Comment Re:Distressed Babies? (Score 2) 123
Here's the citation, for anyone interested: http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424127887324103504578372342066362234
Comment Re:Bullshit (Score 2) 192
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Kelly_Thomas The actual link
Comment Re:Bullshit (Score 2) 192
This is the case that I was referencing specifically. The only thing the man was guilty of was being incapable of following the officers' orders and we all know how authoritative thugs hate it when someone doesn't listen to them. This was not supply second decision making, the man was completely unarmed. This was just a ruthless murderous beating.
Comment Re:Anything it sees may be used against you (Score 5, Insightful) 192
They don't need to discard it. Very few officers have ever been charged with murder while on duty regardless of whether or not there's video evidence and/or tons of witnesses.
Even if you, say, bash an innocent homeless man's face in, tase him repeatedly as he screams for help, and pile six officers on him until he suffocates.
Comment Re:About beta. (Score 1) 268
The managers are the ones that ultimately make the decision about what moves forward and what doesn't. The individual developers don't get to make that choice.
Comment YUP (Score 5, Interesting) 156
Slashdot is officially being actively destroyed because it doesn't make enough advertising revenue anymore
From the report:
Slashdot Media was acquired to provide content and services that are important to technology professionals in their everyday work lives and to leverage that reach into the global technology community benefiting user engagement on the Dice.com site. The expected benefits have started to be realized at Dice.com. However, advertising revenue has declined over the past year and there is no improvement expected in the future financial performance of Slashdot Media's underlying advertising business. Therefore, $7.2 million of intangible assets and $6.3 million of goodwill related to Slashdot Media were reduced to zero.
Comment Re:Slashdot death rattle (Score 4, Informative) 250
Slashdot is officially being actively destroyed because it doesn't make enough advertising revenue anymore
From the report:
Slashdot Media was acquired to provide content and services that are important to technology professionals in their everyday work lives and to leverage that reach into the global technology community benefiting user engagement on the Dice.com site. The expected benefits have started to be realized at Dice.com. However, advertising revenue has declined over the past year and there is no improvement expected in the future financial performance of Slashdot Media's underlying advertising business. Therefore, $7.2 million of intangible assets and $6.3 million of goodwill related to Slashdot Media were reduced to zero.
Comment Re:Dice have already written off Slashdot (Score -1, Offtopic) 116
Holy shit, that's huge. It all makes sense now.
Comment I can't think of how to tie this into Beta (Score 1, Offtopic) 116
So here we go: BETA SUCKS!
Comment Re:Congratulations Slashdot! Beta SUCKS (Score 1) 204
Audacity was the word I was thinking of. Arrogance.
Comment Save money, use Slashdot Beta instead! (Score 5, Funny) 271
The government should start using Slashdot Beta instead of music to torture detainees. Just sit them down in a room with a computer that can't go to any website except Slashdot Beta. They wouldn't last 5 minutes. I know I couldn't.
Comment Does the Beta count as malware? (Score 4, Funny) 93
The FBI wants some of the worst, most vile, malicious, terrible crap on the internet.
Yet even they don't want Slashdot Beta.
Comment Re:Boycott (Score 4, Interesting) 180
Hah. You're right about the word veracity. I should have used arrogance or audacity.
You're also possibly right that the workers think they have created gold too. However, any project manager worth his salt would look at the reaction to the redesign and change the course of the work. The lowly nerd at the bottom of the totem pole might be stubborn enough to want to keep his way, but he has no power. The managers are the ones with the power to decide whether or not the beta moves forward. It is ultimately their fault but it's unlikely that they will shoulder the blame.
Comment Re:Boycott (Score 5, Insightful) 180
My advice to the peons working on Slashdot: find another job. The veracity with which this "upgrade" is being pushed displays a stubbornness that can only be attributed to MBAs with no idea of what Slashdot is about. The fact that the commenting system is such an afterthought in the Beta is as much evidence as I need that the people pushing this redesign never use this site.
I know you don't get to decide whether or not the Beta moves forward or which design gets used, but believe this: You WILL be blamed when it fails. You work for a corporation now and the higher ups with undoubtedly throw you under the bus when they have to explain to their bosses or shareholders why the website redesign failed. This failure is going to be associated with you and your teammates and it will set back any hopes you have of being promoted within the company. Take the advice of me and my fellow Slashdotters: Get out now.
How Edward Snowden's Actions Have Impacted Defense Contractors 180
An anonymous reader writes "A new study sheds light on the attitudes of a very exclusive group of IT and security managers — those employed by U.S. defense contractors — at a time when national cybersecurity is under scrutiny. Most indicated that the Edward Snowden incident has changed their companies' cybersecurity practices: their employees now receive more cybersecurity awareness training, some have re-evaluated employee data access privileges, others have implemented stricter hiring practices. While defense contractors seem to have better security practices in place and are more transparent than many companies in the private sector, they are finding the current cyber threat onslaught just as difficult to deal with."
