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  1. misogyny? on Anita Sarkeesian, Creator of "Tropes vs. Women," Driven From Home By Trolls · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Threatening a misandrist social injustice warrior is not misogyny.

    Shit, I've been threatened online. It wasn't misandry. So stop making this a fucking gender thing and treat it as the simple stupid criminal behaviour that it is.

  2. Re:Why should they? on For Microsoft, $93B Abroad Means Avoiding $30B Tax Hit · · Score: 1

    With hardware, it's relatively easy. The product is build *here* so the profit is registered *here*.

    The hardware is built from raw materials. They come from somewhere else, and who can say we aren't internally recharging a reasonable market rate for their purchase.

    The hardware is built to a design. How much should we charge for that design? Which company and which country should we make that charge from?

    The hardware is built for a cost. Why should we sell it for anything more than that cost? We could even sell it for a loss. Which of our subsidiaries should buy it ready for resale?

    The hardware only exists because there is a market demand for it. We have tremendous expenses building up that market demand. We'd better transfer the cost of marketing too.

    Profit? What profit?

  3. Re:Feeding the PR engine, on Tech Looks To Obama To Save Them From 'Just Sort of OK' US Workers · · Score: 1

    Sure. Four companies that work explicitly in the IT space take people on.

    The four hundred thousand non-IT companies have a very fucking different approach.

  4. Re:If he sold phyiscal copies on 33 Months In Prison For Recording a Movie In a Theater · · Score: 1

    I see a fuck of a lot more millionaires in the movie industry than I do at my local garage.

    It could be coincidence, or it could be because they're still charging fifteen quid for a film released three decades ago and demanding jail time for anybody that thinks its earned them enough money already and they should be incentivised into producing something worth watching now, not Fast and Furious fucking 6.

  5. Re:Must be an alternate earth. on Tech Looks To Obama To Save Them From 'Just Sort of OK' US Workers · · Score: 1

    Yeah, you understand completely. That's exactly why the Infosys staff I worked with didn't want to move to the UK.

    Or maybe it's because in the UK they wouldn't be able to afford multiple houses earning them a second income, a household staff so that the wife doesn't have to work, the early retirement they're planning to enjoy.

    Indian salaries may be low compared to the UK or the US but Indian IT salaries are way off the scale when you factor in the cost of living.

  6. Re:Feeding the PR engine, on Tech Looks To Obama To Save Them From 'Just Sort of OK' US Workers · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The big problem is that the pipeline's been cut off.

    You used to be able to interview 20 local people and get a choice of great candidates because the local people had come through the ranks and had to learn their shit.

    These days you don't take on junior people and train them up. For the same money you can get the already experienced person over from India, or Malaysia, or China, or Bulgaria. Or if you're a multinational, don't even get them over: Open the office there, it's even cheaper.

    So there aren't the junior learning roles, the apprenticeships, the low paid jobs in which people can learn the skills and become the great IT people we need.

    It's a fucking tragedy and it's taken a failure of the outsourcing model to reveal the sudden disconnect and gap that's been created, and it's going to be another decade before that gap starts to be filled.

    So right now it's actually true: there is a shortage of great people. Not because the locals aren't capable, or couldn't become great, but because there just haven't been the openings to let them develop those skills.

  7. Re:Read that statement as follows: on Tech Looks To Obama To Save Them From 'Just Sort of OK' US Workers · · Score: 1

    coding for is not rocket science, not even close, specially for Facebook, Google, or Apple.

    Articulating algorithms in your programming language of choice isn't rocket science, but neither is welding a fuel tank. The analysis, mathematics and design that occurs before you do either of those things is more comparable than you think.

  8. Re:Not surprising on UK Police Warn Sharing James Foley Killing Video Is a Crime · · Score: 1

    Yes, of course.

    Sadly being British, human and/or alive is also considered a terrorist offense here too. The law really is that badly written.

  9. Re:Working from home on Calif. Court Rules Businesses Must Reimburse Cell Phone Bills · · Score: 1

    Agreed. My company provides a warm secure well equipped environment in which I can do my job. If I choose to work in a warmer more secure even better equipped environment of my own choosing then they're very graciously not stopping me; why would I expect them to pay me extra?!

  10. Re:Salesmen on Calif. Court Rules Businesses Must Reimburse Cell Phone Bills · · Score: 1

    If only there were third party apps that let you secure access to exchange on iPhone and Android devices.

    Oh. There are. Fucking hundreds of them.

  11. Re:I can see a large false positive rate on Chinese Researchers' 'Terror Cam' Could Scan Crowds, Looking for Stress · · Score: 1

    Remind me, what's the current exchange rate on Palestinian children to Israelis?

  12. Re:Is there a barrister in the house? on Posting Soccer Goals On Vine Is Illegal, Say England's Premier League · · Score: 1

    I can make that concession only because even war follows some rules, and Aussie football clearly does not.

  13. Re:Contact Us on Ask Slashdot: Why Are Online Job Applications So Badly Designed? · · Score: 1

    Meanwhile I can find and use the email address of your head of HR and include within my application a suggestion that I can help them move off archaic technology and attract candidates that want to work with forward looking companies.

    Or I can just apply for a job with a forward looking company.

    His wife is an idiot, she's driving away potentially great candidates with her artificial barrier to entry.

