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Comment When the RW is caught with pants down... (Score 1) 735

by bodland (#39928221) Attached to: Heartland Institute Learning To Troll On Billboards
They reach over and try to yank the shorts off liberals and scream "Look they don't have pants on either!"
RW proponents argue that liberals do the same thing, decry lack of "balance" and impariality...the RW defenders shift focus away from the original post exposing the lies.
I've seen and heard the same backpedaling weasley douchbaggery over and over again. The fact is the Heritage Foundation is a FUD maker. Bought and paid for by assholes who want to preseve the "Wealthy American" way of life for themselves.

"You have to apply the same rules to both sides if you are truly understand the answers to you questions Frankly, neither should be trusted.....Fraud has been proven on both sides. "

Comment Slashdot could be considered a social networks... (Score 2, Interesting) 396

by bodland (#39474121) Attached to: Senators Ask Feds To Probe Facebook Log-in Requests
Expect a bill to be introduced by Republicans that allows employers full access to employee's personal account info if at anyway related to the employment.

Also companies are increasingly utilising social networks for marketing and PR and will use employees as a "PR" echo chamber to evangelise the employer and or it's products.

Expect this to be made legal....and the justification is the old terrorism mantra...."If you have nothing to hide, then what's the problem...?"
Government

White House CIO Describes His 'Worst Day' Ever 333

Posted by Soulskill from the need-a-bipartisan-effort-to-swap-out-a-machine dept.
dcblogs writes "In the first 40 days of President Barack Obama's administration, the White House email system was down 23% of time, according to White House CIO Brook Colangelo, the person who also delivered the 'first presidential Blackberry.' The White House IT systems inherited by the new administration were in bad shape. Over 82% of the White House's technology had reached its end of life. Desktops, for instance, still had floppy disk drives, including the one Colangelo delivered to Rahm Emanuel, Obama's then chief of staff and now Mayor of Chicago. There were no redundant email servers."
Communications

Have Online Comment Sections Become Specious? 429

Posted by samzenpus from the if-you-don't-have-anything-nice-to-say dept.
christoofar writes "Gawker founder Nick Denton says online comments have proven themselves to be not worth the trouble, a waste of resources, and contribute nothing to online conversation or even capture the intelligence of readers. From the article: 'In the early days of the Internet, there was hope that the unprecedented tool for global communication would lead to thoughtful sharing and discussion on its most popular sites. A decade and a half later, the very idea is laughable, says [Denton]. "It didn't happen," said Denton, whose properties include the blogs Gawker, Jezebel, Gizmodo, io9 and Lifehacker. "It's a promise that has so not happened that people don't even have that ambition anymore. The idea of capturing the intelligence of the readership — that's a joke."'"
IT

Ask Slashdot: Best Practices For Leaving an IT Admin Position? 290

Posted by Soulskill from the many-bosses-are-panicking-while-reading-this dept.
An anonymous reader writes "I've been the server admin at a university for the past five years. Recently, I was given the chance to move from servers to networking, and I jumped at it. I now find myself typing up all my open-ended projects, removing certain scripts and stopping others. What would the community recommend as best practices for passing on administration of some servers? I am trying to avoid a phone call that results in me having to remote in, explain something, jog to the other side of campus to access the machine, etc. Essentially, I'm trying to cover all my bases so any excuse my replacement has to call me is seen as nothing but laziness or incompetence. I am required to give him a day of training to show him where everything is on the servers (web and database), and during that day I'm going to have him change all the passwords. But aside from locking myself out and knowing what is where, what else should I be doing?"
Science

Biologists Debunk the "Rotting Y Chromosome" Theory 248

Posted by samzenpus from the men-of-the-future dept.
An anonymous reader writes "Biologists have previously predicted that that the male sex-determining Y chromosome, which once carried around 800 genes, like the X, has lost hundreds of them over the past 300 million years, will mutate itself out of existence, leading to the eventual extinction of men. However, researchers of a study published in the latest issue of Nature found evidence to suggest that the Y chromosome will not shed any more of the 19 ancestral genes that it is left with."

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