasted worse than the larvae. Always keep good booze on hand your guests deserve it, furniture polish for larvae its better than Tequila.

  5. Re:Not just the MPAA on Copyright Squabble Threatens Accessibility Boost for the Blind · · Score: 1

    They ought to be ashamed.

    That was the best post I've read all day with that one exception. Go try to find a lawyer or businessman that's ashamed of anything they do, I'll wait here.

  6. Re:Fiction, not fact. on Bruce Schneier: Why Collecting More Data Doesn't Increase Safety · · Score: 1

    Good luck if he thinks he convince the American politicians that televised fiction isn't fact.

    Yes that really is better.

  7. Re:Sales is hard on Ask Slashdot: What's Your Company's Marketing-to-Engineering Ratio? · · Score: 1

    I run a company where we are pretty good on the engineering but until recently were pretty bad at sales. (we're still not great but improving) And the result showed. We make a good product but that isn't enough by itself.

    Maybe the bigger problem is not enough engineers in the purchasing decision loop. I think sales is a symptom of an uneducated customer.

  8. Re:the right technology on Hollywood Studios Fuming Over Indie Studio Deal With BitTorrent · · Score: 1

    But they are dino's, so they will probably still resist to the end.

    More like enforcers or police, they can't relinquish control without an order from a higher authority. Unfortunately they don't believe there is one.

  9. Re:Self-proclaimed? on Self-Proclaimed LulzSec Leader Arrested In Australia · · Score: 1

    There are old hackers and bold hackers...

  10. Re:Specialty Software on Some Windows XP Users Can't Afford To Upgrade · · Score: 1

    Costs aren't really an issue in medical software it gets passed down to the patient. My experience was with hearing aid software from Seimens that ran on windows 98 and wouldn't install on a partition greater than 2gig. You had to have this software to sell the hearing aids and program them, no hippa issues just greed. I think it was ok on windows xp as long as all the partitions were small. The owner didn't want to pay a ~$5000 upgrade fee, Seimens are just a bunch of thieves. Don't get me started on diabetes meters and data cables.

  11. Re:Experience? on Improving the Fedora Boot Experience · · Score: 1

    Is it time to invoke Bill Hicks' law of marketing?

  12. Re:Tax day bombing on Explosions at the Boston Marathon · · Score: 1

    Not enough fireball black smoke radiant energy, the bomb had that homemade white smoke - black powder look, not that I'd know. Yeah, teabagger malcontent, bubba meets earl terrorists, would be a good guesses.

  13. Forget the parasites on The Hacker Lifecycle · · Score: 1

    I am learning a new skill or technology which I know will enhance my employability

    After 40 I just don't care what gives Lumberg a stiffy anymore, new skills entertain me. Business's needs change daily and it's always the shiny new skill they gotta have, proficiency is always an afterthought. Like a room full of tweens waiting for Beiber to puke up something new. I hate peppy, gushing with all that enthusiasm (its like a tampon commercial), they'll beat that out of ya after a few years kid.

  14. Re:Convenience Store on The ATF Wants To Know Who Your Friends Are · · Score: 1

    In the backwoods midwest, Bowling Green, Ohio you could buy ammo, alcohol, and tobacco at the local convenience store until 2001 or so. I haven't been back there recently.

  15. Re:The Russians knew on Blog Reveals a Chinese Military Hacker's Life Is One of Boredom and Bitterness · · Score: 1

    Paraphrasing Lewis Black: Throw a dart at a map of the country, put a monkey in a plane over the nearest city to the dart in the map. Push the monkey out of the plane (with parachute) over said city, and wait for monkey to grab some person's hand after landing. That your new leader, its gotta work better than what we've been doing.

  16. Re:"In-browser popups?" on What a 'Six Strikes' Copyright Notice Looks Like · · Score: 1

    I had this sudden urge to try out google dns earlier this week.

