Comment Civil disobedience (Score 1) 355
Yeah....this is just like Selma...
Comment Re:Silly argument (Score 4, Funny) 529
There's a false comparison being made here... who says the Nokia engineer or the Xbox content maker being laid off has the same skills as the programmer they are wanting to hire?
Facts don't matter when THEY'RE TAKING OUR JOBS!!!
Comment Romney was right (Score 1) 534
corporations are people, my friend....
people with guns and flashbang grenades.
Comment Re:I used to be an engineer. I worked for Motorola (Score 0) 370
When I turned 42...
Now I am a dentist
How is this remotely plausible? How the heck this get moderated insightful?
Comment Re:And this is just fine. (Score 1) 302
In the slashdot universe, age bias is a thing that absolutely exists....but gender bias...meh...
Beer Price Crisis On the Horizon 397
Rambo Tribble (1273454) writes "The aficionados of beer and distilled spirits could be in for a major price-shock, if proposals by the Food and Drug Administration come to pass. Currently, breweries are allowed to sell unprocessed brewing by-products to feed farm animals. Farmers prize the nutritious, low-cost feed. But, new rules proposed by the FDA could force brewers to implement costly processing facilities or dump the by-products as waste. As one brewer put it, "Beer prices would go up for everybody to cover the cost of the equipment and installation.""
Comment Re:50%+ cheaper not to use the cloud (Score 1) 119
This is why I browse slashdot. "Insightful" posts like this backed up by solid data.
Comment Re:Makers and takers (Score 1) 676
People on medicare are the real takers. . And Romney attacked Obama for cutting medicare.
Comment Bailout (Score 1) 712
Remember when the economy went south and google got bailed out by the government for purchasing bad assets?
Comment Re:Labor laws need to be changed (Score 1) 397
Jobs are moving overseas because we, as consumers, demand cheaper and cheaper devices.
Comment Re:it'll be back (Score 1) 309
Playboy isn't that popular in India so I don't think we need to be worried...
Comment Betteridge's law of headlines (Score 1) 612
The answer is no....slashdot used to be a great site....now it's all about theodp's jihad against code.org and "the man"
Comment Re:When You Hear Talk About Any Reform (Score 1) 220
Zuckerberg is worth 19 billion. Assuming facebook saves 50k$ per year with every H1B hire...assuming zero costs for the hire...and assuming all of this is going straight into Zuckerberg's pocket, that's still chump change...
Comment Failing to see (Score 1) 121
Failing to see how Australia spying on Indonesia protects my 4th amendment rights.
Comment Makes business sense (Score 1) 137
making it easier for the government to get the information is not
If you have no choice but to hand over the data, wouldn't it make more sense to automate the process and save your own people some time and frustration?
