Metabolife - Slashdot User

Comment Re:Technical People (Score 1) 194

by Metabolife on Friday August 15, 2014 @09:44AM (#47677019) Attached to: The Billion-Dollar Website

Absolute power corrupts absolutely. Bankers without oversight lie and steal. CEOs without oversight lie and steal. Techs without oversight lie and steal. Not everyone will follow this path, but you will always have a few.

Comment Re:It's more than the tie (Score 1) 166

by Metabolife on Wednesday August 13, 2014 @12:00PM (#47663521) Attached to: Getting IT Talent In Government Will Take Culture Change, Says Google Engineer

I don't think you realize how much it costs to put a satellite into space. 2 hours of quick coding probably should be validated by a few different eyes.

Comment Re:What choice do we have? (Score 1) 710

by Metabolife on Wednesday June 25, 2014 @10:04AM (#47314599) Attached to: Workaholism In America Is Hurting the Economy

Well if the job market is so terrible (for employees) and never getting better, then the obvious thing to do is to exploit that and become an employer. You can hire people for essentially nothing, and rake in huge profits for doing very little work.

This is essentially the problem. Your only primary path to success is a downward spiral where you become the scumbag taking advantage of the misfortunes of your fellow man.

Comment Re:From 20GB to 1TB for Office 365?? (Score 1) 99

by Metabolife on Tuesday June 24, 2014 @02:41PM (#47308335) Attached to: Microsoft's Cloud Storage Service OneDrive Now Offers 15GB For Free

Cloud storage is the fractional reserve bank of the internet.

Comment Poor Guy (Score 4, Insightful) 390

by Metabolife on Thursday March 06, 2014 @11:08AM (#46418957) Attached to: Bitcoin Inventor Satoshi Nakamoto Outed By Newsweek

He just wanted to be left alone, leave him alone.

Comment Re:Someone should write a game about this (Score 1) 251

by Metabolife on Friday February 14, 2014 @04:05PM (#46249335) Attached to: 'CandySwipe' Crushed: When Game Development Turns Nasty

Then someone should steal the idea and force them to lose their trademark.

Comment Re:82 years old (Score 1) 401

by Metabolife on Sunday February 09, 2014 @05:28AM (#46201275) Attached to: Leonard Nimoy: Smoking Is Illogical

You can make some interesting connections sharing a cigarette. That's about all.

Comment It's the same thing... (Score 1) 180

by Metabolife on Thursday February 06, 2014 @06:17PM (#46179045) Attached to: How Edward Snowden's Actions Have Impacted Defense Contractors

I don't really see too much of a difference between new and old functionally. It's just looks more trendy.

Comment Re:Everything about this mission is a miracle (Score 4, Funny) 72

by Metabolife on Tuesday January 21, 2014 @03:30PM (#46028379) Attached to: Rosetta Probe Awakens, Prepares To Chase Comet

You've obviously never written 1000 lines of code and had it just "work" the first time. That's a miracle.

Comment Re:Similar functionality to what? (Score 1) 408

by Metabolife on Tuesday January 21, 2014 @03:26PM (#46028337) Attached to: Short Notice: LogMeIn To Discontinue Free Access

The Logmein Central service makes it extremely easy to manage multiple clients and users on the same interface. That's biggest difference that I've seen.

Comment Re:Own your own adds (Score 2) 731

by Metabolife on Friday January 17, 2014 @10:01PM (#45994651) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Are AdBlock's Days Numbered?

The second you put your add on your website, we'll subtract it.

Comment Re:"according to the law" (Score 1) 408

by Metabolife on Friday January 17, 2014 @11:11AM (#45985993) Attached to: US Government To Convert Silk Road Bitcoins To USD

The gov't is probably doing him a favor by converting them.

Comment Re: Freakin' Riders. (Score 0) 767

by Metabolife on Wednesday January 15, 2014 @12:29AM (#45961629) Attached to: Incandescent Bulbs Get a Reprieve

It's not just wasting his money, he's putting extra strain on the shared power grid.

Comment Re:This makes me think more about the word "Speed" (Score 3, Funny) 150

by Metabolife on Friday January 10, 2014 @12:25AM (#45914027) Attached to: New Class of "Hypervelocity Stars" Discovered Escaping the Galaxy

A wrecking ball.

Comment Re:Awesome (Score 1) 295

by Metabolife on Sunday January 05, 2014 @09:53PM (#45874935) Attached to: CES: Laser Headlights Edge Closer To Real-World Highways

Jokes aside, driving a luxury car doesn't make you an asshole. Driving a Prius does.

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