  14. Re:Amtrack should be working on on DEA Paid Amtrak Employee To Pilfer Passenger Lists · · Score: 1

    I greatly dislike prostitution. I regret that some people feel it's the only way they can earn a living. I would prefer that there wasn't a market for such services.

    None of that makes me hate people that provide such services.
    None of that makes me a bigoted twat that hates transgendered people for no reason other than my own ignorance.

    I'd rather be a clown.

  15. Re:I can see a large false positive rate on Chinese Researchers' 'Terror Cam' Could Scan Crowds, Looking for Stress · · Score: 1

    Terrorists in the newly declared 'Islamic State': 10,000ish
    Terrorists supporting Hamas: 40,000ish

    Lets assume that half the Muslim terrorists in the Middle East are inexplicably not aligned to either of the above causes.

    Even those generous estimates leave the number of Muslim terrorists just half the size of the organisation actively bombing children, making people homeless and preventing a normal life for millions.

    I guess I just have a different definition of 'terrorist' to you.

  16. Oracle iRecruitment on Ask Slashdot: Why Are Online Job Applications So Badly Designed? · · Score: 1

    A lot of companies use Oracle E-Business Suite as their HR and/or payroll system. An EBS module is iRecruitment, which includes candidate web application capabilities.

    Pretty much everything this article highlights as wrong with modern recruitment sites applies to iRecruitment. Even by EBS standards it's a horrific unusable mess and Oracle would do the world a favour if they deleted the code base and demanded all their customers remove the binaries.

  17. Re:Amtrack should be working on on DEA Paid Amtrak Employee To Pilfer Passenger Lists · · Score: 1

    You ignorant bigoted piece of shit. Just don't give the prostitute money, and leave her to live her life as she chooses.

  18. Re:Might not be as profitable as they think on With Chinese Investment, Nicaraguan Passage Could Dwarf Panama Canal · · Score: 1

    It's impossible to have 233% margin.

    You need better tax accountants ;)

  19. Re:The Fruits of The Vine on With Chinese Investment, Nicaraguan Passage Could Dwarf Panama Canal · · Score: 1

    There was me thinking the US invaded Panama not so long ago.

    I can easily understand the Chinese wanting other options, let alone the capacity improvements.

  20. Re:You go girl on California Man Sues Sony Because Killzone: Shadowfall Isn't Really 1080 · · Score: 1

    I expect my 22" monitor to be 22" across the diagonal of the viewing area. I expect it to be approximately 19" wide viewing area (depending if its 16:9 or 16:10) and somewhere between 20" and 21" wide depending on cost.

    I also generally just don't give a shit. As long as the screen dimensions are correct (16:10) and and the screen is approximately the correct size (21" to 23" viewable area) and it fits in the space I've allocated for it (so the physical dimensions and fuck-all to do with diagonal viewing area) then it's all down to whether it supports the resolution I want, the view angles, the refresh rate, the colour depth, reliability, input options and price.

    I want a 2560x1440 monitor, to keep pixel pitch sensible at the view distance I'm using it around 27" is about right and the total height of it has to be low enough that I can see my 40" TV over the top. I'm watching cricket as I type this. So I looked for monitors bigger than 24", smaller than 30", at that resolution, and worried about the quality not the fucking size.

    Worrying about whether something's advertised as 22" when it's 21.5232" is asinine, focus on the shit that matters.

  21. Re:You go girl on California Man Sues Sony Because Killzone: Shadowfall Isn't Really 1080 · · Score: 1

    What the fuck does $MOVIE have to do with Linux?

    e.g. I just opened a terminal and..

    $ echo $OS
    Windows_NT

    You sound incompetent.

  22. Re:OK, Google on Idiot Leaves Driver's Seat In Self-Driving Infiniti, On the Highway · · Score: 1

    Do they? How does an autonomous car know the difference between a wet road and a flooded viaduct?

    http://www.torquenews.com/397/...

    (note that's from 2011; it's now available on multiple models)

  23. Re:No deadman switch? on Idiot Leaves Driver's Seat In Self-Driving Infiniti, On the Highway · · Score: 1

    Bring the vehicle slowly and safely to a halt.

    Yes, it's then a hazard to other drivers. I think a static hazard is probably better than one doing 70mph.

  24. Re:EU-laws on Idiot Leaves Driver's Seat In Self-Driving Infiniti, On the Highway · · Score: 1

    I think in the UK slamming on the brakes for a full emergency stop for a duckling, resulting in an accident, could easily be prosecuted. It's not safe driving, it's not considerate to other road users, there are a couple of different things it could come under.

    None of that would prevent the person that rammed her being liable for that act though - as you say, it's their responsibility to assure that they can come safely to a halt without colliding with the vehicle in front. Her stupid behaviour does not negate their responsibility.

    May mitigate it though. I'm not sure on that one.

  25. Re:Why do CS grads become lowly programmers? on Ask Slashdot: "Real" Computer Scientists vs. Modern Curriculum? · · Score: 1

    In my country 'engineer' is not a trade mark or regulated title. 'Chartered Engineer' is.

    Now I happen to be a chartered professional myself, just not a Chartered Engineer. Could be if I wanted to, with software engineering as the discipline, and no studying of computer science required.

    But your world is naive and simplistic. Developing and engineering are different. Being a craftsman and an engineer are different. Being an artist and an engineer are different.

    But hey, keep using the wrong word and trying to impose your regulatory environment on others. Enjoy.,