masman - Slashdot User

Comment Re:Are you guys really loosing it in the U.S? (Score 1) 496

by masman on Monday December 27, 2010 @12:28PM (#34676836) Attached to: Is Reading Spouse's E-Mail a Crime?

Trust is sharing the passwords, for the rare times when it might be needed, and knowing that your trust won't be abused. Oh, and not even having to ask in the first place. I can't imaging being in a marriage for life and not living it this way.

Comment Re:Ooh ooh! I know this one! (Score 2) 735

by masman on Monday December 06, 2010 @08:29AM (#34458616) Attached to: 'I Just Need a Programmer'

Would that be the Pradeep Principle?

When you do find though, is that the generic programmer you get from Indian development shops are the inexperienced ones. There's a very strong hierarchy in these places (and in India in general) which means that once a dev gets experience, he will expect to be promoted to a more senior supervisor/manager/etc position. Once there, coding is not part of his job description, and from what I've found the guys in these positions quickly start to resist being put back in a coding position.

Comment Re:We are going to need new acronyms (Score 3, Funny) 431

by masman on Friday December 03, 2010 @12:54PM (#34432592) Attached to: Foodtubes Proposes Underground, Physical Internet

DDOS = Distributed Delivery of Snakes

Man Accuses Cat of Downloading Child Porn 174

Posted by samzenpus on Monday August 10, 2009 @01:09PM from the when-pets-go-bad dept.

bruce_the_loon writes "They have blamed viruses. They have blamed neighbors. They have accused police of planting it. In rare cases, they have admitted downloading it. This is the first time someone has accused a cat of downloading child porn onto their computer. This seems like a defense almost too stupid to be made up."

Comment 99% of all the material in our solar system (Score 1) 656

by masman on Wednesday September 08, 2004 @02:18PM (#10192258) Attached to: Genesis Capsule Crashes; Chutes Blamed

Even if the chute had deployed, it seems like the package might have been a tad heavy for it to support...

If the package survived, the solar particles -- a storehouse of 99 percent of all the material in our solar system -- would be parceled out for analysis to the University of California at Los Angeles and the University of Chicago's Argonne National Lab.

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