  17. Re:It's a big assumption that mobile will take off on Layoffs Hit Washington Post Mobile Team · · Score: 1

    3. Sell company -> Profit!

    Call it "chasing the eyeballs", it's just tech harvesting p/r and ad money. It's really funny like a dog chasing its tail.

  18. Re:not much return? think again. on Crowdsourced Coders Take On Immunology Big Data · · Score: 1

    when they're hired by a company who pays them what they're really worth.

    Same kid of shit my old boss would say like "when our ship comes in". The bigger boss pulled him aside and told him not to say things about when the important people got rewarded, and that we didn't belong to that group. My job and yours is to weigh anchor and row vigorously while they water ski.

    I got the last laugh, the company barely exists now, that ship was really a trap, our captain gave away the company jewels without verifiable data metrics.

  19. Re:You do not fix things. on The Only, Lonely Protester at CES (Video) · · Score: 1

    I contacted Panasonic to ask how to enter maintenance mode - Their reply: Such information is o propriety only being provided to authorised dealers/service people.

    I needed an antenna cover for a 4yr old Panasonic phone back in the late 90's it was about $8 with shipping. They also had almost every screw, decal, cover, and button including circuit boards available on their website. I didn't ask about the secret sauce, but parts were not a problem.

  20. Re:Contact EFF on Ask Slashdot: What To Do About Patent Trolls Seeking Wi-fi License Fees? · · Score: 1

    if you appreciate their services, pay them for it.

    One parasite wants a free lunch and you say its not so bad to have to buy lunch for one of his siblings. Starve them all, they grow up to be politicians.

  21. Re:Simple: on Ask Slashdot: How Do I Get My Spouse To Start Gaming With Me? · · Score: 1

    If you want your wife to show interest in your hobbies expect to be divorced around 12 yrs in, with children. You might make it longer if you try to show interest in her hobbies but don't count on it. The real answer to a long marriage is to show interest in what she tells you to. You can be Happy, Right or Married pick any two. Doing your own divorce is not that hard if the batshit crazy one trusts your judgement in most other matters.

  22. Re:Real Psychologist: This is Moral Panic on Connecticut Groups Cancels Plan to Destroy Violent Games · · Score: 1

    Some kids have violent thoughts and you can't always stop them. I told my 8 and 10 year old nephews that they could play Doom only if they could tell me "its not ok to shoot real people." Their mom seemed to agree with that. They live on a farm and sometimes they shoot things in real life too. However, they also enjoy beating the crap out of each other so I gave them the game to save the furniture.

  23. Re:Phew... on Drawings of Weapons Led To New Jersey Student's Arrest · · Score: 1

    In the 70's my geeky friends and I dispersed made various electronic timer noise bombs around our high school. It was a beat this design contest, and frightened a few janitors when they pried them out of the lockers. The cops or the bomb squad weren't called or kept very quiet, I 'm not certain. What really got them ape shit was a graffiti campaign they confused for gang activity. Most of us were honor students, if we had wanted to destroy the school it would not of stood a chance. One of our lesser friends did get popped for trying to make nitroglycerin in the chem lab and got a 2 week suspension. good times

    We were just bored.

  24. Re:They could have at least handed it off to someb on City of Heroes Reaches Sunset, NCsoft Paying the Price · · Score: 1

    obvious money to be made, yet a company seems to have no interest in making it.

    Its a Disney or Time oldies like thing, put IP back in the "vault" and drag it out later when its covered in yummy nostalgia. In another 50 yrs Pacman is really gonna be worth a shitload.

  25. Re:Hamas is the enemy of Israel and the West on Legislators Call On Twitter To Ban Hamas · · Score: 1

    Why doesn't somebody simply call a general mobilization, and round up every political Islamist in the region, and put them up against a wall? We'd solve about a dozen problems at a stroke.

    Think bigger, change that to every political extremist including Israels and I' m with that. Morons on both sides are the problem and they shouldn't be allowed to govern with gunfire. It's been 50 years?? its time to end this. Maybe an "Atoms for Peace" program where we use religious sites as a place to store long term nuclear waste in open pits. You worship there, but not for long.