Comment Re:Breaking Bad season starts today at AMC (Score 1) 515
I voted for Chemistry also. I want to be a geeky meth king-pin!
Just kidding....
Comment Re:BUSTED! (Score 1) 292
many people have complications of vaccines. This year a Redskins cheerleader was paralyzed after getting the flu shot.
I know, last year I wore a blue hat all flu season and I didn't get the flu at all...therefore blue hats prevent the flu. I have a friend that also wore a blue hat and they didn't get the flu either.
I know someone that got the flu shot and got into a fender-bender a week later. Therefore the flu shot makes you lose control of your car!
Comment Re:BUSTED! (Score 1) 292
Um...compromised it with vaccine injections eh? Methinks you need to study up on how this all works or you wouldn't have made such a statement.
100,000 people die from FDA approved drugs a year. Okay, where'd you pull that little factoid out of? Notice you give no context in that? Hey, like this "1 million people die in hospitals each year"....does this mean Hospitals kill people? Is there a vaccine for that?
Is there a vaccine for conspiracy minded Luddites also? We really need that. Also, tell Jenny McCarthy I said hey!
Comment Re:So in theory (Score 3, Interesting) 263
I have to agree. I'm on a Macbook Pro now and using Snow Leopard with it's 64-bit Safari. Everyone is saying how fast and quick Safari is...along with Chrome, but the simple fact is both of these browsers don't have Adblock so they're actually SLOWER than Firefox with Adblock because they all have to load in those ads.
Maybe Safari and Chrome are fast on a test....but in real world situations without adblock, they're slow.
Comment Re:Dear Hollywood: DO SOMETHING ORIGINAL! (Score 1) 298
There's an Oscar that's awarded each year to 5 original screenplays. "Pan's Labyrinth", "WALL-E" and "In Bruges" were all nominated for it as are many others. Original movies are out there...but they're buried under the reboots, remakes, based-on-the-popular-comic, sequels and all the others.
Comment Dear Hollywood: DO SOMETHING ORIGINAL! (Score 1, Interesting) 298
You know what, I'm boycotting any movie from now on that's "based" on anything. Be it a book or a comic or a TV Show or video game or a "reboot" of an old movie series or remake of an old movie or whatever. Give me something original.
Come on...I'd take a "Pan's Labyrinth" or "In Bruges" or "WALL-E" over a "Transformers 1 or 2" or "Batman _____(insert verb here)" or "Warcraft: The Movie".
Comment Cuttlefish-Cloth? (Score 3, Funny) 78
Give me a fabric that mimics the skin of a cuttlefish and I'll be impressed!
BTW, PBS's Nova just had a special on the cuttlefish...amazing creatures.
Comment Re:McAfee false-positive glitch fells PCs worldwid (Score 2, Interesting) 459
Symantec Exec to board members: "Holy underwear! Free Antivirus! From Microsoft! We have to protect our phoney baloney jobs here, gentlemen! We must do something about this immediately! Immediately! Immediately! Harrumph! Harrumph! Harrumph!
Comment Re:Hey gramps (Score 1) 224
Like the time we went over to Shelbyville during the war, I wore an onion on my belt....which was the style at the time...you couldn't get those white ones, you could only get those big yellow ones.................now where was I........oh yeah, the important thing was I was wearing an onion on my belt, which was the style at the time, you couldn't get those...zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
Comment Re:Another Missing Option (Score 1) 397
Professional fireworks set off by amateurs.
Hilarity always seem to ensue...
Comment Re:god (Score 1) 243
The only thing annoying about this day is all the idiots with no sense of humor saying "make it stop" or "isn't this day over yet".
Seriously, remove the sticks that are up your asses and lighten the hell up.
Comment Re:Does the law have the right direction? (Score 1) 408
Child pornography is a subset of the term obscenity (at least, if you're a healthy individual it is).
Although drawing a naked baby being raped by guys in rabbit suits might not involve any children who once or ever will exist, it's still obscene. Lots of laws exist to prevent that level of obscenity. There are lots of reasons why it's obscene. Let's not get into that debate though, there's Wikipedia if we need to look up basic definitions.
You brought up an mental image though when describing the scene. Should I go turn myself into the police for imagining a photo of that and not a drawing?
Seriously, shouldn't what you just wrote be considered "obscene" if we're going to label a drawing of it "obscene"? If so, then the editors of Slashdot have a legal obligation to remove all reference to your post.
NASA Employees Fight Invasive Background Check 354
Electron Barrage writes "Longtime JPL scientists, many of whom do not work on classified materials, including rover drivers and Apollo veterans, sued NASA, Caltech, and the Department of Commerce today to fight highly invasive background checks, which include financial information, any and all retail business transactions, and even sexual orientation."
One Species' Genome Discovered Inside Another's 224
slyyy writes "The Universtiy of Rochester has discovered the complete genome of a bacterial parasite inside the genome of the host species. This opens the possibility of exchanging DNA between unrelated species and changing our understanding of the evolutionary process. From the article: 'Before this study, geneticists knew of examples where genes from a parasite had crossed into the host, but such an event was considered a rare anomaly except in very simple organisms. Bacterial DNA is very conspicuous in its structure, so if scientists sequencing a nematode genome, for example, come across bacterial DNA, they would likely discard it, reasonably assuming that it was merely contamination--perhaps a bit of bacteria in the gut of the animal, or on its skin. But those genes may not be contamination. They may very well be in the host's own genome. This is exactly what happened with the original sequencing of the genome of the anannassae fruitfly--the huge Wolbachia insert was discarded from the final assembly, despite the fact that it is part of the fly's genome.'"
Submission + - Is age 40 too old for IT or Software Development?
An anonymous reader writes: I have read some stuff on Dice.com's message boards where some people are claiming that after age 40 or so that jobs become very scarce in the IT profession. I was wondering how prevalent this really is, and in particular I was wondering how hard it would be to actually start a career in IT or Software Development at age 40.
I recently finished up a degree in physics, and I have done a little basic IT support as well as some programming as part of my job working in an environmental testing lab. How difficult would it be to start a computer career at age 40, and what industries and fields will have the most problem with my age and which will have the least problem with my age?
I recently finished up a degree in physics, and I have done a little basic IT support as well as some programming as part of my job working in an environmental testing lab. How difficult would it be to start a computer career at age 40, and what industries and fields will have the most problem with my age and which will have the least problem with my age?
