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Comment Re:Yeah, blame the parents (Score 2) 173

Parents who at the same christmas complain if the daughter plays to much on the new computer express a bias.

Anecdote pulled out of posterior invagination.

Television programming where the only computer affiliate is a dorky guy who might be brilliant at computers but is awkward at anything else expresses a bias.

As opposed to the shows that have computer geeks being a woman (47 listed, not including Arrow, Flash or Supernatural)?

Yes, you can argue by purposely not including information showing the opposite.

Comment Re:My Plans for Firefox (Score 1) 208

If there's one thing that Slashdotters hate, it's GUI changes.

Everyone except those being paid to make GUI changes hate having them forced upon them. If it works, it works. If you have a new idea, allow the user to adopt it *or not*.

Incompetent though the UX people at Mozilla may be, there is no evidence of malice here.

Continue to follow incompetence long enough and it becomes maliciousness.

Comment Posted this before (Score 2) 377

But it's worth repeating in this context. Thankfully, it wasn't me.

When I worked at a KC bank, we had a Wire Transfer team manager who loved golf. He was supposed to come in Saturday and test a firmware/OS upgrade, then restore. Nice, sunny day Saturday, so he decided golfing would be better.

Came in Sunday. Installed firmware/OS upgrade. Tested fine. Forgot to reinstall previous firmware and powered up old OS.
Incompatible. Froze the machine solid. He panicked and tried for maybe four hours to fix things himself. No go. Finally called Cupertino for help 4+ PM.

The techs had to be found, gathered and flown out from CA to disassemble said machine and reassemble. No wires until 1 or 2 PM Monday. Much money loss for all customers.

To answer the obvious question, no - beyond my understanding, he wasn't fired or even demoted.

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