Comment Re:Sometimes not at all. (Score 1) 233
"....why would anyone who respects data have children?"
Probability
Comment Re:Job Change (Score 1) 247
Or just denied. Let's face it, if one's strategy for success consists of asking for a raise after 5 years, you aren't hungry enough to leave.
Comment Did hell freeze over? (Score 4, Insightful) 247
Where am I? Since when is aspiring to management a slashdot thing?
I thought suits were to be distrusted and ridiculed?
Comment Re:Interesting... (Score 1) 135
pedantry: bauxite
Comment New Company? (Score 1) 87
He just doesn't come across as somebody who can sit around.
Comment Re:From personal experience (Score 1) 500
You win a fine cigar!
Comment Not Jelly (Score 0) 428
How about they jam cell frequencies inside the prison. Don't they do that is some movie theatres?
Comment Manufacturing is key (Score 5, Insightful) 239
The fact that we outsource chip fabrication ought to be a clue as to why they can't pretend any more.
OT: It's even money that every piece of military hardware with computers has an illicit kill switch embedded in it.
Game over USA.
Comment Re:Options, blah blah blah (Score 1) 763
You mean *BSD
IT Worker's Revenge Lands Her In Jail 347
aesoteric writes "A 30-year-old IT worker at a Florida-based health centre was this week sentenced to 19 months in a US federal prison for hacking, and then locking, her former employer's IT systems. Four days after being fired from the Suncoast Community Health Centers' for insubordination, Patricia Marie Fowler exacter her revenge by hacking the centre's systems, deleting files, changing passwords, removing access to infrastructure systems, and tampering with pay and accrued leave rates of staff."
Single-Player Game Model 'Finished,' Says EA Exec 439
Frank Gibeau, label president for EA Games, recently spoke with Develop about the publisher's long term development strategy. Gibeau thinks developing major games without multiplayer modes is a passing fad:
"...it’s not only about multiplayer, it’s about being connected. I firmly believe that the way the products we have are going, they need to be connected online. ... I volunteer you to speak to EA’s studio heads; they’ll tell you the same thing. They’re very comfortable moving the discussion towards how we make connected gameplay – be it co-operative or multiplayer or online services – as opposed to fire-and-forget, packaged goods only, single-player, 25-hours-and you’re out. I think that model is finished. Online is where the innovation and the action [are] at."
Comment Re:I'm sitting this one out (Score 1) 836
Actually I know people who don't vote and think they _are_ entitled to complain because lack of participation absolves them from the results of elections.
A.K.A. "Don't blame me, I didn't vote for 'em"
Comment Re:Flat pay isn't my concern. (Score 1) 608
Good luck with that. This is America, job security doesn't exist. Even tenure is no guarantee.
Comment Re:They should be thankful (Score 1) 226
All those things were fantasies once too. We only made them reality because it was cheaper and had an immediate business application.
Rhetorical: Are you a realist or are you just settling?
Comment Re:Kinda (Score 1) 456
That's just like you Ron. Here, I have a serious problem, and you're being sarcastic!
